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S ) A Greater Omahaa Greater Nebraskathe Thought of All a'-
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MANY BUSINESS
BUILDINGS BEING
ERECTED HERE
.Construction of Several Large
y Plants Well Under Way;
I Many New Factories to
. 5 Be Built.
, . -
r That portion of the wholesale dis
' strict of Omaha bounded by Twelfth
"street on the west. Douglas street
"on the south and Capitol avenue on
"the north, will within a few weeks
"present an appearance, of great
-building . activity. Simon Brothers
- have already begun clearing the
; quarter block at the corner of Elev
enth and Dodge for the erection of
f their huge six-story building, .the
i;Gordon-Lavless company will ' im
"mediately begin work on their great
'five-story, fireproof building for the
' rj; Goodyear Rubber company at the
.corner of Ninth and Dodge streets,
-and the Skinner Packing company
"will very soon tear down) the old
-buildings at the northeast, corner
.of Twelfth and Douglas streets, and
Jbegin the construction of an im
mense eight-story building to be oc
cupied by their poultry and provision
z department and, for cold storage
purposes. That section of the
"wholesale district is rapidly coming
no the front and, there are more big
Tbuilding plans s'till brewing in that
rquarter.
- The Nebraska Tire and Rubber
company has practically completed
Tthe remodeling of their factory
fbuilding at Thirty second and Spauld
3ng streets, on the Belt Line railroad
3and are very busy installing ma
chinery and getting in shape to be
pgin manufacturing rubber tires and
Ltubes. The building has been great
ly improved by putting in concrete
floors, office and work-room facili
ties. " , -
- The' Omaha Refining Co. is pro
gressing fairly well with the erection
fof their buildings in East Omaha
between Avenue H and the Illinois
-Central tracks. The rainy weather
5has hindered the work quite a little,
3ut they have the footings all in
-4or the two big stills, which will be
feet long by 11 feet high, and the
toiler and pump house building,
slso the receiving house will soon
ready for the roof. The boiler
and pump house is 36x35 feet, while
!Tthe receiving house is about 24x30
ijfeet and two stories high. These
' -buildings are built of stone, granite
blocks laid up in cement plaster.
- "iTbt two stills soon to be set will
.Uold 600 barrels each and these will
constitute but one-third of the first
uinit of the plant as planned. The
" jgnm down tanks will be located near
rthe receiving house and- when these
' .are, set and the stills are placed on
H sthe footings and encased in their
steel jackets the plant will begin to
-.assume a going appearance.
Loses Life Salving Chick.
. (By International News Herri ee.)
1 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mri. Howard
JL Oskamp, a prominent society
"woman, was burned to death while
trying to save a newly-hatched chick
Irom perishing. An incubator caught
3ift. Seeing the chick was in dan-
; ger, Mrs. Oskamp lifted the cover.
sThe flames ignited her clothing.
OMAHA'S NEW
Har dware Store
: in the Platoon Buiikns
17th arid Howard Streets
We Carry a Complete Line of Builders' Hardware,
Paints, Varnishes and Wall Paper.
SPECIAL FOR MONDAY
All Purpose Varnish,
$2.45 per gallon.
Best grade of White
House Paint, all day Mon
day, $3.90 per gallon.
Alabastine, 5-lb. pack
age, 70c
Black Screen Paint, 49c
per quart.
Paint your screens now.
Extra large sponge, 25c
Some very good grades
of Kitchen Paper, from 6c
to 10c per roll.
Extra prety living room
and dining room patterns
at very moderate prices.
. Absorene ; Wall Paper
Cleaner 15c per can.
Garden Hoe 50c
Garden Rake ....... 50c
Dandelion Rake . ....90c
Dandelion Digger . . . 35c
Spading Fork ..... .$1.25
Self -Sharpening Lawn
Mower .. '..$10.50
;. It pays to buy a good lawn
- mower. (
Cyclone Axe ...... $2.00
H. H. HARPER & CO.
17th and Howard St., Flatiron Building. .
Omaha, Nebraska.
Beautiful View of 40 Miles of River Valley Is Enjoyed
From Site of New Country Club of Omaha Auto Club
2 fz&S&M& HlM ?rilK
This picture was taken from the
recently purchased site for a coun
try club house for the Omaha Auto
mobile club. The location is just
STATE IS THIRD
IN; PRODUCTION
OF CATTLE IN U. S.
Nebraska Aiso Has More Cat
tle Per Capita Than Any
Other State, With Ex
ception of Texas.
During the 10 years, 1910 to 1919,
inclusive, there have been an average
of 40,318,200 head of cattle grazing
on the farms and pastures of the
states of the union. These figures
are shown by a compilation made by
Manager Thomas, of the bureau of
publicity of the Omaha Chamber of
Commerce.
Of the 48 states, possibly on ac
count of its immense area, Texas
leads in the matter of cattle pro
duction, having 5,266,200 head. Then
comes Iowa with 2,841,900 and Ne
braska third, with 2,372,800.
It is pretty difficult to figure the
actual value of cattle on the range
and in the pasture, but experts as
sert that $70 a head would be a fair
price to place upon the Nebraska
cattle. Taking this as the basis of
figuring, the 2,841,900 head are
worth $166,096,000.
Although there are some people in .
Nebraska who are not the owners
of cattle, there are enough of the
animals so that if they were equally
distributed, nearly every man, , wo
man and child within the state
Special All day Mon
day we will sell nails in
small quantities at keg
lot prices. If you need a
few finishing nails or a
few common nails to fin
ish your job, be sure to
come in Monday.
Fireless Cooker . .$15.00
Aluminum Coffee Perco
lator $1.75
2-quart "Dazey" Glass
Churn $1.65
14-quart Galvanized
Buckets v. 45c
Mri. Potts' "Sad Irons, 5
piece set, handle and
stand $1.00
Large Aluminrm Roaster,
at. $2.00
Look over our large, as
sortments of blue, gray,
and white 'granite wear.
I-Go Cars, the children's
delight; all sizes, $1.25
to ........ $2.75
La-La-By Baby Swings,
at . $1.90
north of Bellevue college . on the
high bluffs, from ' which sppt a
magnificent view of 40 miles of river
valley is enjoyed. '
Funds Raised
Hospitals
Dr. Madge Potts Rains
of Omaha Relates Work
of American Women's
Hospital Campaign.
Dr. Madge Potts Rains, 2408
Dodge street, state chairman of the
Medical Women's National associa
tion, commends the American Wo
men's Hospitals campaign for med
ical aid in Serbia and the near east,
for which cause a nation-wide fund
of $250,000 is being raised. An an
nouncement received from head
quarters, 637 Madison avenue, New
York, states that the money will be
usea as tollows:
"To send to Serbia two mobile
hospitals equipped with a staff of
doctors, nurses, tents, ambulances
and supplies. These hospitals will
move from town to town to combat
the epidemics, stopping long enough
in each district to gain control of
the diseases, and going on to other
districts as conditions may demand;
to send a fully equipped hospital to
would be the owner of one of the
animals.,
With the exception of Texas, it is
asserted that in Nebraska there are
more cattle per capita than in any
of the other states. There are no
immense herds in this state, as in
Texs, but instead, they are distrib
uted among, the farmers and ranch
ers, each and every one owning and
grazing a small herd.
Real Estate Business .
! for Last Week Nearly
Double That Year Ago
The total amount of real estate
business recorded in Register of
Deeds Pearce's office last week was
$655,728, or more than $300,000 in
excess of that of the corresponding
week a year ago.
Figures a year ago totaled $334,
594.66. The number of transactions made
was 242, or an average of 40 1-3 per
day. This was 74 more than in the
same period a year ago. -
A romnilatinn made hv Harrv D.
lteed, abstractor, shows ' that the
number of deals being made this
year is far in excess of the figures
20 years ago, the closing days of
the old boom.
For instance, for the correspond
ing week in 1899. there were 178
deals recorded with the register of
deeds.
Big Furniture Company May,
Locate Factory In Omaha
Industrial Commissioner Gillan of
the Chamber of Commerce is about
readv to close with the Simmons
company of Kenosha, Wis., one or
the largest furniture manufacturing
concerns ,in the west The com
pany is seeking a new location and
in a field where there is a larger
territory in which to build Up trade.
A site for a factory for the fur
niture company has been selected
and it is said that the owner of the
ground will erect building and turn
it over to the Simmons company on
a long-time lease, .
Should the Simmons company
come to Qmaha it would give em
ployment to 150 to 200 men in the
factory, besides a large force of
traveling representative.
1,500 Soldiers, Enroute
West, Pass Through City
Five hundred soldiers, enroute
west, on their way home from
Europe, arrived in Omaha over the
Milwaukee at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning. . At 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon 500 more caine in over
the. Northwestern and at 6 o'clock
lastnight 800 additional troops
arrived over the Illinois Central.
Of the 1,500 soldiers in Omaha
Yesterday, none of them remained
or any length of time. 'They were
so various inits and enroute to Fort
The club is to start work on the
new dub house immediately and
hopes to have it open by the last of
June for the club members.
to" Equip
for Near East
come city in the near east where the
need is greatest; to maintain these
hospitals, and to provide the neces
sary physicians and supplies until
normal conditions of health have
been restored."
Affiliated With Red jCross.
A membership in the American
Women's Hospitals Auxiliary costs
$1, and donations of larger amouncs
will be acceptable for the fund which
has been referred to. The American
Women's Hospitals is affiliated with
the American Red Cross. Mrs.
Rains is also state chairman of the
auxiliary.
As state chairman of the Medical
Women's National association, Mrs.
Rains is interested in the work of
recruiting the young college women
of Nebraska for medical service. On
this subject she says: "The oppor
tunities are so numerous and the.
field so wide that there can not fail
to be some branch of practice of
laboratory work or soeial service
to meet the tastes and abilities of
all. The constant and increasing de
mand from colleges, hospitals, labor
atories, state institutions, industrial
plants, sanitation, mission fields, ci
ties and country districts, for women
physicians, have proved that 2,000
women physicians could be placed
annually, if available. No profession
today is calling so insistently for wo
men to enter its portals."
they will be discharged. Out of
Omaha they were carried on special
trains over the Union Pacific. At
the Union station the boys were
met by members of the local Red
Cross and served with coffee, sand
wiches and cigarets.
Election of Officers
Closes U. C T. State
Convention In Omaha
The 21st annual session of the
Nebraska grand council of United
Commercial Travelers of America
closed yesterday with election of
officers and a luncheon at the ChamA
ber of Commerce; '
The following Nebraska men
were elected to offices: C. R. Buffun,
Lincoln, grand counsellor; J,C. Lee,
Hastings, grand junior; J. C. Price,
Beatrice, branch secretary; George
W. Kelso, Grand Island, grand
treasurer; C. L. Chaffee, Norfolk,
grand conductor; Frank John, Grand
Island, grand page; Walter W.,
Watt, Omaha, grand sentinel.
Joseph S. Blair, Lincoln"; R. A.
Extrand, Hastings; Robert Isham,
Chadron, and J. F. Kirkpatrick,
Columbus, were elected to the grand
executive committee.
Good Fences Make
Paper and Waste Burners
Pipe Railings -
Iron Folding Gates
Garden and Poultry Yard.
Clothes Posts, Iron and Wire
Window Guards
Screen Door Guards
Wire Arches
Tree and Flower Guards
CHAMPION IRON & WIRE WORKS
15tk and Jackson St. J. J, LEDDY, Prop. TeL Douglas 1590.
Officials of the Omaha Automobile
club in the picture are from left to
right: G. H. Brewer, director? S. E.
Smyth, secretary; H. O. Friedricks
and W. B. Cheek, president.
SANITARIUM TO
MOVE TO LARGER
QUARTERS SOON
Dr. H. A. Waggener's Institu
tion Outgrows Present Loca
tion and Will Be Moved to
Masonic Temple.
After seven years of rapid expan
sion, the Solar Sanitarium has out
grown its quarters on the fourth
floor of the Brandeis store build
ing, and will be moved to larger
quarters on the first floor of the
Masonic Temple on Nineteenth and
Douglas streets.
The institution, which is one of
the best in the country, was founded
seven years ago by Dr. H. A. Wag
gener. Through his efforts and the
efforts of able assistants it has de
veloped into the largest institution
of its kind in the city.
Every Method of Treatment
It offers every known method of
treatment found in the world-famous
institutions. Its vast equip
ment and many special methods of
treatment have drawn large numbers
of patients from all parts of Iowa,
Nebraska, Wyoming and South Da
kota. The new location in the Masonic
Temple will take up nearly all the
ground floor of the building, and
will contain 45 rooms, to be used
as treatment, dressing, and office
space. A torce of men is already
preparing it for occupancy.
x When completed the new sani
tarium will be double the capacity
of the old. Dr. Waggener estimated
the cost of remodeling his ne,w lo
cation at $15,000.
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I 207 North I7th St. Tel. Red 4247. 1
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500,000 HOMES
IN 3 YEARS IS
BRITAIN'S PLAN
England Hopes to Overcome
Unemployment Question by
Starting Big Building
Projects.
By FORBES FAIRBAIRN.
(FnlTersal Service Staff Correspondent.)
London, May 17. Apropos of the
serious unemployment question,
England -plans to build.. 500,000
homes within the next three years.
Recent visits of Queen Mary and the
prince of Wales to London slums
have brought the deplorable living
conditions of the poorer classes in
front of the public. A comprehen
sive scheme has been outlined which
will result in the wiping out of these
spots. Manufacture of the materials
needed for this gigantic reconstruc
tion scheme and the actual building
of the homes will employ an army
of men for years.
Today, 1914 "Mons" men, dis
charged from the army following the
Assets Over
$1,000,OOOjOO
TO THE PUBLIC t
A special effort is made at all times to inf orm the people fully
on the following facts:
First, That Home Builders under that name is regularly incorporated
under the laws of Nebraska;
Second, That the business of this institution is to erect buildings and
to furnish the money when so required to pay cost of con
- struction;
Third, That this institution is authorized to Issue its preferred shares
$1.00 each, to anybody, with a guaranteed dividend of 6 per
annum payable January 1st and July 1st;
Fourth, That Home Builders receives the builders' profit and interest
bearing mortgage on the new property as security for the re
' turn of the money by monthly installments;
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Fifth, That Home Builders' building operations have been confined
to Omaha and its suburbs;
Sixth, That Home Builders erects buildings only to order for others
and not upon its own account neither does it handle real estate.
Anyone can order any number of shares from one to five thousand at
any time by mail or in person.
Respectfully, . .
AMERICAN SECURITY CO.,
Fiscal Agents, Omaha, Neb.
G. A. Rohrbough, Pres. C. C. Shinier, Secy.
WHEN Uncle Sam rolled up his sleeves to
go into the business of munitions, he was
confronted with the serious problem of
housing his great army of industrial workers.
Thousands of permanent homes were needed; as
usual Uncle Sam was particular about their con
struction. '
The most able building counsel was called in, materials
investigated, analyzed and tested. When the time came
to build the Government's great housing project of Hil
ton Village, Va., final judgment was passed in favor of
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The original magnetite stuccolasting as the pyramids immune
i to the evils of heat, cold, frost, moisture, fire and water. Unlike
ordinary stucco KELLASTONE does not crack, chip or crumble
it is the only stucco that endures), sets up in a dense, stone-like'
mass, and retains its original brilliancy regardless of atmospheric
conditions. .v t -
Uncle Sam's endorsement of KELLASTONE constitutes evidence
of merit that you cannot conscientiously ignore. , Make an in
vestigation, ask for Free Booklet showing many beautiful repro
ductions of KELLASTONE buildings, also realistic color plates
illustrating KELLASTONE in all its various velvety texture and
novel pekbie and granite finishes.
National Kellastone Co.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
Manufacturers.
Boyer-Van Kuran Lumber & Coal Co., Distributors.
24th and Boyd Sts. Telephone Colfax 80
CHAS. W. LARSON, Contractor.
Douglas 1151.
armistice, ' are kept busy repairing
found for them. England has a
great number of reconstruction
schemes in view, which, -when once
started, rwill employ thousands of
men for years.
Channel Project Foremoit.
The foremost of these are the
channel project, which will connect
Britain and the continent by means
of a tunnel under the English chan
nel, and the housing plan, both of
which are winning support from the
newspapers.
Typical of the out of work situ
ation, Manchester statistics show
that the number of unemployed in
creased in one week from 55,000 to
57,500. There is a great deal of
abuse of the government donation.
In the case of domestic servants,
laundry women and similar workers,
it is notorious that so long as they
ran Hraur Annat'mri nlV thev will nOt
work at their ordinary occupations.
In the opinion of prominent labor
leaders the abuse of the donation is
far more in unorganized trades than
in those which are organized.
In the housing scheme the gov
ernment stands ready to spend
$575,000,000, according to Dr. Addi
son, who is nursing the house and
town planning bill through the
House of Commons. The houses
will cost from $2,500 to $3,000 each
and it is expected that 100,000
dwellings will be constructed this
year, 200,000 in 1920 and 200,000 in I
1921. I
Mome fiuilder
MCOrONATE
Omaha
4536 Burdette St.
Beaton Realty Company
Buys the Potter Apartments
The Beaton Realty company lt
week bought for approximately $75,
000, the Potter apartments, a brick
building on 110 feet of ground at the
southwest corner of Thirty-third and
Farnam streets.
Herbert W. Potter, now in Cali
fornia, was the owner. The sail
was negotiated by George F. Jones.
The sale price was about $680
front foot on Farnam streets. Acj
cording to the agent, this is $135
more a foot than the property could
have been purchased for two years
ago.
The Beatoa Reajty company is a
holding concern for Jack and
Charles D. Beaton. Included in the
Beaton company's properties is the
west side of Fortieth street between
Harney and Farnam streets.
Shuler and Cary Expect to
N Close Out Balance of Tract
-The Shuler and Carey firm ex
pects to close out all the remaining
tracts in West L street acres today.
The sale of this property, which con
tains 139 J4-acre, J-acre and acre
tracts, began eight days ago.
Up to Saturday night 99 tracts
had been sold. About 60 were sold
last Saturday and Sunday.
The property contains 47 acres.
Authorized Capital
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