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Nebraska
The Garden Spot
of America.
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Nebraska's Prosperity
Known
the World Over.
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1919
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STEADY GROWTH
OF LINCOLN NOT
HALTED BY WAR
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.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
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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
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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
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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.
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