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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 5, 1917.
FREMONT AS HOST
TO TRACTOR SHOW
Something of the Town that
This Week Centers the Ac
tivities of This Growing
Important Industry.
By E. R. GURNEY.
Sonic year:, ago 1 was talking a bit
after a dinner and I stated, with
somewhat of exuberance perhaps, that
Fremont is "situatf' at the confluence
of two great rivers.' My fellows at
the table guyed me considerably over
this expression, which they affected to
rate as bombastic, but I still main
tained that I was richt. Certainly. I
would have been correct had i said,
the unio;. of two great river val
leys," and as the years go by 1 am
more and more appreciative of their
worth. 1 try to think of valleys in
this countrj comparable with those
of the Platte and the J.lkhorn.
recall the Red river valley and its
wheat fields, the Connecticut valley,
lined with tobacco sheds; the lower
Mississippi, and the valleys of the
Missouri, hut I doubt if there are any
so fine, in an agricultural sense, as
trie valley ot the Platte. And the
Elkhorn territory, while not so ex
tensive, is yet marvclously productive.
Origin of Fremont.
The junction of these two domains
gave Fremont its location. ' Its early
day men gave the little town the en
terprise to take advantage of the lo
cation, and to them and their suc
cessors must be accorded the credit
for making the Fremont of today.
There were the Barnard and Rog
ers and Colson families from New
York, and the Smiths and Lees from
Pennsylvania. Father Heaton began
hi gospel ministry in a log hut, and
the influences which he set in mo
tion ire still vital factors here. New
England gave us Theron Nye, L. D.
Richards, L. M. Keen and many oth
ers. The late J. J. Hawthorne used
to tell that when he came west afoot,
on journey that led him to Fre
mont, he carried in the pack on his
back, among other necessities, a copy
of Emerson i essays. At a little later
date, yet long enough ago to make
them old-timers, came Wilson Rey
nolds, Ross and Frank Hammond, R.
R. Schneider, Samuel Maxwell,
George W. E. Dorsey, William Fried
and many other capable, even brilliant
men. These men have been the mak
ing of Fremont, as they have been
the creators of a Fremont spirit, and
a most pleasing fact is that practically
all of them have turned aside the in
.vitations to go to larger cities and
have remained with Fremont to the
end.
Fremont of the Future
, Now as to the future. I think Fre
mont has a good future in store, be
cause it has had a good past. I do
not mean to predict that Fremont
will ever become a great city of
metropolitan proportions but I think
it will grow. Some of us have hoped !
that the population might reach i
twenty thousand by the year of 1920,
but perhaps we shall fall short of
the realization of this hope. If so
we shall be content, and will go on
in the future as in the past, building
solidly and well. We may not reach
twenty thousand people in 1920, but
if we may be privileged to count our
Nebraska guests for a little while as
a part of our households we shall
easily reach that figure and in all
probability double it any day next
-week. If not it will not be the fault of
The Bee or The Twentieth Century
Farmer or the tractive power of
tractors.
It is a stock remark oft given cur
rency that Fremont is too close to
Omaha to grow very much. My own
judgment is that while this condition
may have had its influence in the past,
it is changing. Happily, there has
never been any feeling of resentment,
jealousy, or other form of acrimony
among our people as against Omaha,
and I believe that very soon we are
to be the beneficiaries of Omaha's
commercial and industrial power. By
way of analogy I may say that there
are half a dozen fine prosperous cities
nearer to Chicago than Fremont is to
Omaha, and the same is true with the
environment of Boston, New York,
San Francisco and other metropolitan
cities.
.Vantage Points for Manufacturer.
The fact seems to be that the out
lying towns situated like Fremont is
become vantage points for manufac
turers who find conditions more help
ful away from congestion, and home
owners who prefer the quiet neigh-borlinei-
of a fair-sized town to the
rush and hurly-burley of the big city.
All that is needed is good transpor
tation facilities between given these
Fremont will soon expand eastward,
at Omaha will westward, and the two
cities will present a great community
of industry, commerce and wealth. I
am Quite sure that we Fremonters
are not emulous of that political an
nexation that has come to Benson
urely not until Omaha gets its police
row deodorized but we can at least
share in the general prosperity, to
land our share of the burdens and
responsibilities.
Fremont is a wonderfully good,
olid town. A few instances may be
given. Y.'e have just completed the
erection ot a new hotel, and the entire
cost, nearly S3(X),000. has been sub
eribed by Fremont people, so the
entire plant stands without mortgage
or bonded debt - of any kind. No
wealthy man subscribed any huge
um. On the contrary, the entire
cost represents the help of more than
juu aiocKnoiuers. Again, we nave
continuoi.sly, and have many miles of
the very best, yet bonds are rarely
issued, our pcor'i paying the cost as
Mey go along, a recent achievement,
coming to us without bonus of anv
kind, is the new terminal elevator be
ing built by the Nye-Schneider-Fow-ler
company, and which structure,
towering 1,64 feet from foundation to
eaves, fireproof, will be the finest ele
vator, in the world, measured by ex
cellence of equipment
Fremont on the Railroad Map.
We hardly know which sentiment
to harbor, whether of pride or of
resentment, that our town has never
enjoyed the adventitious help that
comes from railroad favors or of state
institutions. Perhaps we content our
selves with the knowledge that the
Fremont record with the Union Pa
cific Northwestern and Burlington
audits show that we are immensely
.valuable customers of these systems,
and we get along nicely with these
companies, though we cast a wi;aul
eye at . the shops they might appro
priately 'maintain here. In the same
way Fremont has never had any state
institution, and very few state officers.
At the present time we have a state
pitfwiatcjidejit, and tome feeble ef
forts have been made to Induce the
legislators of Nebraska to take over
our splendid normal. '' far Barkis
has not been willin.' all of which
shows that legislators are not as wise
as they should be.
I rather think the automobile is a
great factor for Fremont. Incidentally
these machines, supplemented by in
numerable bicycles and those devilish
things known as motorcycles have
put our street car prospects on the
blink. A street car in our town where
J'ackards are plentiful and flivvers are
as the falling leaves of autumn would
be as little used as a chape in Keno.
Our Lincoln Highway is getting to
be a real highway, though it needs
something more of accomplishment
than painting the poles. This im
provement will surely come soon. The
Cornhusker line stretching north and
south will also become a well traveled
road, and the business these lines
bring in will be more than any of
us now dream.
Fremont as Tractor Show Host.
Thus we believe our future secure,
and if the reader wishes to see a
touch of real congestion he should
visit us this coming week. The ex
hibit of a million dollars worth of
powerful machinery in action, these
machines typical of the new ages into
which agriculture is progressing is
something absolutely unique, and the
opportunity should not be overlooked.
Prnlnnflnf It.
Two F;ng!:;:i workmen were dlstusslnf
the war.
"Il'li be an awful long Job, Sam." said
one.
It will," replied the other.
"You 8e, these Genua tin Is takln' thou
sands and thousands of Russian prisoners
and the Russians Is takln thousands and
thousands of Cierrnsn prisoners. If It keeps
on, all the Rusblans will be In Germuny and
all the Germans In rtul. And then they'll
start all over sgaln. flirhtln' to get back
their omee." London Tit-Bits.
FARMERS ARE KEEN
NOW ABOUT TRUCKS
Are Realizing that it is Cheaper
to Use Gasoline Than
Horses Under Present
Prices.
"It is surprising to notice the at
titude of. the farmer toward the
truck nowadays," asserts Mr. Locke
of the Haarmann-Locke Motor com
pany. "A wave of enthusiasm seems to
have hit the farmers and they are
eager to learn all they can about
trucks.
"This is very logical, however, when
the facts are considered. It costs a
neat sum of money to feed a work
team with grain prices where they are
today, and, too, there is a world of
bother attached to the care of animals.
"The truck is different. The farmer
can get four times as much work
out of a truck as he can out of a
team and he can work them twenty
four hours a day if necessary. Ef
ficiency plays a great part in success
ful farming now. It's a science, not a
plodding existence now-a-days, and
aggressive farmer is as alert to the
necessity for speed as the aggressive
merchant is.
"We expect to interest a number of
farmers in our trucks at the Fre
mont Tractor Show next week. The
Little Giant line is very complete and
we have a unit for every need."
Not the Original. K
They have found a skeleton In West
Virginia with a tall and horni on its head
It must be a base Imitation. The original
tall bearer- and horn wearer Isn't dead by
a long shot. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
American Flotilla Base
Suffers From Spy Scare
(Correspondence o. The Associated Presa.)
Base American Flotillas in British
Waters, Aug. 3. The village on
which the American flotillas are based
is suffering from an acute attack of
spy scare. It has had attacks before,
but has never passed through any so
severe as the present one.
It is hard to locate the origin of
this new spy scare, but its presence
is a secret known to everyone here
until it is regarded as small wonder
that there are but few people who en
tertain the slightest doubt that the
spy is watching everything, both
ashore and afloat.
Keep your eyes and ears open but
your mouth shut, is therefore the rule
of the port, especially among blue
jackets who are generally suspicious
of anything unfamiliar.
Monument to Mrs. Harley,
Victim of German Shell
Saloniki. Aug. 3. An impressive
choral requiem over the grave of Mrs.
Harley, sister to Field Marshal Vis
count French, who was killed by a
shell at Monastir in March, was fol
lowed by the unveiling of a monu
ment erected by officers on duty a.
the Serbian base. The memorial is
of gray granite blocks surmounted by
a white marble cross bearing the fol
lowing inscription in the Serbian and
English languages:
"To the victim of barbarians, a gen
erous English lady, a great bene
factress of the Serbian people, and a
great lady. On your tomb, instead of
flowers, the gratitude of' the Serbs
shall blossom. For your wondertu
deeds your narile shall be known from
generation to generation.
"From the officers at the Serbian
base."
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That motor trucks mean greater economy than horses is
proved .whenevera large user of horse-drawn haulage purchases
a fleet of trucks, after operating a single test truck. There is not
only the saving, as high as 69 in some cases, to be considered,
but also the absolute inadeqiiacy of horsepower delivery in these
hot days that find horses dying in the streets.
Your competitor, if he still operates horses, has the limits of
his business very narrowly defined. He cannot expand. He is en
gaged in an everlasting fight against constantly rising costs and
the lack of dependability of horses in hot weather. It is well, there
fore, to consider the increasing selling radius that truck delivery
permits.
Foodstuffs Crisis Means You Must Use Motor Trucks
Right now, even were there no other consideration than econ
omy, present conditions would force the use of motor trucks.
The cost of maintaining a horse has more than doubled, with
oats at 80c a bushel, corn at $1.50 a bushel, and hay pursuing the
same upward course.
So, while it now costs twice as much to feed a horse, he can
not dp any more work than he did before. His efficiency rather
than increasing tends to become lower.
Feeding Horses or Feeding Humans
Statistics furnished by the United States Department of Agri
culture prove that every team of horses costs more to maintain
than three human beings. They prove that horses each year eat a
total of 2,312,000,000 bushels of oats, that could be made into the
most nourishing of foods for humans.
Public Opinion Says
"Use Trucks"
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Wherever a team of horses is em
ployed to do work that can be done
more effectively and more economically
by a motor-driven vehicle, the upkeep
of these horses is seriously menacingthe
food supply of human beings. Food
will be a large factor in winning or los
ing this war. The constantly rising cost
of foodstuffs has already prompted urg
ent measures for the conservation of
food.
County Dealers
If the demonstrated success of
Little Giant trucks means anything to
you, write today. Some great territory
we control is yet open. But won't be
open long. Ask us to prove the unlim
ited sales opportunity our proposition
offers. You'll be glad you accepted our
invitation to bigger, better, faster busi
ness. But hurry! Write or telegraph
TODAY.
Give thought to whether or not you are using horses to do
work that motor trucks should do to save the nation's food. Can
you justify the use of your horses?
Use Little Giant Trucks
In the Little Giant Convert-a-Car, you are offered a truck
unit for Fords that is the only one made by an actual truck manu
facturer, i
It adds Little Giant strength to the Ford's best qualities, giv
ing a tremendous ability to deliver a ton or under rush with
amazingly small cost. Always it is dependable, convenient, and
above all, economical.
The Convert-a-Car attachment is applied without in any way
mutilating the Ford, allowing the truck unit to be dismantled in
a few hours, ready for use as a pleasure car.
A Complete Line
The Little Giant line of trucks includes in addition to Convert-a-Car,
one-ton, two-ton and three-and-a-half -ton truck sizes.
These were deliberately engineered over-size and super-strong,
made to deliver better for less. Thousands of these trucks have
made good for over nine years now. .
Because of this proved efficient dependability, because of the
strength of the $14,000,000 Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company,
which makes and guarantees them, they are bought by the most
careful buyers the country over.
Save Half Your Fuel Cost
An extra exclusive feature of Little Giant truck is the Dunt
ley Hydro Pneumatic Gas Generator. It saves over half the fuel
cost. Using a half-and-half mixture of
kerosene and gasoline, plus steam and
air, it gives more miles, more power
better delivery for less.
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Talk Trucks With Us
We have the - knowledge, gained
through long experience and careful
study, that makes us exceedingly help
ful in all matters concerning lowered
costs through motorized delivery. At
our display room we shall be glad to
talk facts and figures while proving by
actual demonstration the make-good
power of Little Giant.
Haarmann-Locke Motors Co.
2429 Farnam Street.
Nebraska and Western Iowa Distributors Little Giant Trucks
OMAHA.
Phone Douglas 7940.
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