Nebraska Newspapers

    lioaal I?sws.
Happy New Year.
Don’t forget to write 1897.
24 Pound N. O. Sugar for #1.00 at
Gasteyer’s.
For any thing in the Harness line call
at T. M. Reed*.
Mrs. L. K. Walworth went to Lin
coln yesterday.
Good grade* of mnchine oils sold by
T. M. Reed.
Miss Lulu Boner visited at Grand
Island Tuesday.
Tailor made clothing 12.50 per suit
at A. E. Chase’s.
Mrs C. L. McGrath is visiting friends
at Grand Island.
W. K. Brown went to Ht. Paul the
fore part of the week.
John Eggers of Grand Islaad is doing
business here this week.
Harry Cline, of Albion, is visiting hi*
brother F. W. Cline.
J. C. Fletcher, of Clay township was
at the county *eat Tuesday.
A. C. Hlnimons foreman of the U. P.
liueiu en was here Haturday.
.f. H. Pedler Is having his Ite house
filled with Ice for summer use.
Lon William* returned from Hamil
ton county Hatuidav evening.
Mrs. .1 B. O'Bryan has been quite
111 but, we leurii. is much better.
R. Cattle, of Lincoln spent the Holi
days with his parents in Loup City.
Mr. Kearns of Ashton township was
doing business at the hub yesterday
Dr. Sumner Davis, Grand Island, Sur
gical diseases and discuses of Eye and
Va.
Adolph Horioson, of Arcadia has
been spending u few days with frlcudi
at Loup City.
Mr. and Mr*. Oeo. Ware are enjoy In*
a visit from tbeir daughter, Mrs. Me
Carty of Caro, Neb.
James Hiiiigass, from Hamilton coun
ty, Nebraska is visiting bis daugbtei
Mrs. 8 Hancock.
Abe Travis of Lincoln and his brothe
Robert, of Wisconsin are visiting thei
parents In this city
"Heaven is not reached in a day,
bot Lincoln is via Union Pacific, om
fare for round trip to silver coaveutioi
Jan 6th and 7th.
Mr. Aaron Smith and Miss Nelli
Brewer, both of Hcott township, thi
connty, were on December 81,1806 on
Ited in marriage, Judge Kay otllctatlng
8upt. Johnson hud made every at
rangement to attend the teachers assc
ciatlon at Lincoln this week, but owirij
to the sudden illness of Mrs. Johnsoi
be did not go.
Most of the farmers in this vacinlt;
who were completely hailed out twio
last season replanted after the 8th o
June and raised twenty bushels of cori
to tho acre.
Soothing, and not Irritating,strength
enlng, and not weakening, smull bu
effective—such are the qualities o
DeWItt’s Little Early Kisers, th
famous little pills.-'Odendahl Bros.
"What makes Harry .leiuicr cut sue
a dash with his Whitehorse and go cart
we ventured to ask. "Why, hav’n
you heard the news?*, asked a neighbc
on the left. “He has got a bran ne
baby at bis house." Came Monday.
The length of life may lie increase
by lessening its dangers. The mujoi
Ity of people die from lung trouble;
These may be averted by promptly u
Ing One Minute t ough Cure. Odeuda)
Bros.
The musical entertainment given h
Prof Auble and family at the liapth
church was largely attended and pri
nnuncrd by those present to be gooi
Mr. Auble is a music teacher and gav
the entertainment with a view to g<
ting up a ol is*
|>1KI>. Fred Converse died at tli
home of his parent* Inet Thursda
morning, Pccember 31, 1306, ufter
severe sickness of several mouths di
ration The fuuernl service* will t
held at the M. K. church In this clt
Baturday, January 2nd, at 12 oclock
Mere ta the kind of obituary tin
a Cleorgie editor put up for a poor urn
"Poor Jltu slung hi* earthly garuien
on a lliup aud swain the river yesterda
lie dld'ut stand hack because the watt
was cold, but plunged right m. ro*
•lulling and struck right out for tb
other shore Where the siigels were ws
leg for him w lib a Ann suit than I
had ever worn lu ht* III* Jim ••<
poor hut he had hi* subscript!*
lo hi* hum* paper ail paid up and I
got there ta good shape.''
The elate intluatiiai *ebutd to****
•bowl by reason of the de use
of the supreme court dcelaru
against the tw«t sugar hewn tv ta*
The school sold about >V»ti ton* ;
the Mr aw* I leiand factory at |.< p<
ton |f the bounty *o pant 11 p.
ton if the bounty was knotted
guile n wuwtber of furthers near til
bow loan front #A»> to #1 t»ca. u fro
tho dwotaiow the lew* »»t K« •
net Sue
Skates! Skates!!
Skate*, and lot* of’em at Walk nson*.
Eye and Kar. I)r. Davi*. Grand
Island, Nebr.
Freddie Hauck wa* a Grand Island
Visiter this week
1 bare corn, oats and ground feed for
sale T. M. Reed.
A choice lot of mixed candle* for
sale cheap at Gasteyer*
Schuyler flour is the best you can buy;
for sale at Gasteyer’a.
\V II Kennedy I* enjoying a visit
| from bis brother of Merrick county thl*
week.
A ten pound baby girl arrived at the
| homo of Mr. and Mrs. John Harney last
! Monday.
I Mr*. Thompion,and daughter of Mrs.
,1. S, I’edler returned to her home at
Denver ia*t Saturday.
( all and look at the sample* of ready
made clothing at A. K. Chase’*. Suit*
from $6,00 up. Fit guaranteed.
Get your choice of China Cup anil
Saucers or other dish '* with 1 pound of
the celebrated Dock-Chop tea at 50centi
at Gasteyer'*.
The reason you never see any Items
of Interest from your locality In the
local news papers Is because you never
tell the editor about It.
The Bankrupt Clothing Company
of Central City will open business at
the Taylor stand In this elty Jan. 9th,
]HU7. See their new add ou flr*t page
A lady living at Albion, Neb. by the
name of llelbu hi* credited with hav
ing driven birth to live children last
week. And >et some people growl j
about Nebraska crop*.
The Northwkbtkhn takes pleasure 1
in announcing tin* marriage of Mr ,
Andy Anderson to Miss Carrie M<Tnd-|
den which took place December 31. 1800
Rev, \V< bster officiating.
At the* regular meeting of •blloh * ,r*
He No. 8, of this city held Saturday oi
last week apeclal arrangement* were
made for holding their next regular
meeting Jan 0, at7:30 p. ro. All mem
bers are requested to tie present
C. I. Drake, J. 8. Pedler, and Adam
Hcbuupp of Loup City and James Land
r ers of Arcadia swooped down upon a
hog thief near Rockville la/t VVedncs
. (jay afternoon, the particular* of which
s are given In another column.
1 "Excuse me,” observed the man In
spectacles, “hut 1 am a surgeon, and
» that is not where the liver Is.’’ ‘ Never
i you tnind where his liver is,” retorted
. the other, “If it was in his big toe or
his left ear DeWitt's Little Early Kisers
would reach it and shake it for him
On that you can bet your gig-lamps.”—
Odendahl Bros.
r
I John Ilutscn tells a very Interesting
story of how ho came near capturing a
chicken thief last Sunday night. Says
’ John: “I heard a noise at the ham and
! went out to see wbat was the matter.
An 1 turned around the corner of the
1 house I saw that the ben house door
stood wide open and that a man with a
- lantern lit was inside. 1 rushed In the
t bouse, got my abet gun and rushed out
f again. The sound of my second coming
9 caught the quick ear of the thief, and,
smashing his lantern all to pieces
against the side of the hen house he
,. took to his heels and made off with
t great speed. 1 snapped the gun on him
once or twice but the blamed thing
v would not go off'. 1 stood and watched
him. He went down and up the hanks
of the Dead Horse, oh, so quick; thence
* across Mr. ltosseter’s lots, and from
tbwre to the north end of town. 1 could
'■ see him several blocks away, in fact
8 1 could see him a* far as 1 could see
1 the light of his lantern.” But, said Mr
llutson. "ihe most singular part of it
y all was that when 1 counted iny fowls
t the next morning I found that 1 had
'• one more than we had the eight before.,
!• The story Is a little peculiar in some
*■' respects at leust. We can easily under
t stuuil, how Mr. llutson could run and get
his gun nfier seeing the thief, that It is
,. possible for the blamed thing not logo
v off just at the time the game w as In
a easy range, how the fellow could lake
i. to hts heels and run. ami even how there
might possibly be one more chicken in
v the coop the next morning; but fertile
life of us, we cannot comprehend how
it cuuld Iss possible tor Mr. llutson to
It see a distance Ol several bloeiii, the light
0 from a lantern width had been smashed
* ail t<> pieces against a chicken bouse m>l
f. Aye iiiinutes In-tote But they say
>r I stiange things will happen ami It may
► tw> that this is one of then
I I tie l ill hi i'aclllc *y stem has Inau
I guiate-t a thorough colonist sto-pinc
' | cal seurlve between I'tt.trtcil lllullsaml
I' illaud Ibis car lease* t'o til sill « oi,
a
our tram No 4 daily at J 13 p m and
passengers go through whltwut (hai.gr
licith* in Ibis ear vau l»* set uted ht
* re>iuest at ibis oitl. e In addition lolhr
n above «t also run a ihiwugh voloi.t»i cat
g | dally to Ban frauds. « and a perms
. ' neatly (HMI din ted .otontsl car weskts
i every fnday to wan htn. ise and !.•«
| \ugeb>s t nit Ik formation cau be
* j talnerl by writing «» calling <sw
if I I lauk 3k t ime .kgvni
I a ivikir—ririsrs rnism »#a >.i
b i luars to lias at lot lvsy.,sslSI« *«V*SI *0
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POMOLOGICAL ART.
Trying to produce seedless and
THORNLESS FRUIT.
Blclhncla by Which I'rnlt Hcl.'«l!»t< Sne
ered In Improving I'pou Nature lie
•alt* Usee Shown Tbst They Are on the
Right Usui* Slight succemi With Apples
One of tilt) most iruportunt obj<,cts po
niolngists are striving for is to prodnoe
thornless and seedless fruits, und from
tho results already obtained ft is not
unlikely that tho end will soon ho real
ized. Seeds are not relished by the con
sumers of fruits, and if they could bo
removed we would enjoy our grapes
without experiencing a dread of appen
dicitis and kindred complaints.
Thorns aro not in good standing
among fruit growers, because they are
constantly puncturing the best fruits
and, what is equally important, the
skin of tho pickers. The thorns and
prickles of plants and trees wpre un
doubtedly intended by uuture to protect
them from auimuls, but that is no rea
son why they should be continued for
generation after generation on the cul
tivated varieties. Tho gardener bus no
need for them, and, for that matter, the
trees and shrubs have none either.
Our domesticated peais and apples
were all derived from the thorny, wild
varieties, and politologists have succeed
ed in ridding them of these spikes and
prickles by careful culture and selec
tion. Oranges and lemons have not
been cultivated in this country as suc
cessfully us pears und apples, and many
of them are very thorny. Tho wild and
sour orange trees of Florida are bris
tling with thorns, ns is also the high
priced king orange, one of tho best of
the mandarins. Tho wild lemon trees of
Florida are so thorny that growers qnes
tion the advisability of grafting tho line
La Franco lemon* on them.
In Florida, however, the thorns of ;
tho orange and lemon tree* have been |
greatly reduced by selecting but!* from
brunches with the fewest thorns, and j
by continuing this process year after
year the shurp spikes disappear. In Cal
ifornia nearly all of tho orange trees are
thornless—not naturally, but as tbo re
sult of cultivation und selection.
The thorns on blackberries, raspber
ries and rosebushes give tho greatest
bother to horticulturists in tho north,
and there is a determined effort to get
rid of them. Tho thorns give endless
trouble to tho pickers, and their remov
ul might save many a puncture to deli
cate hands. There is un improved varie
ty of raspberry placod on the market to
day which is entirely thornless, hut the
trouble is that quality and quantity of
fruit have been sacrificed to the gain
made in destroying tbo thorns.
There is little doubt that perfect
thornless blackberries and raspberries
will soon be obtained, for there is a
widespread movement among gardener*
and seedsmen to accomplish this. The
man who is fortunate enough to produce
a variety tiiat gives perfect fruit with
out the thorns will receive a pretty still
price for his plants.
Meeds are also unnecessary plant prod
ucts in these advanced days of horticul
ture, when gardeqers propagate half
their stock by cuttings, grafts and slips.
Nature need no longer trouble herself
about the fear of losing any of her types.
The modern horticulturist is suro to
preserve every one of any value without
gathering a seed.
The California navel orange repre
sent* tho best type of fruit grown with
out seeds. Nature produced this orange
as a freak ut first, and man has taken
advantage of it to propaguto fruit of a
high order. Half the oranges of Cali
fornia are grafted with tho navel, and
it is the most important fruit of tho
Pacific coast. Nature tried to produce
twins in the navel orange, and ono sur
vived only as a protuberance in the
blossom end, while the other expanded
into a well shaped fruit without soeds.
These oranges are occasionally found
with BTTiiill Henris: but. ns u rnle. thev
are perfectly Heedless.
Several varitiesof seedless apples and
pears have already been produced, but
tbe quulity of the fruit is generally poor
and nearly worthless. They are called
“bloomlens" pears and apples and are
exhibited more as curiosities than as the
triumphs of pnuiologicul art. Neverthe
less, they are the beginning of a new era
of apple growing, and they represent the
primary stock of seedless fru.ts which
may produce in time the finest flavored
tipples and pears,
The grape industry would he benefit
ed more than uuy other by the produc
tion of new varieties without seeds, aud
towurd this t lid scores of fruit growers
' are working, oqieriaily in Uuliforuia.
The idea is to produce not only table
grapes, but grajs * that will make flue
raisins, hetdhes ratsius would prove
such a boon to the whole civilised world
that uuy other variety would be quickly
' run oal of tbe market.
Tin re is a seedless grape of Oort tub,
which commonly pa-** * a* a currant,
| and the Mutant raisins of southeastern
Kurn|*i are u!m> Seedless. Itut these
fruit* are **» mii*11 that tin y can never
answer the purpose, What the trade
: wants is a large, **<dU-* grap> . with
! perfect cohat and tiavof, and to get that
j it is a*tvnjry to experiment It r year*.
; —Sew York Journal.
the twirl** l>l**M|.
The i (‘‘H iit »it.|>• n r if Awuii t*
t rain i« J aph, who **v»tW the
throne I lev. 4, HH lie Is uf the royal
bouse of llapsbntg, whmh ha* held tin
Ihn *». si in e l|af 1'w nty tis s»ot
itgo* o# thl* I rouse have ruled o»«r Aus
ins Hudtdph I, the nobleman win
ft .undid this royal family, huitt a ca*tl*
ou the llatMcht*hurg, or llawh's mown
lata, whence the haute of the family
, I Au author!1 v on deaf mate* aays lha<
the ratio of dt if mutt* l> In at mg I
>| lit Hi | to each I, h*H», »«t,ftliug It
Which rueis ai * «Ii hI 4u mui »«* h p»l
Sot.* tu the lulled r1 ales and alaatl
I,lino.won in the world's entire pc pula
turn
JUST A BOY.
Kanrenrc Hutton’* Itrmlnlarrnm of Dll
Jnvi'tiUf Lift In Xi-w York.
Ho was not a very good boy or a very
bad boy or n very bright i>oy or nu un
usual boy in any way. Ho was j i t a
boy, and very often he forgetn that ho
is not a boy now. Whatever there mny
be about the boy that is connr.eud tide
ho owes to his father und to his mother,
and be feels thut he should not bn held
responsible for it.
His mother was the most generous
and the most unselfish of human beings.
She was always thinking of somelHsly
else—always doing for others. To her
it was blessed to give, and it was not
very pleasant to receive. When she
bought anything, tho boy’s stereotyped
query was,‘‘Who is to have it?” When
anything was bought for her, her own
invariable remark was,“What on earth
shall 1 dowithMt?” When the boy eame
to her one summer morning, she looked
upon him us a gift from heaven, and
win n she was told that it was a boy,
und not a bud looking or a bad condi
tioned boy, her first words were, “What
on eartli shall I do with it?”
Who found plenty “to do with It” bo
fore sin- got through with it, nioro than
40 years afterward, und the boy lias ev
ery reason to believe that she never re
gretted the gift. Indeed, she once told
him, late in her life,that ho had never
made her ery. What better benediction
cun a boy have than that?
The boy was redheaded and long
nosed even from the beginning—u shy,
dreaming, self conscious little boy,
mude peculiarly familiar with his per
sonal defects by the constant remarks to
the effect that his hair was red slid that
his nose was long. At school for yours
he was known familiarly as “Ilufus, ”
“Bedhead,” “Carrot Top” or “Nosy.”
His mother, married at 10, was the
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many of tho hoy's aunts und ancles wore
but u few years his senior and wore his
daily and familiar companions. Ho was
tho only member of his own generation
for a long time, and there was a con
stant fear upon the part of the elders
that ho was likely to bo spoiled, and
consequently ho was never praised nor
petted nor coddled. Ho was always full
ing down or dropping things. Ho was al
ways getting into the way, und he could
not learn to spell correctly nor to cipher
ut all. He was never in his mother’s
way, liowover, and bo was never made
to feel so.
But nobody except tho boy knows of
the agony which the rest of the family,
unconsciously and with no thought of
hurting his feelings, caused him by
tbo fun they poked at his nose, at his
fiery locks und at his unhandiness. He
fancied that pussersby pitied him as he
walked or played in the streets, and he
sincerely pitied himself as a youth des
tined to grow up into an awkward, taot
less, stupid man, at whom the world
would laugh so long as his life lasted.
—"A Boy I Knew,” by Laurence Hut
ton, in ht. Nicholas.
A TRIBUTE TO ART.
The Mold of Ml tenia and the Beantlfal
Venue «1« Medici.
Somewhere in Washington — just
where is not necessary to the main point
at issue in this short article on the de
velopment and uudovclopment of art in
the national capital—is a mansion pre
sided over by a woman of wealth and
refinement. She is a most artistic wom
an, too, and in her house are some un
usually fino pieces of painting and stat
uary. There is also a Milesian maid, by
name Maggie, who knows a deal more
ubont housecleaning than she does about
sculpture, und Maggie has been trying
for a long time to cultivate her tasto up
to the point of properly appreciating the
painted and carved beauty with which
she daily comes in contact.
Not many days ago tho mistress and
the maid were going over the bouse with
brush and broom, putting it in especial
order for a rnusicale that was to be given
. 1% . _ j s i_«_ I__1
IU U uuiniin auu iuouivuuuioB) uuu
the mistress obsorved thut the maid on
three several occasions passed by with
cold neglect of cloth and brush a beau
tiful figure of the “Venus de Medici,"
in an alcove just off the hall.
‘‘Here, Maggio!“ she called. "Why
don' t you brush the dust off this figure ?’ ’
“Which wan, mem?" inquired Mag
gie with great innocence.
“The ‘Venus’ there in the alcove, of
course. Hoe”—aud the lady touched it
with her huger—“you have left dust all
over it"
“Yi«, mem,” confessed Maggie, "but
I do be thinking for a long time, mem,
that there uht to be something on it,
| mem.”
It was a delightful aud logical excuse,
Jierliaps, but the lady could scarcely ao
cep* it, uud Maggie’s brush removed
evt-u the dusty drapery she wished It
leave.—Washmgtou Star.
Ill* lirswliuulhar.
A geu tic man once asked Uncle Daniel,
a droll character iu a New Kugltuid vil
Jape, tf h* could rememU'r his grand
mother. "I guess 1 caw,” said UihjU
li.tiiod, "but only as 1 saw her one
Roller had ton away all day. aud
V h>-u Im came lioiue he found I had falleil
to do M,m«tiling he e*(weird it iu«. It*
caught up a rough apple Ire*- limb am
walked up to me with It tiranduo■lie i
appeared ou lb<> doorstep with a small,
straight sink in b»r hand, and lustantlj
handed It tu my father ’ll*re, Joe,
•aid she, ‘lick I>aiie 1 with a tmetl
Slick. * And he did Who Wouldn’t re
member *wch a grandmother as that?
Sww I’ttSMngh It.
"Rwkage, sir," > ud the agent as Mr
hbarp rame I** the d<»*r. “Thus* i» f
• tpre<M > hargeu on it “
“|te kind enough to Wall a He m- HI, •
■aid Mr. nhaip as he disappeared in
uily he r* turieai “Just ai
). w w* to ihcw this X ray im that pe k
•g«t, |^l«SkM'
Xu * i* Mi'll# ItgM
Mu k* ratvful'f U>ms tip in raw rotten
and. unowned, they were fslutusd t
the would ha p h> r marked “Hefused. ’
1 •>-Hashing ton Times
D. C. DOE. A. P. CULLEY,
Vice-President, Cashier,
FIRST BANK OF LOUP CITY.
General Banking Business Transacted.
Capital Stock, $60 ,000.
Loans on Improved farms at If DIB pee cent. Bast Company and boat team*
to be bad in tbs vast.
Oounaposmnrra:—Chemical Rational Bank, Raw York City, R. Y.| Omaha
Visional JBanx. Omaha. Rebaaaho.
W. J. FISUER, GEO. E. BENSOHOTER,
Attorney and Notary Public. Publisher Loup City Northwkstkkn
FISHER & BENSCHOTER,
RE At. ESTATE AUEA'TS.
LOUP CITY, • • NEBRASKA.
Town Lots, Wild, Cultivated and Irrigated Lands for Sale
ABAIVI SCHAUPP,
Will pay the highest market price for
Uvnh\
McAlpine, Loup City, Shaupp, and Ashton. Also high oat
prices paid for hogs and cattle at Loup City.
f|* s. NIOIITIV .AI.K.
LAWYER.
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