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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEEt APRIL 2.0, 1919..
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A Greater Omaha a Greater Nebraska the Thought of All
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REALTORS MAKE
LARGE SUM OFF
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SMALL CAPITAL
Keystone Investment Com
pany Puts Up $250 and
Makes Profit of $180,000
From Transaction.
Five Omaha realtors recently
made $180,000 on an original invest
ment of $50 apiece. This was done
by the Keystone investment com
pany, composed of Ernest Sweet,
cnaries W. Martin, Harry Wolf, B.
R. Hastings and E. M. Slater when
they bought the lease on The Bee
building with an option to pur
chase. i The story of this remarkable deal
on a small investment, and their
credit, reads like fiction instead of
a real business deal involving three
quarters of a million dollars.
The price of the Bee Building
company was on a valuation of $719,
000, on which they were to pay $25,
000 down. The Keystone Invest
ment company borrowed this money
from a hank, paying 5 per cent in
terest. They then loaned the money
back to the bank for a certificate
of deposit on which they received 4
per cent. This certificate of deposit
was turned over as the initial
payment. So it cost them $50 apiece.
The building did not make money
the first year so they had to dig
down in their pockets for a small
sum, but it was on a paying basis
for them when they sold it, nearly
two years later, for a profit of $180,
00'V The Teters Trust Co. expects to
remodel the building and to use the
lower floor as a banking room. They
have arranged with the Bankers
Realty Investment Co., to move their
offices into the large room on the
second floor. '
Care of Broody Hen
Raises Egg Production
"Treat your broody hens kindly
if you wish them to begin laying
a2;ain in a short time," says J. G.
Ha!pin, poultryman at the Wiscon
sin Experiment station. Hens put
in a broody coop the first night
they wish to sit on the nest, and
then cared for properly, will begin
laying again in from nine to i
days, while those allowed to sit for
week will not begin laying for
JO days or more. i
The best plan for curing broodi
ness is to place the hen in a slat
bottom coop raised at least one foot
from the floor, so that air may cir
culate freely under it. Feed ' the
hen a good egg-laying ration and
give her plenty of fresh .water to
drink.
The first day a hen becomes
. broodv she has still several partly-
fbrmed yolks which reduce rapidly
fc size if she is allowed to remain
f . t 1 j t.. u.
n inc nesi lur scvciai uap. uy inc
line she has been sitting a week
ese yolks will have been absorbed,
that it will take about days to
Srvelop an egg. For this reason,
e important thing is to catch all
foody hens each evening, and re
vpve them from the nests so that
y will lose the least possible time
Bore beginning to lay. Hens should
kept in the broody coop for three
more davs. and it they still wisn
I sit they should be imprisoned for
loneer time. Hens that are
bronic sitters should be fattened
lid sold to the butcher.
ales of One Omaha Real -
Estate Firm Total $269,300
Sales of Omaha real estate, busi-
!ess and residence property, made
v Shuler & Cary last week, totalled
209,300.
Une ot tne sales, wnicn tne
uyer does not want made public,
las for $156,000.
In the list is the sale of the B. F.
Barshall residence at 3624 Burt
treet to E. L. Burke of the Burke-
ent company for $32,000. Mr.
larshall, president of the Marshall
aper company, will give possession
If his home September 1.
i One day last week deals were
Hosed for 11 vacant lots.
Bee Want-ads pay big profits to
he people who read them.
Qf Is G uaranteed You
on your money in Home Builders, Inc.
You get Preferred Shares convertible after 12 months
upon short notice to the American Security Co., Fiscal
Agents.
Home Builder Doet Two Things:
Finances and constructs buildings, large or small, for the
interest on the money advanced and for the builder's
profit.
A Limited Number of
6 guaranteed shares yet available. You can hold them
indifinitely and the rate is never changed after shares
are issued.
Order By Mail.
Any number up to $5,000.00. Shares $1.00 each. Inter
est begins on date of issue.
HomeRuilderS
COHIORATtB,
American Security Co., Fiscal Agents.
Omaha, Neb.
C A. Rohrboufh, Pres.
C. C. Shimer, Sec'y.
Group of Yankee Boxers; Took Part In
Nl 9 : if j
LT. 5. Army Boxeri
A large group, of United States
Army boxers who took part in the
British-American tournament for
the king's belt, which was recently
held in London. Left to right, back
Strawberry Lovers
Should Investigate
Everbearing Variety
Those who wish a dish of straw-
Lerries out of season should not
pass up the chance to get a start
in the everbearing variety this
spring, says R. H. Howard, head
of , the department of horticulture,
University of Nebraska. While the
everbearing variety is not a heavy
producer, and can hardly be called
profitable for commercial purposes,
unless one has a market that will
pay. a big price, they do produce
well for home use. All through the
summer and the fall until hard
frost a little patch of them will p o
vide many a family dish.
The university has found the
I rogressive to be a good ever-bearing
variety. Several varieties were
tested at the university farm. The
Progressive withstands the hard
winters well and yields as well cr
better than most others. It is dis
ease resistant, especially to leaf
spot diseases.
Everbearing strawberries can be
set out any time now. The piants
do well a foot apart in the row,
with the rows from two to four feet
apart. Unless the plants are extra
ordinarily vigorous they should not
be allowed to bear the first year.
Flowers will appear soon after they
arc set, and should be removed.
Late in the summer, if the phnts
show vigor, they sometimes cm le
allowed to bear.
Not more than year-old plants
should be set out. Such plants
can be recognized by their white
roots.
Immediately after the first hard
freeze in the fall the plants should
be well covered with straw, to pre
vent thawing and freezing of the
soil.
Real Estate Board Reports
Building Costs to Capital
The executive office of the real
estate board is filling in answers to
an economic questionnaire made out
by the Department of Labor in
Washington and sent out by the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards.
These questionnaires call for a
detailed study and statement of op
erating expenses and earnings of
eight different classes of buildings
from 1914 to 1918.
The work will be completed this
week.
One Firm Sells 15 Vacant
Lots In About Two Days
Sales of 15 vacant lots in two
days were made by the Hastings &
Heyden firm last week. These were
made in different parts of the city,
and to various classes of people.
All realtors dealing in vacant lots
are now finding a healthful market
for their property.
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row: Augie Ratner, New York;
Lieut. R. H. Leslie, Eddie McGoor
ty, Oshkosh; Mike O'Dowd, ,St
Taul; Eddie Shannon, San Francis
co. Front row, left to rignt: Jake
Abel, Chatanooga; Gene Delmont.
NDS 0
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Poultry Experts Condemn Use
of Patent Foods; Free Ac
cess to Corn Cribs Causes
Death of Thousands.
Lack of brooders, heavy feeding of
corn, and use of "remedies", are
three big evils existing in Nebraska
poultry raising, say, C. T. Cornman,
university poultry extension special
ist, who has traveled extensively in
the state the last year, giving lec
tures and demonstrations. There are
probably more incubators per capita
in Nebraska than in any other
state, he declared, but there is a no
torious lack of brooders, and the
lack of brooders means the lack of
a proper way to bring the chicks
through the critical period after they
are hatched.
"It is comparatively easy to hatch
chickens," said Mr. Cornman. "The
difficult part comes after they are
hatched. If it is not possible to have
a brooder don't have an incubator.
Stick to the hen. I visited one farm
the other day where a woman had
two incubators in the living room.
The baby chicks were dying off like
flies. She didn't think it worth while
to have brooders. So she hatched
the chicks and then let them die.
The brooder is mor important than
the incubator. Some people have
good luck putting the chicks with
hens, but there must' be ample pro
vision for taking care of the hen."
"Remedies" Kill Chicks.
University extension workers say
that thousands of baby chicks are
killed off every spring by the use
of "remedies." Some people seem
to think a chick cannot be healthy
unless they doctor u- the water they
drink or the food, they eat. Such
people fall easy victims to the drug
gist who wants to sell patent "rem
edies" of all softs. An extension
man hel'd a postmortem of some
chicks the other , day. He found
green livers and red intestines. The
woman had been feeding copperas
and some kind of red patent mixture
sold her by a local druggist. She
didn't know why she was feeding
either, but the druggist had told her
they were good for chickens.
Thousands of chickens die every
year because they are allowed free
access to the corn crib, declared Mr.
(,ornman. The result is too much
fat, and fatty degeneration of the
heart.
"I have visited one farm where
225 hens laid two eggs a day," he
said. Every morning when the
man opened the house he found
several hens dead under the roost.
Likewise when the chicken? came
running for feed one or two would
sometimes fall over dead.
Too Much Fat.
"I held a postmortem at another
place where 75 chickens had died
apparently without cause. I found
the internal organs embedded in
fat. The crop was so surrounded
with hard fat that it wasn't much
bigger than a marble. The heart
was very soft and surrounded with
deep fat.
"In both the above instances the
chickens were getting so much corn
they were simply dying of fatty de
generation of the heart. The average
farmer feeds entirely too much,
especially of corn. Corn has come
to be one of the curses of the
chicken' industry in this state "
1 Mr. Cornman said the poultry in
dustry has not been appreciated in
this state. It has been left largely
to the women, the farmer's wives.
The women were expected to raise
chickens without equipment, and
often without much feed or the
expenditure of any money. The
farmer had all the machinery and
equipment he wanted, and usually
more than he needed, but his wife
was supposed to raise chickens with
a few barrels and boxes, and a hen
house that rain and snow held in
contempt, the principle mission of
which was to harbor untold num
bers of lice.
Ertle Gains Decision.
Baltimore, April 18. Johnny F.rtk
of St. raul was given a decision to
night in a 12-round bout with Frank
Daley of Staten Island.
THOOSA
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London Tourney
Memphis; Knockout Brown, New
Orleans; Joe Lynch, New York; Ed
die Coulon, New Orleans. The
photo was made at the naval bar
racks, Chatham, England, on De
cember 7, 1918.
Twelve Hundred Per
Front Foot For Lot
on West Farnam Street
Joseph Barker Saturday sold the
northwest corner of Twenty-fifth
and Farnam streets for $1,200 a front
foot, or $156,000.
This was $52,000 more than Mr.
Barker paid for the property two
years and a half ago. He paid $800
a foot.
The purchaser was a client of I.
Shuler of Shuler & Carev. W. R.
McFarland of the' World ' Realty
company represented Mr. Barker in
the deal.
This makes $189,000 worth of
Farnam street property Mr. Barker
sold last week. The other was
twenty-two feet at 2024 Farnam for
$33,000 to Edward M. Slater of the
Payne & Slater company.
Three-Quarter Million
Mark In Realty Deals
Passed for 4th Time
The three-quarter of a million
mark in real estate deals was passed
for the fourth consecutive week last
week.
The total amount of deals record
ed by Harry l'earce, registrar of
deeds, for the week was $754,280.
This was a gain of nearly $200,000
over the figures of the correspond
ing week for a year ago, when fig
ures were $592,071.
The gain in the number of deeds
recorded is correspondingly large.
Last week 236 deeds went on record.
F"or the same period a year ago, the
number of transactions recorded
was 165.
University Club IVIen
, Sell Valuable Harney Lot
A syndicate of University club
men Saturday sold a 50-foot tract at
2110 Harney street for $25,000 to a
client of Glover & Spain. W. R.
McFarland represented the syndicate
in the deal.
This deal, with others, makes a
total of $217,800 worth of real estate
deals during the week, through the
World Realty company, of which
W. R. McFarland is president.
Fremont Nurses Arrive in
New York From Overseas
Fremont, Neb., April 19. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Miss Cecil Champ
ney and Miss Anna Naastrom,
nurses with Nebraska Hospital
Unit No. 49, now on its way home
from France, arrived in New York
Friday and are expected home Mon
day. Four other Fremont nurses
remained in France for longer service.
Iron and Wire Fences
Lawn and Farm Gates
Poultry and Garden Tenets.
Trellisrs for Vines and Uot.es.
Flower IS.-d Cu.-.rJs. Sterl 1'osti.
1 Get Oar Ixw Prices Be fare Voo Buy.
ANCHOR FENCE CO. '
SOI North 17th St. Tel. Ked 4247
Wire and Iron Fences
Garden and Poultry Yards.
Grape Arbor.
Clothes Posts, Iron and Wire
Window Guards
Screen Door Guards
Send for Catalogue
Wire Arches Lawn Vases
Summer Houses
i Chairs and Settees
Tree and Flower Guards
CHAMPION IRON
15th and Jackson Sts.
Everbearing Strawberry Plants
, and Finest of Nursery Stock.
GATES CITY NURSERY
51st and Burdetie. Take Benson Car. Open Sunday.
DEVELOPMENT OF
CARTER LAKE AND
K IS PLANN
Planning Commission Has
Prepared Plans for Munici
pal Bathhpuse On Only
Lake in City Limits.
Mayor Smith and the city com
missioners are considering a plan of
permanent and comprehensive de
velopment of Carter park and Car
ter lake.
The City Planning commission has
prepared plans for a municipal bath
house to be 16cated on the west
side of the lake, near that part of the
lake known as Municipal beach. The
plans contemplate an ornate struc
ture. "The possibilities there are ab
solutely unique. There should be a
definite plan," stated Commissioner
Towl. -
Only Omaha Lake.
"It is the only lake in Omaha and
it is worth developing," commented
Commissioner Zimman. "Belle
Isle," lie added, "at Detroit, was not
as promising before it was.developed
as our own Carter lake."
One of the engineering problems
in connection with this development
is that ot keeping the water fresh.
Commissioner Towl expressed the
belief that it would be better to
dredge out the silt and lower the
lake than to attempt to pump fresh
water from the river. He said it
would be feasible to run a pipe line
to a high level point at the river and
run river water into the lake in that
manner.
The commissioners are inclined to
consider this development project
seriously. Considerable dredging
has been done during the last five
years.
Many Lots Are Sold
in Dundee to People
Who Expect to Build
The following recent salei were
made by George & Co.
Nine-room modern house at 506 South
Thirty-sixth street to Dr. W. H. Mick,
$12,non.
Seven-room modern hrlek house at 5119
Webster street to Louise N, Knapp,
$11,000.
Seven-room .modern briek colonial
house at 103 South Fifty-first avenue to
A. V. Dresner. $13,000.
Nine-room modern houpe at 5201 Cass
street, to Elma J. Hue, $1 3,500.
Seven-room modern bungalow at 5120
California street to Paul LaMarquand,
$8,600.
Five-room modern bungalow at 919
North Klfty-flrst street to Olln E. Gull
llon, $4,500.
Six-room modern house and lot at 5112
Webster street to Bernlee Aldrlch, $5,750.
Five-room modern bungalow at 1011
North Forty-ninth street to Harry K.
Zahn, $4,250.
House and lot at 3541 North Twenty
eighth street, Fred W. Hays, $3,600.
Seven-room modern house and lot at
1322 North Forty-first street to H. T.
Eddy, $3,850.
Corner lot on Happy Hollow boulevard
and Cuming street from Dundee Realty
Co.. to Andrew C. Busk, $3,800.
Lot 60x135 feet on Fifty-first street,
south of Dodge to C. J. Tiula, $2,000.
Lot 50x135 feet on Chicago street, east
of Fifty-second to Wm. C. Flateau, $1,800.
Lot 50x128 feet on California street,
west of Fifty-first, Lynne C. Campbell,
$1,800.
Lot 60x135 feet on Fiftieth avenue,
south of Dodge, to Anna P, Sype, $1,600.
Lot on Fifty-first, 50x136 feet. Just
Routh of Farnam to Cornelia U. Hlkock.
$1,000.
George & Co. report a good de
mand for lots in Omaha, as the
above lot sales have been made
within the past ten days and most
of the buyers contemplate building
just as soon as possible.
Elected to Congress
Fort Worth, Tex., April 19. Fritz
G. Lanham will be elected today in
the Twelfth congressional district
to succeed Congressman James C.
Wilson, who was appointed federal
judge in this district. Lanham has
no opposition.
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Dairymen Should Not
Get Discouraged by
High. Prjces cf Feed
With alfalfa hay selling around
the larger cities of the state -at
close to $40 a ton, milk produreis
.feel they are producing at a lns
and have Noccasion to be worried. I
says J: H. rrandsen, head of the
university ' dairy department, who
has just returned from a trip out mi
the state. Not only is alfalfa .high,
but bran and praetically all other
cow feeds stand at top marks. La
bor is another item which shows
no tendency to drop. Milk pro
ducers are holding on grimly with
the hope that conditions will be
come better before butter and-milk
go lower.
Trofessor Frandsen se?s a ray of
hope for dairymen in the immense
increase of dairy exports. The ex
port of condensed milk, for instance,
increased from 16,000,000 pounds in
1914 to. 530,000,000 pounds in 1918.
Fart of this increase, of course, was
due to tlje 'war, but there is indi
cation that European peoples like
American dairy products and will
continue to buy them. This means.
Professor Frandsen says, that
American dairymen are justified in
expanding their business to meet
an increased export demand.
A Kellastone Home Defies the Weather Elements
Watch out for the destructive weather elements when you build. Heed
the warning of the experienced contractors and architects and choose a build
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resents a sound investment. Remember that security in building is measured
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Were M.C82.C00;
Real estate vity that is unpre
cedented in the nidry of Omaha is
shown by transactions recorded in
the register of deeds office. . From
January I, 1919, to April IS, real es
tate sales totalled $8,060,000. Last
year during the same period the
transactions aggregated only $4,982,
000. This shows a gain of more
than $J,000,000 in 1919 over those
in 1918 for the same period., ,
And the boom is growing. In
January the transactions aggre
gated $1,2,10.247, In April they ag
gregated $3,307,441, and in April
they promise to eclipse the latter
figure.
The number of transactions dur
ing the three and a half months in
1919 was 2,457. In the same period
All installations are Guaranteed to Be Sat
isfactory or money refunded. .
300 installations in Omaha, Council Bluffs
and vicinity to refer to. All kinds of houses
heated from four rooms on one floor to twelve
rooms on three floors.
Don't delay buy while you can save from
$2o to $40 on a furnace. Only a few left at
these prices. '
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INSTALLATIONS .
money on our "pay as you use if you choose" plan if
One year to pay. Full cash discount giveaif paid by 1st
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA
Phone 87
J in l'm'.th)f numbered i.Wi , Durv
tint! the Inst three weeks the nuinbct
j ct de:ils has been more than 4(1 ti
ida'- , .. ' -
N heavy has the business become -
jth.it Pcj;is:er of Deeds Tearce has
! I'ct n iviikiir; his ollicf force three .
iiyli's h week and Saturday after-;'
' no mis. ' ' i t
1 "Kxpenenccd real estate men tell.
nr rush will continue all aum".v
m:r and will, become larger,", said'
Mr. l'earce. ""Abstracters work in
t!;e record rooins until, nearly mid
night, something they never did be- ,
forC . , ' '
The Waiter's Mistake. ' 1
"The French, since Foch's victor.,
are almost in danger of getting
swelled head." said Immi jratioti1 '
Commissioner Caminetti, of New
York. - : '
"And no wonder! The Fren:h
certainly displayed great military
genius in this war, and pra'ses and '
compliments are falling on them
from all sides.
"In a French restaurant trte other,
day I ordered a steak. Then, as tne
French waiter " turned M go . It
added: t
, " 'Well done, waiter.'
"The young man, flushing wtth
pleasure, drew himself iip and,
saluted smartly. J i '
"'But you Americans, monsieur,'
he said, 'you Americans also eov-
ered yourselves with glory at Cha
teau Thierry and' the Bois de Beta
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