A. P. CULLEY, President. IRA E. WILLIAMS, Cashier. THE of Loup city. 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.47 (a .48 Wheat, per bu.88 @ .88 Oats, per bu.40 per cent by getting your Christmas presents at the Little Bos ton before closing time, r>ec. 24th. "■ Miss Abi Beynon, principal of our high school, left Saturday morning to spend the holiday vacation at her home. ^ Miss Ida Draper nas accepted a position on the Times under the new management and will begin to learn the trade next Monday morning. We still have plenty of feed of all kinds for sale. Farmers'bring your wheat and exchange for Hour. Lour City Mill & Light Co. Dr. Sexton, synodicial missionary for the Presbyterian church of Ne braska. gave two excellent sermons at the Presbyterian church here last Sunday. 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. There will be no preaching servu e at the Presbyterian church next Sun day. in order that the congregation a may attend the opening Sunday of ■ Evangelist Bromley and his assistants ■ at the Methodist church, which we understand will begin Christmas and continue indefinitely. Me trust these meetings will result in great good to the town and our people in genera', and our Methodist friends will find — he Presbyterian adherents ably as v-sisting in the good work, trusting ’ their co-labors will result in cement ing more strongly the union of feeling among the churches in the advance ment of Christianity in our city. Are you getting ready to swear oflV For farm loans call on A. L. Zimmerman. 3 on 62, Ashley Conger, the dray man. Get him. Loans on real estate, call on John W. Long. Finest dill pickles ever on the market at Lee Bros. Miss Jess Culley came home last Friday for the holiday vacation. Guns, revolvers and ammunition at way dow n prices at Czaplewski's Those owing S. F. Reynolds will pay same at First National Bank. If you want a dray in a hurry and get quick work, see Stewart Conger. The Ravenna Creamery Co. will pay 28 cents for butter fat till further notice. Lee Bros, meat market is the place to get ground green bones for your chickens. Messrs. Ray and Archie Kearns ar rived home last Saturday evening for the holidays. Buy a new cloak for your wife for a present. The Mercantile Co. have i some fine ones. You make no mistake in calling on j the Stewart Conger drays when you want quick service. Messrs. Herman and Will Oh I sen came home Saturday last from school for the holidays. The 15 per cent reduction sale at the Little Boston closes tonight. Christ mas Eve. Hurry up. Jim Depew Wednesday morning cut down one of the big shade trees in front of his blacksmith shop. S. F. Reynolds left Tuesday morn ing for Chicago and other eastern ; points on a month's absence. Get your boy or girl a pair of those elegant skates for Christmas at Czaplewski's hardware store. Misses Meroe and Emma Outhouse were among those who came home from school Saturday evening. John \\. Lons is prepared to make all Real Estate Loans on short notice at lowest rates. Monday and Tuesday were the short - i est days of the year. Can you notice j the days are lengthening yet? The mid-winter term of the St. Paul College opens Jan. 4th. Join the large number that will begin at that time. Miss Ethel Haggart of our city schools, left last Saturday morning for her home at St. Paul to spend the holidays. Suit Cases, Trunks, Neckties, Collars. Fine Dish or Plates, new Dress Pattern. Silk Waists—the Loup City Mercantile has all of these. Pastor James of the Bapsist church returned home last Friday evening from Horace, this state, where he has been holding a series of meetings. The Stewart Conger drays are on the rush from morning to night, but i you will get the quickest kind of service on a hurry call. Try them. We understand the incoming editor of the Times. Mr. Beusliausen, has secured the services of Mr. Davis, a first-class printer from Ord. and a brother of Editor Davis of the Ord Journal, as foreman of the paper. Invitations are out for the approach ing nuptials, Dec. 30th, 1908. of Miss Elizabeth Zimmerman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Zimmerman of this city, to Mr. William B. Owen, the ceremony to take place in the I First I’resbytericn church, Rev. L. C. McEwen of Kearney officiating, after which a reception will be given at the home of the bride's parents. At a meeting of the congregation of the Presbyterian church last Sun day morning a call to its pastorate was issued to Rev. William Mont gomery of Williamsburg, Iowa, and who will be present and preach both morning and evening of Sunday Jan. 3rd. Most excellent reports have been received of the eminent divine, so favorable that the congregation by a unanimous vote decided to call him to the pastorate of the church here. In this instance, it will not be known whether the pastor called will accept till he comes and looks over the field, 4>ut it is hoped the showing may be so favorable that he will accept the call. We trust he may be greeted on the Sunday named by every member >f the church and all those who have the interest of the church at heart and that every pew may be filled. i Grocery Department 2 cans pood Tomatoes.25c 3 cans Mustard Sardines.25c 3 boxes I»r.\Price's breakfast food .25c 5 lbs hand-picked Navy Beans .. ,25c 2 lbs New York dried apples.25c 2 lbs larpe Australian Prunes.25c 5 pkps Corn Starch.25c 1 can Pink Salmon.10c 1 can Red Salmon.•..lac 1 lb Barrinpton-Hall Coffee.35c 5 lbs Broken Rice.25c 3 lbs No. 1 Head Rice.25c We have all kinds of Christ mas candies. Special price to teachers and all churches. Highest market price paid for Butter. Eggs and Chickens. Loup City Mercantile Co. $50 Reward. We. the undersigned, offer $50 re ward for evidence leading to the i arrest and conviction of the person j or persons poisoning dogs in this city ' the past few weeks, or at any time in t tiie near future. W. P. Reed. EixiAB Draper. T. H. Elsner. Odendahl's drug store has been a beauty for holiday goods this year and the sales have exceeded any previous year. Willis Waite was down from Valley county last Saturday to visit with his aged mother before her departure for tiie Pacific Coast. Supt. O'Connell left last Saturday morning for Lincoln and other points to enjoy the two weeks' vacation from school duties. Did you see the big Santa Claus in the Loup City Mercantile Co.'s win dow? It was a tine advertisement for the little folks. Miss Nettie Conger, our popular j primary teacher, left Saturday morn I ing to spend the holiday vacation with her uncle. Mr. Fred Beck, at Oklahoma City. Okl. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Leininger and little daughter arrived last- Saturday from their home near North Platte, j and will visit with relatives and j friends till next Monday before re ! turning home. I Judge Moon and daughter. Mrs. G. , P. Callaham. and her little daughter l left Tuesday morning for Sioux coun i tv. Mrs. Callaham will remain, while I Mr. Moon will return later, but can not set any definite date. Tiie churches have been actively engaged in preparing for the coming Christmas celebrations, and we may confidently expect Christmas eve in the various houses of worship to be even more elaborately put on than at any past date, and will cause stren uous times in the future to excell. E. G. Taylor's elevator receipts of corn and wheat last week averaged 50 loads a day. the receipts last Satur day alone being 73 loads. On Monday of this week the average was coming up, 56 loads having come in. Pretty good, heh? Miss Gertrude Lundy returned last week Wednesday evening from her visit at St. Edwards, accompanied by Mrs. Harry Hinman and little daugh ter, who had also been visiting at St. Edwards, and Mr. Harry Hinman from Burwell, Mr. and Mrs. Hinman leaving again for their Burwell home last Saturday morning. The Northwestern regrets to learn that Mr. Nick Hansen, one of our prosperous farmers living a few miles south of town, was last week ad judged mentally incapacitated and on Saturday morning was taken to the asylum at Lincoln for treatment by his brother-in-law, O. F. Peterson. It is to be hoped that he may recover at an earlv date. The Northwestern has just printed invitations for a reception to be {riven New Year's eve, at the M. W. A. hall in Rockville, in honor of the mar riage of Miss Anna Marie Larsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Larsen of Austin, to Mr. Fred C. Jack, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Jack, also of Austin, which ceremony is to take I place at the home of the bride’s . parents just previous to the reception only the immediate families of the happy couple to be present. We sincerely congratulate our Bap tist friendsover their really tine place of worship since the building was re juvenated as it were. The church edifice has been re-shingled, a new j decorated steel ceiling placed and new | and commodious pews taken the place ; of the uncomfortable chairs. All in all, the church is now up-to-date in all its appointments and gives splen did evidence of the activity of the worshipers of the Baptist faith in Loup City. The crayon sketches of the Metho dist chicken pie supper, which so faithfully portrayed the handsome features and anatomical disparity be tween lion. E. A. Brown and ex-Mayor J. I. Depew, in the windows of J. W. Long’s office prior to the most excel lent supper given by the ladies of that church were admittedly true to life and the artist has already been im portuned by her many friends to give a >eries of sketches of not a few other of our local celebrities. But joking! aside, it was a great advertisement of j the supper and remarkably well done Suggestions for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS! A Useful Present is Always the Best to Give. LOOK OVER THE FOLLOWING LIST: Fancy Stag Toilet Sets. 82 to 810. Silver Toilet Sets. 85 to 810. Shaving Sets. 81.25 to 83.50. Hurlbufs Xmas Stationery. 50c to 83. Post Card Albums. 10c to 82. PhotograDli Albums, 81 to 83. Collar and Cuff Boxes. -81 to 85. Handkerchief Boxes, 50c to 82. Triplicate Mirrors. 81 to $0. Hand Mirrors, 50c to 85. Smoking Sets, 81 to $5. Manicure Sets. $1 to *5. * Glove and H'dk'f Boxes. 50c to $3.00. Military Brushes. $1 to So. Leather Traveling Sets. $1.00 to $5.00. Pyrography Pieces. 10c to $2. Fancy Ink Stands, very stylish. Large Assortment of Stag Goods. Tobacco and Cigar Sets, neat designs, j Py rography JJuttits. Music Rolls. Xuts, Confectionery. Fruits, etc., etc. Christmas Booklets, Post Cards, Leather Pocket Books, Card Cases, and hundreds of other articles for you to select from. Our Prices Save You Money. Odendahl Brothers Mrs. J. S. Pedler was able to be up town Tuesday for the first time in several weeks. 1 Miss Addie Leininger came home Saturday evening from the University for the holidays. Mrs. Jas. Johansen returned home last Saturday from her trip to Illinois in the burial of her mother. Mrs. J. B. O'Bryan of Ord visited her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Thompson and family here a few days. Mr. and Mrs. John Ohlsen accom panied the remainsof Wm. Stehr, Sr., as far as Grand Island Tuesday. Chase's drug store has been a Mecca for Christmas shoppers this year, and has been crowded day after day. Our merchants have certainly been prepared for this Christmas and their sales have been larger than ever before. Mrs. K. E. Dale arrived from Lin coln last Friday to visit over the holi days with her parents, I)r. and Mrs. W. T. Chase. Miss Elva Zimmerman came home from Toledo. Iowa, last Friday for the holiday vacation and to attend the wedding of her sister. Miss Beth Zimmerman. Mr. J. Pleasance. one of our good ( Litchfield readers, on Monday en closed coin of the realm to us for ad vance subscription to the North western. Thanks. We trust readers of the North-' western will remember us wiLh their | advanced subscriptions with the New Year, so we may become plutocrats to that extent. C’onhiser's store has been the scene of immense Christmas purchasing this year, and it like others was amply prepared and furnished its share of goods for the holidays. The revival services will commence at the Methodist church Friday even ing of this week. There will ne five in the evangelistict company—Evan gelist Bromley and wife, his singer and wife and his private secretary. The Northwestern will go to press one day earlier next week, as was done this week. This ig done to en able us to clear up business for the closing year, publication day regular ly coming on the last day of the old year. Patrons please bear this an nouncement in mind. A new decree has been handed down by the highest tribunals in such affairs: It is no longer ‘ good form" j to wait, at a dinner, until all have been served, but to proceed—decently and moderately, of course—at once to eat, while the edibles are still warm. The which sounds good to any hungry newspaper man. Mrs. G. P Callaham and little daugh ter failed to complete their arrange ments to leave for their future home in Sioux county last week Wednesday, waiting till this week Tuesday in order that her father, J udge Moon, who also has a Kinkaid section in that county, could be ready to ac compadv her. However, her son. Walter, left to join his father on schedule time. Grandma Waite left last Saturday afternoon to spend the winter with a son at Vancouver Island on the! Pacific coast, Wilber Waite accom panying her as far as Grand Island, where he placed her on a through Pullman to her destination. Quite a journey for one of her age. in the 70's, but in these days of comfortable travel, she will be as safe and secure as could be desred. The Methodists hold their Christ mas festivities this (Wednesday) even ing having a tree for tlie little folks, with appropriate ceremonies. The Presbyterians hold their’s tomorrow (Thursday) evening, with a fire-place, instead of a tree, and have prepared a very interesting program by the lit tle tots. The Baptists will also have their Chrismas doings Clirismas Eve. (Thursday night) with a tree and ex cellent exercises. The editor of the Northwestern has prepared a Christmas stocking as big as a sack—just the size of his foot which has been so heavily pulled for a Merry Christinas, as usual—and the sack will be placed upon a substantial iron peg in the office, capable of standing the strain of the hundreds of dollars which may be handed in before New Year’s day on subscrip tion to the Northwestern. Don’t be afraid, dear readers, that it will not bear £the weight of all the renewed or new subscriptions you may wish to send or bring in to give us a Happy New Year. You Want Groceries! * You Want the Freshest! You Want the Very Best! Try the New Grocery Just Opened by R.L. Arthur & Co. West Side Public Square, LOUP CITY, - NEBR. We have our Own delivery wagon. Our Stock is Entirely New. Fresh, Clean. Bright and Up to-Date, and Our Prices Down to Bed Rock. We Pay Highest Prices for Your Produce. Full Line of Flour and Feed. also. R. L. ARTHUR & CO. Death of Grandpa Stehr Last Sunday morning, Dec. 20tli, 1908, Mr. Win. Stehr passed to his reward from the home of his daugh ter, Mrs. Henry Ohlsen in this city, after a lingering illness of many long and weary months. Orandpa Stehr was perhaps one of the oldest pioneers to this part of Nebraska, coming to Hall county in 1857. He has made his home with his daughter here since the death of his wife about two years ago. I >eceased was a man loved and revered by all with whom he came in contact, and his death will te learned with sincere regret by an un usually large following of devoted friends, besides those near and dear to him by tne ties of relationship. The Northwestern mourns with those who mourn, in the passing over the silent river of this good man. May He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb comfort the bereaved heartsand they may know he has passed from sufferings of the human to the rest given those who have lived a good life and are entitled to the reward of those who have fought the good tight and earned a just recompense. The ser vices were held at the residence on Monday evening of this week. Pastor .lames of the Baptist church conduct ing the services, and his choir render ing music befitting the occasion. The remains were taken Tuesday morning to Wilton. Iowa, for burial, accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. H. Ohlsen and Mr. Win. Stehr, Jr., who had been at his father's bedside the past few months. obituary: William Stehr was born September 22, 1831. in Luetjenburg, Germany, and died Dec. 20. 1908. He started for America in Sept. 1851, and arrived in New Orleans in Dec. 1851. Later he settled in Davenport, Iowa, where he was married to Miss Fredricka Langmann, May 20. 1857, and made their wedding trip to central Nebras ka with an ox team, where they lised in the wilderness of Hall county for six years, and to this union was born the first white child of that county. After six years they returned to Iowa where they lived for 20 years and then returned to Grand Island, Neb., where they lived 11 years. His wife died April 20, 1906, in Bennett, Iowa. Fourteen children were born to this union, six of whom survive to mourn tiie death of their father, also a sister. Only two of the children Mrs. Henry Ohlsen and Wm. Stehr, Jr., were present at the funeral. Those living at distant homes are Mr. Emil Stehr and Mrs. Henry Obermiller of Los Angeles, Calif., Mr. Henry Stehr of Omaha, and Mrs. Smith of Lester. Iowa. CARD OK THANKS: We desire to return our heartfelt thanks to the kind friends who have shown sucli sincere sympathy and assistance during the illness and last sad rites to our beloved father, and we would return especial thanks to Pastor James and his sweet singers for the comfort vouchsafed our bleed ing hearts in the trying hours and comforting services to our departed parent. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ohlsen, William Stehr. Jr. YOUR COAL FOR LESS THAN HALF if you use PHOENIX FUEL COMPOUND. It will give you a warmer, better and cleaner fuel than pure coal; lasts longer and costs only about one-half. The material can be procured in any town at a nominal price and is easy to mix. Full instructions with list of 12 ways to make big money with a little for One Dollar, and if you don’t think it is worth ten dollars to you, back comes your money. A. STEGMAN, 1056 Winnemac Ave., Chicago. XMAS PRESENTS Conhiser’s have the best line of goods suit able for nice presents in town. How’s these? 25 doz. Embroidered Handkerchiefs, each - .05 25 doz. Embroidered Kdkfs, higher grade, - .10 25 doz. Shadow Embroidery Hdkfs, each, - .25 Embroidered pieces, all sizes, at - - 5c to $10 Drawn Work of all sizes ,at - - 5c to $5.00 Sets Table Linen squares with napkins $2.50 up Fine line of Neck wear in Xmas boxes Silk lined Gloves and Mittens for Men Fancy lice of Lamps, China and Nickel Swell line Hand Painted China, medium priced. Remember, we give you 7 pieces of China with one 50c can of Baking Powder. Baking Powder is guaranteed under pure food law. Come and see them, they are fine. CONHISER’s Kitchen Cabinet, 25x46, basswood top, weight 100 lbs., No freight to pay. Price,. $4.65 Top to match above base.$2.35 All Oak Center Table, 24x24: top 0. 2.00 6-foot All Oak Extension Table. 6.00 Full-size Woven Wire Bed Springs. 1.50 Our 4o-lb. Cotton Top Mattress, 4.4. 2.75 We are hdre to get the Furniture business and will not be undersold. Bring us your bill and let us give you prices that will sell the goods. Christensen & Ferdinandt Furniture Company. Christensen & Ferdinandt, Undertakers and Embalmere I. DEPEWS* Blacksmith $ Wagon Maker My 8000 IB the largest and best equipped north of the Platte Kiver 1 have a four horse engine and a complete line of the latest Improved, ma chfuerj, also a force of experienced men who know hew to operate it and turn out a job with neatness and dispatch. MY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CUSTOMERS We just received a car of fine Rock Spring Lump coal. We also have Niggard Head Lump, Maitland Lump, Rock Spring Nut, Monarch Lump, Hanna Lump and two sizes of Eastern Anthracite. 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