Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-31
Brief City News

Platinum Wedding RIngs--Edholm.
Have Root Print lt-Nsw Beacon Press
Lighting Fixtures-Burgess- Grsnden Co,
Holmes for Municipai Judge,
John G. Martin for Supreme Judge
Nonparen Athletic Club will hole
Halloween dancing October 81, Tick
cts 25c. Everybody invited,
Thirty Suits Dismissed-Thirty more
old law suits have been dismissed by
Judge Redick for want of prosecution
and in order to get them off the
docket
Crapshooters Fined-Jim Baron, SOL
Woolworth avenue, and Jim Shields
1912 Dorcas street, both colored, desc
Grated the Sabbath by rolling two dice
for money at Tenth and Hickory
streets, They were fined SO and
costs each.
Civil Service Exams-The following
examinations have been authorized tc
be held at the postoffice next month
Field clerks for the forestry service
November ia; forestry and field
clerks, November 81. An examination
for both men and women stenograph'
ers will be held November %.
lakes uIFI5 IuSt W DCIlVOI~-oNCl
the Union Pacific Milwaukee, Mrs
Jennie Croker Whitman, passed
through Omaha in private car Sun
day night. enroute from San Fran
cisco to New York. She was accom-
panied by six young California women
who are to be placed ic eastern board
ing schools
Vases Go Fast-Three thousand i'm
ported Japanese vases lasted approx
! .mately two hours at the Burgess-Nash
stores. Statesmen were swamped BY
enthusiastic purchasers 80 great was
the rush that guards had to be sta
toned at each end Of the tables to
keep the eager shoppers from upset
ting the wares.
New Burlington Superintendent
The official circular is out announc-
ing that effective November /, G. L.
Griggs superintendent of the Wymore
division of the Burlington. will come
here as superintendent of the Omaha
division, succeeding F. r. Miller. Mr..
Miller on the date named becomes su-
perintendent Of the Wymore division.
Sues for DivOrce-Alleging miscon-
duct with other women and that he
boosted of the fact in the presence of
their children, Julia Blackmore has
filed suit for divorce from Robert W.
Blackmore, a live stock buyer. They
were married at Geneva, Neb., in Sep
TENDER, 1897, and have lived in Omaha
seven years They have four children.
ranging in ages from months to 1S
years, ..s...
Carpenter Asks Heavy Damages
N. Bruce Carpenter has brought suit
in the federal court against the Union
Pacific for $4,000. alleging that on
November rs, 1914, a Union Pacific
train ran into and utterly demolished
his automobile while crossing the rail-
road bridge over the Platte near SEQ
tia, Neb. AS a result of the accident
Mr.. Bruce claims to have been per-
manently injured. The case Is being
tried in Judge Woodroughs court
Fine Fireplace Goods-sunderland.
Prohibition would deprive the city
of Omaha of a yearly revenue of 1884,
900 derived at present from liquor IL
censes. All Of this large sum goes to
the school fund. 1t Is sufficient to
build five new, modern, twelve-room
school houses every year Of the type
of the CASTELAR, and Vinton schools
Only by greatly increasing taxes on
property can this loss, which prohibi-
ton would cause, be made up. Think
it over Douglas County Property
Owners and Taxpayers League, 335
Rose building, M. ]. Greevy, secretary.
! John G. Martin for Supreme Judge.