THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 16, 1918.
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GIVEN BIRTH IN
. COMMERCE CLUB
Short Review of Achievements
- 'of Omaha Chamber of Com
merce in 25 Years of
Existence.
A history of the Omaha Chamber
of Commerce, covering the 35 years
of its existence, is a romantic narra
tive of unstinting endeavor and great
achievements. The following is.
snort review-or some ot the many
things the Chamber of Commerce has
done for Omaha, with a few words
about its organization and advance
ment:
The Transmississippi Exposition
was born in the rooms of the old
- Commercial club, its board of direc
tors being selected from the ranks
of club workers.
tion that is known from coast to
coast, was organized at the Commer
cial club.
-. This organization was actively in
strumental in the organization of the
Omaha Grain exchange.
I Consolidated Omaha.
? This chamber co-operated in bring
ing the Chicago Great Western and
Illinois Central railroads to Omaha.
The tornado relief was organized
and conducted through this organiza
tion in the spring of 1913.
The Commercial club in 1915 gave
this community a Greater Omaha.
umana, Dundee, Jtsenson ana Flor
ence was effected through the agency
of this chamber, and Omaha was
v raised to the 200,000 clss.
River navigation was revived in
1915 through the efforts of this
chamber.
The Federal Land bank, serving
Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota,
Wyoming, was secured 'or Omaha.
The headquarters for the fifth'
district under the federal aid road
act was secured for Omaha.
The Omaha Hay exchange was
organized by the chamber.,
The George Washington National
highway, bisecting the country from
southeast to northwest, was conceiv
ed and organized in this chamber.
Through this chamber more than
200,000 grape vines were sold at cost
to- replace winter killed vines.
Organized in 1898.
The Commercial club of Omaha
was organized June 15, 1898 with
200 members.
iThe object of the organization as
set forth in the original articles was
to promote the commercial, industrial
and public interests and welfare of
Omaha.
The first president was Herman
Kountze. The first chairman of the
i. executive committee was W. A. L.
Gibson,. and the first secretary and
commissioner was J. E. Utt.
The original home of the Com
mercial club was the top floor of the
Board of Trade building, on the pre
sent site of the First National bank
building, at Sixteenth and Farnam
streets. Here the organization
Jthrived until the fall of 1912, more
than 19 years, removing at that time
to-j its present quarters, seventeenth
Sin'd eighteenth floors of the new
"Woodmen of the World building.
i. First Activities.
The major activities of the organ
ization in the first few years of its
existence was a determined and suc
cessful fight against discriminatory
freight rates, lhe club devoted it
self with zeal to the upbuilding of
, the Omaha market. The slogan,
Omaha, the Market Town became
favorably known in an ever-widening
zone, and Omaha's spectacular rise
as a whofesale market may be said
to date from this time, when con
structive co-operation took the place
of industrial effort.
" A Merchant's bureau was organized
in the earlier days, its function being
to pay tlfe fares of merchants in
Omaha's trade territory to and from
the "Marked Town."
Trade trips were developed in the
s nineties and were regarded as major
club activities until 1913, when the
organization of "Merchants' Spring
and Fall Market Weeks" supplanted
them in favory
The name of the organization was
changed on February 11, 1918 from
Commercial ' Club of Omaha to
Omaha Chamber of Commerce.
Since the date , of its birth this
chamber has never -experienced a
year when its members declined or its
activity faltered. It has always fol
lowed ts charted course forward.
Graduates of St. John s High School
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PHOTOS OV
Uoper row. left to right: Katherine
Murphy, Mary Burns, Agnes Morton,
Marie Carr. N
Lower row: Mary Lavelle, Helen
Folev. Mary Williams.
L St. John's high school will gradu
ate seven young women Monday
evening, the commencement exer
cises to be held in Creighton audi
torium. They are the Misses Helen
Foley, Katherine Murphy, Mary
Burns. enes Morton, Mary Wil
liams, Helen Lavelle and Marie Carr.
No idlers are among these iaio-
graduates. On account of war-tiute
needs each girl graduate will take
her place in the business or profes
sional world, several of them having
completed the normal course for
teachers.
DUNDEE
Some Achievements of Chamber .
Of Commerce in the Years Past
Mr. Murray Thomas lias been called
to New Orleans by the gov
ernment. Mrs. Thomas will stay for
lhe present with her father in Tcrre
Haute.
Mrs. J. J. Dodds and daughter,
Dorothy, left during the week for
Lake Levi, Minnesota.
Mr. James W. Hamilton has r
turned from a short visit in Ken
tucky. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Beardsley have
returned from Birmingham, Ala. Mr.
Beardslry is recuperating from an
operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. W. O. Perry and son,. Robert,
have returned from a three months in
the Ozark mountains. Mr. Perry
met them in St. Louis, where they at
tended the exercises of Principia col-
?r ih.,r S-0nS' Rkhard an Thomas. Rona
Mr. and Mrs. John Redick have re
turned from their trip to White Sul
phur Springs, Va.
Captain and Mrs. H. B. Lemere
left Tuesday for Camp Meade, Mary
land, where the doctor is to be sta
tioned for temporary service atil he
goes to France. Several social af
fairs were given in their honor for
several consecutive evenings prior to
their departure.
Mrs. E. O. Hamilton is visiting her
son, Lieutenant Warren Hamilton, at
Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. Miss
Ruth Hamilton joined them there
from Dana Hall.
Philip Thomas will return from
Yale next week.
Sidney R. Burr is visiting in Akron,
Ohio.
In honor of Capt. and Mrs. H. B.
Lemere, a beautifully appointed din
ner was given Monday evening at the
The Omaha Chamber of Commerce
s one of the strongest and most efh
cient commercial bodies in the United
States. Scarcely a dozen clubs have
larger membership, and few, if
any, show sucn a variety ot genuine
achievements at the end of each year.
The main purpose of the Omaha
Chamber is to stimulate, foster and
protect the commercial and industrial
activities of Omaha, through co
operation on the part of its citizens.
Subjects such as civic, social better
ment and welfare work are considered
only as far as they are related to the
commercial and industrial situation.
In short, the function of this dub is
to find out the things needed to build
up Omaha and to get these things
done.
The club is designed to give its in
dustrial members as much voice in
the conduct of the club's affairs as
they may choose to exert. The mem
bership is made up of business and
professional men. Each member pays
the same initation and the same dues
and each member has one vote. The
governing body is a board of direc
tors of 75, selected once a year from
the membership at large. The board
of directors elects a president, secre
tary and treasurer and an executive
committee of 24 members. To this
executive committee " the board of
directors delegates its powers.
In order that the board of directors
and the executive committee may be
thoroughly representative in charac
ter, precautions have been taken to
insure proper representation of the
different groups of business men who
comprise the club. At each election
members of the board of directors
are elected from the following
groups: bankers, financial, grain deal
ers, professions, manufacturers, rail
road and public service corporations,
real estate, retail trade, stock yards,
and commission. Each of these 10
groups is represented on the director
ate in proportion to the number of
club members which each group con
tains. The same proportion holds
good in the election of the executive
committee, but in every case each one
of these 10 groups must have at least
one member on the board of direc
tors and on member on the execu
tive committee. In this way it is im
possible for any interest or group of
interests to control an election and
it is impossible for the directorate
to be nominated by any one or two
groups'.
The traffic bureau is affiliated with
the Chamber of Commerce, but is sep
arrtely financed by the large shippers
of Omaha, who profit most by the
activities of this bureau. This branch
of the club devotes itself to problems
of transportation, looking after the
interests of the business men of
Omaha in their relations with railroads.
The Bureau of Publicity and In
dustrial bureau are also operated
under direction of the chamber.
WEST AMBLEK
BENSON
Jas. Horton returned Thursday
from Primrose, Neb, where he
visited friends for several days.
Mrs. , George Iredale went to
Beatrice Thursday to attend the wed
ding of her cousin.
C H. Farris and family left Satur
day, for a two weeks visit with his
parents at Carrolton, Mo. .
Mrs. William Butler entertained at
dinner Thursday for Mrs. Ella
Brooks of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs.
Elizabeth. Pean of Central City, Mrs.
Ben Morton and Mrs. Earl Dean.
Mrs. F. E. Young entertained the
W Farnam Kensington club at 1
o ciock-luncheon Wednesday.
Andrew Morton will enter the
radio school at Lincoln Monday for
two months, preparatory to service
for; Uncle Sam.
Miss ;Sarah Robinson went to Cen
tral City Saturday for a visit with her
brother and family.
- A patroitic play, The Hope of the
World, by Miss Mary Oaks, was pre
lented .at the high school auditorium
by, the 8th grade class Wednesday
!vening,r after which Miss Reap pre
tented the diolomas.
F, H. Mcvicker and family have
moved to their new home, recently
?urchased at 2522 North 64th.
mrs. r.nzaoetn Dean and Miss
Margaret are visiting at the home of
Earl Dean.
The1 Baptist choir, under direction
f Prof. Lee G. Kratz, will give a
patriotic song service Sunday even-
Inir af the rhnrrh An vanfA11..
' ... VA,.iiviiaiijr
pod program has been arranged.
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A Sore Spot.
"Why do you say Harold Is of an
ungenerous nature?"
"Because he ia the only man I was
ever engaged to who insisted on get
ting back his ring." Baltimore American-
. :-
Mrs. Arthur King and daughter,
Miss Violet, returned Friday from
Superior, Neb.
Miss Marie Carlsen left Monday
for Missouri Valley.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Roinson mo
tored in from Grand Island to spend
the week-end with their aunt, Mrs. J.
Long.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Long of
Seattle, Wash., are guests this week
of his sisters, Mrs. Frank Wellman
and Elizabeth Long.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Randalf have
had as their guests the past week his
nephew, Virgil Snyder and wife. He
is professor of mathematics in Cor
nell University, Ithaca, N. Y. They
left Saturday for Los Angeles, Cai.,'
to spend the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Heusman
returned from Creighton, Neb.
P. L. Van Meter of Hamburg, la.,
was the guest this week of his daugh
ter, Mrs. J. J. Fulmer and husband.
P. C. Rasmussen of Winside, Neb.,
is the guest of Mrs. E. C. Campbell
and daughter, Mrs. B. Davis.
Mrs. L. Dorn and small son are
spending the month of June with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Van
Dusen, when she will join her hus
band in their new home at Kearney,
Neb.
F. D. Hodges is moving his family
this week to their new farm home
near Calhoun, Neb.
Miss Catherine Simmons, assistant
librarian at Central High school, left
Saturday for Iowa City, where she
will specialize in library work.
The graduating class of Beals
school held theif class picnic at Krug
park on Wednesday.
Mrs. Lester Darnelff formerly Miss
Hazel Toy, arrived Tuesday from
Cleveland, O., to spend the month
with her mother.
Mrs. Ida Miller was very much
pleased to receive a letfer from her
nephew Raymond Simon, who is in
the medical department of the hos
pital corps "Somewhere in France,"
not having heard from him since
Christmas when he was at Fort Clark,
Tex.
The young ladies' Sunday' school
classes of Mesdames T. C. Jensen and
Hans Nielsen met at the home of
Miss Bertha Hensman on Friday eve
ning and organized a waplalo club
and will do Red Cross work in the
future each week.
West Side Royal Neighbors gave
their monthly birthday club at the
home of Mrs. Frank Wagner Wednesday.
Why Suffer TJith Your Feet?
When It Can Easily Be Corrected
See the Foot Specialist
Tired, aching, painful feet is mostly due to improper articulation
of the bones in the foot and causes such conditions as weak and fall
ing arches, flat foot, Morton's toe or impingment (pinching) of the
nerves, etc. This condition is serious, as it gets worse and more
severe m time and often affects the knee joint and spine.
Such cases need the attention of an expert. I specialize in cor
recting and treating all kinds of ailments of the foot, such as flat
foot, weak and falling arches.Morton's toe, cramping and hammer
toes, weak ankles, bunions, enlarged joints, club and ingrowing nails,
corns, callouses, perspiring feet, etc.
Office Open From 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. EXAMINATION FREE.
DR. F. F. FUNDER
CHIROPODIST AND FOOT SPECIALIST
(Grdute of the Illinois College of Chiropody, Chicago.)
527 Securitiee Bldg. Corner 16th and Farnam. Phone Douglas 3480.
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JOHN W. GAMBLE, President.
Established in Omaha in 1886
Offers the Most Complete Line of
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Manufactured in This Country.
All team owners, dairymen and poultry raisers are
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Our Poultry line includes Buttermilk Chick Food,
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The Standard Line of Live Stock, Veterinary and Poul
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" Stewart's Seed Store
119 North 16th St.
Blackstone byNCol. and Mrs. J. M.
Banister, the other guests being Dr.
and Mrs. G Alexander Young, Dr.
and Mrs. Charles W. Pollard, Dr. and
Mrs. O. S. Hoffman. Dr. and Mrs.
Charles O'Xeil Rich, Dr. and Mrs.
B. B. Davis, Dr. Charles S. Jamej
land Mrs. Mary E. Van Gieson.
! Dr. Charles O'Xeil Rich left Tues
day to attend the medical convention
meeting in Chicago.
Mrs. J. B. Ruth has sold her homer"
at Forty-ninth and California streets
to Mr. Kinsler of Wisner.
An unusually attractive program
of a patriotic nature, with artistically
grouped tableaux, was given Tuesday
evening at the commencement exer
cises of the Dundee sthool. The
graduating pupils were: Miriam Wi
ley, Ruth Wallace. Doris Talmage,
Helen Schwager, Frances Robison,
Daisy Rich, Eleanor Pickard, Dorothy
rait, Janet Cunningham. Antoinette
Beall, Barbara Christie. Donald
Id Rockwell. Clifford
Leigh, Richard Koch, Russell John
ston, Theodore Hill. William How
ard, Harold Griffin, Alton Ellick.
Lovett Abercrombie and Mahlon
Davis.
Mrs. W. I. Robinson has returned
from a trip to St. Louis.
Mrs. Charles L. Sykes has returned
from a two months' stay in the
south. "
Everyone But Mother
Sunday, at our hou, -wa
Hav all torts of rompln' .
Father an' tht twins an m
1st go tromptn' trompln' .. ..
Berrying an' gettin' posies, ''..'
Hackbtrrlei an' these wild roses
Yes, an' chase each otherl -
1st the bestest time there be.
Everyone but mother. s '
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Nen coms dinner time, we A
1st all eat until It
S'prlses father he can't see
Mow we never spill It!
1st pieplant an' berry pie,
Jelly tarts an'auch O my,
We 1st race each other,
Eatln' till we most can't see, . ,
Everyone but mother.
Ken, when dinner's done, wt
All go off a-eleepln' "....
Underneath the maple tree.
Where they'a ahadows creepin'
'Cross our faces on that's near,
When we wake Is over here,
An' they 1st chase each otherl - 3
Nen we're rested a can be.
Everyone but mother.
When comes night, we set ;'
All around the table. '
Pickln' at the bones wt et
Long as we are able;
Not. w set on mother's knee
"Story time," that Is, and she
Telia one after t" other.
Til we're 'sleep an' 1st forget .
Everyone but mother. .
John D. Wells In the Pittsburgh Leadei.
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WE ARE STRONG
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OF
COMMERCE
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BECAUSE
they do so mu;h for Omaha, and for us,
that we could not do ourselves.
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"IN'UNION THERE IS STRENGTH"
Every business man owes it to himself and to Omaha
to join the organization that is doing so much for us.
JOIN NOW1
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and Pressed at Omaha's and Nebraska's oldest and best
Cleaning and Dyeing establishment.
Think it over, gentlemen.
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1513-17 Jones St. Phone Douglas 963. x
So. Side, 4708 So. 24th St Phone So. ,1283.
GUY LIGGETT, Pres.
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reelings and Congratulations
to the
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