Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Boys Teams of Y. M. C. A. Hustling
for New Members.
HOPE TO REACH HUNDRED MARK
One of Men who Live ON o street Has
His Say Regarding the Proposed
Bringing of the Street
to Grade.

Several new members are In sight as
the result of the work of the Leinadic
teams of the Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation. Ribbons have been given 10 the
contestants for Identification and classlfi-
cation, and each team Is working hard
to win in a spirited contest. AT last re-
ports the wearers of the blue ribbon had
a little the better of it. The contest has
only begun. Saturday the teams will have
a luncheon and the leaders will turn in
a full report Of the work accomplished by
that time. The Lelnadic teams have Sc
cured e. f. Dennison, boys work director
of Omaha, for an address to parents sun
day. They expect to derive much enthusi-
asm from this address with which to- be-
gin the following week. They hope to
raise the Junior membership to 100, and
are pressing every line to gain that goal.
The present membership is about forty.
Shower for Bride-tO-Be
About twenty young people were enter
tanned last evening at the homo of MT.
and Mrs. Perry Med. Wheeler in honor
Of Miss Abilene Dimock and Warren Null
ken. 1t Was In the nature of a shower for
the young woman whose wedding to war
rem Mullken Of Fremont is to be celebrated
February 8. A pleasant evening of games
and music was enjoyed. Refreshments
were served, after which a ring of the door
bell announced the arrival of the several
baskets full of appropriate gifts for the
bride to be. Each donor was required TO
present an appropriate stanza or limerick
which was to reveal the nature of the con-
cealed present. Many of the jingles were
ant and caused roars Of merriment at the
sallies.
Miss Dlmock read them all to the as
sembled friends.
Miss Dimock is one of the talented young
musicians Of South Omaha who has been
received warmly wherever she has gone
and who has many friends. Mr.. Muliken
ia at present at Fremont. or near there
He was formerly in the University or Ne
hraska. and his sister, Miss Clara Null
Ten will be remembered as the librarians
assistant there. which position she held
for several years. After the wedding they
exnect to go to Fremont and take up farm
life in the spring.
More on o street Grading.
Anton Kostal. one of the actual resi-
dents of o street, east of the big hole be
/. tween Twentieth and Twenty-second hai
s.nt the following letter respecting tn
grading OF that street;
souTH OMAHA, Neb., Jan. al asl
the privilege of saying a rev tnlhSs Lg
lAo " 9NAt@N 49,
Considerable has already been SAID l nav
noticed with a great deal of interest MI
Murphy's answer to Mr.. ONelIs pertlnen
s,saestions with regard to improvement
generally. Mi. Murphy speaks aoout NJ
Enemies the 0 street guards, ana tax
about an o street syndicate. II ne mean
ms property owners who 1--WE south OF :
and east Of Twenty-second street VINO 10
49, tuentv wears have waded IN the muc
~ We want the public to know that "
.,ut an the ranks of the o street guar
"a q mart OF the . street syndicate. an
ani continue TO be until not only % stree
NM also p street. Twenty-firsI Nineteenth
piShteenth and Seventeenth streets az
nuf in Inc same passable condition as III
Streets where the Murphy FAMILY nav
their homes. which streets, as MT. Ne
has well stated, were improved at the ca
pense OF the city at large. II MT. Mufph
imagines for a moment that the people {
Brown park are not interested IN TINS ma
! ,er then he Is either ignorant OF their tru
conditions or utterly dlsintcTesteu IN lne
weIfare. would like TO ask MI. Murph
now he would like to be compelled TO wal
on a foot bridge about two feet VIDE an
twenty feet above the ground on which m
family and L have been walking on IL
, ffteen years, and this improNtsed walk
J, had even to build myself. IL ne thint
"A ms Is hot air / would ask him 10 Wis
my home at Seventeenth ana u street
le And vet he thinks We should not De II
u terested. 1 know nothing whatever abol
the amount OF dirt necessary 10 fill q
= hole at Twenty-first and o streets, or u
y cost OF so doing. but / do know that Il
people OF Brown park have waited ~