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Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

that from the higher reservoir and the
winter minimum water supply will furnish
30, 800 horsepower. The water will then en-
ter a second reservoir. where 1t will join
with the River Aar, and a second dam. to
be constructed above Nessenthal, will hold
up the waters of the Trift, the Gadmen
and the effluent water of the Lake Engst-
len works. The whole OF this water will be
brought I'm n to the head reservoir
at Innerkirchen by pressure mains with
an effective fall Of 400 meters TO the power
house Of the Lower Aar works. These will
have an output Of q. 75O horsepower. There
will be three smaller stations. with a joint
capacity OF $3.50 horsepower. bringing up
the gross total to 5000 horsepower. This
power will be available all the year around.
but during the eight months of summer
high water the maximum output will be
1900 100 horsepower. 1t will take some ten to
fifteen years to complete the entire I'M
dertaking.
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bus and the railroad facilities make Colum-
bus a favorite with a travelling man. Fully
100 of these knights of the grip now re-
side here, and the number is being in
creased as rapidly as suitable residences
can be secured. Columbus has n wholesale
grocery, wholesale butter and egg cold
storage plant. wholesale poultry house and
a wholesale hide, wool and fur house.
The progressive citizens Of Platte county
have provided well for their 6,S11 school
children, having seventy-nine districts,
eighty-two school buildings, 11S teachers
and 262 school officers. During the school
year Of 1e07-Os nearly 100000 was expended
In the public school system of this county
for educational purposes. About half of this
sum was for teachers salaries, male teach
ers receiving an average of $54 and females
$5 per month. The rural school buildings
as a whole are substantial structures, be-
ing well painted both inside and out. Many
lave steel ceilings, oiled floors and walls
decorated with appropriate pictures. Spe-
cial attention has been given to modern
methods OF architecture, heating, light and
ventilation. An ample supply OF good text
books, maps, globes and charts are found
in all school rooms. In fact, the best of
equipment is found everywhere, for the
comfort and profit of teacher and pupil,
refleoting credit not only to their respective
districts, but to the county and state as
well. All schools are provided with libraries
Of fifty or more volumes Of the best liter
allure for school and home. The public
schools of the smaller towns of Monroe,
Lindsay, Creston, Platte Center and
Humphrey are the pride of their respective
localities, being well organized. doing from
two to four years of high school work
under the guidance of we'll qualified prin-
cipals and competent grade teachers in the
grades.
The 11s teachers of this county are proud
of their profession and loyal to the great
cause Of education. All teachers belong to
an organization known as the Platte
County Teachers association, which con-
venes three times during each year. Much
interest is shown in the papers on educa-
tional subjects that are read and discussed
at these meetings. Recently several teach
ers drove some thirty -elght miles in order
to be present. During the second week OF
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last year have sold and shipped out 1884,
600 pounds OF butter and over 100000
gallons of cream. while the farmers wives
have marketed more than 81, 200 dozens
of eggs and $4,000 pounds of dressed
poultry. The farmers have been using
during the last season $50 hand separators
and have kept over 1900 mich cows. In
the growing of alfalfa this county is sec
ond to but few in the state. as it has
over 5000 acres seeded to alfalfa, 600
acres to timothy and 5000 acres seeded
to clover.
This county is paying more attention each
year to the growing of fruit. At the pres
ent time, the farmers have 5000 apple trees
in full bearing, 5000 pear, 5000 peach, 1900
plum and 1900 cherry trees. This county
has over fifty freight and passenger
trains each day. During the last year the
Union Pacific alone did for the county a
freight business of S91, 900 and the Burling-
ton $4,000.
But Is per cent of the population Is for
eign born. More than 20 per cent of the
farms of the county are free from debt.
The farmers over the entire county, for
the last few years, lave been unusually
prosperous, and as each year adds some
new comfort and convenience to their sur
rounding, 1t Is not strange that they are a
contented, happy people.
The advance agents of the Columbus
Town company were Fred Gottschalk,
Jacob Lewis and George Ransch, who in
April, 1856, started out from Omaha to
found a city. On May %. 1856, the outlines
of the town were determined, and the whole
was soon blocked out. A rough log build
ing was put up and rooted with grass. 1t
answere all their purposes for dwelling,
storage, and fortiflcation, and was long
known as "The Old Company house" For
mutual benefit, the Columbus Town COM
pany and the Pawnee City company con-
solidated July IA, 1856. On August 80. the
company entered into an agreement with
John Rickley of Omaha, by which he was
to erect a saw mill and shingle mill. The
mill was to be of not less than thirty-two
horse power and to be in successful opera
ton by the succeeding August. The agree
ment was fulfilled August i, 1857. and the
town company passed eighteen shares of
stock to the mill company per agreement.
A second installment Of colonists started
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Becker, Jennie Undeland, Alfred Morris
and VIII Morris furnished other music.
The play itself. called in English The
Aunt's Heir" was written by a German
minister and afforded the High school
students ample opportunity for study and
the exploitation OF their skill. Several
hundred students, parents and friends
witnessed the production, which took the
place OF the regular meeting OF the German
society last Wednesday.
As German plays suitable for the use
of High school students, are quite plentiful,
one is presented at the High school almost
every month. However, the last endeavor
was on quite a pretentious scale, as only
three or four characters generally appear
in the plays, while Wednesdays had ten.
Work on special subjects and Ideas out
side the regular course in German, has
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been going on at the Hig school since the
year 1901 and the present society has
been organized with 4 constitution since
1903.
1t meets every Wednesday and spends the
alternate meetings on regular programs.
the other days being used for singing
German folk songs, of which fifty are
learned every year. Miss Bowen and Miss
Towne are in charge Of the singing and
have also trained a girls chorus.
Miss Lands, Miss Rockfellow. Miss steb-
bins, Madam Chatelaine. Miss Summers
and Miss Bowen are the society teachers.
They say that active interest in the study
OF German is aroused by tho work OF the
society. both in giving plays. singing and
other features. and that without the society
less could be accomplished IN their de-
partment.
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various Heating Devices.

49, MONG the latest heating devices
- which have been perfected
tor the home are the instanta-
- neous water heater; the electric
IsTas curling iron heater; the electric
t} hair dryer; the new electric
even; the electric corn pepper; shaving mug;
luminous radiators and electric tea kettles.
These added to the number OF frying
pans, b~roilers, cookers, cereal cookers,
coasters, etc, already in use make tho
electric kitchen practically complete. There
Is no longer any need OF a fire in the
house or a chimney on the house, The
building can easily be heated by electricity.
The cooking washing, ironing and scrub
bins can all be done by electricity. Water
is heated TO a boiling point as fast as Il
can be drawn. A turn OF the switch and
the irons are hot. A press of a button and
the dinner is cooking. At the weight OF a
finger the house Is warmed, ventilated or
lighted, With the same ease and speed the
small motors will do the washing. wiring
ing. grinding, chopping. ventilating, re-
frigerating. freeze the ice cream, sweep
the floors, clean the house, carry the coal
or sift the ashes.
The instantaneous water heater can be
attached to any wash stand or water pipe.
The flowing water passes over the heated
surfaces and is quite hot by the time II
reaches the outlet. There could be nothing
quicker or more simple than this electric
eo~nvienience. Another new device is the
electric hair dryer. After Miladi has
washed her hair a press OF a button starts
the hair dryer and a fine breeze OF hoi
air quickly drys the damp tresses. This
device contains a smsll fan and two
electric heaters, The cold air passes over
these heaters before It is projected from
the machine by this fan. Then the curling
iron heater is ready 10 keep the little iron
at just the right temperature for dressing
he hair.
The shaving mug Is specially designed
for the TRAVELLING man who wants a quicl
shave In the morning. The water Is heated
In short order and the cup is built II
sections so the soap dish can be removed
making the same vessel answer for a pin
water heater.
The electric corn pepper makes Il possible
20 pop corn on the parlor table and neve
mar the varnish. This handy device 1
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Genius Turns Dreams to Wealth
Continued from Page one.)

CONTINUED from Page One.)
genius is not lacking hereabouts. Some of
the men mentioned have fitted up at their
homes or places of business Laboratories
and workshops that represent substantial
sums Of money. Besides the inventions
actually reaching the patentable stage.
many OF them have models nearing COM
pletion and still others nave sane brain
storms on tap that are In the working
down" process. As one inventor put Il,
81 built and rebuilt my machine so many
times that when II reacueG the final con-
dition where it might be considered work
able, 1t in no way resembled the first
model"
In the circles that patronize and read
the patent journals and the publications
of the patent office at Washington. Omaha
is one of the western cities that is known
as the hons OF men with brains that
produce ideas and is the abiding place of
fechanics that can put the ideas into
marketable form. Three attorneys who
devote their time to this particular line
of business find plenty Of clients in Omaha,
and a great many more that come from
various parts of Nebraska.
And this il true: That the field of in
~vention. as elsewhere. 1t Is tine little things
that count; the things that Tom, Dick and
Harry and the women and children all
want, and can afford to buy. Checks for
royalties are not all In the dreams OF the
local inventors. for some have beer able 70
show the coin.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

Midas. wearied beyond endurance at sees
ing that everything he touched turned to
gold, looked about for some light occu-
patton. with a view to resting his mind,
and was about to go into the lumber busi-
ness.
"But that won't do. either" he said.
"If l should touch wood I'd knock the
wood pulp business into a cooked hat ard
bankrupt the timber kings!'
Realizing that crowned heads should
stand by one another, and uncertain, be-
sides. what the Payne tariff was going to
do with lumber, he forebore and amused
himself by going out and buying a gold
brick from a con man-which, in his case,
was a perfectly safe neutrality-suspicious.
Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

June of each year a county institute con-
venes in which methods In school govern
ment and instruction are presented to the
teachers by instructors of educational
merit. Platte county also has several large
denominations schools, which in some in
stances have provided school homes for the
boys and girls costing over $4,000. In all
Platte county has a most complete educa-
tional system. Much progress is being made
by the harmonious working OF superintend-
ent. teachers, school boards and parents.
Platte is one Of the rich counties of Ne
braska, not merely in dollars and cents,
but from every standpoint. 1t has u val
uation of 357, 600, 900, a population of lO,-
600 people and 100 miles of railroad. The
ten railroad stations within it's limits
are all prosperous and thrifty towns and
shipping points for the products of a rich
surrounding country. Columbus, the
county seat, is the largest, with a popu-
lation of $500. The others are OcoEee,
Platte Center, Humphrey, Creston, Corn
lea, Lindsay, Monroe, Tarnov and Dun
can. The county has two large elevators,
located at Columbus, with a capacity OF
$4,000 bushels.
Platte is one of the best watered coun-
ties of the state, as II has twenty-five
streams, some of which have excellent
water powers. The proposed water power
canal when completed will furnish about
25, 000-horse power. But 1t is the farms,
farmers and farm products to whlch
Platte county is looking for its future
prosperity.
The county has 2,64s farms, consisting
of $50, 900 acres, of which 246, 900 acres
are under cultivation. On these farms
the farmers produced last season 100, 600
acres of corn. 5000 acres of wheat and
75, 900 acres of oats. These farmers sold
and shipped out of the county last year
1,756,000 bushels Of corn, 800, 900 bushels
of wheat and 1000, 900 bushels of oats.
They also sold and shipped out $4,000
fat cattle, 5000 head Of fat hogs and
800 sheep. The several flour mills OF
the county sold and shipped out last year
over 5000, 600 pounds of flour and $4,000
pounds of mill feed.
The best outlook for the future growth
and prosperity of Platte county is the
deep interest that is being taken by the
farmers in the dairy industry and the
growing of alfalfa These farmers liz the
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out from Omaha, November 8, 1856, one of
whom, Mr.. Rickley, fortunately kept a
diary and thus dates were fixed beyond
dispute. On the Sth entry was made:
went hunting. Got one deer" Again on
the 18th, Had lots Of Indians n prairie
fires around us. 18th. made contract for
800 to 1000 logs, at $3.50 per 1000 feet"
In March, 1857, DIR. Charles B. Stillwell
and George w. Hewitt walked from Omaha,
through deep drifts, which then covered the
county and settled In Columbus. In April,
two men who had walked from Pennsyl-
vania, came and located, announcing their
determination ito stay"
Being in need OF reading matter. and
cash not being at hand 1t was resolved in
January, 1857. to give two town lots each
to a number of newspaper companies in
exchange for their periodicals.
Columbus was Incorporated as a town
by special act Of the territorial legislature.
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approved February Ii. 1866. A meeting
was held in the American hotel, March 8,
1850. at which the first school board was
chosen. In December. same year, the town
board made a present of the "Old Company
House" for a district school building. g.
w. Stevens received a school order for
$67.45 at the rate of 81 per day and he Is
honored as the first school teacher in
Columbus.
The first paper published in Columbus
was the Golden Age" its first number
being Issued June q, 1866, c. c. Strawn,
editor. The first number of the Columbus
Gazette was published March 1, 1881, by
William Burgess. editor and proprietor. The
Columbus Democrat" was established as
the Era. February, 1874, w. w. Hensley,
editor and proprietor.
st. Johns Catholic church was organized
in 1850, and was the first church society
in the county. The first church building was
a little log cabin.
Platte county was organized In 1856. The
first meeting OF the county commissioners
was held December %. 1867.
The pioneer railroad was the Union Pa
cific, which reached this locality in June,
1896. The first bridge across thu Platte
river was completed in November, 1870. 1t
was 1,16 feet long and cost 5000. h mail
was first carried from Columbus to Omaha
by OK team, and arrived July 4. 1857.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

IVA the old west, the enterprise and
progress of the new-that is CO.
- lumbus, the county seat of
hNEHlNN Platte county, the smiling city
SS@s%%S of the Platte valley. g city still
young in its hopes and it's ambitions. In
no other city in the west is found such a
happy combination of the old spirit and the
new. For Columbus has not forgotten, in
the rush for wealth and commercial growth.
the things that made the old west stand
for all that was manly. hospitable, refined.
Colun bus inducements to those who look
for a new home or a new seat of business
are many. The city invites comparison
with any in the west as "a city to live in"
or as the seat OF a great manufacturing or
mercantile business. Among it's offerings
are an exceptional climate. the best OF edu-
cational facilities, low freight rates, cheap
fuel, advantageous markets for manufac-
turing or mercantile business. Columbus Is
a railroad center. The Burlington from
the south, the Union Pacific from the east
and west, the Omaha q Republican Valley
from the north and two Union Pacific
branches from the northwest-a total OF
forty-two trains daily. Union Pacific repair
shops are located here and 400 railroad men
find employment.
Columbus has a modern creamery with q
daily capacity of 10000 pounds Of butter, two
steam FIGURING mills with q combined ca
pacity Of 300 barrels Of flour a day; a brick
and tile works, capacity $1,000 brick daily;
candy factory, annual output 10000 pounds;
a planning mill employing seven men; foun-
dry with rapidly increasing business. two
cigar factories. employing fifteen men,; the
largest wooden shoe factory In the United
States, a pop factory and bottling works.
which enjoys a very large trade throughout
central Nebraska.
Columbus has three beautiful parks and in
addition thereto Frankfort Square, located
In the bufiness portion OF the city, a beau
tiful grassy sward, adorned with noble
shade trees, lovely flowers, sparkling foun-
ains ana supplied with inviting walks,
settees and swings. Surrounding Columbus
are numerous lakes and streams. affording
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excellent hunting and fishing. Four SUD-
stantial banking institutions, with deposits
OF nearly 8, 100000. and two home building
and loan associations. A magnificent water
works system, costing $4,000. owned and
operated by the city; a perfect system OF
sewerage, a large electric lighting plant,
two telephone exchanges, two telegraph
lines and a free public library and reading
room. A high school where manual train
ing and domestic science are taught, and
five modern public school buildings that
cost $4,000; a well-equipped up-to-date COM
mercial college, st. Francis academy, the
largest academy in Nebraska, and a Ger
man Lutheran parochial school. The city
also has ten active church organizations
Presbyterian. Congregational. Episcopal,
Methodist. Catholic, Baptist, German Lu-
theran, German Reformed, United Brethren
and Latter Day Saints.
The travelling man is a favorite in Column
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28
A wir.I... from Pari..

DIR. Henry Vandyke. author and professor
OF English at Princeton. who Is II present
lecturing In Paris. was the first to send a
message across the Atlantic TO the wireless
station which has been built and finance
by three Princeton students. tn message
was relayed by the steamships Kronz-
prinsessin ceellie and Baltic 10 Nova
Scotia ana then to Nantucket. and was
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composed OF students Of hat department
of study. A high degree OF attainment was
reached in the production of one of the
plays at the school last Wednesday after
noon.
Miss Lands. head Of the German depart
ment, had charge of the play and ten
girls from her recitation classes made up
the cast. They were Stella ~Sallenback.
Frances Scott, Ruth Janney, Ruth Lind
ley, Anna Rupert, Ada Morris, Anna
Mathiesen, Hazel Clark, Minerva Quinby
and Marie slovack. Hortense and Mamie
spiesberger played a piano duet and Il
stringed quartet. consisting OF Elizabeth
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

as a live and useful
language is the idea emphasized
in the High school by the oc-
c~asional presentation of a play
in German by the members Of
the German society. which is
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28
In the Field of Electrical Experiment

received in the rooms Of the Wireless club.
in the school OF science.
The Wireless club was formed at Prince
ton two months ago by w. A, Butler and
c. c. stryker, both OF New York City,
and p. b.. Findlay OF Pittsburg. The three
students constructed all the apparatus.
Students OF Columbia and Pennsylvania
have been working along the same lines
for some time. The Princeton station Is
able to transmit within a radius Of seven
ty-five miles. and as soon as the other two
colleges perfect their apparatus the three
college papers will conduct their business
by wireless.
traffic on Electric Railway
The electric railways of the United
States carried last year s,6S0,OOO,OO0 fare
passengers. This wonderful increase is
due to the growth OF the street railway
and interurban railway service, better
transportation facilities and the increase
of suburban residents.
The number of persons TO be transported
increased at the rate OF 100000 annually.
The number Of passenger cars operated
has increased at the rate OF 40 per cent.
for the last five years. With the popula-
tion Of the United States estimated at
about $4,000. the figures given above
would seem to show that every man.
woman and child in this country has rid
den seventy-eight times on the electric
railways within the last year.
A swiss Power station.
A description Is given in a recent issue OF
the Frankfort Gazette OF a proposed by
draulio power station on a vast scale, the
concession for which has been applied for
by a company formed In Berns. For the
purpose of this scheme five separate gen
Grating stations will be constructed to
utilize the falls OF the Upper Aar. The
largest OF these undertakings wiz involve
the erection OF a lofty dam at spitAilamu
on the Grimsel. some ninety meters In
height, by means of which a hiEh-level res
ervoir will be obtained with an effeotivS
capacity OF 100000 cubic meters From
! this high-level reservoirs the water will b
} conducted by channels twelve kilomsterI
in length 10 the head reservoir at Gutta-
} men. whence It will reach the power station
through three pressure mains with a heat
! OF 80 meters. On the way to Guttanen th'
} water from Lake GelmeT win unite with
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

equipped with small rubber wheels and a
short wood handle so 1t can be easily
oscillated. A wire screen keeps the popping
kernels from flying about the room.
The electric oven, which has lately been
improved. is now very quick and econom-
teal. There is no waste OF heat and the
foodstuffs are always baked evenly. The
new tea kettles are handy and easily keep
a supply of hot water always on hand. as,
after the water is heated. 1t takes but a
little current to keep It hot.
Tit electric sterllizer and bandage heat
ers are the latest acquisitions to the sick
room and are Of fully as much service as
the electric heating pad and milk warmer.
.
New Primary Battery.
Considerable interest is being taken in a
new primary battery which has been in
vented by Mr.. w. A. T. Bleek. a young
electrician. a resident OF BrisbaI.e, Queens
and The battery is said to be very sim
pie. compact, and most easily charged, and,
when charged, goes to work at once. OF
the battery itself. Mr.. ]. S. Badger, man.
eyer Of the Brisbane tramways, says; Il
do not know of any commercial battery
which gives 50 high an electro-motive force.
neither do / know OF any battery which,
combined with such = high e. m. T., shows
such a constaney for so long a period
Prof. Thomas r. Lyle OF the Melbourne
university speaks very highly OF the in,
v~ention: "It has a much larger useful
current than that Of any cell 1 know
Demonstrations were given at the Tech.
meal college, in the presence Of a larg'
number OF Brisbane doctors and scientific
men. all OF whom were deeply interested II
the work OF the battery, The running Of q
sewing machine. electric fan. cauterizinI
instrument. and Rontgen-ray apparatus
were all successfully shown by the inven,
tor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

MONG the latest heating devices
which have been perfected
tor the home are the instanta-
neous water heater; the electric
curling iron heater; the electric
Eair drYer; the new electric