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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 14,' 1917.
' AUTO WIDENS WORK
OF realestAte men
Are Able to Cover More Terri-
, toryand to Handle a Great
Many More. Customers
in a Day.
The automobile has worked great
changes in the real estate business
an old time realtor says. The men
who have been in the real estate busi
ness for a quarter of a century in
Omaha compare with interest the old
time jogtroi way of doing business
; when every real estate man or firm
had to keep a good buggy and often a
two-seated vehicle with the present
method ot whirling a customer miles
away in an automobile, having him
back to the office or to his home in
side of an hour.
The automobile widens the circle of
real estate dealing by the ease with
which the dealer or agent can travel
long distances to look at or to show
farm lands, or even property in other
towns. , n
Jack Dumont recently made a trio
into Wheeler county, traveling alto
. .i m i At
fciner some ouu miles, taxing inrec
ays and beating the railway trains.
The result was the listing of a large
ranch which probably they would not
have thought of putting on their
boo1S had it not been for the auto.
J. P. Rapp took his car one morning,
slipped down into Missouri to look
at a farm and was back by night, hav
ing traveled some 250 miles with a
successful day's business. Other well
known realtors make a custom of
getting away at noon on Saturday
and returning by Monday morning,
and in the meantime familiarizing
themselves with lands which other
wise they ould not go to see.
Gardening cn City Lots
Growing More Profitable
Interest in the returns that can be
secured from gardening city lots is
increasing. '
A statement by Byron R. Hastings,
in a recent Sunday paper that many
of his customers had made good in
terest on the investment has been
carried out in the experience of a
number of realtors.
Potatoes this year have been the
chief product for commercial pur
poses, although onions and cabbage
and sweet corn come in close. A few
have done well with flowers. E. R.
Hume, for many years clerk of Dun
dee and a famous .gardener and ama
teur horticulturist and floriculturist,
makes from $100 to $150 per lot from
peonies, while his cherries bring a
profitable return each year. One real
estate man reports sales unsolicited
of asters from a small bed running
from $15 to $25 per year, while he
gives away as many more.
The ; secretary of the Real Estate
boardGeorge G. Wallace, would like
to have any special reports, particu
larly from the boys and girls as to the
returns from city lots during the last
season. '
Former Omaha Business Man
Astonished at Growth of City
s.w! Lindsay, the jeweler, a well
known man in business circlet of
Omaha for many years, is "visiting in
Omaha for a few days, Like other
former business men who have called
Oma'ia their home, Mr.. Lindsay is
; astonished at the wonderful growth
"Somewhere in France"
O God, as we come to Thy footstool to pray,
And kneel in contrition in war's bitter day.
With hearts that are breaking and eyes that are dim
With tears of repentance, for national sin
We meekly beseech Thee, in pity, to glance, - !
On the boys who are serving us "Somewhere in France."
Tis our best and our bravest, from home and afar,
Who have gone at their country's call, out to the war;
Who have cheerfully given their lives even now
In defense of the weak, in response to their vow:
O God, with Thy tender, omniscient glance,
In mercy watch over them "Somewhere in France."
No bullet can wound them, no shell can destroy,
Without Thy consent even one soldier boy.
They are safe in Thy keeping, j'neath banners unfurled
O'er the bitterest war ever waged in the world
O God, as they struggle, 'gainst gas, or with lance, -
Do Thou their Protector be-"-"Somewhere in France."
Kept true to their God, and their country let all
That As highest within them, respond to the call.
Kepr true to their manhood before them the goal
Of the triumph of right o'er the Kaiser's rule.
O God, in Thy mercy, before them advance,
And give them the victory "Somewhere in France."
O cause them to conquered, or wounded, to be,
Just and compassionate like unto Tjiee
,To ever remember, their Saviour has died
For the boys who are falling on Germany's side.
O God, 'tis with shame, that we ask Thee to glance,
On modern warfaringWSomewhere in France."
e leave in Thy keeping (naught more can we do)
The boys whom we love; and we pray Thee, anew,
In Thine all-seeing wisdom this conflict to end,
And the blessing of peace on our stricken world send.
O God, and with peace may we meet the loved glance
Of the boys who are serving us ','Somewhere in France.
Chatham, Ontario, Canada. LUCY SANDYS.
of the city and, as he puts it, "the
substantial character of this growth
and the fine spirit of optimism." Mr.
Lindsay -has been in a number of
cities from Los Angeles to Chicago,
where he and Mrs. Lindsay have
been visiting their son, Curtis, and
his family, and nowhere does he find
the substantial progress and the
bright prospects that he is finding in
Omaha.
H. H. Christie of the W. Farnam
Smith company, who has just re
turned from his vacation through the
Pacific coast cities, , bears out this
conclusion of Mr. Lindsay's. Both
of them say that Omaha is spoken of
everywhere in a most enthusiastic
way as being the city that is making
the greatest and most substantial pro-
gress.
Installment Lot Sales '
Successful in Middle West
A. L. Root, who has charge of
the numerous additions over the
country for the N. P. Dodge com
pany, which are put on the market on
the dollar down and 50 cents a week
plan, returned a few weeks ago from
two or three successful sales in Illi
nois. Asked as to the effect of the
war on this class of real estate deal
ing, he stated that they had had a
great success in these tales, every
lot being sold at the one at joliet.
In the east he says the real estate
market is not so good, other invest
ments diverting the interest and con
ditions being more feverish, but in
the west and the middle west they are
entirely satisfactory.
Burlington Employes Will
Send Xmas Gifts to Soldiers
In the Twelfth! and Thirteenth regi
ment of engineers sent to France to
aid in rebuilding the railroads there
are more than, 100 who went from
the Burlinjrton. Now the Burlineton
employes are creating a fund to buy
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vnrisimas cigars, 1 luuactu, pipes,
candy and other sweets for the boys
beyond the seas.
The plan to create a fund to pur
chase Christmas remembrances for
the boys has the approval of Hale
Holden, president of the Burlington,
but he says that no employe shall con
tribute more 'than 50 cents. Contribu
tions may be made to the passenger
traffic manager and the division super
intendents. One of Pershing's Men
Dies of Heart Disease
Washington, Oct 13. The .' in
France or. October 9 of Private John
Uendrichs of a division ammunition
train of the American forces was re-
Ewrted toda by General Pershing,
enr'richs died of chronic heait
disease. Hij home was in Philadelphia.
Germans Deny Famine
: v Conditions in Poland
Copenhagen, Oct. 13. The German
administration of Warsaw has issued
a denial of statements that famine
conditions prevail in Poland. It as
serts there is an abundance of food in
the rural districts and that the people
in the cities are adequately nourished.
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Omaha May Become
Great Land Market
The recent successful and phenom
enal sale by George H. Payne and his
company of the J. J. Hill lands in
Minnesota is again arousing interest
in Omaha as a land market.
Omaha has never b en recognized
as such a market. Des Moi. es and
other smaller cities have surpassed
Omaha in past years. In this respect
Uom time to time the agitation of
farm land listings, and organizing
companies to handle lands on a large
scale has brought about some tempo
rary spurtSj, but nothing lasting.
Mr. Payne has made a mark for
the city, as well as'for himself, in his
achievements, in this direction. Those
who are studying' the land market
say that xthere is now a great op
portunity for the organizing of large
concerns to buy and sell land. There
is aVso a sentiment abroad that
Omaha ought to be a colonizing
center, prepared when the war closes
to place upon great stretches of land
either between Omaha and the Rocky
mountains,' or southwest -m New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, or
northwest in the western part of the
Dakotas, or in MonUna and Wyom
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to come in tens of thousands from
the battle-wrecked countries .of
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Goodyear is not looking for mere temporary sales.
If they were they might offer us dealers an extra diccount
as an inducement to push Goody earTires.
But the public would pay the penalty, in higher prices or
inferior tires. .
Instead Goodyear turns that extra profit back into the tires
into more fabric and more rubber to make better tires.
Thus more consumef s and more -car manufacturers are using
Goodyear Tires, and we dealers sell them because they get
more customers for us.
We Goodyear Service Station Dealers are satisfied with
i smaller prof it per tire because we sell tires to more customers.
Think, then, the vast amount of savings that we Goodyear
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material, to make better tires for you. .
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a $25.00 tip, would be approximately $2.00.
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THE MOTOR SUPPLY CO.,
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THE NOVELTY REPAIR CO.,
4809 South 24th St. Phono South 1404.
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4911-15 South 24th St. Phone South 420.
NATIONAL AUTO SCHOOL
2814 North 20th St. Phono Webster 5943.
THE TIRE SHOP
2518 Farnam St. Phone Douglas 4878.
ORR MOTOR SALES CO-
Packard Show Room.
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