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A. P. CULLEY,
Attornsy & GonnseloT at-Law
(Office: Kikst National Bank)
Loup City, Ncbr.
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Attorney-at-Law.
LOUP CITY. flEBRUSKfi
AARON WALL
La.’wyer
Practices in all Courts
Loup City, Neb.
R. J. NIGHTINGALE
LOUP CITY. NEB
R. H. MATHEW,
Attorney-at-Law,
And Bonded Abstractor,
Loup City, Nebraska
O. E. LONGACRE
Office, Over New Bank.
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A. J. KEARNS j
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON;
I'hone, JO. Office at Residence j
Lnup City - Nebraska1
S. A. ALLEN.
D EJYTI8T,
LOUP CITY, - - NEB.
Office up stairs in the new State
Bank building.
W, L. MARCY,
DENTIST,
LOUP SITY, nee.:
OFFICE: East Side Public Satiate
Phone, 10 on .‘Mi
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Bonded Abstracter
Loup City, - Nebraska.
Only set of Abstract Looks in county
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F. F. Foster, Prop.
Office; Fester's Barber Shop
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.
THE WONDERFUL
BIGHORN BASIN
M^iT^Trrrag—
To Renters:
I have a selected list of
irrigated farms in the Basin
for rent: why not rent for a
year or two and learn the
profits from irrigated farm
ing in the Basin, and be
come acquainted with the
climate and desirability of
settling in that region? We
also help you homestead ir
rigated lands, or to buy
them at prices that will
make you money. Millions
of dollars are now being
spent irrigating Basin lands
Homeseekers’ excursions
first and third Tuesdays of
1908. Write D Clem
Deaver, General Agent,
Landseekers’ Information
Bureau, Omaha.
Winter Excursions:
Homeseekers, excursions first and
third Tuesdays to Colorado. Wyo
ming, llig Horn Basin, Northwest,
• Southwest and South: WINTER
TOURIST RATES daily to Florida,
the Gulf Country, the South and
Southern California. Ask Agent,
or the undersigned for rates and
details.
R. L. ARTHUR,
Ticket Agent, Loup City, Neb.
L. W. Wakkley, G. P. A.
Omaha, Nebraska.
The McKinnie Musical Recital.
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MRS. B. P. McKINNIE, formerly Miss Tekla Farm.
THE NORTHWESTERN
TffiRMS:—fl.OO pek tear, if paid in advanci
Entered at the Loup City Postofflee for tranh
mission through the mails as second
class matter.
Office ’Phone, - - - 6 on 108
Residence ’Phone, - 2 on 108
.1. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and fnb
Omalia gets tlie democratic state
convention on March 5. Will tlie
democrats secure their delegations by
primary methods’/ It will not be
necessary for them to have a primary
to express preference for president,
as they are all Bryan hero worshippers.
If we can't have Roosevelt for the
presidency, then the man nearest
Roosevelt and nearest his policies and
most sure to carry them out, is Taft.
We believe, so far as tlio.se mentioned
is concerned, Taft would best tit into
Roosevelt’s shoes. Don't you. dear
reader'/
All the opposition to Bryan as the
coming democratic candidate lor the
presidency has about died out. even
Sullivan of Illinois and Bryan kissing
and making up. It isdoubtful if any
other name will lie presented to the
national democratic convention at
Denver. Bryan is ‘‘Heap Big Injun"
to democracy._
Wouldn't that puzzle an expert'/
Frank Harrison in an article to the
State Journal of a few days since,
would lead the readers to infer that
the LaFollete I worn is being worked
in Nebraska without funds and lie ts
a philanthropic individual that is
handling the lxiomlet without recom
pense! Did anybody ever know Frank
to work for glory, with no cash ac
com pan i meat?_
The Burlington during the past
couple of weeks have been making
great reductions in their force of help
along their line, and especially at
division points. The town of Alliance
seems to be coming in for more than
its share. Last week over one hun
dred workmen were laid off at that
division, fifty-seven being let out at
one time. It is reported that nearly
all of these men have families and it
is leaving them in bad shape, especial
ly so coming at this time of the year.
It is reported that the Burlington
lias laid off 17,000 men along their
line and that most of them were re
ceiving $2 per day. This will certain
ly result in much hardship to these
thousands of families.
The York Republican comes to our
desk booming E. ('. Bishop, of that
county, at present deputy state super
intendent of schools, for the office of
State Superintendent of Public In
struction. I'rof. Bishop is indeed
one of the leading educators of the
state and we believe would ably till
that important office. While acknow
ledging that fact, yet the Northwest
ern does not at this time take a stand
for Mr. Bishop or any other aspirant
for that place till it has the field to
look over later. There are many able
men along educational lines in’ good
old Nebraska, and we are not at this
time in position to champion the
cause of any certain one. Trot 'em
all out and let us see the field.
There is one business firm that
understands most fully that adver
tising pays, much to their discomfort.
Some time since the Keystone Lum
ber Co. advertised a lot of coal at $2
per ton. which was all taken within
a day or two after the paper was out.
by our farmer readers, at least seven
teen teams being at the lumber yard
the following Saturday to get their
share. That was good and all right,
but the measly editor did not take
the adv. out the next week asordered,
and the Keystone was kept busy
telling its customers that all had been
sold the week before, to which they
demurred, saying the advertisement
was still in the Northwestern. So it
was, but the fault lay alone with the
forgetful editor. All of which, how
ever. proved that advertising pays.
‘Stuck” on That Country
I In remitting for the Northwestern’s
visits to liis home in the Grand Junc
j tion, Colo., country, our friend, Louis
j.J. liechthold, takes occasion to speak
jin glowing terms of his new home.
He says: l'I raised a tine crop last
\ear and got tine prices for all of the
fruit. Pears netted $2.75 a i»ox and
i apples $2 25 a box. These are bushel
boxes. Pears average from five to
ten boxes to the tree; 160 trees to the
acre. Apples average about 25 boxes
to the tree; 96 trees to the acre.
Peaches froze some but we will have
nough for our own use. Talk about
! high-priced land; we've got it. Raw
land sells at $500 per acre. Orchard
I land, with trees, sells from $500 to
<2,000 per acre. That seems fishy,
' but you can come and look up the
records for yourself. I like good old
1 Sherman county, all right, and I will
I come and sec her some time, but will
I have to work my gold mine (orchard)
I for a time yet. It never gets cold
| here in the" valley, but up in the
i mountains she does some good hard
freezing, like in Sherman county. 40
[below. Here is our market: Coal.
*2.50: alfalfa. *10: wheat, $1.50 per
I cwt: oats. $1.60 per cwt: corn. $.180
per cwt: eggs. 30c; butter, 30c; pota
toes. $1.25 per cwt: hogs, dressed,
*7.5o."
Clear Creek.
W. Duck of Litchfield is on the sick
list.
The Brethern are holding revival
meetings in Dist. No. 25.
Dave Eaton and mother are visit
ing friends in this vicinity.
Mr. YanWormer is moving on the
James Gray tree claim. He comes
from York county.
School Notes.
A report of the first four months of
school is: Enrollment at iteginning
of term. 280: average daily attend
ance. 12o: average number of pupils
neither absent nor tardy. 128.
Miss Xaumann's pupils have the
rage now. They had a party on the
ice Saturday afternoon and are now
planning another for next Saturday.
A fine program is promised and ex
pected for tlie next Literary. Friday
afternoon.
Writing has been put in the place
of spelling In the High School for the
next semester's work. A few who
can write “a decent hand" will be
allowed to take spelling.
The examinations have come and
gone, satisfactorily for some, the
opposite for others.
Fear Jack London is Lost.
The editors of Woman’s Home Com
panion, for whom Jack London is sail
ing around the world in his little boat
Snark. state that lie is now over a
month due at Tahiti of the Society
Islands, for which place he sailed
from Hilo, Hawaii, on October 27th.
The gas engine with which the
Snark is equipped was not working
well when Mr. London left Hawaii,
and it is supposed by his publishers
that lie has experienced some more
trouble with it, or that he has en
countered the doldrums of the Pacific
by which the little forty-five foot
lwat might be buffeted about for days
or weeks, to be dropped at length in
to a dead sea calm. For such are the
equatorial doldrums.
London sailed from San Francisco
on May 4th and reached Hawaii about
a month later. He is accompanied on
his voyage around the world by his
wife, a captain, an engineer, one
sailor and two Japanese servants.
London expects to spend seven years
on his voyage and to sail completely
around the world, stopping at inter
esting places wherever he goes.
Later reports give the arrival of
Mr. London and party, who had been j
delayed by an accident to the machi j
nery of their boat. _ •
It looks at present as though it was
the field against Taft for the reput>
lican candidacy for the presidency.
That being the case, and from all we
can learn of those already mentioned,
the Northwestern has no hesitancy in
naming its choice to be the biggest
and brainiest man of all—Taft. If
there is anyone better, he has so far
been unmentioned.
A Hoggish Discussion
The “Price of Hogs” discussion go
ing on through the medium of the
newspapers and farm journals lias
reached the acute stage where any
thing written on the question he-j
comes of absorbing interest to the |
growers and sellers of that product.
Tiie fact that the packing industries
have “tumbled to the racket” since;
and advanced prices a few cents, does
not make the following "roast” of
the packers, by our own Hon. E. II.
Kittell, former populist representa
tive in the legislature from this
county, any the less juicy and inter
esting. We give it in full:
Editor Nebraska Farmer: I have
read your two editorials of recent
date in regard to the hog market. |
the last one containing my letter toj
the Omaha Daily News which you
kindly reprint. 1 would say no more
about the matter just now, and would ]
hope for tietter times for tire hog
growers in the near future, only for
the reason that I have never learned
to stand still and keep my mouth
shut while having my pockets picked.
in your first editorial you say the
packers have lieen obliged to pay an
increased rate of interest on bor
rowed money and therefore must get
even by paying less for hogs. You
offer this excuse for the packers on
tiie theory, no doubt, that a poor ex
cuse is better than none. You must j
know very well, as everyone else
must know, that the additional inter-]
est that the packers have to pay is j
but a small sum compared to what i
they are beating the farmers out of
on 'their hogs. Tiie grain buyers, j
probably, have to borrow as much ]
money as tiie packers, but I have j
heard of no great drop in the price of ;
grain on account of any extra inter-{
est they have to pay. You say fur- j
Uier mat, me pactvers want, cneap,
hogs and the farmers are willing, ap- j
partntly, to furnisii them, or words j
to that effect. It's true that the farm- j
ers are furnisldng the packers cheap]
hogs, but they are not doing it will-;
ingly. They are selling their hogs j
because they have no assurance that;
after they have fed all of their corn
to them they will be worth any more i
than they are now. The packers have
the advantage and will pay what they
please. There was not enough corn
raised in this county this year to;
properly fatten the hogs we have;
now —there are many counties in the
state in the same condition—and if
we hold our hogs and feed all of our
corn to them, where is the corn to
feed the pigs coming on in the spring?
What makes the matter particularly
aggravating to the hog growers just
now is the fact that drouth cut our
corn crop in two in the middle, and !
the packers have cut the price of hogs
so that they (the hog growers) will
get only about one-third as mucli for
this year's crop of corn as they did !
for last year's. If ever there was a !
time when farmers needed a good
price for hogs, it is right now. You :
may be assured that the farmers who j
depend on hogs mainly for their in- \
come are not organizing any smile |
cluos at present.
The packers shrewdly guessed that
the people generally, including mostj
of the editors of farm papers, would ;
think that the fall in live stock j
prices was due to the panic. When
the farmer finds out that lie has to
pay the same old price for everything
lie lias to buy. he wonders why the
panic just knocked the stuffing out of
the prices of his live stock, especially
his hogs, and hardly grazed anything
else. Funny little panic. Of course,
a fall in the price of live stock is to
to be expected in panic times for
people eat less meat then, but the
great fall in the price of hogs was
without warrant and the respons
ibility rests with the packets.
Someone has said, ‘• If a man cheats
me once he is to blame, but if the
same man cheats me a second time I
am to blame..’ The farmers, whom
the average city man thinks don’t
know enough to come in when it
rains, have been thinking a little, and
they don't intend to be caught by the
packers again with a lot of hogs on
hand and no corn to feed them.
They are going to raise fewer hogs.
This action may cause some people
to go hungry for pork, but if an ob
ject lesson is needed to show the peo
ple of the United States that so large
a class as the farmers can't be robbed
without it seriously affecting the
whole country, let us have the object
lesson. The farmers won't continue
long to feed high priced corn to low
priced hogs just for the exercise they
get out of it. The breeding season
for hogs is now here and I am going
to cause a part of the proposed short
age of hogs on my own farm, and will
use my influence to get others to do
likewise. It’s the only remedy in
sight.
LUC piCSCIIU ULllUll U1 l/lic pav:iv Cl s»
is clearly a case of benefits forgot.
For years they have been fattening
otf the products of our labor under
what was supposed to be a mutual
benefit plan, but now at the first op
portunity when they have a chance
to get us in a corner by reason of a
short corn crop, they proceed to jump
on us and rob us to a finish. It's a
shame that a few men, acting in no
official capacity, have the power to
set the prices on the products of mil
lions of farmers.
Snerman Co. E. II. KITTELL.
Splendid Farm for Rent.
560 acres of land west of Loup City,
loo acres under cultivation. 400 acres
fenced: good frame improvements,
plenty of water. See W. F. Mason,
at the First National Bank, Loup
City, Neb.
ltoacl > ot Icm‘.
(Hughes Hoad)
The commissioner appointed to view and
locate a road commencing at the southeast ;
corner of Section six. Township fourteen.
Range fourteen and running thence north one
mile on section line between Section live and
six and running thence west on Section
line between Section six. Township four*
teen. Range fourteen, and Section 31.
thirty-one. township fifteen. Range fourteen i
about 1*5 rods, and terminating at Road No.
178, has reported in favor of the establishment
thereof and all claims for damages or objec
tions thereto must be filed in the office of the
county clerk of Sherman county on or before*
noon of the 10th day of March. 190$, or said
ros.d will be established without reference
thereto.
Dated thia 31st day of December. A . D. 1907.
C. F. BKC8HAC8EH. County Clerk. I
Last pub. Jan. 30 I
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