THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1916.
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, A beautiful and quiet city is Fre
.; mont Like many other cities of tast-
' em Nebraska, the abundance of shade
trees is one of the first things that im
presses the visitor. Nebraskans do
not have to be informed on this point,
yet there are many frpm the east,
newcomers to the state or county,
who are interested in the early laws
which exempted from taxation those
who would plant sufficient trees.
.Sometimes they overdid it. At any
rate, the easterner who gathered the
impression that Nebraska is a treeless
state will have to revise his conception
of conditions as they now exist. Elms,
maples, mostly of the soft variety,
box elders and cottonwoods are some
of the kinds most numerous. On
some of the streets, which are not
narrow by any means, the trees so
nearly overlap each other as to make
the effect most delightful on a hot day
in summer. There are times, of
course, when in a long storm there
seems to be too much shade and dark
ness, but it is always easier to cut
down a tree- than it is to grow one.
The population is estimated at
nearly, if not quite, 14,0()0. The city
is well lightei' by a whiteway system,
inaugrated in 1910. The water comes
from driven wells. It has a library,
erected by Carnegie money in 1902
at a cost of more than $15,000, with
a circulation of 40,153. It has a high
school, erected about two years ago,
in place of an old, at . total cost of
nearly $200,000. It has a college with
an attendance ot 1,8UU, a normal
school, and business course being in
cluded; a Young Men's Christian as
sociate n, which recently paid a debt
of $30,000; a mayor and eight coun
cilmen, the former republican and the
latter democratc: only nine saloons,
four having been arbitrarily elimi
nated within the last few months;
four national banks, two savings
banks and a trust company w.th
capital of nearly $700,000: one daily
oaDer. The Tribune, republican, and
The Weekly Herald, which is politi
cally a thorn in the side of its neigh
bor; more than torty trains a day,
which enable one to make a round
trip to Omaha and bade; five times
within twenty-tour nou s; one good
hotel, with more tha.. fifty rooms,
with hot and cold water in every
room, and a new hotel in prospect at
a cost of $175,000; nearly ten miles
of paving, mostly stone and brick,
with additional work in progress; op
erations in progress on fifty new
buildings and a new court house cost
ing $200,000 planned; eighteen
churches, with a membership of more
than 4,000; a pay roll of more than
ioOG.OOO in its industrial concerns;
seventy manufacturing and jobbing
concerns; no slums; few foreigners
and less than a dozen negroes in its
population; three hospitals, a post
office, with receipts of n ore than $55,
000; a countr; club, with a member
ship of about 200; a small death rate
and three undertakers, who, the town
'joosters tay, are "starving to death."
The city's assessed valuation is
about $2,000,000. Its tax rate is 89
mills for city, county, state and other
purposes. Those who pay for gas
number about 1.000, and not quite half
that number take electric light. The
gas rate is $1.25.
There are 2,800 telephones within
the city limits. Six policemen guard
the city by day, besides a traffic offi
cer, and there are two night police
men. There are two picture show
houses, two fine parks, where there
is not only plenty of shade, but an
abundance of seats. .There are miles
of good sidewalks of cement and a
city ordinance forbids the building
of any made of wood. There is a
good ::werage system and the oldest
inhabitant cannot recall an epidemic
except those incident to children,
such as measles and scarle. fever,
which Superintendent L. A. Water
house says have the last year pre
vented the schools from accomplish
ing all that he had hoped for. In
the neighboring lakes and in the
Platte river, less than two miles
away, there is plenty of good fishing
and one does not have to go far from
town to get game when in season.
There are more than 1,800 automo
biles in Fremont. Protection against
fire is afforded by a competent de
partment, embracing two of the lat
est kind of motor trucks. Cupid last
year claimed more than 300 couples.
There stilll survive about forty vet
eran soldiers, and among the inter
esting events of Memorial day was
the participation in the exercises of
J. W. Golf, who fought for the union
at Chancellorsville, and Dr. T. C.
Sexton, a former Virginian, who
fought, with the confederacy against
him.
There are twenty lawyers in the
city, and juries are not disposed to
soak the corporations, as is the case
in so many communities, without suf
ficient cause. I en dentists attend to
the people's teeth; two chiropractors
are doing business; three osteopaths
and twenty medical physicians also
can be found, including Dr. Ira F.
Richardson, who tells of having been
a subscriber to the Omaha Bee for
fourteen years.
Who could ssk for more?
John Deere Company's Line
It is now readily conceded that the
small tractor plowing outfit is econo
mical even for the average farmer.
A one-man outfit one that is en
tirely controlled by the man on the
tractor is the one that proves most
popular.
, One of the great considerations in
thesuccessful operation of the one
man tractor outfit or in fact any sort
of tractor is the efficiency of the
plows. The ease and effectiveness of
operation are the cardinal features,
taken together with action of the
plow when in the ground.
The John Deere Plow company
has e-iven many years . study and
effort to the development of their
tractor plows and the John Deere
Pony Tractor Plow No. 3, otherwise
known as the High and Level Lift,
is in high favor with tractor manu
facturers and users.
At Fremont this year many of the
machines shown wilt be equipped
with various plow bottoms put out
by the John'Deere company. With
the High and Levc' Lift, a slight pull
of the rope attached to the trip lever
brings the plows out of the ground
point first and lifts them a'., high and
level not merely the front plow, but
the rear plow lifts high i. well. This
feature is especially appreciated when
operating in ' trashy .ground, weedy
stubble, corn stalks or heavily man
ured grounds. The bottoms will not
dig in the ground or gather trash
and clog up when turning at the end.
It will not be necessary to get off
the tractor and pull trash from under
the point of the real plow when mak
ing turns, because the rear plow lifts
high. Likewise whenever it becomes
necessary to cross or turn on plowed
ground the bottoms will clear and not
cut furrows or ridgi .
Another pull at the same rope lets
the plows down again and they go
immediately to the standard depth.
Another advantageous feature of
the John Deere is the high clearance.
The John Dee;: company builds
gang plows from "Grub Breaker"
with its twenty-four-inch share down
to the pony engine plow, also in
gangs. Ten outfits of various de
signs will be shown at the. factory at
Fremont.
Two-Plow Tractor Efficient
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The New Fall Shoe Styles
Await Your Inspection .
During Tractor Week
at Horstman's Shoe Store
We Sell
Stetson Shoes
J. E. Tilt Shoes
Regal
Wiyi Shoes
H0RSTMAN S 0E STORE
513 North Main Street, Fremont, Neb;
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marvel of the tractor industry, The
manager says; .
"Last year the Bull Tractor com
pany made fifty-seven sales on the
grounds at Fremont, shipping to
Fremont a trainload ' of fifty-five
Bulls. Tins year, on account of the
demand being so heavy it is impos
sible to get together at one time so
many tractors for shipment.
"The prediction that we made in
January is being verified. Every light
tractor factory in existence or that
was in existence, will sell heir entire
output and the farmer is going to ask
what tractor he can get instead of
deciding on what tractor he wants.
We feel that this is going to prevent
many farmers from getting the Bull
tractor who have already decided
that it is what they want. We are
planning on staging a twenty-four or
mont at the power farming demon-forty-eight-hour
non-stop run and
have secured forty acres of Bround
near the demonstration grounds at
Fremont for this purpose.
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The fundamental facts which every
farmer of today should know are the
costs of operating the farm and the
receipts and profits from each source
on the farm by lessening the cost of
labor ot humans and horses, it these
things are known it is certain that
the farmer will increase his profits by
the addition of facilities that reduce
labor costs.
While it is well known that the
horse cannot be entirely eliminated
from the farm the small farm tractor
can and does lessen his labor which
he does but slowly and which wears
him out.
Among the small farm tractors that
are getting considerable attention to
day -is the "Happy Farmer Tractor."
Through many tests it has shown it
self to be an efficient iron horse, in
some instances operating with satis
faction in ground and under condi
tions that were formerly thought im
possible for a tractor to negotiate.
Recently in some tests made at
Springfield, Neb., by the T. G. North
wall company of Omaha, the Happy
Farmer tractor negotiated the hill
sides and grades in such a manner as
to convince the farmers and dealers
that it is practical for that district
of hills and grades.
The Happy Farmer tractor is a
"two-plow machine. Its front and
rear wheel on the right side are on
a line permitting them to run in the
furrow. Eighty-eight per cent of the
weight is on the traction wheels and
it pulls two-thirds of its weight on
the draw bar. The Happy Farmer
will be among the tractors demon
strated at the Fremont meet.
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Bull Tractor at Fremont Show
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The Bull tractor will be at Fre
mont at the power farming demon
stration from August 7 to 11, of
course, ihe Bun tractor was at rre-
mont in 1914, when it was the only
light tractor demonstrated. But the
Bull tractor of 1914 was not the Bull
tractor of 1916. Tw(J years of experi
ence with 10,000 tractors in the hands
of farmers has taught the manufac
turer more about the light tractor
industry than all the knowledge that
anybody had before and the 1916
tractor has been rounded out to such
a state of perfection that it ia the
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I. D. RICHARDS, President
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J. R. HENRY, Viee-Pre: L. M. KEENE, Treaturer
RALPH N. JENNINGS, Superintendent
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1,600 Acres Tame Grass Pasture on the Platte River.
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Open Pens, 18,000; Dipping Plant Capacity, 5,000 Daily.
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