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.1. \V. BURLEIGH, Ed. ami Pub.
II. S. FRENCH, City Editor.
Reports of another horrible mine
disaster, with some 200 men en
tombed 210 feet in the bowels of the
earth, comes from near Cheswiek,
Pa. The disaster occurred Monday
morning of this week.
The cold wave which has been do
ing business in the east of late at 20
and 30 degrees below, coppers the
attempt of this section which has
in its gceate9t effort the past few
days only managed to get some 12
below. Another good reason for
standing up for Nebraska.
Rosewater wanted two state con
ventians this year and didn’t want
the convenion or either of them to
name the candidate for U. 8. suia
tor, both of which Rosewaterisms
the committee promptly sat down on.
It is a pretty safe rule to follow to
take the opposite to that indicated
by the little played-out boss.
Good bye, Judge Parker. Bryan
says no man who voted for Palmer
and Buckner can have the Democrat
ic nomination tor president. “Are
you guilty, judge?*’ “Well, you see,
most noble Bryan' they were demo
caats; I never voted for Republicans;
I—I—” “Guiltv, judge; go way
back and sit down,” says Bryan with
ominous frown contracting his lord
ly brow Next!
A minister in Lincoln lately went
slumming and then invited those out
casts to attend a sermon he would
deliver in their behalf. Inquiry failed
to liud one of the women who was
present, though its dollars to dough
nuts the reverend had a large num
ber present of those who were drawn
thither through curiosity. And that
was just the reason those desired to
attend failed to materialize. The
preacher should have invited only
the fallen ones and not only shut out
all others, hut kept it from the carB
of any save the one* he wished pres
ent. They have hearts, consciences,
some degree of self respect and their
feelings might tie reached and great
good accomplished, it respected in
a few such regards.
State Pair Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Ne
braska state board of agiiculture.
held in Lincoln last week, elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year:
President. W. R. Mel! or; first vice
president. \V. E. Ewing. Eranklin;
second vice president, W. C Daley.
CreightoD; secretary, R. W. Eurnas,
Brownville; treasurer. K. McIntyre,
Seward.
The new board of trustees named
by the president consists of C. H
Rudge, chairman; Peter Youngers
Geneva; II. L Cook, St. Puul, J. B
Din3more, Sutton, and G.W. Hervey,
Omaha.
The selection of officers means a
practical continuation of the excel
lent business policy of the societ>
which has made ttie state fair of Ne
braska famous and one of the strong
est institutions financially in the state
fair line in the entire country. The
new president, W. R. Mellor, was on
the hoard of managers for several
years and J. B. Dinsmore, who was
president last year, takes a place on
the board. The continuation of C.
H. Rudge as chairman of the board
of managers, and of Peter Youngers,
means unbroken good business man
agement, and 11. L. Cook and G. VV.
Hervy are both old members of the
board who will render exceptional
good service.—Lincoln Trade Re
view.
IT IS LOUP CITY AGAIN
During President Cleveland's sec |
ond term as chief magistrate of this
Nation, the fool-killer was abroad in
'he land and should have gotten in
his work on not a few of the political
henchmen. One of these bright and
shining lights of an administration
that should never have been, con
ceived the brilliant idea of shorten
ing uames of postoIBces. For in
stance, the name “City” following
another word such as Atlantic City,
Nebraska City, Loup City, etc., was
very trying on bis auricular nerves.
As be dared not try his official axe
on too big a timber at Brat, be con
eluded to tackle the sapplings and un
derbrush. Thus the inme of our
thriving little city was backed and
mangled in such a manner its own
founders couldn’t recognize it by its
patronym. And that was not the
worst. In cutting off the name City,
it left two towns in the same section
of the state with identically the same
name, ‘Loup,” an i confusion of the
mails resulted. Io vain did our peo
ple remonstrate, petition, kick, pray,
beg,plead,but ail to no purpose. The
authorities at Washington, where we
were represented by pop congress
men were deaf to our cries. But the
agony is over now When our Moses
was elected to congress, our people
plucked up courage. W. R. Mellor,
with his characteristic energy, took
up the matter. He gathered from each
business house in town samples of
It tier heads, showing no heed had
been paid to dropping the “City”
part of the name, each letter bead
bearing “Loup City,” the postodlce
stationery being the only exception.
These, with good anti sufficient rea
sons for the restoration of our little
city’s rigtil r.ame, be forwarded to
Washington, where Congressman
Kinkaid argued the matter before
ibe postmaster general, with the re
sult that advices were received by
the postmaster last Friday of the
restoration of the name “LoupCity,"
be charge to take effect April 1st,
1904, with the appointment of W.T.
Owens as postmaster.
Origin of Drug Store Signs.
Colored globes in drug store win
dows were first displayed by the
Moors of Arabia and Spain.
Most Powerful Auto.
The most powerful automobile ever
built Is the Gobron-Brille racing c«r,
having 120 horsepower.
Proper Weight of Children.
In children at the “growing period,”
we are assured by a recent medical
writer weight is quite the most impor
tant indication of general health that
we can have. The importance of keep
ing a careful and systematic record
of weight at this time cannot be ex
aggerated. Snch observations, taken,
say, at intervals of two weeks apart
for several years, are of great value
to the physician In furnishing informa
tion regarding the child's real condi
tion of health. A growing child, the
writer goes on to say, should weigh,
at 5, about a pound for every inch of
its height, and after this the increase
should be about two pounds per inch
of growth, or a little more. When
weight exceeds this it is rather a sign
of good health than otherwise.
THE CAPITAL OF BULGARIA.
->y This Account, Not a Pleasant Place
to Live In.
In a recent book on “Cities" Arthur
oj mens writes of the capital of Bul
garia: "There is something dry, hof
viid fierce in Sofia which is at once
ordinary, sordid and almost startling,
t ne houses are for the most part such
muses as one might see in any small
vown in any country, but at a corner
m the main street there is a mosque
ind around the mosque something like
a village fair. Wooden booths are set
jp at each side of the street, wooden
palings surround empty spaces or
open upon cafes in which trees grow
or upon one-story houses or upon a
.ittle wooden theater. Money-changers,
.vith their glass cases or gold and
silver coins and coin earrings and
rings outside their shop windows, sug
gest already the sarafs of Constanti
nople. At upper windows above the
snops you see men working sewing
machines; at the edge of the pave
ment little dark bootblacks, Kurds, sit
with their wooden blocks betore them.
Men pass selling water, grapes and
nuts; a woman passes and then an
other, carrying a huge dark green
melon in her arms, solemnly, like a
royal orb,”
French Vines Inferior.
Ten thousand French vines yield on
an average only 400 gallons of wine,
while the same number at the Cape
will give 2,800 gallons.
Congo Free State.
The Congo Free State has an area
of 800,000 square miles and a pc,pula
tion between 20,000,000 and 30,000,000.
Industrial Schools in Saxony.
In Saxony there is an industrial
school for every 14,041 inhabitants.
Bacteria Are Hardy.
Prof. Dewar has recently submitted
living bacteria to the temperature of
liquid hydrogen, about 250 degrees
Centigrade, and about as near absolute
zero as we can get, and after an im
mersion for ten hours there was no
appreciable effect on the vitality of
the organism.
Pilla and Pullets.
A French physician once sent his
man with a box of pills to a patient,
and a hamper containing six little
pullets to be left at the house of a
friend. Unluckily, the messenger
bungled over his errand, and took the
hamper to the patient, and the pills
to his master’s friend. Imagine the
consternation of the patient on receiv
ing along with the fowls the following
prescription: “Two of these to be
swallowed every hn'f v>mir.”
An Accomplished Donkey.
A traveler In central Africa tells of
a native hunter of the Wanderobo
tribe who was the possessor of a most
accomplished donkey, which, with an
antelope’s horns strapped to its head,
its body covered with a skin or painted
10 resemble the animal its master in
tended to stalk that day, was the
means of deluding many an unwary
creature into falling a victim to the
poisoned arrows of the hunter crouch
ing behind his four-footed assistant._
Exchange.
His Wants Were Few.
Tramp—Please, mum, would you
be so kind as to let me have a needle
and thread?
Mrs. Suburb—Well, y-e-s; I can let
you have that.
“Thankee, mum. Now, you’ll oblige
me very much if you’ll let me have a
bit of cloth for a patch.’’
"Well, here is some.”
“Thankee, mum, but it’s a different
color from my travelin’ suit. Perhaps,
mum, you could spare me some of
your husband’s old clothes that this
patch will match?”
“Well, I declare! I’ll give you an
old suit, however. Here it is.”
"Thankee, mum. I see it’s a little
large, mum, but if you’ll furnish me
with a square meal, mebby I can fill
It out.”
Christened at a Musicale.
At a musicale given by one of the
fashionable residents of Larchmont a
young baritone charmed every one
with his beautiful voice and artistic
singing of a number of English songs
and ballads. The affair was rather in
formal, and no programme was print
ed, so very few of those present knew
who the singer was. One of the
guests, a pretty young girl, who was
delighted to the pitch of enthusiasm,
rushed up to her hostess after the
baritone had sung his second song and
said:
“Oh, madame, do tell me what that
young man's name is!”
“His name,” said the hostess, “is
Whitebread.” .
"Whitebread!” gasped the girl. “It
ought to be Angel Cake. He sings so
divinely.”
King Who Hated Medicine.
Abdur Rahman, the late Ameer of
Afghanistan, was a great king, an
absolute ruler whose nod meant Ufa
or death to his subjects. In a hun
dred battles he had proved himself a
great warrior, but there was one thing
he feared—a dose of medicine.
One day, when he wras very ill, he
refused to take a nasty draught which
his English doctor prescribed.
Fortunately he had a strong-minded
wife, who wrote to him:
“Are you a king or a boy? I
thought you a king, but I hear that
you are a boy. If you are a king, do
what your doctor orders, as you ex
pect your people to do what you
order.”
Abdur Rahman meekly took the
medicine and wrote back that he was
a king and no boy.
On another occasion he left his
palace and rode a hundred miles away
into the mountains to avoid being
dosed by his doctor and his queen.
AT HER FIRST CONFESSION.
Little Nora's Answer Astonished Rev
erend Father.
Little Nora had passed through the
usual instruction given to children be
fore they are allowed to make their
first confession. She was a good little
girl, but addicted to the use of chew
ing gum. She had a habit of taking
the gum from her mouth, placing it In
her fingers and rolling it into shapes
that to her young mind resembled ani
mals. The day on which she made her
first confession she entered the box
in her parish church chewing gum.
Taking it from her mouth when she
began to tell all she could remember
that she had done wrong she started to
roll a little dog.
‘‘Well, my little one, are you
through?" queried the priest.
“All but the tail, father,” replied
Nora, absent-mindedly, referring to the
animal she had nearly finished making.
Nora is a grown girl now, and tells
the story herself.—Philadelphia Tele
graph.
notice to land owners.
To all whom it may concern: The
commissioner appointed to locate a road
commencing at ttie southeast corner
of the northeast quarter of section 29
16-15. in Sherman county, Nebraska,
ind running thence north on section
line to northeast corner of norths, st
quarter of section 29-16-15, thence west
on section line to and intersecting with
road No. 10, near the northwest corner
of said s ction 29 and terminating at
said intersection.
Also to vacate a road commencing at
the southeast corner of the northeast
quarter of section 29-16-15 in Sherman
coun'y, Nebraska, and known as road
No. 10 and running thence in a north
westerly direction through said section
29 and terminating on the section line
on the north side of said section 29, be
vacated to said section line, have re
ported in favor of the establishment
and the vacation thereof and all ob
jections thereto or claims for damage
must be tiled in the office of the County
Clerk on or before noon of the 61st day
of March, 1904, or such road will bo es
tablished and vacated without refer
ence thereto.
Dated this 22d dav of January 1904.
(seal) Gko. II Gibson,
it 4 County Clerk.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of The Interior,
LAND OFFICE At Lincoln Neb:
December 18, 1903.
Notice is hereby given that the fol
lowing-named settler has tiled notice of
his iotention to make final proof in
supnrt of bin claim, and that said proof
will b« made before J. A. Angier,
county judge at Loup City, N-b , on
Jan 30, 1904, viz: Ernest D. Voss, for
the northeast quarter of section 12
Township 14, Range 16 west, H. E.
No. 17517
lie names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation of said land, viz:
Jacob Albers, of Loup City Neb.
Charles Sehoenltig, of Divide, Sherman
county Neb.
Ed. Harper, of Litchfield Neb
Henry Bell. of Loup City, Neb.
W."A. Green, Register.
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DE
FENDANT.
State of Nebraska, j
Sherman County. )
To Samuel Betts, Defendant.
Yon are hereby notified that on the
18th day of September Mary J.
Betts filled a petition against you in
the District Court of Sherman County,
State of Nebraska, the object and
prayer of which are to obtain a divorce
from you on the ground that you have
wilfully abandoned and deseited the
plaintiff, without any just cause or
provocation, for the term of ten (10)
years last past.
You are required to answer said pe
tition on or before the 1st day of Feb
ruary 1004. Maky J. Betts.
Plaintiff.
By Aaron Wall, her attorney.
Last Pub. Feb- 10
Confession is Sweet
ToTle Soil.
There are difficulties in the treatment
of germ diseases. Perhaps you have
been the victim of the inevitable disap
pointment of trying so-called guaran
teed remedies.
Your Hogs are full of Worms
Try a quart of Liquid Koal and see
what it will do. Take notice how it
increases the appeti e WE will tell
you what we want yon to do. Take a
can of Liquid Koal and give it a fair
impartial trial in the treatment of Hog
Cholera, Swine Plague. Pink Eye, Black
Leg or any of (lie other germ diseases
of animals, use according to directions
and if it Is not satisfactory when you
have used one can Come Back and
get Your Money. Read what others
say:
Packer, S D, Dec 6, 1902.
To whom it may concern:
I have used L. K for my hogs and can
cheerfully recommend it to be all that
Is claimed, a thorough germ and worm
destroyer and a good appetizer.
J. J. Roberts.
He Who Hesitates Goes Back.
J. SOLMS, Dealer
WM77
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Okla. City, Okla., York, Neb.
One on the Duke.
An English duke of great wealth and
large estates had occasion one day to
dismiss one of his laborers. As the
angry man was turning away he sud
denly remembered that the duke’s
“lady” held a position at court with
the queen. That was his chance and
his cue, so he turned round on the
duke. “Oh, yes, your grace,” he said.
"I’ll go home. Dut though I’m a poor
man, thank Ood I never had to send
my missis out to service ns you do
yours.”
J A NII AH Y I
CLEJUUN6 |
SALE |
We have a few Odd Suits, Over- 1
coats and Ladies Jackets, one or
two of each size left from the regu- |
larstock. These Suits and Overcoats
are in our way and we have decided
to let them go at very low prices.
Also fifty pair of Heavy Winter
Lants, Heavy Underwear; Flannel
Shirts, Caps, Duck Coats, Mittens,
Overshoes and Felt Boots. |
We’ve got to get room for 3
our Spring Stock, so now is 1
I your time, don’t miss it. If
you do it’s your fault, not
ours. Respectfully,
Ji», Iran, k Co.
LOUP CITY, NEB.
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Polish Grocery and Shoe Store
West side Public Square,
Fine, large stock of groceries on hand at the open
ing and more goods coming. I handle everything in
the grocery line and will sell on close margins.
I will pay highest market price for
butter and eggs.
! I have a fine stock of Shoes, all new Goods and
I invite the public to call, get acquainted and learn my
prices. _PHONE G 25. I
A Model Lunch Room, j
i MSHLaS RW Rlslx HOURS. i
'■ OPED FROM 6:30 A- M- TO 1L30 P. M. *
*«* OYSTERS ANY STYLE \
| FRESH BREED END BUNS FROM THE t
CELEBRETED CESS BROS BEKERY OF EURORE.
Also Pies and Calces lor sale here.
Two Doors West of Post Office. £
BAYNE & JONES. Loup City, Nebraska.
DRAPER SADDLERY COMPANY
MANUFAC I’d HERS OF
LIGHT and HEAVY HARNESS
SADDLES and BRIDLES
BLANKETS, ROBES, WHIPS, FLY NETS, BRUSHES, CURRY COMBS.
Repairing Neatly Executed. All Work Warranted.
HAND MADE HARNESS A SPECIALTY.
LOUP CITY. - •, . NEBRASKA.