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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1915)
Representative and Progressive Business Men of Loup City Loup City Has One of the Best Creameries in the State THE LOUP CITY CREAMERY Loup City can boast of one of the best creameries in the state. C. A. Clark is owner of the cream ery and also has well equipped cream eries at Ord and Ravenna. J. A. Thompson is manager of the cream ery here. Mr. Clark is a veteran in the busi ness, having spent more than forty years in the business. He pays the very top prices for butter fat, al ways paying several cents more than competitive firms. The Ravenna Creamery company has enjoyed a steady and substantial growth and is firmly established. The C. A. CLARK following article relating to the his tory of the creamery business in Loup City was written by Mr. Clark: The first creamery was built here by Davis and Rankin, a firm of promoters from Chicago in 1889. It was owned by a stock company of farmers and business men and oper ate under the management of H. M. Mathew. It was burned and rebuilt in the year 1890 and was afterwards oper ated under varying management and with varying success until the year 1900, when it was bought by the Ra venna Creamery Company under contract from Mrs. McCray and by deed from the Barker estate. Since then it has been run continuously by the Ravenna Creamery Company un til July 2nd, 1914, when the old creamery was completely destroyed by fire entailing a loss of over $10, 000 with $6,000 insurance, one full car load of butter, which would have been shipped the next day was a com plete loss. After the Are, the com pany immediately bought the new and more convenient building site near the Burlington depot and pro ceeded to erect another creamery as it now stands. One of the most com plete and best equipped creameries of its capacity in the state. Their business for the current year will approximate very close to 300,000 pounds of butter made. 25.000 head of poultry and 2,500 cases of eggs bought. The Ravenna Creamery Company have always contended that this cen tral part of Nebraska has the loca tion and the natural advantages to make it one of the greatest dairy countries in the world. The climate is unsurpassed, the unlimited supply jf the purest water, the great produc tivity of its soil and its adaptability to the production of alfalfa and corn all point to the success and profit of the dairy business. The greatest need now is not only to make “two blades of grass grow where one grew be fore” but also to produce two pounds of butter fat when only one was pro duced before, and this is a standerd that should be easily reached and passed in a very few seasons if the farmers will concentrate their efforts along that line. O. S. MASON’S IMPLEMENT HOUSE. C. F. BEUSHAUSEN C. F. Beushausen, postmaster of Loup City and i\ politician of some renown. Mr. Beushausen is owner and editor of the Sherman County Times, though he does not take an active part in its management. He C. F. BEUSHAUStN served as county clerk for a couple of terms and managed an elevator at Ashton for E. G. Taylor for eight years. Mr. Beushauesn is a Sherman county product, was born on a farm east of Ashton. He has identified himself with the best interests of the town and county and is an active member of the Presbyterian church. E. G. TAYLOR E. G. Taylor may justly be classed with the most enterprising citizens of Sherman county. He was born in Ashton, Illinois, December 12, 1867, and came with his parents to Sherman county in 1S79. He lived with his par ents on the homestead near Ashton, Nebr., for several years where he attended public school and later en tered the high school at St. Paul, J. A. THOMPSON Local Mgr. Ravenna Creamery Co. Nebr. He also took a thorough course of training in the business college at Grand Island. His first business venture was at Ashton, Ne braska, where, in partnership with A. N. Conklin, he engaged in the gen eral mercantile business, which busi ness was established in the spring of 1889. In 1895 he sold his interest to Mr. Conklin and engaged in the grain business at Ashton, which business he has successfully handled ever since. In the fall of 1903, he moved to Loup City where he purchased the Loup City elevator and established headquarters. In 1907, he bought the Loup City mill and power plant. To this plant he has added the electric light system and today is operating the mill and furnishing light to the city. He also has built and is operat ing elevators at S kaupps, Ashton, Rockville and Karwell, and is hand ling flour and grain at several other places. Mr. Taylor is also connected with the Taylor-Swanick Grain com panv at Omaha. Mr. Taylor has stock in the Loup City State Bank and is one of the directors of the bank. He is president of the Sherman county telephone company and owns considerable of the capital stock of said company. Mr. Taylor has not only built sever al elevators, but he has built a beauti ful and costly residence in the city. He is an active church worker and his sterling worth as an enterprising and public spirited citizen has been recognized in various ways. He is now serving his second term as a member of the board of education. A. C. OGLE. A. C. Ogle has been in the auto and garage business in Loup City nearly seven years and in that time has sold ninety automobiles. He handles the Ford and Reo cars, a combina tion that is hard to beat. He has a splendidly equipped garage and makes a specialty of repair work, having en gaged another up-to-date repair man to commence work for him on Jan uary 3 of the new year. Day and night service is his slogan and the doors of the Ogle garage are never locked. Mr. Ogle is a native of Ohio and came to Sherman county in 1S89 lo cating on a farm near Austin. He en gaged in farming for several years with good success previous to enter ing business here. From a small be ginning he has built up a business that gives employment to several peo ple and the outlook is very promising. It gives us pleasure to record the suc cess of such men as Mr. Ogle. “Ser vile" has been another strong point with him. and is one of the reasons for his success. WILLIAM GRAEFE. The proprietor of the Rexali Drug slme. has been a resident of Loup City for nine years past. He came to Loup City June 30, 1906, and at once engaged in business. Three years ago he bought out the drug business of Vaughn & Hinman and has since added very materially to the stock, t and having leased the large brick building in which he is now doing business, put in as fine a set of fix tures as can be found in any western town the size of Loup City. His year ly novel one cent sales have brought vVM. GRAEFE him many new customers. This sale is a great advertising boom to his business and at the same time it en- j aides him to dose out many lines of goods that otherwise would become shelf worn, thus affording the oppor tunity to keep on hand fresh and up to-date goods in the drug line. Besides being an up-to-date drug gist, Mr. Graefe is a good fellow. How good, may be known when you recall the fact that he was chosen last April by the people of the first ward, to represent them on the city council, which honored position he now oc cupies. His sterling worth as a citi zen, a druggist and a business man is measured not only in words, but in deeds. J. A. DANiELSON One of the Best Metal Workers in the State Resides Here JOHN A. DANIELSON John A. Danielson agent for the C. B. & Q. Railroad company, was born in Sweden in 1856. He came o the United Stattes and settled at Bur lington. Iowa, in 1869. He entered railroad service in 1S74, with the old Western Union, at Be loit, Wisconsin, and has followed the service ever since, the last thorv- ! seven years being with the Burling ton. He worked at various pla :es un til 1902, when lie came to Nebraska with his family, changing climates for the benefit of Mrs. Danielson’s health. He «>• uplcd positions af Liu coin and Omaha, and has a residence property there. At the latter two places hr worked as extra aaent most of the time. April 1. 190S, he accepted the posi tion as agont here, which lie ha3 since held. :Ii3 friendly accomodating ways have won the good opinion of all who have had business with the road, while at the same time he has been faihful to the interests cf his company. J. I. DEPEW The accompanying picture with this article shows a large cog wheel that Mr. Depew welded at his establish ment here some time ago. It took this casting nearly two days to cool off after being welded, which shows the tremendous heat used in the oper ation. Mr. Depew has a Oxy-Acety lene welding and cutting apparatus and makes a specialty of this line of work. He has saved his customers many thousands of dollars in welding castings, saving them the expense of buying new ones. He welds practically everything and has an established trade from all over the surrounding country. Mr. Depew manufactures three kinds of disc sharpeners, two trip hammers, two shears and punches, all of which are inventions of his and most of them patented. His spec iai ty is a “Ford” tripp hammer, which A Difficult Job of Welding. sells for $50. It is a very handy ar ticle, does perfect work and should be in the shop of every mechanic He also does all kinds of general machine work. Mr. Depew has resided in Loup City for a great many years. He is a highly respected member of society and is establishing a business that promises to assume large propor tions. THE LOUP Cl TY GUN CLUE. BEST STOCKS OF At Our Store You Will Find FIRST—No matter for whom you want to buy a Christmas present, you will find some thing suitable in our Holiday stocks. SECOND—When you pick out your Christmas gifts in our store you will find prices right. Loup City 5, 10, 25c Store BERT G. TRAVIS I Am Grateful Just a Word to You I desire to extend to you, the public, * my thanks for the generous support you have given me during the year 1915, and to express the hope that you will remain with me during the coming year. It is not possible for me to express in cold type the gratitude I feel, but I can and will let my actions in future speak even louder and more practically than my words. I extend to you all the compliments of the season. May the new year bring you your heart’s best desires. James Bartunek
