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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1914)
3-D The South Omaha Merchants and Bankers Are Very Good Boosters TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BKK: OOTOnKU 4, 1914. South Omaha Business Men Who Have Grown Up With the City in Prosperity MAYOR OF SOUTH OMAHA AN OLD-TIMER, Located, as It were, at the very portals of Omaha, the business men of South Omaha have to meet conditions unlike thoss presented to any other town of the sue of South Omaha. Without railway depots worthy the name, and with rapid transit passenrer service, between here and the business district of Omaha, the local merchants have to compete with the strongest and most successful dealers of the west. But for an that, Bouth Omaha has a class of business men and mer chants which, while not lane. Is none the less sturdy and successful. Many of them while working and living to South Omaha are members of the Omaha Commercial club and assist In boosting the whole ter ritory regardless of their own Individual Interest In South Omaha. From a rougn western cattle station these business men have built up a city with a business district worth the notice of any observer of American push and progress. Fteur banks, many lumber yards and material oenters; serum plants from which hundreds of gallons of cholera preventative Is shipped annually to the farmers of the state; liquor house whole sale and retail, a great brewing plant built and owned by local men; tlvaters, furniture stores, clothing houses, hard ware centers, grocery companies, novelty rtores and loan associations these have all contributed to the upbuilding of the city's business. 8me of the Winner. Among the men and the firms who have don much to build up the business of the city by persistent boosting and good ser vice; are the following: The Packers', Llvs Stock, Stock Yards and Security bunks of which number the last men tioned Is a state bank, the G. H. Brewer Undertaking company, the Itimr Cigar company, Wigg Brothers' Dry Goods Company, the B. J. I.ark!n Undertaking company, the Five and Ten Cent store, the Wells Grocery company, the Novelty Repair company, tho Harry Rothkop Dry Goods company, Frank Hancy Electrical company, the O. K. Hardware store, the Kotitsky-Pavllk company, Lie Royal Mil linery store, the Schllts cafe, Taylor & Michael's Hardware company, Sol Gold strom's Wholesale Liquors, Bakke's Bak ery company, the Louis Bradford Lumber company, the Offerman Plumbing com pany, the O. K. Serum company, the Mlohaelson Hardware company, the Glaa gow Tailors, the Mayes Serum company, the Johnson-Karlqulst Shoe store, tho Re liable Furniture company, the South Omaha Ice company, the Brown Park Mineral Springs, the Star Livery, P. J. Boyce, the Howland Lumber company. South Omaha Van and Storage company, the Bcsse theater, the James Parks Con struction company, and a host of others. These men and firms are today as in terested to pushing' along the fortunes of the city as a whole aa they are In In creasing their Individual businesses. Artumrnt as to Annexation. The city within the last few. years has experienced invitations to become a part of Greater Omaha. Gradually the senti ment of annexation seems to be growing. As always before there la some opposi tion. Some of the business men think, that annexation would mean a diversion of trade from South Omaha to Omaha. It Is contended by the opponents of the merger that visitors and even residents of South Omaha would more than ever pass up the local tradesmen In favor of Omaha If an nexation were to take place. Other men see In annexation a saving of money and a more rapid development of this part of a greater city. These latter see here In South Omaha a trackage area that can not be equalled In Omaha. They see great factories and granaries coming to locate here, tliey see the steady intlux or settlers who are drawn to great trade centers and they see aa a consequence their patronage picking up. There are others still who see in a free bridge across the Missouri river at this point another reason for making the two cities one. With a bridge a free bridge across the river at this point every Iowa farmer who conies to the Union Stock Yards with his cattle or hogs i must pass through South Omaha's retail I district. As a united city working for the betterment of the whole a free bridge at this point can be obtained, as divided municipalities the free bridge will natur ally go to the larger town. But whether annexed or not there Is here a thriving, bustling, noisy town of JO.ftifl. healthy with the vigor of youth, full of a thousand problems, but full also of promise that makes for wealth and prosperity for the thousands who live within Its gates. South Omaha Schools Provide for Making Children Into Good Citizens South Omaha, with possibly the most complex foreign population west of Chl caco, has done much to solve the prob lem by the gradual upbuilding of a pub llo school system that is second to none In the west. While not posnesscd of nearly as lame or multiplex a system as Omaha, South Omaha has nevertheless built up a school system that takes thousands of foreign-born children and children of foreign-born parents annually to mould them into American men and women with American Ideals and American moral and business principles. The school budget has naturally In creased by leaps and bounds In South Omaha, where In 1907 the annual school budget amounted to flBT.OOft, while In the year of 1913 the budget had" Increased to $231,000. Last year the school enrollment amounted to 4,994 children. This number does not embrace 2,000 children who at tend the six parochial schools of the city. The total school census taken & year ago shows that the school attendance between the ages of & and 21 years amounted to 7,839 pupils In all. The cost of education per pupil for the last year was $37.2fi; or $4'-4fi based on dally attend ance. This expenditure includes money paid out on buildings, grounds and Inter est and sinking funds on bonds as well as current Incidental expenses, making in all a grand total of $194,963.74. Of this amount S34,794.tit was paid out for salaries to the 171 teachers In fifteen buildings. Teachers' salaries tun from a minimum of $50 to $36 per month for grade teachers; this Is for nine and a half months, the total salary per teacher ranging from $476 to $907 60. This does not Include the high school salaries, which rangs from $S0 to l2b per month. The school course In South Omaha pro vides for a thirteen-year course of free schooling, beginning with the kindergar ten and extending to a complete high school course, which entitles the graduate to entrance into the University of Ne braska without examination. It also en titles the graduate to entrance credits to such schools aa Chicago university, Strathmore college and Northwestern uni versity, Ann Arbor, Columbia and Cor nell universities. A new departure In the South Omnha school system has been tho Inauguration and development of- the manual training and Industrial side of child education. The school board, under the presldenoy of K. hrii in iir,,Wi.ii i i i ii ii r ii i mni i " THOMAf II, HOCTOR. R. Leigh took the stand thnt South Omaha being to a large extent a laboring community It was proper that the labor ing element should receive a large share, or at least nn enual share of the funds spent on public education. Superintendent N. M. Graham advanced the argument that a majority of the children attending school never reach tho high school be cause hist at the time that the hlcn school opens to such children they are com pelled to begin work, oftentimes manual labor. The Idea was tlu-n advanced that a system could bo developed whereby the boys and girls who were unable to pursue a full scademlc course would attend the high school, taking part of the academic work and spending tho rest of the time In learning useful trades under specialty prepared teachers. The result wss the establishment of the manual training department of the South Omaha High school, where tho boys are taught mechanics, woodworking, masonry (Continued on Tags Six.) "SPr SWALLOWS CARTRIDGE A merles a In Paris Adopts Heroic Way to Dodge Suspicion and the French Police. A new story was added to the tales of war experiences of Americans In Europe. It was told in a letter received by the Sun. A young man, a cltlxen of the United States attached to tbe Paris branch of a New York concent was ar rested as a spy and taken to Jail. At the moment of his arrest his mind flew to Incriminating evidence In one of his pockets. It was a revolver cartridge, and It was not a blank one. The young man watched his chance. When the Jail was reached he was left alone for a moment In an anteroom before being searched. He pulled the cartridge forth and swallowed It Shortly afterward his clothes were searched and he managed to convince the authorities that he was not a spy. He was released. But he has not been able to work since. New York Sun. Report of the Condition of Security State Bank SOUTH OMAHA, NEB. At the Close of Business, Sep tember 12, 1914. RESOURCES. Loans $243,419.12 Furniture and Fix tures . 7,125.75 Overdrafts 1,412.69 Cash and eight . exchange 86,373.93 Total 1338,321.49 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock . . . (100.u00.00 Individed profits. 2,180.70 Guarantee Fund. . 4.000.00 Deposits 232,150.79 The esse 'jll eater WITH ITS MAGNIFICENT PIPE ORGAN AND DE LUXE FILM SERVICE a Offers You a Masterpiece Program. 365 NO WE CHANGE PICTURES TIMES A YEAR AND AT TIME DO WE PRESENT WHITE SLAVE OR SUGGESTIVE FILMS That's Why Ladies and Chil dren Make It Their Show: James J. Parks . Company Contractors of Public Works Phone South 61. South Omaha. Neb. Report of the Condition at the Close of Business Sept. 12, 1914 LIVE STOCK NA TIONAL BANK Of South Omaha RESOURCES LIABILITIES Loaas $1,227,473.14 Capital '....$ 150,000.00 U.S. Bonds at Par..... 170aAfo Surplus 50,000.00 Overdrafts 6,784.32 TTn;,j . nV Banking House and Fixtures. 10,000.00 Undivided Profits 9,741.72 Due from U. S. Treasurer .... 7,500.00 Circulation 150,000.00 Cash and Sight Exchange. . . . 938,146.88 Deposits 2,000,162.62 $2,359,904.34 $2,359,904.34 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY 4 Paid on Time Deposits If you want prompt service, send us your South Omaha collections OFFICERS C. F. McGREW, President. . T. E. GLEDHILL,' Vice-President. L, M. LORD, Vice-Pre's. and Cashier. F. W. THOMAS, Assistant Cashier. MOC ( Yards National Bank OF SOU OEVaAHA Statement September 12, 1914 RESOURCES: LIABILITIES: tion Bonds to secure U. S. Deposit. Stocks and Bonds for invest ment Bonds to secure Postal Sav- $4,635,965.48 Capital Stock $ 750,000.00 t Surplus 375,000.00 230,000.00 Undivided Profits 233,006.20 1,000.00 Circulation 280,000.00 Deposits 6,189,104.87 36,222.16 Reserved for Taxes 24,369.80 . 30,000.00 22,500.00 . 2,831,795.23 14,000.00 $7,851,482.87 $7,851,482.87 I Interest on Time Deposits H. C. BOSTWICK, Prosldont, J. C. FRENCH, Vlco Prosldont, CHAS. FLETCHER, Jr., Vlco Pros., J. B. OWEN, Cashlor, J. C. KING, Ass't to Prosldont, H. C. CULLER, Ass't Cashlor, EPES CORY, Ass't Cashlor. PACKERS NATIONAL BANK 24th and O Streets SOUTH OMAHA President, J. F. Coad. Vice-Pres., Wm. J. Coad. Cashier, H. 0. Nicholson Ass't. Cash. T. J. Shanahan. Established 189L 1 CAPITAL and SURPLUS $300,000.00 u. s. Depository. A Serviceable Bank for Country Bankers and Stockmen 4 INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS 4 Interest Paid on Time Deposits j Total 1338,331.49