ï~~m 1 0 7. - 5~ -yev~!e~ 'OE. AIEM RASE FORECAST BY ORDER Rail Commission Grants Re quest of Lincoln Telephone and Telegraphs Company. No Decision Yet Announced in Case of Nebraska Com pany including Omaha. Tlie state railway commission at Lincoln, issued an order Tuesday granting permission to the Lincoln telephone and Telegraph company, operating all exchanges in this stat south of the Platte river, to hereaso rates as requested in its petition to the railway commission. No decisicn has been rendered in tie case of the Nebraska Telephotue company, a parallel organization op erating all exchanges in the state north of the Platte river, incauding tmaha. which filed a rcquest for a.ii per cent. increase, but it is antic ipated that the reqtest of the Ne braski company will be granted as conditione are practically similar hrougijout the state. In the Ltncoln zone residence rates ri eb increased from $2.25 a month ta 2.511 a scontS for private retl tionce lines, and frotn $1.75 to $2 a onth tor twit nrty residenci linen. Otn tong disitance calls a flat I crease of 20 per cent is allowed and - the night rate will apply only after 9 o'clock p. m. instead of after 6 m. as heretofore. it is estimated this will increase theruannal revenue of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph company' 1290,000 The comnmission ordersI that this additional income be ex pende for increased salaries for the companys 1,206 employes and that.30 to 200 additional employs he added to improve the service. How ever, the government tax of $40,000 may be paid out of this increase in revenue,. 6 "Flu" Victims in 24 HoursIs Florence Report DSix deaths from Influenza, or from pneumonia resulting from influenza L ccurred at Florence Monday. This i-ftis believed to he a record for the rtate for a town of that size. Flor ence, at the time it was annexed to j Omaha.had a population of about 2 t00. 'Those -who died at Florence Non day were. Mrs.S no senatC aton Elberts, Ms. r'tThomas Fitsesrald, Albiert Boon, Miss He sn Morin and James Patterm n RIUSWSKl SEJOBS FOlfAff WA1Tit(8. I FGHTING_"FU" HERE MEN WAITING TO GO O AlfS District Judges Order Re- Six Hundred Fifty Douglas Food Contr ears P te lease of 500 Gallons of County Men Held by De- tears BUY at $1 Muds'ed tn. Confiscated Whisky. layed-Entraining Order. and 5911 at $8.50.. Diy. U' n. itm" Will Be Distributed to Hospi- Men Are in Pay -of Govern- Says Food Administraton tag o - tals Under Supervision of ment but "Pay Day" Some May Open Market Here if a - Manning. Distance Away. Reports Are Trte. o Five hundred gallons of wiiky in After resigning fom their posl- Thirty potato dealers from di'fer- Whent "V barrels, kogs, bottles and cases, now tions, saying goodby, and reporting ent sections of the state attended headed by a ra ' in charge of Sheriff Mike Clark, are to their draft boards for shipment to a conference Tuesday q Wed by-Fogl Association-Badd to be tdrned iver to the hospitals of Camps Kearney and Bowie, many of Administrator Wattles to investigate big tasck influenza. An order for the turning the 610 Douglas county men sched- reports of profiteering by specula- and a hanne r over of' this whisky to the health uI iled to leave Tuesday. are now torn, Over The thorities was made Tuesday by the without position-, and sonic are At the close of the conference Mr. truck borep-Isl- itb entire district bench, every judge wilhoit homes. The call untier which Wattlea wired to Washington asking '"MURPH -DID' signing the order. they reported was deferred. Officlal that an xpert from the $ureau of If he did, he's $.-, The judges w-r requeuted t take k word came Tuesday they will not be plant industry be Rent here toinves- But he digI't this action by Mayor Ed P. Smith called for two or three weeks. tigate the claims of dealers that Ne-. '... t iand Health Commissioner Manning. At that time the calling of draft braska potatoes are of Inferior qual' Now that the "flu, is in a communication to the court, men from Omaha and the rest of ity- ntot us, the tw oter " l env Mayor Smith and Dr. Manning stated Nebraska will be resumed, the men Reports have reached Mr.,Wattles are reaping a vast-br i d an emergency exist in which "there leaving in the order already planned that potatoes bought for $1 a 100 from the adovatising i is an apparent necessity for whisky for them, and going to the camps to pounds in the western part of the edies and preventive with which to fight the ln(luenra which they would gone had not the state are being sold in Omaha for of ways of makln a livin epidemiC and asked the court S or- call been defqrred. - $3.50 a 200 popnds, the maximum lain Kidder wonl say to. -Mistb der i his tos uri o t Many Without Work prIce allowed b the government Burnasco wa ky in his poseionwhi h i s not Most of the men called live in "If these reports are true, meas-..,,.... bato onusedofseridencetri als for Omaha or nearby, and were merely tirs wii be taken immediately to re- PATENT MEDICINEFLU KME$ Dio'atos of the pn s bition laws. told to go home and await further de the margn of profit. It may It certainly is pretty ic Dr. Massing said he will net as- wr.Mnboehs rewtoth that the fgo0d administration itself To run a papen-with ~ipolk - horiz the use of whisky except at wo*rd. Many of thee reithou enattomrea pef i ihonat-he ue o whiky xcep atwork and face two or three weeks will open a Intto market here," Mr. On spaeefor _-btanlb of loafing. Wattles said. That real rags'will neyely'lake; SISTER AD N TOWO NeIECES On 100 others are not so for- The dealers denied they had bought To grabtie dough that we e~sh tunate. They lived out of the city potatoes for $1 a 100 poundse-espite Evolvingo m the flare. OF FATHER STAGNO DIE and left home and work to report. information to that effect received And foot' e folks who have rta Within a week, Frank Purpura, Many came with barely enough to by Mr. Wattles same,2806 Binney street, bts been bereft pay their way her.. Reports that large crops of pota- To boost the undertk 's gael-1o of his wie,, Mrs. Rose Purpura, and The draft boards have temp- toes in western Nebraska were likelyWe Judge fromoallrbuh their eldest daughter, Rose, and orarily become employment agencies to spoil for lack of buyers brosight tw er sal i t younger daughter, Rita. to find work for these men. Any out th.statement from saea deal. htw~.thr ai The wife and daughters were sin- empioyer needing young- men for era that Nebraska potatoes Are sub- is hops, - - ter and nieces of the Rev. Michael temporary work is urged to get into ject to dry rot and are of poor/keep- And If you have. the pi~ek 7 ta Stagno, pastor of St. Ann's parish touch with his nearest draft board. ing quality. A Lincoln dealer claimed Some Tanlac you wil never -die'' Mr. and Mrs. Purpra and children Those without money are being he lost hqavily on -seeral cars of And if you bad.the Bep came some months age from St. cared for by the war actilvties com- Kimball county potatoes last year. From large asdrtm e Louis to make their home in this mittee se-e until they can get work. 'mychoourhlefe etpoedtybe Tomkeyu city, and were living with Mr. and aVhen the man reported they be-.oGAINSTulubni ftheIr et Mrs. Fred Stagno, parents of the came soldiers, and therefore In the INJUNCTION AGTo eubrc tothei p dp est-. 'united States government's pay, SALE OF MITTEN, ASKED Oh, let us no All-hildren in the family and also draft officials say, but, pay day is These certailcs Stt k' Mrs Fred Stagno have been ill also, a long way off. A mitten with two tiumbs wa fall but recoveredl. Mr.,urtura has a I Net to seprt. under consideration before-Federal Al d like a poqition with the* Richardson Drug' early 1,000 men were to leave Judge W oodrough Tuesday. when BelievetontCnt1sdfa o om.yomh nvarious conting,.i this Charles 1- Yong and Jiob L. Letstse ~Iai OMAHA SOLDIER DIES - have ben notified notto repor, until unusual article ofFso er e d d '-- rfurther notice.. - for iniutaco ageainst M.Sihwitsah - 0b ~ FROM SPANISH "FLU" - The Nebraska draft men wbi were Co. nd1t eltygesa.Iaeh o G mto preh embalh.'outs e j - - " Elmet Stovel, 24 years old, son of to leave this week nusnser about 7,. vent its manufacture an4 s e. 1tMrs. Anna Stovel, 3118 Mason street, 006. Word from Lincoln 'yesterday decision is exe aked from the court?lod Monday at Camp Grant, Rock- said they would not be called for this evening. -Ater, aa ord, Ill., of pneumonia, following an two o- three weeks, if then. All de. -- The af'hlaid NWot1utbet" mitten recn I t attack of Spanish influenza. He Was pends upon the severity of the influ- is built so that -oge;ilen i4drA out heo a member of the One Huddred and ensa epidemic, which paused the one side and th i"reverses the artI- harestt his Sixty-first depot brigade and was postponement. cle, so as toadst-b extra thumb-and aboub to enter an officers' traiing Many finusual incidents, some also the rerat sk lce of the glovee It $ ltne s e o' r m LvU -- e" 11/01/2006 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NEWSPAPER R M