Nebraska Newspapers

    Slow, Steadv Gain
l^in Business Here,
Leaders Report
Stockmen, Bankers, Railroad
Officials Well Pleased With
First Quarter of
1925.
A slow but steady improvement in
general business conditions for the
first quarter of 1925 Is the concensus
of opinion of Omaha business leaders.
"Things are moving along in a safe
forward manner and improvement is
steady.” Put into a sentence this is
the reply given to The Omaha Bee in
lesponse to ail inquiries. The in
creased price of agricultural products
furnishes a good foundation for the
business structure.
Ford Ilovey, president of the
Stockyards National bank, says. "The
liiffh prices received for grain during
the latter part of 1924 and the early
months of this year, together with the
good prices received for hogs and
sheep, has helped the farmers and
livestock men to recover from losses
of the past. They are paying current
expenses, keeping up interest and In
many instances liquidating the re
remainder of old obligations.”
Cattle have been only fair during
ihe first quarter of the year and
Ilovey believes they have only begun
to come back. He believes cattle are
due for a sharp advance in the near
future. Money is comparatively easy
and there is no difficulty in financing
ngi-mal operations.
Hotter Than Expected.
Bruce McColloch, editor of the
Stockman-Journal, says business has
liven better with the commission men
than anticipated at the beginning of
the year. "Everyone looked for de
creased receipts and we have had
them, but not nearly so much as we
expected. Hog prices have been good
for the quarter, supplies have held up
and sheep, while going off in price,
have maintained a gain in numbers.
Cattle nave not decreased in receipts
so much as was expected. Taken all
along the line, we have had good busi
ness for the first quarter.”
Frank Stryker, secretary of the
Livestock exchange, says: "Business
has been as good as could lie expected
with short runs and we have little to
worry about except the coming crop
conditions. The livestock men are all
praying for a bumper corn crop.
Everything from the standpoint of
both shipper and commission man de
pends on this year’s corn erop.”
F. J. Farrington, manager of the
John Deere Plow company for the
Omaha territory, declared the farm
machinery of the country, generally
speaking, is badly worn. “Farmers
have bought second hand machinery,
traded and borrowed until they have
worn out the most of the machinery
in the country,” he said. "They are
beginning to replace the wornout ma
chines with new ones. The machinery
business is beginning to get better,
due largely to this fact.”
Farm Loans Paid Off.
P. I). Hogan of the Federal Land
Ji.-uik declares the general disposition
liquidate is manifested in their
business.
“We have closed loans during the
first three months of the present
year, amounting to about $8,000,000.
as compared with about $11,000,000
during the same period last year,” he
said.
"This, we think to be a very credl
table showing, as a large number of
loans were re-written last year and
the year before in order to borrow
money to pay banks and second mort
gagees.
"The pressure of hankers and sec
ond mortgagees was so great last
year that it accounts for the large
immlter of loans closed.
“Our collections are very good and
ihe amount of our past due amortisa
tion payments compare favorably
with the same period one year ago.”
Savings deposits have increased
markedly. The report of the Federal
Reserve bank for this ‘district shows
these increases as follows: Deposits
in Shi savings hanks and in savings
departments of rommereial banks
amounted to $107,992,509 on March 1,
an increase of $1,013,947, or 0.9 per
cent, over the total on February t and
an increase of $5,872,213, or 5.8 per
cent, over March 1, 1924. In the num
ber of savings accounts 50 Institu
Huns reported an increase of 0.7" per
cent for the month and an Increase
of 2.G per cent for the year.
H-iil Business Improves.
An int-estlng sidelight on business
Conditions in the Omaha territory is
contained in the following statement
^ by K. Flynn, general manager of
r*$®frn‘lington lines west:
“The general trend of business is
(Jowly upward. The best-example I
< in give of this is the L. L. tonnage
handled by the Burlington at its
Omaha freight terminal, which shows
that during January the Burlington
bandied 2 per cent more business than
in January last year, and an increase
of 5 per cent over the business han
dled in December.
In February, while we handled 5
per cent less L. C. L. business than
in February last year, we handled an
ini rease of 4 per cent over January.
"In March, records show there was
bundled an Increase of 3 per rent over
March of last year, and in addition an
increase of 16 per cent over February,
in March there Is naturally some In
crease in traffic over the previous
iiiuiitlis because of tile shipment of
spring stocks. It Is, however, din
■ ■ -1 -111 hie that there lias been a slow,
■ idy increase in business handled.
Easiness men are feeling their way.
Moving cautiously and with precision
i cannot help but lay a firm foun
0 .-hi for a strong business activity
E Is not a "bullish" activity such as
1 mi i-i .l during the war with Its re
(niltant depression, but a hearty,
Linens condition that w.ll
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ABE MARTIN On Early Discouragements |
Durin’ an interest in' conversation
at th’ blacksmith shop a few days
ago relative t' th’ discouragements
that are all too often met with in
climbin’ t’ affluence an' distinction,
T'ncle Kz rash referred t' th’ awful
time Fllmore l’usey. now well-t’-do
an’ apparently happy, had tn gittln'
a. footin' In life, of his almost unbe
lievable triumphs o'er barriers that
would cause th' bravest of us t’ turn
back. It seems t' begin with, that
young Pusey's father wuz a democrat
when he might have been a repub
lican pustmaster. Often young Pusey
wuz thrashed at school fer bein’ a
democrat, an it wuz not an unusual
thing fer him t’ be detained after
school fer that very same reason.
Things looked anything but bright t'
him, an’ he soon left school, Then fol
lowed th’ usual long period in ever’
boy's life, when he loafs around un
decided as t' what he'll take up as his
life’s work, lie thought some o' be
comin’ a republican as a starter, hut'
he felt that his principles wuz too
dear t' him t’ toss aside fer u
gain. Anyhow. f'v° "
wuz at that time waitin’ t' be sen
tenced, an' prubl.v leu,- ol a
cell had not a little t’ do with hisc
holdin' tight t' his p'litical convic-|
tions. He read a little law an’ he I
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provide for steady employment of the
manpower within our borders.
"Livestock markets have been un
steady and unsettled. Farmers have
had a tendency to hold what they had,
which in our western territory is the
foundation for railroad tonnage, par
ticularly in the case of the Burlington.
“February and March particularly
have presented almost spring weather
constantly throughout the entire
period, and the coal and fuel oil con
sumption has been lower than usual.
This cut into railroad tonnage."
CREDIT TALKS
OVER WOAW
Talk* on credit men and credit
conditions, educational and religious
discourses on credit and character
will be broadcast at least once a
week for the next six month* over
the Woodman of the World radio
slutlon, WOAW, according to P. H.
Erring of the cerdit educational
campaign being carried on in Omaha
under the auspices of the Associated
Retail credit men.
E. W. Devereux, treasurer of the
Harry A. Koch company and chair
man of the credit campaign, broad
cast the opening address Friday eve
ning. The object of this campaign is
to create a better understanding be
tween the buying public and the
credit grantor.
Chemists to Meet.
The April meeting of the Omaha
section, American Chemical society,
will be held next Tuesday at 8 In the
biochemical laboratory of the Ne
braska Medical college, Forty-second
street and Dewrey avenue. Speakers
will lie M. Beber, Ur. A. U. Uunn,
Dr. J, P. Meyers, Dr. J. Jay Keegan,
Dr. I. Rabkln and Ur. S. Morgulls.
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W. It. SMITH, 3170 Lavea Bldg.,
Kanaaa City, Mo.
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Filmore Pusey'a Father Win a Democrat.
tried dentistry fer a spell, an’ then
he hung around th' fire department
an' played cards fer a spell. One year
he wuz a poll book holder. Th' fol
lerin’ two years wuz spent tryin’ t’
land a nomination fer assessor on a
'nonpartisan ticket, lie knew no such
word as fall. He did not succumb t'
misfortunes or say that he wuz
through with politics. His father had
inssed on durin’ his first year in
polities an’ his mother wuz his sole
support, hut reverses o’ ever' sort, an’
I they were many, only seemed t' steel
I Kilmore Pusey fer further battles,
l. “I’ll win, I know I will, if mother
only holds out,” he wuz heard t’ tell
an acquaintance one day. Aftdr a
five-cornered fight fer th’ leadership
of a third party he emerged victor!
ous an’ had somethin' like $750 en
trusted t' him t’ be used in th' elec
tion of a reform mayor. He realized
from th’ start, that th' flfeht wuz a
losln' one, but he expended th’
money so judiciously, an' made such
a clear accountin’ of ever’ penny,
that he wuz grabbed up an’ appoint
ed th’ receiver fer .Toe Kite's shoot
in’, gallery. In less'n one month he d
paid off all th’ indebtedness an’ put
th’ gallefy back on a solid basis.
Then people began t' notice him.
Men of affairs discussed him, an’ ho
wuz asked t' address the’ Chamber o’
Commerce. Things wuz cornin’ fine.
After puttin’ th’ shootin’ gallery back
on its feet, he went t’ French Lick
for a rest, little dreamln’ that th’
greatest an’ severest test of all await
ed him, th’ thing that would be th’
real acid test, th’ most gigantic task
of an—th’ management of a munici
pal gas plant. But th’ position wuz
thrust on him an’ he lit Into it. Th
first year, after all th’ replacements,
th’ firin’ an’ hirin', an' Interest on thj
bonds, th’ plant earned $31 fer th'
town, an' its never lost a penny
since.' He’s had fabulous offers t' go
with big New York an’ Chicago
corporations, but he prefers his home
town where he's prominent in radio
circles an* plays in th* hand. He s
been married almost a year, an’ even
now he shows no signs o' discourage
ment or lettin’ down.
_(Copyright. 1925).
World Flyer Will
Show Movie Films
at Ad-Sell Show
Jack Harding and Lowell
Thomas to Be Headliners
at Auditorium
April 27.
Ml, -
^•"Sopling Jack" llurding, one of
we' world fliers, and Lowell Thomas,
official historian whose story ap
peared In The Omaha Bee, will be
two headliners In the Advertising Sel
ling league show to be given in the
ilty, auditorium April 27 at 8. They
will show moving pictures and col
lorefJT views of the wonders seen by
the six American army men in their
epoch-Making flight.
Sidney Smith, cartoonist, will tbe
he there to gi\y* chalk talks and
draw bis characters before the audi
ence.
J Adam Bede, ox-congressman and
famous humorist is on the program
for a humorous address. He has made
ousbig lilts on the other occasions
when ho has appeared before the Ad
Sell league.
There will also be vaudeville num
bers on the varied program. Tickets
are now on sale at $1 and $1.50 at
the auditorium and also at the fol
lowing business places:
Woodmen of thn World. Clnldstein-Chan
mnn. The Silk shop. First National bank.
Omaha National bank, United States
bank. ,T, I.. Ttrandels and Rons. Herz
brrgs. Nebraska Clothing Co.. Magnuson
X-Rav. Nebraska Power Co. Orrhard
Wllhelm Co.. Carpenter Paper Co.. Omaha
Printing Cn . Bvrne X Hammer. Rhherd
son Drug Co.. CJIUnsky Fruit Co United
States Rubber Co. Wright X- Wilhelmv
Co Pennsylvania Rubber Cn . t.ee Kountz
Hardware Co., Appteman Robinson Co.,
Tbos. Kitnatrlrk Cn.. Dempster Mill Co
John Deere Plow Co . Rrnwninz King A
Co. Pittsburgh Plate Glass X- Paint Co.
Reese Jewelrv Cn . W A Plel Drue * "
and Paxton A Gallagher Co.. Swift Park
ing Co., Bylsa Wellman A Hopkins Co.
OMAHA STENO IS
WILLED $4,000
Miss Anna Burress. 2424 Evans
street, public stenographer in the
Douglas block, has been left $4,000
In the will of Mrs. Mildred Martin,
widow of a wealthy Lamoille, 111.
Mrs. Martin was 75 and lived nearly
all her life In Illinois, Miss Burress'
former home.
Miss Burress has lived in Omaha
a number of years and said she won't
change her occupation because of the
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Member of U. S. World
Flight to Speak Here
“Lew” Shank to Be
Ad-Sell Speaker
Mayor of Indianapolis, For
mer Auctioneer, Here
Monday Night.
Samuel Lewis Shank, mayor of
Indianapolis, known as "Hough and
Heady” Shank will deliver one of his
famous addresses to the Advertising
Selling league Monday at the 6
o'clock dinner in the Brandels res
taurants.
Mayor Shank has had an unusual
career. Years ago he was a famous
auctioneer of his community and for
30 years has operated a successful
furniture store and storage house in
Indianapolis.
He does not pose as a dispenser of'
beautiful English but he says thing*
that mean something and mixes up
his homely and practical philosophy
with generous parts of humor.
Organisations like the exclusive
Indiana society of Chlcagn declare
him the big hit of their programs. He
is described as “a spring fever tonic
jammed full of common sense, spark
ling humor and hard-hitting ep>
grams."
Talk on Sociology.
Prof. E. Sulllnger *11! epe»k o»
"Sociology’’ before the Omaha Phil
osophical aociety at t Sunday in rooti
1302 Patteraon building.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
We cordially invite the public to attend the opening of our
New Music Store, the Schmoller & Mueller Annex, Monday,
April 6th, located at 119 North 16th Street, just opposite
the Postoffice. We carry a representative stock of all the
world’s most famous makes of pianos, phonographs, radios,
band instruments and general music merchandise, as has been
the policy of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano Company since
its establishment in the middle west 66 years ago.
Special Opening Prices on
Pianos and Phonographs
New Upright Pianos
$265 1
New Grinds I
Special Price*— Mahogany. Adam design,
$448 r; $75 1
Many other attractive bargains, sold on our
Liberal Payment Plan.
Schmoller & Mueller Annex
119 North 16th Street—Opposite Pogtoffice
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$1D§0 to $g<J=
Hundreds of clever styled coats in an array of coatings
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for those who seek the more conservative styles.
Pre-Easter Sale of DRESSES
Beautiful new Dresses, alive with real
style individuality. Every new silk, new O* ^^B
color and new style at $15. /h H
OTHER DRESSES, $19.50 to $49.50 J
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I Easter Sale of Millinery
And what beauties they are.
Scores of delightful new hats
just unpacked, and offered at
a price temptingly low. Every
imaginable color, all materials.
Other Hats $6.50 to $14*95
pric™ N'w snk Sc,rf':.$1.49 ,o $4.95 a
Fine Qualify Fabric and Kid Gloves, QO B
up from....vOC Wr
Newest effects in Vanity Cases, ^1 AA F
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New Leather Hand Bags, fl* 1 AA
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sl7d.^*""r H“ C*~:. $3.95 S-art. New. Spring
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ONYX HOSE $4.85 to $7.85
Extra special. Fine chiffon If smart styles, first quality
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Onyx quality; every imagin. C | Uk selection appeals to you, it
able color, Saturday, the pair, (5 I is certain your Easter foot*
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A Startling Sale of Ladies’ Wrist Watches
$1.00 Down and $1.00 Week
A real value. Guaranteed 28-year, white iQ O M
gold wrist watch, several new shapes. Can
nnt he bought regular for lass than SIS, U ***
our price $9 95 and several weeks to pay
for it.
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