A. P. OULLEY, President. W. F. MASON, Cashier. THE FIRST NATIONAL MR OF Loup e|iy. Conser vative and Strong Real Estate and all classes of loans made promptly at lowest rates, with optional payments. THE NORTHWESTERN A Few Market Quotations. Corn, per bu..<55 (» .<57 Wheat, per bu.78 Oats, per bu.40 . McKinnie Bros., have two high grade yearling Shorthorn bulls for sale. Price reasonable. Bargains for someone. Mrs. C. R. Sweetland returned home from her visit to Giltner last Satur day. her neice. Miss Lillie Mercer, accompanying her. Beginning August 5th. we will pay: cash for cream at the creamery. We also pay cash for eggs. UAVEN'NA CREAMERY CO. Bert German sends the Northwest ern to his sister. Mrs. E. G. Ilinman, at St. Joe, Mo. Bert is one of the many good friends of this paper. Mr. M. Snook of McLean. Ills., a cousin of Mrs. J. B. Ford of Washing ton township, who arrived here last ! Friday to look over the country with a view of finding a laeation, returned home Tuesday morning. lie is highly pleased with the country. Breaching services at the Pres-1 byterian church next Sunday both morning and evening. The evening meeting will conclude the union ser-' vices with the Baptist church. liev.! James will preach on this occasion.! Everyone is invited to attend this! service. Mr. and Mrs. A. E, Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foster and the Misses Jennie Sutton and Henry Young went to Ord by auto last Mondav morning, returning Tuesday evening. Owing to the heavy rains thev did not reach Ord till « o’clock in the evening. The editor and family are under most pleasant obligations to their good friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cooper, who looked after their tem poral wants with choice dinner and supper on the day they moved into their new home. Such courtesies are lasting memories on life’s titful jour ney. More people are using Loup Citv flour now than ever have been in the r* past. Try a sack from your Sour dealer next time and if satisfied get a supply while old wheat is being ground. We always carry ground corn and all kinds of feed and solicit vour business. Loup City Mill & Light Co. Good fountain pens. $1.00 up at .le tfords'. A. II. Keeney of Denver was in the city yesterday. Loans on real estate, call on John \V. Lons. 3 on 02, Ashifey Conner, the drav- j man. Get him. Don’t forget Lee Bros, is the place to set choicest of meats. Roy Slayter was here over last Sun day visiting his parents. New fall styles in rich jewelry ar riving at Jeffords'. See them. Carl Carlson will be assistant treas urer at the State Feir this year. The Ravenna Creamery Co. will pay IT cents for butter fat till further notice. < >ld Settlars’ Picnic at Jenner's Park. Sept-ft and 10. Keep the date in mind. Martin Enevoldsen is another good reader who this week renews for an other year. Flies are coming. Get. your screen doors and windows of the Leininger Lumber Co. At last, the railroads have definitely promised a three-cent round trip rate to the State Fair. Have you tried that tine bologna at Lee Bros', meat market? It is mighty good eating. Mrs. Clemma Conger and Miss Nettie Conger were Grand Island visitors last Saturday. Try Oakdale Nut coal for your cook stove. An excellent coal for summer use, for sale by E. G. Taylor. Miss Tony Erazim came over from Ravenna Monday to visit her sister. Mrs. Gus Lorentz. For tine watches see Jeffords'. He sells just a little eheaper than any t>ody. Everything warranted just as represented. .Mrs. \ ioia < »aenaam entertained the sisters of the P. E. O. and their husbands at a six o’clock dinner last. Saturday evening. Carpenter Raddiffe is building a barn this week for Draper brothers on the old Widstrand place a few miles south of town. Mr. and Mrs. .las. Johansen enter tairred Messrs, arid Mes.lamas ('. W. Conhiser. J. T. Hale and W. t>. Brown at dinner last Sunday. For Sale—Eight tine yearling Short horn bulls for sale. Enquire of H. B. Musser. 'phone 5 on 274, or address him at Loup City, Xeb. Will Davis says his Monitor drill purchased of Thos. Jamrog & Son of Ashton plants every kernel of seed at the bottom of the furrow. O. G. Hunt is ever one of our most optimistic tillers of the soil and of right rejoices on the splendid pros pects of good crops this fall. A B. Fletcher was up from Rock ville Monday on business and renewed for the Northwestern till 1910. He is one of Sherman county's successful stock buyers. A. A. Sherman of St. Ansgar. Iowa, this week renews for another year with the remark: “We can not do without our Northwestern." Thanks for such friends. Will Zimmerman and Stewart Con ger went to Avrora yesterday morn- i ing to attend the races, at which Mr. j Zimmerman’s littie pacer will go in | one of the races. H. A. Hinman left last Thursday for Bnrwell to take management of a department store at that place. Mrs. Hinman and baby will join him there in a week or two. R. I>. Hendrickson was quite ill Tuesday night with a threatened at tack of' typhoid fever, requiring the i attendance of a physician, but is much better at this writing. The Presbyterian Sunday school will picnic tomorrow (Friday) after noon at .Tenner’s Park. The parents and friends, as well as the members of the school are cordially invited. Mrs. John Bister and daughter re turned to their home at Aurora last Saturday after a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. D. L. Jacoby and Youngquest brothers in Logan tow n ship. Miss Bertha Mead returned last Friday from Fallon. Nevada, and will teach here during the fall and winter months. She reports that her father is very mush pleased with Ids new home. The Misses Smith of St. Paul, who have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cooper, returned home last Saturday, Miss Marie Cooper accompanying them for a few days’ visit, A consultation of physicians held yesterday afternoon resulted in hold ing out no hope for the recovery of Supervisor Andrew Oarstka, and" his death may be expected any hour, though by the use of strong opiates he may survive for a day or two. The piano recital given last evening at the Presbyterian church by the pupils of Miss Beth Zimmermau"gave further and splendid evidence of the j painstaking instruction given them ! by their teacher, and no one recognizes that fact so much as those who at tend each succeeding recital given bv them. This is the fourth recital given by Miss Zimmerman’s large c'ass of some thirty or more pupils, and the Northwestern wishes in the | 'i! rongest manner to congratulate j 1 both teacher and pupils on the good | work and advancement made. Grocery Department We have the business, because we sell for small profits. Good Dried Prunes, count 80 to 100 per pound, - - - 5c 50 to 60fine prunes 3 pounds for - -25c N. Y. Ring Dried Ap ples, 2 lbs. for - - 25c Best Calif. Dried Ap ricots per pound, 15c Fine Calif. Dried Peaches, per lb., 25c Dr. Price’s Foods, 3 boxes for - - - 25c Egg-O-See, 3 for - 25c Maz-AII, 3 for-25c Rice, Texas broken, new 1907, good color, per pound, 5c Extra fancy Texas head Rice, per lb. 10c, or 3 for - - 25c Oiled Sardines, six cans for - - - - 25c Good Mustard Sar dines, 3 cans for 25c 8 bars good Laun dry soap for - - 25c We handle the German American Coffee. Buy direct from the growers. Cut out the middle man’s profits. Best cof fee for the money. OUR Leader —20c and 25c— —Try Them Barrel Salt, - - $1.75 Oyster Shells, per 100 .90 We pay the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE FOR BUTTER AND EGGS. Jeffords tits eye-glasses. Rex Jeffords goes to Lincoln the last of the week, to attend the State Fair and attend the duties of ticket seller. C. J. Tracy and Albert Johnson go to Lincoln the latter part of this week to attend to their duties at the State Fair next week. Mrs. Wharton and Miss Sophronia Wharton will go to Lincoln Saturdav ! morning to attend the State Fair next week, where they will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Charlton. Nebraska railroads, with one excep-' tion have granted a fare of three cents for the round trip where the j fare exceeds 31.00, to the State Fair at Lincoln. Aug. 31st to Sept. 4th. Grandma Smith is said to be fail ing very fast, and requires constant attendance. At her advanced age of 95 years, her hold on life is but a brittle thread that may break at anv time. v ou can get from 20 to 40 per cent reduction on clothing at the Hub Clothing store in the old Nightingale building, on and after this week Saturday. August 20th. Give us an early call. W. F. Mason and O. S. Mason left Tuesday morning for Hastings and Omaha where they will at one or the other cities purchase an auto each, driving the same home the latter part of this week. Word is received that Miss Ella Foster last Friday at Omaha under went a very successful operation for goitre, and will be home in about ten days. Her legion of friends will be pleased at the good news. Miss Jennie Anderson a pupil of Miss Beth Zimmerman, assisted by Misses Elva Zimmerman and Florence JJepew, gave a very successful piano : recital at the Presbyterian church on ' Tuesday evening of this week. Special sale on men’s and bo vs clothing, beginning this week Satur-! day, August 29th, at the old Nigh tin- i gale building on Main street, Loup City. Call and see us. Hub Clothing Stoke. Mr. Geo. Cramer, a brother-in-law of E. W. Thompson, from Sherman coun ty. Kansas, arrived Tuesday evening ! accompanied by his three children, on a visit here. He is on his way to j Minnesota and stopped off for a few ' days. The basket social given last Friday i evening at the home of Ira Timsoh : on the county farm, by the McAlpine Sunday school, was one of the most successful of the present season. The sale of some 23 baskets netted the sum of $27.50. which the school presented to Pastor James of the Baptist church of this citv. R. H. Mathew was the recipient of the highest priced basket, paying #3.50 for the same, which was furnished by Mrs. A. M. Robbins. NEBRASKA STATE FAIR, LINCOLN Wednesday, Sept. 2—Bryan Day Thursday. Sept. 3—Taft-Omaha Day Friday, Sept. 4—Parade Day Best Agricultural, Live Stock and Machinery Exhibits ever shown in Nebraska. Pain's stupendous spectacle ERUPTION OF MT. VESUVIUS and CARNIVAL OF NAPLES 500 people. Immense display of fireworks each night Liberati's New York Festival Military Band and Grand Opera Concert Company of sixty persons, eighteen of whom are Grand Opera singers of na tional reputation. State bands from llebron, Beatrice, Aurora and St. Paul Western League Base Ball. Athletic Meet. Wild West Show New $23,000.00 cattle barn. 174x255 to hold «3*i head of cattle New $10,000.00 steel frame auditorium, to seat 2,500 people, to tie dedi cated by Hon. W. J. Bryan, on Wednesday, September 2d Monday, Aug. 31—Lincoln Day Tuesday, Sept. 1—Governor’s Day $30,000.00_in Premiums $12,000.00 in Speed Fifteen harness and eight running races For premium list and entry blank, write W. R. Mellor, Sect'y. Lincoln. Neb. A Big Clothing Sale 20 to 40 Per Cent Reduction. Commencing August 29 And Lasting Ten Days We have purchased a big line of Clothing for cash, and in order to raise the money we will cut prices right and left. Lach of space does not per mit us to mention prices, but come and see for yourself. Bring your friends and get the advan tage of the new Fall Styles. Main Street, Loup City, Neb. Yiener & Krelstein Good Word for Mr. Williams. Ira E. Williams and family of Beem er removed to Loup City*. Sherman county, on Monday. Their car of poods' was taken there by Carl, the oldest son. Mr. Williams went to that place on Monday, while the wife and children remained a few days at Fre mont. We are sorry to see this estimable family leave our county. For the past fourteen years they have been instru mental in the upbuilding of the busi ness, social and religous affairs of Beemer and vicinity. We wish them unmeasured success and true friends in their new location, but hope they will retain somewhat their unpardon able pride in Beemers welfare and remember their old friends when they meet with the new. Mr. Williams sold his interests at Beemer. invested in the First Nation al Bank at Loup City and lias taken the eashiersliip of same. He would not have gone to that place were it not a good and substantial one. He has had years of experience in book keeping and banking-and knows the ground thoroughly. He took charge of the Beemer State bank in February. 1894. a time when the money stringency left the re sources of the bank at the lowest mark. He found the deposits $18.