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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-24
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Every man finally certified for mill
tary service, however. will return to the
jurisdiction of his home board and go
with the troops from his home town
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

only comes when a local ball player
pulls what is commonly known as a
bone Howell never says a word,
but his thyroid gland develops until
it is twice its natural size. His face
takes on purple hue and his Adams
apple shoots up and down Behind his
collar like trip hammer. You don't
have to sit next to him to know what
he is trying to say. -
That's the kind of bug Howell is.
And what is more, Howell knows
the batting average of every player
of any consequence in the big league.
He studies the box score like he does
the statutes of the United States OF
America, only he remembers the for
mer longer. -"
He is base ball man through and
through. He talks it and sleeps it
and even dreams it.
One day Hugh Mills, the secret
service agent, strolled into Howell's
Office and inquired for some tindi-
vidual.
ooh, he hasn't played with the Ma
tional league for four years." said
Howell.
Then, again, he refers to persons
with whom he spares no love as bush
material" and his friends as big
league stuff"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

John Mcbride, messenger to the le-
gal department Of the Union Pacific,
was one of the first men to follow the
rush into Leadville, Colo, after sill
yer was discovered in California gulch
in 1877. He went there with the idea
Of quickly getting rich and then COM
ing back to Omaha to buy the town
site. Although his ambitions were not
fully realized, he made some money
and came back.
While Mr.. Mcbride found some sill.
yer in Leadville he also found cold
weather, having been there during the
winter of 1878, which went down
into Colorado history as a period OF
real frigidity. The cold spell of a
few days ago suggested to Mr.. Nc
Bride the Colorado cold of forty years
ago and speaking of it he said:
II guess that winter of 1878 was
a. breaker of all previous and subse-
quent records. For forty days, as l
remember it, following Christmas,
there was not a day when the mer-
curry registered above Sc and more
of the days it went to 50 and to even
go degrees below.
"Cold? I should say it was. 1t was
so cold that mountain goat and deer
in, the valleys below the town froze
to death standing on their feet. Later
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
Goes West to Dig Enough Gold to
Buy the Townsite of Present ON aha

we often went out and brought in the
! carcasses of these animals, finding
them standing, and frozen as solid as
rock. +->r.
"Leadville in those days was not
much of city, only about 800 to 500,
and, Of course, hotel and boarding
facilities were not of the best. The
buildings generally were of rough
boards and lined with tar paper.
Huge fires were built in the fireplaces,
but often while man would be sit
ting in front of a fire toasting his
shines his ears would be nipped by
the frost, 1t was nothing unusual for
man to wake up in the night and
find that his nose had been frozen
while he was sleeping in room just
off the one where the fire was kept
constantly burning. Water for drink
ing and domestic purposes was sc.
cured by melting the snow, the
streams having been frozen to their
bottoms. And as to the snow, it was
estimated that it was eight feet on
the level and this precluded outsid-
trs getting into town very often
That one winter cured me of want
ing to live in the mountains and
since then Omaha has looked pretty
good to me and | have remained
! here"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

and all,{ want is a chance to drop
my fly in amongst them"
Yes, Frank w. Judson has several
hobbies and he rotates them accord
ing to the season. Just now his hobby
is ice skating and the bug has got
him bad When he had his house
party for the employees who sell glass
for his concern the Judson hobby was
inc evidence in the presentation, to
him Of fine new pair of skates and
for fear he might not be able to get
full use. of them they were handed
over upon a beautiful big cake of ice.
why is Judson so enamored OF
ice skating% one of his friends asked
another. "Oh, it's because ice looks
so much like glass and he imagines
that every time he has a fall he is
smashing a bunch of window lights
which he will have to replace at a
good profit and at the expense OF
some plate glass insurance company"
George w. Holdrege, general man.
ager of the Burlington, has hobby
that is not only great source Of
pleasure to him, but it is one that has
made him lot of money. Mr.. Hol-
drege has a hobby for raising fine
cattle, not the common, scrubby va
rieties, but animals that can trace
their ancestry back from five to eight
generations. At Madrid, in Perkins
county, in the extreme western por.
ton Of Nebraska, he has a ranch oil
more than 1000 acres of fine bottom
and hill grazing land, where he has
erected substantial barns and dwell
ings, and there he has gone into cat.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

enter the Duluth public schools. The
request was refused
There seemed little hope for the
unfortunate boy. His father had been
killed in an accident in the Ozark
mountains and his mother had not
the means to take care of him. So he
was sent to the Emmanuel Baptist
hospital here as a ward.
A Special Table.
When the Board of Education
heard that he wanted to attend
school, it granted him special permits
sion to enter the Monmouth Park
school and ordered special adjust
able table for him. .'.,s'
To most boys and girls it would
have been small matter to stay out
of school for half day but to Elmer.
who had not been allowed to attend
for many years, it was very serious
affair.
In the two years that he has been
pupil at the school, he has learned
to read and write and according to
his teacher. Miss Ida Murtagh will
pass into the Fourth B.
Schoolmates OF Elmer do every
thing possible to brighten his life.
There is never party near the hos
pital or anything Of interest going on
to which he is not invited
Nurses of the hospital are praying
that Elmer might someday get well
and have chance like the other boys
and girls
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

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maybe oouDie OF tnIee t,ncs lhe price
we NAG asked az mrs., we Knew she
wouion ! staho loI tna.; * We w0u'u
stIlkc On pchy Iuil q oneiI,cs.
born IN arrytowh, Y. = tne sea,
o. tne EXPLOITS o. ienapod Irane ana
up yam Winkie, lark nad tne sur
louno,ngs Ior romantic rag, out
they did NOT appear 10 MN. Every
cay ne passed the stone monument
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
Plucky Boy Cripple Loses First
Day at School and Is Very Sorry
Elmer Peterson, Inmate Of
Emmanuel Baptist Hospital,
Fails in Boyish Ambition.
HAS NEVER BEEN TARDY

There is one little heart that is al
most broken as the semester nears a
close at the Monmouth Park school.
1t is that of Elmer Peterson, the IL
year-old ward of the Emmanuel Bap-
fist hospital who is paralyzed from
the waist down.
Elmer had one great desire when
he resumed his studies in the Fourth
grade last fall. 1t was a simple de-
sire, yet one which he cherished as
the goal OF his ambition He wanted
to establish a perfect tardy and at
tendance record for the half years
work
1t was not his fault that he did
not succeed. He tried. tried with all
the strength that lad OF his con-
dition could. And his schoolmates
tried
1t mattered little if the snow was
high upon the walks or that the wind
was biting cold. Each morning at
least half dozen of his schoolmates
would call at the hospital to care
fully wheel their helpless comrade to
his class.
As the semester neared an end,
Elmer's schoolmates were almost as
enthusiastic as himself. They wanted
to see his desire fulfilled. But it was
not their fault or Elmer's fault or
Sister TMa's fault that the Their
mometer went down to II degrees
below zero one morning in Decem-
Der. The nurses of the hospital de-
cided not to let Elmer go out that
day. And that is the only half day
that Elmer missed during the. semes-
ter. He has never been tardy.
But perhaps thing like losing an
attendance record will not prove a
serious drawback to Elmer, Nearly
all his life he has been confronted
with sorrows. And yet his teachers
and nurses say that he is an optimist.
When he was FIVE years old he had
an attack OF infantile paralysis. For
two years following he was in
Duluth hospital, unable to move be-
cause of being in plaster cast. For
the next two years he showed slight
Improvement and it was the desire
of his mother that he be allowed to
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

Yes, everybody has a hobby and
speaking of hobbies brings to mind
the face of Clerk OF the United States
District Court R. c. Hoyt. Here is a
man little in stature, but big in heart,
who would rather sit in a row boat
in the loneliest spot Of some secluded
lake fishing for plymouth black
bass or "muskies" that rugged up at
a banquet table with all the delicacies
that adorn the festive board at such
times. ~-N'' '%-- .-.- ~
Mr.. Hoyt is a true sportsman and
a natural born fisherman. Little does
it matter to him if he sits all day long
in broiling sun without catching a
fish. Just give him few Strikes to
break the monotony and he is happy.
But once let a member OF the fnny
| tribe take a good healthy nab, at his
fly, worm or frog, whichevetSn hap
pens to be, and it is a ,ten-to-one
shot that the curious one will Hand in
the bottom of the boat before many
minutes have passed.
As has been said before, Mr.. Hoyt
is man of small stature, but large
OF heart. There never was fish
large enough to fool the little gov.
eminent official and this same fish
will be given all chances OF making its
getaway If it is made Of the right
stuff. But, and here is where the
big heart comes in, Mr.. Hoyt will
not let any fisherman who has had
ill-luck 60 home without a good
mess" if the former has anything
in his bag whatever. He is known
to have given more good-sized fish
away than he has ever kept. He says
| There are still many big ones left
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
BY A. E. LONG.

A pebble has nothing on a barnacle
in its possibilities OF changing the
course OF great streams or OF human
lives.
A barnaele almost kept Douglas
county from having Michael L. Clark
for sheriff. No, the barnacle didn't
figure in the last campaign. The
barnacle got on the job when Clark
was kid swimming in salt water
back at Long Island.
OF course, this barnacle had his
friends, as barnacles usually do. He
had millions Of friends, and they had
all glued themselves fast to the bot
tom Of the Shiny planks Of an old pier
on Long Island. The calcifed shells
Of these sea crustaceans open like a
/, chestnut bur and are about as sharp.
Young Clark, with bunch Of kids,
was diving off the pier and by acci-
dent Clark came up under the pier
instead Of in free water. His head
struck the thorn-like points of dozens
Of barnaclcs under the plank and cut
his scalp until he fairly reddened the
water with his blood. All the time
he was under water. He fought and
fought for breath. but there was none.
He would thresh madiy about and
rise for breath, but each time his head
would be cruelty gashed by the bar
.fiacles, and yet there was no air.
When he had just strength enough 10
make one more half-hearted stroke
he emerged from beneath the, pier,
caught his breath and startled his
companions by popping out Of the
water with his head and face bleeding
from forty gashes.
Tho barnacles pretty near got me
that time" said Clark. They had
me all groggy, and it was just by
pure accident that found the edge
Of the plank and came up"
Omaha had a hard time to get
Clark, anyway. The barnacles were
not the only agencies that tried to
cheat Omaha out OF this fellow
Before he could swim at all he
sliplsd into the mouth of creek on
the seashore at high tide. swallowed
salt water until he could hold no
more. went down for the third time
and wodid have stayed down had not
Butch" Reynolds, a garbage man,
spiashed into the seething brine and
brought the limp lad to the surface.
Lord, i helped Butch pick Gin
dcrs and carry swill all that sum
mer,' said Clark, ito keep him from
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

tie raising on something OF an extern
sive scale.
Mr.. Holdrege does not find time to
live on the ranch, but he makes fire.
quent trips there, and instead OF
spending his vacations in Europe,
along the seashore or among the cool
resorts of the mountains, he gets
more real enjoyment out among his
cattle, where they Craze i'll the al
falfa fields or in the clover pastures.
While he is not raising cattle to
sell on the open markets, Mr.. Hob
drege occasionally sells one when he
becomes overstocked with any spe-
cial breed, and upon such occasions
he has received very often price
that has averaged more than 81 per
pound, live weight.
Some people have hobbies which
make them famous, and then there
are others who have hobbies which
they conceal, but former United
States Attorney f. S. Howell has a
hobby which has neither made him
famous, nor has he tried to conceal it
In fact, he can't conceal it, for il
breaks out every time he gets into a
conversation, and even when he ad-
dresses jury.
This so-called hobby of Howell's
is base ball. Just the plain everyday
national pastime with which every
kid is familiar. But the way Howell
goes at it is neither plain or simple
or easy to understand. Howell has
the faculty of witnessing ball game
without ever opening his mouth, bu,
he comes across with the roofing
His roofing is under his breath and
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

telling my folks about my near
drowning. ] was sure that fellows
slave after that"
Clark says he got even at last on
another boy. Later when he became
an expert swimmer he pulled another
drowning youngster out Of the sea
one day on a similar occasion. "The
kids name was 'Moxie,' " said Clark
land maybe you think didn't make
slave Of him, like Butch Reynolds
had Of me. 7 made Moxie bring me
his dads cigars every day for hall
the summer, and then the old man
found ,out about it and gave Moxie
darn good Aogging for swiping his
cigars"
Clark never wore many clothes in
those days, but what he wore were
hopelessly ruined one day while he
was in swimming. Zone suspender,
pair Of pants and shirt was about
all wore in those days." said the
sheriff. We used to hide our clothes
when we went swimming, so we could
swim half mile away without dan
ger Of having the other kids find our
! clothes and tie knots in the sleeves
One day we went in swimming near a
big turning bridge. | hunted around
and found nice pocket in the bridge
while the bridge was open. / stuck
my clothes down in there where
felt sure they would be safe. We
swan away mile or so and when
we came back the bridge had closed
and my clothes were cut in two.
Believe me, | spent most of the
afternoon there sticking pins, spikes
and sharp pegs into those clothes to
make them hold together until
could get home"
The sheriff admits he was about
the "orneriest kid on Long Island"
"Ox heart cherries and other vari-
cites Of the finest cherries in the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

count OF the sharp curves, he smashed
into another truck. This time he
threw the reverse and leaped out of
"a side door, remembering his previous
experience. He landed in a snow
drift, waist deep. The horses were
caught on the fender of the car, and
then, with the reverse thrown into
position, the car began to back up.
Clark threshed about in the deep
snow trying to catch his retreating
car, but could make no Roadway in
the deep snow. The tenders, as the
car backed away, pulled four shoes
off the horses, and by that time Clark
yelled to the conductor to jerk the
trolley off the wire. This saved the
day.
Thus did Michael J. Clark escape
the horror of sea barnacles, the hor-
rors of a salt water grave, the nu-
merous street car smash-ups and land
in the Douglas county court house as
sheriff of the county.
Nsxt wesk-"How Omaha Got Charley
RvaCIr
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
Boy Changed His Mind.

A l2-year-old boy, appearing be-
fore Judge Leslie Of the juvenile court
for the first time, conhded an ambi-
ton to be great lawyer. The Judge
drew for the boy verbal picturiza-
ton OF the vast possibilities Of the lc-
gal profession. The youngster was
told that the judge started as law
yer. The lad was profoundly I'M
pressed with the belief that legal
career would be his aim. In the
boys mind Judge Leslie appeared Ma
poleon-like, as representing one of the
heights to which lawyers may climb,
As time went on the boy grew more
addicted to ways Of obliquity, until
matters became so serious that the
Judge had to commit him to the state
reformatory at Kearney.
Il remember you told me one day
that you wanted to be a great law
yer. If you will improve your OPP
portunities while at Kearney there
is no reason why you should not be
lawyer, and great lawyer, too,
kindly spoke the judge.
The boy listened with sullen inter
est until the Judge had concluded his
parting admonition, whereupon the
little fellow looked into the judges
eyes and in positive manner said
y have changed my mind about be-
ing lawyer"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
Real Estate Man Values
Each Day at Fifty Dollars

Joseph Kitchener, who says that his
time is worth $50 day, or approxi-
mately $4,000 year. as dealer in
real estate and horses, is suing the
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rail-
way company for $4,000 damages in
district court, alleging permanent in
juries suffe,ed on Decemser IL. 1916,
when he attempted to board street
car in Council Bluffs.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
Rivers and Harbors Bill,
CARVING $38. 900. 900. Passes

Washington, Jan. 26.--The annual
rivers and harbors appropriation bill
carrying S38, 0Q0,0 900, including more
than $4,000, 900 for new projects, was
passed by the house today by vote
of 22l TO l3l. 1t now goes up to senate,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
Little Stories Picked Up About Town

gious boy, as reward young Orr
was allotted the Sunday morning task
OF ringing the church bell. which bell,
by the way, was used for sounding
the fire alarms, The new duties
caused the other boys Of the town to
become envious and they laid for
young Tommy and they got him.
One Saturday night the town boys
creased the bell rope. Tommy knew
nothing Of this and the next morning
when he hurried over to the church
to ring the bell for the early serv-
ices he grasped the rope, intending
to ring it slowly. Instead, giving the
rope the customary pull, it slipped
through his hands and in the ringing
that followed, the fire alarm signal
quick, short rings--sounded, Every
body in town hurried out to look for
the fire and then the boys who had
creased the rope spread the news that
Tommy Orr was just taking"
That settled it with Mr.. Orr. The
church elders held meeting and dis
charged their bell ringer. With his
discharge went his ambition to be-
come preacher and as result he
became a railroad man.
Please Dress Differently, Anyway.
Whether to call Adelaide Vance by
her own name or to call her Adelaide
Funkhouser is the question which
puzzles many OF that popular young
woman's friends.
Miss Vance is the step-daughter o.
Willard F. Funkhouser, but so insep
arabic is she from Mr.. Funkhouser',
own daughter, Marian, that she ha;
come to be known as Adelaide Funk
houser as we'll.
A young bachelor, newcomer t.
Omaha, was introduced at differen
functions to a Miss Adelaide Vance
and again TO Miss Adelaide Funk
houser."
Cornering mutual friend at re
cent dancing party, the harasset
young bachelor exclaimed:
How in the world do you tell Mis-
Adelaide Vance and Miss Adelaide
Funkhouser aparts I've been intro
duccd TO both of them, but for TIL
| life OF me | don't know which i
which. | never saw such remark
able resemblance
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
Oh. What an Awful slipl

~ the rope had not slipped through
his hands T. M. Orr, assistant TO the
president Of the Union Pacific, would
probably have been preacher in
stead OF a railroad man. However,
although rcligiously inclined still, Mr..
Orr, will always remain in the rail-
road work.
When 7. M. Orr was boy and
known as Tommy Orr he lived il
one Of the upper. counties of New
York and in q rather small town. He
was real Sunday school boy and .
regular church attendant. His father
was Presbyterian preacher and des.
tiny had it that Tommy was to fol
low in the footsteps Of his parenta
sire. Working to the end that h,
might become a preacher, morning.
he would attend religious services il
his own home and then hustle arount
to the neighbors. frequently being il
At the prayers at four Of five Of tn,
neighboring homes.
Looked upon as good little reli
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28

lessor, that's all weather man would
have to be to satisfy the we'll known
common people. II you don't believe
it ask Colonel Welsh, who has been
predicting weather and answering
questions in Omaha for quarter of
century.
Whenever an information seeking
citizen wants to find out something
and doesn't know where to go, he
calls the weather bureau" says Col
onel Welsh.
The other day voice over the tele-
phone inquired this of the weather
prophet 'How many gallons OF
water does it take to spray an apple
tree 4 years old?" ... ~,
But the colonel, being a demon
horticulturist, refused to be stumped.
at, all depends" he replied, bring
the tree up so | can look a it and
I'll tell you"
Cross One Bridge at Time.
Once upon d time Frank c. Best
was an ingenious young man with a
broad vision before him He was I'M
certain whether to become movie
actor or get into the political game.
He gazed into the crystal and read
the word Politics" So he entered
| politics.
He aspired to be county com
missioner. Meeting a friend who was
versed in the vagaries and vicissitudes
| of public life. Mr.. Best asked for in
formation concerning the job Of
county commissioner.
What is the salary?" asked F,
c. B.
well. it's just like this" responded
the friend, "the salary is $l,S00 year
and they build bridges
Meeting the same friend this month
just after Mr.. Best retired from hi:
county position, the friend facetiously
inquired:
We'll, | suppose you burned youl
bridges behind you."
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
Information While You Wait.

Weather forecaster, business
prognosticator, inexhaustible fund Of
fact and information and father con-
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-06


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