Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-08

deis building. Mr.. Hartman Is looking for
a site here 10 locate his garage. believing
that the many rich farmers around Flor
ence contemplating buying Of automobiles
can be easier served from here than IN
Omaha.
F. S. Tucker turned over the Tucker
a years lease on the place. Mr.; tucker
and family will reside at the hotel for the
present, but will build a bungalow on his
lots on Madison street as soon as the neces-
". A. Yoder went to Nebraska City sat
urday to deliver his lecture on Our Edu-
cstional Ideals to the Otoe county teach
ers.
Reports from the sick Of Florence show
that Mrs. Marks, who has been suffering
sell, sick for somo time, improving; w. r.
Walls baby, who had a long siege with
pneumonia. is now recovered. Mr.. Thorn
toms 2 and s-year-old boys. with pnen-
monia. are Improving; j. II. Harvey's baby
is also better.
At the meeting of the school board Tues
day night the board went over the specifi-
cations for the new school building with
bids for the erection of the new school to
be opened by the board the first Tuesday
mateiy $4,000. ]. w. Green was awarded
the contract of unloading the cars OF $4,000
brick and hauling them to the school
grounds. His bid was "a cents a thousand.
j. ]. Cole has purchased from Henry
Anderson lot Z, block 81, on Main street.
and will erect a two-story building. Tbs
architect Is now busy drawing the plans
as outlined by Mr.. Cole, which are to have
an auditorium for his moving picture show,
q bowling alley and roller skating rink on
the lower floor, and the upper story to be
finished OFF for the Eagles. with a large
hall, ante-rooms. committee rooms, etc
Mr.. Packard will figure on the building,
pushing work as fast as possible.
Before an audience Of 300 the school
children presented the illustrated lecture,
I'm Foreign Lands With the Great Must
clans" by Julia Reynolds Leverett, assisted
by James w. Leverett, tr., and the child
rem. at Pascale's hall, Friday night. The
splendid scenic views made a pleasing COM
bination of music and art which was thor
oughly appreciated by those present. Mrs.
Leverett's pleasing presentation OF the
great composers impressed upon the child
rem the authors while .he singing familiar
lied them with their works. The proceeds
go to buy some new pictures for the
school.
Tuesday night. at the city hall, the
Florence Improvement club held its regular
meeting with thirty-five members present.
Henry Anderson reported that the city
council Monday evening had passed the
paving ordinance on the third reading. The
ordinance provides for the paving OF Main
street from the south line OF Fillmore
street to the north side of State street, with
brick and a good curb and wide gutter.
This will leave one block north OF Fillmore
unpaved, as the county macadam road only
runs to the railroad tracks, also the block
and intersection in front of the city park.
AS the county commissioners have signified
their willingness to stand part of the
expense, a committee was appointed to see
them, also the street car company
about double tracking and paving
between the rails, This commit
tee was appointed to work In
conjunction with the city attorney: Myron
l.. Learned, R H.. Olmsted, j. V. SIMPLIFY
e. l.. Platz, John Bribin, T. d. Crane, b:
c. Fowler and Frank King. II was reported
that the river road was all under water
north of Prizes lake and the club VIII prlnB
the matter to the attention of the county
commissioners 1t was also reported that
the club could secure a street sprinkler
in South omaha and President Tucker was
appointed to look the matter up and report
back to the club at its next meeting so that
II the price is satisfactory II can be bought
by the club for use in settling the dust next
summer. Nj. b. Thompson. who has been
secretary for a short time. resigned ana
F.. L. Platz was appointed in his place.
The club will meet next Tuesday night at
the city hall to hear the reports from the
street car committee and Mr.. tucker on
street sprinkler. The club has many good
and meritorious projects under way ana
every property owner should be a member