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Loup City Northwestern ( TOIO'E XXY. LOUP CITY. VEBBASKA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2(5. 1907. NUMBER 7 * Professional Cards A. P. CULLET, Attomiy & CoQQSBlor-at-Lav (Office: First National Bank) Loup City, Nebr. ROBTJ\STARR Attorney-at-Law. LOUP CITY. NEBRRSKR AARON WALL Lawyer Practices in all Courts Loup City, Neb. R. J. NIGHTINGALE toss? d CwIsmMiw LOUP CITY. NEB. R. H. MATHEW. Attorney-at-Law, And Bonded Abstractor. Loup City, Nebraska O. E. LONGA C RE PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office. Over New Bank TELEPHONE CALL, NO. 39 I'hone. .*10. Offlre at KeHidenff Lnup Pity, - Nebraska S. A. ALISFN. I.OITP - I TY. - - NEB. ! Office iiji stairs in the new State Bank hniMinv. wTl m a icy. DEXTiST, # LOUP CITY, NEE OFFICE: East Side Public Snuate Phone. 10 on 36 ~ ,n. a. Bonded Abstracter Locp City. - Netira-ka. Onlv 9f.t <*f Abstract bo< ks in county Try the F f. f. Dyay F. F. Foster, Prop. Office; Ester's Barber Shop FOR A Pleasant Frenii g Call on Pratt at South Side Fixtures New and Cp-to-Date S A P.7ATT - Proprietor ForSale! FKOM THE LOUP VALLEY HERD OF PolapdChipas Spring and Fall Boars. Brood Sow Sale January loth. 130S. H. J. JOHANSEN. NEW YORK CLIPPER IS THE SREATEST THEATRICAL # SHOW PAPER IN THE WORLD. $4.09 Par Year. Single Copy, 10 Cts. ISSrEI> WEEKLY. Sample Copy Free. FRANK QUEEN PUS. CO. (LM), ALBERT J BORIC. PFULIS.iElW, ILuuqxk 47 VY. 2STU St.. Sew Yojuc. Once in a while you run across a man who is entirely satisfied with himself. You can tell that lie is by the way he walks the street, by the tone of his voice and the chestiness of his bearing. We tn.y the man who is thoroughly impressed with his own inerrancy for we make so many fool mistakes right along that wa have ao sooner recovered from one humiliation until we are plunged Into a deeper one.-Bix in State Journal. THE NORTHWESTERN TERMS:—*1.00 PR TEAR. IF FAII> IH ADYAHC1 | Entered at the Loup City Postofflce for tram, mission through the mails as second class matter. Office ’Phone, - - - 6 on 108 Residence ’Phone, - 2 on 108 J. w. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pub. There is little doubt but that Bryan will be the democratic candi date for president, and at the same time little doubt is expressed but tnat he will be non persona grata to the same crowd of eastern democrats who opposed his candidacy in the two lamented campaigns of which he was the liIt” to democracy. Frank Harrison, always in the lime light witli some scheme or other, now drops his Roosevelt boom and has started a Nebraska boom for Lafol ette for president. Frank sends the Northwestern his maiden effort cir cular in behalf of the Wisconsin man. We hardly think Nebraska is ready to drop Taft at present. A sentiment is getting a strong foothold in Nebraska to place the names of proposed republican presi dential aspirants on the primary ballots tills year, to the end that he who gets the most crosses after his name is to be Nebraska's choice of presidential timber at the National Republican convention at Chicago. That is not a bad idea, and the North western is ready to second the motion to that effect. State Superintendent McBrien and Brown of the Kearney Hub are in dulging in a newspaper squabble, that is quite interesting, if not very instructive. The Hub man, who has never quite gotten over his soreness • at Go\. Sheldon and the world gener ally. outside of Buffalo county, over the failure of the governor to affix his signature to the big appropriation passed by the last legislature for the Kearney state normal, ran amuck against the state superintendent, not thinking, perhaps, that state official was loaded. The result was a perfect bombardment of hotshot from Mc Brien. which tilled the egotistical editor of Buffalo's capital fuller than did Mark Twain do to the historic jumping frog. It took Brown some little time to stand on his head and disgorge the load so as to come back at Mac, but finally last week he got ; his come-back in shape and borubard i ed the east,end of the state house, no doubt to his own satisfaction, if not to any one el*. Knowing both men as we do, one as a proved bright head of state educational affairs, and the other as a somewhat conceited and ovar-rated editorial pop-gun, we have no doubt as to the outcome. At the Marriage Altar. At high noon, Dec. 25, 1907. Mr. Gustaf Youngland and Miss Mary Ellen Arnett were united in the bonds of wedlock at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Arnett, three miles southwest of Loup City, by Rev. J. O. Hawk, with Miss Lena Zwink presiding at the organ, and i with Mr. Frank Zwink as best man to ' the groom and Miss Selma Young I land as bridesmaid. About thirty invited guests were present, a line dinner was spread and many were the useful and valuable tokens of esteem j given the happy couple. Our best : wishes go with the habpy pair. At noon on Christmas Day, at the ; home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blaschke, six miles west of Loup City, occurred the marriage of their daughter. Miss Anna Blasehke to Mr. John Foy, Rev. McEwen speaking the words j which united these two young people ! for life in the presence of relatives ! and a few invited friends. Mr. and ! Mrs. Foy are worthy industrious young people and have the best of wishes for a happy and successful journey through life. Grandma Gilbert is the»happiest old lady in the world, as well she may be. Some time since she returned to Lincoln to resume treatment for her eyes, and returned home last Satur day able to read ordinary print, which she demonstraoed byvso doing in our office Monday. For over a dozen weary years, Grandma was so nearly blind that she could only detect the diiierence between night and day, but now says, “Hallelujah! 1 can see once more.” While absent, and after final treatment at Lincoln, she spent a period of several weeks visiting old friends and relatives at j St. Joe, Mo., and Manchester, Straw berry Point, La Porte, Forestville, Waterloo, Lamont and Oelwein, in Iowa, some of the places she having not been in many years. A 6ister re turned with her from La Porte to spend the winter. We learn that Miss Vera Schaupp suffered a fail on an icy sidewalk in i Lincoln tiie first of this week, spraic : ing her left arm. She had intended j visiting her Loup City friends during j the liolidays, but of ^ NEVER WAS GENUINE PANIC Hurry Due Solely to Faithless Bankers, Says Loup City Ran. •■Nothing but a bankers’ panic,” is the terse way A. P. Culley, president of the First National bank of Loup City, sizes up the financial flurry, in the Daily Omaha Bee of a late date. “There never was a panic and there won't be one,” added Mr. Culley. “I wrote a letter to John B. Forgan of Chicago, in reply to the Chicago bank ers asking if we were ready to resume cash payments, in which I told him my sentiments. The thing is this: Those fellows in the big cities saw a ghost and they tried to make us see the same ghost. We had to look through too thick a wall of prosperity to see any ghosts. There aren’t any ghosts, or if there are they are only ghosts and nothing real. “I got one of those Chicago letters in which the bankers there practical ly said: “If you leave your money on deposit with us, we’ll resume paying cash.' Well, bless their hearts, my bank at Loup City never ceased to pay cash. We have been paying it right along and we are in better fix than we ever were.” Here is Mr. Gulley’s letter to Chicago: Mr. John B. Forgan. Chairman Chicago Clearing House. Chicago, 111. —Dear Sir: Your circular of Nov. 22, carrying more of the seeds of our trouble, at hand. Why not resume normal banking at once? This very act would answ er all your long and scary paragraphs. Cease at once this effort to deceive yourselves and the public will be undeceived. If the bankers don't quit this truckling and cowardice, the public will lose con fidence forever in them. There is little more than tire fright and cowardice of the bankers in this whole ghost show. Can’t you see how honest ly and rationally the public is behav ing? Why not be as rational and honest as the public? Should the Chicago bankers resume business at once, all jour questions in your circular would be answered at once. The plea you make rests on nothing and is worth nothing even if promised and any banker ought to know this. Get natural, get honest, get confiden tial, get to business, get back next the people at once, and this question will be at ar. end. Quit your talking, writing, disputing, go to work and to business and try to forget what the people have already forgotten. Get to the truth and go to banking and you will have no trouble. We will trust you when we can believe you can trust j yourselves. Then western money will flow to you in abundance, but not until then. The largest percentage of this trouble the bankers have made them selves. Human nature is essentially the same everywhere. We have gone on as in ordinary times and our busi ness has not been injured or money reserve gone down one dollar, while other banks in the country made fools of themselves and their customers and will suffer from the lack of con fidence and character, when all is over. Get right at once and the public will follow if you don’t delay too long.” The above letter from Mr. Culley was re-published in the Bee and; World-Herald some two weeks since i and was written to Mr. Forgan right j in the midst of the financial flurry. That Mr. Culley sized up the situa tion about right, one has only to read the annual report of Comptroller W. B. Ridge’.ay, published to the World about the 17th instant, which ascribes the recent flurry to “lack of confidence of banks in themselves and their reserves.” Continuing, the comptroller says, in part: " rue conditions which lead to the panic of October and November, 1907, were not due to the failure of a few individual banks nor to the lack of confidence of the people in the banks, but more to a lack of confidence of the banks in themselves and their re serves. Banks have been fearful that the reserve system would break down, and in consequence it has broken down, and the reserve deposits have been only partially available. They were also fearful that not sufficient currency could be supplied to meet the demand, and as they all made the demand at once, there has not been sufficient currency. The result has been a currency famine.” Following the publication of Mr. Culler's views, he has received a large number of letters from bankers and business men from over the coun try congratulating him on the stand taken and endorsing the sentiments expressed. We append excerpts from two of them as showing the senti ments expressed by all: First National Bank, Lyons, Neb., Dec. 9.—I wish to congratulate you on the stand you take, and to thank you for expressing your ideas in so forcible and able a manner. The sentiments you express are mine exactly. Geo. W. Little, Pres. Wellington, Kas., Dec. 12.—Just read your letter to Mr. Forgan ol Chicago, and wish to congratulate you on the same. It is the best thing 1 have seen in the newspapers since all this unpleasantness com menced. I have shown it to at least twenty-five traveling men today and they all took off their hats to Culler. Clarence J. West.’ In publishing the open letter ol E. G. Taylor to Gibson last week, an aggravating typographical error made the type read that Gibson was an alleged defaulter in the sum of *2.00, instead of 1200 as it should have read., The unfortunate placing of a period! before the cyphers did the mischief and the proofreader overlooked the same. But then, every intelligent reader saw tne mistake, and none buti an ignoramus would be misled by the error. —.... Well grounded reports are afloat to the effect that Bryan will I tha; a prohibition plank be pta in th .A'aUoml nwtirtj wo iSii V *. < ... 1 , . . : ! COMING! Third Number of Lecture Course Entertainments, PILGER’S OPERA HOUSE Friday, O !AQ January, ww FLOYDS MAGICIANS. An Evening of Merriment, Melody and Mystification. Skilful Manipulation, Startling illusions, Marvelous Mind-Reading. Popular Music. Ticket Holders Take Notice. f Motor Car Service 1 Daily to St. Paul and Return 1 Leave Loup City at 7:10 a. m. ' Arrive in St. Paul 8:55 a. m. Return t Leave St. Paul at 4:33 p.m. Trip '( Arrive in LoupOtitvff:50 p. m. VIA i UNION PACIFIC For tickets and full information inquire of G.W.Collipriest Death of Mr. George Lee. There is perhaps no more distress ing news coming before the news paper fraternity than that indicated by the unfortunate passing away of one who is known to the newspaper and bo the community at large, and who is connected bv the most tender ties to a large family of grown chil dren. Nor is there any more distress ing thought placed before the pen of the editor than to chronicle such, and yet to speak of it in a manner to give the public the facts, and yet clothe them in a language that will not greive the family of the one who has passed from eartn under the most grievous circumstances. Last week Thursday, a little past noon, word was received here of the death of Mr. George Lee, an old resident of Sherman county, which occurred that morning at Janesville, Wis., where he was visiting at the time, and not till in receipt of the next morning's dailies were the sad facte concerning his demise made known to our people, which were of the most distressing nature, he, in a moment of dementia having taken his own life. What the circumstances may have been leading up to the tragedy, is only hearsay, but must have been of great moment to have caused a man of such clear business ability and level-headedness to do such a rash act. Whatever they were, our people will draw the mantle of charity over the deed, and unite as a whole community in ex pressing heartfelt sympathy to the dear ones who have not only to sub mit to the sad and heartrending passing away of a father, but under such circumstances as we trust may not come again to another heart in our community. Some few weeks since, Mr. Lee went to Wisconsin and in a short time returned with one whom he had taken as a life com panion. Returning home, they only remained a couple of weeks, when Mrs. Lee wished to return to her former home, and on Saturday morn ing preceding his death they returned to Wisconsin, from whence later the sad news was flashed over the wire to the sorrowing family here. James Lee, an older son of deceased, went at once to Wisconsin after the body, re turning Monday evening of this week, . | the funeral was held from the Baptist I church, the Rev. McEwen of the Presbyterian congregation, delivering the sermon. Later in charge of the : Odd Fellows, of which he was an 1 active member, all that was mortal of deceased was laid to rest in our Silent City of the Dead, by the side of his noble wife who had passed or before. A large number of our people gathering to pay their last sad respects to departed, and to express their sympathy to the most respected and bereaved family. May a kind Providence, who doeth all things well, comfort the mourning ones, who can rest assurred of the heartfelt sympathy of all in these their saddest hours of affliction. OBITTAKY. Geo. Lee was bom in Yorkshire, England. Nov. 19, 1840. At the age of 17 years he came to Wisconsin, and was married Nov. 10th, 1863, to Miss Helena Lay of Albany, Wis. They came to Schuyler. Nebr., in 1885, and to Loup City in 1886, where he lias since resided. Five children were born to them all of whom with one exception reside in this city: Jatr.es Lee, Mrs. Edith Holmes of Colorado, Marvin Lee. Mrs. Edna Hickman and Miss Lula Lee. His first wife passed away July 1st, 1906. On Nov. 16th, 1907.' he was married to a Mrs. Griffin of Janesville, Wis., at which place his death occurred Dec. 19th, 1907. Frank Carpenter, secretary of the Carpenter Paper Co. of Omaha, com mitted suicide Tuesday evening of this week on account of continued ill health. He was one of several brothers who organized and has made of the Carpenter Paper Co. one of the greatest commercial institutions of this state. Having done business with Mr. Carpenter and his company for. a series of years, and always found them one of the best firms and the most accomodating neople we ever dealt with, it is with a deep feeling of sorrow that we chronicle the sad e. i nt. A phone message from Schaupps, Monday evening about 8 o’clock gave the news that Frank Tapolski’s store at that place was then burning and with no pomifailitf of mving the building or merchandise thereto. Mb Tapeisjri waa Uving to the rear of C. C. Cooper *®J. I. 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