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THE COUKIER
SAMUEL HINKLE.
Samuel Hinkle, chief clerk in the office of the master mechanic of
the Burlington shops at Havelock, was re-elected mayor of that village at
the recent election. This Is the second time he has been distinguished with
that office. From the very beginning, however, he has been closely iden
tified with the government of the town. He was the first village clerk
after Its Incorporation and was secretary of the convention of citizens
which incorporated it In 1893. After It was all over the board of trustees
made him clerk. He was born in Osseo, Hillsdale county, Michigan,
March 27th, 1864. He was educated In the public schools. In December,
1875, he came to Nebraska and located in Plattsmouth where. In 1884, he
took a position in the supply department of the Burlington. In that ca
pacity he acted until in June, 1890, serving later in the locomotive service
and in 1832 was advanced to the chief clerkship at Havelock. The position
he has held ever since. In 1886 he was married to Miss Pearl Holmes of
Plattsmouth. Since removing from Plattsmouth they have lived at Have
lock and have one child, Raymond Mr. Hinkle Is a member jjf the Ma
sonic order and "also belongs' to the A." O. XL W. He was first elected
mayor of Havelock -on -the-democratic- ticket, -the only- democratic city
officer at the time. His majority then was thirteen. He was re-elected
this time by a majority of sixty-eight, with the city clerk and one coun
cilman also democratic. . """
Bicycle &
...j Pkasurt Stttd
By no means Is the bicycle ajellc.
Nor is it destined to be very soon.
More are being sold "now than ever
before. There are several good reasons.
Not many years ago wheels were
selling at all prices up to $150. Now
you can get half a jdozen 'or the same
money and in quality of material and
beauty of workmanship they are or
dinarily as good as their expensive an
cestors. That is one reason why they
sell so well now.
There is no more wheel erase. The
frenzy to scorch down the pike Is a
thing of the past That was the pas
sion of wheeling. Business has uner
seded it. People ride now because there
is no more handy vehicle than the bi
cycle. Light and always ready for
service. If It hasn't been forced to ex
ist in service to a ramshackle old age,
no man or woman who was ever able
to muster the courage and determina
tion to learn is willing wholly to dis
pense with it. Oftentimes a man will
speak to his soul and vow to sell his
wheel. Very likely he will keep his
word. Then when the wheeling season
opens again and he sees others bring
ing out their steeds, brightening them
up and preparing for the spring and
summer and fall, he finds himself
footing It toward the bicycle dealer.
And he departs from the emporium of
that gentleman nicely mounted. The
spokes of his wheels glisten in the sun
light as he gayly pedals away and sat
isfaction seems to be his lot.
It is figured In round numbers that
S60 wheels were sold in Lincoln last
year by the various dealers. Besides
this about 500 are said to have been
shipped in direct to purchasers. That
makes,-you see, something over 1,000
wheels, new ones, sold in Lincoln in
one year. Including men's, women's
and children's. This is regarded a
conservative estimate and certainly it
indicates that wheels are" not sJsab-
pearinc from Lincoln. A doen;yeni
score of them in Lincoln. It was
while they were booming at an average
price, of $100 that you herd of bicycle
clubs and regularly scanned the wheel
departments of the papers, read ac
counts of such and such a club making
a trip last Sunday to such and such a
place. You do not find these columns
nowadays. There is no better indica
tion that wheeling chiefly as a sport is
far out of date. "When yoij have looked
in vain for this kind of club news rest
your eyes on a view of the streets at
dinner and supper time. Then Is when
you will realize that wheels have not
become. extinct, ..even If .people don't
practice running to the cool sequester
ed nooks of an evening and on Sunday.
Tou observe that the number of wheels
is not in the least on the decline. Ev
erybody has turned his bicycle to
practical use. Glancing at the situa
tion nationally there are seven Inde
pendent bicycle concerns, seven in the
trust and about ten minor institutions.
There was a time when there were
about 200 makers, mostly on a small
scale. They have disappeared, you see.
Many went out of business. The others
combined and combined, uniting capi
tal, and machinery until now they are
comparatively few. but they turn out
about 300,000 wheels a year. Two or
three have an output of 50,000 a year
but the others do not do nearly as
much. Striking an average of 20,030
apiece among the fourteen largest we
get 280,000 wheels. The minor ten are
credited with an average of 2,000 a
year apiece and there you are. Of this
500,000 a good many are sold to for
eign countries, so this nation cannot
claim the credit of riding this great
number of new wheels every year. It
must be remembered that In addition
to the new ones there are thousands
of second hand wheels In use. Many
people buy a new one each year and
sell their old. This in turn Is sold and
resold a great many times, more than
likely, before it is consigned to the
scrap heap.
Not so many dealers In wheels will
cultivate the market In Lincoln this
year as last. Heretofore many hard
ware, furniture and department stores
concluded to go-out ofi.the-business.-It'
Is not a good side line. The man who
makes a success with them must keep
a large stock, deal on a heavy scale
and practically without any ties to
other lines. The fact that many of
these are going to quit means that the
more exclusive dealers will have a
much better field and will carry stocks
much. larger. They are ready for the
season -and expect not only sales ut
great as last year but considerably
greater.
Will wheeling revive as a pleasure?
Hardly. At least the dealers do, not
much expect it. And yet since the In
vention of the cushion frame, and the
chainless there seerns to have been a
slight revival. The cushion frame,
which springs buoyantly on bumps of
any significance, makes riding as easy
as Is possible from the Jauntiest phae
ton. The chainless empowers the rider
to dispense with pant guards and thus
frees him of a great" nuisance. It is
very handy for the business man who
rides often, distances of only a few
blocks, and to whom pant guards come
to be an abomination. But this wheel's
popularity Is retarded by its cost. The
automobile is thought by some to be a
sure preventative of further sportful
uses of the wheel, but it too Is pretty
much out of the question because of
its cost. Parmer boys and girls are
manifesting a growing enthusiasm for
wheeling as attested by the way they
have taken to buying this spring. De
spite their horses and carriages they
want to ride wheels. From the rate
they are investing it appears that they
have just been struck by the fad which
faded out here several years ago to a
mere business consideration. Ordinarily
those who have bought at all have
been pretty well satisfied with second
hand wheels but this year they want
the new ones, the light, garish ma
chines and they are spending good
money for them, say the dealers. Per
haps the betterment of roads has much
to do with this.
Anyway the wheel is here to stay.
only keeps
looking life
new, but
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use of Eureka
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