Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-12
Nebraska
INSURANCE COMPANY CHANGE
Negotiations Are Under Way to Sell
Farmers & Merchants.
KANSAS CITY FIRM IS IN LEAD
Historical society Hears FOLK Songs
by PhOnOEraph at Regular Meet
inE-Postoffice Clerks
want Day OFF.
tFrom a staff Correspondent

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LINCOLN Jan. 1i.-CSpecial )-Negotia-
lions for the sale Of the Farmers and
Merchants Insurance company are now
being conducted through state Auditor
Barton with a company OF Kansas city
capitalists. The Farmers and Merchants
Insurance company was an organization
affiliated with the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank and an investigation was or
dered about a week ago because Of the
alleged misuse OF the insurance funds The
bank changed hands and some prepar-
atory bargaining was done between G. NJ.
Darling Of Syracuse and the state audi
tor. The Kansas City company seems to
have the better chance 20 conclude deal
now. however. Il Is called the Central
Union Fire Insurance company and has
q capital Of $4,000. Ex-State Treasurer
Kelly Of Missouri is a hacker Of the in
stitution.
Historical society Hears Songs.
Photograph records Of Indian folk songs
were on the program Of the Nebraska His
torical society at tho meeting today. Prof.
Melvin r.. Gilmore Of Cotner gave the lee
ture that accompanied the records and
Robert F. Glider Of Omaha spoke upon
Nebraska as an archaeological field Mr..
Glider told Of his success in digging among
buffalo wallowes in various parts OF the
state.
The afternoon meeting was in conjunction
with tho Territorial Pioneers and ON the
program were talks and papers by James
Mooney, Mrs. Kittie McGrew and Mrs.
winona S. Sawyer.
Clerks Want Month OFF.
The regular meeting Of the Lincoln post
office clerks organization held last night
was given over largely to a discussion of
the much agitated plan to have thirty
day vacation for all clerks employed in the
postofflce service. Assistant Postmaster
Luddam OF this office has perfected a
plan by which the annual appropriation
made the office for the hire Of substitutes
is saved The men who are on vacation
divide their work up among their COM
panions so that by doing little extra on
each route the vacation may be taken
without costing the office anything The
local organization would like to see some
such plan tried everywhere 50 tfat a
thirty-day vacation would not be such an
undertaking for the government.
Troubles of the Excise Board.
The eye of the excise board, collectively
speaking. is. offended because the streets
OF Lincoln are desecrated with two or three
signs advertising beer. Mayor Love is
very strongly in favor of having the signs
down, but doubts the legality Of the at
tempt. The signs are a relic of the days
when Lincoln was as unregenerate as the
rest of the world. Mayor Love spoke to
the board upon the plan of putting a stop
TO all billboard advertising of any com
nodit yfor the sake of identifying the
streets.
superintendent Want Changes.
The State Association of County Super
intendents in session here this afternoon
considered seven bills which are TO be sub
mitted to the legislature as advisable
school legislation. One provides for the
levy for schools to be over Is mills II de-
sired. The limit Is now fixed at % mills
One was for the appointment OF deputy
superintendents an danother for making
the salaries OF superintendent proportion
ate to population in the counties.