Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-24
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Electric fans, $3.50. Burgess-Grandeu.
Have Root Print Tt--Now Beacon Press
Rebates Effioionoy-The a5c plate
dinner served at schlit1 hotel.
"Today's Complete Movie Program"
classified section 'ocay. and appears in
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the various moving picture theaters offer.
Many AutoiEts ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
three auto tourists registered at Hotel
Fontenelle Tuesday indicating that
motor traffic through Omaha is again
becoming normal. after the rains.
Tailor shop Eentered-H Carps
tailor shop at 29l4 North sixteenth street
was entered by thieves Tuesday aignt.
who stole $40 in cash and two checks for
S25 and $50 beside a quantity Of clothing
Auto ~ stolen--John Latenser Of
Florence, Neb.. reports to the police that
his auto was stolen from in front ~ the
Bee building Tuesday afternoon. y coat.
a check for $3.50
Moorhead to Talk at Dsn-Harley
Moorhead is to be the principal speaker
at Ak-sar- Ben den Monday night. when
the Omaha Rotary club and the town OF
Benson are to be entertained. Mo0rhead
represents the Rotarians.
Dying Father Wants Young-Mrs.
William Appel Of 421s Bennett street,
Pittsburgh, Pa, has asked the Omaha
police TO try and locate Chester Young
aged 30 years. who was last heard from
in this city three years ago. Young's
father is dying.
Had Bogus Measurss--M. Davis, ped
der, pail North Thirtieth street, was
brought into police court by Weight and
Measure Inspector John Grant Pegg,
charged with using fraudulent scales and
a measure not up to standard. Davis sells
fish and vegetables.
Ola Man Breaks His Arm--Wllliam
Rock, aged 20 years. and an inmate at
the county hospital. who sells snoe
strings on the streets fell down stair
way at the Union Pacific ticket office
and broke his left arm. He was taken
to st. Joseph's hospital
Concert at KountEs Park-Commis-
sioner Hummel has authorized the
Omaha Bohemian band to play In
Kountze park on the evening of July
in connection with neighborhood cele-
bration to be held. This concert originally
was scheduled for June 80
May Locate Here--A. B. Chapman OF
the Chapman Furniture company, Des
Moines is in the city. looking over condi-
tions with a view of locating in Omaha
in the furniture business. He expressed
great amazement at the growth or
Omaha since 1908, when he was resident
here,
Wants His Expenses Paid-C. II.
English, director of the Palmer Park
system in Chicago, wired Commissioner
Hunmel he would come to Omaha to
consider. the recreation apprenticeship
II his travelling expenses were paid. He
has been advised he must defray his own
expenses.
some saddle-In the Farnam street
window of it's city ticket office the
Union Pacific Is displaying $500 saddle
that It will present to the champion
rough rider at the Cheyenne Frontier day
festivities, July 21-4. The saddle is sill
YER mounted and was manufactured by
the Alfred Cornish company of this CITY,
To Lay larger Mains-Manager
Howell of the city wafer plant VIII
recommend 20 the board the laying of
twenty-four-lnch pipe from sThirty-siNth
TO Forty-eighth streets, probably along
Pacific street, to strengthen the service
in the southwest part of the city. This
main would carry pumpage of the Pop
pleton avenue station.
earns Added to Faoulty-R. L. earns.
supervisor or athletics in the public
schools. has been added to the faculty
of the vacation school for boys, being
conducted by the educational department
Of the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton. Secretary ]. w. Miller, i'm charge
OF the summer school, started with four
teachers, but had to increase the teaching
force to seven because the enrolment
was much larger than expected.
Miles Speaks Here sunday-Floyd F.
Miles. city treasurer of Des Moines and
a Billy Sunday convert. will speak Sun
day evening, June q. at s o'clock. at the
First BAPTIST church at Twenty-ninth
and Ha,ney streets, instead of the West
winster Presbyterian church, as ii-st an
nounced. The afternoon meeting at 3
o'clock will be In the First Methodist
Episcopal church. as originally planned.
Both meetings are under the auspices OF
the Union Gospel Mission.