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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 29, 1919
BIGGEST TOWN IN
STATE FOR SIZE,
ilOOPEH BOAST
Energetic Little City Is Locat
t ied In Heart of One of Rich
: est Communities In Ne
l , braska.
The biggest town for its size !n
Ihe state." is the characterization
"given to Hooper, Neb., and this en
, jtrgetic city lives up to its name.
The tcwn is located in the heart
W one of the richest and most pro-
' tiuctive farming communities in Ne
braska. And taking advantage of its loca-
Hon Hooper has organized and mod
ernized a serum plant, considered
, pne of the best in the United States.
One of the largest brick yards in
iht state, equipped with automatic
machinery and the most modern
labor saving devices was established
Several years ago. Last year its
Output was more than 5,000,000 brick
'Of the first quality.
, f Has Many Industries.
1 "You can buy cheaper in Hoopr,"
is a slogan adopted by the busjmess
men of the town. They convince
Jrou, too, if you doubt it, for Wlooper
lias a large, modern flour rrll, one
of the largest furniture dealers in
the state, and in the distribution of
automobiles is surpassed only by
Qmaha and Lincoln. T
"X Its two banks have aggregate de
posits of more than 1,000,000, and
a building and loan Association, in
, business since 1889, bfas never had a
loss. It has paid toshareholders for
matured stock moe than $167,500.
i And then, Hoon-r has a first class
School with 12 eachers. The in
stitution is accredited by the State
University any its graduates are
Qualified to Yjach without further
preparation.
Four fthurches in Town.
' For spritual welfare Hooper
boasts of our churches: two Luth
eran, a slcthodist, and one Catho
Jic
intial fair for Dodge county
in Hooper.
ismission line from Fremont
iooper tor electric iignts ana
is now under consideration,
business portion of the city is
lean looking, and ttie nnest dusi-
iiess block tor a town oi its size
was erected there recently.
Its biggest little town slogan is
UOt mere verbiage for Hooper with
f population of only 1,000 has pro
gressivism raised to the limit.
Night Flying Made Safe
By New Wireless Method
Marconi Official Outlines Perfected System to Signal
.;Town Locations and Landing Places for Aviators
S' Which He Declares Will Eliminate Accidents.
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t In Firemen's Quarters
-Los Angeles, Cal., June 28.
Three you;;g wildcats today nave
Jiomes in the Long Beach fire de
partment. They are being trained
s mascots, and they will be perma
nent additions that is, if they be
$ave. Wise men on wildcats are
Ot optimistic over the innovati.i
'declaring the doy!eHyle "kittens"
u- uaj i:
fuse naiurauy- (tcveiop uwa uii .
ions when they change from a mufc
to a raw-meat diet.
F. D. Holland, fireman, tound tee
''kittens in nis mountain cam...
hear Cajon Pass, north of San R r
i nardino, on a recent visit. 1 l.e
toother, a full-grown wildcat, ran
ylrom the building as he ap
i proached it.
jjSeal Harbor, Me., Will
k Have Rockefeller Park
Seal Harbor, Me., June 28. John
, this place one of the finest public
! parks in Maine and one having a
pathing beach.
r Mr. Rockefeller, who for a numb;r
I'of years has been a summer resident
J here, owning one of the best sum-
vjfer places on Mt. Desert island, has
VVchased the Glen Cove hotel prop
s', which includes about six acres
land and the notei structure, nc
1 convert the property into a park
it to the town tor the
well as sum-
.
f.
present
of "permanent
residents.
id Family Quarrels
To Keep Down Hysteria
loston. Tune 28. Avoid tamuy
rrels and thereby keep clear ot
f-steria" is the advice given by Dr.
krl A. Menninger, of Boston, spe
' klist in examining hysteria cases.
.i ? p the current number of the Boston
tff Wfedical and Surgical Journal he de-
j Clares mat many tdacs ui una iuim
of disease can be avoided.
I i Family jars produce fainting
j spells and headaches on the part of
1 women, because the husband often
.j remains obdurate," claims this spe
I cialist.
By ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE.
(Staff Correspondent CnlreruU Berrica.)
Lonodon, June 8. Cross roads of
the air, with an 'invisible traffic cop
to direct the s4ble wings of night
swooping aeroplanes in a voice that
carries 10,000 feet up through the
void below; the mapping of the
skies in letters that crack and
soarkle utder the mystic drive of
the wireless force; the business man
cf the future dictating over 3,000
miles fr.fcm mid-ocean to his stenog
rapher., in a New York skyscraper
Keie afre the high points in the cold
ly scientific dress of a wireless ex
pert His name is Godfrey Isaacs
ana he is managing director of the
Marconi system in London,
it is rarely that Isaacs lets the
public into his confidences. When
his company projected the human
voice across the Atlantic by wireless
telephone last March and I went to
him for an interview on the phenom
ena he flatly refused, saying with
typical British conservatism that he
didn't see anything to "beat a bass
dtum about." So when I took his
brief published remarks at a lunch
eon of the Aldwych club as a cue
and went to his office to request
some amplification of themes he had
touched upon, it was with no as
surance of success. Here is what
the managing director said:
Have Lightless Searchlight.
"Why, I merely mentioned ' the
new wireless device called the di
rection finder quite a simple thing
and already past the experimental
stage as to its use in conjunction
with aeroplane flights. Of course,
you know all about it."
This without the flicker of an eye
lash to betray the cool irony im
plied: "No? Well, here it is in a nut
shell: The wireless directional pro
jector is what you might call a
searchlight without a light. It
throws up into the air not a beam,
but a signal, which can be made
either widely dispersed or concen
trated and which registers on an
aeroplane, wireless receiving appara
tus just as the beam of a search
light registers on the retina of the
eye.
"You catch the idea? An aviator,
say, is flying by night over a fixed
course or he is flying by day
through fog or which obscures the
earth beneath and prevents him
picking up his landmarks. Sudden
ly his wireless tells him 'this is
Guilford' and ' it continues telling
him the name of the town directly
beneath him until he has passed out
of the zone of that particular di
rectional projector. Next he knows
comes the message 'this is Windsor
Forest,' and shortly comes the flash
'this is Hendon Aerdrome.' Then
he begins his wide circle for land
ing, for that is his destination.
Is Not Experimental.
"Mind you, this is not theory, it
is practice. It can be standardized
and put into operation tomorrow.
All over the British Isles and the
continent where aviation routes have
been and may be established in
future these aerial semaphores if
vou wish to call them that can be
established. When this is brought
about no aeroplane pilot can lose his
way, even in the heaviest darkness
or Sickest fog."
Mr. Isaacs added that it did not
require a severe stretch of the imagi
nation to conceive in some near
future the skies over all the most
populous portions of the world
sparking these signals from thou
sands of cities and aeroplane fleets
guided by these unseen buoys as the
argosies of the sea today set their
courses by lighthouses and whistling
lights. It was simply a matter of
organization, he declared.
The managing director alluded to
another great advance in the uncov
ering of wireless possibilities; this
was the perfection of a system to
prevent the "jamming' of wireless
messages sent from various stations
at the same time. In narrow and
busy stretches of water such as the
channel, this confusion of transmis
sion of messages through the air had
rendered many wireless attempts
futile in the recent past and it was
a painful matter of record that din
ing the great war the German wire
less station at Nauen often sue
ceeded in drowning wireless spares
from allied sources which were sent
from weaker instruments.
Collisions to Be Eliminated. -
"This all has been rectified," said
Mr. Isaacs. "Now no matter how
many messages are passing through
the air at the same time there need
be no blurring or 'jamming.' Also
Statement of the Condition of the
FIRST NATIONAL
. BANK .
Scribner, Neb.
March 4th, 1919
Resources
Loans
Overdrafts . . .
Liberty Bonds . .
U. S. Certificates
of indebtedness.
W. S. Stamps....
U. S. Bonds
Building, Fixtures
Stock, Fed. Res.
Bank
CASH
$386,285.62
1,659.75
23,150.00
30,000.00
33.40
8,000.00
8,000.00
1,500.00
124,446.65
Liabilities
Capital Stock....$ 25,000.00
Surplus 25,000.00
Undivided Profits 9,810.29
Bank Notes .... 7,000.00
DEPOSITS 516,265.13
Total $583,085.42
Total $583,075.42
Directors: John Haun, Louia Grocteke, H. S. Spath, A. E. Rom
, berg, Claua EbJera, A. Groac, Charlea Arnot.
-CLAUS EHLERS, Preadent. CHARLES ARNOT, CaaUer
A. E. ROMBERG. Vie Praa. FRED ROMBERG, Aaa't Cath.
GESINA SCHURMANN, Aaat. Caih. FRED H. MEYER, Teller.
by application of the directional
wireless to ships and lighthouses
vessels in the fog or at night will
be ?ble to communicate with other
vessels or with the shore at will and
thus a major cause of accidents at
sea will be eliminated. Moreover,
with the establishment of municipal
wireless telehone and telegraph sta
tions, under control of the govern
ment as the telegraph is today, Lon
don can talk with Edinburgh or
Dublin with no delay and in al!
weathers and with on interference
from any other station.
"I think infinite possibilities He
in transatlantic telephony. For one
thing, when ships are equipped with
wireless telephone apparatus there
will be no reason why a business
man anywhere upon the seven seas
cannot at any time address himself
directly to his office at home and
converse with hjs subordinates or
the heads of his firm.
Bishop Cannot Make Ends
Meet On $50,000 a Year
London, June 28. Is it possible
for a lord bishop for the lord
bishop of London, in fact to live
and maintain his episcopal dignities
on $50,000 a year? We have the
testimony of the present incumbent
of that highest of esclesiastical of
fices in England that decidedly it is
not possible.
The Right Rev. Arthur Foley Win
ningon Ingram, K. C. V. O., D.
D., LL., dean of the chapels royal,
prelate of the Order of the British
Empire and since 1901 incumbent
of the See of London, referring in a
session of the diocesan conference
to "the clergy's starvation pay," an
nounced to the consternation of
many that he had found it necessary
to put London House, one of his
two town residences, upon the mar
ket in order that he might keep
Fulham Palace going.
The lord bishop promised that he
would make a supreme effort to
maintain Fulham Palace in full dig
nity as his episcopal residence, inas
much as this ancient pile had been
a historic possession of the church
for 1,300 years. But he could not be
certain even of this accomplishment
in the face of the hie;h cost of living.
To support his plea of an income
insufficient to maintain his estate as
his predecessors had done the
bishop of London placed before the
conference a frank excerpt from his
yearly balance sheet. Given in
terms of dollars it runs thus:
Income $50,000
Income tax 15.000
Super-tax 7,500
Rates, taxes and insurance 10,000
This indicates an "overhead" of
$32,500 for the lord bishop of Lon
don, leaving him $17,500 with which
to 'do the following things:
Maintain Fulham Palace and
gardens.
Maintain London House.
Support a staff of 10 servants,
feed and clothe them.
Run a motor car.
DODGE COUNTY
IS PIONEER OF
ELEVATOR MOVE
County Boasts Nine Co-operative
Farmers Elevator As
sociations and Two
Flour Mills.
Hooper, Neb., June 28. Dodge
county is the pioneer county of the
state in regard to farmers co-operative
elevator associations. The first
co-operative elevator and lumber
yards in the state were organized in
this county. The farmers have a
co-operative elevator association in
every town in the county with the
exception of Winslow. With nine
such associations and two up-to-date
flouring mills located at
Scribner and Dodge, the farmers of
Dodge county are handling their
products at a minimum of cost.
These concerns have been unusually
successful and are expanding from
year to year. In fact a good many
of these concerns throughout the
state got their incentive from
Dodge county. The aggregate cap
ital of these associations amounts
to $370,000, and each association is
capitalized by the farmers of the re
spective locality in which located,
thus insuring each to be a patron
and vitally interested in its success.
The amount of annual business runs
well into the millions. The profits
from this vast volume of business
which formerly went to private con
cerns and outside corporations now
all finds its way back to the pro
ducer of the business less the actual
cost of operation and maintenance.
Fremont, in Dodge county, is also
the home of the first purely co
operative Farmers' Union creamery,
which enjoys a state-wide trade and
has enabled the farmer and dairy
man to receive the maximum price
for his products in this particular
line. The associations and unions
have been a great means of better
ing conditions both in a business
and social way; in fact it gives each
farmer in the county affiliated with
one of the branches a wider ac
quaintance, newer ideas and have
done much to place Dodge county
at the head of the list in progres
sive farming and economical distribution.
FEDERAL LAND
DANK OF OMAHA
LARGEST IN U. S.
President D. P. Hogan of
Omaha Institution Tells
of Possibilities of
Business.
"The monthly report of the Feder
al Farm Loan board at Washington,
shows the Federal Lank Bank of
Omaha to be the largest of the 12
banks in the system," said D. P.
Hogan, president of the Federal
Land Bank of Omaha in an inter
view. "This bank has closed first
mortgage farm loans to the amount
of $32,146,990.00.
"The report also shows that there
is not a dollars worth of past due
interest on principal on any of the
closed loans of the Omaha Land
bank.
"The Omaha bank recently paid a
6 per cent divideM on stock
owned by borrowers."
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I HO WELLS, NEBRASKA
"I. W. W.'s Poor Laborers."
Topeka, Kan., June 28. "Kansas
reeds more industrious efficient la
boring men in the state penitentary
and fewer I. W. W.'s," said E. E.
Frizell of Larned, head of the labor
bureau to furnish farmers with
"hands" for harvest. He is also a
member of the state legislature and
interested in the binder twine- fac
tory at the state penitentiary. Three
million pounds of twine will be pro
duced this year by the penitentiary
at'd 35,000,000 needed for the 1919
crop.
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Established 1887
BANE
Howells, Nebraska
OFFICERS and DIRECTORS
ur FIRST Statement, as Called for by the State Banking Board, al the Close of Busi
ness February 25, 1918.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts $55,444.83
Overdrafts 207.04
Expenses, Interest, Taxes Paid 1,460.06
Furniture and Fixtures 2,500.00
'ash 6,566.21
$66,178.44
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock $25,000.00
Undivided Profits 3,582.48
Deposits 36,595.96
Depositors' Guarantee Fund 1,000.00
$66,178.44
Our PRESENT Statement, as Called for by the Slate Banking Board, at the Close of
Business May 3, 1919.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discount $161,156.30
Overdrafts 1,566.45
Liberty Bonds and Treas. Cert 10,050.00
Furniture and Fixtures 2,500.00
Expenses, Interest Paid 4,228.09
Cash and Due from Banks 25,593.19
Total $205,094.04
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock $ 25,000.00
Surplus 2,500.00
Undivided Profits ..: 4,975.32
Deposits 171,470.29
Depositors' Guarantee Fund 1,148.43
Total $205,094.04
JOSEPH NOVAK, Pres. J.
L. J. SINDELAR J.
Officers and Directors:
K. SEMERAD, Vice Pres.
J. NAGENGAST, Asst. Cashier
J. A. NOVAK, Cashier
CHAS. J. RITZDORF
A HOME INSTITUTION FOR THE HOME PEOPLE.
We Commenced Busine aa November 26, 1917.
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Emil Folda, President
E. F. Folda, Vice-Pres.
J. M. Folda, Vice-Pres.
F. C. Hrabak, Cashier.
James Zoubek, Assistant Cashier.
Jaroslav Folda.
Joseph Smatlan.
Mrs. A. Folda.
Rupert B. Folda.
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Report of the Condition of the
Scribner State
Bank
Of Scribner, Neb.
At the close of business, May 3, 1918.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $678,987.05
Overdrafts 3,810.70
Bonds 5,500.00
Liberty Bonds 11,100.00
Certificates of Indebtedness 50,000.00
W. S. Stamps 400.00
Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures. . 9,000.00
Expense?, Taxes and Interest Paid 16,582.84
Gash and Sight Exchange 137,912.75
Total $913,293.34
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 40,000.00
Surplus Fund 30,000.00
Undivided Profits 18,907.80
Depositors' Guaranty Fund 7,303.33
Deposits . . 817,082.21
Total $913,293.34
OFFICERS
Fred Volnp, President. Henry Sievers, Vice President. W. G Henatsch, Cashier.
P. L. Keller, Assistant Cashier. Hallie Christy, Assistant Cashier.
DIRECTORS
E. R. Gurrey
Ceo. Foster
C. W. Marquardt
Peter Preiss
Growth of a progressive bank of a progressive community with it is shown in the Scribner State Bank and
of the town of Scribner iteself. 1
May 1, 1905, when Senator Volpp took it over, the bank's resources were $95,000. Its resources at the May
statement this year were nearly ten times that amount, being $941,037.20.
Scribner State Bank has been to the community the ideal of the greatest usefulness. Not only has it been
doing a general banking business, but its officers have been the counselors of their clients in personal marketing,
investments and law affairs as' well as the banking business.
President Volpp has been a tireless worker and has taken state-wide rank in financial affairs. Besides be
ing president of this bank, he has been state senator in 1909-11 and 1911-13. In his first term he was chairman
of the banking committee that reported the Nebraska depositors' guarantee law, duly passed and making for soli
darity and confidence in state banks of Nebraska. In his second term he was chairman of the railway committee
that was notable for progressive legislation.
Mr. Henatsch has been with Mr. Volpp's interest for 11 years. He was born in Scribner and knows every
one in the county and is popular.
Mr. Sievers is one of the old settlers of Dodge county, big, wealthy and beloved by every one with whom
he comes in contact.
Mr. Keller has been with the bank seven years and ably keeps up the ai'duous work of that position. Miss
Hallie Christy, assistant cashier, has also been with the bank seven years, is a native of Scribner and in touch with
all its activities.
This bank has a record of 82 years of
sound, safe, satisfactory, progressive banking.
The high standard it has set for itself in the
conduct of its business is a protection to its
customers in every emergency and under all
circumstances. Your account, is earnestly so
licited and appreciated.
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Co.
Manufacturers ofiWMmmmmmum
High Grade
Hard Wheat
Flours
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and Grahams, Rye
Flour, Corn Meal
and Feed
Dealers in
All Kinds of Grain, Oil Meal
and Tankage
F. J. BUSCH, President and Treas.
JOHN WAGNER, Secretary.
HOWELLS, NEB.