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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1911)
STIRRING SPECIALS IN THE CLOAKROOM Women's clothes that do full justice to the wearer, being made by reliable cloakmakers that do justice to the clothes. Our ex cellent showing will rejoice the hearts of women of good taste who desire fashionable and popular priced apparel. We have sizes for the small, the regulation and the stout waisted women. "We guarantee satisfaction in fitting and alteration work." COATS Broadcloth and Kersey $25.00, 19.50, 17.50, 14.50, 12.50. Sealette, Caracule and Imitation Pony, at..... $25.00, 14.50, and 12.50 Mixture and Cheviot in the latest shades, sailor collars, trimmed with contrasting shades, at $19.50, 17.50, 14.50, and 12.50 TAILORED SUITS In silk velvets at $35.00 Serges in gray, navy and black, $19.50, 17.59. 14.50 Mixtures at $22.50, 19.50, 17.50 and 14.50 Broadcloths at $17.50 and 14.50 About twelve Spring weight serge and Mixture suits, they are good $19.50 values, to close at $9.75 4 SKIRTS We wish to call attention to our assortment of these in Mixture, Serge and Panama Cloth, at... $3.95 and $4.95 Black Aultman Voiles, $8.95 to 14.50 values, at $6-75 Messaline and Taffeta Silk Petticoats, strong values, $3.95-$2.95 SWEATER COATS AT $1.00 LESS Regular $5.95 values, special at $4.95 Regular $4.95 values, special at $3.95 Co-Ed styles, $3.95 values, special at $2.95 IN THE DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT BEDDING Comforts Our comforts that we sold for $2.50 now priced at $2.25 as a strong leader this season. The full size of a comfort is usually considered 72 x 76 inches. This comfort, like our medium and better ones, measures 72 x 84 inches long long enough not to kick out at the foot. It is filled with two sheets of light fluffy cotton. It is covered both sides with flowered silkolene, light or dark as you wish, and then stitched in scroll design to hold the cotton in place. Try one of these beautiful comforts and we assure you satisfaction. $2.25 5c Calico 5c 100 Pieces Colum bia Calico, Stand ard quality all 5c colors at yd. WHAT THEY A number of America's leading news paper correspondents are accompany ing President Taft on his trip around the circle. Among them is Ernest G Walker, representing the Boston Her ald. What Mr. Walker saw in Nebras ka is written up in an entertaining manner by him, and the article is not only interesting but timely. A few years ago Massachusetts was giving heed to Nebraska's appeals for help for her suffering homesteaders. Things have changed, however. Now Massa chusetts is paying Nebraska interest on borrowed money, for the' permanent school fund of Nebraska holds nearly a million dollars worth of Massachu setts state bonds as an investment. How all this is made possible is told by Mr. Walker in the following letter to his paper, the Boston Herald: "Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2. Here in the heart of the corn and alfalfa, country the crash of eastern markets does not appall. A baronial farming class has piled up its millions. They have now quite an independent civilization oi their own. Their El Dorado ia this ttate is 200 square miles of the richest crop lands probably in all the conti nent. Its annual yield keeps a great population with an increasing balance at the country banks and in a frame of mind to defy the magnates of Wa.l street. "The prosperous west is ceasing to rant at the money kings on Manhattan. The rough neck farmer is giving way to a more gentlemanly type, who has the confidence and contentment that education and the possession of securi ties bring. He has automobiles, to be BACK COMBS AND BARETTES A salesman's sample line Back Combs and Barettes, worth up to 75c, at each 25c LADIES' HAIR SWITCHES We are showing the best line of Hair Switches in all shades at, each $1.79 LADIES' CAPS A niee line of Ladies' Aviation Caps in all col ors, made of 8-fold Zeypher yarn, an extra bargain, prices 75c, 95c, $1.25, and $2.00 POPLIN AND WOOL CHALLIES One lot of Poplin and Wool Challies in plain and fancy patterns, worth 40c and 50c per yard, closing out price, yard.. 25c Q17-021 O St. OPPOSITE CITY SAY ABOUT sure, but he also has farm machinery that relieves him of the exactions of grinding toil upon the land. And this holds even out into the Nebraska sand hills, where there are contraptions which alike dig and load the bumper potato erops. "Gov. C. H. Aldrich of Nebraska lives at David City. 'In our little prairie town,' said he, "We have three banks. The aggregate of their depos its is $1,500,000. The money comes from the farmers. I would not say our financial condition is exceptional among many other Nebraska communi ties. " 'What would you expect in a rich agricultural country such as ours? Take alfalfa alone. It grows four cut tings a year, aggregating quite four tons per acre, and sells readily here at Lincoln for from $8 to $10 per ton. Do you wonder that prairie land is worth from $100 to $200 an acre! We raise in Nebraska over 200,000,000 bushels of corn and half as much in wheat and oats together. All these are steady crops. " 'The idle money in the banks! Well, that has not become a very ser ious problem with us. It is going into farm and home improvements and somewhat into other local enterprises. Our people are also investing now in standard stocks and bonds that yield a certain income.' "Governor Aldrich did not say so, but one hears an occasional complaint that the farmer barons hold the lines tightly over merchants in the smaller towns. The store and shop keepers, ordinarily entitled to credit at the local banks, sometimes get it with difficulty. SOLE AGENTS FOR King Quality Shoe FOR MEN The Shoe of Shoes You can rely on shoes bear ing this brand. The best of everythingstyle, quali ty, workmanship all in KING QUALITY $4, $4.50, $5.00 UNION MADE Dress Ginghams : One lot Dress Ging hams, mostly plain colors, worth 1 1 121-2catydlU HAL) NEBRASKA if at all. Investments that carry coupons and occasion no worries about collections are proving more attractive. "A commercial traveler here and .there grumbles a little about slow busi ness, but the fact remains that virtual ly all Nebraska and much of the coun try that adjoins have no eoncern about industrial depression or panics. The people feel intrenched in their security beyond anything one encounters at Chicago or in the more complacent northwest. The priees of agricultural products are high, and if the erops are not record breaking they are bounti ful. There is money enough with which to buy all that the local popula tion needs. "Of eourse the farmer barons of this corn and alfalfa empire have no mo-, nopoly, and therein they are distin guished from the average captains of industry. But they yell as lustily against legislation which might impair their profits. Makers of cotton and woolen cloths are not a whit more an tagnostic to lower tariffs than the Ne braska farmers have been to reci procity. "If ex-President Roosevelt's charac terization of tariff hogs with their feet in the trough was true of any location in the land, it certainly applies to the western farmers. Perhaps duties of 25 cents a bushel on wheat and corres ponding duties on other eereals may have small effect in maintaining prices for articles of export, but the farmer thinks it keeps off Canadian competi tion. The spirit of .rural opposition is so intense that it is little wonder the insurgents in congress executed a right . about face, although they exposed themselves to charges of tariff incon sistency. "The agricultural prosperity of the west is demonstrating itself in the re construction of its larger towns. No where is that more evident than in Omaha and Lincoln. Both are far enough away from Chicago and Kan sas City to become considerable dis tributing centers and without experi encing any booms are having substan tial business growth. Jlore attention is paid to large business enterprises, and both cities have ambitions for manufacturing. "Lincoln is just coming along with its first skyscraper, and more are in contemplation. Capitalists here are giving special attention to manufac turing in small lines, for which the raw material is close at hand. Among the city's business boasts is that one of its firms sold last year more glass store fronts than any other concern in the country. Tt has the largest ereamery in the world, the largest manufactur ing and distributing plant for copper lightning rods, does the greatest busi ness of any American city in the ship ment of live poultry and so on in a number of important branches. "There is less monopoly of conversa tion on crops and food staples this side of the Missouri than one hears in the sweep of prairie between Chicago and the western boundary of Iowa. There is a language here for the talking hu man animal, which extends to some thing besides granary prospects and everlasting politics. Lincoln is the biggest educational center this side of Chicago, and with ten colleges and technical schools, even disputes the Windy City's primacy. "The University of Nebraska has an enrollment of 4.000 students, nine tenths of whom are from the state, and practically all of American parentage. There are a conservatory of musie, two or three business colleges and medical and dental schools. The stand ards of admission and of instruction are tolerably high. There are public libraries containing over 100.000 vol umes, exclusive of pamphlets. All this and more gives to the western cap ital the atmosphere of an eastern seat of learning. " Governor Aldrich today descanted, in the course of an automobile tour of the city and its suburbs, upon the Ne braska agricultural experiment station as a peculiar institution. It has a very well equipped plant, a beautiful orna mental feature of which are large plots of flowers that probably surpass any of those magnificent gardens which make the North Shore residences out of Beverly a joy forever. " 'We throw the town open every winter.' said the governor, 'to 3,000 or 4,000 farmers and farmers' sons who come down here for a week's instruc tion. They find it much more profit able and far less gloomy than setting around the stores of the nearest vil lage and exchanging gossip. They are interested in the latest ideas on scien tific farming. " 'The information is all on tap for them here. Our agricultural experts are on hand to give the information and the demonstration. The gathering of so many men from all over the state when their work is at a standstill is equally unique and interesting. There are social features of this annual gath ering, one of which is a reception at the governor's mansion.' " KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE Nebraska has more things to be proud of than any other state. She ought to be making every one of them known to all the world. Nebraska is remiss in her duty to herself when she fails to advertise her resources and pos sibilities to the remotest corners of the earth. Nebraska has some mighty big things, thank you. She has the largest creamery plant in the world. Her largest city, Omaha, is the great est butter market in the world. She has the third largest packing center in the world. She has the second largest smelter in the world. She is the third largest corn pro ducer. She is the third largest dairying state, and promises to be the largest inside of ten years. Her annual egg output is worth more than the gold output of any state or territory.' Her annual butter, egg and poultry output is worth more than the gold and silver output of any two states or ter ritories. Her annual output of corn and wheat is worth more than the nation's annual output of crude petroleum. Her annual output of grains and grasses ia worth more than the coal output of Pennsylvania. Her .'annual eorn output is worth more than the nation's annual output of eopper. If one year's product of her farms were loaded in standard freight cars and the cars made into one train, the train would reach from St. Petersburg, Russia, to a point in the Paeifie ocean nearly a thousand miles due west of San Francisco, crossing the Baltic sea, the English channel, England, Ireland,., the Atlantic ocean and the United States. She has nearly a million aeres in al falfa, and the acreage is increasing at the rate of 1Q per eent a year. She has more than eight million dol lars worth of interest bearing securities in her permanent school fund, and school property, including school lands, worth $40,000,000. She has 49,000,000 acres, three fourths of it fertile and less than two fifths of it under cultivation. She has a climate unsurpassed, a soil more fertile than that of the valley oif the Nile. f 1 &. j i - i than any other state or territory and she isn't doing a blessed thing to make the fact known. PRINTING There is nothing in the Printing Line we cannot do and do well COLOR WORK That is a Specialty with this Printery. See our samples P RICES Doubtless you can get cheaper printing elsewhere. You can not get good printing cheaper. And cheap printing is dear at any price. We do the best, and aim to make a fair profit. SEND FOR US When you have a job you want done Well and quickly, phone us and we will be there in a minute with sample and price. MAUPIN-SH00P PRINTERY -j . .. . Publishers of WiUMaupins Weekly 1705 "0" STREET AUTO 2748 4