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STOCKMEN SECTION OF
The Alliance Herald
Second
Section
VOLUME XXV
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JUNK tf, LM8
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BOOSTING FOR
OMAHA "THE
MARKET TOWN"
NEBRASKA'S BIG METROPOLIS
Business Conditions In Omaha Were
Never Before in So Flourishing
a Condition.
Notwithstanding that the building
operations thruout the country now
are only a small percentage of what
they would be at this time if it were
not for the war, a good deal of con
struction is now being done in Oma
ha. This indicates a prosperous bus
iness condition, and is a token of
what may be expected in building op
erations soon after the war closes.
Through the courtesy of Arthur
C. Thomas, manager of the Publicity
bureau of the Omaha commercial
club, we have the pleasure of present
ing to the readers of The Herald this
week a cut of the new building of the
Nebraska Telephone company, corner
of Nineteenth and Douglas streets, as
it will appear when completed. There
are a few other buildings in the city
that are about the same height as this
building, but on account of it being
on more elevated ground than the
others, it will be the highest building
in the city when completed.
A number of other buildings are
under construction, or have been re
cently completed, among which is the
Conant building, northwest corner of
Sixteenth and Harney, into which the
tenants are now moving.
In the booklet, "Nebraska Facts,
recently issued by the bureau of pub
licity, Lincoln, 1b a story of Nebras
ka'B metropolis, which is as compre
hensive as anything that we have
seen regarding Omaha and occupying
no more space. We reprint from this
story as follows:
NEBRASKA'S METROPOLIS
THRILLING ESCAPE
FROM DEATH
American lieutenant with Royal Fly
ing Corps Thrills Denver with De
tails of His Escape from Huns.
Refected
All of Denver that could be crowd
ed into the auditorium Bat like chil
dren at the feet of Lieut. Pat O'Brien
last night, hanging on every word of
his story, which he told as simply
as if he had been sitting in the gro
cery store at his home in Momonce,
111., with his feet on a cracker box
relating his advantures.
Smiling Pat O'Brien stepped for
ward and the audience rose to do him
honor. To .this he made this simple
but thrilling acknowledgment: "The
only honor that I claim is that of be
ing an American."
He described several of his battles
in the air. There is always a delicious
humor about his story. Just as one
is ready to gasp with astonishment at
his heroism, he upsets It with a jab
of his sharp wit. The audience was
about evenly divided In applance and
laughs, and the laughs were where
the bravos would have come if Pat
O'Brien wasn't American and Irish.
Not since the world began has
there been such an adventure as the
fall of Lieut. O'Brien from thousands
of feet in the air into the. lines of the
enemy, where, he said "with an Irish
man's luck I landed within 150 feet
of a hospital, where the doctor tor
tured him and where he was taken
out to witness an aerial battle and
saw his chum dashed to death.
His escape as he was being taken
to prison by jumping thru a car win-
PROCLAMATION BY
COMMISSIONER RIDGELL
State Fire Commissioner Calls Atten
Hon to Banger of Fire Ijonsck
in the State.
Dot with totln tr omMbr tt U. ft Anr-NW I MA.
dow, and the subsequent story of his
wanderings, make up a tale of hor
rors that are without parallel. He
dodicntos his written story to the
North Star, that guided him, to whom
he talked and that watched over him
on h's pilgrimage.
Seventy days of cruel suffering,
hiding by day and slinking thru
swamps and thickets by night no
food, no dry clothes, wounded, but
with Indomitable spirit following the
Course of the war brought O'Brien
into Belgium, where his predicament
was almost as unhappy. The natives
were afraid he was""a spy. and not
until he had stolen enough clothing
to masquerade as a Belgian was he
able to come into the open.
Then it was hazardous business.
i The last was to get thru the electri
cally charged fence on the frontier,
j an dthls was accomplished Ty digging
under. rat t) Brien got down on
his knees an the soil of Holland and
thanked God for his deliverance from
the Hun. Then came his splendid
reception in England, his interview
with t ho king and homecoming.
Lieutenant O'Brien was received In
lienver by a committee of the Na
tional league of woman's service and
was escorted to the Brown hotel. He
arrived in Denver early yesterday
morning after speaking at Holdredge,
Neb.
This remarkable and Interesting
story of "Outwitting the Hun." will
p,oon commence serially In The
Herald.
State Fire Commissioner W. 8. Rld
gell, has issued the following procla
mation: "During this war period the gov
ernment and state officials are appeal
ing to the people of the United
States to conserve property and food
destruction by Are.
"The fire losses In Nebraska from
January 1. 1918, to May 1, 1918, ac
cording to reports received at this
office are $872,851.47. This destruc
tion of 872,851.47 worth of property
Uy tire is an alarming and deplorable
fact. The nation can not afford this
loss. It is possible by care and pre
caution to reduce this loss at least
75 per cent.
"It Is possible to save 75 per cent
of the 1300,000,000 worth of proper
ty that we destroy annually in the
United States. This would mean a
great increase In wealth to every state
in the union. The lesson that the na
tion Is now learning In economy, con
servation, and even deprivation, will
certainly have their effect upon us
long after the war is over, and with
fire losses reduced to the minimum
now, we may hope that they will
never again reach the appalling fig
ures that they have attained In the
past.
"The rubbish heap must be obliter
ated. The storage of unnecessary In
flammable material must he abolished
(Continued on Page 8 2nd Section)
WEEKLY NEWS
Of NEBRASKA'S
LATEST DOINGS
Will Maiiptn. Director Nebraska De-
INW-tmeiit of Publicity, Tells of
Nebraska's latest.
Just as soon as Nebraska was open
ed for settlement in 18 54, a party
of Council Bluffs residents decided
that Omaha was a good location for
a city and the town was laid out and
built in a few weeks. Omaha grew
and prospered, especially after Presi
dent Lincoln selected It In 1863 as
the eastern terminus of the Union Pa
cific railroad. Today Omaha is the
first citr in the land in the produc
tion of butter, in the reduction of
lead ore, and a range horse mraket.
It Is second only to Chicago as a live
stock market; third as an agricultur
al implement center, and fourth as a
primary grain market. Although 33d
in population among the cities of the
United States, it ranks sixteenth in
bank clearings and his important
branches of the federal reserve and
farm loan bunks.
Only three cities in the United
stales have a lower death rate than
Omaha, and the infant and tubercular
mortality are lower than in any city
of the United States. The absence of
slums and tenements is responsible
for this healthy showing. Forty per
cent of the families of Omaha own
their own homes.
Omaha is an important manufac
turing and jobbing center. Its factory
output its $275,000,000 annually, and
among its industries is the largest
macaroni factory in the country.
Omaha's wholesalers distribute $200,
O m a h a's wholesalers distribute
$200,000,000 worth of goods annual
ly. Its trade territory includes Ne
braska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Mon
tana, Colorado, Wyoming and the Da
kotas. The important products manu
facturer in Omaha are packing house
products, smelter products, creamery
butter and alfalfa products. Among
the imjort.ant commodities distribut
ed from Omaha are automobiles, gro
ceries, lumber, agricultural imple
ments, oils and dry goods.
Omaha was the first of the larger
cities to adopt the commission form
of government and its municipal
methods are attraction attention
throughout the land. It has a re
markable municipally owned water
system, a municipal ice plant is being
installed, and a municipal coal yards
is in operation.
That Omaha is building for the fu
ture is shown by the character and
pretentions of its public buildings.
The larger buildings are: The Wood
men of the World, eighteen stories,
which is also the home of the bureau
of publicity: the First National and
the City National, each sixteen
stories; Union Pacific headquarters
and the Hotel Fontanelle, esch four
teen stories; the Omaha National
bank. Omaha Bee, Omaha World-Her
aid, Federal, Douglas county court
house, Omaha high school, city hall,
Omaha grain exchange, public library
(Con Urn ted on Page 4 -itud Section)
Omalut's highest hiiildiiiK the new office building being erected by the Nebraska Telephone company
at the corner of Nineteenth ami Douglas streelM, a- it will appear when completed. I kh of cut through courtc)
of Arthur C. Thoma, manager Publicity Buerau, Omaha Commercial Club.
(By Will MaiipJn)
Frank A. Vanderlip of the treasury
department, came all the way from
Washington to Omaha to tell Ne-
brnskans what wonderful things
they had accomplished In securing
subscriptions of $20,000,000 for
thrif stamps In the short space of two
hours In one day.
"How did you do It? asked Mr.
Vandorlip of Ward Burgess, the Ne
braska manager of the thrift stamps
campaign.
"Well, sir," said Mr. Burgess, tak
ing the stand, "we had mighty ow
talkers but we did have a whole lot
of workers."
"Workers Is right." exclaimed Mr.
Vanderlip, "for Nebraska stands at
the head and no state 1b a close sec
ond Were It not bor Nebraska we
might report that the job of illng
two billion dollars' worth of thrift
stamps could not be done. But Ne-
nraska has shown us the way."
But that's Nebraska's long suit
showing other states how to do good
things that are big things in a big
way that Is a good way. This state
subscribed for $4 0,000,000 worth of
the $148,000,000 of thrift stamps
sold In the United States up to May L
"I told Mr. Vanderlip," said Mr.
Burgess "if he wanted to see the true
spirit to come out west. The eastern
ers are nice people and we need them
in our work, but if they want the real
thing they must come out west where
it grows."
Speaking about "big things" In Ne
braska, do not overlook the fact that
the largest Incubator factory In the
world is at Clay Center, and It ships
Its products to every country under
ltu sun where chickens are raised.
Clay Center has a population of less
than 2,000 but the postofflce In that
hriving little city is the seventh larg
st in Nebraska in point of business
handled. What has been accomplish
ed by Johnson In Clay Center may
be accomplished by other men along
other lines n other Nebraska towns
If the other men will show John-
iion's grit and industry and "stlck-to-
it iveness. "
Tom Foley handled "rye" and oth
er liquid forms of grain In Omaha for
forty year. During that time he
loaded up with land In Kimball, Ban
ner, Lincoln and Cheyenne counties.
And his Omnha friends said he was
foolish to do it; that the land wasn't
woiih a dollar a township, and he
was merely throwing nway good
uoney. Tom smiled and 1- pt righ
on hnd; vv "rye." He quit on Mav 1.
1!)17. : nt since then has hiin anrnrf.
Off most of his time In we'; rn Ne
braska. Last week the director of the
bureau of publicity saw something
like 1,200 acres of Tom's wheat in
Kinirall and Banner counties the
flner.t looking wheat ever seen any
where in the west at this time of the
year. It Is a "cinch crop" this very
minute, some unheard of calamity not
befalling. And while Tom Is watching,
that wheat grow he Is superintending
the breaking out of about 1.000 more
acres of land preparatory to seeding
it to wheat this fall. "Raising wheat
beats handling 'rye' both ways from
the Jack," remarked Tom; "and
there's a durned sight more satisfac
tion in doing it, too."
On May 22, 1905, "Bob" Oberfeld-
er of Sidney, gave Judge Hobart, of
Oering, a check for $950 for 640
acres of Cheyenne county land. About
six months later Bob sold that same
section for $2,500 and thought he
was making a fine deal. On Satur
day, May 11, the present owner of
that section contemptuously refused
a cash offer of $64,000 for It. And the
improvements thereon did not cost
a dollar over $7,500. Neither Bob
nor Judge Hobart are smiling about
it, however.
The Great Western Sugar company.
with factories in Nebraska at Scotts
bluff, tiering and Bayard, is putting
$400, 990 Into a potash plant at
Scottseluff and will extract potash
from the residue of the beets used in
the manufacture of sugar. The work
will permit the cjnpany using all of
Its machinery at the Scottsbluff plant
tweleve months In the year Instead
of four months In the year.
The Praxirie Gas & Oil company's
hole near Harrlsburg Is down more
than 2,500 feet, and while none of the
men in charge will be Interviewed
there Is every indication that they axe
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