Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-12
SOUTH SIDE AFFAIRS
Few Men Applying Now for
Work at the Various Pack
ing Houses.
Is ENOUGH FOR ALL TO DO

| Packing houses are short of labor
at the present time. Where as high
as 200 men. used to line the gates
before each of the big plants daily
last winter, today there are seldom
more than ten or fifteen men, Hiring
bosses find it extremely difficult to
secure the services of the kind of
men that they have been used to en-
ploying.
War orders and other big orders for
the east are keeping the working
forces going at the maximum. For
two years the plants have been doing
capacity business.
Wyoming Hay Dries Up.
Reports from Wyoming indicate
that the hay crop in several portions
of the state will be far from normal
this year. The extreme hot weather
this summer has dried up prairie hay,
according to ranchers, and the crop
will be inferior.
Stockmen are getting ready for the
big fall range cattle run. 1t is figured
that the run this year will outnumber
that of last year by as many as a
quarter million head. Whether or not
the local market will share a proper
tionate increase is matter Of specu-
lation.
Feeder sheep are becoming a paying
business on the range, according to
reports. Ranchers and land owners
have taken up Ills branch of the trade
with vigor in the last year.
Humane Society Expands.
The Nebraska Humane society is
extending its organization widely into
the South Side. Since the advent of
Hans Nelson, who was appointed
desk sergeant for two weeks in the
absence Of Mike Mccarthy, who was
on his vacation, members of the
society have increased considerably.
Policemen are taking an interest.
Large punches of tags on which are
printed the chief offenses which are
prosecuted by members Of the society
and also the city ordinance govern
ing the punishment that will follow in
case of conviction have been dis
tributed at the police station.
The funeral of Dale Beckett, young
high school student who died
Wednesday morning following two
years illness with consumption, was
held Thursday afternoon at the
Beckett home at Twenty-ffth and
Jefferson streets. 1t was attended by
hundreds OF friends. Members of
the class with which he was supposed
to graduate acted as pail bearers.
They were: John Swanback, Matt
Maloney, Dewey Curtis. Harold
Shainholtz, Merle Curt and William
Smith.
Rev. Harold Cornish of the Central
INSTRUMENTATION church effected.
Dale was to have graduated last
June, but was taken seriously i'll be-
fore the end of the school term and
had to be removed to his home.
Interment was made in the Grace
land Park cemetery. The parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Beckett, and a
sister, Ada, survive.
Shackelford Elected Delegate.
| w. O. Shackelford, local meat in.
spector, was elected as delegate to
the coming melting of the national
organization of the Bureau If Animal
Industry to be held in New York on
August Ia. Most of the us men,
bers of the local association met and
elected him as delegate after several
ballots. -Four or five other local
men entered the election.
| Magic City Gossip.
Trunks to and from depot. 6Oc. Call
Rapid Auto EXP. So. $3.50.
Theda Bara appears at the Bessc today
| in Carmen" the big William Fox produc-
ton, rain. hail or shine ~.
M H. Cruise. neld man for the Journal.
| man Stockman, received word Thursday
from Excelsior Springs, Mo-, Of the death
OF his father. 70 years Of age
| C. w. Denton of Chadron captured the
top price of the market In hogs Thursda,
with a carload which averaged 1913 pound,
and brought the price of 1910 per hun
dred pounds.