Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-26
ELKS TO BUILD CLUB HOUSE
Plan to Invest Forty Thousand Dollars in
.-. the Structure.
THOMPSON GIVES MONEY FOR PARK FUND
Local Newspaper Men Plan TO give
Members of the state Press
Association a Great
Reception.
cPIpm a stan Correspondent


cT'IUm a STAFF Correspondent
LINCOLN, Feb. 25.--(speciaL)--The Elks
OF Lincoln will shortly begin the erection
Of n $4,000 club house at the corner Of
Thirteenth and streets The structure
is to be three stories and built OF brick. 1t
is probable bids viii lee asked for within
few weeks.
Thompson Donates for Park.
Before leaving for Mexico d. z. Thomp-
son, minister to TINT country. presented
to the city the amount Of money necessary
to buy a tract OF land several acres in
area for a public park Mr.. Thompson
notified Mayor Brown TO buy the land and
send him the bill and he would pay it.
w. J. Bryan has already donated some
ten acres adjoining the same tract and the
city owns a few acres in the same neigh
borhood. An effort will be made during
the present year to secure public park
Of sufficient area to be in keeping with the
needs OF the city
wilcox to Inspect Guard.
Captain Wilcox OF the Thirtieth United
States infantry, who has been detailed to
make the inspection of the Nebraska Ma
tional Guard, reached Lincoln yesterday
and spent the evening in consultation with
Adjutant General Culver. The captain will
begin Monday on his tour Of inspection
and will he engaged for week or more.
The various companies have been getting
ready for this inspection for some time
and it will be a most thorough one.
Entertainment for Editors.
Local newspaper men are getting plans
shaped up to show the members of the
Nebraska Prcss association the time of
their lives when they come here next Tues
th~tr
ing. A theater party has been planned
for Tuesday evening. Wednesday the visit
tors will be given taste Of church life
at the First Baptist church, where John
r. McCutcheon will talk about cartoons
and things, and on the afternoon of that
day. time permitting, the visitors will be
taken to the orthopedic hospital After
the theater party the Commercial club will
give a smoker. The newspaper men will
also he taken for a trip to the state farm.
The program is unusually strong one
and big crowd of the pencil pushers is
expected to be in attendance.
Change in Eaton's once.
Miss Brown, a teacher in the Lincoln
High school, has been employed by Land
Commissioner Eaton and will enter his
office on March 1. Miss Esther Brown is
already employed in the office of the land
commissioner and she will retain her place
Miss Brown will take the place OF Clerk
Jones, who has secured place at the state
penitentiary.
Plan for City Hall.
City Clerk Pratt, who has just returned
from Washington, brought back the in
formation that Senator Burkett had pro-
posed that the city rent the old postoffice
building for a city hall at rental of 81 a
year and the city TO agree to fix up the
building and turn 1t over to the govern
ment on demand. The city expected to
buy the postoffice and has scraped to-
gether some $4,000 for this purpose The
new plan proposed by Senator Burkett has
created some discussion and not all the
sentiment is In favor OF it., as the govern
ment might want the building at any time
after the city had spent several thousand
dollars in repairs.