Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-07
Council Bluffs

sentinE the Iowa college, are pushing the
work assigned TO them, and say that the
prospects are that every maker of spray
ing machinery on the continent and many
from abroad will be represented at the
contest
L. 2. Peterson, 213 Benton street shortly
before midnight Thursday observed
through an open window a burglar trying
to break into the home OF a sleeping neigh
Dor. Peterson procured gun which has
a voice like young cannon and fired one
shot into the air. The would-be burglar
broke his neck in getting out of the neigh
borhood and disappeared In the direction
OF Harrison street. The shot also aroused
the neighborhood and was heard at the
police station and in nearly all other parts
of town. The police searched for the
frightened burglar, but could not find him
The aid of the police department has
been sought in the effort TO locate Alfred
Maynes who has been missing from mis-
nome, 1876 MINISTER street since Monday.
Maynes Is a carpenter who came here from
Topeka, Kan, several weeks ago and Sc
cured work with local builders. lie was
seeking employment when he first arrived
IN the city, and after he found IT, sent tor
mis- wife. They were getting along nicely
and happily situated In their new home.
The husband left Monday night, telling his
wife he would be back soon. lie did not
return, and since then no tdings have been
received from him.
DIR. s. d. Tobey. the veteran physician OF
Oakland and Council Bluffs, has returned
from a summer outing at NOrthpOrt, Mich,
where he is fortunate enough to have rela-
tives who own and operate one of the
famous pleasure resorts lie renewed
many pleasant acquaintances there with
people whom he had known In other parts
Of the country. Among them was DR..
Samuel Flood, formerly of Treynor, who
studied medicine in DIR. Tobeys office in
Oakland and who is now well-estab-
lished and wealthy physician at North
port. DR.. Tobey since retiring from prac-
tice has achieved considerable distinction
as a pedestrian and, although well on the
shady side of the allotted span of life,
thinks nothing of walking fifteen or twenty
miles a day or rising at O'Clock and tax
ing a taunt of five miles afoot. lie re-
very best of health.
The street railway company has decided
| to attempt to raise the water level in
! Lake Manawa by again turning Mosquito
creek into the lake The creek has been
| the bette noir of the lake and In the days
OF the infancy Of the latter deposited sew
| the east end of IT,. Ten or fifteen years
ago a dam was constructed and the stream
made TO empty directly into the river In
stead of the lake and the filling process
| Immediately and fully arrested. Now the
stream is flowing strong volume OF
clean, pure water, which would be very
| welcome addition to the lake. The COM
pany has decided to cut canal across
| the narrow neck of land and turn the
stream into the lake, protecting 1t from
muddy overflows by constructing flood
gates that may be opened and closed ut
| will.
The basement walls of the new addition
to the Blks' club building adjoining the
main structure on the north are well UNI
der way The addition is forty feet long
and twenty-five feet wide and is designed
and being constructed exclusively for use
| as a billiard room. The walls will be OF
the same colored brick as used in the main
building and the architecture. Will also
! conform. The building Will cost about
| 50, 900 and the furnishings probably as much
more. When finished it will be one of the
handsomest and best appointed billiard
rooms to be found anywhere. The vacation
| Of the present billiard room will add
| greatly to the capacity of the club house.
| With the completion of this addition and
the raising of the grade of the lawn In
| followed the fire last spring more than
| $4,000 will have been expended upon the
| building this season.
ON August 20 there will be a civil service
| examination held for stenographers and
typewriters in the government service at
Washington, d. c., at the average en-
trance salary of $40 or 5000 per annum.
In Iowa these examinations will be held at
Burlington, Cedar Rapids Des Moines,
Dubuque, Fort Dodge Mason City and
Sioux City This examination will be open
only to male applicants who are willing
to accept appointments at Washington al
the salaries mentioned In September and
October at the above named places the
| same kind of examination will be held,
open to both male and female applicants
for employment not only at Washington
ID. c., but at ery place in the United
States or in the Philippines or in Pan
anna. Application blanks for these exam
nations may be secured from ], M. Shoe
maker. district secretary of the Eight
civil service district at st. Paul. MINI.