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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 8

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Detroit, Michigan
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8 A th as i MONTH SHIRT SALE GARMENT SALE 12 Gentlemen 10 a Month Included in this sale at the same generous redactions si 1 By CAPTAIN GUY SMITH 7 he Sunday Detroit ree Press Other Interesting eatures or Sunday With Roosevelt in the West The 339th on Dvina River Your Madame! ORDER YOUR COPY IN ADVANCE I Largest Combined Morning and Su nday Paid Circulation in Michigan 4 DIAMONDS WATCHES 1 and haa Orie essential fact about this Sale that we i wishjo impress on you is that every gar ment that we offer is from our regular stock macle especially for us by The Hirsh Wickwire Kirschbaum makers of the 'finest ready for service clothes in the world It Cor State and Griswold Chamber of Commerce Bldg In the rotogravure section there will be a large picture of the 339th Infantry on the Dvina River near Arch just a glance at this and say must frame or preserve this wonderful The ORIGINAL Malted Milk RENUMBER STREETS Safe Milk or Infante a Invalids NocZwm A Nutritious Diet for All Ages Quick Lunch Home or Office OTHERS IMITATIONS New Official amily Men who head the City Government under the New Charter You want to miss this as you will want to know just who they arc The first of two informative articles by Bernice Stewart They will prove of vital interest to every woman of voting age as they contain just what the woman voter wants to know about registering about voting about the public offices to be fdled about the local issues that come up for her consideration ALLEGES BROKE MONROE INJUNCTION CIRCUIT COURT POST IS CAUSE DISSENSION All this and many other topics of interest will ap pear inThe Sunday Detroit ree Press A very live article telling of the personal experience of 1 Detroiter on his trip with Colonel Roosevelt Great 1 1 9 1 If tho main deliberations of the council Hitting a a committee of the whole materialize in the way they were headed riday morning the city hall la going to be "No 1500 'Woodward avenue sometime in March 1920 The residence number nt party who live near Highland Park will be aoemthlng like 4 11 44 Wood ward avenue and the gentleman who ha a fond recollection of the fgmou or notorious "No 12 Wood ward as headquarters pt tho It and all the big street ear fights will have to look out In the river well over toward Windsor foi tho number Wood ward avenue will start with No 700 and number north by the "straight line system" And all oth er north and south streets will fol low the Woodwrd avenue key so mat 0 Kourteentn will be directly west of No Woodward avenue and No Chen street will be directly ort street on the west Jefferson avenue on the east be keys for the east and streets All Evening Dress Clothes I Salary as Election Commissioner Is Doubled Cor Gd River Washington Stevens Building avenue 2725 2725 east and will west of 105 the uni from ths 12 SIZE $1E ELGIN Id Kt gin Watch in 25 year guaran teed gold filled rise plain polished nr en graved Now think that read stories just as good as this and passed it up Captain Smith went to fight the Turks in the Holy Land in the uniform of a captain of the Royal lying Corps and he bombed them to a fare yOu well too but that was nothing to compare with the thrilling adventures that followed He got lost in a seaplane east of the dropped out of a clear sky onto a desert island where he had hairbreadth escapes from naked sayages devil men and sultans He tells how he picked cocoanuts with a machine gun what the natives thought of him etc Rudyard Kipling says all stories this orte takes the yet every word of it is proven fact Read first installment tomorrow in PoatmaHter William Nagel who has been working for many months on this new system of numbering for Detroit which will simplify mall distribution and delivery to a remarkable extant appeared before the council In committee laid the whole plan on the table told of the chuotlc condition of the present numbering system and won th council men's approval of his plan There is an ordinance already drawn providing for the renumber ing and unless an open hearing next riday at 11 o'clock develops Home Insurmountable opposition to the renumbering plan the ordi nance laid over for one week will be put Imo effect Councilman Vernor pointed nut that many business firms had sta tionery printed with their street number as an Important factor ami might offer strenuous objection Ho added that In many Instances a street number was regarded as part of the stock in trade Ho was Informed that the change would not become effective until March 1920 under the ordinance giving everybody plenty of time to adjust himself to tho change Would Simplify Deliveries Postmaster Nagel pointed out that business houses should wel come the system as It would slm i pllfy their deliveries as much as it would help mail deliveries in the postofllce Commissioner Esselstyn of the department of public works sug gested that Detroit should be equip ped with a brand new set of sireet Council Receives avorably Proposed New System LOTIS BROS CO Estsbliahed 1858 Clearance Sale Ezqulalte Diamond Ringi Ear Screw Brooches Stud Scarf Pina La Val lierea Bar Pin Cuff Link Watchea Wrist Watch etc all priced unuau ally low Open a Charge Account Today Loftis Seven Diamond Cluster Rings hr inamonai are mounted as to look like one single atone the exact a ance of a sol that would i three or four times a much Splendid valuea at os ivu ana $125 Credit terms 1160 1195 $250 and $300 per week avenutt nent a communication aak Intr that th council paan some ort of ordinance to restrict Na groefl to certain eectlonn or atreeta in the city The committee post poned action on the communication inaenniteiy 1 William Meadows Twelfth street wearing form of a Tar' Great Lake Training school asked relief from police interference In Ills taxicab business and Commis sioner Inch will be asked to ap pear before the council as a re sult Meadows just out of service with St cash coital he stated a small automobile which he uses for earning his living as a taxi driver taking passengers from the depot ll has no taximeter and say that the pjgllceman on that boat refuse to allow him to op erate until ho gels one On the oth er hand he says "a lot of Greeks and slacker" are operating cabs without meter at the same place and are not Interfered with Meadow's son was also Jn serv let and Meadows said hegaVe up a pension of Mil a month from his service In ths Spanish American war in order to enlist in the navy for the present war The council unwilling to give of ficial sanction to violation of the taxicab ordinance1 told him to go to take up In that office all claims for tax adjustment and turn over to the council In committee only Hiich claim as were Impossible of adjustment by ths assessors Dr? Lundy superintendent of the recreation commission appeared before the committee to ask for a new ordinance governing use of moving picture machine "The recreation commission work I being seriously hampered by the present ordinance which make It possible to us only one type ol machine and film except in fireproof sow said Dr Lundy "I understand on reliable" Informa tion that the concern which fur nishes the machine had that law lobbied through Oneot Its former agent told me so" He wag Instructed to take tho matter up with Commissioner Mc Cabe of the department of build ing General Manager Welch of the Michigan State Telephone com pany sent a communication offer ing to appear before the council In Committee and explain how the tel ephone company will accurately check up cans under tno new tered rates ebruary 3 was set the date for the explanation Some resident In the vicinity of Twenty third street and Hudson THE 7TTC IT TK PRE A (J 1) A Circuit Court Commissioners Mv and Nicol are in controversy with the county auditors over a clerical appointment Patrick Dovje clerk to Cormnla sloner May recently discharge Simon Weiss who has been in ti office for a number of years Th commissioners recommended Jamox Cranshaw former alderman the position When the propose! appointment was presented to th auditors they refused to sanction It The commissioners declare they have tho right to name the mom hers of their staffs and will make a tight for tho installation of Cratishaw SWISS READY TO SIGN CONVENTION WITH by associated press Dome' Jan 24 The Swiss gov ernment has instructed Hans minister to the United States to alg" the commercial convention conclud ed between Switzerland and tha imi Kintcs The convention corns especially tho providing Switzerland with breadstuff Ths'' old convention expired September 30 signs with the number end all on at each Intsrsectlon such as most mg cities now have when change become effective City Clerk Lindsay was put In lh 110000 a year class by the councllmen at riday' meeting when they approved Councilman Littlefield's resolution that the elec tion commission chairman receive 15000 a year Instead pf $2500 a year while the two other members of the commlSRlon Recorder Wil kins and Council President Lodge receive $200o a year each Lindsay at present receives 000 as city clerk and $2600 as th chairman of the election commis sion' An Increase of th city salary was recently refused by tho council Commencing July 1 city employe will be paid every two week fh stead of twice a month as at pres ent Under the present system they are paid on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month and four times a year there a three weeks' laps between nay checks Tax petitioners will no longer ap pear In serried rank to take up hours of the time In com mittee with th stories their woes or oppressions At riday's session John Scott chief clerk of the assessors' office was Instructed OPEN EVENINGS Call or write for Catalog No 143 Phone Cherry 1299 and salesman will call THB MTIC BUr JEWELEBS BL" 29 West Grand CO Blvr Av' Aerial Monroe Mich Jan The city attorney riday afternoon filed affidavit 6t contempt against the Detroit Monroe Toledo railroad claltrflng the com to ny had violated the terms of un Issued some time ago "'herein Judge Root sustained the of the city that It could not charge more fare between Detroit and Mon roe than provided for In a Monroe city franchise The contempt pro ceedings will be hejird January 30 double funeral set OR HUSBAND AND WIPE uneral jservoces for rederick jellogg and Hertha Rico Kellogg his wife both dead from pneumonia within days of each other will be hold from the undertaking rooms of DeKay Rutledge 809 Kercheval avenue at 2 o'clock Saturday after noo" Uurlal will be In Roseland Hills cemetery Mr and Mrs Kel logg leave a llve year pld son Lyle who Is dangerously 111 with pneu monia at ths family home 873 New port avenue Mt Clementi Mich Jan 24 I' red Mehrtsns of the state food and drug department was ordered ri day by Justice Swan to pay $90 damages to Michael Smith from whose home on Lincoln avenue a quantity of wines and liquors was seized last summer Smith claimed that there was no attempted evasion of fhe intent of the law that the liquor had been In his possession for many years and some of the wine was a wedding present of more than 25 years ago Prosecutor Johnstone who represented Mehrtans will ap peal Sanilac Man Accidentally Shot Sandusky Mich Jan 24 The body of Chris Sauder Marlette tqjvnshlp was found on his farm with a bullet wound through his chin It is believed he met death by accidental shooting The deceased was 68 years old and leaves a wid ow and eight children ahead and operate until they made thorough Investigation of the al laged discrimination against him BATH ClTYRUM RMDEB MUST PAY S90 DAMAGES i Suit and Overcoat Sale 14K SOLID COLD Jfl I 11 1 'Wk Pta WT 1 nJd wi I Il1 A iQ TW i I I I 1 I (I 1 ff Jellh large JI pear iiatre i I I 1 I $200 Shirts 60 $250 Shirts $25 $300 Shirts $22 $350 Shirts $2 80 $500 Shirts $4 00 $750 Shirts $62 $850 Shirts $6 80 $1000 Shirts $8 00 $30 Garments $24 $40 Garments $32 $50 Garments $40 it $60 Garments $48 $70 Garments $56 $80 Garments $64 $90 Garments $72 $100 Garments $80.

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