Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-10
HAPPENINGS IN
THE MAGIC CITY
Sheep Farmer From Near
Newman Grove Makes Pile
OF Money in Few Months.
AGED WOMAN FOUND DEAD

Ohe thousand sheep tour months
care, $1,000 net return.
Jens Paulson, a sheep king" who
has charge of one of the minor gold
mines" of central Nebraska, the par.
ticular vicinity being Newman Grove
is the beneficiary. MIR. Paulson early
last October put to feed in the neigh
borhood of 1000 lambs he had pur-
chased at 1915 per hundred on the
local market, the original buy aver
aging AZ pounds.
Wednesday Mr. Pau!son brought
the lambs back in the form of full
fledged sheep and marketed them at
S15.95, or as high as was paid for
western lambs on the market. The
consignment scaled at "a pounds
average, or a gain Of 81 pounds i'll
four months, in addition to the in
crease in price OF $4.20. Bringing
these figures down to terms of sin
gle head, it is shown that the actual
cost of each lamb was $458 and the
actual selling price per head was
Sll.7l, which left s713 for Mr.. Paul
son to pay for the cost of feeding
and handling the lambs.
Find Body Of Aged Woman.
Granny is dead small voice
piped over the wire to Sergeant Bill
Smith at the South Side police sta
tion late yesterday afternoon. please,
sir, is Captain Briggs there?" The
small one was gratifed in his quest
and in another FIVE minutes the big
South Side captain was. headed to-
wards the packing house district.
In shed, on little stool, her
gray hair covered with an "old-coun-
try" shawl, sat Granny" The po-
licemen were led to the shed by the
two grandchildren, Sophia and John
ny Vorsdak, each II years old. who
had discovered the body.
= The two grandchildren, leaving
their books at home after school, i'm
mediately sought the aged woman S
cottage. They searched the three
rooms. all spotiessly clean and tidy,
but found nothing but a burning
kettle Of soup on the small two-hole
jack stove. They searched the prem
ises and at last located Granny" in
the coal shed, where she probably
had sat still moment to rest.
Undertaken George Brewer took
charge of the body.
Il Funeral of Lewis.
The funeral of Frank Parker Lewis,
pioneer stocldnan, who has resided in
Omaha and vicinity for near a quar-
ter century, will be attended by a
large delegation of yards and commits
sion men. Mr.. Lewis was one of the
first members of the stock exchange
and took part IN the founding of the
yards,
Death came Wednesday afternoon
at 4 o'clock at the Clarkson hospital.
Mr.. Lewis was 81 years of age. Sur
viving are his mother of Sac City,
Ia; his wife and two daughters, Mar
garet and Mary of Omaha, and two
sisters. The funeral will be held Sat-
urday afternoon at Q O'Clock. Bee
Hive lodge No 1874 of Mason will
have charge.
Members of the Live Stock e1-
change met in special session yes
terday afternoon and committee was
appointed to arrange for attendance
of stock men at the services Satur-
day. Mr.. Lewis was born in Bloom
ington, IT,, and came to Omaha twen-
ty-six years ago. He Immediately en-
tered in the commission business, but
of,late years attended almost entirely
to handling accounts Of yards traders.
It's Saving Time.
Good Wool Winter Clothing is be.
ing sacrificed at unusually low prices
these days at Flynn's. Women's
and misses heavy all wool coats
$3.50; children's hoods and toques
15c and 19c; boys suits, worth up to
$40, 1898; mems SIS and better suits
at 1923; mems good caps, 39c; boys
good winter caps, 2sc; big lot ladies
petticoats, worth up to 81, 98c, new
goods Just in; ladies' rainproof hats
etc, etc. John Flynn & Co.
Armour League Bowling.
VERIBEST.