THE THIRD CITY
IN NEBRASKA
GrMtl Island fnrrertlng Her leal
the Third Vity In I'opuln
tlon In ThU Htate
It used to be that three was a
race between a number of Nebraska
Cities for third place In population,
but th race now la for fourth place,
Orand Island having distanced her
former competitors. Counting South
Omaha at a part of Omaha, (J rand
Island Is third city In population In
Nebraska by a Rood strong majority.
If "Imitation la the slncerlst form
f flattery," as is often SHld, The
Herald haa been paying a compli
ment to Nebraska's third city for
some time past. As has been pub
lished In this paper, we have been
working to "Make Alliance the
Orand Island of northwest Nebras
ka "
We had Intended to publish some
Cuts of Grand Island scenes In this
Issne of The Herald, but failed to
Connect with the cuts, except those
used In the advertisement of the
paine-Flshburn Granite Co., on this
fage. The following, Information
taken from a circular Issued by the
Grand Island Commercial Club, will
be interesting to persons who wish
to know more about that city:
Population 1913, 12,000. Seat of
Hall county; freight division point
on Union Pacific coast to coast route,
s well aa Junction for Ord, Loup
City and Heasanton branches; on
Burlington transcontinental route
and also terminal of St. Joseph &
Orand Island Railway. American
beet sugar factory, oldest in United
States, In operation; large creamery
(cold storage and ice cream); two
butter, egg and live poultry estab
lishments, wholesale; canning facto
ry; two artificial and three natural
Ice plants; foundry, wire fence fac
tory; wind mill factory; bottling
works; roller flour and feed mill;
eight cement block manufactories;
two wholesale grocery houses; tan
nery; one wholesale fruit house; six
wholesale liquor houses; candy fac
tory; two wholesale bakeries; whole
tale lumber and coal; wholesale cal
endar and advertising specialty fac
tory six cigar factories; cigar box
factory; three wholesale hide hous
es; mattress factory; corrugated cul
vert works; municipal electric light
works; municipal waterworks (pur
est water obtainable anywhere) ; pri
vate electric light plant; private gas
works; two grain elevators; Union
UtocK Yarns, Handling one and a
tuarter million head of stock annu
ally; largest horse and mule sale
tables west of St. Louis, handling
25,600 head annually; planing works
addlery works; two steam laund
rles; monument and granite works.
State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.
SOI Inmates including men and wo
men exclusive of officers and employ
es; business and normal college, 900
students annually; State Baptist
college, 300 students annually; con
servatory of music, 200 students an
nually; St. Francis hospital. 4SI pa
tient annually: county court house,
cost 1130.000; high school building.
cost 190,000; three grade scnooi
buildings, cost $30,000 each; two
rnrio nrhnol hllildines. cost 120.000
each; Carnegie library, cost $21,000;
city hall, cost $30,000; Llederkran
Society building, cost $75,000; Datt-
Heutcher Vereln building, cost mo.-
000; Masonic building and holdings.
cost $50,000; V. M. C. A. building.
cost $75,000; Elks building, cost
$30,000; brewery, cost $200,000;
electrolier lighting system; state
honrinuarters Ancient Order of Lnlt-
ed Workmen; city park; active Com
mercial Club; National. State and
Savings banks; Building & Loan As
sociation, aggregated deposits, $3,-
900.000: fourteen churches; many
fraternal societies; dally and three
weekly newspapers. Donded Indebt
edness and rate of taxation rank low
compared with cities of like size. En
tire hiininesa nart of city paved. Two
hotels, $2 to $2.50 per day, Ameri
can plan; hotel $1 to iz.&u per aay,
American plan; hotel $1 to $2.60 per
day, European plan. Omnibus and
automobile lines to Soldiers' Home
and Baptist College. Several fine
resorts for summer outings In Im
mediate vicinity. Numerous retail
establiahments of al descriptions.
Distributing facilities unexcelled.
lllllTIIDAY PAltTY
Enjoyable Time Npient at Kjan Home
Friday Evening In Honor of the
Birthday of Young I -ad lea
A PBrty was given Friday evening
at the home of Misses Mary and
Minnie Hyan in honor of their twen
tieth birthday. The evening was
spent in playing many games. A
lunch was served.
Those present were: Misses Mary
and Minnie Ryan, Bernlce and Fay
Jeffers, Maggie and Hilda Lewis, Ni
na and Florence Whaley, Gladys and
Alta Dye, Levlta Boyden, Pearl Wil
liams, Dorothy Peterson, and Messrs.
Charles Blakeley of Hemlngford,
Willie Bolea of Ravenna, George El
liott. Darrell Mahoney, Joe Boyden,
Walter Collng and Tom Ryan of Al
liance.
A SMH-lfic Against Cold
"If there Is such a thing as a spe
clfic against colds, It is to be found
in the sleeping porch or the open bed
room. Next to that cornea the cold
sponge bain tn the morning, says
the Youths Companion. Be as care
ful as you can you will occasionally
take cold and when you do you will
find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a
great help in enabling you to get rid
or ii. iry it. UDtainaole every
where. Adv.
The department of agriculture
says that the American sparrow Is
much better behaved than Its Eng
lish cousin; and this, too, when neu
trallty's the word.
LEGISLATORS BUSY
THE PAST WEEK
More Itlll Packed at State Capitol
Than In Same Space of Time
During Thl Srlon
ff ' Jn
Lincoln. Nebr.. March 10 That
Nebraska voters will have a chance
to vote on at least one constitutional
amendment In two years from now
Is certain, the amendment providing
that all supreme Judges shall be
elected by districts instead of In the
state at large as at present. The bill
has already passed the Senate and Is
certain to be acted upon favorably In
the House.
The bill intending to place more
power In the hands of the Railway
Commission and for which Thomas
Hall has been so persistently lobby
ing met its defeat In a rather novel
way. After amending the bill It was
reported out for passage by the com
mittee. One of the introducers or
this measure moved that It be indef
Inltely postponed and It was so or
dered without taking the regular
course of going through Committee
of the Whole.
Another bill governing public util
ities which was introduced by Oster
man of Merrick and vested more
power in the people of each county
rather than in the Hallway commis
sion was recommended by the com
mittee to be Indefinitely postponed.
The committee gave a public hearing
at which a large number of attorneys
and professional men presented their
opinions on this bill.
The House has passed a Dili pro
viding for a Supreme Court Commis
sion to assist in clearing the docket
which is now overloaded with cases.
A bill has passed the House and
been seat to the Senate which com
pels the state Railway Commission
to furnish the county boards of equ
alization and assessment with the
figures showing the physical valua
Hon of the railroads, telegraph and
telephone lines of the state.
While many thousands or dollars
will be appropriated for the various
state Institutions, for repairs, etc., it
occurs to us that one of the things
needing actual and Immediate atten
Hon Is the present State House. True
It Is that this has an old familiar
sound, but nevertheless the roof of
the State House is so bad that It is
almost impossible to save state prop
erty without keeping the Janitors on
duty day and night with pails and
buckets to catch the water which is
supposed to go down the eaves, but
which unfortunately doesn t do any
thing of the kind.
The three big railroads of Nebr
aska occupied the front of the stage
at the State House on last wednes
day evening, when the presidents of
the Union Pacific, the Northwestern
and the Burlington endeavored to
show by figures and argument that
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Paine-Fishburn Granite Co.
ESTABLISHED 18 8
New Building One-half Block West of U. P. Passenger Depot
Monuments and Building Material
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GRAND ISLAND, NEBR
Fairmoiat9s
A Fairmont Creamery Company'
"Check" is a Symbol of
"Better Service" and Highest Prices
Thousands of Cream producers in Nebraska are daily petting this "BETTER SERVICE".
We guard the interests of our patrons and our success is due to their entire SATISFACTION
"FAIRMONT" is furnishing the producer a close and reliable market for his CREAM,
EGGS and POULTRY. On each delivery we guarantee Satisfaction,
LOOK FOR THE "FAIRMONT" RECEIVING STATION IN YOUR TOWN, or WRITE US
DIRECT
THE
Fairmont Creamery Co.
Grand Island. Nebr.
AGKNTS WANTED
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they must have 2 1-2 cents a mile 1
for passenger traffic. One of these J
gentlemen explained that the rail
roads were proceeding on tbe plan
of "the people be shown" and were '
trying to take them into their confi
dence. It Is doubtful if one vote
was made or lost by their coining,
but all members agreed that they
appreciated having these men, who
in the past have dictated from their
office chairs, come down from their
"high-horse" and talk with the law
makers as man to man.
For tbe first time this sessioa mat
ter has been exponged from the rec
ord. Hockett of Lancaster after
losing in a fight between the Rail
way Commission and the attorney
general presented a resolution at-,
tacking the character of Arthur F. ,
Mullen. Henry Richmond of Doug-'
las came to the rescue as a pacifier;
of troubled waters. Mr. Richmond !
in very forceful language persuaded J
the House that in justice to Mr. Mul
len, whose character had been un
justly assailed, and in the interest of
harmony (which is so much talked
of in the democratic party just now)
that th.e proper thin gto do would be
to wipe out all the record on this
matter. He spoke of the great
amount of work before the House
and of how impossible it would be to
accomplish this work if the members
engaged in personalities or failed to
work in harmony with each other.
The first copies of Nebraska's
"Blue Book" were delivered on Fri
day to members of the Senate and
tbe House. The work has been in
process of preparation for two years,
provision having been made for the
same in the 1913 session. Com
ments are very Battering for Addi
son E. Sheldon, the compiler of the
work. It Is certainly a book that
every Nebraskan who takes an inter
est in affairs of tbe state will want
to possess. The legislature made
provision by resolution for tne dis
tribution of 1,000 copies, one going
to each of the high schools and to
each of the court houses in the state.
The past week has witnessed more
real legislation than in any of the
previous weeks this session. Per
haps the most far reacning Dill to
pass the Senate was the county unit
plan for apportioning school funds,
providing for any county In the atate
adopting the system after it has
been submitted to a vote of those
concerned. The Senate has report
ed from committees nearly all of
the bills introduced in that body
Those that have noe as yet been re
Dorted will have a mighty bard time
setting through. One hundred bills
have been passed by the Senate and
are now before the House. The
House has passed one hundred and
fifty, indefinitely postponed about
the same number and have on gen
eral file 132. A sifting committee
will soon be appointed to sift out tbe
meritorious bills for general Ble.
::r3 Gt3t3t3x
Some Auto Painter
Pte Srnott. tbe "Raco" gasoline
salesman, is entitled to the honors
of an automobile Dalnter. fete want
ed a particular job done on bis car
so his friends helped him out. Harry
Hides and Furs
Ship your 'hides to the
Chicago Hide & Fur Co.
Grand Island, Nebr.. or '
Omaha Hide & Fur Co.
Omaha. Nebr.
Wholesale Dealers in
Hides, Wool, Pelts
and Furs
Write for Tags and Price List
We Pay Highest Price
Showalter gave him a whitewash
brush and Clint Ewing gave him a
can of paint. Pete used "Raco" gas
to mix the paint with, with the re
sult that his car "now has thirty per
cent more power, etc. meaning
the rest of the Raco selling argu
ments. The boys claim that it is
the best job of painting done in many
moons.
Tbe Court of Lat Reeort
Around the stove of tbe cross
roads grocery is the real court of I
last resort, for it finally over-rules
all others. Chamberlains Couan
Remedy has been brought before this
court in almost every cross roads
grocery in this country, and has al
ways received a favorable verdict. It
Is in tbe country where man expects
to receive full value for his money
that this remedy is most appreciat
ed. Obtainable everywhere. Adv.
farmer living near here, is the own
er of a horse which haa adopted a
motherless calf, and manifests great
displeasure when any person touches
the animal.
Rankin, Pa. Traffic was tied up
for two hours here when "Maude,"
a temperamental mule, owned by
John Rawllng, refused to pull a wag
on loaded with coal because she had '
been used to hauling ice.
Atlantic City, N. J. Celebrating;
his eighty-first birthday. Robert Mey
erhoff, a retired merchant, surprised
his seven children, twenty-one grand
children and five great grandchildren
with gifts of $100 bills to each.
Sbaron, Pa. A daughter weigh
ing one ana one-nair pounds was
born a few days ago to Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Newell. In lieu of an incuba
tor, tbe parents are endeavoring to
develop it in tbe oven of the kitchen,
range.
yi'FEIl VI IRKS OP NEWS
Georgetown, bel. Mrs. Lettie
Witbank. aged 72, has never tasted
an egg in her life and says she never
intends to.
Juarei, Mex. There is a bridge in
Mexico 150 feet long made entirely
of mahogany, and is worth, at tbe
present price of the wood, more than
12.000,000.
Paris A widow named Bonnard
sent nine sons to the war. Each of
the sons was wounded within a week.
All will recover.
Poulsboro, N. J. Chas. Reed, a
New Country, Juit Opened
New railroads, new towns, soil
deep black loam with yellow clay
subsoil, prairie lands with poplar
groves, crop failures unknown, no
stones, no stumps, cheap lands, easy
terms, tbe poor man's chance to get
a home, and tbe rich man's opportun
ity for investmene. Maps and print
ed matter free.
We also have a few farms to ex
change for otber desirable property.
THIEF RIVER VALLEY LAND CO.,
Thief River Falls, Minn.
14-21-5701
