Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
Brief City Nevs

Have Root Print It-Beacon Pres
Library & Silk Shade Lamps. IS pct
redu'n. Burgess Granden Co.-Adv
Library and Silk Shade Lamps, 81
pct. reduction. Burgess-Granden Co
ADV.
Plan Masked BaN-There will be
a masked ball in the recreation room
Of the Bemis Brothers Bag com.
pany, Eleventh and Jones streets
Saturday night
Seat Sale Opens-Public sale fol
the Zoellner-Hackett recital. to be
given Tuesday evening under the
auspices of the Tuesday Musical club
opened Friday morning at the
| Brandeis theater.
Enters Relief Work-Charles. F..
Robel. ABS North Thirty-ninth
street, has gone to Mitchell, 8. D.,
to take up field work for the Ar
South Dakota.
Postoffice Examinations - Civil
service examinations for postoffice
clerks, carriers and rural carriers
will be held Saturday in the Federal
building. About 40 men are ex-
pected to take the examinations.
Travellers to Meet-The United
| Commercial Travellers meet in reg
| ular session, to 8 p. M, Saturday
at the Swedish auditorium. This
change in hours is to arrange for
the dance from 9 o'clock on. There
will be cards for the women, to 3.
DR.. Lee w. Edwards, Chiropractor,
has moved his offices diagonally
across the street from his old loca-
ton, and is now to be found at sos
s. Twenty-fourth street.-the south
west corner of Twenty fourth and
Farnam streets - in the Ottawa
block.-Adv.
Back From Oil Fields-Don e. De
Bow has returned from Montgomery
county, Kansas, where his oil tracts
are located. Drilling has started"
said Mr.. De Bow, land the snow last
week will give an abundance of wa
ter, which will greatly enhance the
drilling facilities"
Olson Funeral Seryiccs-Funeral
services for III. E. Olson, 3119 North
Twenty-fourth street, who died
Wednesday, will be held from Swan
sons Funeral Home, Seventeenth
and Cunning streets, Sunday after
noon at 2. Burial will be in Spring
we'll cemetery, Benson.
Open New Market-Buehler Bros.
announce the opening Of their new
South Side market at 1903 South
Twenty-fourth street. They now
operate four markets In this terri
tory and are planning on increasing
this chain just as'soon as desirable
locations can be found.
Burgess-Nash Banquet-A banquet
for all the employees of the Burgess
Nash Co. will be given Monday eve
ming at 1880 at the Rome hotel by
the buyers, managers and assistant
managers of the different depart
ments. Several surprises are prom
ised at the banquet.
Apply Mental Test-Prof. liver
Madsen of the University of Omaha
has started to apply the army men,
tai test to the boys and girls of Cen
trail High school. The purpose of
the test is to compare the mentality
of this school with other high
schools and also to obtain general
averages for groups Of high school
attendants.
Will Distribute Toys-Two thou
sand toys will be distributed at the
Salvation Army citadel, I'LL Daven-
port street. under the supervision OF
Adjutant Harry B. Northrup to the
poor children of Omaha. The dis
tribution will start at p. m. Satur-
day afternoon and a corps of Sal
walton Army workers will be on
hand to assist i'll the distribution.
Insurance Company Anniversary
The Nebraska National Insurance Co.
celebrated its anniversary January 5.
at it's home office, 1917 Douglas
street, with a gathering of it's agents
during the day, and in the evening
a banquet was gwen at the Hotel
Fonteneile. Among those present
were p. +. thinner, organizer, and
e. D. Beach, president.
Publicity Bureau Report-The
10th annual report Of the bureau
of publicity, Chamber of Commerce,
has been printed in booklet form.
The book is resume of advertising
of Omaha in periodicals during the
past year and other publicity cam
paigns. Twelve national magazines
were used in advertising the city, as
we'll as a large number of daily
papers in all parts of the country
Becomes Scout Executive -
Deputy Boy Scout Commissioner r.
E. Macdougall has resigned as chief
clerk in the Union Pacific valuation
and will leave Omaha
January 10 for Battle Creek, Mich,
where he will be scout executive of
the Boy Scouts of that city. MIR.
Macdougall has lived here for about
eight years and has been active in
Boy Scout work for more than two
years. He was recommended for
his new position by the local scout
executive board.
Hear $4,000 Suit-Mrs. Florence
Deeters claim for $4,000 damages
against Mrs. Florence Hoagland,
William Hoagland of the Hoag1and
Lumber company and Samuel s.
Carlisle is being presented to Jury
in District Judge Leslie's court. Mrs.
Deeter alleges that she suffered many
injuries when an automobile driven
by Mrs. Hoagland struck her as she
was alighting from a street car at
Thirty-third and Farnam streets,
March 6, 1919. A double fracture
of the skull, paralyzed leg and other