A. P. OULLEY, President. IRA E. WILLIAMS, Cashier. THE • FIBST NATIONAL .. _ OF uoup city. Conser vative 118 i 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.45 bck. Jerome Woody was down from Washington township last Saturday and added his name to the North western list. V For Sale—Choice of two bedsteads, springs and mattress and a nice feather bed and pillows. M rs. Clkmma Congkr, First house south of telephone office. Miss Delia Dunterman, who has 0 been visiting her uncle, H. G. Hosier, for some time, left Monday morning for her home at Princeton, Ills. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Johansen enter tained at dinner last Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Pedler, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Out house and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Johansen. Born, Friday. Nov. fi, 1908. to Mr. and Mrs. B. P. McKinnie of Washing ton township, a "-pound boy. The Northwestern tenders congratulations A phone message to Talley View farm Saturday morning found mother and son doing well, and Burt out early in the fields making extra exertions to provide for increased expenditures. A sad story of the burning to death of the six months old baby of John Parkhurst, living up in the sandhills, comes to us. It seems the family had been away visiting for the dav. last Sunday, coming home late in the evening and lighting a lamp, placed the baby in bed and went out to do the milking and on coming back to the house found the lamp had ex t ploded, setting the bed on fire and burning the baby so badly that it died two hours later. Mrs. Parkhurst is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kil patrick of Webster township this; county. Tlie Northwestern extends deep sympathy to the afflicted family. $400 to $600 is to be made this fall by shelling the big crop of corn. We will lit you out with shellers. Call and we will talk this matter over withyou. T. M. Reed. If your eyes trouble you see Jeffords. Miss Mildred Culler is reported on the sick list. Lee Bros, pay the highest market | price for hides. Loans on real estate, call on John W. Long. Mrs. C. C. Cooper returned from her Omaha visit last Friday. The Little Boston pays 2t> cents for ; (.ream till further notice. Two of the children of Tiios. Ward were on the sick list last week." We still sell Grand Island hog wire. J. M. Czaplkwski Hardw are. A baby girl was born last Thurs day to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Graefe. Do you want a new corn shelter? T. M. Reed will sell you one right. Try those Never-fail Oil and Gaso line cans sold by the Little Boston. Wm. Criss went to Hastings Monday to attend a convention of blacksmiths. Those fountain pens at Jeffords are giving good satisfaction. $1 upwards. If you want a dray in a hurry and get quick work, see Stew art Conger. T. M. Reed can fit you out with a dandy corn sheller. Call and see him. If you want the llinoy Heater call at J. M. Czaplewsk’s hardware store: at once. Call and see those latest corn shellers sold by T. M. Reed. Just what you want. Geo. Brammer has just built a fine, commodious barn on his farm in Bristol township. You make no mistake in calling on the Stewart Conger drays when you want quick service. Have you tried that line bologna at Lee Bros’, meat market? It is; mighty good eating. County Attorney Mathew went to Kearney on legal business Monday, returning last night. A carload of new buggies just re ceived by T. M. Reed. He will sell you one of them right. 910 buys a fine Gold Watch at Jeffords’, gentlemen and ladies'. Have one put aside for Christmas. John YV. Long is prepared to make all Real Estate Loans on short notice at lowest rates. Chris Johansen last Monday moved onto the Pageler farm, five miles west of Loup City and taken charge of the same for the coming year. Miss Gertrude Lundy went up to Greeley last Friday', returning the first of the week, accompanied by Mrs. Maude Hinrnan and baby. The Stewart Conger drays are on the rush from morning to night, but you will get the quickest kind of service on a hurrv call. Try them. After several contemplated changes the Woznick building, west of the First National, has settled on a one story brick with basement floor of cement. Mr. John Warneke of Aurora came j up last Thursday evening to look | after his land interests. It is under-! stood he will take charge of same next March. Flies are gone, election is over: now you have time to come down to the Keystone Lumber Co.’s office and order those storm sash and storm doors before the cold wave comes. The Baptist Kensington at the home of Mrs. Dr. Main, last Friday afternoon was a pronounced success, socially and financially, as is always the case where Mrs. Main is hostess. PYuinrl__A beautiful lineof high L tillLILl grade China at Jeffords' fully 33 ,per cent lower than the regular price. To see it is to be con vinced. No trouble to show you. Little Gertrude Collipriest cele brated her third birthday last Thurs day afternoon by entertaining a number of her little friends and a most pleasant time was had by the infants terrible. Elmer Babcock was a Loup City visitor last Saturday. Mrs. Babcock's sister, Mrs. Nellie Corbin of Fairfield, this state, who has been visiting her i for some time, left last week for an all-winter’s stay at Los Angeles. Cal. Tt Tc 60 -vour Interest to examine the fine line of Haviland and hand painted china at Jeffords' while selecting your Christmas presents. Their price is way below the average price on this class of fine goods. Anything selected will belaid away for you until Christmas. Grocery Department We have the business, because we sell for Small Profits and give the best quality for the money. A nice broken Japanese Rice, 5 lbs. for. <£OC No. 1 Mexican Head Rice, Qflr, .3 lbs. for. ~0C A good bulk Coffee, per lb... 15c New California Dried Apri- ] xft cots, per pound. .... ltlx New California Dried Peaches 1 per pound. * Nice Norway 3kkk Herring, 3 lbs. for. -£«JC Nice^ White Fisb, 3 pounds for 25c Dr. Pierce's Breakfast Food, OS., 3 packages for. &01' Maze-All Breakfast Food. 3 t)K.( packages for.. GERMAN-AM ERICA N COFFEE, best coffee for the money. We buy this coffee direct from the growers, whereby we save the middle-man’s profit. Our Leaders. 20c and 25c. When you once try this coffee, you will use no other. Loup City Mercantile Co. E. G. Taylor is threatened with an attack of quinsy. We still have plenty of feed of all kinds for sale. Farmers bring your wheat and exchange for flour. Lore City Mill & Light Co. C. W. Gibson was over from Litch field last Sunday, attending the wed ding of his brother at the St. Elmo, notice of which will be found else where in this issue. Charley is as handsome and jolly as usual. When in need of flour ask your dealer for Loup City flour and you will be convinced that they have tne quality and their prices are no higher than other flour. If this is true you should buy flour made by your home mill. A number of our young people at tended a dance last Saturday night at the big barn of M. R. Youngquest in Logan township, and about sixty trippers of the light fantastic were present and enjoyed the merriest evening of the season. Rev. Chas L. Bragaw. of Palmyra, this state, will preach next Sunday morning and evening at the Pres byterian church. The membership of the church is urged to attend, and a cordial invitation is extended to all to attend the services. A card from I)r. Long at Garrison, dated the 5th instant, says lie failed to make the deal at Hazard, spoken of last week. It seems from other information obtained that Mr. John Thrailkill of Litchfield got ahead of the doctor on the drug store deal at Hazard. Marshall Ritchie, nephew of W. T. Gibson, arrived here last week Thurs day from a two-years' stay in the1 Klondike country and visited rela tives and friends over Sunday, going on to his home in Pennsylvania for a further visit. He has been working at the boiler-making trade in that country, at which he is an expert. It will be remembered he visited here on his way to Klondike something j over two years since. Mr. James Mooney arrived here, with his family last week from Tingley. Iowa, and has rented the Ed. Angier property for the winter. Mr. Mooney has landed interests in this county and moves here to be near his real estate holdings. Mr. Mooney comes from the old home county, Ringgold, where the writer was in the newspaper business for years, and where the editor,s brother is now booming that country in the same way. There is a movement on foot to take up a subscription paper to re imburse W. T. Gibson for moneys expended in making the bridges and ice breaks, for which the voters failed to vote a special levy at the late election. It is a good move and we hope will go through. We under stand such men as Troy Hale. A. P. Culley, W. O. Brown and other men of money will start such a paper with at least $50 each, and a large number of us small fry will also give of our little to forward the movement. Let some friend of Taylor Gibson start the ball to rolling Rev. L. C. McEwen of the Pre> byterian church in this city, last Sunday evening tendered his resigna tion as pastor of the church, to take effect about the first of December. Rev. McEwen has received and accept ed a call to the First Presbyterian church at Kearney, a much larger and greater church and work than here, and an important advancement for him in his life work in the ser vice of his Master. Rev. McEwen has done a great work for the church here, in fact a work almost unprecedented in the history of Presbyterianism in so small a town, having by tireless efforts and unflagging energy, built np a good membership, and secured the building of one of the finest j church buildings in the state, which is a pride not only to the Pres byterians themselves, but also to every citizen of Loup City and Sher man county. The reverend has es tablished a reputation as a pulpit orator that has brought calls to him not only from the one he has accept ed. but from other and even larger cities, but failed to see his way clear to accept a call elsewhere until he had fulfilled his mission here and could feel satisfied as to the per manency and future success of the church in Loup City. This he feels is accomplished and he will be fol lowed to his new field of labor by the best wishesof notonly his own church people, but the kindest regards of our people at large. CLOTHING and CLOAKS Now is the season to buy your Clothing and Overcoats and Ladies’ Cloaks. Come to the Loup City Mercantile Co. We can supply your wants We have everything in the way of Clothing, Over coats, Ladies' Cloaks and Children's Cloaks and ai prices to suit your pocketbooks. Children's Suits, ... $1.50 to $ 8.00 Boys' Suits, long pants, - - 5.00 to 10.00 Young Men’s Suits, - - 8.00 to 20.00 Men’s Suits, - 6.00 to 20.00 Ladies' Jackets, - - - 2.00 to 10.00 Ladies' Cloaks, ... 8.00 to 25.00 Come in and see us. WE PAY the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE for PRODUCE. E. S. Hayhurst and Dr. Willets re turned last evening from Rome, N. Y. where they have been to haveacancei removed from the latter's hand. Th( cancer was successfully removed anc the doctor is getting along nicely The gentlemen were absent som< three weeks and Mr. Hayhurst ex presses himself as especially glad t( be home and at business again aftei his enforced absence. Winter Term Opens Nov. 30 Beginning classes will be organizec at this time, and you should plan tx enter on this date! The St. Paul College offers the besl training in Commercial and Norma courses. Endorsed by the State Super intendent. More students from our school oc cupy bank positions in this section ol the state than from any other twc schools. We give a Very Practical Courst for Farmers, including Farm Book keeping. Our rates are reasonable and tbt quality of work the highest. Text books rented. If you do not have our free catalog we shall be glad to mail vou one. ST. PAUL NORMAL'and BUSI NESS COLLEGE. St. Paul. Neb S. D. Smith. Pres. Program of Teachers Meeting To be held at the St. Elmo hotel, or Friday evening. Nov. 20, 7:30 p. m.: THE LESSON. 1. Teacher’s Preparation: Mrs. Mc Cray. Mr. Young. 2. Bssignment: Purpose: Length of Lesson: Instruction to Pupils: Time When Made. Miss Haggarty. Miss Smith. Mr. Hendrickson. .'5. Study Period: When with Rela tion to Recitation: Teacher’s Super vision: Length. Miss Fross. Miss Conger. 4. Recitation: Purpose: Method: Length: Success. Msss Beynon. Miss Young. 5. Failure: Class; Individual: What to I)o. Miss Myer. Discussion general Hazard Happenings. Hazard people have been enjoying very pleasant weather lately, but it is changeable at present writing. Election day passed very quietly in our burg and no political disturbances were noticeable. T. A. Donahoe went to Ravenna and return last Friday. Tom Maloney, an old homesteader of this vicinity, is here from Grand Island looking after his farm and visiting old friend. H. H. Thompson drove to the coun ty seat last Wednesday, he being chos en to return the Hazard votes. Mrs. T. A. Donahoe and little son went to their old home at Woodriver Saturday for a few days' visit. Mrs. Brown of Meadow Grove. Neb., visited Mrs. Virgil Cunningham one day last week. The public dinner sered by the Hazard dames on election day was a success financially and otherwise. The tables groaned under proffered dona tions and after dinner the male popu lation groaned with ladened stomachs and sighed because they couldn't eat more. Little Miss Killeen of Litchfield and her schoolmate. Miss Kisling. visited Mrs. Bertha Robertson the latter part of the week. Lars Holdt. one of Litchfield's mer chant’s and little daughter were Hazard visitors last Friday. Mrs. Campbell went to Ravenna last Saturday. Mrs. Tread y and little daughter, Belle, went to Ravenna Saturday, re turning the same day. Chas. H. A. Boldt, BRICK WORK DONE, PLASTERING a SPECIALTY Hazard, Nebr. Misses Cora and Nellie Heater who are attending school in Ravenna, visited Saturday and Sundav with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Heate. at Hazard. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Thompson entertained Mr. Williamson of Lex ington. Ky., Friday evening. Rev. Leindhart. the German Luth eran minister of Litchfield, was a caller in Hazard Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Heater enter tained Mr. and Mrs. II. II. Thompson and liutle sons at supper Sunday.' Chas. Boldt and man did some fine cement work for our banker one day this week. Rev. Goodmanson of the Swedish Lutheran church spent Saturday and Sunday in Broken Bow. A sad accident occurred at Ravenna Saturday evening when Elmer Lewis, agent for the Ravenna Creamery Co. was struck by a switch engine and literally chopped to pieces. Mr. Lewis is well known throughout this section of the country, as he has been in the employ of that company for a number of years. He leaves a wife and six children, also an aged mother. There was a wreck in the Hazard railroad yard Sunday afternoon, three cars being derailed. The train crew from Ravenna and section men came in to repair damages, as some of the cars were in rolling condition. Preston Heater and good wife treated the tired and hungry railroad bovs to a warm lunch and hot coffee,'which was highly appreciated. Friendship, Love and Truth “My Boy, Jack,” will probably be one of the most refined productions given at Pilger’s opera house this season. There are no slum scenes, no heavy browed villians, no adventurers, no exaggerated climaxes or impossible ( situations.no monkey-faced comedians no impossible Hebrews and no short skirted soubrettes. but there is plenty of fun. causing hearty whole-souled laughter: bright, witty dialogue, reasonable and logical complications and situations, set in an atmosphere ; of art. with a touch of life in Bohemia. I and there is not one word which can offend the most sensitive nature. “My Boy. Jack,” is a story of friend ship. love and truth, and no greater sermon has ever been preached from any pulpit by the most eminent divines of the day, than can be drawn from the presentation of “My Boy, Jack.” “Jack Paden.'' the hero, is the acme of young American manhood, he is true, loyal, chivalrous and self sacrificing, he is the kind of boy. that in time of trouble, goes to the front and dies for a principle, and in these days of hustle, worry, intrigue and selfishness, it is refreshing to , come in contact with one of nature's noblemen, and such is Jack Paden,! ' w hose unconscious motto is, “Do un-1 to others as you would have them do j unto you.” and yet he will make you laugh. Edwin Milton Royle is res ponsible for him. and he may well be proud of “My Boy, Jack.” This pro duction will be at Pilger's opera house, Loup City. Tuesday, Nov. 17. j . .... .: I I Have Some for Sale. I have some tine young Poland | China Boars for sale. I don’t want to "butt in” but if you can't find one that you like in any other herd. 1 would sell you one rather than have vou do without. A* J. JOHNSON. 14 mile north of Jenner's Park. Wild Rose Stock Farm I have a choice lot of Pure Poland China Boars Long, lengthy fellows, and a few. SHORT-HORN BULLS Reds and Roans, that are right in individuality and breeding. Call and see.... L. N. SMITH, Telephone. 2 on 12 Loup City, Neb. For Sale —FROM— H. J. Johansen’s LOUP > At LIT HERD OF Polapd Ghipas ; lu the District Court of Shprman county. Ne ) braska. : In the matter of the application of Levina J. ! Sparks, guardian of the persons and estates of William A Sparks. Walter R. sparks. Bertie I A.Sparss. Kay E. Sparks and Veinie Sparks, t minor children of James A. Spa ks. deceased. , to sell the real estate of said minors Order to show cause why license should not be granted to said guardian to sell real estate of her said wards to raise funds for their maintenance and education. On reading and filing the petition, duly ver ified. of Levina J. Sparks, guardian of the persons and estates of William A. Sparks, Walter R sparks Bertie A Sparks. Rav E. Sparks and Vernie Sparks, minors, for a license to sell the undivided five-eighty-oneth interest of said minors in the following des cribed real estate situate in Sherman county. Nebraska, to-wit. the west half of the north west quarter, and the north half of the south west quarter of Section seven (7i, in Township fourteen (141 north of Range sixteen (16). west of sixth principal meridian, for the purpose of raising funds for the maintenance and edu. cation of said minors, and it appearing from said petition that said real estate consists of unimproved land, from which very little In come can be obtained and that it is necessary to sell the same for said purpose. It is therefoje ordered that the next of kin of said minors, and all persons interested in said estate appear before me at the court house in Loup City. Nebraska, on the 18th day or November, 1908. at the hour of nine o'clock in the forenoon to show cause why license should not be granted to the said Levina J. Spark*, guardian, to sell said real estate of said minors for the purposes above set forth. And it is further ordered that a copy of this order be published once each week for three successive weeks in the Loup City North western. a legal newspaper printed and puu lisbed and of general circulation in said Coun ty of Sherman. Dated at Chambers at Kearney, in Buffalo county. Nebraska, this 17th day of October.' 1908. Bruno O. Hostetler. Judge of the District Court of Sherman county. Nebraska. Last pub. Nov. 13. School Land Auction. The following described lands in Sherman county will be offered for lease at public auction at the county treasurer's office. Satur day November 21. 1908. at 9:00 a. m. Terms of leasing and appraised vslue may be bad on application to the county treasurer or to the Commissioner of Public LandB and Buildings at Lincoln. SE 36-13-13. NE 36-15-16, W-2 19-16-16. H M. Eaton, Commissioner Public Lands and Buildings. ' China Free Come and get a large HAND-pairted plate or a nice NINE-INCH SALAD BOWL FREE I WITH 2-lb. of Coffee at 25 cts. a Pound These are the nicest we ever had and they will not last long. You get your choice as long as they last. CONHISER’s LOOK OUT FOR BARGAINS In this Space Next Week Christensen & Ferdinandt Furniture Company. Christensen & Ferdinandt, i 7 i Undertakers and Embalmers i ^3>J. I. DEPEWS-* Blacksmith 9 Wagon Maker My noo is the largest and best equipped north ol the Platte Klver I I have a four horse engine and a complete line of the latest Improved, ma chtuery. also a foroe of experienced men who know h*>w to operate It and turn out a job with neatness and dispatch. MY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT g ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CUSTOMERS 13KB mill I <1 lIllliaHiaHlllflEUIBVSIBilBIBBI^ IOWA GATES for the FARM W> YJi By sliding this ring back, the largest hog may pass under and have the run of two lots. Or raise your gate to drive hogs in or out. Your larger sotck cannot get out while you are busy. The IOWA CATE works fine this way. When you have time drop around and look over the; gate hungup at Keystone miviBEpeo. Loup City, Ashton, Rockville, Schaupps, and Arcadia, Neb. E. Gr. Taylor, J. S. Pedler, C. C. Carlson. President. Vice President. Cashier -DIRECTORS W: R. Mellor, J. W. Long, S. N.[,Sweetlanj LOUP tin STATE' MI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. Capital Stock, - - $25,000.00 Individual Liability, $250,000.00