A. P. CULLEY, President L. HANSEN, Cashier IRA E. WILLIAMS, Vice President O E. ADAMS, Asst. Cashier FIRST iTtMrL BANK Of LGUP CfTY Conser vative 1908 and Strong Real Estate and all classes of loans made promptly at lowest rates,! with optional payments. I THE NORTHWESTERN A Few Market Quotations. Corn, per bu.56 <3 .57 Wheat, per bu.97 @ LOO j Oats, per bu.43 & .47 Rye. per bu. .65 Batter, per lb. .20 per doz. .15 Hons. per lb. .08 Sprint chickens, per lb.08t£ LOCAL NEWS. For field seeds see T. M. Reed. 3 on 62, Ashley Conger, the dray, man. Get him. ■Miss Esther Musser is a new clerk at the Mercantile. fe Loans on real estate, call on John W Lons. *Newt. Yance has been enjoying:?) a siege of mumps. ||| Finest dill pickles ever on the market at Lee Bros. Phone A. T. Conger. 3 on 62, when in need of a dravman. Mrs. Charley Rowe was a passenger to Omaha last Friday. Big Ribbon Sale at 10c per yard at Loup City Mercantile Co. Mrs. S. F. Reynolds is a severe suf ferer from sciatic rheumatism. If you want to buy or sell Real Estate, call ou John Long. I will guarantee 25c for butter fat I best and pay cash.—A. E. Chase. Miss Clara Bly of Schaupps visited friends in the city over last Sunday. Lee Bros, meat market is the place to get ground green bones for your chickens. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Cullev returned home Monday evening from their trip ..to Texas. r f Good checked apron ginghams only 6c per yard at the Loup City Mer cantile Co. ' You make no mistake in calling on the Stewart Conger dravs when you want quick service. -Uncle George Ware of St. Paul was a visitor here a few days last week, returning to St.'Paul Friday. John W. Long is prepared to make all Real Estate Loans on short notice at lowest rates. Frank W. Burleigh returned to his company at Fort Crook last Friday1 after a week’s sojourn at home. A few White Wyandotte cockerels I left for 81.00, also Old Trusty In- [ cubator for 86. Inquire of Ward Yer Valin. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lay and little son of Rockville were Loup City visitr ore over last Sunday, guests of Mr. »nd Mrs. A. B. Outhouse. We still have plenty of feed of all ; for sale. Farmers bring your j it and exchange for flour. Lour City Mill & Light Co. t. and Mrs. C. E. Lundy of the ; Elmo visited with relatives atj Silver Creek over last Sunday, return ing home Monday evening. yii'- Stewart Conger drays are on ; HRfrush from morning to night, but i you will get the quickest kind of; service on a hurrv call. Try them. Mrs. Geo. Dinsdale and Mrs. Frank Green of Sunnyside Ranch, near Palmer, visited from Monday to! Thursday of this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Johansen. 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 m^de by your home RMrs. A. B. Outhouse received a tele last Tuesday announcing the from paralysis of a cousin, Mrs. Skidmore of near St. Louis, 111. lady’s many friends will syn> witli her in her affliction. Millinery Days. ladies of Loup City and Sher county are invited to attend the days of Mrs. Ida Lambert’s parlors, next week Friday Saturday. March 26 and 27, next to Pilger’s opera house. Mrs. has recently returned from to St. Joe, Mo., where she one of the finest and most of millinery goods in the city, of which the ladies assured by a visit to ner on the dates above mentioned. T. H. Eisner is home from his trip south. If you want a good cream separator see T. M. Reed. Draper Bros, are plastering the new Biehl cottage this week. L. M. Williams last Monday moved into a cottage in north Loup City. Mrs. Harry Bellenger and baby are her from St. Paul visiting relatives. The Ravenna Creamery Co. will pay 25 cents for butter fat till further notice. Thoroughbred Plymouth Rock eggs, per setting of 15, 50c. See Mrs. W. T. Gibson. Take your butter and eggs to Con hiser's. where you can get anything you want. Miss Ernie Odendahl has been visit ing the past few days with friends at Kearney. Silks worth 65c to $1.<30 per yard on sale at the Loup City Mercantile Co. for 50c per yard. Arthur Reed has finished his busi ness course at York college, return ing home Saturday evening. Parle Rounds of Arcadia and Wm. j Callen of Washington township were j Loup City visitors yesterday. By the Independent we see that John Needham has bought property on East Tenth street in Brand Island Felix Makowski has begun the erec tion of his new residence on his prop erty one block east of the public square. Gus Lorentz returned Thursday! from attendance on the State Be- j tail Merchants' convention held at Lincoln. Grandma Gilbert last Thursday sold five pigs less than ten months' old to j Lee Bros., which netted her 979.91. Pretty good. Miss Elva Zimmerman came home Wednesday noon from her college: duties at Toledo. Iowa, for a two weeks' vacation. The condition of Pastor James con tinues to improve day by day, a fact that will be hailed with pleasure by his host of friends. We can save you a nice piece of money on a refrigerator by getting in your order early.—Cliristensen Ferdinandt Furniture Co. Dr. Allen was attending the North western District Dental Society meet ing being held at Grand Island Tues day and Wednesday of this week. We have left for sale only 19 bushels of good, re-cleaned. Home Crown Alfalfa Seed, at 910 per bushel. McKinnie Brothers. Mr. and Mrs. John Ohlsen on Wednesday evening. March 17, 1909, celebrated their 20th wedding anni versary at their home in this city, about twenty friends being present. A fine time is reported. Mrs. O. E. Adams, wife of the as sistant cashier of the First National, was called to Frernont Monday morn ing by the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. J. M. Johnson. She re turned home last evening, her mother being much improved and out of danger. Mr. and Mrs. Will Engle and family j went to York Monday, where Mr. Engle will visit his good mother have j a much needed rest and new scenes, and continue treatment for his physical condition and we trust will rapidly regain his old time vigor and geod health. W. F. Mason and family and W. I). Zimmerman left Monday morning for their new home at Perry, Oklahoma. The North western, with the people of Loup City and Sherman county in their entirety will wish them best of success, happiness and prosperity in 1 the Southland. Edgar Draper, our popular photog- j rapher. returned from iiis hunting I j trip down on the Platte, near Central | City, last Friday, and brought home ' a dozen tine mallard ducks as a result.' i'he Northwestern acknowledges re ceipt of one of the finest of the bunch. Edgar has our permission to go again.! When you meet Banker and Mrs.1 Ira E. Williams, you are now privi leged to hail them as “Grandpa ' and “Grandma," as on Wednesday, March j 10th, at Fremont, their daughter. Mrs. Paul Platz. wife of a prominent druggist of that city, was made happy by the arrival of a little daughter at her home. Of course you have noticed the added dignity acquired by our popular banker the past few days. DO YOU NOT WANT A GOOD Top Buggy or Spring Wagon If so, 1 am prepared to supply your wants. Also, with anything yci may want in the way of Farm Machinery Call early and make your selections and avoid the rush. Yours for Business, T. Mo REED, Loup City, Neb. If you want a dray in a hurry and get quick work, see Stewart Conger. The ladies of the Baptist Aid will hold a Kensington at the home of Mrs. A. E. Chase next Wednesday afternoon. 4 Mrs. Ida Lambert returned from St. Joe the first of the week, where she had been to purchase her spring stock of millinery. Apropos of the near approach of the ubiquitous assessor, it will be well to look out for your cancelled mortgages and see that they are duly released of record or they may be listed against you. The assessor has no option in the matter, as the record goes. The Northwestern is pleased to note this week the splendid record in his studies of one of Loup City's young men. Mr. O. L. Swanson, who is at Creighton College. Omaha, per fecting himself as a pharmacist. He completed the junior course of six months on the 26th of February last, credited ‘.hi to 100 per cent in eight of the ten studies he is taking, and 80 to 90 per cent in the remaining two. He has five months yet before finish ing. Stand up for the Loup City boys. Monday afternoon of this week a merry row occurred in the Felix Makowski store, in which some five or six belligerent Polanders engaged. Sot being able to twist our tongue around unpronounceable Polish, we are unable to give the names of those engaged, but understand the matter was be settled in Judge Pedler's court yesterday by the starter of the trouble paying $5 and costs and signing an i agreement to be good hereafter. The social meeting was broken up before the arrival of the peace officers by Felix throwing the gang out the door. County Assessor Bechthold will call si meeting of his deputy assessors to meet in Loup City on March 30th for consultation and instruction. Most of the deputy assessors are new men. Those who hold over are: Oak Creek, John Maciejewski: Washington, L. W. (’alien: Rockville. John Maciefski; (’lay, C. M. Snyder: Hazard, Car! de la Motte: Bristol, Geo. Holmes. The new deputies are: Logan, R. R. Bau liard: Elm, T. C. Chamberlain: Web ster, E. J. Pugsley: Loup City, .1. F. Kicoson: Ashton, Julius Beushausen: Harrison, G. C. Wall; Scott. W. H. Allen. It is not necessary to say that this is not the best season of the year for lathing in the river, yet we under stand that Ashley Conger took an impromptu plunge one day last week into the Loup south of town, which was not only a chilly experience, but came nearly proving disastrous. A number of our boys were camping on the island in the river, crossing over the stream by means of a cable and pulley. In attempting to cross, Ash ley. with a boat load of decoy ducks and provisions, succeeded in reach ing the center of the channel, when all at once there was a hitch in the pesky apparatus leaving the boat stuck and violent!* plunging with the waves, resulting in the man, decoys, etc., being dumped into the icy cur rent. Ashley’s manly form being impeded with waders, which tilled w itli water, made swimming practical ly impossible and he only succeeded in keeping with the current and with nose out till a bend below the island a .lowed him to reach shallow water and report for duty. But all joking aside, Ashley feels very thankful he did not have to furnish material for a first-class funeral. Millinery Opening The ladies of Loup City and vicin ity are invited to attend the open ing days. Friday and Saturday, March 26-27. at Mrs. I). L. Adamson's milli nery parlors. Mrs. Adamson has recently received a nice and up-to date stock of the latest hats, bonnets, tiowers, ribbons, etc., and the opening days will show an exceedingly tine display of these goods. Five doors n >rth of the Northwestern office, on March 26 and 27. The first of this month we unloaded at Ashton a car containing Windows, Ceneseo Roofing, Tar red Felt, Doors, Window and Door Screens and other house finishing material. We are having another car loaded, which will be shipped to Loup City the last of this month or the first of April. We are in position to furnish you the best of ! material for shed, barn or house. Bring in your • bills. Estimates cheerfully made. KEYSTONE lujvibep eo. Loup City, Ashton, Rockville, Schaupps, and Arcadia, Net. John W. Long and son went to Lin coln Monday morning, where they met Mrs. Long and returned home Tuesday evening. County Clerk Beushausen went to Omaha last Friday morning to under go an operation for rupture, and we understand the operation was success fully performed on Monday morning of this week and the patient was getting along finely since. We are in receipt of a copy of last week's Craig, (Neb.) Advertiser, which gives G. W. Marvel, who is in the mercantile business there, a tine write-up as a most progressive citizen and business man. And George is well worthy of the best the Advertiser can say of him and his splendid family. St. Patrick's day, yesterday, proved a repetition of Monday and Tuesday in gore, and while Monday was Polish day and Tuesday German day in bad i blood, augmented by battling booze, | the dose was doubled Wednesday by two bouts between belligerent parties arrests being made in each instance and the school fund increased in con sequence. * The editor is pleased to announce the marriage last week at Jefferson, Iowa, of Miss Hazel Bridgeford to Mr. Cleve Barr of the same city. Mrs. Barr will be remembered by many of the young people of our city as visiting here a few days last spring with her sister. Mrs. J. W. Burleigh. Our best wishes follow these worthy young people. The Polish hot air of Monday afternoon in the Makowski store seemed to waft its uncanny breath over into the following day, innocu lating two of our German citizens, who met in an alley and introduced themselves to each other in true pugilistic style, one retiring from the ring with a badly battered facial ex pression. It is hoped this style of amusement may not become chronic in our city. E. A. Brown will not be the deputy assessor for Loup City township, but the new appointee being a populist also, in the person of J. F. Nicoson, a roar from the jackal may again l>e confidently expected. We understand Bro. Brow n’s reason for not accept ing the deputy-ship is that he contem plates moving to University Place, where he has bought an interest in a printing office with J. L. Claflin. formerly of Ord. The opening days at Miss Hattie Froehlich’s millinery parlors last Fri day and Saturday were more than satisfactory to that lady and many of her most elegant hats and bonnets were sold to the great throng that in vaded her parlors on those days. Miss Froehlich this season has certainly the most up-to-date styles in these fashionable appointments ever in the city and is to be congratulated on the most snccessful outcome of her open ing days of the season. Rev. Max A. Jeffords of Loup City drove over to Ord yesterday forenoon and in the evening went on up to Rosevale, where he will he nastor in charge from now on. He will hold his first preaching service at Rosevale Sunday and Monday following the quarterly conference will be held. This is not the regular date for preaching at Rosevale but this will be the date this clip and then dates for the other charges in the circuit will be agreed upon.—Ord Quiz. District court convenes April 6th. Mrs. D. A. Johnson and. son. Mr. Joseph Johnson, of Aurora were Loup City visitors over last Friday. Alfred William Behrens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Win. Behrens of Clay town ! ship, was born May 21. 1903. and died | March 12. 1909, aged 9 months and 22 days. Funeral services were conduct led at the M. E. church Monday at j i 12 o’clock by Rev. J. O. Hawk. W. D. Zimmerman's old office build ing four doors north of the North western office, is being overhauled for Mrs. H. M. Mathew's new store. Mrs. Mathew left Monday morning for Omaha and Chicago for a tine new , stock of ladies' furnishing goods. We understand the store will be open and j ready for business in about ten days. | It not always the tryos in any art that become victims of their own amusement, as even the professionals] run up atiainst the real thing once in a while. Last Saturday when two of our mast excellent sportsmen went out after ducks and by purest ac cidental carelessness one of them got close in range of the other's gun and the doctor later picked numerous bird shot out of his face, arm and hand nearest thereto. While no serious results came from it all, yet the two sportsmen got the scare of their lives, and one came within an ace of losing the sight of one eye. There has been quite a change in the trains on the U. P. the past few days, which causes strenuous times for Conductor Taylor, who is thus i compelled to make two round trips to St. Paul each week day. The motor has been taken off the branch, as an experiment, much to the satisfaction of the patrons of the road, and it is to be hoped it is off permanently. The train schedule is as follows: Out going at 7:lo a m. and 12:10 p. m., and incoming at 11:30 a. m. and 5:55 p. in. We give the above information gratis for the benefit of patrons of the road, the corporation being blessed with an economic turn which pre vents them advertising their train schedules. We are highly pleased over the in tense interest taken by our people in the protracted meetings being held at the Presbyterian church in which the pastors of the Baptist and Metho dist churches are taking active part and the people as a whole are show ing most deep feeling. Sunday even ing being a union of all the services in the city, the auditorium and ad joining rooms of the building were packed with an audience that tilled every available portion of the house ; and many were compelled to stand. Not the least, but in fact one of the greatest drawing cards is the sweet [singing of Mr. and Mrs. Burt Mc Kinnie, who have control of the music and have thrown themselves heart and soul in the work; not only leading the chorus, but rendering nightly solos and duets of the highest order, such as only these talented : musicians are able to give. The ser mons by Rev. Montgomery are also highly commended, while to his aid I comes the earnest, enthusiastic and cjnsistent Christian endeavor of the other ministers and the workers of all the churches, which can only re ; suit in great good to our city and its people. The meetings are held each evening of this week, except Satur day night, and you are cordially ln 1 vited to attend. We have just received our new line of Spring Ginghams, Percales, Dress Cambric, Dress Muslins in Colors And a new line of linen colored Calicos, also the largest line of light dress goods ever shown in Loup City or any ether small town. We ask every lady to come and see them. Price is right. - - - CONHISER’s Special Rug Sale Smith's Asm. Hug. Floral pattern. 9x12. regular a/s price $27.50, now. '35 £t) V*U Smith's Sax. Asm. Rug, Floral pattern, 9x12. reg- rtQ xrt ular price $26.00, now. .. £0 ilU Electia Asm. Hug. Oriental pattern. 9x12. regular Q/i rwi price $33.00, now. .. OU UU Smith's Seamless iNapp.. Brussels Floral pattern, ) £* f)x 9x12, regular price $18.50, now... ID Smith's Seamless A’app.. Brussels Floral pattern, 1 A xf) 8.3x10.0, regula r price $16.00, now. . J-^r OU Smith's Seamless Napp.. Brussels Floral pattern, l l (gs 7.6x9. regular price $12.50, now. 1.1 UU Passaic Velvet Bug. Floral pattern. 9x12. regular rtf) f>x price $24.50, now... «9 Phoenix Tap.. Brussels Floral pattern. 9x12. regu- ) A rtX lar price $10.00, now. l^x £u Smith's Mautor Brussel. Floral pattern. 10-wire, 1 Q /gl 9x11, regular price $10.00, now. lO UU Reversible Kashmere Hugs, color guarateed. 9x12. l » aa regular price $16.50.. It# yy All-Wool Art Squares. 9x12, regular price $11.00, Twenty-four Hugs. 27 inches bv 54 inches, regular 1 rtc $1.60 value, now at.'. 1 Remember we carry a full stock of In grain Carpets, Linoleums, Lace Curtains. Christensen & Ferdinandt _Furniture Company. Christensen & Ferdinandt, Undertakers and Enibalmere E. Gr. Taylor, J. S. Pedler, C. C. Carlson. President. Vice President. Cashier -DIRECTORS W: R. Mellor, J. W. Long, S N. Sweetland Iff CITY STATE LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. Capital Stock, - - $25,000.00 Individual Liability, $250,000.00 PLAN NOW YOUR SUMMER VACATION! The Seattle Exposition, during the Summer of 1909, offers the best chance of years to make the Pacific Coast tour; only §50.00 round trip, with §15.00 more via the Shasta Route through California. This is the most attractive and educational railroad jour ney in the world. 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