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This Pair Stands High in Business
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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.
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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.
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Omaha N
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Seventeenth and Farnam Streets
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Capital, One Million Dollars
Surplus and Profits, One Million Dollars
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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.
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