Historic and Descriptive Review of Nebraska

     In the tailoring line Lincoln is specially favored in her possession of such an establishment as that of Huffman & Co. W. S. Huffman is a native of Ohio and has had twenty-two years' experience in tailoring. He located in Lincoln in September, 1887, and for four years conducted his business in partnership with Mr. Richter, since which he has been alone. He has one of the finest tailoring houses in the West, stocked with $10,000 worth of imported and domestic goods in the latest patterns. Seventeen tailors are employed, and a feature of this house is that nothing but the best men workmen, at the best wages, are retained. Their patrons come from every portion of the State. Mr. Huff man is one of the leading Elks of the State, having organized the lodge in the city, and is also identified with the K. P., Royal Arcanum, National Union and Modern Woodmen.

     CORNER GROCERY. O. P. Erlenborn, Proprietor, Corner G and Eleventh Streets.--The "Corner Grocery" has always been a popular title. We have read about the one the Bad Boy's Pa run and the one where all the village loafers were wont to cangregate (sic) and spin the latest yarn. But this is different from either of those, in that it is one of the neatest and most popular groceries in the city, with no bad boys or loafers about. Mr. O. P. Erlenborn, a native of Mendota, Illinois, came to Nebraska five years ago. Three years later he located in Lincoln, and in 1800 began business at his present quarters. occupying a neat store room 40x66, stocked with an excellent assortment of family supplies. A pleasing personality has made him very popular with his customers and his patronage is rapidly on the increase. Three clerks are employed at the store, and Mr. E. gives his personal attention to soliciting.

     DAVID WISE & COMPANY, Jobbers of Fine Whiskies, 839 O Street.--Almost every branch of trade is well represented here by the jobbers, and among the more prominent we notice David Wise & Co., established seventeen years ago. They have always ranked high in the trade, and their business at present amounts to $300 000 to $400,000 annually, extending over Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, which territory is covered by four salesmen. They are exclusive State agents for the Val. Blatz's Milwaukee bottled Wiener beer, and they make a specialty of fine Kentucky whiskies, being distillers, also importers of fine wines, brandies, and liquors. The services of seven employes are required in the house, and Mr. Wise also has a house in Chicago. This gentleman is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, and came to the city seventeen years ago.

     J. C. JOHNSTON, Attorney at law. 236 South Eleventh Street.--Mr. Johnston's early life was spent in Huntington County, Pensylvania (sic), but in 1876 he became imbued with the "western fever" and came to Lincoln. For two years he was an instructor in the public schools, studying law in the meantime, and in 1878 was granted admission to the Lincoln bar, where he has ever since been an efficient practitioneer (sic). He speaks, reads and writes German fluently. His success here has been very decided and substantial, and his fourteen years of constant legal labor, have made him one of the best known attorneys. In 1885 the people elected him to the Nebraska legislature, where his course reflected honor to himself and his constituents. He is a member of the county bar association.

     JAMES HEATON, Funeral Director and Embalmer, 342 South Eleventh Street.--A leading house in the undertaking line, is that of James Heaton, established eight years ago. The building occupied is 25x90 feet, in the basement of which is arranged one of the best morgues in the western country, and supplied with all the modern conveniences. The front of the upper room is occuppied (sic) by the office, while in the rear is the coffin room. Mr. Heaton is a native of Indiana and came to Lincoln eight years ago. For the past six years he has held his present position as secretary and treasurer of the Nebraska Funeral Directors Association, and for the last three years has been their representative to the International Funeral Directors Association, of which he is first vice president. He is an experienced man in the business, and together with his two assistants, manages a large portion of Lincoln's patronage. He makes embalming for shipment a specialty.

     PORTER HEDGE, Abstracter of Titles, 1001 O Street.--One of the best conducted abstract businesses in the city is that of Porter Hedges, a native of the Buckeye State and a resident of this city since 1885. The business was established in 1885 but Mr. Hedge did not assume charge until the following year. He has the only set of abstract books in Lancaster County that are complete to date. Two clerks are employed and his patronage is extensive and lucrative. He also deals in real estate in the City of Lincoln. He is one of the board of the Nebraska Christian Educational Board. They have taken the lead of all educational societies in this State. Cotner University, of this city, was built by them.

     DR. T. O'CONNOR Cures Cancers, Tumors, Wens and Fistula Without the Use of Knife, Chloroform or Either; 1327 O Street.--The subject of our sketch located in this city in 1885. The doctor was born at New Lebanon Springs, New York, and studied medicine five years with Dr. Charles Sunrise, an Indian specialist, of the Towanda tribe, and from him secured the formula for the preparation he now uses with such wonderful results. He has been practicing for the past twenty-five years, and lived for twenty-seven years at Galesburg, Illinois, prior to coming here. During the war he served in company D of the 139th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and company F of the 148th. His patients come from all portions of the country, and the success of his treatment is attested by his many references.

     The demand for a practical and economical education in the western states suggested the establishment of the Lincoln Normal University. Its founder, Prof. F. F. Roose, also founder of another large and successful Nebraska college, recognized this demand, and that Lincoln, Nebraska, was unquestionably the best location for it, as it is the center of the great western agricultural region and of nearly a dozen railroads, winch latter make Lincoln easily reached by the thousands of young men and women who are in need of just such an education as the Lincoln Normal University is giving.
      In the summer of 1890, Mr. Roose prepared plans, details and specifications for the finest and largest educational building in the west. Prepositions were received by him from a dozen or more cities for its location, and the bidding by seven or eight college site-owners at Lincoln was lively. In the fall of the same year a decision was reached and the Lincoln Normal University was seated on a tract of land southeast of the Stale Capitol, in the only direction the city can grow on account of natural obstacles. Work commenced in May of 1891, on the foundation, which is constructed of Colorado and Wisconsin stone, extending twelve feet above ground, and costing about $2:1,0110. This required several hundred car-loads of stone, and was not completed until December of 1881. In February, 1892, work commenced on the superstructure. Later on the erection of three other buildings was commenced, and a splendid water plant, heating plant and electric light system were arranged for. These, with fine equipments, make this institution the beat prepared of any other Normal in America, to give the student a thorough practical education in the shortest time and at the least expense. The faculty has been selected front the strongest teaching force in the west, who, together with the management, have had years of experience in building up successful schools and preparing young men and women for the active duties of life.
     The boarding is by the cottage and dormitory systems, and students can lake their choice as to which they prefer.
     Forty courses, departments and colleges are combined in this great Institution, and students are allowed to enter at any time and select just such studies as they may want.
     This university was established for the masses. The following outline of the courses of study will indicate the extent of the work It proposes to carry on:
     1. The collegiate course proper with its: School of Science, School of Literature, School of Philosophy, School of Classics, School of Languages, School of History and Civics, School of Industrial Learning.
     2. The more technic (sic) schools such as: School of Civil Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering.
     3. Colleges more or less separate in themselves: Lincoln College of Didactics, made up of the Lincoln Kindergarten Institute, The Lincoln Primary Institute, The Lincoln School of Methods, Science, Philosophy and History of Education. Lincoln Conservatory of Music--For the voice, Piano and organ, for the band orchestra and string instruments. Lincoln Commercial College--Department of Actual Business, Department of Banking, Book-keeping, Law, Department of Plain and Ornamental Penmanship, Business Correspondence and Rapid Calculation. Lincoln Military Academy--Infantry and Artillery Drill Regulations, Military Engineering, Signaling, Strategy, Military Law and Courts Martial Lectures. Lincoln College of Shorthand and Typewriting--Junior Class--Theory of Shorthand, Senior--Actual Business training, Typewriting, Theory and practice. Lincoln College of Fine Arts--Drawing, Crayon, Water Colors, Oil Painting, &c. Lincoln College of Oratory Voice Culture, Declaiming, Rending, Debating, &c. Lincoln College of Telegraphy--Actual Railroad Business, Commercial Telegraphy. Physical Culture--Wands, Bells Clubs, and Body Movements for Adults Calisthenics and Physical Culture for children. School of Typography or Printing--Technical knowledge. Review Course. Actual work. State Certificate Course.
     The Lincoln Normal University was founded with the must valuable donation of land ever made to any ether normal college, which alone shown the interest Lincoln's citizens have taken in the Institution, valuable assistance. has been rendered by the officers of Lincoln's Board of Trade, Real Estate Exchange, and the city and State press through which the name "Lincoln Normal University" has become a household word. Read what the press is saying:
     Lincoln as an educational center is without a competitor

in fact no other city In the world has as many large, first-class educational institutions, or as touch money invested in them as has Lincoln. One of the latest institutions and one of the largest, is the Lincoln Normal University. and it is with pleasure and pride that we refer to it by calling the attention of our readers to the fact that it is the largest independent normal school building in the United States It will cost more money and it is more floor space devoted to educational purposes than any building yet projected in the West. The foundation, which is completed, contains 200 cars of stone and cost about $20,000. The building will be solid masonry five stories high. The inside will he an example of elegance and solidity. Electric light, modern besting unit everything to make a most inviting home for the young man or woman attending school. Architects are working on plans for several accessory buildings all of which will tall for such an outlay of money and add a lacier of such worth to the city's industries that the citizens are not slow to recognize it. The location is southeast of the government square in one of the finest suburbs of Lincoln, connected with the city by electric street cars. Spare will not permit of a full notice of the many advantages offered those desiring an education, or of the able faculty, nineteen of whom are now selected, to give instruction in this great institution, but full particulars may be had by applying to the manager and owner, F. F. Rouse, Lincoln, Neb.--Editorial, Nebraska Farmer.

is already recognized as the leading normal in the West. Public school men, since they have learned that it is not of the mushroom kind, are rallying around it with their support. Its courses of study are such as to command the attention of intelligent people, which indicates that it is building for the future. Its manager, Prof. F. F. Roose, informs its that the institution will start out in September with a full attendance, also that people everywhere are becoming interested, many of whom will build at Normal, to educate their children.--Lincoln Educational Bureau.

The Lincoln, Nebraska, Normal University has a fine prospect before it. Its manager and owner, F. F. Roose, has all years of experience in building up schools and is putting in his best efforts to make this normal the best in America. Its buildings are the finest and its equipments are unexcelled. The faculty, thirteen of whom are from a normal which recently burned down, are strong. In its forty courses, departments and colleges, may be found almost any study a young man or woman may want. Large numbers of students are writing their intention to attend the normal and it is calculated that one hundred collages must he built for their accommodation--Wellfleet Argus.

Lincoln, Nebraska, has an acquisition in the way of the Lincoln Normal University, which will add several thousand people to her population. This is the largest independent normal in the world. It has an able faculty and the expenses of attending school are low. Special efforts will be made to arrange so that in addition to the regular enrollment, every poor young man and woman in the land may get an education in this great institution. Its buildings and equipments are the finest, and the donations to the Lincoln Normal University exceed in value any ever given to a normal college, amounting to at least $300,000. Its manager, F. F. Roose, who is well-known throughout the west, says every mail brings in letters from students who will enter the Normal September 1st.--Republican City Independent.

The Lincoln, Neb., Normal University is considered by the Lincoln people as the best acquisition in has ever made. Its fine buildings surpass those of any other normal and the attendance for September promises to be very full. The manager and owner, F. F. Roose, has had large experience in building up schools and his best efforts are being put in this normal. Home-seekers and investors, as well as students, keep busy his large corps of assistants in answering his heavy mail.--Nebraska Advertiser.

The faculty and management of the Lincoln Normal University have had years of experience in normal schools. Years of heavy advertising has placed these forces so prominently before the public, that they need no introduction in the West. They continue the work right along where they left off in the colleges with which they have been connected. No Interruption or delay will occur. Old grades will he taken and classes to accommodate all will be formed. The owner, Prof. F. F. Roose, has had active management of schools the past twelve years. and his success in this line is well known throughout the West.
This greatest of normals will commence its fall term In September, 1892, when it is expected that at least 509 students will enroll.--Lincoln State Journal.

The Lincoln Normal University is on experiment or land scheme. Its manager and owner, Prof. F. F. Roose, has spent thousands of dollars in advertising his schools His experience in building up schools and his wide acquaintance in every State in the West is an assurance that the Lincoln Normal University will far surpass any similar institution in America. The magnificent buildings and equipments, and strong faculty secured from other normals are all strong factors In making a great university--Lincoln Call.

Prof. F. F. Roose's strong endorsements and his wide acquaintance, with his varied experiences in establishing and managing educational institutions (over twelve years of successful work) together with the strong and experienced faculty he has employed, make the Lincoln Normal University of this city, the best in the land. Its favored location, strong and solid reputation of those connected with it, substantial and magnificent buildings, fine equipments, and its endorsement by public school men combined. make this institution what it claims to be, the largest and best in the land.--Lincoln News.

The noted college, the Lincoln Normal University, has certainly a bright future. Its owner, Prof. F. F. Roose, who has advertised more than any other college man, is rushing every department of work. His heavy mail indicates the pulse of the people. and that some 800 students will attend the full term. The cream of the Shenandoah Normal faculty, strengthened with old and tried teachers from other quarters, placed in an elegant new building with fine equipments make the Lincoln Normal University the strongest in America. The most valuable donations, together with thousands of dollars invested in the enterprise by its manager, puts it beyond an experiment and land scheme. Its erection did not depend on the sale of lots. It is well established, and its aims are such as to commend it to every citizen.--Lincoln Sun.

     The expenses for attending the Lincoln Normal University are at a minimum. Its high moral and Intellectual standing, coupled with the fact that the best advantages with the least of expense, will draw hundreds of students from every Slate in the Union. Any desired information consuming this great institution will he cheerfully given by F. F. Roose, manager and owner, Lincoln, Neb.

     DR. E. L. HOLYOKE, Office. 127 South Eleventh Street.--Lincoln is to be congratulated in her possession of a corps of physicians equal to any city in the West, and in their enumeration we wish to call especial (sic) attention to Dr. E. L. Holyoke. The doctor's younger days were spent at Grinnell, Iowa, and in early manhood he took the collegiate course in the Iowa College. Later he graduated from the Rush Medical College of Chicago, and began the practice of medicine. He has been located in this city for six years, during which he has made friends and patrons to a very satisfactory extent. He is one of Lincoln's city aldermen, is Grand Medical Examiner of Nebraska, for the A. O U. W. and also belongs to the Nebraska State Medical Association, Missouri Valley Medical Society, and Lincoln Medical Society.

     THE WINDSOR HOTEL. F. G. Richardson, Proprietor.--One does not have to strain a point in making the statement that there is not a city in the west possessing better hotel accommodations than Lincoln. The Windsor for the past seven years has well entertained the public. The building on North Eleventh Street is a three-story brick, containing 150 rooms, 125 being used for sleeping apartments all of which are connected with the office by electric bells. The house is heated by steam, and lighted by gas and electricity. The rates are $2 and $2.50 per day. and guests at this house can depend upon receiving the best eating and Mr. Richardson has had charge of the Windsor only since October 20. 1891, yet, being an experienced hotel man, he is making this place even better than heretofore.


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