VOLUME XXII. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1905. NUMBER 35
^Professional Cards
R. J. NIGHTINGXEE
Attorney and CouselcMt'law
LOUP GITY, NEB
AARON WALL
Lawyer
Practices in all Courts
Loup City, Neb.
ROBT.P. STARR
Attorney-at-Law>
LOUP CITY. NEBRBSKH.
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Bonded Abstracter
Lour City, - Nebraska.
Ouly set of Abstract books in county
A. S. MAIN,
Physician and Surgeon
Ortice at Telephone
Residence. Connection
LOUP CITY, - - NEBR.
~ J. H. LONG
Office, Over New Bank
TELEPHONE CONNECTION
W. L. MAItCY.
np vrrj <Srp
‘ LOUP CITY. NEB.
OFFICE: East Side Public Square.
s7 A. ALLEN.
DEJYTIST.
LOt'P CITY, - - NEB.
Office up stairs in the new State
Bank building.
And tlie Public!
Tie St Elio LiTBry Ban
Is under a new management. Give
me a trial and if you have any
thing good to say, say it to
others; if you have
any complaint, make it to
me. Others can't right my
mistakes, but I can and will. Respt.,
T.E. Gilbert, Prop.
PHONE, W9.
Give Us a Trial
Rounp Front Barn,
J. H- MINER. Props
Loufi - Nebr.
(-Opposite Xoit-tiwestern Office)
Finest Livery Rigs, careful drivers*
Headquarters ior farmers' team.-. ‘Vim
mereial men's trade given especial at
tention. Your patronage solicited.
U P RAILWAY.
OVERLAND ROUTE
tphrs® Daily Vraiqs to
California*
TRAINS ARRIVE AND DEPART AS
FOLLOWS:
No. 38 leaves daily except Sunday (pass
eager). 7:25a. m.
No. 83 leaves Monday. Wednesday and
Friday, (mixed) 12:20 p. m.
No 90 leaves Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, (mixed) 1.15 p. m.
So. 87 arrives daily except Sunday (mixed)
U:50a.m.
No. 37 arrives Monday. Wednesday and Fri
day at 7:35 p. m.
No. 39 (passenger) Tuesdays. Thursdays and
Saturdays, arrives at 5:35 p m.
First class service and close connections
east, west and sonth. Tickets sold to al!
point* aud baggage checked throngh to
destination. Information will be chter
fully furnished on application to
Frank Hiskr, Agent
TIME TABLE.
LOUP CITY NEBR.
Lincoln, Denver,
Omaha, Helena,
Chicago, Bntte,
St. Joseph, Salt Lake City,
Kansas City, Portland,
St. Louis. San Francisco,
and all points and all points
ast and south. West.
TRAINS LEAVE AS FOLLOWS:
GOING EAST
No. 52 Passenger.,..1flf53a.m.
No M Freight.10.53 a m.
GOING WEST
No. 51 Passenger.,.5:10 p. m.
No. 59 Freight.5:15 p. ®.
Sleeping, dinner and reclining chair cars
(seats free.i on through trains. Tickets
sold and baggage checked to any point in
the United States or Canada.
For information, maps, time tables and
tickets call on*or write to R. L. AKTHUS
Agent. Or J. Fkakcis, Gen'l Passenger
Agent. Omaha. Nebraska.
THE NORTHWESTERN
—j
TERMS:—11.00 PER TEAR. IF PAID IS ADVASC1 I
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Entered at the Loup City Postofflce for trans
mission through the mails as second
class matter.
Office’Phone, - - - Rll
Residence ’Phone, - - G15
J. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pub.
ADVERTISING RATES
Displat Space—Rates furnished upon ap
plication.
Local Notices.—Five cents per line for
each insertion. Notices set in black face type
double the above rate. All notices will be run
until ordered out when time is not specified.
Notices of entertainments concerts, lec
tures. suppers, etc., where an admission fee is
charged, or a momentary interest involved,
five cents per line each insertion.
Card of Thanks. 50 cents.
Resolutions of respect and condolence. $1.00,
In memoriam poetry, five cents a line.
Announcements of church services, lodge,
society and club meetings and all public
gatherings where not conducted for revenue,
will be published free.
The county political pot is begin
ing to simmer.
Elihu Root, ex secretary of war,
has accepted the portfolio of seere
tary of state, and will begin bis
duties within a couple of weeks.
Who will the Republicans put up
as their county candidates this fall?
So far we have Dot heard of a
prospective candidate. Who wants
to be yoked to the various places of
county trust?
We understand present County
Supeiintendent Hendrickson and
Prof. Xicoson are two prospective
candidates for the populist nomi
nation for county superintendent
this fall. According to report there
will be a merry race between the
two aforesaid gentlemen.
The mutiny among the sailors of
j the remnant of the Russian fleet
j has been squelched by the aid of
the Roumanian government, but the
little Japs are still going ahead
squelching the whole Russian
government, and meeting with little
' opposition from the czar’s minions.
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! Bleeding Kansas again comes to
jthe front on the prohibition craze, j
j At Iola, that state, last Sunday
evening, three saloons were dynamit
ed, and other propel ty damaged by
the terriffic shock, which wrs heard
nine miles away. It is claimed the!
work was done by temperance work
ers. Poor old Kansas.
We want to hear of any and ail
Republicans who may be spoken of
for the various county offices this
fall. The Northwestern has no
choice, but wants to give everyone
proper recognition through its
colnmns. By such means voters
may have knowledge of whom are
in the race in advance of the con
vention and make their selections
in the cool and calm moments before
the heat and rush of that day. Don’t
be backward about coming forward,
gentlemen. Anything worth having
is worth going after. We never
took mucn stock in the idea of a
good fat office hunting the poor
dear, innocent and unwilling man
and compelling him to accept the
candidacy of the office. Do vou?
Board Will Not Rescind Action
W. R. Mellor tiled before the County
Hoard of Equalization an application,
as a taxpayer, to have the board rescind
its former action had on June 14,1905.
in which they sustained the petition of
numerous land owners in Oak Creek.
Ashton, Bristol and Scott townships
for a reduction of the assessments of
their lands, on the ground that ihe
county board, sitting as a Hoard of
Equalization, had unjustly raised the
assesmeuts in these townships in 1904
R J. Nightingale appeared as attorney
for Mr. Mellor and contended that the
county board had no power, under the
law, to review the equalization of
townships made in 1904 and come
errors or mistakes of said board in the
matter of equalization, and that their
power extended only to individual as
st* sments and to manifest errors or in
justice committed by the assessors.
T. S Nightingale appeared as a tax
payer, and in support of the action of
the board as taken at its last meeting
contended that the board had acted on
individual petitions and individual
cases of corrections of gross mistakes
n assessments onlv, and th »t no town
hips had been raispd or lowered, as
stated bv counsel for Mr Mellor. The
board, after bearing the arguments,
refuse d, by unanimous vote, to rescind
their action and as a result the matter
will probably go up to the supreme
court before it is through with.
Life of (i rand in a Smith.
[With this week we commence the publica
tion of a series of short biographical sketches
of the oldest inhabitants of Loup City and
Sherman county, which we hope to continue
from week to week till we have given life
history of all the venerable saints. You can
materially aid u* if you will, by preparing for
us the history of Some one within your knowl
edge. Will you do sorj
The Stage tells us: “Life is the hap
piest giftot the gods.” If we accept this,
then we must lie interested in indivd
uals in whom the vital spark or living
energy- call it what you will—is pro
longed through the passing of many
ve irs.
There resides in our village an aged
mother, who will have reached the 91st
milestone Aug. otb, 1905, and we make
her the subject of this sketch:
i’hebe N. Fowler was born at New
Salem. Mass., in the year 1M4 It we
stop to think, tin' vears which she lias
lived, covering most of the 19th centu
ry an 1 the dawn of the 20th century,
hold-* within their grasp the cream ot
our modern thought and civilization.
Her ancestors came from Holland.
"he lived the wholesome, cheerful,
hard working life of a farmer's daugh
ter of that time, and at the age of 18
years married Chas. Hunter. Fi\e
years thereafter, they emigrated to the
wilds of Michigan, going by way of a
sailing vessel of the >ix-lake trip as it
was then called, and then overland to
the part of the state which was fhrir
destm ition. Their life at this time
was a long story of effort, enduring un
limited hardships, but soon learned to
adapt themselves to conditions, and
being of a strong practical bent of mind,
having youth and health on their side,
the future was alive with hope and
anticipation. Thev cleared the land
and founded a home in the wilderness,
accepted the duties of a hardworking
life with cheerfulness and did their part
in forging the proper conditions for
building up the then new common
wealth. which must always lie in the
hands of just such pioneers as til's
young man and wife.
Perhaps it was a decade later when
they moved to Indiana.and her husband
dying, and finding it hard to cone with
the battle to support her family of four
children, m irr.ed one John Smith, I
whi se name she bears. Grandma Smith
gave birth t -> ten children, but three are
1 ving, her oldest son. Judge Hunter,
with whom she makes her home, in
company with a younger brother, served
four years fighting the battles of his
country, and accepts life with the same
kindly optimism as his mother The
infirmities of age bear heavily on this
aged woman, but her memory is wonder
fill anti she will entertain you with
incidents of tne past and having been a
w ide reader, interested in public qne -
ions, can give even now a fair summarv
ot the great events of which her years
have been a part. .She has pleasure in
singing to herself the old hymns and
tunes of a generation gone, and smiling
ly says. “My people were all Baptists,
you know." Before I left her she re
peated for me lines of which this is a
fair quotation:
"The forest where we used to roam, we find it
swept away:
The cottage where we lived and loved, has
mouldered to decay;
And'all that feeds our hungry hearts may with
er. fade and die;
There's nothing like an old tune, to make the
heart beat high.”
For the benefit of the school boy and
girl, who have noticed Grandma Smith
going fn and oat among us the years of
their short lives, we would give for
their instruction a slight summary of
points that are now history and have
all occured during the span of her life.
This good woman was cognizant of the
building of the Erie Canal, the introduc
tion of the steamboat and railroad, the
great development of manufactures,
the growth of the west, the invention
ot nearly all labor and time saving
machinery, as the threshing and sew
ing machines; paper first made from
hay and straw, until lggfj there was no
axes, hatchets, planes or edged tools
made in this country. The discovery
of anaesthetics, such as chloroform,
i
the invention of telegraphy, telephone
and all electric appliances, practically
everything we use today that make tor
our comfort. Remember its a long
inurval from 1S14 to 1905. and your
public school is a heritage made possible
in the time betw. en these dates. Now
see if you know in what administration
the free public school became a se’tleu
fact, school hoy. Politically, the first
national convention to nominate cand *
dates for Ihesident and Vice President J
the Missouri Compromise, use of pul/
lie lands, California Gold craze, War
with Mexico, Annexation of T**hs,
Kansas-Nebra*lta bill, re-claimatom of
the 'Great American Desert,’/Civil
War, Spanish Imbroglie—in tftet the
political history of this country h s
beeu made during this ageyi j ersou’s
lifetime. /
Wejasked Grandma to lkfiat she at
tnb ued her long life Her only relpy
was. "an iron const Am ion and a clear
oon-cn nee.” Ny>di had coral ination.
This is whfrt"Tuts given courage, will
and strength to achit ve the long lerg.h
of days. Her indudoy has been a
prominent trait, but now she can only
eaiDloy herself at some w ork not repair
ing concent ration, for she is almost
blind and can only braid rugs or do
some simple sewing. She journeyed
alone after the age of 8) years over the
several i f the western states, visiting
w th her son in Idaho and only daugh
ter living in Montana, for two years.
Altogether her life has been worth the
living from every standpoint, and now
as she ne irs the closing of life's long
vigil, we would testify to her devotion,
self-sacrifice and f lithfulness and pray
f >r“a safe trip to her immortal soul
cv r the one wav trail.”
Road Notice.
(Newton Road.)
To all w hom this may concern:
1 h > Commissioner appointed to view
an l report upon a road commencing at
the nortl e st corner of Section twenty
three (23), Township fifteen (15). Range
fourteen (14), west in Sherman county.
Nebraak, and intersecting with Road
No. 155 at said point, and running
iheace directly east on Section line be
tween Sections 13 and 24, Township 15.
Range 14 and Sections IS and 19, 17
and 20. 16 and 21, in Township 15.
Range 13. and intersecting with Road
No. 9}, an l termi tating at said Road
I No. 92. at the northeast corner of Sec
| tion tweniv-one (21), 15 and 13, has re
| p< rted in favor thereof, and all claims
: tor damage or objections thereto must
| he tiled in the office of the County Cl> rk
I <>n or before the 15th day of Septemb-r, j
I 19o5 or said read will tie allowed with*
i out reference thereto
Dated this 7th day of July, 1905
Geo. IT Gibson,
County Clerk.
. Last pub. Aug. 3.
Burlington Bulletin
Of Bound Trip Bates.
Ch'cago and ;e i , on sa e d.iilv.
827.:,.-,.
St. Louis and rt turn, .*23 ! 5 an sal
d nlv.
Portland, Tacoma and Seittle am!
return. 840.+5. on s le daily
Portland, Tacoma and St* ittle ml n
turn, one way via Calif »rnia. 857.45 oi
salt* July 13, 14, 20, 27 and 2>.
San Francisco and Los Angele* an<l
i return, 857:45, on sale July 13, 14,20
27. 28, and August 7. 8, 9. 10 tnd 11.
Denver. Colorado Springs and Pueblo
and return. 815 30, on sale daily; on
j sale August 12, 13, 15, 814.80; on sale
I August 30 to Sej t. 5, 89 90.
Salt Lakr and Ogden and return.
831.35, on sale dailv.
Yellowstone Park, through and in
cluding hotels and stage, and return
877. 30. on sale daily.
Cody, VVyo.. Black Hills and Ilot
Springs, S. I), approximately half rate>
all summer.
Milwaukee and southern vVisconsii
points, Michigan resorts on Lakes
Michigan and Huron, Canada, Mainl
and Yew England, St Lawrence and
Lake Champlain regions, very loyv
tourist rates dailv
If you call or yvrite. it will be a
pleasure to advise you about rates, train
service, to reserve you a berth, and to
try to make your trip a comfortable one
It. L Arthur.
(Successor to W. D. Hover & Co. dealers in)
FURNITURE
Updeftakipg apd /\ft Goods
I
: f
ft has kept us hustlipg
to get the goods in as fast as we disposed of them
the past piopth
The Iron Bed stock is larger
than ever hefore. Come and
look them over. If you wish to fix up your din
ing room catchy, put up a piece
or two of Plate Moulding.
A. P. CUE LEY, President. W. F. MASON, Cashier.
FIRST Ki'ik '
V •
op Loup city.
General Banking Business Transacted.
We Make Farm Loans at Six Per Cent.
We Negotiate Real Estate Loans.
We Buy, Rent and Sell Real Estate for Non-Residents.
correspondents:
Seaboard National Bank, New York City, N. Y.
Omaha National Bank, Omaha, Nebraska.
High Grade Orgap
Manufactured by the
KIM On Ciapi
At Factory Prices
Delivered in your town. \
You pay $5 Gash N
apd $1 per Week
50 Per Cent Off on Retail Prices
Ask for Catalogue and Prices of tbe Factory Distributors,
Omaha, UTet).
The Big Piano and Organ House.
t /
Wouldn’t you like a nice five-acre tract ad
jcing town, for your home? If so, ask Wr.
K. MELLOll for prices and terms of tracts
shown on this map.
BOUGHT AT THE
B. & M. Elevators
MCALPINE, LOUP CITY, SCHAUPP SIDING,
ASHTON AND FARWELL.
Coal for Sale at Loup City and Asia. Will Bay
HOGS AT SCHAUPP SIDING AXD FARWELL
Call and see our coal and get prices on grain.
___E. G- TAYLOR.
John Solmes
^dealer: ixv
HARDWARE
FTJRITITTT^B
Steel Ranges, Cook Stoves,
Tinware, Screen Doors,
Hammocks, Lawn Mowers
\
Guns and Ammunition. Carry a full line of guaranteed.
Paints, Linseed and Machine Oils.
Loup City, - Nebraska
Gall on th.&
Loup City, Nebraska,!
—for
L U NIQL R
Of all kinds. Also
Posts, Shingles, -biine and Cement
Hard and Soft Coal Always on Hand.
Orders Taken for Storm Sash.
blacksmith 9 Wagon Maker!
Vfy shoo is tbe largest and best equipped north of the Platte River
I have a four horse engine and a complete line of the latest improved, ma
chtnerg, also a force ot experienced men who know how to operate it and
tarn oat a job with neatness and dispatch.
MY BRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT
ATBENTIOJMJIVENTOALL CUSTOMERS.
The Nojth western, $1 Pr- yr