Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-06
Brief City Nevs
Royal sweepers, Burgess-Granden Co.
Have Root Print It-Beacon Press.

Have Root Print It-Beacon Press.
Jenscn's Wet Wash Laundry
washes rugs and carpets. Webster
1890.
TREES, SHRUBS, sEEDs-Men-
eray's, saith & B'wy.. Council Bluffs,
Phone 1898.
DR.. Claude Il. Uren has reopened
his Offices in the Omaha National
Bank Bldg.
Philosophical Society to Meet
The Omaha Philosophical society
will meet Sunday at p. m. C. A.
Wicks of Council Bluffs will speak.
Appointed on Police Force. E.
Cain, returned soldier, has been APP
pointed to a position on the police
department. He has started as
patrolman on the usual six months
probation.
Held for Box Car Robbery-Frank
Delbridge, 1922 North Twenty-fo fourth
street, accused of box-car burglary
was bound over to district court yes
terday on a charge of breaking and
entering. His bond was fixed at
700.
Final Poultry Lecture-The last
lecture Of the poultry short course
will be given Monday evening In the
Y. M. C. A. A. L. Edison, secretary
of the Omaha Poultry association,
will talk on The Dont's of Poultry
Keeping"
Government Issues Omaha Address
The United States Department of
Agriculture has issued special
pamphlet containing the address of
Secretary Of Agriculture Houston at
the Transmississippi congress in
Omaha on February 20.
War Tax ReductiOn-From this
date there is a reduction of per
cent in the war tax on sleeping and
parlor car tickets. Heretofore the
war tax on this class of tickets has
been 10 per cent. The tax on all
other classes of transportation is un-
changed,
Improvements at Cemetery-The
Forest Lawn Cemetery association
has authorized the expenditure of
100000 for macadam roadway i'm
provements at the cemetery grounds.
Bids will be opened on April IA. The
work will be done within the next
few months.
Tire Man to Speak-B. w. Alex
ander, manager of the Firestone
Tire and Rubber company, will ad-
dress the Advertising Selling league
Monday evening at o'clock. His
subject will be what / expect to
find in a Salesman" and will be fol-
lowed by a sales demonstration by ].
H. Simons of the same company.
Want War Trophy-An effort is
being made by the Chamber of
Commerce to secure for Omaha one
of the captured 50 Austrian or Ger
man cannons. A cablegram to this
effect was sent to Maj. Ben Gala
CHER of this city, who is now in
Europe attached to the staff of Fed
eral Food Administrator Hoover.
Marries Three Couples-Rev.
Charles W. Savidge, Omaha's marry
ing pastor, joined the following three
couples yesterday for a life SEN
tence:" A. Judson Conner and Mel
lie |. Boyer, both of Malvern, Ia;
William H. Bartlett and Hazel Green
wood, both of Audubon, Ia, and
Homer Orion and Nora Hanafan of
Omaha.
War Correspondent to Speak
Henry Wood, war correspondent,
will speak on Sunday Afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock to members Of the
French Alliance at the Blackstone
hotel. Mr.. Wood is a former Omaha
newspaper writer. He has been in
Europe for eight years and is now
on his first vacation in the states
since 1911.
Classification Dockets--Notice has
been received by the traffic bureau
of the Omaha Chamber Of Com
merce from the consolidated CLASH
fication committee that the practice
of the western classification commit
tee of issuing dockets and holding
public hearings on classification
changes will be discontinued. Here
after such requests will be sub
mitted with the recommendation of
the western classification committee
to the consolidated classification
committee, which will issue printed
public dockets of proposed changes
and conduct hearings on same quar-
terly or oftener as NAV be necessary.