Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
Nebraska
GRAIN DEALERS MILL MEET
Convention of Western Association
Begins in Lincoln Wednesday.
QUESTION OF REMsPECT1ON
Promoters of Meeting say second
Grading of Corn at omaha and.
KANSAS City Works Hard
ship on shippers.

LINCOLN, Feb. T-tsbecial)-Th West
crn Grain Dealcrs' association with head
quarters at Des Moines, Ia, will meet IN
Lincoln nrxt Wednesday and grain dealers
generally have been invited to attend. one
OF the prominent questions to be discussed
Is tho inspection Of corn at the grain mar
ko,s OF Omaha and Kansas City and o,hei.
markets. Those who are promoting the
meeting say this reinsDection is a hardship.
on the shipper. Following is the program
Of the meeting:
1920 AM-Informal and social. Grain
dealers arriving during the forenoon Will
met informally in. the assembly, room Of
the hOtcL
) p. M. neutrality-suspicious. A.. We Is,
secretary Western Grain Dealers ascot
Improvement OF the Dat Crop and the
Necessity Of Testing Seed Corn" Prof
NJ l.. Bowman.
General Discusslon-"Delaye Reiuspec-
ion at Terminal Markets"
"Excessive Weighing Charges on Team
Tracks az st Louis" &
Car Load Dockage at Kansas city"
Manning w CochTane, president, and
John Dover, supervisor Of weights Of the
merehantS exchange Of st. Louis, VIII he
in attendance to explain the conditions
relating to alleged excessive Weighing
charges on team tracks ! nthat market,
Why IL WhyE
A Lincoln paper has a bear by the tail
pOiho AiiAtN. dAO II bLdIAtu a WHY tOlulllu
in which everybody was invited to ask
any why he desired. The answers ranged
all the way from why is a hem to
Why's Rhy?' Some times the why's
reached three columns and became so
serious that a score or more advertisers
and business men sent In a why, asking
why the Why column is run and volunteer
ing the Information that It Is giving Lin
coin undesirable advertising. Many writer's
o fthe why's have come back TO know why
the why's Should be stopped incidentally
the threes columns have dropped to less
than a column and from the front page
the why's haye gone to the back.
BeautifyiPs the city.
The City oldbs which Is composed Of
business and. professional men were so
well pleaSed With what was said about
beautifyinE the city at the recent Nc
Farland meetings" that It has decided to
have Clinton Rogers, Woodruff, secretary
OF the National Municipal league, address
the public MarchaE1O at Temple theater.
Every one interested in the city seemed
to feel good over the Mcfarland speech
because he told the public sidewalks out.
Of line was not a big question at all and
indicated that such error could be cor
rected very eastly.% Thopgh here only a
short time he passed on the site for a new
high school aud selected the apave port site
without hesitation 6%
Since hts yisgt one .tef the local papers
has been conducting a voting contest on q
high sohpoI site and the p~stenpoIt site is
so far the faypffS With 1qhg lead OF
votes. Thousfgsfhe Davenport site Ehas
already been bought by the school district
the board hsS ebeen thrown into the air
fisuratiYeIys ypsaking heoapss some one
suggested Another site for the building
known IS the Davis site. 1t consists OF
only one. bloch, but viii. Cost somewhere
around S6o,OO0s The district owns eight
acres in the davenport track,
No-sAloon flight Active.
The nc saloon fight in Lincoln is grad
ually assuming some proportions. Meet
ings are being HELD practically every night
by the advocates OF no saloons and col
lectlons are being taken at all OF them to
make up a campaign fund OF some 5000.
The tmepfeauee people have announced
that they desire to have 1900 to spend on
election day getting out the vote.
In addition 10 many ministers and Frank
Harrison ana Mayor Love the temperance
people have added Chief OF Police James
Malone 10 the speaksrs' list, and Malone
made his first talk at the First Presby-
terrain church one night last week. He is
booked fot several more. incidentally
while the talk Of the chief Of police was
full of ineldeuts Of bis business hefhas bssn
joked considerably since thsn. While he
was telling Of the improvement of the city
since the saloons were voted out. and the
less work hs aspartnent has to do, his
officers wsra Eeidipg 4 house, In one of