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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1919)
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1919. Wholesalers Report Steady Growth During ' Year OMAHA GRAIN MARKET MAKES NEWRECORD Increase in Receipts and Ship ments Greatly in Excess of Those of Any Former Year. It was a record breaking year for ihe Omaha grain market. The total receipts for the year were 91,707,900 bushels, an increase of 25,245,800 over the previous year. The total shipments were 75,049,500 bushels, an increase of 18,507,700 bushels. The difference, 16H58.400 Dusneis, between the receipts of this vear and the shipments represents the quantity of grain now in storafje in Omaha terminal elevators and sold locally to millers, live stock feeders and others. Omaha is entering upon its six teenth year as a grain market. With in the comparatively short time that the Omaha Grain Exchange has been in existence it has placed Omaha on the map a,s the first of the primary grain market of the United States. First as a primary market, it is third in all other respects, being out Kinked in receipts and shipments by only Chicago and Kansas City. It is pulling up on Kansas City for second place and it is confidently expected that it will land in this po sition before the end of the present year. Big Gain for Year. v The comparative figures on Oma ha grain receipts and shipments dur ing 1917 and 1918 in bushels are: -Receipts- ley, the total aggregated $122,077, 690. Money Receipts Big. The figures on which the prices are computed are probably con siderably too low, for during most of the year a greater proportion of the wheat sold above $2 a bushel. Then, too, for a long time during the early summer most of the corn sold much higher than $1.40 a bush el. What was true of wheat and corn, during the spring and early summer, applied equally as well to sales of oats, barley and rye. How ever, going on the basis of the prices heretofore, the following shows the millions paid out here to be distrib uted back among the farmers of Omaha trade territory: Wheat S3B.72!,000 Corn 64,021.440 Oat lrt.4ia.600 Rye L'.26.S,550 Barley 2.660,600 Jobbing in Omaha Grows In Spite of Year of War Restrictions Fail to Keep Down Increase, Which is Ten Per Cent Over. 1917. ' '; for 1917. Wheat ;-. ...... . ... .13,714,000 Corn 29,882,000 Oata .,. .20,280,600 Rye '..871,200 Barley ,.,1,713,200 for 1918. 18,363,000 45,729,600 23,449,000 1.500,700 2,660.600 Total .". .66,426.100 91,707,900 -Shipments for 1917. Vheat 10,192.500 Corn 2S, 764, 000 Data 19,371,600 Rye 831,000 Barley 1,372,800 fir 1918. 12.628,800 37,'H4,800 22,304.000 1,044,000 2,127,400 Total 57,631,800 75,049,500 The money paid out by members ' af tht Omaha Grain exchange for the five principal kinds of grain, wheat, oats, corn, rye and barley, coming to this market is something enormous. On the basis of $2 a jushel for wheat, $1.40 for corn, 70 cents for oats, $1.50 for rye and a 'ittle bette than $1 a bushel for bar- 1909. 1910. 1911 . 1912. 1913. 1914. 1915, 1916. 1917., 1918. 6106 6125 9006 12975 15935 15159 12013 32038 14H94 15432 4925 5865 6251 7783 9989 10541 6536 9187 14575 12100 174 I 209 123 186 357 708 1162 1418 1053 923 607 538 1142 684 339 383 391 953 1192 1508 MrilTTREATMENT lit W YEAR'S GIFT FREE rttoM Health Skut Smkhm .a' I TBt BUimiNO, jhotTQH, k iy Header, Are yon trowing deiff If you are. here the gliddeit measaia of 1919 for you. A Peafnem 8peeiallat baa arisen who has per fected adentifio ramtltutlonal method of treat ment which haa cured Korea aud hundreds of people f Deafnesa. Fronrall oier the country people are asking for KulUlloii and advice, Krery mall bring, arateful featlraouy from cured patients. Listen to this from jur capital city: "IK I VAN" ONLY SUI'ND THK NOTES OF MY PERKKOT t'l'RK IN 1KAF EARS -NTH. 1 HEAR THE Et'HO Of" RK81ONSK." !n down South to (leonrls. and hear this: "I ?A 1IKAR NOW Jl'ST LIKE I VSED TO IN MY VOUTH. I CAN HEAR MY CUK'K TICK. ANY iVHKRE IX MY ROOM." Go across the continent to the Pacific Ocesn. and listen to th grateful testimony from the state of Washington: "I t'AN HEAR AM. RIOI1T. I CAN TAKE ORDERS OVER THE TELEPHONE OR I ;'AN Gp TO CHCKCH AND MAR THE 8ER : MON. ..a : ' . . ri , - - . ; It may 'seem to "you 'too good to 1 true. You nay hate hecome so discouraged tT repeated fail ures that 'Too feir Mlat yon' must suffer the terrible lonely islMry of Deafness. But rwiftintxrr this la the age of seeming miracles. IVe talk serosa .ajace without wires, we fly Ilka birds, we do things in triarv line, which fit, ten. rifteen, twenty years' ago we would hate said were "lmpe-sihle." Medical science as progressed too, and now. In the beginning of 1019, many cases of Deafness, which had been thought incursble, are no longer an 4Iere Is a wonderful opportunity for you to see this famous trestment for yourself, nesfnesa Spe cialist Sprrmle n'aaes this offer for the month of January: "EVERY DKAKNKS8 SUFFERER WHO HKND8 FOR A TREATMENT IN JANt'ARY WILL HE SENT ONE FREE. AS A NEW YEAR'S DO IT NOW Just hecause It la so easy for you to obtain this arnoua trestment. don't put the matter off. hut I paper and penotl and aak for It before yon lay the paper down. A post card request will neb' vou to see risht In your own home this method of trestment which haa restored hearing and the Joy of 'Mat to hundreds of sufferers in lust your rondl 'ion. Put the card in the nest mail. , DEAFNESS SPECIALIST SPROULE 192 Trade Building - Boston, Mass- Mter each meal YOU ept ont ATONIC KfOW YOUR STOMACH'S SAKE") wd get full food value and real stom icb comfort. Instantly relieves heart' r, bloated. gassy feeling, STOPS icidity food repeating and stomach tisery AIDS digestion; keeps the stomach sweet and pure. , EATONIC to the beat remedy and only costs I cent or two a daw to saw it Yon will bede Ifrnted with results. Satisfaction g-uarantesO money back. Please call and try i 'Follow tht Beaton Path," 15th and F amain Sta, Omaha. Total J122.0T9.190 Since the establishment of the Omaha grain market 16 years ago there has been a steady growth each year in the receipts due to the fact that there has been a continual and steady reaching out into new territory. However, the growth has been most marked in the last, ten years. The comparative figures for each year of the last ten, showing the carload lots of the different kinds of grain coming to the Oma ha market, supply the evidence. Year. Wheat. Corn. Oats. Rye. Barley 1470S 197R6 15835 K.412 25327 26050 20057 1SS96 2.1719 32784 Rich Territory to Draw On. The growth of the Omaha market is something that has astonished its most enthusiastic supporters. With the excellent railroad facilities ex tending out to the numerous grain producing states west of the Missis sippi river the market is able to reach out and draw trade (from a much greater distance than most of the cities. Another factor that tends to make Omaha one of the greatest grain markets in the country is its nn mense elevator facilities for the storage of grain. At the Omaha grain terminals there are 20 elevat ors with a storage capacity of 10,- 600,000 bushels. , And while Omaha has grown to be the grain market of the central west, it has made rapid strides in the way of becoming a muling center, Here there are three flouring mills and practically the year around they are run night and day. they and their daily capacity are; Omaha Roller mills, 2,000 barrels a day. Maney mills. 1,500 barrels a day, Updike mills, 1,000 barrels a day. Miller Cereal mills, 1,800 barrels a day. For Home Consumption. In addition to these there are ; number of small mills doing a mer chant business. Then there are the two alfalfa meal mills, the Omaha and the M. C. Peters company, each with a capacity of 1,000 tons daily and each Using large quantities of grain in the manufacture of their products. - . , . It is of interest to note the fact that during the last year Omaha has had. much o do with , feeding the American, boys on ' the European war front and also the soldiers and civilians of the countries that were at war with Germany. Omaha was looked upon as a great grain storage house of the central section of the United States and to this city came buyers from eastern, southern and northern mills to take the raw prod uct. Not only did they come, but also there came the agents of the governments of England, France, Belgium and Italy. They bought the grain in storage and ordered it sent abroad, there to be milled and the products distributed. As to the future of the Omaha grain market, members of the Oma ha exchange are sanguine that it will be but a few years until it will stand at the head of the list. Ihey point to the fact that with the millions of acres of rich wheat land now un cultivated and in a virgin state, all lying within Omaha trade territory, more elevators will be erected and more mills will be put in operation, thus making this not only the lead ing grain, but the leading milling center of the country. In spite of the fact that many lines of merchandise were hard to obtain, and many others affected by war restrictions, merchandise sold through Omaha jobbing houses dur ing 1918 amounted to $260,836,940, or an increase of about 10 per cent over the year of 1917. The jobbing business for the vear in the particualr line was as fol lows: Automobile Urea & accessoriea.l 16,794.918 Automobiles and trucks 37,103,277 Adding; machlnea, etc 64S.V40 Advertising novelties 180,000 Agricultural Implements 19.0ttl.V8S Asbestos and magnesia prod'ts 490,000 Art goods ISO. 000 llakcrs' supplies 2lil,000 Barbers' supplies 51,000 Belting and supplies 20,000 Beverages tit7,625 Billiard, bowling and pool sup Plies J05.000 Blue prints 6.700 Boilers 30,000 Boots and shoes 3,125,000 Brick and tile 10l,5(i0 Building material 1,759,055 Butchers' supplies 99,000 Carpets, ruga and draperies,... 800,000 Candy and confectionery 785,000 Cement and lime 114.107 Cereals 400, uoo Cheese 184.117 China and crockery ' 600,000 Cigars and tobacco 2,457,500 Clothing and furnishings 210,000 Coal and coke 13,514,999 Coffee, tea an dsplces 1,153,833 Cordaga and twine 806,00(1 Crackers and rookies 300,000 Creamery machinery and sup plies 535,300 Corks and seals i 200,000 Dairy produces 200.532 Dental supplies 635.141 Drugs and sundries 2,652,428 Dry goods and notions....... 15.103,000 Engines, gas and oil 1,301,500 Electrical supplies 5,407.690 Feed and Hay 1,659,432 Fire department equipment... 39,328 Flour, other than wholesale grocers 1,282,650 Fruits and vegetablea 12.237.817 Hardware, light 6,450,000 Fur, hides and pelta 654,000 Furnace supplies 363.462 Furniture 726,000 Groceries S0.578.32S Qrocers' specialties 60,000 Harness and saddles 450,000 Hardware, hevy, and imple ment supplies 2,250,000 Hardware, light 6.450,000 Hats, raps and (loves 575,000 Hospital auppliea 16,000 Hotel aupplies 118,000 Jewelry 877.000 Junk and paper stock 1,861,000 Laundry supplies 286,517 Leather supplies and novelties.. 460,000 Lithographing and printing.. 35,000 Lumbar 13,930,235 Machinery aupplies 780,000 Magazines, booka and news.. 822,500 Matrh.es 260,000 Millwork. sash and doors 800.200 Mill & Eelvator Supplies 125,000 Millinery 813,000 Motor Cycles & Bicycles 33,000 Office Supplies & Equipment 512,589 Oils Oil Burning Devices 23.0S0.00n Optical Goods 8,349 Oysters, Fish Celery 758.306 Paints & OIhss 4,323,750 Paper & Stationery 6,257,000 Photo Supplies 225.000 Picture Frames & Moldings .. 70,000 Pipe Organa 65,000 Pipes (Smoking) 75,000 Plumbing & Heating Supplies 6,460,000 P0ultry, Butter & Eggs 6,132,018 Printers Supplies & Equip. 180,000 Pumps & Windmills 1,257,000 Rubber Footwear & Clothing 2,000.000 Road Machinery ' 76,0000 Refrigerators 61,000 Roofing Materials 64,000 Scales 167,30s School Supplies 380,000 Seeds 1,000,000 Sheet Metal Products, Tanks, "etc 100,000 Stoves and Ranges 120,00s Stoneware 339,619 Surgical Supplle 200,000 Talking Machines & Records 1,450,000 Tractors 1,058,834 Undertakers' Supplies 165,000 Wallpaper & Supplies 395,000 Woodenware 420,000 Wagons 420,000 Weather Stripping .&00 White Lead & Alloys 165,000 Total, 1918 1260,836,940 Ttal, 1917, 236,137,067 Total, 1916 183,759,493 Total, 1916 177.261,670 Total, 1914 169,990,467 Os.O ..9 ..ment M shrdl hm hmh l A. a 1 I IsMMS'aM'Sat'ff roscouisiA(Si?ft slllaafaW Thy alp a enM thai earl That's ' ttu'oirat ..war. drua Mem taet. Births and Deaths Both Increase During Last Year Deaths in Omaha during 1918 in creased more than 40 per cent over the deaths in 1917. There were 3,540 deaths in 1918, compared with only 2,535 in 1917, according to the city health commissioner's report. This increase of 1,005 deaths was due to the Spanish influenza. Until October, when the epidemic , broke out here, the deaths each month were less, in nearly every instance, in 1918 than in the corresponding month in 1917. In the last three months they increased as follows: 1917. 1918. October 185 633 November 155 401 December 242 560 The number of births in Omaha in 1918 was 4,003, and in 1917 the number of births was 3,728. XfcTrtOSANCELES I 3t t 11 CALIFORNIA f l&fjUsLi'l LOGICAL fc 1rWsBWOa LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA LOGICAL NEBRASKA ' HEADQUARTERS. BSS Rooms, each with private bath. Every desired luxury. Situated in the heatt of the city, convenient to all places of interest. Cart to beaches. m mm ).na mtaaWttia anil nnSM J groves but few steps from lobby. Ab- -i solutely Fireproof. Both American ana 3 European Plana. Tariff from Sl.ftO per 4 day upwards. Look for Clark But at ' uepot. r . m. Liunnuce, lessee. Niimiiil,tftrrmjMirii)miioiui!mia More Warehouses and Churches Were Built Than During Year 1917 Building operations in Omaha during 1918 showed the effect of the, war. In spite of this handicap, how ever, there was more than half as much building in 1918 as in 1917. Totals were: 1917, $7,737,047; 1918, $3,608,054. Two items showed larger in 1918 than 1917. These are warehouses and factories, which amounted to $1,755,000 in 1917 and to $1,895,700 in 1918, and churches, which were constructed to a value of $121,500 in 1917 and to a value of $193,800 in 1918. Total figures for 1918 are a3 fol-lows; Permlta. Dwellings 261 Stores and office buildings., 28 Warehouses and factories.. 63 Churches .13 Apartments and hotels 4 Hospitals '. S Schools 1 Theaters and clubs 1 Miscellaneous 290 Additions and repairs 272 Amount. I 800,095 01,650 1,695,700 193,300 100,000 40,000 20,000 25,000 99.500 231,509 Total. .13,609,0.54 Omaha Starts Work on . Million and Half of Larger Structures The following structures, each costing $50,000 or more were built in Omaha during the year 1918: Union Pacific Ft. R. Co., brick ma chine shop f40,000 Drake Realty Construction Co., Apartments t 10, Drake court .70,000 Mercantile Storage So. 701-11 So. 11th St., fireproof warehouse 164,000 B, H. Post. 6202-11 Maple St., brick garage 4 store building 60,000 Faxton Estate. 2561-6 Farnam St. ' Fireproof auto tales bldg. ...... 120,000 Omaha & !. B. St.,-Ry Co., .568- ; 2617 Cuming St., brick car barn 76,000 Neb. Buick Auto Co, 1901 Howard . St., Fireproof garage and sales building .160,000 Holy Angels Parish, 2720 Fowler Ave., brick church 60,000 Central Congregational church,3546 Harney St.. brick church 65,000 Cudahy Packing Co., 33rd & Q Sta., Fireproof cold storage bldg... 100.0000 Sprague Tire A Rubber Co., 916-24 No. 18th St., factory 135,000 Skinner Packing Co.. Fireproof packing house, power plant, of fice and garage 600,000 Jerpe Commission Co., 1002-12 Dav enport St. warehouse bldg 60,000 61,589,000 Annual Report of Douglas County Attorney for 1918 The annual report of the county attorney shows many convictions during the year: Convictions First and second de gree murder and manslaughter, 3; breaking and entering, Ji; grand larceny, 24; robbery, 5; forgery, 10; felonious assault, 6; concealed weapons, 2; larceny from the per son, 2; insufficient funds. 5; statu tory rape, 3; wife and child aban donment, 2; aiding and abetting, 7; miscellaneous, 6; rape, 1; embezzle ment. 1: total. 113. Acquittals First degree murder 1; breaking and entering, l; robbery, 1; felonious assault, 2; larceny from the person, 1; miscellaneous, 1; rape, 2; total, 9. Free Employment Bureau Does Big Business in 1918 The co-operative free employment office in the court house reports tnat during 1918 employment was furn ished for 7,889 men and 4,975 women, a total of 12,864. The office recorded 15,610 appli cants during the yean This work was accomplished with an annual payroll of $12,000. : County Clerk Records fc,337 Mortgages In 1918 County Clerk Frank Dewey re ports that during 1918 his office re corded 8,337 chattel mortgages, re presenting a total indebtedness of $10,866,374. During the year there were 3,902' releases," representing a money consideration of $2,659,868. Public Utilities Are Held Back for Year by Material Shortage Scarcity of material, labor, as well as restrictions in financing due to war restrictions, made 1918 a year of comparatively limited expansion on the part of the public service corporations of the city. , Despite these conditions some notable improvements were made in order to provide absolutely nec essary facilities for the increasing growth of the city. ' The Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway company appropri ated $150,000 for the new Cuming street car barn, which is nearing completion. The Omaha Gas company com pleted a number of extensions and also installed a pump, witn a ca pacity of 300,000 cubic feet per hour, to force gas to the outlying suburbs of Omaha, the whole program of improvement representing an in vestment of $75,000. The Nebraska Power company completed during the year the im provements started two years ago, which included the doubling of the capacity of the power house, the in stallation of a new 15,000 kilowatt steam turbine engine, with full equipment of boilers, switchboard, etc. Short line extensions were al so made to various parts of the city and an addition to the South Side transformer station. The whole project of improvement amounted to $2,000,000, of which $500,000 was spent last year. Jurors Served Over Eleven Thousand Days During 1918 Record of cases docketed in the district court during the year 1918: Civil cases 2,365 Criminal cases 543 Juvenile cases 410 I Petit Jury Service. Total number days' attendance, Jorors 11,061 Total number miles travel allowed Jurors 2,485 Total costs of petit Jury 33,307 Total amount paid to grand jurors during year 1,333 Total....... $31,640 Total number of civil juries im panneled 204, resulting as follows: For Plaintiff (Civil). Trials. Am'nt. Verdicts for plaintiff 14 $179,506 Instructed for plaintiff 6 8,043 Jury discharged, finding for , plaintiff 11 7,321 Totals 110 $194,870 For Defendant (Civil). , . Cases. Amn't Verdicts for 'defendant.. 81 $ 96 Instructed for defendant 19 1,810 Jury discharged, finding for de fendant ........ 4 Total 64 $1,307 Ochsenbein Goes to Coast to Enter Creamery Business E. C. Ochsenbein, . well-known fufniture salesman here, will leave Omaha this week for Oakland, Cal., where he and his brother, Roy Och senbein. will start a creamery es tablishment. The brother is at the head of a big creamery business in San Francisco and the concern at Oakland, which will be in charge ot the Omaha man, will be a branch of the San Francisco company. . Mr. Ochsenbein has lived in Omaha all his life and has sold fur niture in local stores for the last 20 years. For the last year he has been employed by Orchard-Wilhelm company. The Opening of the Mid-West Gospel Mission 215 S. 14th St. Wed. Night, Jan. 1, 1919 Special Speaker, Good Music Public Invited and Wei- come UNION PACIFIC PUTS MILLIONS INTOJPROPERTY Regardless of War, Overland Road Is Kept Up to High est Point of Traffic Efficiency. While a good many of the rail roads of the country were running pretty close to shore in the matter of expending money last year, the Union Facific, with the authority of the Railroad War board expend ed $10,461,000 on new' work and betterments. Included in the new work along the line of the Union Pacific was the renewal of 75.78 miles steel on main line tracks. In Wyom'ng the second track was extended 142 miles. An interlocking plant was installed at Hastings. Four 150-ton track scales were put in. In the way of new passenger sta tions, commodious buildings were erected in Grand Island and North Platte, Neb., with still others in Kansas and Wyoming. New coal ing stations were erected in Grand Island, Laramie agd Kansas City. New shop buildings were completed in Omaha, Grand Island and Hast ings, Neb., Evanston, Wyo. and Marysville, Kan. The erection of roundhouses, machine shops and other buildings was commenced in Council Bluffs, Sidney, Cheyenne, oreen Kiver ana Junction Uty, work to be completed this year. Buys New Engines. Durini? last vear the Union Pacific acquired 50 new engines on its own account ana U through the United States railroad administration. Dur ing the same period it purchased and put into use 3,975 box, stock and flat cars, besides getting 1,000 from the railroad administration. During the year the company had an average of 936 locomotives in service daily. Train mileage and the number of passengers handled during the year is something almost- hevnnA the comprehension of the layman. The ngures snow tnat the passenger tra:ns on the road traveler! QR87- 025 train miles as against 11,424,230 aunng the previous year. During 1918 the oassencers rarriprl tntatlpH 4,730,276, as against 5,330,634 in 1917. rigurmg it aown still closer, the mileage ridden during 1918 by all the people travelling on the marl was equal to carrying 736,563,374 passengers one mile. Hauled Many Soldiers. The transportation of soldiers was an important item. During 1917 the comoanv nnerativl 17? troop trams, carrying 127,608 men. In 1918, the troop trains aggregated 872. thev handling 3M f,7i Commercial freight handled during the year aggregated 16,670,000 tons. Of this 1.000 carloads originated at and 13,000 carloads terminated at army cantonments. The number of freight cars on the company lines during 1918 aver aged 21,900 and passenger cars, 600 per day. Engines hauling freight averaged 115 and those hauling pas senger trains, 165 miles a day. Mile age made by freight cars averaged 65.3 and passenger, 300 a day. Burlington Improvements. Improvements and betterments, not including maintenance, cost the Burlington $2,297,000 on the lines west of the Missouri river. During the year the rail replacements ag gregated $543,000. Second track was laid from Crawford to Rutland, Sheridan to Dietz and Ashland to Greenwood. During the year, at Phillips, near Grand Island, a change was made in the line at a cost of $171,300. At this point a bridge was built over the Platte river at a cost of $99,700. Other improvements made by the Burlington during the year included new terminals at Bridgeport, cost ing $62,800; reservoir and pipe line at Edgmont, $175,000; water sta tions, tanks, pipe lines, $92,000; bal lasting, $60,000; automatic signals, $31,000; new sidings, $325,000; com pany buildings at Casper, Edgmont, Lincoln, Havelock and Ravenna, $243,000. New work and building done by the Other roads operating into Omaha was unusually light. The Great Western built an addition to its Omaha freight house at a cost of $50,000 and the Missouri Pacific, at a cost of some 75,000, erected a freight depot to replace the one destroyed by fire a number of months ago. The Northwestern erected a depot at Parkerton at a cost of $5,000, - laid a number of passing tracks out on the line to Wyoming and replaced about 12 miles of steel, i During the year, the Missouri Pacific, at a cost of $150,000, ele vated and rebuilt a considerable portion of its belt line. The eleva tion starts at a point north of Cal ifornia street and extends south to about Leavenworth. Ornamental viaducts of concrete and steel span Farnam, Douglas and Dodge streets. These viaducts carry the railroad tracks, with the vehicle, street car and pedestrian traffic on the street level. NEW CAPITAL IS INVESTED HERE DURING YEARM 8 Fifty-Five New Industries ES' tablished Employing 1,231 Additional Men in Year Just Closed. During the year of 1918, 55 new industrial establishments were open ed in Omaha, and eight instituting to a larsre extent increase! thpir capital and number of people employed. In speaking of the industrial ad vancement of Omaha rliirinc tli past year, J. M. Gillan, chairman of the industrial committee, sairt: "TIip number of small institutions was not as great as last year, because many men with small canital were afraid of the unsettled war conditions, and again many men who had ready cash invested a great Heal rf it in T IKprr bonds. There were many concerns mat were meritorious intending to start business here that kept out for just mose reasons. But the men with a larger amount of capital were not alarmed or worried over what the war might bring forth, conse quently while there were not so many new firms opened for business in Omaha during the past year, the ones that did start were large, arid the amount of capital invested and the number of people employed is far in excess of last year." t New Industries. The following are the figures on the new industries established in Omaha during 1918: Auto Clesring House f Adair-Lee Rubber Co.... Balduff Co Blackstone Garage No. 2. Blank Enterprises, A. H.. Beals ss Schell Auto Re pair Co ;.. Crown Tire & Rubber Co. Crumbliss Van Doren Co.. Estess Laundry Tablet Co. Exlde Battery Service.... Flatlron Garage Federal Envelope Mfg. Co. Qoodwear Tire & Rubber Co Hay ward Motor Co Huffman W. L Truck Body Co tHIgglns Parking Co.... Industrial Chemical Sup ply Co, Keystone Motor Corp.... tKirschbraun & Sons Knudsen Auto Co Long Company W. W. Tpyewrlters Laruesh ft Woodruff Co. McCaffrey Motor Co Midwest Serum Co Mid City Motor Co Midwest Iron Works..,.., tMlller Cereal Mills 14S.000 Moore Car Company National Tire - Shop Nebraska Bag Co Nebraska Sulfern Soap Co. Nebraska Motor Sales Co. Norrls Lumber Co Omaha Battery Service Co. Omaha Hog, Horse & Cat tle Remedy Co Omaha Motor Sales Co.... Odell Corporation, The.. Omaha Rug Co tOmaha Sanitary Supply Co. ...a Pennsylvania Rubber Co.. Pells Leaf Tobacco Co... Perfection Cooker Co.... Permallfe Storage Battery Co Petersen & Pegau Bak- Ralston Tub Factory Ring Brothers Runyan Cushion Tire Co. Select Picture Corp Service Garage Co tSc'ott-Omaha Tent A Capital No. In- of Era vested, plcyes I 15.000 4 26,000 7 10 12,000 9 100,000 20 2,000 5 350,000 40 25,000 7 1,000 6 25.000 20 5,000 S 25,000 9 10,000 6 25,000 13 40,000 15 100,000 20 110,(100 12 50,000 3 25 25,000 6 26.000 7 6.000 26,000 40 25,000 S 40.000 25 40,000 25 148.000 45 600,000 100 5.000 6 4,000 5 30,000 10 25,000 2 50,000 11 875,000 6 45,000 9 2,500 3 100,000 20 100,000 6 100,000 6 1,500 2 100.000 25.000 Id 10,000 2 30,000 6 15.000 6 160,000 20 26,000 20 3,000 3 25,000 2 40,000 12 36,000 10 100,000 125 600,000 4 25.000 25,000 15,000 4 400,000 85 3,600,000 250 55,000 20 20,000 11 75,000 35 5,000 S 2,000 2 'Standard Potash. Co.... Sterling Film Co Stoltenburg Elevator Co.. Sioux City Tire Sales Co. Sprague Tire A Rubber Co Skinner Packing Co Thlele & Scharf Millinery Co United Service Co Weir Co., Truck Bodies. . Western States Garage Co. Will Hall Garage & Transfer Co $8,371,000 1,241 Headquarters office only In Omaha. Factories located outside city. lAddltlonal capital and employes. 1917. 1918. New capital Invested. $3,177,000 $8,371,000 Additional employes.. 1,094 1,231 War Cuts Down the Number of Weddings in This City Marriage licenses fell over 500 from 1917, according to the report from the county court: 1917 Marriage licenses issued. 2,91o 1918 Marriage licenses issued .2,420 5y5cr Basket Stores 5T 55 Thursday all our Omaha and Council Bluffs Stores will sell Per Can AAnriCash Habit brands 01 m UUH1J Canned Corn at. . I 0 VOC This Corn is extra standard quality packed in Iowa at a clean, sanitary fac tory. Better quality than the ordinary Corn and is usually sold by most grocers at 171,4c to 20c per can. 5T Basket Stores 5Ir RECREATION IN PLAYGROUNDS OCCUPIES fiANY All Sorts of Tournaments and Stunts Planned to Occupy the Kiddies of Omaha. The municipal recreation depart ment did a big work during 1918 in the teaching of patriotism through programs and pageantry. The de velopment of the community cen ters was also a feature of the work. An ambitious program was adopted last spring and, with the aid of the people of every playground com munity, was carried through to suc cess. The chief effort of the department was on the big pageant presented on Labor day at Riverview park, in which approximately 500 children and about 50 men and women took part. The pageant presented in unique manner the plea of President Wilson that the interests of the coming generation be safeguarded during the strenuous time of war. All playgrounds observed the In dependence days of the United States and France, July 4 and 14, respectively, by appropriate pro grains. A benefit circus at Kountze park and benefit carnivals at Millpc and Hanscom parks, in whicli the Red Cross and the Omaha municipal guards shared the proceeds, were two of the big undertakings by play ground communities. In these, th parents of playground children were the prime movers. Guards Organize. Eight Campfircs were organized among the older girls at the play grounds and the Omaha municipal guards, the organization by which the play and physical training of the older boys of the playground is con trolled, increased its membership to almost 400. The annual encamp ment of the municipal guards at Elmwood park, made possible bv the generosity of public spirited business and professional men ot Omaha, was attended by 250 boys The camp lasted a week and there was not a penny of expense to the bovs who attended. Sewing, crocheting, knitting and similar activities were taught to the girls of the playgrounds, and boys were taught to make toys, many ot which were sent to the Belgian or phans and to the charitable insti tutions of Omaha. Boys and girls alike gathered old paper, tinfoil. etc., for the Red Cross and many knitted garments were- made for the Red Cross by playground girls. Junior city governments were conducted on all of the playgrounds, 'EAT' HERS mm THE BEST BREAD SUCCESSOR TO METZCERS TBAOe MARK and the interest of children in civic affairs was aroused as a result. In addition, the spirit of co-operation and responsibility was inculcated in an impressive manner in the minds of the youngsters. Horseshoe Tournament. A horseshoe tournament was con ducted at Fontenelle park, and for mation of a State Horseshoe Pitch ing association resulted. The tourna ment was attended by many out-of-town men, and aroused the interest of young and old alike in this wholesome and simple form of recreation. Formation of a Municipal Golf as sociation was started, and it is ex pected that all who play on the twx) municipal courses at Elmwood and Miller parks will unite in making the association the controlling or ganization for this form of outdoot sport. Golf tournaments were con ducted for the older boys of the playgrounds at Miller park and Benson playground. Tennis tourna ments were conducted at Miller and Gifford parks. Two new clay tennis courts were built at Kountze park, and the ground was cleared for three courts at Fontenelle park, which will be completed this spring. Thirteen Play Grounds. Thirteen playgrounds were con ducted during the summer season. Attendance was less than last sea son, owing to war conditions. Four swimming pools were con ducted last season. Owing to the efficiency of the life guards, not s single serious accident was reported, although in a number of casei guards from the municipal beach? al Carter Lake were called to the res cue of persons who were in dangei in other parts of the lake. The community center program has been curtailed because of the influenza epidemic. In addition to the centers conducted last season, three new centers at Train, Mason and Benson schools were opened this season. Community singing and com munity drama, inaugurated last sea son, are among the principal fea tures of the community center work. WEST LAWN CEMETERY Beautiful, modern park plan ceme tery aecessiblt to Omaha's best resi dence section. Family lots on partial payment at time of burial. Telephone Walnut 820 and Dounlas 829. Our free automobile is at your service. WEST LAWN CEMETERY. 58th and Center. 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