Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-06
HAPPENINGS IN
THE MAGIC CITY
Extensive Grading Operations Are
Being Carried on Throughout
Magic City.
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More than $4,000 has been spent TO date
in grading operations carried on IN the
east part of South side Under the di-
rectlon OF a local grading syndicate sew
eral streets and high hills that have in
the past greatly lowered the value Of
property in the vicinity Of Missouri ave-
nue. have been cut through and lowered
The work has been in progress more than
three months
A stupendous amount of grading has
already been accomplished. with a force
of more than seventy-five men and about
$50 horses along with wagons and all
manner OF grading equipment hills from
twenty to sixty feet high have been
graded away, while cuts have been made
through other steep inclines OF the same
proportions to make way for streets. The
work Is being done under contract with
the city OF Omaha. Two grading camps.
both temporary, have been pitched at
sixteenth and J streets and Fifteenth and
Missouri avenue, respectively. The camps
include great canvis-covered horse barns
and bunk and grub house for the grad
ers.
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has been cut through Here high i'm
penetrable hill once stood. The steep in
cline bordering Missouri avenue from
Thirteenth to Fourteenth street has
been practically all cleared away. This
precipice alone mounts more than fifty
feet upwards from the brick pavement
Sixteenth to Seventeenth on II has been
graded eight feet. while the same high
way from Eighteenth to Twentieth
streets has been filled in a matter of
more than three feet.
work on Heating Plant.
Work on the new heating plant being
built in connection with the high school
annex is progressing slowly. For some
weeks workmen have been at work con-
structing the brick walls that make the
enclosure over the furnace. Steam heat
Will be furnished for the gymnasium,
machinery. sewing, domestic science and
manual training departments from this
new heating plant. Hitherto heat has
been obtained from large heating stoves.
one in each room.
Conference of Sheepmen.
The conference of sheepmen OF Me-
braska held at the State farm in Lin
of the Department of Animal Husbandry
at the state university was attended by
a delegation of local sheepmen. The
South Side delegation was the largest
single delegation that attended. They
were well received
Dean Burnett of the state school and
Profs. II. ]. Gramlich and c. b. Lee lee
tured on different topics that proved
int
sheepmen and those out in the state. The
local delegation returned Saturday highly
pleased with the visit.
Alone and without friends EXCEPT for
the attentive hospital nurses. John Yost,
laborer, injured as the result of a fall
Wednesday evening. died at the South
Side hospital last evening at s:45 o'clock.
The man was taken to the police station
Wednesday evening practically uncon-
scious and remained In the stupor until
he was ordered to the South Side hos
pital Thursday evening by Assistant City
Physician E. F. Shanahan.
Yost was 10 years old. He boarded and
roomed with the Nortin family in the
Pivonka block and was known to have
worked in the sausage department of the
Armour packing plant. Nothing more is
known of him. Deputy Coroner Bernard
Larkin took charge Of the body.
Died Like His Relative.
Singular is the fact that H. Helm,
former employee of the Swift and Com
pany plant and relative Of Eric Beldt,
victim OF last Fridays ammonia explo-
sion at the Swift and Company packing
plant in the South Side, lost his life at
the same plant five years before. Helm
was working on the inside OF one of the
huge dryers in the fertilizer when some
one unknowingly started the machinery.
He was crushed before the machinery
could again be stopped.
The funeral OF William Kendall, one of
the victims. was held at the Trinity
cathedral at o'clock yesterday after
noon. Burial was in Forest Lawn ceme-
terry. The funeral Of Eric Beldt, the
other victim. will be held this afternoon
at the Larkin chapel at Twenty-fourth
and M streets, Interment will be in the
Forest Lawn cemetery.
Decorate Windows.
During the last week several of the
large department stores of the city have
been decorating their windows with
holiday goods in preparation for the
Christmas shopping that will soon be on
in force. South Side business men ex-
pect to do a great deal of business this
year. Toys and all kinds of Christmas
gifts can be purchased in the South Side
Just as cheap as in the big department
stores uptown, say local business men.
The five and ten cent stores have espe-
cially appropriate window displays while
the Koutsky and Pavlik show window Is
decorated with the skill equal to any
of the department store windows uptown.
Church people OF the South Side are
already laying plans to pass around
Christmas dinners and gifts among those
who cannot afford to purchase a Christ
mas feast.
Magic City Gossip.
Mrs. ]. T. Considene entertained IN
honor of her daughter, Lucille. SATURDAY
afternoon on her twelfth birthday.
See Our Windows-SantG's headouar-
tiers for toys and useful gifts. Koutsky-
Pavlik Co.
Superior lodge No. 1873, Degree OF Honor
viii select officers at the regular meet
ing Wednesday evening, December s.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
| Presbyterian church met with Mrs Comm
ton Wednesday afternoon at o'clock,
The Independent Order OF Odd Fellow,
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