Professions. Cards A. P. CULLEY, Attoriey&Gonnselor-at-Law (Office: First National Bank) Loup City, Nebr. robt.p. s tarr Attorney-at-Law. LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA R. J. NIGHTINGALE Attorney and taelcr-at-Law LOUP CITY. NEB AARON WALL ILiefwyer Practices in all Courts 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. S. A. ALLEN. DEJYTMST, LOUP CITY, - - NEB. Office up stairs in the new State Bank building. W. L. MARCY. DENTIST, LOUP GITY, NEE OFFICE: East Side Public Saume Phone, 10 on 36 ROBERT P. STARR (Successor to M. II. Mead) Bonded Abstracter Loup City, • Nebraska. Duly set of Abstract books in count \ Try the f. p. f. Dray F. F. Foster, Prop. Office; Fester's Barber Shoj’ Chas. H. A. Boldt. BRICK WORK DONE, PLASTERING a SPECIALTY Hazard, Nebr. I Have Some for Sale. I have some fine 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, i would sell you one rather than have vou do without. A* J. JOHNSON. % mile north of .Tenner'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 VALLEY HERD OF polapd Chipas I Cure Nerve-Vital Debility, Weak ness, Drains, Rupture, Stricture, Varicocele, Blood Poison, Private Skin and Chronic Diseaees of Men 1 do not ask you to come in me first if you believe others can cure you. Should they fail, don't Rive up. It is better to come late than not at all. He member, that curlnt diseases after all oth ers have failed ha been my specialty foi years, if you cannot visit me personally write symptoms that trouble you most. A vast majority of cases cart be cured by my system of home treatment, wlticb is the most successful system ever devised. I make no charge for private counsel and irive to each patient a legal contract in writing, backed o ooundaut capital, to hold for the promise oysictans having stubborn cases to treat .re cordially in viledm^QUCM cured of a >." vrnimn womb a'< ,o consult with me. iladder diseaser. ulcerutions. menstrua rouble etc. confidential. Private home ii he suburbs, beforeand during couUnement .1 otherly care and best attention guaran ->e 1 Good homes found for babies. FREE! — raCC! POSITIVELY PIC&E-l No charge whatever to ai own. woman or child living in LO^ P OJ_n •r Vicinity, suffering from »ny < HRON'c MS!.. ASK, a *10.00 X-RAY EX/. MIN A (VOX Come and let me look inside of yoi bsoluteiy free of charge. Pirh SPECIALIST. GRAND Dr. Kicn, ISLAND, NEB. Office up ;itv Hall. 103 W. Second Street. nosite : THE NORTHWESTERN TERMS: —*1.00 PER TEAR, fF PA!l» IN ADVAUCI Entered at the Loup City Pontufflce for trant» mission through the mails as second class matter. Office ’Phone, - - - 6 on 108 Residence ’Phone, - 2 on 108 J. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pub. Another Nebraskan gets an official high-ball. Magoon for secretary of war under Taft. A California Knight is heralded for commissioner of labor in Taft's offi cial round-table. Frank Hitchcock receives his reward for managing Taft's campaign in the postmaster general plum. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania Knox the persimmon off the Taft official tree bearing the stamp of secretary of state. The president threatens to bring libel suits against two leading news papers of the United States—the Indianapolis News and the New York World, for th^jr alleged slanderous statements in regard to the financial part of the Panama canal sale. Even j newspapers get too previous at times. I Did you ever notice that the more ! money a party to a criminal suit lias tlie better chance lie has to no scot free? Is tiiat in the spirit of our free institutions? Look at the Rustin murder case in Omaha as an example. The defendant was a brother of the president of the First National bank of that city. Look at the Rockefeller cases. Look at all the big criminal cases and pick out exceptions. One of our citizens who occasion ally wipes the dishes for his wife be came tired ot the job and refused saying "it's not a man's work.” Not feeling disposed to lose his help she brought the Rible out to convince him of his error and read as follows from II Kings 21:23: “And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipetli a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down." It is needless to say that lie is still doing his occasional stunt.—Ex. Here's the way the St. Paul Phono graph Press alludes to our “right smart” former contemporary of the Arcadia Champion, now of the St. Paul Republican: “Somecallow youths are aspiring to be leaders in politics, when the fact is they couldn't pilot a skow down the Loup river, if it only drew six inches of water.” Even so i bright a youth as Coolie does not seem to be able to impress the veteran editor of Man-uel training with his accomplishments. President Roosevelt in his last mes sage to congress made some energetic remarks about members of congress that badly injured the feelings of said precocious servants of Uncle Sam, or the dear people, if you please. Now congress proposes to investigate the president for his awful awfulness, the president being highly pleased over the squirming and claiming to be thoroughly prepared for the boys, his preparation being calculated to in crease the squirm, rather than aleviate the mental disease. Let the tight g’wan. Just imagine Pat Crow, the Cudahy kidnaping scoundrel, in the role of an evangelist! It were better such cat tle should not be recognized in such religious relations, till they gave tan gible evidence of genuine repentence. It is the advancement and elevation of such fellows on a spiritual plane by over-pious zealots which cloud the ef forts of the church to evangelize the world today. If Pat Crowe be really sincere, he would better remain in the background for a season till he lie has shown his faith by a life in ac cord therewith. Think of Billy Sunday, the yellow 'of all evangelists, flourishing a gun at Muscatine, Iowa, the other day and threatening to shoot the first one of a mob congregated who should attack him. Then compare that picture with the one of the meek and lowly Nazarene before Pilot, with the howl ing mob thirsting for his blood, even to the freeing of Barabas the mur derer instead. How high does the gun play sensational ex-base ball preacher seem on the religious plane? Could you imagine the Jesus toting a revol ver and standing off the mob, a la Billy Sunday? Bah! From a number of our exchanges we see that an effort is to be made to enforce the Sunday law in regard to Sibbath desecration. It is a notorious fact that a large number of those who go hunting and fishing on Sunday are not aware there is any law governing such. It is thecominonest thinghere in Loup City to see every Sunday in season, hunting and fishing parties start out for the day’s sport, in seem ing utter disregard for law. If such a law is not in the spirit of our tirms and wrongly on the statute books, let it be repealed. The Northwestern is a believer in law, but it is also in favor of any Jaw either being enforced or repealed—no dead letter law should be allowed on the statutes. Here is the law on Sunday governing offenses alluded to: “If any person of the age of 14 years or upwards shall be found on the first day of the week, common ly called Sunday, sporting, rioting, quarreling, hutting, fishing or shoot ing, he or she shall be lined in a sum not exceeding twenty days, at the discretion of the court.’’ Banquet at the St. Elmo The reception and dinner given at the St. Elmo last Friday eveninR by Supt. .Tas. O'Gonnell of our city schools to the faculty and senior class, was one of the pleasantest events it lias been our pood fortune to attend since cominp to Loup City. Plates were laid for twenty and was enjoyed by as merry and joyous a party as ever pa the red under the roof of that pood hostelry. The company pather ed at 8 o'clock in the eveninp at tin banqueting board, which was profuse ly decorated with red and pink carna tions, each puest being presented with a flower as a souvenir, where after par taking of a splendid ^three-course dinner, listened to a number of toasts by members of the faculty, senior class, county superintendent and secretary of the school board, with Rev. J. O. Hawk acting as toastmaster ; the remarks being very timely and well received by those present. The menu and toasts with the names of those responding were as follows: MENU: Oranges Bananas Oyster Soup Celery Olives j Baked Chicken Cold Meats Cranberries Chip Potatoes Esealloped Tomatoes Salad i Assorted Cakes Fruit Shortcake Coffee Tea Nuts toasts: The Senior Class. .Clifford Rein The High School Faculty. .Miss Haggart The Normal Class. .Miss Ohlsen , The Future of the Graduate. .^.Mr. Hendrickson The School Board. .Mr. Pedler The favored guests were: Faculty, Miss Beynon, Miss Haggart, Mrs. Mc Cray, Prof. Young, Miss Smith, Miss Young: seniors, Flora Ohlsen, Arlie Corning, Klea McNulty, Ada Smith, Emma Rowe, Lulu McFadden. Chris tian Sorensen and Clifford Rein; county superintenpent, R. I). Hen drickson, secretary of school board. |j. S. Pedler; representative of the i church. Rev. J. O. Hawk, and repre jsentative of the press, J. W. Burleigh. Supt. O'Connell is to be congratu lated over the success of the evening of good cheer and intellectual treat, in that it cements in stronger bonds of fraternal feeling the elements com : bined to uplift the educational in I terests of the community, and espec I ially the eternal friendship which must exist between teacher and pupil in order to give the greatest results. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle. Dec. 1908.—In the exhibit i of the mineral resources of the state of Washington at the Alaska-Yukon ; Pacific Exposition which will be held j in Seattle from June 1 to October lt>, 1909, something entirely new will be undertaken. It has been the custom to show fancy picked samples of min eral ore at expositions, and while this has added to the beauty of the dis play, it .has prevented interested parties from securing reliable data. In the Washington display at the 1909 fair, there will be no picked samples of ore and no mining company will be allowed to exhibit its ore un less the property has first established its right to the claim of a legitimate mining proposition. In each display from one hundred to -five hundred pounds of ore will be shown, giving the average of the ledge. Where high grade ore has been found, this will be shown with the other samples from the ledge. With each display of ore samples of the hanging wall and foot wall will te exhioited in order that mining men may be able to know the country formation in which the ledge is located. With each exhibit will be a state ment giving the name of the ownerof the property, location by district, amount of development work done and the extent of the ledge as shown by the development work and average assays secured from the rock. This statement will be prepared by the state commissionei in charge of the preparation of the mining exhibit and will be complied from personal inspection of the property. In addition to gold, silver, copper and galena ores, samples will be shown of lead, molybdum, clay, build ing rock, coal, cement deposits, mar ble, talc and infusorial earth. A working model cement plant will be used to demonstrate the quality of the cement deposits and two working model coal mines will be used to demonstrate the different methods of coal mining in Washington. The mining building is practically completed and the greater part of the exhibit has already been collected and i is being assembled. An editor approached St. Peter at | the Golden Gate and handed him a long list of delinquent subscribers said: “Look this list over carefully and see if any of these fellows have sneaked through the pearly gates.” “No,” said St. Peter, there are none of them inside, but a fellow slipped through here the other day who took | the paper for a year without paving for it and then had the postmaster mark it “refused”, but we are after him, und when caught he will be con signed to the place where’he right fully belongs, for heaven is not his home.”—Ex. GRASP THE OPPORTUNITY OF YOUR LIFE. $5.00 a day and expenses guaranteed live men and women everywhere. No capital or experience needed. Send your address today to J. FOX, Lake Bluff, 111. New Postmaster Jan. 3 On the 8th of the present month. Postmaster Owens sent in his resigna tion to Washington, ana on the :»d of Jauuary said resignation will take effect and Mr. D. C. Grow, who has been chosen as his successor, will take charge of Uncle Sam’s postoffice affairs in this city. The change has been contemplated for some time, Mr. Owens' appointment having ex pired just one year prior to the time ; .he change in postmaster’s will take effect. The change has been in con templation all this time, and Mr. Owens has been ready at any and all times to turn over the duties to who ever should be selected by the powers and it lias also been known for some months who would succeed him when the time came. It had been the desire of the present postmaster that he might serve the present year, extend ing his time as postmaster to a period—10 years—longer than the service of any postmaster prior to his time in the history of Loup City. Since the appointment of Mr. Owens as postmaster, the receipts of the office have increased to treble the amount it was the day lie accepted the office. He has served all these years faithfully and well and sur renders his duties with the good will and best wishes of the patrons of the office in their entirety. Mr. Grow, the incoming postmaster, is too well and favorably known to need com mendation on our part, and without doubt will serve Uncle Sam in the most efficient and satisfactory manner possible. The Northwestern extends its best wishes to both retiring and incoming officers. Jess Marvel All Right. Some time since we published an item taken from the Sunday Bee to the effect that Jess Marvel had been se riously injured in a football game and leaving the inference to be taken that because of said accident he had left college and gone home. As much comment and anxiety has been ex pressed by his legion of friends here, with whom he was a general favorite, over the extent of his injuries, we are pleased to publish the following letter from Mr. Marvel, showing that .less is all right and actively engaged with him in the mercantile business at Craig, this state. Craig. Neb., Dec. 21, HH>8.—J. W. Burleigh, Editor Northwestrn, Loup City, Nebr.,—Dear Sir: Please al ow me to correct an article in jour paper of two weeks ago, copied from the Omaha Bee, in regard to our son Jesse's physical condition. First, the writer of that article made it a little too strong. Jesse quit college and went to work in the store from choice. He has gone to work at the business with the same vim and determination that you always saw him play ball and that was to win. Just let me say in conclusion that while Jesse was somewhat battered and bruised from his hard experience at football, he is today in good health and I will assure you a very lively cripple. 1 am, Resp't yours, G. W. Marvel. In Honor of Nr. W. B. Owen (Taken from North Yakima, Wash., Society Notes.)—Rev. and Mrs. S. J. Kennedy entertained the members of the Presbyterian choir Wednesday evening at the manse complimentary to Mr. W. B. Owen, who will leave December 23 for his home in Toledo, Iowa, thence to Loup City, Nebraska, where he will be married, returning to North Yakima the second week in January to make his home. Mr. Owen is connected with the reclamation service here and is well known among the musical coterie, having sung the role of Captian Corcoran in “Pinafore” and been a member of the Presby terian church choir for some time. Dr. Charles Keeler will sing with the choir at the Christmas services. The choir held the regular practice last evening after which they adjourned to the manse, where Mrs. Kennedy served a delicious lunch. Musical numbers, including songs by Warren Erwin and Dr. Keeler, W. B. Owen and Miss Doris Arrowsinith, and musical numbers by Miss Florence Scow, made the evening pass very pleasantly. Sunday School Institute A Sunday School Institute was held at the Baptist church on Dec. 19 and 20, conducted by Prof. J. A. Baber of Lincoln, Neb., who represents the Baptists in State Sunday school work. The Institute was a marked success, although the Saturday program was not fully carried out on account of the absence of some who were to take part. Saturday evening was devoted to open discussion of methods of con ducting the Sunday school as a whole. An address by Prof. Baber on the importance of good teaching in the Sunday schools occupied the time of the regular morning service. During the school hour delegates visited in Methodist and Presbyterian schools and their reports were freely dis cussed in an afternoon session. Work ers from all the schools took part, making it both profitable and pleas ant. In the evening two addresses were delivered, one by Prof. Baber on the development of the Spirit by means of truth, and the other by H. H. Berry of Elyria, on the Bible. This work should tell for good in the Sunday schools of the town. Shower or Sulphur. Charolies, a small town 30 miles from Macon, in France, has recently been visited by a shower of sulphur. The roofs, gardens, fields, vineyards, rivers and ponds were covered with a yellow dust, and for some time the peasants in the fields were troubled by a sul phurous biting odor which made breathing difficult. m, i -4. otrif'kpn with swine plague and was cured by the Council Bluffs The above picture represents a lot of pigs stricken wiui swuw f ponds Remody Company which proves to a certainty the value of our gooas CHALLENGE A Timely Notice From The Council Bluffs Remedy Co. On account of the method that is being practiced by unscrupulous competition we hereby challenge anv Stock Food or Remedy Company in the County to make a test with us. We wBl go into any!herdof nogs, and cut out 20 head of the culls, and will then give our competitor the privilege of sdecttaR, °n^rn“?vn! r he we will take the remaining 10 head and guarantee to produce as much fat with 8 bushels of corn as you or he can with 10 bushels, or lose $200.00 in ten weeks test. Gentlemen, this means business, if you have what you claim, the same goods, only under a different brand, come out and prove it to the farmer. We guarantee to save to per cent of any herd we treat, or the goods cost you absolutely nothing Gen tlemen, can you afford to be without this protection, when the Government reports show that the loss of hogs in this state alone amounts to more than a million dollars annually? Do you want to help make up this loss? Certainly not. Then let us protect you. Stock Raisers The above statement ought to prove the value of our goods, when we can produce as much fat with 8 bushels of corn as you can with 10, we immediately become a benefactor to you, by increasing th,e earning power of the corn. Besides that we protect you against the terrible death loss. We have an honest medicine of genuine merit, it cures when cure is possible. While you are growing hogs you have but one object in view that of making money, and when we stand ready to go into a 10 weeks test, backed up with a guarantee of Two Hundred Dollars, deposited in any bank, that our Remedy will do as claimed, it cer tainly proves that we have got value in our goods, and you cannot afford to be without them MR. C. C. COOPER of Loup City, Neb., is our District Manager, and H. A. SLEETH, General Agent of this i district, and will be glad to give vou further information. See him and investigate. COUNCIL BLUFFS REMEDY COMPANY Manufacturers of Stock Retnedies, Not Food Grocery Price List I Peaches, dried, - • lOc ! Celebrated Barrington Hall Coffee, per pound, - 35c Corn Flakes, 3 pkgs for 25c Dr. Price’s Food, 3 for 25c Fgg-O-See, 3 for - - 25c Grape Nuts, 2 for - - 25c NewPrunes.lOc lb. 3 for 25c Apricots new, 15c lb, 2 for 25c Flour and Feed Combined: Kearney High Patent, $1.40 BoelusBigB Flour - 1.40 Auror Cream Patent * 1.40 Loup City White Satin, 1.40 Try Our New Store. Felix Makowski WIIMfEP EXCURSIONS ! LOW RATES WINTER TOURIST RATES:-Daily reduced rate ex cursions to California, Old Mexico, Southern, Cuban Resorts. HOMESEEKERS EXCURSIONS:-—First and third Tuesdays|of each month to points west, south and southwest. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSION TO FLORIDA by Superintendent Public Instruction of Nebras ka, Mr J. L. McBrien, leaving Lincoln and Omaha Dec. 19. Write G. W. Bonnell, C. P. A., Lincoln, for itinerary. GOVERNMENT IRRIGATED HOMESTEADS in the Big Horn Basin and Yellowstone Valley:—One of the last chances to secure good farms from the Government at low prices. Go* with Mr. D Clem Heaver on the next personally conducted excursion. He will help you secure one of these farms. No charge for his services. Excursions first and third Tuesdays. J. A. DANIELSON, Ticket Agent. Loup City, Nebr.. L. W. WAKELEY, G. P. A., Omaha. In Need of Teachers. A shortage of ,1,200 school teachers Is reported in Oklahoma. The cause Is said to be the small salaries of women teachers. The club women declare that If the salaries of the women teachers were made to equal those of the men the shortage would cease to exist. In the meantime wom en out of employment are lodging to Oklahoma for places during the com ing school term. The Glory Road. "He said dat de road wuz mighty bright befo’ him," said the old colored deacon, "but he 'peared ter have a sus picion dat dar wuz too much sunshine in it, and dat he might want ter cool oft 'fo' he got tei de place whar he wuz gwine. Hit would er been mo’ consolin' ter him ef he could er seen a snowstorm ahead er him. Least ways, dat's my opinion.”—Atlanta Con stitution. Too Much Success. Too much success is that which is gained by the sacrifice of something worth more than itself. The great ob jection to it, outside of its own unde sirableness, is that it disturbs the bal ance of things. It is unstable, imper tinent, the exploit of imperfectly civil ized people, carrying in itself the seeds of its own dissolution.—North American Review. Among the Fats. Benjamin Franklin, ablest philoso pher of them all, was much inclined to increase of girth in his later yeaers, yet he could not be calied obese. He was constantly giving advice on the subject of regimen and throwing in, as chromos, Baconian wisdom. Yet he was not a lover of bacon, and sel dom ate ham.—New York Press. Born Under Lucky Star. Lord Wolseley, who has just passed his seventy-fifth birthday, has proba bly had more narrow escapes from death than any other living British officer. In his younger days he was so daring that he earned from the Ashantis the title of “'The General Who Never Stops.” Owls Under a Ban. The usual crusade is going on against the harmless necessary owl. The good he does in consuming end less voles, shrews, moles and mice is ignored or forgotten; the evil laid to his charge is exaggerated a hundred fold.—London Standard. The America’s Cup. It was at the grand finale of the “In dustry of All Nations,” held at London In 1851, that the America won the famous cup. At the time of her vic tory the America was owned by Com modore Stevens, in partnership with a few other gentlemen. World’s Governments. There are 49 principal governments in the world. Of these, six are abso lute monarchies, 19 are limited mon archies and 24 are republics. Besides these there are a few unimportant despotisms of Central Africa and some Independent states. ! vention of the Newspaper. The tewspaper was invented by a Paris p ysician, who, finding his visits welcome whenever he brought any news or gossip, applied to Cardinal Richelieu for a patent to publish the Paris Gazette in 1622. New Language in Favor. There are over 50 groups of Esper antists in the large towns and citief of Spain studying the new internation al language. Many business houses have adopted Esperanti in their cor respondence. Hard on Second Hubby. Enpeck's will was being drawn up by the lawyer. “I hereby bequeath all my property to my wife,” dictated En peck. "Got that down?” “Yes,” an swered the a'tn ‘On condition,” continued Enpc .: that she marries within a year.” “Itat why that condi tion?” asked the man of law. “Be cause,” answered the meek and lowly testator, “I want somebody to be sorry that I died.” I earning. With all our inheritance, few things come by nature. We must learn to talk, learn to smile, learn to be good company and learn to be tactful by watching what is fit for the hour. Necessitv ar.d Tree W'!!. Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemi phere of light and another of darkuess; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires. Necessity and Free Will.—Caryle. A Monday Morning Thought. How large the clothespin Industry really is may be gathered from tho fact that no less than 1,260,000 five gross boxes are manufactured every year In the United States. Find Field for Rubber Industry. The rubber industry of Hawaii is still in the experimental stage, but ex perts believe the opportunities for profit are going to be large. Worm* and the Sell. In the course of a year ground worms will bring to the surface about ten tons of soil to the acre. Think Before You Act. Precaution is better than repent ance.—Greek Proverb. CROSS EYES! are in 9 cases out of 10 the result of Eye-Strain, which if relieved by glasses in early life would never cause crossed eyes. Preliminary symptoms of Eye troubles that cause crossed eyes are: Pain in back of eyes; pain in temples, sometimes running over ears; print jumps after reading for a time. These are strong symptoms that the eyes will soon cross un less the eye-strain is removed. It will pay you to see me at the St. Elmo hotel, Jan. 5. I do not go out of the hotel to work. Not a drop of medicine used. Tuesday, January 5th, 1909. PARKINS, the EYE NAN