Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-18
People and Evsnts

Dan R. Hanna, the lively son of Mark, is
speeding up for the matrimonial championship of
Ohio. His fourth wife pulled down divorce
decree at Cleveland last week.
A Chicago cigaret fiend went to bed with
lighted smoke between his fingers. A little later
he woke up with the bed ablaze and his hair
and night clothes burning. Firemen rushed him
to the county hospital to cool off and poultice
the blisters.
The Associated Advertisers club of Phia-
delphia heads crusade against fake advertisers
who are unconmmonly numerous in the city
Particular attention will be paid to the fly-by-
night concerns and the home made fakir, whose
operations besmirch the ctys commercial morals
Five officers of the Aroostook Potato asso-
ciation New England group of rhiddlemen,
have been convicted in the federal court for oper-
ating in restraint of trade. The officers sought
shelter under the Clayton act, as an agricultural
association, but failed to make the jury see it that
way The only thing they raised were potato
prices.
A receiver searching the banks and papers
of Barrett Brothers, vanished brokers in get-rish-
quick stocks, in Chicago, finds debts increasing
and assets shrinking. The chief feature of the
latter are punches of stock certificates that are
marvels of the printers art. Experts say that
while bankers would not give so cents for the
whole supply sngly, they might bring that sum
from art collectors.
for congress in Montana, stands good chance Of
being the first woman member of the national
house OF representatives. Reports indicate a
tendency to make the delegation one from each
party. Miss Rankin was big factor in making
Montana a suffrage state. She is tall, straight as
a mountain pine, an entertaining speaker and has
wealth of red hair far surprising the anroral
crown Of Victor Murdock,
A good fat potato patch these uplifting Oc-
tober days surpasses the average gold field Spuds
are sure-thing winners on booming market.
Just now the potato fields of Long Island are
mounting up to gladstone figures. Shortage of
male help brought to the fields focks of women
and children, who are paid 3 cents bushel for
picking behind digging machines. One unusually
industrious woman pulled down $40 for weeks
picking.
A federal Judge from Florida subbing for a
brother judge in New York. vocalized his inward
pain in sentencing smuggler. This is not a
place calculated to breed good morals,' said the
Judge The way man is held up for taxicab
fares and hotel charges can hardly blame man
for trying to put one over once in while. If I
lived in New York ten years ! might be tempted
to beat Uncle Sam myself" What happened to
the smuggler is immaterial 1t is enough to know
that Father Knickerbocker got his'n.
A crowd of men jammed around one of the
exhibits in the New York electrical show, where
young woman demonstrated how up-to-date
toggery is put on and taken off without the
bother of safety pins, hooks or buttons. Trim
med down to dainty corset cover and "a
diaphanous petticoat," she put on various gar
ments of silks from electrically driven looms
As the changes progressed the crowd grew and
pressed so close that the show was forced to
suspend OF course curiosity had much to do
with drawing the crowd. Men, especially, bene-
diets are eager for showing of dress improve
ments which will dispense with the labor of con-
| Meeting the back reaches Of wifey's dresses