Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-20

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Slavin of this city, has arrived and
will be Immediately put into use.
The little 4-year-old son Of Charles
Barbeau, brother of Mrs. F. A. Nash,
wandered away from the house and
was traced to the Chicago Lumber
company, thence to Stephens, thence
to c. ]. Ryan on the Lowe road and
finally to a spot northwest Of Walnut
Hill, where he had fallen into the
water and was rescued by a carpenter.
The second annual banquet of the
Omaha Gun club took place at the
Willard hotel, at which toasts were
responded to by the following: Gen.
eral Smith, B. e. B. Kennedy, DR..
Worley, J. ]. Hardin, DR.. Hyde. Yank
Hathaway, C. E. Snyder of the Re-
publican; J. R. Garrison Of The Bee
and DR.. Peabody. At the close of the
banquet President Bechel gave a short
address.
A club has been organized. to be
known as THE Owl Chess, Checkers,
porary officers, who will serve until
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are: George Barker, president. and
]. L. Swartz, secretary About twenty
members have been secured.
Mrs. G. M. Lambertson entertained
the following young married people Of
Lincoln, at her home Messrs. and
Mesdames D. D. Muir, Garlic Kunke,
Frank Sheldon, A. G. Beeson, w. M.
Leonard, Lippincott, A. ]. Buckstaff
and j. D. Mcfarland.
This Day In History.
1S16-James W. Grimes, governor
of Iowa, United States senator and
chairman of committee on naval af-
fairs, born at Deerfield, N. H. Died
at Burlington, Ia, February 7, 1872.
1S27-Combined fleets of England,
France and Russia nearly destroyed
the Turkish and Egyptian fleet in bat
tie near Navarino, Greece.
1S44-Rev. Carlton Chase was con-
secrated at Philadelphia first Episco-
pal bishop of New Hampshire.
1S60-Prince of Wales Edward
Wiz, concluded his American tour
and embarked at Portland, Me-, for
home. -
Observation-Disclosures under General
Longstreet defeated the Federals at
Philadelphia, in East Tennessee.
1S70-Amadeus, duke Of Aosta,
made king Of Spain.
1SSS-Congress adjourned after
holding the longest session in its
history.
1S94-James Anthony Froude, fam
GUS English historian, died. Born
April 20, 1918. . ~
1s04-The president invited the
signatory powers to a second peace
conference at The Hague.
1915--United States declared an
embargo on the expectation of arms
to Mexico. except to territory con-
trolled by Carranza.
The Day We Celebrate.
George b. Dyball, vice president and
treasurer of the Atlantic Sanitary
company, was born in Chicago, ILL.,,
October 20, 1859, which makes him Al
years old today.
DR.. William M. Gordon, practicing
physician, was born October 90, 1853,
at Shelbyville, Ky. He is one of the
few colored graduates of Creighton
medical college and has been practic-
ing successfully for sixteen years.
Emil Reichstadt Is today just "a
years old. He writes himself down as
a mechanic therapist. He was born
in Often, Switzerland.
Congressman James r. Mann of
Illinois, republican minority leader in
the house, born near Bloomington,
ILL.,. sixty years ago today.
Bouck White, pastor of the Church
of the Social Revolution, New York
City, who recently ran afoul of the au-
thorities by burning an American
flag, born at Middleburg, N. Y, forty
FUR re- a un
Edgar Selwyn, theatrical magnate
an dauthor of several successful plays
born in Cincinnati, forty-one years
ago today.
Elliott W. Major, governor of Mis-
souri,. born in Lincoln county, Mis-
souri,, fiftytwo years ago today.
DR.. William L. Poteat, president of
Wake Forest college, born in Cas-
well county. North Carolina, sixty
years ago today.
John Titus. former outfielder with
the Boston and Philadelphia National
league base ball teams, born at ST.
Clair, Pa, thirty-two years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the one-hundredth ami
Crimes one Of the early governors Of
Iowa and later a prominent member
of the United States senate.
The Interstate Inland Waterway
league, which aims at building an in
tercoastal canal from the Mississippi
to the Rio Grande, begins its annual
meeting today at Lake Charles, La.
The school Of fine arts of Yale I'M
versity Is to hold exercises today,
concentrating the fiftieth anniver-
sary of its founding,
Former President William II. Taft
Is scheduled to preside at republican
mass meeting at New Haven tonight.
A dinner in honor Of w. Cameron
Forbes, president Of the National
Hughes Alliance. is to be given at the
Hotel Aston tonight by the Woman's
New York City committee Of the
Hughes Alliance.
Storyette OF the Day.
In their morning walk Jessie and
her mother passed the home of lady
who was SO i'll that large quantity
of straw, had been strewn over the
street to deaden the noise. The straw
aroused Jessie's curiosity, and she
asked many questions about 1t.
at has been put there" her mother
explained, because last week they
brought little girl baby to the lady
who lives there"