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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1919)
Sunday Bee Nebraska The Garden Spot of America. IT A IT IT A Nebraska's Prosperity Known the World Over. XJE UWAAIiA 1 E OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1919 i V STEADY GROWTH OF LINCOLN NOT HALTED BY WAR :f- - .Reconstruction Era Will See Ten Million Dollars In Build f ing Projects Completed, ; Including State Capitol. I -Having steadily expanded at the jrate o! $1,000,000 a year in new down-town business projects the last five years, Greater Lincoln is emerg ing into the reconstruction era fol lowing the war with a $10,000,000 program of development that will tdd not only immediate resources but will place the city in a position to receive and take care of what is expected to be a phenomenal in crease in population. Close to the business section of the city on the south is about to rise a $5,000,000 capitol building that will be an honor to the state and a monument that will play a big part in development of the city. ' Greater Lincoln plans call for a Handsome boulevard system to con nect the capitol grounds with the .University of Nebraska, a half mile across the heart of the city, where the regents of the university have inaugurated a $2,000,000 extension program in the development of the $3,000,000 downtown campus. The university has a $1,000,000 college of agriculture plant three miles from the city campus, that will share in all improvement programs. Will Build Schools. A $2,000,000 bond issue has just been voted and immediate abandon ment of old school buildings and the erection of new and modern struc tures that will care for the city's needs for years to come will be undertaken forthwith. Erection of new downtown busi ness blocks already planned call for an outlay of $1,000,000, and half a dozen projects in the million-dollar class are being contemplated. Favored with 18 diverging rail road lines out of the city, Lincoln manufacturing and jobbing, which' has doubled in volume the last five years, has set its mark to beat all past records. With the industrial growth of the city has come a steady increase in population due to opportunities in trades and in business lines and to the desirability of the city as a home for those of means, where they can give their children every thing necessary in the way of an ed ucation. University Growing. The city has a public school, col lege and university population of over 20,000, including 11,140 enrolled in the common schools in 1918. The enrollment at the University of Nebraska last year was 5,629, and nis IB EE IOCTP!i!l!lliiP!!iq First National Bank North Bend, Nebraska Report of Condition as made to the Comptroller of Currency at the Close of Business, May 12, 1919. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts 498,197.16 Banking: House 18,000.00 ' Real Estate 12,000.00 Federal Reserve Bank Stock 2,100.00 U. S. Bonds 50.000.00 Liberty Bonds 6,175.00 Redemption Fund , 2,500.00 Cash 74,508.46 $663,480.62 LIABILITIES Capital Stock $ 50,000.00 Surplus 20,000.00 Undivided Profits 7,986.89 Circulation 50,000.00 Deposits 423,988.72 'Bills Payable 25,000.00 Rediscounts 86,505.01 $663,480.62 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ROY J. CUSACK, Pres. GEO. FISHER, Vice Pres. THOS. H. FOWLER, Cashier. H. C. CUSACK, Ass't Cashier. C. M. BLACK. F. B. DATEL. an additional 2,404 in the student of ficers' training corps, making a total at the university of 8,033 students. On account of war conditions the last two years, which took its full quota of masculine college material and kept the prospective college women at home, it is impossible to compute a normal college attend ance. The 5,529 students in 1918 was an increase of 224 over 1917. Other Schools Grow Three denominational colleges in the suburbs in 1918 had an enroll ment of 1,709 students, or an in crease of 456 over the previous year. The schor ls with their enrollment and increase, are: Nebraska Wesleyan, 854, with an increase of 274. Union college, 498, an increase of 90. Cotner university, 357, an increase of 92. Under the $2,000,000 bond issue program, to be carried out immed iately, six of the 18 public school buildings will be replaced with mod ern structures, two $475,000 junior high schools will be constructed, and four schools will be remodeled and enlarged. The same program calls for a 5100,000 outlay in shops at the Lin coln high school, to provide the most up-to-date courses in industrial and vocational education. Free From Debt. The city of Lincoln has no bonded indebtedness. It has always paid its expenses as it went along, and has kept fully abreast of progress in ad ministrative measures. Within the city are 90 miles of paved streets, with a 100,000 paving program for the current year. The city has a big public park easily accessible from all sides. This park is being rapidly extended year by year, and now includes a muni cipal golf course. A water department municipally owned cost the city $1,294,527.42, and it is now estimated to be worth $3,500,000. There are 11,794 water patrons and the annual consumption is 1,491,747,000 gallons. Protection against fire is amply provided by 894 hydrants scattered through the city. There are 109.81 miles of wa ter mains. Own Electric Plant. The city light department, which is in competition with a private cor poration, has 2,200 electric consum ers, besides handling 627 residence f treet lights, 302 ornamental four and five-light clusters in the business section and 120 similar lights in the residence district. The plant has 95 miles of poles. The Lincoln Gas and Electric company has 120.6 miles of gas mains, and 10,632 consumers, be sides 5,759 electric ligbt patrons and 95 miles of poles. The gas con sumption is 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 feet a month. A well equipped fire department maintains four stations in the city, and 65 men are employed in a double-shift system. Vital statistics for 1918 show a hirthrate of 19.5 oer thousand, and death rate of 14.8 per thousand, which included 263 deaths from Spanish influenza. Excluding the "flu" the death rate was 10.5 per thousand. Industrial Growth. Compilation of business and finan cial statistics show Lincoln to have practically doubled industrially in the last five years. Bank deposits which in 1914 were $10,709,953 had grown to $20,060,000 in 1918, and bank clearings in the same period leaped from $110,140,663 to $227,780,463. Financial institutions of the city included four national and four state banks, four trust companies, one joint stock land bank and one sav ings bank. The eighteen diverging railway lines out of Lincoln in every direc tion have given the city's 380 manu facturing and jobbing establish ments an opportunity to develop trade territory that they have not passed by. Business Increases. The amount of jobbing and wholesale business increased from $38,130,000 in ,1914 to $74,845,000 in 1918, and in the same period manu facturing grew from $17,850,000 to $36,500,000. Wholesalers have set $100,000,000 as the mark for 1919. Postoffice receipts, another excel lent barometer of a community's development, had increased from $451,691 in 1914, to $657,577 in 1918. Figures in specific trade lines show: Grocery and meat business, $5,925,000. Automobiles $6,255,000. Flour, grain and seeds, $5,240,000. Poultry, butter and eggs, $7,200, 009 Paints, oils and glass, $3,956,000. Brooms, furniture and mattresses, $2,200,000. Freight revenue, $5,000,000, with freight movement 22,150 cars and freight forwarded from Lincoln in 1918, 2,200 cars. Indian Tires of Farm, So Enlists In Army Kansas City, Mo., June 28. Sam H. Willis, a Choctaw Indian, 19 years old, and from Kiowa, Okl., is tired of the oil fields of his native state. He wants to see something new something in Germany ior in stance. "I'm really a native with the old est American blood in me," sa;d Willis, in good English, to Corp. A: L. Anderson, of the army recruiting station here. "I'm tired of these new oil towns in Oklahoma and the big farms that are all over America. 1 think France and the Rhine river country would be pretty to see " So Private Sam H. Willis will see something of other countries th'n the land of his ancestors, for he has snlisted for three years. TURKS BLAME MAHOMET FOR THE LOSS OFTHE WAR Turkish Mosques, Once Filled With Worshippers, Now Practically Deserted; Huns Took Carpets. Constantinople, May 5. (By Mail). The religious Turk is very much discouraged. The mosques are not as well patronized as for merly, for Mahomet is blamed for the loss of the war. Turks whose dogs were taken away from them and dumped on an island in the Marmora sea to starve with tens of thousands of other Constantinople mongrels some years ago see in Turkey's present plight a just judg ment from Mahomet. Those who prophesied at the time that the wholesale massacre of the dogs would bring bad luck to Turkey are now wagging their heads sagely and recalling their prophecies. The Mosque of Ahmed I is de serted. The Germans when they left carried off all the precious rugs and the faithful refuse to enter the mosque on the ground that it has been profaned and is unclean. More than 300 deaths from cholera took place in this mosque during the war. The "Howling Dervishes" in par ticular declare that there is no hope for Turkey unless the "Great Proph et, Wilson" intervenes. Recently the American Red Cross mission for Roumania stopped off at Constan tinople and, while waiting for their boat to coal, visited the "Howling Dervishes." With hot coals in his mouth and with high priests sticking knives through their cheeks in time-honored fashion, the high priests called down the blessings of Mahomet up on America and maledictions upon all the enemies of Turkey. A young Turk translated the head howler's lamentations and blessings. Memet VI. the sultan, has not lost faith in Mahomet, however. Each Friday morning he visits the Yildez mosque t opray. His visit is a cere mony attended not only by thou sands of Turkish onlookers and guards but also by hundreds of al lied officers all equipped with cam eras of every size and description. American army officers and Red Cross girls now find it easy to visit the mosques. St. Sophia is open to all comers and the American army man is not forced even to take off his shoes. He merely slips them into a pair of huge slippers and shuffles about on the precious carpets which are aligned in the general direction of Mecca. The advertiser who uses The Bee Want Ad Column increases his business thereby and the persons who read them profit by the oppor tunities offered. Make Honey on Statehouse. Charleston, W. Va., June 28.-: Btes are making honey on top of the state capitol building here. An has been established there bv Charles R. Reese, bee specialist of i the State department of Agriculture. r;vf rolnnies have been placet! there and more colonies will be added. Officials of the State depart ment will be supplied with honey fresh from the comb. Condensed Statement of the Leigh State Bank LEIGH, NEB. At the Close of Business May 3, 1919. Resources Loans and Discounts $312,777.42 Overdrafts 9,072.51 Liberty Bonds, W. S. S. and other U. S. Government Securities 46,515.06 Banking House Furniture and Fixtures 6,666.66 Current Ex. andd Int., Taxes paid 2,109.77 Cash on hand in bank and due from National and State Banks 33,911.33 Total $411,052.57 Liabilities Capital Stock Paid In $ 20,000.00 Surplus Fund 15,000.00 Undivided Profits 2,633.57 Deposits 341,001.96 Bills Payable . 30,000.00 Depositors' Guaranty Fund 2,417.04 Farmers' Union Co-operative Company Grain, Lumber Implements, Coal and Live Stock C. C. SIDNER Manager FRED EASON -I. N. EMANUEL L. E. WARNER R. R. SEYMOUR THOS. KELLY President Vice President - Director Secretary Treasurer North Bend I I I i 1 1 I I I ! i : II I I ; n i 1 I n i 1 I 1 I i 1 ii - I j Xm m l" jk 5 i s ; i I I INI I i i I I i i i I i 1 1 I i Total $411,052.57 F. L. VLOCH, President. E. M. NELSON, Cashier. BOTH ACTIVE This Bank started business on the 5th of July, 1910, with a capital of $20,000, with a surplus of $2,000. The surplus is now $15,000. DEPOSITS PROTECTED BY THE DEPOSITORS' GUARANTEE FUND OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA STATEMENT OF FIRST BANK of NICKERSON NICKERSON, NEB. Resources Loans and Discounts $18.0,525.95 Liberty Bonds 7,000.00 Overdrafts 7,051.00 Banking House, Furniture and Fix tures 8,333.00 Other Real Estate 1,450.00 Expenses, Taxes and Interest Paid . . 3,338.18 Cash 50,489.03 Total $258,187.16 Liabilities Capital $ 25,000.00 Surplus 6,000.00 Undivided Profits 5,811.56 Deposits 219,492.12 Depositors' Guaranty Fund .... 1,883.48 Total $258,187.16 E. R. GURNEY, President. A. W. SPRICK, Vice President. C. E. NEGUS, Cashier. W. A. ANDERSON, Assistant Cashier. Capital - $25, 0 0 0.0 0 Mil !T i':'lil'-!i:ri'!llnllllllllllHNIHlnllll'l lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllHH'HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHMIIHII Farmers' Union Co-operative Association LUMBER Grain, Coal and Implements; Hardware, Harness Oils and Grease. Flour and Feed Elevator and Yards on C. B. & Q. Railroad, NICKERSON, NEBRASKA PERCY LEWER, Manager PHONES: Bell, Cherry 3352; Hooper S-184 Officers and Directors: MORRIS JORGENSON, President C. W. SCHOW, Vice President HARVEY SHAFFER, Secretary W. H. MULLIKEN, Treasure PERCY LEWER, Manager FRANK LISTON OTTO LANGHORST ED LANGHORST HENRY TANK ADOLPH SHERMAN Nebraska This association was organized in 1913 and now has over 300 members. The elevator has a capacity of 25,000 bushels. The officers are all natives of the county and are untiring in their efforts to make this one of the foremost associations in the state. n i I i 4 I -AiilllllllllillllillllUlllllliMIMIMIIIIIIIillMlllillllllnlMIIIII-ll'lllll'illlHI.illllill'il ilill;H'llillHllMI"l;nmimiinn:iilii'iiH,n i:il llltllli:.i'Hllllllliu.luuil.i.riKltlli:l,ii!lniji