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Kingdom of Platte Where the Spirit of the Old West Meets the New
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bui and the railroad facliltjea maka Coluin- June of each year a county InaUtuta con- last year have sold and shipped out 1.1 S4,-
bus a favorite with a traveling; man. Fully venea In which methods In school fovern- 000 pound of butter and over 700,000
i of -wniht. nt thm rlr." now ra- msnt and Instruction are presented to the rallons of cream, while the farmers' wives
nave mttmeieu muro limit uuftnuo
of eggs and 640,000 pounds of dros-tod
poultry. The farmers have been using
during the iHHt season 750 hand separators
and have kept ovpr 12,000 milch cows. In
the growing of alfalfa this county Is sec
ond to but few In the state, as II has
over 8,000 acres aeeded to alfalfa, 8,700
acres to timothy and 6,000 acres seeded
to clover.
This county Is paying more attention each
year to the growing of fruit. At the pres
ent time, the farmers have 88,000 apple trees
In full bearing, J, 000 pear, 8,000 peach, 9,000
plum and 14,000 cherry trets. This county
has over fifty freight and passenger
trains each day. During the last year the
Union Pacific alone did for the county a
freight business of (91,000 and the Burling
ton IC0.000.
Ilut IS per cent of the population is for
eign born. More than 70 per cent of the
farms of the county are free from debt.
ONE OF THE GREAT GRAIN ELEVATOR8 AT COLUMBUS.
side here, and the number Is being in- teachers by Instructors of educational
creased aa rapidly as suitable residences merit. Platte county also has several large
can be secured. Columbus has a wholesale denominational schools, which In some In
grocery, wholesale butter and egg cold stances have provided school homes for the
storage plant, wholesale poultry house and boys and girls cesting over 130,000. In all
a whbleaule hide, wool and fur house. Platte county has a most oomplete educa-
The progressive oltlaens of Platte county tlonal system. Much progress Is being made
have provided well for their 8,811 school by the harmonious working of superlntend
chlldren, having seventy-nine dlstriota, ent, teachers, school boards and parents,
eighty-two school buildings, 118 , teachers Platte la one of the rloh counties of Ne
and 262 school officers. During the school biaska, not merely in dollars and cents,
year of 1907-08 nearly $100,000 was expended hut from every standpoint. It has a val
In the public school system of. this county of 167,000.000, a population of i0,-
for educational purposes. About half of this 000 people and 100 miles of railroad. Hie
urn was for teachers' salaries, male t.acn- railroad station, within Its limits
er. receiving an average of $64 and female. 1 Prosperous and thrlf iy town, and
... " , , . shipping point, for the products of a rich
$4 per month. The rur. school building. mJrPou .countrjr. Columbus. the
as a whole are substantial structures, be- county 86at ,s th, large,t wlth a popu.
mg wen psjnieo. pom msiae ana oui. w.i.y ,aton of g 00 Thft otnerg Bre oenr.ee.
have steel ceilings, oiled floors and walls
Platte Center, Humphrey, Creston, Corn-
decorated with appropriate pictures. Bps- lea Lindsay, Monroe, Tarnov and Dun
ciai attention naa Deen given to moaern can Tli. county has two large elevators.
method, of architecture, heating, light and located at Columbus, with a capacity of The farmer, over the entire county, for
ventilation. An ample supply of good text J60,000 bushels. the last few years, have' been unusually
books, maps, globes and chart, are found Platte Is one of the beet watered coun- prosperous, and as each year adds some
in all school rooms. In fact, the best of tie. of the state, aa it has twenty-five new comfort and convenience to their sur-
tqulpment la found everywhere, for the streams, some of which have excellent rounding. It Is not strange that they are a
comfort and profit of teacher and pupil, water power.. The proposed water power contented, happy people,
reflecting credit not only to their respective canal when completed will furnish about The advance agents of the Columbus
districts, but to the county and state a. 26,000-horse power. But It Is the farms. Town comnanr were Fred Gottschalk.
HE freedom and hospitality of excellent hunting and fishing. Four sub- weu. An Bchools are provided with libraries farmer, and farm product, to which Jacob Lewis and George Hansen, who in
the old west, the enterprise and stantlal banking Institutions, with deposits of fifty or more volume, of the beet liter- P'8-" county Is looking for it. future April, 1866. started out from Omaha to
progress of the new that Is Co- of na&rly $1,500,000, and two home building ture for school and home. .The public Prosperity. found a city. On May 29, 1866, the outlines
lumbus, the county seat of and loa a..'0cia.tions. A magnificent water .chools of the smaller towns of Monroe, The county has 2,848 farms, consisting 0f the town were determined, and the whole
Platte county, the .mlllng city worka ,ystem costing $45,000. owned and Lindsay, Creston, Platte Center and or o.oo acres, or which 248,000 acres was soon blocked out. A rough log build
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ONE OF PLATTE COUNTY'S FLOURING MILLS. '
of the Platte valley, a city (till
young in Its hopes and Its ambitions. In
no other city in the west is found such a
hoppy comb nation of the old spirit and the
new. For Columbus has not forgotten. In
the rush for wealth and commercial growth.
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...j v.. ,. .vatom nf MumDnrev are tne Drma or tneir resnective Vx,T.wiw,k iuoa- xaima me- was nut iin nnrt rnnren with trui. it
sewerage, a Urge electrlo lighting plant, localities, being well organised, doing from tn rmri produced last season 120,000 angwered all their purposes for dwelling. flre, unT
:1W "T.w .-"v..... I" t.o to four v.ar. of hl,rh .rl wnrk cres of corn. 89.000 acres of wheat and nH ,nfll1.tl !o r?.U"1
two telephone exchanges
lines and a free
room. A high school
Ing and domestic science are taught, and grades.
xchanges. two telegraph two to lour year, or nign scnool work - -- " ';. "V. , storage, and fortification, and was long 900 to 1000 logs at $6 60 per 1 000 feet "
public library and reading under the guidance of well qualified prln- an'B " ?" th. Btt-Vt' v"r knWn " 'd oraPanr houM'" For In March. 1867. Dr.' Charles B. Bt'lllwell
:hool where manual train- clpals and competent grade teachers in the J0",. "f y20,000 bushoU mUtUftl beneflt' tha Oolumbu Town com- and George W. Hewitt walked from Omaha.
ANOTHER OF THE PLATTE COUNTT MILLS.
out from Omaha, November 6, 1966, one of approved February 11, 1865. A meeting
whom, Mr. RIckley, fortunately kept a wa. held In the American hotel, March 5,
diary and thu. date, were fixed beyond 1860. at which the first school board w.
dispute. On the 8th entry wa. made: chosen. In Deoember, satire year, the town
"Went hunting. Got one deer." Again pn board made a present Of the "Old Company
the 12th, "Had lots of Indians and prairie House" for a dlstrlot sohool building. G.
us. 13th, made oontract for W. Steven, received 4 school order for
$67.45 at the rate of $1 per day and he I.
honored as the first school teacher In
are many.
Columbus.
of wheat and 1,000.000 bushels of oats. Pftny Bnd the Pawnea cltjr company con- through deep drifts, which then covered the The first paper published In Columbu.
"Golden Age," It. first number
Issued June 21, 1866, C. C. Btrawn,
The first number of the "Columbu
the county .old and .hipped out last year 10 crecl mm ana nn' " no determination "to stay." Gaiette," was published March 1. 1881. by
the thins that mu ftp t hp old pi( iianil .. . . . , . . . w.. . ... rru ie ,1.1. . jt
n, n h ... .i i. k .1 7 ,1V moaern Puoc scnoot ouuui.... mi m ruuu Th aUo Bod vlA ,h,e(j out 16 000 " auui. ow, me COUnty and settled In Columbus. In April, was the
rViV.r h.T '..ZZlll. r ,k. I tZZ cost 884,0(0; a well-equlppea up-to-aate com- 01 tneir proiession ana toyai to me great fat catt w h.ad of fat h company entered into an agreement with two men who had walked from Penn.yl- being
rk r. ri .. . . mrc,al college. St. Francis acaaemy. uie cause 01 education, aii leacner. belong to g 700 hee Mveral flour m,u, ot John RIckley or Omaha, by which he was vanla, came and located, announcing their editor.
imrreBL acaaemy in iNeoruu, ana vr- wi imiiiauuii nuuwn tus uia r-iaiie
in city lnvltea comparLson man Lutheran narochlal school. Tha city County Teacher' association, which con- aa aa mill wu to h of nnt Iarb than thirtv.twA $ - - ji nnm t- rr,
with no In h mtmmt aa .uv atM Im " - ' BYir OtUVW.Uvv yuuau Ul ItUUr KUa ID.UUU T VI ivauuif lllB.lcr, muu u iuimii xjui bcts?, vuuui .iva iwj;iiwi. i.v
T, . h .J; f . 1J1. Z, t t Z "Uo h" ten actlve chUTch organization.- vene. three times during each year. Much pouna. of mill feed. horse power and to be In successful opera- c,sh not being at hand It wa. re.olved in "Columbu. Democrat" wa. established a.
mT.. hn.in... . u preb,trln. Congregational, Episcopal, Interest is shown in the paper, on educa- Xh, be8t outiook for the future growth t,on y the "ucceedlng August. The agree- January, 1887, to give two town lots each the "Era". February, 1874. Yf. W. Hensley,
.V-r.iinmi Methodist. Catholic, Baptist. German Lu- tlonal subjects that are read and discussed and prosperity of Platte county Is the mt was fulfilled Augtut l, 1867. and the to a number of newspaper companle. in editor and proprietor.
rattnVaJ 1 feriPti.r low fr.X .- h fheren, German Reformed. United Brethren at these meetings. Recently several teach- deep Interest that Is being taken by the town company passed eighteen shares of exchange for their periodicals. St, John'. Catholic church wa. organized
' . . ' ana matter jay oaints. ers orove some mirty-eigni mue. in order farmer, in the dairy lndu.try and the .tock to the mill company per agreement. Columbu. was lnoomorated aa a town in 1880. and waa the first church society
The traveling man I. a favorite In Colum- to be present. During the .econd week of growing of alfalfa. These farmer. Is the A second Installment of colonists started by special act of the territorial leglalature, In the county. The first church building wa.
a little log cabin.
fuel, advantageous markets for manufac
turing or mercantile business. Columbu. I.
a railroad enter. The Burlington from
the south, the Union Pacific from the east
and west, the Omaha It Republican Valley
from the north and two Union Paclfle
branches from the northwest a total ot
forty-two train, dally. Union Pactflo repair
.hop. are located heraad 200 railroad tatm
find employment.
Columbu. ha. a modern creamery wttJt a
dally capacity of 10,000 pounds of butter, tw
team flouring Vralll. with a combined ca
pacity of 800 barrel, of flour a day; a brick
nd tile works, capacity 30,000 brick dally;
candy factory, annual output 40,000 pounds;
a planing mill amploylng seven men; foun
dry with rapidly Increasing business, two
cigar factories, employing fifteen men; the
largest wooden shoe factory In the United
State., a pop factory and bottling works,
which enjoys a very large trade throughout
central Nebra-kv
Columbus his three beautiful park, and In
addition thereto Frankfort Square, located
In the burlnes. portion of the city, a beau
tiful gracry award, adorned with noble
ihade trees, lovely flower., sparkling foun
tains and supplied with Inviting walks,
lettce. and swings. Surrounding Columbu.
tre numerous lake, and streams, affording
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Platte county wa. organised In 1856. The
first meeting of the county commissioners
was held Deoember 28, 1867.
The pioneer railroad wa. the Union Pa
cific, which reached this locality In June,
1866. The first bridge acro.a the Platte
river wa. completed In November, 1870. It
wa. 1,716 feet long and cost $26,000. The mall
waa first carried from Columbu. to Omaha
by ox team, and arrived July 4, 1867,
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. COLUMBUS.
COLUMBUS T. M. C. A. BUILDING.
Their Narrow Escape
Mldaa, wearied beyorjd endurance at seff
Ing that everything he touched turned to
gold, looked about for some light occu
pation, with a view to resting hi. mind,
and ,wa. about to go into the lumber busi
ness. But that won't do. either," he .aid.
"If I should touch wood I'd knock the
wood fjulp bu.lnes. into a cocked hat ard
bankrupt the timber king.!"
Realizing that crowned head, should
stand by one another, and uncertain, be
side., what the Payne tariff waa going to
do with lumber, he forebore and amused
himself by going out and buying a gold
brick from a con man which, In his cesu,
wa. a perfectly safe transaction. Chicago
Tribune.
In the Field of Electrical Experiment
Tsrlwni Ueatlas; Devices.
MUN'G the latest heating devices
XV I tor the home are the lnsianta-
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curling Iron heater; the electrlo
lair dryer; the new electric
tven; the electric corn popper; shaving mug;
luminous radiator, and electric tea kettlea.
These added to the number of frying
pans, brolli rs, cookers, cereal cookers,
toasters, etc., already In use make the
electric kitchen practically complete. There
li no longer any need of a fire In the
Bouse or a chimney on the house. The
building can easily be heated by electricity.
The cooking, washing. Ironing and scrub
bing can all be done by electricity. Water
la heated to a boiling point aa fast as It
can be drawn. A turn of the switch and
the Irons are hot. A pross of a button and
the dinner is cooking. At the weight of a
finger the house is warmed, ventilated or
lighted. With the same ease and speed the
email motors will do the washing, wring
ing, grinding, chopping, ventilating, re
frigerating, freeze the Ice crvam, sweet)
the floors, clean the house, carry the coal
or sift the ashes.
The Instantansous water heater can be
attached to any wash stand or water pipe.
The flowing water passes over the heated
surfaces and Is quite hot by the time it
reaches the outlet. There could be nothing
ulcker or more simple than this electrlo
coovleiilence. Another new device is the
electric hair dryer. After Mlladl has
washed her hair a pres. of a button .tart,
the hair dryer and a fine breeaa of hot
air quickly dry. the damp tresses. This
devioe contains a smell fan and two
electrlo heater. The cold) air passes over
theee heatera before It Is projected from
the machine by thla fan. Then the curling
Iron heater is ready to keep the little Iron
at Just he right temperature for dressing
Uie hair.
The shaving mug la specially designed
for the travlllng man who want, a quick
.have In the morning. The water Is heated
In short order and the cup la built In
section, so the soap dish can be removed,
making the same veasel answer for a pint
water heater.
The electric corn popper make. It possible
to pop corn on the parlor table and never
mar the varnish, Thla handy device U
equipped with small rubber wheels and a
short wood handle so It can be easily
oscillated. A wire screen keeps the popping (
kernel, from flying about the room.
The electrlo oven, which has lately been
Improved, Is now very quick and econom
ical. There Is no waste of heat and the
foodstuffs are alwaye baked evenly. The
new tea kettles are handy and easily keep
a suppy of hot water always on hand, as,
after the water Is heated. It takes but a
little current to keep It hot
The electric steriliser and bandage heat
era are the lateat acquisitions to the sick
room and are of fully as much service a.
the electrlo heating pad and milk warmer.
Kiw Primary Battery.
Considerable Interest Is being taken In a
new primary be.ttery which has been in
vented by Mr. W. A. T. Bleek. a young
electrician, a resident of Briebai.e, Queens
land. The battery Is said to be very sim
ple, compart, nd most easily charged, and,
when charged, goes to work at once. Of
the battery Itself, Mr. J. S. Badger, man
ager of the Brisbane tramways, says: "I
do not know of any conunerclaj battery
which gives so high an electro-motive force,
neither do I know of any battery which,
combined with such a high e. m. f., shows
such a constancy for so long a period."
Prof. Thomas R. Lyle of the Melbourne
university speak, 'very highly of the In
vention: "It has a much larger useful
current than that of any cell I know."
Demonstrations were given at the Tech
nical college, in the presence of a large
number of Brisbane doctors and scientific
n en, all of whom were deeply Interested tn
the work of the battery. The running of a
sewing machine, electric fan, cauterizing
Instrument, and Rontgen-ray apparatus
were all successfully ahown by the inventor.
A Wireless trow. Pull.
Dr. Henry Vandyke, author and professor
of English at Princeton, who is It present
lecturing la Paris, was the first to .end a
message across the Atlantic to the wireless
station which has been built and financed
by three Princeton student. The message
wa. relayed by the ateamihlp Krons
prln.essln Cecille and Baltic to Nova
Scotia and then to Nantucket, and wa.
received In the room, of the Wireless club.
in the school of science.
The Wireless club was formed at Prince
ton two months ago by W. A. Butler and
C. C. Stryker. both of New Tork City,
and P. B. Flndlay of Pittsburg. The three
atudents constructed all the apparatus.
Student, of Columbia and Pennsylvania
have been working along the same lines
for Mime time. The Princeton station 1.
able to tran.mlt within a radius of seventy-five
miles, and aa soon aa the other two
college, perfect their apparatus the three
college paper, will conduct their buslnesa
by wireless.
Trafflo oa Electrlo Railways.
The electrlo railway, of the United
Stat- carried last year ,680,000,000 fare
passenger. This wonderful Increase Is
due to the growth of the street railway
and Interurban railway service, better
transportation facilities and the increase
of suburban residents.
The number of persons to be transported
Increased at the rate of 1.600,000 annually.
The number of passenger cars operated
has Increased at the rste ot 40 per cent,
for that last flvve years. With the popula
tion of the United State, estimated at
about 86,000,000. the figure, given above
would oeera to .how that every man,
woman and child In thla country ha. rid
den seventy-eight times on the electrlo
railways within the last year.
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A description Is given In a recent Issue of
the Frankfort Gazette of a proposed hy
draulic power station on a vast scale, the
conoesslon for which ha. been applied for
by a company formed la Berae. For the
purpose of thla scheme five separate gen
erating station, will be constructed to
utilize the full, of the Upper Aar. The
largest of these undertakings will Involve
the erection of a lofty dam at Bvltallamm
on tha Grlmael, some ninety meter. In
height, by mean, nf which a high-level res
ervoir will be obtained with an effective
capacity of it, 000,000 cubic maters. From
this high-level reservoir the water will be
conducted by channel twelve kilometers
la length to the head reservoir at Outla
nen, whence It will reach the power station
through three pressure main with a bead
of 760 meters. On the way to Qultenea the
water from Lake Qelmer will unite with
that from the higher reservoir and the
winter minimum water supply will furnish
80.900 horsepower. The water will then en
ter a second reservoir, where It will join
with the River Aar, and a second dam, to
be constructed above Nessenthal, will hold
up the waters of the Trift, the Gadmen
and the effluent water of the Lake Engit
ltn works. The whole of this water will be
brought In channels to the head reservoir
at Innerktrchen by pressure mains with
an effective fall of 400 meters to the power
house of the Lower Aar works. These will
have an output of 21,750 horeepower. There
will be three smaller stations, with a Joint
capacity of 6,360 horsepower, bringing up
the gross total to 58.000 horsepower. This
power will be available all the year around,
but during the eight months of summer
high water the maximum output will be
120,000 horsepower. It will take some ten to
fifteen years to oomplete the entire un
dertaking. Genius Turns Dreams to Wealth
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genius is not lacking hereabouts. Some of
the men mentioned have fitted up at their
homes or placea of business laboratories
and workshops that repreient substantial
urns of money. Besides the Inventions
actually reaching the patentable stage,
many of them have models nearlnr com
pletion and still other, have aane brain
storms on tap that are In the "working
down" process. As one Inventor put It,
"I built and rebuilt my machine eo many
times that when it reacnea the final con
dition where it might be considered work
able. It In no way resembled the first
model."
In the circles that patronise and read
the patent Journals and the publication,
of the patent office at Washington. Omaha
is one of the western cities that I. known
a the home of men with brain that
produce Idea and 1 th abiding place of
fechanlca that can put the idea Into
marketable form. Three attorney who
devote their time to thla particular line
of business find plenty of clients In Omaha,
and a great many more that come from
various parta of Nebraska.
And this la true:. That the field of In
vention, as elsewhere. It la the little thing
that count; the thing that Tom, Dick and
Harry and th women and children all
want, and can afford to buy. Cbecke for
royalitle are not all In th dream of th
local Inventor, for soma nave been able to
how the coin.
Omaha High School Students in German Play
ERMAN aa a live and useful
G language Is the Idea emphasized
I In the High school by the oc-
In German by the members of
the German society, which Is
composed of students ot that department
of study. A high degree of attainment wa
reached In tha production of one of the
play at the school last Wednesday after
noon. Mis Land is, head of the German depart
ment, had charge . of the play and ten
girls from her recitation classes made up
the cast. They were Stella Ballenback,
Frances Scott, Ruth Jahney, Ruth Llnd
ley, Anna Ruppert, Ada Morris, Anna
Mathiesen, Hazel Clark, Minerva Qulnby
and Marie Slovack. Hortense and Mamie
Bplesberger played a piano duet and a
stringed quartet, consisting Of Elizabeth
Becker, Jennie Undeland, Arfred Morris
and Will Morris furnished other music.
The play itself, called in English "The
Aunt' Heir," wa written by a German
minister and afforded tne High school
student ample opportunity for study and
the exploitation of their skill. Several
hundred students, parents and friends
witnessed the production, which took tho
place of the regular meeting of the German
society last Wednesday.
As German plays suitable for the use
ot High school students, are quite plentiful,
one 1 presented at the High school almost
every month. However, the last endeavor
was on quite a pretentious acale, as only
three or four character, generally appear
In the play., while Wednesday's had ten.
Work on special subjects and Ideas out
side the regular course In German, ha
been going on at the High school aince the -year
1901 and the present society has -been
organised with L constitution since
1903.
It meets every Wednesday and spend the
alternate meeting, on regular program,
the other day being used for singing
German folk songs, of which fifty are
learned every year. Mlas Bowen and Miss
Towne are tn charge of the singing and
have also trained a girls' chorus.
Miss Landls, Mis. Rockfellow, Mis Steb
bin. Madam Chatelaine, Miss Summer
and Mis Bowen are the society teachers.
They say that active Interest In the study
of German Is aroused by tho work ot tha
society, both In giving plays, singing and
other features, and that without the society
leas could be accomplished lj their department.
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