Omaha daily bee., 1912-08-12
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+ COMPILED FROM ZEE PILES :
Thirty Years Ago
J AUGUST 12.

Thirty Years Ago
The Union Paciflcs again defeated the
Dubuques. by score Of to l. Dorr
pitched and Bandle caught and the UNI
pire was Mr.. stropp of Council Bluffs.
The B. & MS were not so fortunate,
being beaten in their game by the
spauldings by to Q. Durkee pitched and
Grant caught, and the umpire was
Decker Of Chicago.
At Creighton college the position Of
vice president filled by Father Bowling
is to pass to Rev. D. j. Leysen, S. j.,
who comes from the University Of st.
Louis.
Real estate dealers complain Of dull
business. yet Boggs & Hill have laid
out their third addition near the Shelley
packing house, and John r. Redck sold
to Lyman Richardson a tract Of 140 feet
front by $40 feet deep on the south side
be plated and marketed next spring.
A little daughter of Mrs Jacob Gish
fell out of swing and broke an arm.
John Frost, the well known janitor Of
the B. & M. headquarters, is the happy
father of bouncing baby boy.
An official order of General Manager
Kimbal instructs employees of the Union
Pacific that Frank Range is the author
lied manufacturer of their uniforms, and
that suits according to sample will cost
sSs and s55 each
The office formerly occupied by Dis
trict Clerk Ijams Is now in possession Of
All Morris and Billy Moran, at work In
making up the county and city tax list,
Twenty Years Ago
The democratic organ of Omaha re-
iterated the assertion that Governor Nc
Kinley of OHIO was paid $3.50 for each OF
hts speeches at Beatrice and Council
Bluffs and $3.50 in Omaha, in spite of the
signed and published statements of the
'chautauqua managers at both Beatrice
and Council Bluffs that liberal sums
were offered the governor and he posi-
lively refused to accept a cent at either
place not even for his expenses. And
Perine, chairman of the committee hav-
Ing him in charge, said the paper pub
lished lie and knew it at the time; that
not a cent was paid to Governor McKin-
ley
The reward for the recovery of the
have been drowned in Honey Creek lake,
Iowa. was raised to $1,o0O.
DR.. Nipple of Toronto, Canada. was
the guest of DIR. Conway, en- route home
from Denver. He was wildly enthusiastic
over the wonders of the great west
Lieutenant ]. J. Pershng of the United
States army, military instructor at the
University of Nebraska, spent the day
in Omaha. en- route to Chicago to spend
his vacation.
Or. ID. A. E'oote was going about on
crutches as the result OF injuries received
In a runaway when he was thrown out
of his buggy.
The Klopp- Bartlett company incor-
porated with a capital stock of $4,000. c.
H. and A. F. klopp and e. W. Bartlett
were the ineorporators.
Ten Years Ago
News was received of the death at his
old home in Lincoln Of John B. knight,
book binder employed for three years
by the Omaha Printing company. Prior
to his service there he had worked for
the Lincoln State Journal for more than
twenty years. He was 81 years old, was
born In London, had served in the British
army for many years In China and India
The county commissioners instructed C.
S. Peterson to pad two cells at the county
hospital for insane patients who might
be lodged there. The rooms were to be
toxlS with walls seven feet high.
The Douglas county democracy held
another "enthusiastic'' meeting to ar
range for the annual outing at Missouri
Valley. Spirits were most fluent and
cordial. presaging highly convivial oo-
oasion
Mayor Moores appointed these men to
represent Omaha at the Transmississippi
congress in St. Paul, August 1922. in
elusive: DIR. George L. Miller, Miss c. C,
Tenant Clary, Guy c. Barton, John Becan
Ryan, John e. UT, George T. Mills,
Thomas C. Byrne. E, Z. Bruce, Frank
s. Haller, c. F. Weller and Major R. s,
Wilcox
The coal dealers were out with their
annual, pre-autumnal announcement of a
probable coal famine the coming winter
"Buy early and avoid the rush.