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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 23 , 1899. NO. 20.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Neb.
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cation.
Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898.
Nebraska Oity
BUSINESS.
contains a popula
tion estimated at about twelve thousand :
it may be five hundred more or less than
twelve thousand.
It numbers among its industries the
Argo Starch factory which converts be
tween two and three thousand bushels
of corn into starch each twenty-four
hours , and runs without interruption ten
months to eleven mouths each year.
The starch of this factory is used in all
parts of the world and is in such uni
versal demand because of its superior
quality that the output is marketed in
advance of its production.
More than two hundred men , women
and boys are profitably employed in
the starch factory and at such wages
that in the nine years of its operation
there has never been "a strike" or any
serious differences between the manage
ment and the operatives. There is no
better or more perfect "plant" for
starch-making in the United States.
The Chicago Packing & Provision Co.
has a large hog-killing establishment in
Nebraska City and employs about one
hundred men. It is not unusual to
slaughter sixteen hundred head of swine
in an afternoon. All the best modern
machinery for a packing house is in use.
There is particular attention paid to the
quality of animals purchased and only
the best can be shown to death in these
works. In 1898 between four and five
thousand carloads of hogs were received ,
inspected , approved and slaughtered
here and twenty-seven hundred cars of
hog products shipped out. The industry
is prosperous and growing.
The Nebraska City Cereal Mills
converts more than ten thousand bush-
/r ; :
els of corn and oats into grits and meal
every twenty-four hours , and has a repu
tation for pure and wholesome goods ,
true to name , all over the United States
nud in Great Britain. The Cereal Mills
give constant and remunerative employ
ment to more than one hundred persons.
The relations between employers and
employees are of the kindest and most
cordial character. No strike or symptom
of a strike has over been known during
the twelve years of the operating of the
Nebraska City Cereal Mills.
The Nebraska City Canning factory
is a newer but not loss successful and
promising manufacturing establishment.
It is famous for the excellent quality of
its canned corn , tomatoes , apples , etc.
The output of the establishment this
season is one million , two hundred
thousand cans. This is a shortage of its
full capacity , which is one hundred
thousand cases , of twenty-four cans
each. This shortage occurs because of a
lack of acreage of sweet corn which will
not again in all probability be ex
perienced.
THE CONSERVATIVE mentions these
manufacturing establishments of south
ern Nebraska and Nebraska City with
great satisfaction and a year hence hopes
to present the general public with an
other review of the material prosperity
of this community. It is enough now
to tell the fact that in the year 1898 Ne
braska City received from the Burling
ton system alone thirteen thousand and
forty -four loaded cars and freighted out
over the same lines ninety-eight hundred
and sixty -nine cars. That is to say that
Nebraska City handled and loaded and
unloaded from the Burlington in the
year 1898 twenty-two thousand nine
hundred and thirteen cars. "What other
town of similar size in Nebraska , Iowa ,
Illinois or any other state can make a
better showing ? This is business. This
is thrift. This is industry. This is
prosperity.
HISTOIUCA /Eg.
Mr/IB. M. Rolf6
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upon ante-railroad transportation , west
of the Missouri river , was prepared' gj ;
the urgent request and importunity of
the state historical society. It is a most
valuable , truthful and interesting paper.
It plucks from oblivion many of the
methods and details of the commerce of
the territory of Nebraska. Mr. Eolfe
has the thanks of the society
On January 1st ,
1'IKK INSUIIANCK.
a now Nebraska
fire insurance company will begin busi
ness. It will have iu paid down and
paid iip cash , gold standard money , two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
D. E. Thompson of Lincoln will
probably be called to the presidency of
the new company.
TKEES.Mutilation and
CIIKISTMAS TKEES.
destruction of the
young pine forests growing up in various
sections of the republic , for the purpose
of getting Ohistmas trees , will soon
open a new campaign in favor of drouths ,
blizzards and infertility.
Millions upon millions of the straightest -
est , most symmetrical and vigorous hem
locks , spruces , pines and balsams , will
soon bo aboard freight cars and going
towards cities to be put into homes for
Christmas trees , which shall bear tin
bells , dolls , bon-bons , glass bulbs and
all sorts of jimcracks for the amusement
of children.
The generations following will want
for lumber which these Christmas trees
would have made. The birth of Christ
could be celebrated with more common
sense than by depriving the human
families which will follow us of the
material out of which to construct and
embellish their homes.
The Douglas
WHY ?
County World-
Herald of Sunday , the nineteenth of
November , eighteen hundred and ninety-
nine , contains a leaden editorial of great
stolidity , headed : "Why an increased
standing army ? "
Why an increased police force for
Omaha in 1899 over the police force of
Omaha in 1859 ?
Why make a gigantic idiot of yourself ,
running away from the standing army
hobgoblin , screaming like a sixteen-to-
one orator , that "the plain people" are
about to bo crushed and masticated ,
finely , between the monstrous molars of I 1
the military ?
How could a large standing army
harm anybody with a sixteen-to-ouo
Commander-in-chief at its head ? And
William the colonel who re
' , ! while the transport which waste
to convey "his trupes" to Cuba whistled'
"all aboard" to bo our sure-enough
president in 1900 ? Can the Douglas
County World-Herald fear an increased
army commanded by the game and
bellicose friend of "the plain people ? "
