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VOLUME XXII. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1005. NUMBER 36
a* Professionat. Cards
R. J. NIGHTINGATfc
Attorney and Couneelcr-it'Law
LOUP 6ITY, NEB
AARON WALL
Lawyer
Practices in all Courts
Loup City, Neb.
ROBT. P. S TARR
Attorney-at-Law,
LOUP CITY. NEBRESKA.
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Bonded Abstracter
Loup Citv, - Nebraska.
Only set of Abstract books in county
A. S. MAIN,
Physician ?nd Surgeon
Office at Telephone
• Residence. Connection
LOUP CITY, - - NEBR,
d. H, LONG
Office, Over New Bank.
TELEPHONE CONNECTION j
w7l. marcy.”
DENTIST,
LOUPGIT'Y, NEB
OFFICE: East Side Public Square.
S. A. ALLEN. !
DENTIST,
LOUP CITY, - - NEB.
Office up stairs m the new State i
Bank building.
And the Public!
The St. Elmo Livery Bari
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, hut I can and will. Respt.,
Tb Gilbert, Prop.
PHONE, Wo.
Give Us a Trial
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Round Front Barn,
J. H. MINER. Props.
Loup City, - Nebr.
(Opposite Noit'iwesccrn Office)
Finest Livery Rigs, careful drivers
Headquarters ior farmers’ teams Com
mercial men's trade given especial at
tention. Your patronage solicited.
U P RAILWAY.
OVERLAND ROUTE
^Ftirso Daily Vraiys to
California.
TRAINS ARRIVE AND DEPART AS
FOLLOWS:—
No. 38 leaves daily except Sunday (pass
eager). 7:25a.m.
No. 88 leaves Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, (mixed) 12:20 p. m.
No. 00 leaves Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, (mixed) 1:15 p. m.
No. 87 arrives dally except Sunday (mixed)
11:50 a. m.
No. 37 arrives Monday. Wednesday and Fri
day at 7:35 p. m.
No. 3i» (passenger) Tuesdays. Thursdays and
Saturdays, arrives at 5:35 p in.
First cla3s service and close connections
east, west and south. Tickets sold to al!
points aud batrgage checked through to
destination. Information will be chier
fully furnished on application to
Frank Hiser, Agent
TIME TABLE.
LOUP CITY NEBB.
Lincoln, Denver,
Omaha, Helena,
Chicago, Butte,
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.,.. lOf.V) a. m.
No. 60 Freight...TO.53a.m.
GOING WEST
No. 51 Passenger. 5:10 p. m.
No. 59 Freight.6:15 p. m.
Sleeping, dinner and reclining chair cars
(seats free) on through trains. Tickets
Midland 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, Arthur
Agent. Or J. Francis. Gen’l Passenger
Agent, Omaha. Nebraska.
THE NORTHWESTERN
TERMS:—*1.00 PER TEAR. IT PAID IN ADTANCl
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
Display 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, live 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.
LOUP CITY
August 23, 24, 25.
Loup City will have a big Fair and
Carnival this fall, sure. Arrangements
were perfected Tuesday, whereby the
big show is sure to come off. and the
dates have been fixed for Wednesday,
i Thursday and Friday, August 23, 24
and 25. Make vour plans to attend all
three days and you will never regret it.
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Life of Grandma Beck.
It is not possible, in the brief spice
alioted, to give anything like a detailed
i resume of the past life and endeavor of
the aged mothers, whom we would
honor in these short sketches. Often
j the sense of hearing or memory may be
! impaired and it is not easy for the
i subject to recall the facts and scenes of
! their past life.
As «e gaze into their deal old faces
the eve seems to speak:
"Grow old along with me.
The best is yet io be:
i The last of life, for which the first was made."
So you must read between the lines
' when we sketch the bare record events
i of a life, for there is no romance in a
| plain recital of facts. Your imagi-j
■nation must touch with color a life
time of ninety summers and winters, I
and perhaps only those nearest and
dearest can appreciate the history of
] such a length of days.
The subject of this short biography,
Harriett Boyer, was born on a farm
near Reading, Pa. She no doubt in
herited her rugged physique from her
German ancestors. Being the oldest
of seven children children, her energies
were necessarily absorbed in domestic
duties At the age of twenty-six, she
! married Josiah Beck and they continued
to live near Reading for some thirteen
years. Her husband was a potter by
trade, making the crockery out of clay
found on his own farm, drying it, and
selling it at Philadelphia. Later they
moved o Illinois and, finally settled on
a farm »u Carroll county. Missouri, the
town ot Bosworth, Mo., being built on
this land. The o’.d Missouri farms
always speak of homely comfort. 1 here
the spring or milk house, the dry house
as the building is called where they
dry the fruit, the smoke house, where
the hams are hung to the rafters, and
there is a settled look to the surround
ings that is wanting in most of the
farm homes of the newer west. Here
their familv of seven children grew' to
manhood and womanhood and went
out to take their places in the world.
Five are still living, worthy represen
tatives of a self-denying, self-sacrificing
mother, who felt her mission in the
world was to train her sons and daugh
ters to l>e a credit to any community in
which they lived. Of a nature warm
to its own, kindly to all, calm, equable,
self contained and faithful in the
domestic round of everyday duties, the
t nderest joys of her existence was
bound up in her home and children.
This the simple record of a lite.
The psalmist would tell Mother Beck
that she had the hand of a fighter.
Her German ancestors fought for the
fatherland, her grandfather served in
<>ur Revolutionary revolt, her husband
in the w ir of 1812 and her son in the
Civil war. Heredity tells, and patriot
ism is a prominent virtue in her charac
ter.
Her church home is with the Baptist
persuasion, but the infirmities of age
make it impossible for her to attend
service, and her German bible is near
at hand and she quietly waits for the
summons, “well done.”
- She has made her home for the last
fourteen 3 ears, since the death of her
hu-band, with her children, at present
with her daughter, Mrs. Clcmma Con
ger. It is a benediction to have an
aged mother in the home, and from our
acquaintance with Grandma Beck, w«*
can realize what the loneliness will
mpant> this faithful daughter when
“Mother is called home.’’
Supervisors Do Business.
County board met as board of equal
ization as per adjournment of July 3,
present Fred Schroll, Henning Claus
sen, W O Brown, W H Chapman, G
W Brammer and R M Iliddleson,
supervisors and G H Gibson, clerk,
and the following business was had
and done, to-wit:
D C Grow being absent R M Hid
dleson was made chairman pro tern.
R .1 Nightingale appeared before
the board as attorney for W R Mellor
in support of the motion of the latter
requesting that board reconsider their
action of June 15th, and place the
valuation of petitioners from Oak
Creek, Ashton and Scott township, as
they were for 1904. After hearing
both sides. Mr T S Nightinpale ap
pearing on behalf of the people, the
board unanimously voted to leave
their action stand and give these
people the relief the law permitted.
Supplemental petitions tiled
by parties from above named
townships who had not signed
former petitions- were, allowed and
clerk ordered to make proper deduc
tions on their real estate values.
Request of Aug. Beusliausen for a
reconsideration of his request for a
lower valuation on See. 19, 15-13, was
denied.
By motion the following levies for!
consolidated county taves for 1905'
were ordered: General fund 6 mills:
bridge fund 4 mills: road fund half j
mill; refunding bond interest 4 mills:
bridge bond interest half mill; sink
ing fund 5 mills; total 20 mills.
Levies as tiled with clerk and order
ed by township, village and school
boards throughout the county were
approved and by motion ordered plac
ed on the tax list.
County averages on personal proper
ty were found as follows:
Horses $6.40: cattle $3.27; mules
$7.45: sheep 29 cents.
Valuation as found for county was,
as follows:
Personal,.$308,610
Real Estate. 663,663
Village Lots. 52,168
Rail Roads, etc.. 351,201
Total.$1,375,642
To which is added the 10 per cent
as ordered by state board in 1904,
$100,012, which brings the total up to
$1,475,654.
Opinion on allowing supplemental
petitions, filed by county attorney.
Hoard adjourned sine die.
Geo. H. Gibson,
County Clerk.
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Loup City, Neb., July 11, 1905.
County board met as a board for;
general business; present D. C. Grow, j
chairman, and all members and G. II.
Gibson clerk, and the following busi
ness was had and done, to-wit:
Tax for 1904 inadvertantly levied
against German church ordered
stricken from tax list.
Cattle assessed to J A Schwarts in
Clay township, was ordered cancelled
cattle having been assessed first in
Hamilton county.
Order made at last meeting that
parties desiring road surveyed must
pay surveyor, was recinded.
Fee books examined as follows:
Clerk collected 1st 6 month, $1,575.23
Treasurer fees col. “ “ 1,293.44
Co. Supt. col. and paid treas. 10.00
Judge fees col. 1st 6 months 454.10
By motion clerk was instructed to
plat road in Clay township that had
been inadvertantly left off plat book
in 1894.
By motion clerk was instructed to
cancel tax on se4 sec. 28, 16-16, for
1891, said land not having been
proved up on at that time.
Henning Claussen was instructed
to confer with supervisor from Valley
county and repair or build new span
on Sandh creek bridge on county line.
Claim of P M Anderson for damage
to horse from stepping in broken tile
was disallowed for the reason that it
was not a proper claim against the
county, but against Loup City town
ship.
The Angier consent road was, by
motion, allowed as prayed for, also
the Sowakinos consent road.
Official band allowed as follows:
Lee Burnett overseer roads Dist. 4.
The petition asking assistance from
county road fund for draining a
lagoon in Bristol township was con
sidered and the sum of $200 was
allowed, the same to be paid when
work is complete.
The matter of the bridge petition,
of the people of Austin and vicinity,
asking that a bridge be built across
the Middle Loup river, at that place,
was taken up and after thorough con
sideratlon the same was, by motion,
allowed and it was ordered that the
same be built after the ice forms so
as to save expense of staging. Vote
stood as follows: Brown, Brammer
and Chapman, yes; Claussen, Hiddle
son and Schroll, no. Vote being a
tie was decided in the affimative by
the chair.
Clark road was then taken up and
allowed as prayed for with proviso
Loup City township pay damages
by appraisors.
By motion surveyor was instructed
to locate road on half section line of
sec. 10, 14-16 and that the road be
laid as platted, and allowed on half
section line.
The treasurer was instructed to
transfer $2,000 from the general fund
to Bridge Fund.
Report of road and bridge commit
tee as made June lHtli, 1905 was by
motion approved, also report of W. O.
Brown on completed bridge was
approved. Bridge committee reports
that Swanson bridge over Bloody Run
was completely out and that a 2+ ft.
high water bridge be built and by
motion the same was ordered built.
Claims allowed as follows:
GENERAL FUND:
State Journal Co .. .$ 87 15
School District No. 54 . 2 50
L A Williams. H 00
Lawrence Peters. 450 00
R M lliddleson. 11 80
G W Brammer.. 7 50
Henning Claussen. 11 80
W HChpman. 10 80
Ferdinand Schroll. . 15 20
W O Brown. 9 HO
I) CGrow .. H (X)
J H Miner. 2 99
Iloodlev, mowing lawn. 2 50
BRIDGE FUND:
I> C Grow.$ 53 30
W H Chapman. H 55
Henning Claussen . 7 20
KOAD FUND.
G W Brammer.$18 70
L A Williams. 3 20
P T Rowe..... 2 00
H Jenner. 2 00
L A Williams . . 2 00
By motion board adjourned to
Sept. 12, 1905. G. H. Gibson,
County Clerk.
Burlington Bulletin
Of Bound Trip Rates.
Chicago and return, on sale daily.
*27.55.
St. Louis and return. 823 95, on sale
d lily.
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle and
return, 846.45, on sale daily.
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle and re
turn, one way via California, 857.45. on
sale July 13,14, 26, 27 and 28.
San Francisco and Los Angeles and
return, 857:45, on-sale July 13, 14,26,
27, 28, and August 7, 8, 9.10 and 11.
Denver. Colorado Springs and Pueblo
and return. 815.30, on sale daily; on
sale August 12,13, 15, 814.80; on sale
August 30 to Sept. 5, 89 90.
Salt Lake and Ogden and return.
881.35, on sale daily.
Yellowstone Park, through and in
cluding hotels and stage, and return.
877. 30, on sale daily.
Cody, Wyo., Mack Hills and Hot
Springs, S. D approximately half rates
all summer.
Milwaukee and southern Wisconsin
points, Michigan resorts on Lakes
Michigan and Huron, Canada, Maine
and New England, St Lawrence and
Lake Champlain regions, very low
tourist rates daily
If you call or write, it will he a
pleasure to adyise you about rates, tra il
service, to reserve you a berth, and to
try to make your trip a comfortable one 1
It. L. Arthur
Additional Locals.
F. M. Henry lias !ia ' i h ne placed
1 in hi; resi lence.
I’eirv Reed is looting a‘ter Ins ’ ome
s*e id in Custtr count v this week lie
promises not to get lost this time.
Our populist frien’s will hold their
county convention in this city Angus
22d, and tiieir primaries the 18th.
I
Rev Bates of Lincoln, an Episcopal
ian minister, held services at the resi
deuce of R. J. Nightingale, last evening.
He expects to be here once a month
hereafter.
Subscription papers are in circulation
to raise the ne«essarv amount to build
a Baptist parsonage, and is meeting
with willing response from our gener
ous-hearted people
There were rumors of a change in
proprieters of the St. Elmo hotel, the
first of the w eek, but we are informed
by Landlord Erazim that they are with
out foundation in face, though there
are several prospective buyers and rent
ers looking towards that end.
It is reported a Loup City yonng
man took Lis best girl to church last
Sunday evening and stopping at the
end of one of the back pews, turned to
the usher and s dd, “I guess we can
squeeze in here.” “Yes.”said the usher
with a smile, “I guess von can; but
probably it would be better for all
concerned to wait until you get home. ’
Last Saturday, John Mathewson was
attending to business at the court house
in the matter of the estate of Charles
| Green who was fatally injurea by the
separator accident and who di« d later.
He infmned us that although the
company who manufacture the machine,
the Iowa Daily Separator Co., ot
Waterloo, Iowa, were not liable for
damages, they generously made the
widow a present of $350 cash, as an
earnest of their desire to do the right
thing. A subscription pap« r show n us
by Mr. Mathewson in favor of Mrs.
Green, bears the signature of a goodly
number of generous donors over the
county and will add over #200 to the
amount received from the company for
the benetit of the widow and her four
fatherless children.
The services at the Baptist church
next Sunday will be of especial int^iest.
The subject of the morning sermon
will lead up to the Sunday School
lessen. Se- men “Seekers aft< r God and
his Kingdom.Sunday School 'esson,
“The Gracious Invitation.” The sub
ject for the young people" mteting at
| 7 o'clock, i-i “Preparing for our Heaven
ly Home.” Miss Etlie Mi on, lender.
Evening service “The Beautiful Vision”
Special music will lie rendered at all
these services A cordial invi'atiou is
1 extended to all to attend.
II. S. Wold, Pastor.
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This is the season for Dining Tables. Don’t try to make
that old one do through another harvest time.
I have the most complete line of Iron Beds ever shown in
the city, and a Mattress that beats the world at $7.25. Com
mon cotton tops, $2.65.
The Farrand Organ can’t be beat at any price. And we
are always ready to show you why.
I will have some new patterns of Couches in in a few
days. Come in and look over the stock before you buy.
CMS. 0 .LEINIK
(Successor to W. D. Hover & Co. dealers in)
FURNITUR
Updeftakipg apd /\ft Goods
A. P. CULLEY, President. W. F. MASON, Cashier.
FI ST NAME BANK
OF 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.
Wouldn’t you like a nice five-acre tract ad
joing town, for your home? If so, ask W.
R. MELLOR for prices and terms of tracts
shown on this map.
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BOUGHT AT THE
B. & M. Elevators
MCALPINE, LOUP CITY, SCHAUPP SIDING,
ASHTON AND FARWELL.
Coal for Sale at lorn City aid Ashton. Will Boy
HOGS AT SCHAUPP SIDING AND FARWELL
Call and see our coal and get prices on grain.
_E. G. TAYLOR.
John Solmes
■^DEALER IN»*
HARDWARE
FXJE,1TITTJRE
Steel Ranges, Cook Stoves,
Tinware, Screen Doors,
Hammocks, Lawn Mowers
Cans and Ammunition. Carry a full line of guaranteed.
Paints, Linseed and Machine Oils.
Loup City, - Nebraska
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Loup City, Nebraska,
—for—
LUMBER
Of all kinds. Also
Posts, Shingles, Lime and Cement
Hard and Soft Coal Always on Hand.
Orders Taken for Storm Sash.
I *^J.I. DEPEWSS*- 1
Blacksmith 9 Wagon Maker;
My shop is the largest and best equipped north of tbe Platte Ulver
I have a four horse engine and a complete line 01 tbe latest Improved, ma
chtuery, also a force of experienced men who know how to operate it and
turn ont a job with neatness and dispatch.
MY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT
ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL COSTUMERS.
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nent Teachers. Thorough Collegiate and Academic Courses. Graduates
from our Normal Courses receive STATE CERTIFICATES. Superior
Commercial*, Shorthand, Typewriting and Telegraphy Departments. Best
Advantages in Music, Expression and Art. TEXT BOOKS FREE.
Tuition Low. Board at rates that will surprise you. Delighted Patrons.
Growing Attendance. Students Hold Good Positions. Catalogue Free.
Correspondence Invited. Fall Term opens Sept. 18, 1905.
Address: WM. E. SCHELL, Pres., York, Neb
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