DIRECTORS OF FREMONT RETAIL MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION First row, left
to right: H. L. Himes, secretly; C. 0. Pollard, treasurer; Fred B&der, vice president;
Carroll C. Oourtright, president; L. F. Hollo way. Second row, left to right: A. J. Eddy,
Frank Hanlon, E. Ralph Clarke. Third row, left to right: Victor Krelstein, A. L.
Snow, D. Livingston, J. H. Knowle.
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EARLY four-score manufac
turing, Jobbing, shipping and
general distributing concern
bulk big in the Industrial life
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Wholesale grain houses.
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creameries, canning factory, flouring
mills, seed houses, nurseries, fur, hide
and wool dealers, carriage and wagon
factories, machine and engine works,
agiivultural Implement works, ' saddlery
factory,, refrigerator works, brewery,
furniture and mattress houses, incuba
tor factory and educational publishing
house, go far over a large territory in
distributing Fremont goods.
Its splendid railroad facilities give the
city a distinct advantage over a very
large territory. Take the Nye, Schneider,
Fowler company with a capital of $S,000,
000. dealing in gra, in, live stock, lumber
and coal, and the larvest concern of its
kind in the United States. It operates
numerous country plants In various
states. This Is Fremont's premier busi
ness interest.
The Fremon Stock Yards company is
a company for feeding and watering
stock en route to market. Its capital
is $200,000. Last year it handled 1,300,000
sheep, 83,000 cattle, 2,100 horses, 6,400 hogs.
The Fremont Brewing company with a
capital of $150,000, has an annual ca
pacity of 60,000 barreld. capable of in
crease to 100,000 with added storage.
The Hammond ft Stephens company,
educational publishers and jobbers, has
a capital of $60,000. It has five salesmen
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traveling through western states and does
n mall order business all over the
United States. The Hammond Printing
company with a capital of $100,000. is
a binding, lithographing and printing
concern, employing eighty people.
The laundry establishments arc extra
ordinarily numerous and ip-to-date. With
forty-two fast . trains coming Into the
city daily, these concerns do a large
business throughout this section of the
state. The Ideal laundry employ about
fifty people; the Fidelity laundry has
twenty-five, the Home Cleaning Works,
ten, and the Model Cleaning Works,
twelve employes. . .
The Fremont Manufacturing, company,
general wood and metal workers, manu
facturers of agricultural Implements, has
a large factory and Is a valuable in
dustrial clearing house for new Indus
tries, coming to the city.
The Fremont Creamery company la one
of the big wholesale butter and egg
houses of the state. The Golden Rod
creamery has a capacity of 80,000 pounds
a day In its fine establishment and has
developed the dairying interests In the
surrounding country.
Brick and cement products of all kinds
are made by the Fremont Granite Brick
company. Its double brick and Ulo plant
Is one of the features of the city's, fac
tory district.
Fifty people are employed by the Fre
mont Foundry & Machine company. It
was established nearly forty years ago.
W. R. Adams, wholesale dealer in furs,
hides, wool and tallow, has by wise
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Fremont, order a case sent to your home. Any bar in Fremont will take your order.
Qi.ofi I of o Are invited to come out and go through our plant, which is conceded to be one of the
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advertising and good business methods
made his house a great central fur mar
ket. He receives consignments from all
over. this country and Canada.
The Atlantic Canning company Is the
Nebraska branch of the company of the
same name at Atlantic, la. It puts uo
sweot corn exclusively, having an annual
output of 100,000 cases.
The wholesale piano and musio house
of J. C. Acton has the biggest piano bus!
ness In the state. Besides big carload
shipments over a large territory he baa
a .big mall order musical merchandise
trade.
Andreasen brothers have a concrete.
steel .and . glass establishment covering
4, MO square feet for growing vegetables
under glass. '
The Sure Hatch Incubator company
has sold more than a quarter million In
cubators and Is probably the best known
concern of this -kind In the world. It
prints a splendid catalog.
A splendid and large plant is that of
the Parlor Furniture and Mattress com
pany, Jobbers in furniture and manufac
turers of mattresses and upholstery
goods.
Saeger & Son have the largest cigar
factory in Nebraska. Have been in busi
ness in Fremont for nearly a quarter
century.
The Wols Bakery company does a
wholesale and retail business In bakenry
goods and loe cream, reaching towns
over an extensive territory.
The Western Seed and Irrigation com
pany, has a handsome plant with a star-
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age capacity for 60,000 bushels of seed
corn and M0 ,000 pounds of vine seeds.
It employs during the packing season
about sixty people.
The Thomas & Courtwrlght Hardware
company has kept salesmen on the road
since 1874, and has built up a strong
trade In shelf and heavy hardware,
blacksmiths' tools, wagon woods, etc.
One of the largest flour mills of the
state Is operated by the Brown Milling
oompany, while the Fremont Milling
company haa a long and successful ca
reer dating baok half a century.
There are three thriving nursery firms,
B. E. Fields & Son, O. U Welch & Co.
and The Yager Nursery company.
The Nebraska Live Stock Remedy com
pany does a large business In stock
foods and remedies of its own prepara
tion. Three clam-shell car-loading sand plants
are operated by the Lyman Hand com
pany on 1U sand property bordering the
Platte river.
The oldest Jobbing grocery house In
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sturted buelnes In lft9.
The Hiawatha cigar factory haa been
established nearly thirty years and em
ploys twenty-five people.
Houges & Baldwin, operatlnn the Fre
mont Marble & Granite Works, have
forty-horse-power motor, traveling crane
and all equipment up-to-date and employ
twenty skilled workmen.
William K. Hilllker does a business of
more than $100,000 a year in horses and
mules in carload lots.
For more than twenty years the Fre
mont Fenoe Works have been operating
successfully In the city.
C. II. Oreen has a&.OOO feet of glass
surface In his green houses, regular
agencies In twenty-eight Nebraska towns
and ships to many others. A very large
flower Tmalness.
Carriages and light wagons for moun
tain use are manufactured by the Fre
mont Carriage Manufacturing company
and shipped to every mountain state
west of the Mississippi.
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large area of the state.
For nearly thirty-five rears the Fre
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shipping ice by wholesale.
The Crystal Refrigerator company
makes all-metal refrigerators anl other
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