Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXIV.
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 30. 1907.
NUMBER 2
Professional Cards
A. P. CULLEY,
Attorney MomM-Lai
(Office: First National Bank)
Loop City, Nebr.
ROBT. P. S TARR
Attorney-at-Law.
LOUP CITY. NEBRSSKS.
R. J. NIGHTINGALE
Attorney and Smlcr-at-law
LOUP CITY. NEB
AARON WALL
Lawyer
Practices in all Courts
Loup City, Neb.
R. H. MATHEW,
Attorney-at-Law,
And ^Bonded Abstractor,
Loup City, Nebraska
O. E. LONGA CRE
PHYSICIAN aifi SURGEON
Office, Over New Bank.
TELEPHONE CALL, NO. 39
A. J KEARNS
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone. 30. Office at Residence
Lnup Eiig, - Nebraska
sTa. ALLEN.
DEJYTIST,
LOUP CITY, • • NEB.
Office n}> stairs in the new State
Hank building.
W. L. marcyT"
DINTISfy
LOUP CITY, NEE
OFFICE: East Side Public Squue.
Phone, 6-16
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Bonded Abstracter
Loup City, - Nebraska.
Only set nf Abstract booksin county
For a Drayman
Send a messenger for
J. W. Conger
Tie will pay the fee
Try the
F f. f. Dray
E. F. Foster, Prop.
Office; Fester’s Barber Shop
L. A. BANGS
The Drayman
Phone 7 on 60
Asks Your Patronage
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For Sale h? T. H. Eisner
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Hound Front Barn,
J. F. MINER. Prop*.
Loup City, - Nebr.
Tinest Uvery Rigs, eqrefu] driven
Hindquarters iorfariuern’ unu>» * V.m
Bj.t ■i iJ m-n’s trade given esp^-in! ai
t# tmu- Vaut patronage solicited.- j
THE NORTHWESTERN
r CRMS:—11.00 Pirn TUR. IP PAD IP ADTAJOR
Enured at the Loup City Postoffloe for trank
mission through the malls as second
class matter.
Office ’Phone, - - - 6 on 108
Residence ’Phone, - 2 on 108
J. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pub.
The state board has increased rail
road assessments 50 per cent.
Texas had four tornadoes last Sat
urday, with great loss of life and
property.
Mrs. President McKinley died Sun
day at 1:05 p. m. at her home in
Canton, Ohio.
Theodore Tilton of the famous
Beecher-Tilton scandal, died at his
home in Paris last Saturday.
Pat Crowe was last week cleared of
a charge of street car robbery at
Council Bluffs. Of course: what else
could be expected so near the Omaha
influence?
Custer county has forty-one jury
eases the present term, four of which
are criminal and thirty-one court
cases. Custer takes the fcake on the
amount of court work of any county
in this judicial district.
We understand the diminutive yel
low is mentioning names of probable
candidates suitable to “it.” Such men
tion should not necessarily militate
against them, as they probably are
not responsible lor publicity from
such a source.
It is given out as coming directly
from the lips of William J. Bryan
that he will not be a candidate for
president if Roosevelt becomes again
candidate for chief executive. As
that is W. Jennings’ only “if”, he
will be a candidate, all right, all right.
If <there is anything these days that
causes that tired feeling, it is the
gusliy-gushy chin music kept up by
a few of the newspaper hero worship
ers of Gov. Sheldon, who see in him
for the future anything from U. S.
senator to fill Burkett's shoes on up
to those Roosevelt so well fills. Bosh!
The Northwestern appreciates liav
ing its exchanges republish any of its
news items, but when any of them do
so, as did the Ravenna News last
week in regard to the fire which des
troyed Boyd Burrowes’ show, we
would suggest they give the North
western due credit, instead of giving
such to the Times-Independent.
By a dainty little card received
Tuesday, we offer our best editorial
congratulations and wishes for a long
and useful career to Master Norton
Keith Davis, who arrived at the home
of Bro. Horace M. Davis of the Cid
Journal on the 24th instant, and we
presume has already taken super
vision of that editorial household.
The Arcadia Champion, seemingly
run by a nondescript Coolie of the
Boxer type of Chinese, for some reason
is always knocking on Loup City.
Scarcely a week passes but the
foolish fellow makes some fling at this
city, evidently with the idea that he
is of the Bill Nye type and is capable
of saying something funny, but leav
ing the impression with sensible
people that there is something rotten
in the gray matte r he believes lies in
the knot grown up from his shoulders
and haired over. To give our readers
some idea of the phunny ideas em
anating from the phunny phellow, we
append the following from his last
week’s hair-brained comic almanac:
(Special Telegram) Loup City, Neb., May 24.
A new residence Is being boilt here an) the
greatest excitement prevails. Special fiolice
have been employed., to keep the populace
from carrying away aU the material as
souvenirs. Extras were gotten out by the
newspapers, and the mayor is thinking of
declaring a weeks' holiday to fittingly cele
brate the occasion. Many young men and
women never before saw a house being bullded.
Death of Ed. Conklin.
John E. Conklin was bom at Hrin
field, Ills., Dec. 6, 1865, and died at
Central City, Neb., May 27, 1907. He
married Lucy Perkins in 18S4 a ad a
short time after this came to Hardv,
Neb., where he acted as station agent
also at Palmer and Central City, until
1891. In 1892 he moved to Ashton
where he resided until July, 1904,
when he again moved to Central City.
For the last six years he has traveled
on the road representing Hargreaves
Bros., of /Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Conklin
was a member of the M. W. A. and
carried *1000 insurance. Mrs. Conklin
died Jan. 13, 1905, after a short ill
ness. He leaves six boys and one girl
to mourn his loss, the eldest boy be
ing 22 years old and the youngest 2)4
years old. He also leaves a brother,
A. N. Conklin of St. Paul and one
brother and sister in Oklahoma. Mr.
Conklin was a good business man and
loved and respected by all who was
acquainted with him. He opened up
entirely new territory when he com
menced working for the wholesale
house and had built up a business
until he wood at the head of any
man in employ of his firm in amount
of business done', and salary earned.
To show the esteem he was held in
by his employem, who upon hearing
of his death, at once offered the posi
tion to any one of his older boys, and
one of them will undoubtedly take up
the work laid clown by the father.
Mr. Conklin was Jn oqrcity one night
only J^° wpeks ago and seemed a$
cheerful end hejdtfcy gs any ope. He
was ili only ten days with kidney
trouble, but from the first it seemed
tbat aothing-oQuia bring relief, sltho’
the best physicians obtainable were
employed. The funeral was held at
the residence ta Central City, Dr
of St. Paul, assisted by Bev.
Longstaff of Ftrwell had cinqs of
tne services Mr. and Mrs. It G.
Taylor, Louis Iteta and B. P. Starr
of tpis city attended the funeral. A
large number of Urn M. “
citizens of Ashton
Commencement Exercises.
Although the night was stormy and
disagreeable, the Presbyterian church
was filled to its utmost seating
capacity last Thursday evening on the
occasion of the commencement ex
ercises of the graduating class of the
Loup City high school. As the rain
beat against the building, the ex
ercises progressed to a finish, all faces
wreathed with smiles over the much
wished for moisture, and each one
expressed their satisfaction over the
fact, even if it meant damaged suits
and dresses worn for the occasion.
The graduates, the Misses Bertha
Mead, Emma Outhouse, Lula Lee and
Frances Sweetland and Mr. Ben
Swanson occupied the center of the
stage, flanked on either side by Prin
cipal Dale and Assistant Principal
Miss House, while to their left was
the speaker for the occasion, ex-Con
gressman Shallenberger, Attorney R.
P. Starr, who was to present the class
with .their diplomas, and the Revs.
Guernsey and Wise, who gave benedic
tion to the proceedings, while o‘er
liead was suspended the class motto,
“Esse quam videri.” The exercises
commenced with a piano duet by
Misses Nellie House and Meroe
Outhouse, fallowed with invocation
by Rev. Guernsey. This was followed
with a piano solo by Mrs. R. P.
Starr, and then a masterly address by
Hon. A. C. Shallenberger on “Educa
tion for Citizenship’’ which received
the warmest • plaudits of his well
satisfied hearers. A piano solo by
Miss Ernestine Odendahl was then
followed by a few choice sentences
from Mr. Starr, who closed by
presenting to the class their well
earned diplomas. Benediction was
pronounced by Rev. Wise, after which
the large audience paid their regards
to the graduates, congratulating them
over the most auspicious occasion,
and meeting personally the speaker
for the occasion, Hon. Mr. Shallen
berger. All in all, the evening will
be long remembered as one of the
most interesting in Loup City's edu
cational history. An intersting item
of the commencement exercises inad
vertantly omitted was the presenta
tion of the class scholarship given to
Miss Emma Outhouse, who won the
class honors.
Class Play Well Rendered.
The play “Esmeralda'’ given last
Friday and Saturday nights by the
class of ‘07, was a very pleasant sur
prise to our people, in that it showed
the cast to be composed of quite sur
prising histronic talent, besides giv
ing a drama of intense interest. The
first act deals with a quaint old
North Carolina farmer who has a
shrew for a wife and ;whose lead
strings make the old henpecked hus
band feel like “30 cents” all the time.
They are possessed of a charming
daughter, in exact contrast to the
vixenous, ambitious mother, who also
leads her a cruel and unloved ex
istence, but the love between father
and daughter is very touching. A
lover, in the person of a neighboring
farmer is ignored by the mother as
much as he is loved by the daughter
and respected by the meek old father.
The farm is sold to a speculator for a
fabulous sum, because of rich ore
finds on the land and the farmer, wife
and daughter are next found in Paris,
where the mother tries to marry the
daughter to an adventurous noble
man. Other characters there found
are an artist and two sisters, who are
all in spirit with the old farmer and
daughter and against the ambitious
mother. A gentleman of leisure, who
had been sketching around the old
North Carolina scenes comes to Paris
and falls in love with one of the
artist’s pretty sisters. Also comes
across the big pond the farmer lover,
who finds himself fabulously rich
over ore on his farm, and the old
farmer correspondingly poor by the
absence of the rich metal supposed to
have been on his former possessions,
the nobleman makes his getaway, be
cause the girl is poor, the mother
relents, »>he lover is magnanimous,
marries the girl and overlooks and
cares for the old folks. The old North
C&roliinan was well represented by
Ben Swanson, as if the part were
written for him. Emma Outhouse
did the vixen and ambitious mother
to perfection. Frances Sweetland
was the most lovable daughter and
true to her lover,..while the faithful
and loyal lover in 'Archie Kearns ’08,
was a very true portrayel of the part.
Clifford Rein ’09, as the speculator,
was true to life. Lowell Truelsen TO
as a man of leisure and lover was very
natural. Jack Desmond, the artist,
as portrayed by Herman Ohlsen ’08,
and Misses Bertha Mead and Lula
Lee, the artist’s sisters, fitted in their
part of the drama as natural as
though it were in real life. Hempel
Jonas made an accomplished wealth
hunting marquis, Frenchy and natural
to the occasion. All in all, we do not
see where the play could have been
better staged nor the character parts
better distributed. The musical part
of the program, interspersed between
acts, by the Misses Nellie House,
Meroe Outhouse, Ernestine Odendahl
and Mrs. R. P. Starr, were equally
well rendered and well received. The
opera house was well filled both even
ings by enthusiastic audiences of
friends of all those taking part and
none but the choicest expressions of
pleasure over it all were expressed.
Clay and Bristol.
Henry Bushhousen is shelling com.
Chas. Kremphka sold hogs this
week.
S. C. Fletcher is preparing to build
a house.
Mrs. Geo. Brammer went to Iowa
last Friday.
Henry Bushhousen is building spme
fine hog sheds.
Elmer Bibcock has just finished
painting his bouse.
Will Mickish has beep 'quite sick
bpt is some better.
Charley Kremphke fans fenced np a
fiqe yard for his hogs,
Nick Daddow, assessor for Clay
township was here this, week.
a. C, Fletcher attended the horse
sale at Grand Island tins week.
8am Fletcher is building a 40x«o ft
bam and digging a well on his farm,
fqrmerly the J. M. Cook place.
Elmer Babcock lea res Wednesday
for Fairfield, this .state, to visit over
De 'oration Day wfuh relatives.
fish in a bayou near his farm one day
last week, the largest seen in these
parte for years. Ask him about it.
Farms for Sale
in Nebraska and Virginia. For full
information see or write A. O. Zim
merman, Hallboro. Virginia., or A. L.
Zimmerman, Loup City, Neb.
3 on 62, Ashley Conger, the dray
man. Get him.
SHERIFF S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an
order of sale to me directed from the District
Court of Sherman county, Nebraska, upon a
decree of foreclosure rendered in said court
on the 9th day of April A. D. 1907. in an action
wherein Henry B. Leavens was plaintiff and
William F. Patton,-Patton his wife,
first and true name unknown. Lombard invest
ment Company, a corporation: Abram M. Hyatt
and Osborn M. Bright, assignees of the Lom
bard Investment Company, a corporation:
Investor’s Company, a corporation: Milton B.
Whitney. Charles S. Fairchild. Sanford B.
Ladd. Harry E. Mooney and Frank Hagerman,
receivers of the Investors Company, and the
N. W. ii of Section No. 32 in Township 16
north. Range 15 west of the 8th P. M. in Sher
man county, Nebraska, and all poisons and
corporations having, or claiming title to. or
any interest, right or claim in and to said real
estate or any part thereof, were defendants,
1 have levied upoD the following described real
eslate to-wit: The Northwest Quarter (n w X)
of Section tbirty-two (32), in Township sixteen
(16) North, Range fifteen (15), West of the 6th
P. M.|in Sherman county, Nebraska, and I
w ill on the 22nd day of June. A. D. 1907, at
2 o'clock p. in. of said day, at the south door of
the court house in Loup City. Sherman county.
Nebraska, offer for sale and sell the above
described real estate at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash to satisfy the amount
of Three Hundred and Fifty-seven Dollar- and
66-100 with interest thereon at rate of 7 per cent
per annum from the 9th day of April. 1907. and
costs of the above action and accruing costs,
which amount was adjudged to be due the plain
tiff above named from the defendant. Wiiliam
F. Patton, et al above named, and to be a lien
upon the above described premises.
Dated at Loup City, Nebraska, this 23rd day
of May, A. T) 1907. L. A WILLIAMS,
Sheriff of nherman County. Nebraska.
Robert P. Starr. Plaintiff's Attorney.
(Last nub. June 20 .! •
$50 Reward Offered.
The person or persons destroying
my fences, gates and interfering with
my windmill and water plant on my
ranch near the cemetery must let my
property alone or suffer the con
sequences. I hereby offer a reward
of $50, same is now deposited in the
First National Bank, to any one who
will furnish me with the names and
proof of the acts of such vandalism,
my 16-3mo J. T. Hale.
LEGAL NOTICE.
In the District Court of Sherman County, Ne
braska.
In the matter of the application of Levins. J.
Sparks, guardian of the estate and person of
William A. Sparks. W7alter 11. Sparks. Bertie
A. Sparks. Kay E. Sparks and Vernie Sparks,
minor children of James A. Sparks, deceased,
to sell real estate.
Now on tnis 10th day of May. 1307. this cause
coming on to be heard upon the petition under
oath of Levina J Sparks, guardian of the
minor children of James A. Sparks, deceased,
praying fur license to sell the following des
cribed real estate, to-wit: The west half of
the northwest quarter and oorth half of the
sontbwest quarter of Section seven (7). Town
ship fourteen (11). North. Range sixteen ,16) ;
West of the 6th P. M.. Slitrman county. Ne
braska, to provide means far the care, educa
tion ttnd maintenance of said minor children.
Tor the reason that there is not a sufficient
amount of personal property ill the. possession
of said Levina J. Spurns, and belonging to said
estate to provide said care, schooling and
maintenance.
It is therefore ordered that all persons in
terested in said estate appear Defore me at
ihe court room in Loup City. Sherman Connty.
Nebraska, on the 25th day of June. 1907. at the
hour of 10 o’clock, n. m.. ro show cause, if ary
there be. why a license should not be graced
said Levina J. Sparks, guardian, to sell the
minors' interest in said real estate, same being
a one half interest therein, to pay for said
care, schooling and maintenance.
It is further ordered that a copy of this
order be served upon all persons interested in
sa d estate by causing the same to be pub
lished once each week for four successive
weeks in the Loup City Northwestern a
newspaper printed and published iu said coun
ty of Sherman. State of Nebraska.
BRUNO O HOSTETLER.
Judge of the District Court.
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Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Bellingham,
Everett, Vancouver, Victoria, and New
Westminster'
Ope fare of $42.20
For^the round trip
Fropi Loup Gity.
Tickets pn sale June 20 to July 12, 1907.
Also tickets one way through California
on sale same dates at slightly higher rates
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Be sure your tickets read over this line. %
Inquire of
G. W. Oollipriest, Agent
Is a thing of the past, but we
still handle the best line of.....
IF’TTIEL^TITTT'EJJE]
Carpets, Lineoiium, Portiers,
Window Shades, Iron Beds,
Victor Graphophones and Records
Come and look at our Picture Sale this week
Christensen & Ferdinandt
Furniture Company.
Christensen & Ferdinandt,
Undertakers and Embaliners
L U M B E R
Posts, Shingles, Lime and Cement
Hard and Soft Coal Always on Hand.
Agents for Sherwin-Williams Prepared Painta
' I. DEPEWSs*
Blacksmith $ Wagon Maker
Hj »hor> it* 'be l»r»w»L and Mat
t have a four htirla engine awt a
norib of the Platte River
•■quipped
complete line or the latest inuntred,
cbUieri’. aitoa force of experumcm) u»«>n who know how to operate It"and
tarn out a Job with neaineae and *tt*pu«ch
MY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT
ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CUSTOMERS
General
Phope, 2 op ]03
E. G. Taylor, J. S. Pedler, C. C. Carlson.
President Yice President. Cashier
-directors
W: R. Mellor, J. W. Long, S. N. Sweetland
LIP Cm STATE HE
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA.
Capital Stock, - - $25,000.00
Individual Liability, $250,000. OO
High Grade Ofgap
Manufactured by the
At Factory Prices
Delivered in your town.
You pay $5 Gash
> apdn$1 Per -Week
1
60 ’Per Cent Off ion Retail Prices
Ask for Cstslogue and Prices of tbe Factory Distributors,
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Omaha, ISTet).
The Big Piano and Organ House.
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