Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-10
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Stock Yards Making Big Prepare
tions to Greet Students.
FIVE HUNDRED ARE EXPECTED
ola Folks Concert at Presbyterian
Church Attracts Crowded House
Fort Crook soldier sustains
Peculiar Injury.

| Joe Shoemaker OF the Union Stock
Yards company issued nearly 500 invita-.
tons yesterday to the banquet to be
given next Tuesday night In honor OF
the agricultural department Of the Uni
versity OF Nebraska
Mr.. Shoemaker stated that the number
Of student visitors to the yards this year
will be unusually large and the united
packing interests are making every ef-
fort to entertain the hope OF Nebraska
in way that will be both beneficial to
the inner and outer man.
As far as the plans Of the days enter
taInment goes the students with their IN
structors VIII be divided into squads and
placed in charge Of guides, who will take
them through the different departments
Of the packing houses. where practical
demonstrations Of the work viii be made
for their benefit.
The plan of entertainment may be sum-
med up in the words Of Mr.. Shoemaker.
who lie In charge Of the entertainment:
We aim to cooperate with the teachers
Of the college and will make II point to
show the students something about stock
The students will arrive on a special
train in the forenoon and will remain all
day at the yards and packing houses.
More and more It is understood the coll
lege looks forward with interest and
pleasure to the yearly visit to the stock
yards Of South Omaha.
Old Folks Concert.
One of the most unique entertainments
ever given in this city held the attention
Of a crowded house at the Presbyterian
church last night. when thirty men and
women Of the congregation presented the
"old Folks Concert"
The feature OF the occasion was that
the players were all men and women on
the shady side Of life. The play itself
was Just what the name signified, an
"Old Folks Concert" without frills or
thrills. Just an old-fashloned 'shindlg."
Many in the audience were provoked to
rlirth at the sight of staid business men,
some clad in knickerbockers and Fauntie-
roy collars, while others wore with be-
coming dignity the solemn IL somewhat
Anticipated garb of forty years ago.
Among the women who took part in
the program there were kindly old grand
mothers whose silvery hair was rendered
nowise less venerable by the strange and
weird headgear that had been the pink
Of fashion back in old New England be-
fore the civil war.
The program was made up Of little bits
Of poetry, music and deelamstions. side
lights from the days agone. Tender old
ballads that in baby days had wooed to
sleep many man and woman in the
audience were again rehearsed by gentle
voices that had grown no less sweet be-
cause Of the passing years.
Andy Barr had down his fiddle from
the kitchen shelf and old and young
listened with rapt attention as his tuneful
bow walked song Of the kind that always
finds an echo in the heart of the ordinary
man ard WOMAN
altogether tie concert was pronounced
success and many Of thoee present heaped
fbst- eoag<zfniztsons upon The leads u
the players and ReT- Dr. Whsz3er, vho
inspired -'Te Old FoIl1 Co0cerf-
On q rr1Tz1H tUu @ tmpeEln ah1Er
TN CITY yesterday, kay0 r. J. Trainer