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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1916)
4-P 17117 OMAITA SUNDAY BEE: FEBTlUAKi xi, lino. This Pair Stands High in Business V , r i' y J?u3olph 3eal Th Beal-Vlncent Oraln rompany ' U one of the old firms doing buslnea on the Omaha Grain exchange. It Is comnoaed of IvUdolnh Beal and Cuthbert Vincent. Iuth Mr. Foal anil Mr. Vincent were charter member of th Omiiht Oraln exchange and the pres ent firm wa onranlied seven years uo. Theie two men and 5 hi- firm which they Cuthbert Vincent have formed hav given freely of their time and effort to the upbuilding of the farmer' elevator movement In the. atate. When the firm wn organised there Here not a doxen farmer' elevator In the atate of Nebraska and very few In tha nelghtioring atate of Iowa. Now there are 300 uch elevator In Nebraska and mora than that number In Iowa. Tha firm occupies elegant quarter In room 405 to 17 In the new exchange building, where their friend from all over the surrounding country ar alway made welcome. PRAYER ANSWERED IN YAY0F HOPPER Hinnetott Ridded of the Feit by Mir&cnloni Intervention of Weather Condition!. STORY FROM THE DAYS OF OLD There ar four main dlvialon of the wheat family common wheat, dwarf and hedgehog wheat, Kngllnh and Egyptian wheat and flint wheat. The latter I tha rla under which romea durum wheat which la now being grown ao successfully In weatern Nebraska and other localities In thla country. There I much difference In wheat a any member of the Omaha Grain ex change can tell you. They ar white, red and amber In color, they have large and small kernel and they vary In weight from fifty-flv to slxly-flv pound to a measured bushel When ground Into flour even greater difference ar apparent, coma making larger and whiter loavea than other, and a variation in color being apparent aa well aa In taste. Unusbopper Ttsae let Mlsta. Ther ar a number of dlscaaes that attack wheat and a number of peeta made the growth of man great ataff difficult in the early history of Nebraska and other states. On of tha moat remark able of these was a pest of grasshopper In Minnesota In 1177. It wa a remarkable rest and no less remarkahla In 1 1 appar ently heaven-eent deliverance. Th governor of Minnesota In that year appointed April 31 as a special day of fasting and prayer and urged th pople "in the shadow of tha loouat plague who impending renewal threaten deso lation of th land" to "humbly Invoke for the effort w mak In our defense th guldanc of that Hand which alone I adequate to stay th peaUleac thai walketh In darknea and th desolation that waateth an noonday." Hot Weather a a Resalta. On tha appointed day shops and other los of business were closed, th church bells announced th hour of service and the people of all religious belief and of none went devoutly to church and Prayed for th averting of a plague that had de stroyed the crop the previous year. The following day the aun (hone over the entire state with a most extraor- Hiiary brilliance and heat. It penetrated the moist earth and there found the larva of millions upon million of grass hoppers stimulated and quickened by the heat the infant enemies of th wheat cam to the surface of the ground and crawleov about the earth In myriad enough to destroy the wheat of the en tire northwest. The visitation of the pre vious year was nothing compared to th vast army of locusts that now cam forth upon the earth. Trust h'.uim the Prat. Per a few days the hot weather con tltiued and then suddenly It got cold, cold aa winter and on night there wa a ee- xere frost. The earth waa frosen up and with It the hatched and unhatched graaa- noppers. in a few day It thawed again but th pests had gone and th wheat crop wa ved. Bine that year ther have been no graaahopiicr worth men tionlng In Minnesota or other western late. Grain Dealers National Mutual Insurance Company The Oraln Dealer National Mutual lre Insurance company of Indianapolis wa organised In 1902, In reapona to a general demand of th grain trad for an elevator mutual. Prior to that time elevator Insurance wa pretty much a hit and ml proposition, th claaa wa haaardou on and lossea heavy; but Instead ef an analyst of fir causes. In creased rate were resorted to, running aa high a t and per cant In aome case. Mr. C. A. McCotter, an experienced un derwriter, waa chosen to head the new organisation, and under the motto "Bet ter Construction, More Care, Fwer Flrea." th "Oraln Dealer" started out to demonstrate that an elevator mutual could be run successfully. During the last two year, Mr. V. E. Butler, a man experienced in handling rraln both at terminal and country points, haa trae veled among policy holdera advising with them on their problem. Aa a aueceaaful man la the best type of policy holder, tkls work ha benefited all concerned. The company through Ha little publi cation 'XJur Paper' and other source. haa tried ' to educate it member away from the old Idea that fhera la something mysterious about fire Insurance business and to Instill Into every man that he I part and parcel of the organisation, and that the fire lose,, and th .insurance cost. depend upon his effort. The company haa never, had to take one of lea con tract into court to have It Interpreted and It seldom lose a policy holder. It board of dlreotor I composed ef com of th leading men in th grain business tn th United States, and tha exacting Kansas department paid them the com pliment that they were "unusually faith ful tn the performance of their duties." Their aalary 1 I1M a year. CIGAR STAND ONE OF THE BUILDING'S REAL FEATURES The cigar store in the new Exchange building 1 on of the very handsomest Imaginable. Paring Harney street and with entrance! both from th street and th lobby of th building It present a most attractive appearanoe with it whit walla and fine mahogany furniture. A large line of cigars, tobeooo, candle and periodicals Is kept. Th equipment la of the finest and latest with humidor of large capacity and artlatlo appearance. It la owned and operated by Barkalow Brother, a firm whlr ha other fine tore Including the place recently opened at tha corner of btxteenth and Farnam street in the new Rose building end the PonUnelle hotel elgar stand. WEEKES GRAIN COMPANY ONE OF PIONEER FIRMS Th Weekea Oraln company consists of W. n. YVreka and hie son, Chester 1- Weekea. W. B. Week i one of the pioneer grain men of Nebraska. Thirty year ago h went Into th business at Boot la, when the Union Paclflo railroad waa first built Into that town. When he left ther ten year ago he waa operating five elevator. Th firm haa two departments. W. fl. Week manage the feeder and mill order department and Cheater I Weekea the consignment department. VflnncDcBinit CD IFWTLCD IS THE Standard r Tn 77 77 or -nxcm You May Have It By Consigning op Selling to OMAHA. o IV ar Cry of the Traders Means Much When Business is Going On "Tea, bo." Tils is th yell of the Omaha Oraln exchange. It la a good yelL It la brief, expressive. It Is a terse, tens sequence of a guttural nd a labial sound. It typlflea th life of the exchange, the men of Uie exchange. Here the men who la of the philosophi cal, dreamy, sluggish, alow-moving type haa no place. To be a success her a man must have decuion of character. He must have Judgment. It must hav courage. . Lacking any one of these) he cannot sue reed aa a grain man. He may hav Judgment without the ourage to -t on It or th energy to turn Judgment Into action. uch a man will falL Another may hav abundance ef cour age and be a dynamo of action. But without good sound Judgment h will pat hi business craft on th rock very aoon and see It dashed to piece a. The member of the Omaha Grain -chanc hav splendid Judgment, quick de- t!ioo and plenty of courage. Thle Is no mere euphemism. It h i tact, barked up. proved and eluacbe-J If tU Under! tbie- that bate teen carved In history by the emts big success and growth of the exchange in mue more than a decade of time at It unexcelled standing as a Brain bun ket among all the grain market of thla country ana the world. "Tea. bo., It U a ahout that go up when the price go Up or down. It may express joy or th opposite. But In any event It expresses alertness, a decision .m. thing to do and hair-trigger action in doing It to readjust to new Mnrimnn. It may express elation or disappoint ment, but always It expresses the Joy of battle. It Is Ilk liughl Jennings' "ie- ah" with th plucking of a blade of graaa. It U th "Oott mlt una" of th uerman and th "for king and countrv of Kagland. Men have alwava .ut when In the midst of excitement, whether amj wvr savage Horde engaged In laughter of their foea in nrehlatarin or modem civilised men engaged la the name or commerce or the battle of sport. i i a spontaneous as the baying hound on th scent of th fn It algnlfle hop of victory and belief in aucc. It algnlfle honest, onen battle xm Ung animal and thieve don't mak any nola as they hunt. Tea. W Is good sign, a good try of a good bunch of commercial warriors. o o o The o Omaha N Bank aiiona Seventeenth and Farnam Streets 0 Capital, One Million Dollars Surplus and Profits, One Million Dollars o Special Facilities for Handling Grain Accounts J. H. MILLARD, President W. H. BUCHOLZ, Vice President WM. BURGESS, Vice President J. De. F. RICHARDS, Cashier Assistant Cashiers: Frank Boyd, B. A. Wilcox, E. Millard, Otis T. Alviton. i i o O o i i o o 6 o