Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-04
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Have Root Print II
Residing Eamps--aurrsaa- grandon 90.
Tafs Your Printing 20 the Times
kinshart-Photograph 18th q Farm
p. J. Cresdon q soRs-Coal.
California Enn0 is a good place 20 in
vest part OF your savings. We sell the
best valley land on easy terms. HASTINGS
& Heyden. 1913 Harvey street
The Eeb. Savings q loan Assn has
q made IL possible for many families TO own
their homes. 1905 Farnam Street, Board
Of Trade Building. Omaha
Civn Service Examinations-Twenty-
| five applicants for sub-clerical positions
took examination under the civil service at
the United States court house Saturday.
Serious Aocidents-The aggregate cost
20 employers is enormous. Creigh. Bald
RICE q Co. write every kind Of liability
Insurance. Phone Douglas 200 Lib
eral contracts, low rates
Judge Munger 20 81. 1ouis-Judge w
n. Munger left Saturday afternoon for St
Louis where he win sit in United States
circuit court of appeals. He will probably
be occupied there until March l.
Ladies, See Cur Line Of rubber coats
and gloves. We carry a fun line Of auto
mobile accessories and rubber goods
Omaha Rubber Company T. II. Sprague,
president, l6os Harvey St "-Yst around
the corner"
Back on sohsdule--Announcem IS
made BY the Northwestern that the $50
p. m. train to Minneapolis which has been
heretofore held on Saturday nights until
1890 for the theater trade, will leave at the
usual time after this.
Miss Tobttt TO speak-Aiiss Edith To-
bitt, city librarian, will address the Omaha
Philosophical society Sunday at 8 O'Clock
p. m in Baright hall, Nineteenth and Far
nam streets. on The Public Library as a
Factor in Modern Civilization"
Funeral Services sunday-Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Henrietta J. McComber, who
died Friday at her home. 300 Emmett
street, will be held at the home sunday
afternoon at O'Clock. The body will be
sent TO Ida Grove, Ia. for interment
TravolOEues at FIRST Esthodist-women
OF the First Methodist church have ar
ranged for four lectures in the church au-
ditorium December 2S and q by Frank
Robson on his travels. The lectures will
be given afternoon and evening Of each
day.
Lights for skateru-The park commits
soners are so well convinced that winter is
really upon us that they have ordered the
lights put up over the lake at Hanscorn
park so that IL can be used for skating In
the evenings. II is said that the lake is
already safely frozen over and some peo-
pie have already ventured upon the ice at
Carter lake.
Record for the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
time record is announced by the Burling-
ton road in relation to its trains between
Chicago and Omaha. Fast mail No. ar
rived on time twenty-eight days out of
thirty in November losing fifty-one min
utes in two times late. This train has been
late five times since the first Of March
twice in March, once in May ana twice in
November, Chicago Omaha Denver train
arrived in Omaha on time twenty-seven
days out Of thirty and in Denver twenty
eight out Of thirty.
q. 8. Pure Food Commissioner o,Parr.a
The day OF cheap farm lands is vanish
ing" says Mr.. p. A. o'Farrel Of the United
State Pure Food commission. He adds:
And this leads me to say that western
Canada and British Columbia are the last
great and valuable divisions of the world
left for the white man to transform from
wilderness to smiling fruitful countries"
The Crank Trunk Pacific Land company
with offices at sl2 New York Life building
will send full descriptive circulars upon re-
quest, describing the last new country.
mountain Ash Chorus Comes-Trustees
OF St Mary's Avenue CONGREGATIONAL
church have concluded ARRANGEMENTS nv
which the Mountain Ash Chorus OF Wales
viii appear at the church on Thursdav
evening, December Is. Composed OF twenty
voices, this organization is making its
second American tour, but. while the far
thest point west reached on their first
visit was Minneapolis. this time the cities
OF the Pacific coast viii be visited Dur
ing his presidency. Theodore Roosevelt in
vited them to the White House, where they
sang before a select audience. At the clos.
the president remarked THAT sllcb s,ngfr,-
stirs ones soul" When singing in Ithaca
(the home OF Cornell university. a few
weeks ago. the Daily Journal in a criticism
OF the concert wrote Now their singing
suggests organ tones; now il chimes IKE
bells; now II sounds like a big stringed or
ehestra playing muted music"
NO More Excuses oo-lf he doesn't gat
bono to guarantee that he will give his
wife $40 a month and file it in distric,
court within a week or do something els.
that Will make it certain that he win give
his wife some assistance, Gustave peter
sen viii be brought up before Judge Lee s
Esteiie OF the criminal division OF the dis
trict court next Saturday and he win no,
be brought up to give any further excuses
either. This in substance is what tba
judge told Petersen when he was brouebt
into court Saturday. Six months ago Peter
sen was convicted Of wife abandonmer,
and released on his promise to give his
wife $40 a month. He didn't do il. so ~
was again brought before the court He
pleaded that he has a crippled hand. so that
he can work only a part Of the time. Dep
uty County Attorney Magney said Peter
sens hand was more crippled than It is
now before he was convicted and he
seemed to be able to work steadily then.