Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-28
SOUTH SIDE MATTERS
Schools Fast Being Put Into
Condition for Coming Year
of Active Service.
HORSE BUYERS ARE HERE

Seven South Side school buildings
are undergoing renovation at present.
Superintendent OF Buildings Finlay-
son has had gang Of about forty men,
carpenters, painters and masons,
working for nearly four weeks. The
construction of a new four-room ad-
dition to the South Franklin school
in the West L district and the build
ing of an entirely new building on the
old South Central site is being
rushed through. The cost Of these
two jobs will approximate $4,000.
The. high earth bank in the rear of
the Garfield school at Sixteenth and
H streets has been graded down.
Graders practically completed the Job
yesterday. The problem of a suitable
playground for Garfield school stu
dents has now been taken care of, the
tract taking in three city lots of full
size.
New floors are being laid at the
South Lincoln school at Twenty-sev-
enth and F streets. Painting and var
nishing is also being done both inside
and out. The old paper in the West
Side school at Thirty-first and Y
streets is being torn out preparatory
to repapering. The rooms here will
be painted. Brown Park school at
| Nineteenth and u streets, is also
being painted and vanished inside.
Hawthorne school at Eighteenth and
Missouri avenue is undergoing revar-
nishing on the inside and painting on
the outside. The Garfield school is
receiving the same treatment.
Superintendent Finlayson drew the
plans for the new building at Twenty
fifth and NJ streets and also the four
room addition to the South Franklin
street. The South Central building
will be ten-room affair built in a u
shape. 1t is hoped 'that the work
can be finished before the opening OF
the fall school term, September |.
| All plumbing has been installed in
the two-story lavatory added to the
new high school gymnasium at Twen.
ty-fourth and J streets. This work
was promised early last fall, but was
not completed until just recently.
Yards and Packing Houses.
A delegation Of Omaha stockmer
will leave in special car over the
Union Pacific this afternoon, bound
for Cheyenne, where they will attend
the annual Frontier show that is now
in session. The party will remain ii
Cheyenne two days, returning home
some time Sunday afternoon.
| John ]. Murphy, son Of Genera
Manager NJ. R. Murphy Of the Cud
ahy packing plants, now located a
| FL Paso, Tex, has much to tell OF tn,
excitement near the border. "Ther,
| is not going to be much OF a move
lment Of cattle out Of Mexico" he sale
yesterday. "The duty existing is prac
tically prohibitive. Chihuahua author
| titles are charging an export duty pc
head Of $40 gold and Sonora author
tiles claim duty Of SIS per head. als'
| gold" aE.....
i Superintendent Patrick Shechy 0
the Cndahy packing plant announce,
that the members Of the South Sid
Social Settlement will be entertaine,
| the last Friday OF this month at tn
plant. The children, us strong, wer
entertained last Friday at the Swift
plant with refreshments and interest
ing talks. The same sort OF program
is being arranged at the Cudah,
plant. Miss Morgan will be in charg
Of the children, with Attendance OF
| ficer Paul McAulay as assistant.
| c, w. Carter and R. c. McCulley
both of Springfield, Neb,, were visit
) ors at the yards yesterday. They ha
just come in from three weeks tri
to the Pacific coast and reported a
well in California and vicinity.
Booster Club Organized.
Two hundred residents OF the We.
@ street district met last evening |
the hall at 3603 Q street and organ
ized the West Side Boosters Club.
w. ]. Curran was elected presider
and George Collins, secretary.
The proposition Of urging the cit
commission TO build a park in tn
West q street district and .iso !
widen Thirty-eighth street betwee
2 and 7 streets was discussed and al
ton taken in the matter. The clu
will boost the park question to
definite end and will take into cor
sideration anything uplifting and ber
eicial to the residents and propert,
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Waiiweocr-Fianders Nuptials.
I Miss Eva Wallweber, daughter {
Mr., and Mrs. Frank G. Wallweb,
1 and former secretary to Principal
q w, Moore OF the South High scho,
r for two years, was united in marriap
4 to Lawrence Flanders OF the Sout
l.