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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1916)
THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST , t916. Fremont's Industrial Activities Are Many, Important and Varied The establishment employing the moat persons in Fremont is the Fre mont brewery, where sixty persons earn their daily bread. This is the only brewery in the state that manu factures its own malt. Its yearly pay roll amounts to $168,375. A business involving $722,325.87 is conducted, The Fremont Stock yards, in which 1.000.000 sheep, 100,000 hogs and 100,- uuu cattle are fed yearly on their way to eastern markets, is another of Fre mont s big concerns, ritteen persons are employed. John Monnich has a garage which dues a business amounting to $150, 000. Improvement over last year is estimated at 50 per cent Vill Y. Blackman is the most op timistic business man in fremont. Why not? He deals in eggs and poul try, did a business last year 100 per cent greater than the year before, and is sure this year will be just as good for him. W. L. Golder is another who is in clined to look on the bright side of life, lie deals in automobiles and re ports sales of eighty-six cars since last October. This is a gain of 100 per cent over last year. ; A. C. Jens conducts a livery, board ing, sale and feed stable. He has twelve employes , and twenty-three horses. In horses his business has fallen off during the year, but with the addition of some automobile business lie has managed to make ends meet. C. H. Green is the only florist in Fremont. He has agencies in twenty eight Nebraska towns and does busi ness in others. Sales are a third bet ter than year ago. William E. Hilliker's horse business Kiiiounts to more than $100,000 yearly. A large wholesale business is done ly the Fremont Ice company. A, J. Forman makes cigars, with ft-ur employes. Business is 25 per cent tetter than last year. E. M. Hill also makes cigars, under (lie name of, the Phelps Cigar com pany. Annual receipts amounts to Soli.000. , There are two laundries in Fre mont, The Ideal employs seventy- .ive persons and the Fidelity fourteen. The Fremont Creamerv company does an annual business of $500,000 in butter and eggs. William Kasselbaum, another cigar maker, has been at the same stand eighteen years. The Fremont Manufacturing com pany, in business ten vears, has an output of nearly $150,000 yearly. This concern succeeded .the Sure Hatch Incubator company. Refrigerators, incubators and ice cream cabinet! are made there. The Fremont Canning company does a business of about $75,000 yearly. The Western Seed and Irrigation company, managed by William Emer son, has at some seasons of the year forty employes. Receipts amount to about $100,000. W. R. Adams, in the hides, wool and fur business, reports the number of employes at some seasons of th year to be thirty-five. The annual receipts toot up about $730,000. Busi ness is mete than 30 per cent better than a year ago. Wiley & Morehouse, dealing in wholesale fruits and vegetables, em ploy ten persons. The Nye, Schnieder & Fowler com pany, deal in grain, lumber, coal and nogs, employs about fifty persons al together. This is a subsidiary plant of a concern which does a targe busi ness throughout the west Fourteen persons are employed by the Platte Valley Cement and Tile company. , The Consolidated Fuel company does a large business. Twenty persons are employed by the Farmers' Co-operative Creamery company. The Golden Rod Creamery com pany, managed by F. E. Pratt, em ploys twenty-three persons. Last year its output included 1,000)000 pounds of butter. The Buck Machine works employs several persons and does a $2,000 business. Fred Herfurth of the Fremont Planing company tells of a $25,000 business annually. Trade is 30 per cent better than a year ago. The Hammond & Stephens Educa tional publishers do a large business. Seven salesmen are employed. One of the old-time firms is that of F. M. Smith & Son, in the sheet metal works business. Chris Jensen & Sons do a carpenter and artificial stone business. Trade is 25 per cent better than a year ago. The Fremont Milling company, em ploying fifteen men and in business fifty years, does a $500,000 trade. The Brown Seal mills, under the same management, does almost as targe a business. The Fremont Cycle company does an $8,000 business. This is fifty oer cent better than a year ago. federsen Bros., also in the bicvele and repair business, report receipts of about $6,000, gain of 50 per cent over last year. I he tledncal oarage company re ports business 25 per cent better than a year aga. We nuallv. C. S. Stoner, dealing in waif paper ehner & Marek report imorove- ment in their automobile repair bus iness. The Fremont Repair company re ports an annual business of $3,000. Fred DeLamatyr, dealing in coal, tells of a 10 per cent gain over last year. ine slater Noveltv coniDanv. han dling cigars, candy, etc., does a $6,000 Dullness annual! and paints, gives employment to six persons. Henry Kavich does a larsre sec ond-hand and junk business. William l essm. upholsterer, in bus iness eight years, tells of a trade amounting to $100 monthly.' W. R. Reckmever embloves four persons in his planing mill. Carl Heinrichs repairs automobiles and bicycles. J. J. unk, in business eighteen years, deals in feed, seed and flour. He reports a gain of 25 per cent over last year in receipts. lhe Nebraska Remedy comoanv is doing a large business. lhe Holloway & Fowler company, dealing in hardware and naints. em ployes ten persons, taking in $100,000 yearly and reports business 15 per cent better than a year ago, I it 1 rr I 15) William Burtz, who repairs bicy cles, tells of an improvement in trade ot per cent. Annual receipts amount to $6,000. The Zapp Automobile company em ploys lour persons; the Larson Auto mobile company, eight The Union Transfer company, em ploying eighteen men and in business fifteen years, has gained 10 per cent over a year ago. In the grain and hay business J. London tells of a $15,000 business yearly. E. N. Morse, in the ice and sand business since 1868, reports receipts 25 per cent better than a year ago. Growing melons is one of the in creasing industries in- Fremont. Many acres along the Platte river are de voted to that branch of agriculture. Marshall Brothers have for thirty years been conducting a lucrative bus iness in wholesale diamonds, watches, clocks, musical instruments and no tions. At the New York bakery F. J. Wis licen turns out about 4,000 loaves of bread a day. Half of it is shipped to neighboring centers. Its business tripled in hve years before 1913, and has been steadily growing ever since, F. E. Drew & Co., at the Vienna bakery, do a large business. Among several shoe shining parlors doing a good business is that of J. Winter & Sons. Four men are employed. The Fremont Vulcanizing company has been doing business two years with constant gains. Dudley's music store docs a large business. Among the large real estate dealers are L. W. Richardson, the Brown Land company, Staats & Dahl and many others. H. G. Somers does electric work profitably and satisfactorily. The three photographers of the city include D. L. Yocum, in business since April 1, employing three persons; Marcell's, where five persons have been at work ten months, and J. S. Jackman, in business thirteen years, doing an annual business of $6,000 and gaining. The plumbers of Fremont include Sink, Keil & Co., where two persons are employed, and Wolten & Burns, wjio employ eight persons. Probably the newest industry is the manufacture of the roof jack. W. H. tills is manager, this business is conducted under the name of the O. K. Rough Flange company. Since the plant was started in January there has been a trade of nearly $700 monthly. Since February there has been a 50 per cent gain. O. A. Peterson has a granite cutting establishment on Main street. Re ceipts for a year are nearly $40,000. Business is 25 per cent better than a year ago. n The rremont Pure Butter company is doing a large business. A. C. Christiansen, horse ahnr. and J. C. Weiser, blacksmith in neighbor- T -I I J L , i i- ing snupB, wouiu mc imsscu ironi rrc mont circles, even though' the use of horses has in recent years in some places materially decreased. John A. Cheney, dealer in coal and lumber, gives employment to seven persons. ,i vt " IL OS mi. i -111 ' :msuiA!ml f ffirf Id Vail josn sonar c ' 4 Q "nJ : Slocks Cloak I 1 gimmmfmmfmmm y i . isiiii1"" I: lns,n3atk.1,lfr j-itejJ , -H,nmmiSi...ami..Aiiiirtrr fiM.int- Ladies Outfitting Store v Fremont, Neb,. i f I S ! "6 I , f 53 . . . . 1 i 11 F I 0 Itintal MVl t a kaa m we nave ror your irortA,! iuin our AUVAINCL SHOWING OF FALL SUITS AND COATS, DRESSES, SKIRTS AND WAISTS. The styles are pretty. Make our store your headquarters while in our city. "FREMONT'S LEADING READY-TO-WEAR STORE" 525-527 North Main Street wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtm- the citv's landmarks and best informed persons is John Hau- ser, who sells papers and magazines on Main street. John Petrow, who conducts the Candy Kitchen, has eleven persons in his employ.. H. P. Ludvigsen will mend your shoes while you wait. John V. Sullivan conducts an ice cream and candy establishment on Main street. S. F. Weidner conducts a feed and produce business. Stevens & Whitaker sell grain, feed and potatoes. . . The H. J. Troter company, with three employes, does an electric lieht wiring business. George C. Camper,' who tells of 25 per cent more trade than a year ago, conducts a wallpaper and paint busi ness, with twenty employes. Cleaners and dyers include the Model, where eight persons are at work, established nine years ago; Ha ven & Gannon, who employ four per sons and do some tailoring also, and E.J. Bodell, in business four, years,, with three employes. He reports trade better than last year by about p per cent Besides the Terry hotel there are several smaller hotels or rooming houses, including the Baltimore, the St. Kegis, the tlavenport, the Wind sor and others. The Lindstrom Inn, on Military avenue, has thirteen rooms and is much visited by tourists. At the time of the tractor show last year 150 per sons found its tables inviting at one meal. Miss Emma Meserve is man ager. H. M. Allen conducts a bakery with nine employes. Ice cream is also kept for sale here. The L. P. Larson company, whole sale liquor dealers, has a large and imposing establishment! Only one other concern of the kind exceeds in importance the Rogers' Tent and Awning company. The Mutual Oil company and the National Oil company operate . sta tions to supply automobiles with gasoline at standard rates. The Metzinger Optical company does a considerable business. The Parlor Furniture and Mattress company, jobbers in furniture and manufacturing upholstery goods and mattresses, is an important concern. Andreasen brothers have a large plant . for growing vegetables under glass. Three nursery firms doing busi ness are the B. E. Fields & Son, G. L. Welch & Co. and the Yager Nursery company. f The Fremont Fence works makes a specialty of manufacturing and mar keting portable corn cribs. Melick & Wahlford, who handle lumber, employ six men and are prospering. -jja im 'I J' rx W. R, The Best Prices Ship Me Your HIDES, WOOL, FURS, . PELTS and TALLOW FREMONT, ADAMS 1 St-i--k:l HIDES TANNED and Made Up into V,T7 v and OVERCOATS Att Work Abtolutefy Guaranteed ' n " jsdiih-H-n-HaWrWVsHI NEBRASKA DRY GOODS HOUSE Offers Visitors to the BQUIM'S m FREMONT, NEB. H 4: Tractor 0 m Sluow "QUINN'S The Store of Quality" all kinds of invitations to make this House of Merchandise your headquarters We have all the conveniences. Then while here if you are inter ested in buying, this is the place to come. We invite you. THAD. H. QUINN. aVak. aVJT Tr fO fvl A I " x TT f 4 SVV SaTIi Lr aUSXl 22 tit vi v5? Vll i . j , . I " M 'Ssf,
