Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-12
HAPPENINGS IN
THE MAGIC CITY
G. r. Waters Made Head of
the South Side Hospital
Association.
STOCK RECORDS BROKEN

STOCK RECORDS BROKEN
{. R, Waters will head the South
Omaha Hospital association for an
other year. The board of directors of
the association in session Friday eve
ming reelected him as their head. The
retained president Immediately an
nounced his committees to assist in
the work OF the hospital. Other Off
GERS elected were: w. B. Cheek, vice
president; A. F. Stryker, second vice
president; Mrs. Emma L. Talbot. sec
rotary, and J. H. Kopietz, treasurer.
Prominent men in business and pro-
LESSONS were appointed on the COM
mittees by President Waters. The
annual report of the board of direc-
tors will be published shortly. There
will be little change in the affairs OF
the hospital during the year. The
committees announced yesterday are:
House--Etta Brewer. Mrs. c. L. Talbot, A.
=. Stryker.
Finance-W. y Check, W. A Rsthssck, J.
H Kopiet1.
Building and Grounds. II Kopietz, W.
B. Tagg. Mrs. Eta Brewer.
Judiciary-W. B. Tagg, Mrs. A. W,
Jones. W b. Cheek.
Medical Stan-A. F. Stryker. w A. Rsth-
sack. W. B. Tagg,
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Eta Brewer, Mrs. A. W. Jones.
Publicity-C. r. Waters. w. B. Cheek, A.
F. Stryker
Students Here Tuesday.
Three hundred and fifty students of
the State farm at Lincoln will be
coming Omaha way early Tuesday
morning. Everett Buckingham and
officials of the Union Stock Yards
company will be hosts. The occa-
sion is the annual visit of students
of the Nebraska Agricultural college
in excursion to study the workings
of the local yards and the new equip
ment.
Traffic Manager William Sheilberg
has charge of the arrangements, but
has announced that definite program
will not be ready until Monday morn
ing. There will be a formal recep-
ton of the students at the L street
Burlington station, from where the
delegation will be escorted on special
street cars to the Exchange building
The entire force of commission. ex-
change and yards men will be here
awaiting to tender an informal recep-
ton. During the remainder of the
morning and the afternoon the visit
ors will be divided and escorted
through the yards and the packing
plants.
Dean Burnett of the Farm college
will accompany the students and will
have Prof Gramlich, an alumnus OF
the local South High school, who is
one of the leading teachers at the
farm, with him. In the evening at
$50 o'clock the yards company will
be hosts at banquet in the Exchange
dining hall. The dean and professors
from the university, as well as Mr.
Buckingham and others prominent in
the yards, will speak.
Runaway on o Street
A runaway farm team terrorized q
street crowded with early Saturday
afternoon traffic several minutes yes
terday. Sam Gramlich, driver, mar,
rowly escaped what at first seemed a
collision with team driving east on
the narrow street viaduct. By mir.
acle he emerged from the overturned
heavy farm wagon when one of the
horses fell half way across the bridge
The team broke away from Gram
Itch, the owner, at Twenty-fourth and
o streets, half block from the police
station. Policemen witnessed the
spectacle of big. farm wagon dash,
ing by the station house at break
neck speed with the driver clinging
to one rein and holding on to the
doubletrees for life. The horse that
fell was considerably cut on one side
and broke an ankle. There were nc
other injuries.
Sergeant James Sheahan came up
Just as Gramlich was extricating him.
self from the debris. The wagon was
hardly smashed.
Again Break Record.
By a margin of more than 10000
head the weeks record for hog re-
ceipts was broken in the week past
The day record was broken twice
The new pens were taxed to capacity
taking care of the biggest rush in any
department of that stock market thai
has occurred since its establishment a
quarter century ago.
The official figure for the week as
given out in the Office of A. c. Daven-
port Saturday is 1898 head for the
number of hogs received in six days
starting Monday. This record is con-
sidered remarkable as the week start
ed out with light run of 1000 head
The previous record was established
in 1916, the week ending January
% totaling l0o,234 head.
Since the construction of the new
hog pens started three years age
$350,000 has been put into the work
Three of the four big divisions are
completed and all that remains to be
done is to finish the upper deck of the
fourth division. The steel work was
completed last fall, but it is impos-
sible to place the concrete super.
structure until warm weather sets If
again.
Youths in Holdup Game.
A rusty revolver of light calibel
pattern that once sold as nickel
plated" may lead to the arrest of a
couple of marauders that have beer
rowing about the residence district
north of L street and east OF Twenty.