Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-07
SOUTH SIDE AFFAIRS
Live Stock Run for July Was
Lighter Than Expected,
Cattle Showing Lead.
REPUBLICANS ARE ACTIVE

The stock yards passed through
"middlin'" month during July. Cattle
held a record alone that headed the
July output last year by more than
1000 head. The output this year was
1900, as against the 1916 of year
ago.
Sheep dropped from the record OF
last year, while hogs proved the light
est run of any month OF the year. The
run totaled 10000, or nearly $4,000
short of the June output. The horse
market maintained a steady gait, but
was none too good.
July Accident Month.
examination of the police record
for July shows that there were about
three times as many accidents during
this month than for any other month
of the year. The increase is due to
the hot weather. There were more
attempted suicides and suicides last
month than for any other month OF
the year.
Republicans Will Debate.
Plans are under way for the or
ganization of debating team 10 rep
resent the Young Mems Hughes and
Fairbanks club in the political field
of Omaha soon after organization.
The club has a number of university,
college and high school debaters on
its list Of members and these have
volunteered to take up the Affirmative
Of republican platform planks.
Committeeman worked three days
OF last week and covered the greater
part of the city by canvass. The mem
bership can now be easily estimated
at 800 at the opening of the club.
President P. ]. Martin of the South
Side Republican club will soon arrive
home from trip to Chicago. Be-
fore leaving for the Windy City he
announced that he would call a meet
ing OF the club for the purpose Of
endorsing republican candidates on
city, county, state and national tick
cts. 80 =
Reports of the formation of a Po-
lish Republican club have emanated
from the district in the month passed.
Secretary Frank Madura Of the
Polish-American Citizens club, said
last week that it was the intention Of
republicans of the district to break
away from the bigger club and organ
ize one which is for Hughes and Fair
banks alone. 1t was charged that a
majority of democrats were assuming
management Of the club. -
Schmeling Seriously Ill.
Henry Schmeling, health depart
ment representative on the South
Side, is at the South Side hospital,
seriously i'll. Yesterday morning he
sustained violent abdominal at
tack, due, physicians say, to poison
ing.
Schmeling has been enjoying his
vacation at his fishing camp on the
Missouri river near Child's Point.
Armour Office by September.
The new Armour office building
will be ready for occupation about
September l. The finishing work is
requiring longer than was at first an
ticipated. Visitors at the new quar-
tiers, even though still uncompleted,
are frequent. General Manager R. c.
Howe and his secretary, MISS Ring,
are the entertainers.
Foundation for the new $500, 900 ad-
dition to the plant buildings has been
started. The building will begin just
as soon as the offices are removed to
the new quarters. The work will re-
quire an entire year.
Mildred Dross Entertains.
Mildred Dross entertained at her
home in honor OF her tenth birthday
Friday. Those present were: Mary
Allingham, Hazel Long, Helen Dee,
Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Baust,
Zeta Tate Allingham, Mildred Null
lally, Laurentine Randolph, Margaret
Baust and Mildred Dross.
Magic City Gossip.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. g. Galloway have re.
Iowa.
Mrs. Laur is seriously Ill with typhoid
fever at the Nicholas Sem hospital. Friend
fear for her recovery.
The date of the Red Men lodge picnic
has been changed to August 81 instead Of
August 20. as first announced.
Al Carlton. 60 South Fifty-first street
took q notion to resist Officer Herdzina
He landed In the bull pen at exactly 1851
Il o'clocQ yesterday.
Jerry Howard made talk to about sew
enty-five people at the corner Of Twenty
fourth and streets last evening. He dis
cussed the labor question.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. McAdams. who wer,
married last week. have returned from thei
honeymoon trip to st. Louis. Kansas Cit!
and other interesting points
The Ladies' Aid society of the West {
Presbyterian church will meet at 2:a
O'Clock Thursday afternoon at the churcl
at Forty-ninth and r streets.
OUR DOLLAR Low shoe sale--you hav
been asking for. Is now on. Hundreds o
pairs, sizes broken. Values up to $3.50 Il
the lot. cressey. the shoeman.
Captain Briggs of the local police spen
several hours yesterday afternoon scourinI
the South Side In search of the, darinI
bandits who robbed the Florence bank Sat
urday noon.
John liberal, Fifty-fo and o streets
and Joe Jurak, 1885 South Sixteenth street
were brought to the police station yester
day and booked charged with leaving thei
horses unhitched on the street.
Mike Rozgali. Is; George Hych. II; Johl
Check, II: Frank Check. Q, and Mildre,
Jensen. were all arrested yesterday after
noon on suspicion Of having stolen q bi
cycle. They were taken In charge by thei
parents.
Table Rock Man Loses Eye.
Table Rock, Neb., Aug. 6.-(Spe
cial) -William Alderman, a young
farmer living some three or foul
miles northwest Of town, while un
packing from a crate a new oil stow,