Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-23
florence.

The Ritchie-Thirtle sale held Wednesday
7 totaled over $500
A. Albach has shipped two carloads OF
potatoes the last week
Mrs Mary Bena was the guest Of Mrs
George Thirtle this week
J. p. Crlck Of Omaha spent Tuesday visit
ing with Florence friends.
J. w. Day, who has been quite III, is able
TO be out and about again.
Percy Vogel has gone to Lincoln to take
up course In agriculture.
Mir. and Mrs w. A. Yoder are entertain
ing guests from Fremont, Neb.
MIR. Guy Hough Of Bridger Mont. was
the guest OF f. l.. Platz Tuesday.
The Keirle Ice company viii start har-
vesting ice on the reservoir Monday
Mrs. Tierney Of Irvington the guest
Of Florence friends Tuesday evening.
MIR and Mrs. Charles Day have been
visiting Omaha friends for few days.
The next regular dance Of the Ecnerolf
club will be held FRIDAY evening at Cole )
Arthur Moore and Miss Goldie shriyer
of Omaha were Florence visitors Sunday
evening.
Mrs. Charles Allen, who has been quite
III for the last week, Is reported as I'M
proving.
Mrs f. p. Nichols was the guest Of Mrs.
Kate Remington Of Omaha Wednesday
afternoon.
A new meat market will open in the new
.
near future.
r. A. Golding and Frank Gleason at
tended the melting OF the Hoo Hoos In
Omaha this week.
DR.. II. Pritchard was a Lincoln visitor
this week, where he went to buy some
thoroughbred dairy cows
w. u. Forests incubator house is almost
completed and he expects to start his IN
cubators going in a few days.
Rev and Mrs. Frederick Wedge returned
Wednesday from Columbus where they
had been visiting for week
MIR. and Mrs. Cullen B. Carr Of Blocton,
Ia, were the guests of MIR. and Mrs. II.
A. Golding, Monday and Tuesday
Rev +. Il. " edge of san Francisco spoke
Of his work on the Barbary coast Thurs
day evening at the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Whitaker and sister, Miss Kate of
Robinson, Ill, are the guests OF their SIS
ter Mrs. w. n. Thompson, and family
J. II. l.. Williams has purchased an auto
mobile so he can visit his various grad
ing camps and his farm all in one uay.
O. r Richie and Scott RitChe left Fri
DAY evening for Saskatchewan, Canada,
where q. 4. Richie already has farm
Mrs Bently g, McCloud of Chicago ar
rived thursday morning for a visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs r. IL. Olmstead,
Messers Chris Kolle and WIN Bona spent
| Sunday at Coffman. where they bought
/ LOO bushels of corn and three large wOrE
teams
The men working on the ice on the reser-
Voir Tuesday struck for p cents an
hour and the ice company discontinued
cutting ice,
! At Adams hall Sunday evening r. l..
| Homan of Omaha will deliver a free lecture
| ON The Coming kingdom, How 1t is
! Established"
| Quite a large delegation Of Florence peo-
! pie attended the missionary conference held
1 in Omaha last week at the First Presby-
terrain church
The Ladies' Aid society Of the Presby-
| terrain church will hold their meeting at
the home of Mrs. ID. V. Shtpley Wednes-
day afternoon.
william Lonergan and Hugh Lonergan
pulled down prizes for seed corn at the
| Lincoln meeting OF allied agricultural in
| terests this week. '
The Sunday school teachers of the Pres
byterian church will hold their regular
meeting at the home of Mrs. r. II. Ohm
stead Monday evening.
| The canning factory Will be opened the
coming year. it having been leased to a
J man out in the state who has method
OF his own for canning fruit.
Sunday evenings topic at the Christian
spirit" as the third of series on the
Progress of the Soul" by Myron Metzinger
Mrs. Jane Thomas mother Of Abraham
and Samuel Thomas. pioneer resident OF
| Florence died at her home in Omaha
Tuesday evening and was buried Saturday
Roy Brown had the good fortune to Kill
three large wolves last Tuesday. They
we're all three fighting among themselves
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! three.
! Mrs. ]. b. Brlsbin and Mrs. Harry Bris-
| bin entertained the Literary society Friday
afternoon in honor Of t~o members who
winter.
! John Williams returned Tuesday from
! Roseland $ d., where he was visiting his
4 brother, Joe, who Is holding down a
claim. besides being engaged I'm various
! enterprises
At the First Presbyterian church Sunday
Rev. g Sloan will have as his morning
topic, The Lord is my shepherd. In the
evening the topic will be. Let the Re-
deemed OF the Lord Say So"
Mrs. Wilhelmna Heise who lived on a
farm north of town for the last forty
years alG died Tuesdav. was buried from
/ the old farm home now occupied by h.
SON on 1hui soaS: -. g; A. Slan9c Ii
dren acted as pailbearers. Her husband died
Z about three years ago.
The volunteer fire department held a spe-
| cial meeting Friday evening TO talk over the
! need OF new apparatus and an alarm sys-
tenn that would give the town better fire
protection. A co.nmittee from the tiremen
/ will visit the council Monday evening and
ask the council to devise some way 20
! supply their needs.
Saturday j. II. Price held a house warm
ing at his new store on Main street and to
/ the large crowd OF people that came to
visit him he served sandwiches, doughnuts
I and coffee 40 the women he presented a
/ pairing knife as a souvenir, and TO the men
I a handsome watch charm. over 500 invita-
lions were sent out.
Mrs. Charles Huntington of Omaha was
( hostess Monday at meeting Of one of the
I OldCss clubs IN Omaha. The club WAS or
| ganized sixteen years ago and has con-
tnued to meet every year since. The mem
bers residing in Florence are: Mesdames J.
I l.. Houston, +. b. Nichols. Harry Bnsbin,
John Brisbin, Jacob Weber,
Andrew Anderson. OF the firm OF AndeT-
son & Holl ngswoTth, dropped dead Satur-
day afternoon Of congestion Of the brain.
Mr.. Anderson was well known all over
Douglas county, having lived here for
years. He leaves wife, two daughters, "a
mother three brothers and two sisters. Flu
neral arrangements have not yet been
J made.
Wednesday evening when news OF the
Benson fire reached Florence the local
Eagles decided to hold NO meeting and all
went TO Benson In a body. Twenty-Five
made the trip and saw the burning of the
Benson Eagle hall. The Florence Eagles
while there offered the Benson Eagles the
use OF their HAN, paTRpheI MALTA and needed
supplies 10 carry on their work, which
the accepted and met ia the Eagles hall
here Friday evening
The wedding OF Marie Charlotte Barsh
daughter OF Mrs. Otto Barsh ana Mr.. Ed
ward Raymond. was celebrated Wednes-
day at high noon at Hountze Memorial
church Rev. Hummon officiating. Miss
Anna Barsh. sister % The bride. was