Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-06
Davis. drnra

Davis. drugs.
Leffert's, opticians.
Wedding silver at I.effert's.
Have Morehouse emboss IT,
Corrigan's undertakers. Phones li3
For authority on watches see Left@rt
FAUST BEER AT ROGERS BUFFET
Lewis Cutler. funeral director. Phone 81.
Woodring Undertaking company. Tel 800
Call 142 for case of Gund's Peerless
beer. ]. J. Klein Co, distributors
Get those photos taken at Kuhns studio
q So Main st. Co. Bluffs. Open Sundays
Glasses that relieve headache, nervous
ness and improve the vision are the KIND
that we lit. Lefferts, opticians.
City Engineer Stimson has been confined
TO his nome for the last two days by Ill
ness taking the form OF cholera morbus.
lie was considerably better last night and
expects to be able TO resume his duties by
Monday.
Miss II. NJ. Gallup, who was taken into
custody with e. G. King after they had
been making their home in Paramount park
all summer, has been sent to the county
farm. The woman Is not mentally vigorous
and seems Incapable of providing Tor her
self
A jolly crowd Of the Junior Barracks from
the First Baptist church were delightfully."-
entertained Thursday evening at the home
of Clarence Head, the president of the
class. Games and music were enjoyed by
all. after which light refreshments we're
served.
Alderman Minnick and Mayor Maloney,
the two members of the city government
who constantly find something to do In
the way of discharging the obligations OF
their office. have a force of skilled men at
work raising the brick paving throughout
the city where II has settled and made de-
pressiCnE in the surface Of the streets. This
Is the first time in the history that such
work has been attempted, and II Is esti-
mated that the three men who are engaged
In the work, at a cost of about So a day are
saving more than 500 a dav to the taxpay-
ers and property owners VINO have paid
Tor the pavements. Heretofore such re-
pairs were esteemed to be unnecessary or
else rsbodys business, and were taken as
a natural result of the wearing OF the
pavement. The work already done has
demonstrated that the duration of the pave
ment VIII be heightened several years.
A suit for $4,000 damages was yesterday
Instituted in the district court by Elizabeth
Beckley, wife of NJ Beckley, farmer Nv
ing six miles east of the city as the re-
suit of an automobile accident The de-
PENDANT is F. A. Spencer, plumber and
furnace dealer, at 3S7 Broadway. The &C
cident occurred Thursday night, July q, just
east of the city, when Mrs Beckley and
her daughter, Marie, were plnioned I'M
derneath their buggy when their horse was
frightened by an automombile driven by
Mr.. Spencer, which approached from the
rear and heightened the horse while at
tempting to pass The fact that the ma
dent actonable. Mr.. Spencer was In the
country and was returning without means
of lighting the lamps on the machine. Inc
auto is one of the oldest in the city. two
cylinders without muffler, and makes as
much noise as a freight train.
The first attempt to utilize the discarded
paving blocks taken from Broadway VIII
be made by Charles e. Kimball, owner OF
the ogden house, who will use them in the
construction of modern three-floored flat
in the rear OF the hotel with frontage
on Park avenue and West Pierce street
The flats are to be quipped for use eXclu-
Bively for light Housekeeping and are to
A. al rHnN aff tor N
Harlem flats in New York City. 1t is be-
leved the granite blocks will make beau
tiful walls, and IL laid in good cement
should defy the assaults of time for q
thousand years. After twenty-seven years
of wear as paving material the surface ex-
posed only shows slight smoothing, with
the hardest kind of building stone in thu
world. The plans for the flats We're
Lucy, and it is said she has evolved som'
very novel ideas in the economy of space
and the sudden transformations of ivins
apartments into reception rooms. Mr
Kimball expects to begin work tmmedi
ately.
Alderman Mnnick is watching the prog
ress Of the Broadway paving with more
than usual interest A few days ago wher
some of his friends were complaining about
the work going forward slowly he Offered
TO bet both sides Of the street would bt
finished as far as Main street by tonight
Yesterday afternoon the PAYERS entered thu
widest part OF the territory to be repaved
the intersection of Fourth street where
Broadway is more than 200 feet wide. AL
derman Minnick stood watching the toilinl
PAYERS placing the long rows of bricks
and the work seemed to progress so SLOWLY
that he had excellent reason to fear losing
his wager. Then he told his troubles L
Contractor Wickham. No one is capable
OF better approaching the work that Al
derman Minnick is doing on the streets
as head OF the streets and alleys commit
tee than is Contractor Wickham, and III
Immediately decided that the alderman
confidence should not be shaken. He gav'
instructions to rush the paving and ge
down to Main street before quitting tim,
tonight II II required all OF the PAYERS II
the three cities. The tarring gang are ava,
behind the PAYERS, but their work doesn'
count In Minnicks bet.