Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-21
BrseJ City News

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and literature may be obtained at
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Sec'y Lowen Club.-Adv.
Approve Grading Projcct--The
city council received letters from
Lee HUFF and M. d. Cameron, ap.
proving of the st. Marys avenue and
Howard street grading project. This
subject will be discussed again be-
fore the city council Thursday
morning.
A. o. e. W.-CentraI Committee.
A meeting of all the delegates to the
A. o. U. w. central committee, in.
GLIDING South Side and Council
Bluffs, will be held at the temple
Wednesday at p. m. There will be
election of officers.
Indian Girl Wants Jab-A Winnie
bago Indian girl called at the free
employment office in the city hall
and asked for employment as
stenographer. She stated that she
had five months experience. Her
age was recorded as 20 years and
her former home, Sioux City.
Personal Injury Suit-Susannah
Cook filed suit against the Missouri
Pacific Railroad company In district
court, asking $4,000 for personal
injuries which she says she received
when she was thrown down in the
aisle of moving car while she was
going from Omaha to Cook, Neb.,
June 6, 1919.
School Teacher Dies-Miss Emma
Whitmore, for 40 years a teacher
in Omaha public schools, principal
Of Lake school and member of
the Teachers Annuity association,
died January IA at the home of her
sister. Mrs. E. 7. Reeves, of Little
Rock, Ark. She is survived by her
mother, Mrs. II. M. Whitmore, and
Mrs. Reaves.
School Board Purchase-The
Board of Education Monday night
approved the purchase Of three ad-
ditional lots for the Franklin school
site, Thirty-sixth street, between
Franklin and Decatur streets. The
price was $3.50. This school now
has an entire block with the ex,
ception of corner lot at Thirty.
Accept Steel Bid-Paxton & vier.
ling companys Hid of 1882 for the
structural steel work Of new au.
ditorium to be added to the Clifton
Hill school, Forthwith and Corby
streets, has been accepted by the
Board of Education. This improve
ment will cost $4,000 and all ex
cept the steel work will be done by
| the Board OF Education's building
department.
Tax Receipts Late-W. H. Hunter
city clerk, announces that he will
not be ready to issue 1920 wheel tax
| receipts until February 2, on &C
| count Of the failure Of the con
tractor to complete an order for
plates which are attached to
vehicles. Chauffeurs' licenses are
being issued by the city clerk, who
granted 260 permits on the opening
day, Monday.
Sues Insurance Company-Mary
Branch filed suit against the Bank
| ers' Accident Insurance company sr
! district court for $500 which is the
amount of an insurance policy taken
| by her son, Bud Branch, with this
| company last March. Bud was shot
and killed at 1915 Capitol avenue
October 20, 1919, and the insurance
company has declined to pay the
policy on the ground that it had not
yet become operative.
Former Omahan Dies-MichaeI
Goggins, former resident of Omaha
died last week at his home in
Havre, Mont, after a lingering i'll
ness. He was in the United States
army from 1882 to 1887, serving un
4 der General Miles and General Mer
Ram at western posts. He was
honorably discharged at For
Omaha in 1887 and was member
of the Omaha fire department from
1887 to 1892, and for % years there
after served as sexton of st. Mary's
cemetery of this city. Since his re
moval to Montana in 1914 he was
employed by the Great Northern
Railroad company. He is survived
by Mrs. Goggins, two sons and one
daughter. The funeral was in charge
of the knights of Columbus anc
| burial was at Havre.
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