Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-03
Brief City News
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Wedding Rings-Edholm. Jewelry.
Have Root Print It-Now Beacon Press
Be sure to read our ad on page 10 of
this issue.-The Basket Stores.
w. Whitaker and Myrtle A. Kelley
announce their removal to 1888 First
National Bank building.
Philosophical Society-Miss Myrtle
Roberts will address the Omaha Philo-
sophical society in its rooms in the
Lyric building Sunday at o'clock.
Her subject will be Work Of the Vo-
cation Bureau"
Master Plumbers Dance-Master
plumbers will hold their annual dance
and meeting at the Metropolitan hall
February 8. One of the features
will be an illustrated talk on Plumb
ing Fixtures" by ]. NJ. OConnor.
New Oil Firm-Capitalized at $780,
900 to do a general oil business, the
Voss- Diemer Oil company has filed ar
ticles Of Incorporation with the county
clerk. John Fl. Voss and Albert Die
mer are the incorporators
Steals Way to Jail-Found guilty in
police court of petit larceny, William
Morganfellow, itinerant laborer, was
sentenced to thirty days in Jail. Nor
ganfellow stole two pairs of trousers
from the Palace Clothing company.
Atlantic Employees to Dance-The
Efficiency club formed by office en-
ployes Of the Atlantic sanitary dairy
will give card party and dance this
evening at Dannebrog hail. Twenty
sixth and Leavenworth streets.
2-lb. roll butterine, 3Sc-The Bas-
ket Stores. .....-.
Engineers Go to LincOln-Twenty
Omahans will go to Lincoln Saturday
evening to attend a meeting Of the
Nebraska association of members of
the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers The subject under discussion
will be Highways
Breaks Arm-Morgan Smith, 10
years of age, Molvein, Ark, en-
ployed for the last few days at odd
jobs at the Auditorium, fell Thursday
night while at work and fractured his
right arm. He was attended by police
surgeons and sent to st. Joseph hos
pital.
Record Recruiting--Omaha yielded
seventy-four recruits to Uncle Sans
army for the month of January, the
largest number in the history of the
recruiting station. From the twelve
stations under the control of the
Omaha branch total of 22S men were
recruited for the month.
Children's Diseases "Children and
Their Diseases" will be the topic Of a
lecture which Miss Townsend, a reg
istered nurse, will give Friday after
noon, February 8, before members of
VII MAfh laao nh
meeting will be held in the Central
Park school at $3.50 p. m.
DRY" Women to Meet--A called
meeting of the Douglas County Wom-
ems Christian Temperance union will
be held today at 2:30 o'clock on
the second floor Of the Young Mems
Christian association. Bills pending in
the state legislature will be discussed.
Mrs. William Berry will preside.
Building Boom-Building doomed
in Omaha during January, 1917. Six
ty-one permits were granted to erect
structures whose total value was
$l92,S35. In January, 1915, forty-five
permits were issued by the building
commissioner and the sum value of
the buildings erected was $177,275.
Glad He is Not Plumber-About
the happiest man in Omaha today is
Tom Flynn, United States marshal.
Just think" the marshal said as he
gazed out at few bundled pedestrians
who were scurrying for shelter, u
used to be a plumber and if / didn't
have this job l might be out now with
a kit of tools digging up frozen pipe
Whew, wouldn't that be awful?"
Prisoners Relief Announcement
The prisoners of war relief commit
tee, at "a North Moore street, New
York, which was organized primarily
for the relief of prisoners of war of
Germany and Austria-Hungary, both
civilian and military, has advised that
it is prepared to assist also the trans
mission Of packages to prisoners OF
war, subjects of the allies, interned
by the central powers
Fifty Hit the Trail-The evangelis-
tic meeting that is being conducted by
Trinity Baptist church on the South
Side under the leadership of the pas
tor, Rev. Charles +. Holler, who is as
sisted by Evangelist A. J. Morgan OF
Texas, is on in full force and bids fair
to continue for several weeks to come
According to the modern evenagelists
method of counting, more than fifty
PERSONS have already hit the trail.
5 lbs. best 10c grade Jap rice, 25c.-
rhe Basket Stores.
Fine Fireplace Goods-Sunderland