Loup City Northwestern , K VOLUME XXII. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1904. NUMBER 6 * ^OFESSIONAL CARDS lit J. NIGHTINGALE Atttraj and CraselcMt'Lw LOUP SITY. NEB AARON WALL Practices in all Courts Loup City, Neb. ROBT.P. STARR Attorney-at-Law, LOOP CITY. NEBRSSKB. Jft. //. .HEAD onded Abstracter Locp City, - Nebraska. ► u 1 y set of Abstract booksio county J. H. LONG 'HYSICIAN mil SURGEON Office Opposite St- Elmo TELEPHONE CONNECTION IV. L. MARCY. * LOUP SITY, NEB Office, West Side of Square. Your •ental work solicited. r City Dray aid Transfer line J. W. A A. T. Conger, Props. All kinds of hauling will be given prompt attention and will make a specialty ot moving household good. lee delivered in any part of town. Yonr patronage solicited. LOUP CITY. - - - NEBRASKA. P. Hoogenboezem Fainter and Paprhaier CONTRACTOR Loup City, - Neb. Sign Work and Graining a Spe cialty. Wall Paper and Mouldings. WATCHER AND JEWELRY REMEMBER! Whenyour w or other Jewelry Needs repairing, don’t forget to call on G. H. MORGAN, JEWELER and OPTICIAN Loup City, - Nebr. A. L. GILBERT, Prop. Fine Livery Turnouts IN CONNECTION. Having recently purchased thif well known stable and added to it m many ways, I am better prepared thin ever to serve you right. Give Us a Trial AND — Give me a trial on your drayint and transfer business, and I wil guarantee satisfaction. S. N. CRISS, Propr. THE NORTHWESTERN rBKMS:—$1.00 PKR TEAR. IF PAIS IS AST ASCI Entered at the Loup City Postofflce for tram mission through the mails ss second class matter. Office ’Phone, - - - Rll Residence ’Phone, - - H12 J. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pnb. Senator M. L. Fries of Arcadia is prominently mentioned for presi dent pro tern of the coming state senate. Senator Fries is a good man for the place. John Wall was down from Arcadia. Tuesday, an interested court spectator. John is a leading candidate for chief clerk of the house again this winter, a place of great responsibility, ana one he has successfully filled two or three sessions before. It is good business sense to re-elect him. In an interview with Senator M. L. Fries of Arcadia, the other day, the Lincoln News quotes the gen tleman as opposed to any change in the new revenue law making the of fice of deputy assessors elective, as not feasible and giving cogent rea sons for his stand. Several coun ties in the s'ate demand the pro posed change. It is little short of exasperating that the courts and the law can be so played with as in the case of Tom Dennison, the big Omaha gam brr, who is wanted in Iowa for al leged complicity in the Pollock dia mond robbery of several years ago, and who is doing his best to keep from going. If he’s innocent, what is he afraid of? If it were some small villain he would have been there and had it over months ago Is it any wonder the people have a glowing contempt for the courts? Ex State Treasurer Joe Bartley’s bondsmen are trying in every con ceivable way to get out of their li ability, and are now making a su perhuman effort just preceding the legislature. In the meantime Bart ley, thanks to Gov. Savage, is free and living quietly in Lincoln. It will be in order for him to take an other vacation to parts not given out for publicity, in a short time, if the legislature sees lit to order an other committee to investigate him, as per the last session, as more con venient than the fatigue of appear ing before a prosy committee. Balsora Items James Galbraith, from Illinois, is visiting at the home of his consin, Mrs. Frank Evans. Farmers have mostly finished corn husking aud the music of the shelter is abroad in the land. Frank Evans contemplates start ing on a visit to his old home in Iowa the later part of this week. Mrs. John Frgen, who has been in attendance at her .sister's death bed in Iowa, returned borne last Friday. The ladies Aid Society held their annual sale of articles, both useful and ornamental, Jast Wednesday evening. Things were sold at uuction, Mr. Claussen act ing as auctioneer. Every thing sold well and we understand the proceeds are to be used for home and foreign missions. Stalk Remedy a Success. J. R. Muir. Omaha, Nebr—Dear Sir: I am using your stalk remedy with the usual good results. Three years’ suc cess in condemned fields has proven its Value here. H. E. Chrisxan. „ New Helena, Nebraska. can’t GET ALONG WITOOUT IT, J. R. Muir, Omaha, Nebr.—Dear Sir: l can’t get along without your Stalk Remedy Mease ship me one 40-pound pail at once. A. D. Johnson. Merna, Nebraska B. L. (loodell agent for Sherman Co. Public Sale. One and one-half miles northwest of Ashton on “Billy Wilson farm" Wedoea ' day, December 38, 1904, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m. 18 bead of cattle; 8 head of horses; 20 head of hogs; farm machinery, etc. Free Inncb at noon. TERMS—All autos of $10 and under cash: on sums over $10 ten months time will be given, purchaser giyeo bankable ; note drawing ten p#r cent interest; 5 per cent off for cash on sums oyer $10. PAUL WES1ERSKI, Owner. Jacob Albers, I. M ?dskl, Auctioneer. Clerk. School Affairs ill Sherman Co December 14, 1904. Oo Friday evening, December 9. in company with Sup*. R. D. II end rick so;, we attended tbe dedication of the Prairie Gem school boose four miles west oi Loup City. This is a new modern school'bnilding built of brick and ousting nearly flOOO. Tois is the best c »uuiry school building in Sherman cunty. It was a great <»cc*sion f >r the p;ople of t’*Ia. district. Every man. woman, and child in the district was present. Supt. Hendrickson gave a practical and inspir log talk and presented the district with a photograph of one of the sod school houses of Sbermin co loty recently dis placed by a new frame schai! building. This picture be wished bung on the Walls of the Prairie Gena schoolhouse t« impress upon the pupils their comforts and opportunities as compared with the children who once had to attend scl>o>! in the sod building. Excellent nr-sic was furnished by the McKinney Brothers, who have recently moved nu1 from St. Louis to manage their ranch in Sherman county. Oue of these brothe rs is the champion golf pliver in Missouri. We are sometimes surprised at the tal ent we find in the rural communities of Nebraska. Our p irt in tbs prtgnm was a talk oa “O ir Young People an » What Shail We D> with Tu^m?" Much praise is due ths s;b»ol boird. Mtgsrs E. J. Pugsley, S. II. Conger an' M. E. Mitthews, in the erection of this new brick school house, which w mid b a ciedit to any rural district in the state. On Monday evf nmg, Jana try 2. t» re wi.I ie a b >x supper a' the Prairie Gem school, the proceeds of which will go to ward the purchase of an orgm for th school. S ipt. Hendrickson is making us • of this p' tn for sch > >1 libraries als \ He is an adept as an auctioneer at thes suppeis. emuraay, use. iu, we attended th* Sherman C »uuty Teachers’ Associa'Ioo at Loup City, where there was a good attendance of teachers, pupils ard pi tron*. Our address there was “An Horn With Great Men.’’ We found a go >J scboo’ sentiment in Loup City. Principal Ilufmm aa i h:« assistant, Miss King, as-i^ted by a corps of teachers in the grades, are doing ex elleat work. The ad ling of an e*fn teacher in the high school and increasing the coarse o' s'uiy one ye «r has done much to raise the standard in the Loop City BChoo’e. This is sa d In no dispar agemeotto the good work that was don** under Ptia. M. H. Meau. We were pleased to learn that nearly ail of the pupils of the class of 1904 and sever il from the class of 1903 are back in school taking work under the extended course of study. The new cement walks about th* school building and grouads, laid since our last visit to Loup City, make a great improvement in their general appear ance and spe tk w«ll for the interest the board of education tikes in the school With Supt Hendrickson we drove over to Litchfield for a meetiag Satur day evening, where we addressed one ot the most appreciative and culture 1 au dlences it has been our privilege to meet In Nebraska. There, too, we found our old time friend, Prin. Wm. Crichton, a neighbor when we were superintendents of Nemaha and Johnson counties re spectively, in the good] old days. Litch field has a good corps of teachers and a good school sentiment. Supf. Hendrickson takes great interest in the rural schools of bis county. He is making a special effort in the eighth grade promotion exercises. Several pupils are now in attendance at the high schools in Loup City and Lirch field through bis interest in their welfare. In Mnrch he will group three or four o! the rural schools in the north vestcru part of the couoty for eighth grade pro motion exercises. He coateraplatee u like program for several schools in the southwestern part of the county. For these meetings we have promised him Mr. Ed C. Bishop, who will be the de puty state superintendent at that time Mr. Bishop is intensely interested in thU line of work himself, having given York County four years of liis best efforts along these does. He is pronounced by ’eminent authority the most successful supervisor of rural schools in the United States. Let every teacher, every pupil, every school officer, and every patron of Sher man county join han is with Supt. Hendrickson for the improvement of rural school conditions. Let them catch the spirit that permeated the good old couutry pb c e of Drumt >eb>y in the days of Dousi** Jamiesj*’. ‘There wai jus' a single ambition in th‘ s* t umble homes 10 have one of it), mender* a* Colhge, and if Doxrsie proved a la i, [hen his brothers and sisters would give their wi/es, and the fami,- would live on skimmed miik and oat c «i e, to let him have tils cl a^ce.” Hasten the day when (here will be sueh a spirit of self sacrifice in thous ands of homes in this gre it common wealth, in both cBj and country, now negligent of the