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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
NEW FIRE AND POLICE BOARD
WILL WRESTLE WITT WAGES
VIII he Confronted mt Once by the
Problem of Adjusting the
Salaries.

Adjustment OF men employed in the fire
and police departments will be put up TO
the new Board of Fire and Police Commis-
siOners which takes office Monday. The
old board has worked on the question for
weeks in vain.
City Attorney Burnam has advised the
board that waivers of the Increased pay
accorded by the new charter might not be
legal. A member of either force signing
the waiver could later in the year go into
court and by setting up the claim that he
was forced TO sign the waiver under com
pulsion might secure Judgment against
the city for the increased pay. The city
attorney believes that the best thing that
could be done would be to ask the men to
sign a contract to work for a certain
amoun for the year. A contract would
hold while there is a possibility that the
courts might hold the signing Of a waiver
Is the same as signing away wages. and
therefore knock out the whole proceedings.
Members of both forces say they will
stand by a waiver or anything else they
might sign. but the board members say
they cannot be too careful and must guard
against any misconstruction later in the
year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Grabbing Hats
from Women New
Style of Thievery
"otpad snatches Highly Decorated
Headgear from Mrs. Hat
, tie Palmer.

The hat grabber is the latest type OF
tnief to make his bow in the lime light of
police notoristy. Where once Chief of De-
t~ectives Savage has given his sleek sleutIs
description of missing diamonds, opera
cloaks and poodle dogs, he Is now valiently
wrestling with ostrich plumes, aigrettes
and octagon mesh yelling, mounted on
peach-basket or ,coal-scuttle frames of sky
blue pink or elephant gray.
All because some night prowler. whose
facial characteristics and other points of
description are now locked UP in the
Savage detectives desk. admired A certain
Partisan type Of feminine headgear so much
that he grabbed the first example he saw
from the head of Mrs. Hattie Palmer. when
she was walking home Friday night.
Mrs. Palmer lives at ln1 Jones street
and was just passing the Dewey hotel on
Farnam street, when the masculine admirer
of her new bonnet lifted the piece of ANAL
gamated birds wings, wire, silk worm
product and weiner-shaped hat pins from
the mass OF hirsute decoration which II
covered.
\ terrific scream, making the hotel clerk
think that a frightful crime was beinv
committed or that a new kind OF auto horn
was being tried out, was the only form OF
remonstrance Mrs. Palmer could offer al
the time, but after a night of bewailment
she confided the facts in the case to the
police, who ars now hunting for the pur-
Joined bonnet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24

Dr. Frank Petr. ~" former student IN
Fremont college, is at present pursuing a
course in postgraduate work in the I-ni-
versity of Prague, Bohemia. DIR. Petr has
received the distinguished honor of being
appointed demonstration in ANATOMY in the
university. This is said to be the first
case in which an American student has
oeen accorded this high honor.
Rev. Mr.. Dell of Central City addressed
the students in chapel one morning Ia Il
week. Rev. Mr.. Dell is pastor of the
FRIENDS church in Central City.
Mr.. Herman Meyers, a bright and pros
porous lawyer of Omaha, and a scientific
graduate of dissatisfaction, made a pleas
ant visit at the college last week. meeting
many old friends and acquaintances.
Mr. ID. G. Mckay, who took the ex-
animation given by the State Board Of
Pharmacy at Central City last week. writes
that he received the highest mark and
he, as we'll as the pharmacy department.
reels proud of his record. MI Norris Bar
Der, who successfully took the pharmacy
examination. says he will return to finish
his course and stay until he receives his
coveted "sheep-skin."
Miss p. ID. Yeiser, teacher In the art
department, is visiting friends in Blair.
Frank Liston, a prominent farmer living
near Hooper, and a graduate OF the scien-
titles OF the early Dos, was a visitor at
the college last week.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
ECHOES OF THE ANTE-RooM
Observance of Memorial nay VIII
Spread over Four Days Because
Date sunday.

owing to the fact that Memorial day
falls on Sunday this year, the observance
Of Memorial day will spread over four
days. Friday the veterans of the civil
war will address the various public schools.
Saturday the decoration of the graves Of
the veterans in the several cemeteries OF
the city will be observed. Sunday the
several Grand Army posts and sffiliating
organizations will attend divine services
at the designated churches, and Monday
the formal ceremonies Of Memorial day
will be carried out at the Auditorium,
preceded by the afternoon parade. DR..
W. N. Davidson, superintendent of the
Omaha public schools will be the orator
at the Auditorium.
Grant post and corps will attend service
the morning of Sunday. May 80. at the
First Presbyterian church; Crook post and
corps will attend Pearl Memorial Metho-
dist church, North Twenty fourth street,
and Custer post and corps will attend
Seward Street Methodist church.
The decoration of the waters will be
observed Sunday evening May so at 5
o'clock under the auspices of Garfield
circle, No. IL, Ladies of the Grand Army
of the Republic. Garfield circle will also
attend divine services at Seward Street
Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morn
ing in conjunction with Custer post and
corps.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Kearney military ACADEMY.

Cadet Clearman's brother drove over
from Minden Friday in an automobile TO at
tend the meet held on Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Cooper of Whitewood. 8. D., spent
a few hours at the school last week visit
Ing her son, who is enrolled as a cadet.
captain Bristowe, Captain Long and
Sergeant Smith visited in Lincoln until
Monday following the state meet.
kearney Military academy sent a team
or ten men to the state meet held at Lin
coin and while the actual number Of points
scored was not large the team made a very
good showing. Every contestant qualified
for the finals in his event and nearly
every one came fourth. II not winning a
place In the final. In the relay the acad-
envy drew the swift Omaha team 10 run
against and beat them easily with several
yards to spare. This was the first large
meet for several OF thu cadets and the
showing was very gratifying.
IN Friday morning the battalion gave an
exhibition drll on the grounds of the
KeaTney High school Superintendent Bur
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
-KooSER GOES TO NEW BERTH
Missouri Pacific Freight Agent APP
pointed of Refrigerator
transit Company.

n. b. Kooser. assistant general freight
agent Of the Missouri Pacific with
charge OF the freight business in Iowa,
Nebraska and South Dakota. has been
appointed general manag of the American
Refrigerator Transit company, an auxili-
airy line for the entire Gould system. The
appointment was made Saturday and MIR.
Kouser will take charge Monday. the pro-
motion neeessitating his moving to st.
Louis.
Mr.. kooser began his railroad career in
Omaha and succeeded J. o.. Phillippi as
commercial agent for the road here. Be
fore returning to Omaha to become COM
mercial agent he held the same position
In Denver, Salt Lake City n Dallas.
Untii Mr.. Kooser's successor is named
Mr., Kooser will attend 10 his old duties
as assistant seneral freight agent for the
Missouri Pacific together with his new du-
ties.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
DEFECTIVE EYEsIGHT.
Case of school boy who Was n
Chronic Bad S~peller.

NV SBNAAN
In an article in McClure's Magazine on
The Conservation of the Defective Child
Marion Hamilton Carter says:
. a certain afternoon in March 1896.
Miss Margaret T. Mcguire, a grade school
teacher in the Philadelphia public schools.
went to the psychological laboratory of the
University of Pennsylvania accompanied
by a lad Of Il, a well hammered. intelligent
lad, industrious in his school work; one OF
her favorite pupils, in fact. Yet this lad
was the 'bogy' OF the teachers who for
seven years had him in their classes; he
was a chronic bad speller. This does not
mean that he misspelled some words some
times. He misspelled, every word always,
and did II in the same careful and serious
manner with which he recited the history
lesson he loved. His reading was as bad
as his spelling; he was absolutely incapa-
BILE of getting through a single sentence
correctly. a, an. and, the and a few three
letter words being the net result of his
seven years schooling.
DIR. Wilmer, the head of the laboratory.
made a long examipation. the result OF
which was the discovery that Charles Gil
man had an ocular defect never. In all
these years, so much as suspected by either
his parents or his teachers: at the distance
Of about three feet the boy saw everything
double; he lacked the power to direct the
two eyes c~o-ordinstely upon the same point
In space. the left eye looking a little higher
than the right A page OF ordinary print
was thus a blur; whenever he attempted to
write, the words doubled under his pen. He
was fitted with glasses and later operated
upon. then for the first time in his life the
printed page and the words he was tracing
with his pen were clear"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24

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Mrs. w. p. VALENTINE, 901 Lincoln
Avenue, Camden, N j.
Gardiner, Ne. was q great suf-
ferer from a female disease. The doc
tor said | would have to 60 to the
hospital for an operation, but Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound COM
pletely cured me in three months. -
Mrs. S. A. WILLIAMS, II. +. ID. No. IA
Box 80, Gardiner Me.
Because your case 10 . dIficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound a trial. 1t surely has cured
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nammation, liberation, displacements,
ibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic
pains, baekache, that beafing-down
feeling. indigestion, dizziness. and ner-
yous prostratiOn. 1t costs but q trtfs
10 try it, and the result is worth mil
ions 20 many suffering women
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24

President Thomas. left at s o'clock Sat
urday afternoon by automobile for Raglan.
where he will deliver an address to the
graduating class. Principal Anderson of
Ragan is a former student of the State
Normal at Kearney.
One of the most pleasant events Of the
school year was the Junior senior banquet
on Tuesday evening. The BANQUET was
served by the women Of the Methodist
church. Over $50 plates were laid. Walter
Fisher Of the juniors acted as postmaster.
Toasts were responded to by Otto sinkie
Herbert Markward. Mabel Duke, Beulah
Ward and President Thomas.
Orville Johnson was recently elected prin-
cipal Of the school at Edison. Miss Susie
Thompson secured a good position at
WaverlyJ Miss Marguerite PRESS goes TO
Douglas, Wyo., at SIS per month Miss
Lille Grimshav goes TO Sutherland as in
termediate teacher.
The State Normal at Kearney has sent
out a large number OF principals this year.
for such positions.
The regular class work closed at noon
today and the schedule Of examinations
has begun. All work will be closed Tues
day, May 26.
Joseph Sparks, chairman of the state
Board of Examiners, visited the school
Friday afternoon and today, The students
were pleased to receive this visit from
Mr.. Sparks, who has always been a warm
friend Of the school.
The summer quarter will begin June Z.
The registration is already heavy. II be-
gins to look as though 1000 students will
be here at the opening in June. Extensive
preparations are being made for the ac-
commodation of the large number.
DR.. Luther p. Ludden. for many years
connected with the State Board Of Educa-
ton as its secretary, called at the school
Monday afternoon.
Miss Lura M. Eyestone 81 the practice
department OF the State Normal school at
Normal, ILL.,, writes that she will visit the
State Normal here on Der way 10 Denver
to the National Educational association.
Kearney being on the main line of the
Union Pacific is an inducement to a large
number of eastern teachers TO visit the
institution.
Many educators Of promise nave already
signified their intention to stop off for a
day or two at Kearney. President Thomas
is making provision to use these visitors
for addresses on educational topics.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Miscellaneous.

Laurel hive No. 10, Ladies' OF the Macca-
bees VIII entertain It's friends and MEM
bers at a May ball in Miller's hail next
Saturday evening. The hal is located at
Seventeenth and Vinton.
The Bee Hive Social club met Thursday
evening at the home of Mrs. 8. NJ. Thetro,
21S North Twenty-fifth street.
The Royal Neighborhood of America
camps of Omaha, South Omaha, Fort
Crook, Bellevue and Florence under the
auspices of the promotion committee will
hold union memorial services in Ancient
Order Uhited Workman hall, Fourteenth
and Douglas streets Sunday evening, June
q, at 8 o'clock.
Omaha lodge No. l, and Union lodge No.
ITO, Friday night initiated a class of fifty,
the work was put on by the degree staff
Of Union lodge No. 40.
Monday night the Dickerman School of
Acting produced a play I'm the Lyric theater
under the auspices of Union lodge No. 10.
Thursday night Success lodge No. 80 gave
the comic opera the Jolly Farmers and
the Merry Milkmaids," in the High School
auditorium.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
COMMENCEMENT AT COLUMBIA.
Plans for Big DoIngs by Body
Ave Laid,

Commencement day at Columbia univer-
sity on June >, will see, as has been the
Gaze for several years. a large gathering
Of the alumni of the university. Exercises
will begin at 1890 a. m. with the usual
program which will close at about noon.
The procession Of trustees, faculty. and
students will then march to Hamilton hall
10 dedicate the new memorial clock which
has been placed there by the class OF "a
college, IN celebration Of it's tyenty-ffth
anniversary Of graduation. Then will come
the annual meeting Of the alumni. preceded
by a luncheon in the gymnasium. After the
luncheon will occur the elimination Of the
remodeied South fled, which has been
made over into a full sized bsse ball and
foot ball field as a gift OF the class OF "a
mines, and 20 college and science. the
latter to-celebrate It's decennial anniversary.
A base ball game with Syracuse has been
arranged for S:Sp-following the dedication
OF the field. In the evening at Z O'Clock
the alumni will have a beefsteak dinner in
the where many classes will
be well represented and after dinner there
will be band concerts and various alumni
activities. It Ia expected that the gather
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24

Lovely Pearls-Edholm, Jeweier.
Smaha Electrical Works rent motors.
@udolph 2. swobods. public accountant
sinshart, photographer, 18th & Farnsm.
A1yn. photo. removed to 18TH & Howard
aemoval-Dr. Hahn now at 2125 Douglas.
y. n. Combs, optical business. 1870
douglas street Examination free.
Equitable Life-Poiicies. sight drafts at
maturity. II. D. Nicely. manager Omaha
Keep your money and valuables in the
American safe Deposit vaults in The Bee
building. Boxes rent from 81 to SIS.
SavingG Accounts in the Nsbraska Saw
ingy ana Loan Association earn six per
cent. credited semi-snnually. one dollar
starts an account 1904 Farnam.
st. Andrew Brotherhood a1eeting-
Plans are being made for a post conven-
ton meeting Of the Brotherhood OF st.
Andrew Thursday at s p. m. in Trinity
chapel This meeting is for the purpose
of discussing the work in detail gone
over during the state convention of the
brotherhood. Other matters TO be taken
under consideration at this meeting are
the formation Of an inter-parochial Bible
class, also the senior and junior forward
movement committee and the travelling
secretary fund
story Tellsrs' League-The Story Tell
ers' league met for It's story hour Thurs
day afternoon. Miss Mary Ryan told the
story of "rhe Golden Goose adapted
from "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and "The
Magnets Choice" from Cat Tales and
Other Tales" Miss Kate winslade told
The Legend OF the Big Dipper" and
The Little Fairy That Came to Our
House both from For the Children's
Hour by Caroline Bailey and Clara M
Lewis.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
WARN PREMATURE CELEBRANT
Several Boys Lectured by Police Cap
tain for Too Soon Fourth of
July Activities.

Although it is six weeks before the
Fourth Of July, the small boy has already
developed a desire TO celebrate with the
usual noise producing giant caps. Rastus
Brooks, a colored boy, and Willie Darr, a
white lad, were taken to the police station
Saturday afternoon and given a severe leo
ture by Captain Dunn. who told them that
If they ever placed caps on the car tracks
again, they would be arrested by the pro-
baton officers. When the boys escaped
from Captain Dunn's office. they ran until
they were out Of sight. They live near
Fifteenth and Webster streets.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Personal INTEREST IN PUPILS.
ronr POINTS CapabIe N General
Application,

Four Points Capable of General
Application.
Principal f. N. Graft of the Omaha High
school' states In the Nebraska Teacher
-FOUR points capable OF general application
IN solving the problem of inducing eighth
grace graduates to enter high schools:
First, do not emphasize too strongly the
break between the eighth grade and the
hlgh school by magnifying the Importance
ana significance of graduating from the
eighth grade. The more the pupil is made
TO feel that he has completed his schooling
the less likely he will be to continue II
IL is highly desirable that finishing the
eighth grade should not be called grad
uation at all.
Many subjects and courses offered in the
hlgh school are condemned hastily and
thoughtlessly. my father does NOT want
me TO take algebra because he does NOT
see what good 1t will do me-" Such super-
ilclal reasons are constantly given. and
they show a need of informing parents on
the subject of educational values IL the
elective system is to be of universal an
plication.
Methods of accomplishing these results
cannot be outlined here. In general II
may be said that what is needed is personal
interest In the continuance Of the pupil
on the part of superintendent. PRINCIPAL
teacher and parent u.s..
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
ALMOST FIFTY AND IN SCHOOL.
Newspaper Man, Father and Grand
father, Taking College Course.

~ A' 1M
father, Takine College Course.
Frank W Cooke, father and grandfather,
a student in the school Of journalism, is
the oldest man enrolled at the University
Of Missouri.
The hearts desire Of most men is to
accumulate a fortune. retire from business
and spend their last days in leisure Not
so with Mr.. Cooke. He spent forty-nine
years of his life in growing up and rearing
a family and only after he had a grand
child did he begin his college course. He
entered the school Of journalism last Febru-
airy with a determination to get the edu-
cation neglected in his youth.
Mr.. Cooke is the father of five children
and the husband OF his second wife, but
he takes as keen interest in his school work
at Odd Missouri as does his daughter,
a student in the far off Mills college,
California. She often writes her father
jollying him about the approach of his final
examinations and guying him about max
ing better grades than she.
W years ago Mr.. Cooke was editing
and managing the Tribune, a weekly news
paper in Healdsburg, Sanoma county, Cali
fornia. He was successful in his business
and happy In his home. From his youth,
however, he felt the need OF school train
ing. He read in the National Printer Journ-
alist something about the establishment
of a school of journalism. When months
later he read more about the work Of
the school his thirst for knowledge became
acute. He sold his newspaper and moved
half way across the continent to Columbia
to begin a four years course.
Mr. Cooke was born in a California min
ing Damp in 1850.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Tabor College Notes.

The annual field and track meet of the
high schools Of southwestern Iowa was
successfully held at Tabor Saturday, May
Is. This meet is conducted under the
auspices OF Tabor college and invitations
were sent to all the surrounding towns.
The following schools participated: Glen
wood, Shenandoah. Sidney, Hamburg, RAN
dolph and Tabor. Sidney won the banner,
given to the team winning most points.
Meyers OF Tabo had the highest indi-
vidual score, making o points.
The rainy weather of several preceding
days caused a slow track and prevented
as large a crowd as usual from attending.
Nevertheless, some good field records were
made, Meyers OF Tabor cleared 20 fee, 7
inches in the broad jump; Addy Of RAN
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Ladies of the Grand Army.

Mrs. Clara c. Lyons. the new president
OF the Department Of Nebraska. has an
nounced the following official corps of the
department.:
President. Clara c. Lyons, Omaha; senior
vice president, Marco Kidder. Scribner;
junior vice president. Celestine Trayer.
Grand Island; chaplain, Jennie Knight,
Lincoln; treasurer, Mary Fansher, Lin
coin; secretary, Lizzie Perionett, Florence
counsellor. Hannah Coates, Aurora; in
spector, Pattie NJ. Vaughan, Lincoln; or
ganizer, Carrie M. Peters, Omaha: pa
triotlc instructor, Lizzie Metcalf, Omaha;
librarian, Dalestine Thornton. Kearncy:
council of administration Cora Brush of
Ord. Jennie Ray Of Cambridge. Marguerite
Beltzer of Arapahoe; delegates to national
convention, Dalestine Thornton of Kear-
ney, Me- p. Wolfe of Omaha, Annie
Kinner . Aurora, Margaret Coombs of
Lincoln: alternates, Mary Rhodes of Nc
Cock. Madaline Johnson of Lincoln, Lizzie
Metcalf of Omaha and Marguerite Better
of Arapahoe.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24

get excused the high school pupils for the
half hour It lasted and a large number CT
town people also were present Dress pa
rade was given, which was followed by
Butts manual given to music by the Kear-
ney Military academy band. The drill was
excellent and the manual a revelation. This
is the first drili Ct the kind hic has
been given in the city. Dress parade Is
given every Sunday evening at $50 on the
school grounds.
A Junior track meet will be held on the
school track on Friday afternoon, MAY %.
This will include all boys under a certain
age and any others entering may do so
With handicaps. Prizes will be given and
a banner for the winning relay team.
There lie always a great deal of interest
over this meet and some very interesting
races are run.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Odd Fellows.

State lodge No. 10 will have two candi-
ing.
Beacon lodge No. 20 will confer the third
degree on two candidates Tuesday evening.
Five candidates will receive the third de-
1S3.
Ivy Rebekah lodge No. IS elected the fol-
lowing as its officers for tie six months
beginning July l. at the meeting wednes-
day: Mrs. Mamie Carbury, noble grand
Mrs. Hannah Erickson, vice grand: Mrs.
Anna B. Durnall, treasures; Miss Anna
Holmes. financial secretary, and Miss Jen-
ME Franklin, recording secretary.
Hesperian encampment No. 2. at its last
meeting, elected w. r. Benson Of Beacon
lodge chief Patriarch; George Huntington
of Omaha lodge. senior warden: c. G.. n.
Eastman of Omaha lodge. high priest, and
George w. Reed of Benson lodge, junior
warden.
The following lodges will electe Officers
at the meetings to be held during the COM
Ing weet. for the term beginning July I:
Omaha No. ., Beacon No. 20, Wasa No. 1S3,
Benson No. e21 and DannebroK No. ZIG.