Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-19
HAPPENINGS IN
THE MAGIC CITY
James Emmett Barrett, Young
Creighton Arts Student,
Dies of Pneumonia.
FUNERAL FRIDAY MORNING

FUNERAL FRIDAY MORNING
James Emmett Barrett, 2l years old,
student of Creighton university. died
Wednesday morning at o'clock at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
P. J. Barrett, 1916 Harrison street.
Death was due to a sudden attack Of
pneumonia. The young man was to
have been graduated from the Creigh-
ton College of Arts and Science with
the June class of 1917.
The faculty and sodality of Creigh-
ton university and class of 1917 have
arranged to visit the home this after
noon and pay tribute in body. Peo-
pie visited the Barrett residence on
the edge of Mandan park in large
numbers all day yesterday and the
bier was covered high with floral con-
tributions. The name plate on the
casket bore the inscription "Our Jim"
The funeral will be held Friday
morning at 9 o'clock at the home to
St Agnes church. Rev. Father James
Ahern will officiate, celebrating high
requiem mass. Three of the fathers
at Creighton university will assist.
The class of 1917 will attend in body
and the Boys sodality Of St. Agnes
church will also be present.
Jim was widely known throughout
Greater Omaha.
Barrett for many years was a car
rier for The Bee, during which time
he finished his high school work at
Creighton.
Encounter Setbaeks.
Facing disturbing setbacks, men,
bers of the mid-year graduating sepior
class of the local high school are en-
deavoring to come through COM
mencement week as smoothly as pos
sible. First the sickness of Mrs.
Adams, coach, caused the postpone
ment of the class play. then the re-
modelling operations that are going on
in the auditorium have caused the
class leaders to look about for another
meeting place.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
given Sunday evening, February 2l,
but the place has not been selected.
In years past it has been held in the
school auditorium. Rev. John 6. Al
Der, pastor of the First Christian
church, has been selected to preach
and the Wheeler Memorial church,
across from the high school. has been
suggested as possibly large enough to
accommodate the crowd that would
attend. Principal Huwaldt will con-
fer with class leaders this morning
and final plans will be made up before
the end of the week.
Semester examinations start Mon
day morning and continue four days.
Commencement exercises will be held
on the north side Wednesday evening,
January "a. Miss bennett and Prof.
Vosacek, faculty sponsors of the two
senior classes, are working out the
commencement program and will an
nounce it tomorrow or the next day.
Hammerlock on Bancley.
Thieves wrested their way to $10.50
Wednesday night at Twentieth and J
streets. Two men sneaked up be-
hind Fred Bancley, 4220 South Twen-
ty-seventh street, and, while one
man clapped his hands over Bancley's
eyes, the other got hammerlock on
him. Then the pair went through his
pockets.
Auto Goes Afre.
While Shorty" Sinclair was having
the gasoline tank of the car he was
driving filled Tuesday morning at an
oil station at Twenty-fourth and |
streets the machine caught fire. Over
flowing gasoline from the gas tank
was ignited by the exhaust.
The car was practically demolished.
Detectives Make Arrest.
Detectives Fleming and Sullivan ar
rested Tom Scott last evening for dis
posing of watch that Taylor Barrett,
roomcr at Twenty-fourth and N
streets, reported missing or stolen
Wednesday morning. The detectives
found that the watch had been sold TO
A. ?. Mitch, a pool hall proprietor at
Twenty and N streets, for 81.
A receipt signed by Scott was recov-
cred. Scott was arrested twenty min
utes later.
Charged with Desertion.
L. Sullivan, Thirty-ninth and U
streets, is being held on a charge of
wife and child abandonment. The
complaint was made by the wife. De-
tectives Allen and Zaloudek made the
arrest
Because he stole ride on a freight
train in the local railroad yards, Steve
Serfco, foreigner, arrested by Special
Officers Lahey and Lowell, was SEN
fenced to fifteen days in the county
Jail yesterday morning.
Stock Yards Notes.
Sheridan county farmers who have been
taking in Agriculture week" at Lincoln this
week will be visitors at the yards Friday
morning. According to the schedule their
Pullmans will arrive at the l. street BurIing-
ton station and be met by a local deIegatio
Of yards and packing house people people
and escorted in honor to the yards At noon
they will be banqueted In the Exchange
dining hall.
Word was passed about the yards yester-
day that a revision In Northwestern rail-
road shipping policy was In effect. The
company. through published bulletins re-
Gently announced cancellation of the rule
now carried in its tariff agreement, whereby
shippers may stop hogs at certain desin-
mated points in Iowa, Minnesota and Wis
consin for the purpose Of sorting out or
finishing loading without additional charges
KILLER prices were paid for feeder lambs
yesterday, according to the records five
deck lot from Hermosa, s. D., sold at $l35O
while two other consignments from Idaho
Falls sold in the majority at 1885. A few
head Of one of the latter lots sold at $1s5O
The bunch had been fed on beets and were
disposed Of direct to packers. A new high
spot was attained by bunch of Mexican
lambs from Wood River, the lot selling at
1880. This latter consignment was a full
10 cents higher than the last highest mark
racardad