Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-17

Corrgans. undertakera Phones ia
FAUST BEER AT ROGERS BUFFET.
Majestic ranges. p. c. be Vol Hdw. Co
WoodrinE Undertaking company. Tel. So
! Lewis Cutler. funeral director. Phone ~
| Special Piano sale at Hospe TINS week.
/ iO1 Broadway.
Pure blackberry juice and Virginia Dare
/ vine. j. J. Klein Co.
Wanted-Good boy to carry papers III
west part Of city. Can 10 Scott street
Wanted-Girl or woman to help do house
work. Apply Dr.. Erickson, lSl fesrl Oh
70 per cent discount on pictures, frames
| and framing at FRuble's Art shoP' 900
| Broadway.
Fryer Printing Co, new location 3s2 2, and
/ 1928 w. + way. Phones 205. Mail ana phohe
| calls answered In person.
! The $ A. Pierce q Co. snoe store VIII De
| open for business at their new loSa' nn5
bS3 West Broadway, between rear eHN
! sixth streets, January IL.
! Twenty per cent discount on verifying
| In furniture, crockery and stoves ahu' t,
week. commencing Monday, Jan. 10 fe-
! tersen q Schoening Co ,
/ Twenty-Five per cent discount on rugs.
| II you buy any place else before You sec
| our rugs you Will be sorry. PETERSEN q
| SChoenng co.
! The funeral OF Edwin +. Bryant viii be
| held from the residence, l5lS Avenue ~ TINS
! afternoon at 2 o'clock. Elder Joseph A.
! Francis Of the Latter Day Saints church
| viii have charge OF the services
! The body of Merton Benner, who was
[ aCClQentallN killed at the hedIlltN NAllANol ,
| academy, was brought home YESTERDAY ana
| taken to the Woodring undertaking rooms.
! The funeral will be held this afternoon at
$3.50 from the residence OF the lad mOtnef
| at 743 Washington avenue. Rev. Mr.. Sko-
gard, pastor OF st. johns Ensnsh LII
! theran church, will conduct the services
| Burial will be in Walnut HIN cemetery.
The Board of County Supervisors has
! made cut in the pay OF city assessor SCISSOR
| w. D. Hardin OF $500. lie has heretoiore
| been paid 5000 a year and viii this year
! get only $500 from which he will be
| obliged to pay the salary of at least one
| assistant. The salaries Of all of the other
assessors were fixed at the same figure as
! two years ago, when the real estate assess
! ment was made, with the exception Of the
4 Minden assessor, whose pay was raised
| from s44 TO $50 for the job.
| Colonel w. L. Baker has received word
| from Washington of his early appointment
| to a position in the field work of the ma,
tional bureau of good roads which Will
! require his presence away from home
| good part of the time In the future. The
| appointment comes through Congressman
| Walter l. Smith. On January 30 Colonel
| Baker will be one of the chief speakers
| before the good roads convention at Lin
| coin. The Commercial club Of that city
has invited him TO be present and he has
| accepted the invitation.
! Children playing in an upstairs room at
| the home of Mrs. Van Honn, Is South
| Eighth street, Saturday night overturned
stove in which a hot fire was burning. The
| fire department was called out, but the
| stove was taken care OF before the firemen
| arrived and no damage was done. II was
|
| ment since January l. The department
records show that just twenty years aGo
| yesterday the department was called out
to extnguish the first fire that had oc-
CURED in three months.
John w and Charles w. Clatterbuck, do
ing farming and live stock business as
copartnership at Ingraham, Mills county,
have applied to the bankruptcy court for
relief from their debts which have accumu-
lated since they began business six months
ago. They schedule liabilities to the amount
of 81 1893 and assets to the value of $40, in
Guiding household goods and farm prop
erty, which Is all claimed as exempt The
debts all unsecured and represented
chiefly by notes given for merchaJldise
purchases, The principal note Is held by
John c. Asltew of Atchison, Kan, foR $3.50
Council Bluffs creditors are represented by
the Council Bluffs Lumber company $l90.S
and e. r. Hart $3.50 j. j. Maurath of
Silver City, former Council Bluffs mer-
chant, is a creditor to the extent of $7035
1t has cost the taxpayers of Pottawat-
tamie county more than O,47OOS for money
expended on bridge work during 1910 The
Beard OF County Commissioners on Satur-
day received the reports or cash eXpend-
lures by individual members during the
year. Supervisor Setz expended $40 679S So
Spencer SlO.7S431, Darlington Sl2,69242, Johns
sic 3l349, aggregating the total stated. The
report Of Colonel Baker, one OF the retir-
ing members was not handed in in time
for action, but Colonel Baker said last
evening that 1t would not exceed 49, 800
Money received from the sale OF old bridges
Setz Sis5i5, Spencer sS05. Darlington sSli. IS
and Johns $S3995 The annual meeting OF
| the road supervisors OF POttaWattamip
county will be held on January p in the
south room of the county court house.
In the interest of the carriers and clerks
in the postoffice an effort is to be made
the Council Bluffs office to close It on
Sundays. A meeting of the clerks and
| carriers was held in the postoffice yester-
day morning for the purpose OF consider
ing the matter and committee was ap-
pointed headed BY Postmaster Hazeiton as
| chairman. to lay the proposition before the
public and secure an expression of opinion.
, | In his last annual report the postmaster
general said the department would approve
this plan wherever the patrons of the
slight Inconvenience that would be en-
tailed The plan has been put I'm operation
in number Of cities and has fully met
public approval, At Detroit a majority OF
and postoffice employees the Sunday holt
day.
The annual meeting Of the Council Bluffs
Grape Growers association was held Satur-
l day afternoon in the south room of the
county court house. Officers for the year
were elected. J. c. Book was made presi-
dent, W. g. Keelne vice president; y. A.
Hess, secretary, and Henry Sperling treas
urer. The board Of directors chosen were:
ger, J. a. ,Aulabaugh. II. A. Smith and ].
W. Dorland. George W. Reye was re
! elected general manager at the same salary
, as paid him last year, $500. The financial
report was excellent despite the nearly
] complete failure Of the fruit crop. The
E total sales Of fruit raised by the growers
and handled by the association amounted
TO S3l,98l4l. The commission on these ga les
failed to meet the expenses OF doing bust
ness to the extent OF S4j03l which would
have left the association loser to that
amount II the storage business had not
been exceptionally good
twenty-five per cent discount on rugs.
, II you buy any place else before you see
/ our rugs you will he sorry. Petersen &
Schoening Co.
! Best rock and rye for medicinal and
family use. Bottled in two sizes Resented
Liquor Co, 3l9 South Main.