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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1909)
Simplified Statement of the Condition of THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Leup City, N«bra»ka, Auditor's “Call ” April 28. 1009 Where Our Money Is Invested, Loans and Discounts £144.(MS 72 This sum is loaned on {rood security to the farmers of this county and not one dollar of it to the officers of this bank. Cash on Hand.. 12,519 69 Gold, silver and currency kept in our home vaults and safe as part of legal reserves. Ceposited in City Banks..,. .. 38,940 26 New York, Omaha and Lincoln, subject to draft and plus the “cash on hand,'' amounts to *51,459.95 available CASH, or nearly $26,000 more money than the law requires. Overdrafts. . 3,637 42 This sum has been checked out by responsible customers in excess of their deposits. It is an undesirable practice and is permitted only as a strictly temporary accommodation. Real Estate and Personal Property. 11,066 09 This includes our bank building, vaults, deposit boxes, bur glar proof safe, furniture and all office and bank equipment. Total Assets.$210,809 18 Where This Money Came From. Capital Stock. $25,000.00, and Surplus $5,000.00, total.$ 30,000.00 This represents the investment of our stockholders and the additional working capital increased from year to year. Due to Depositors. 170.181.73 This sura Includes $110,680.06 subject to check account and $59,501.67 on certiticates drawing interest if left six months or more. National Bank Notes Outstanding. 7,000.00 Secured by United States government. Undivided Profits. 3,627.45 This is net earnings belonging to our stockholders after pay ing all expenses to date. Total Liabilities .$210,809.18 We appreciate the confidence of our customers and will show our grati tude by giving them the best possible service at all times. C. C. Cartsen went to Lincoln on business Saturday last, returning Wednesday evening. Landlord Lundy was able to be about on our streets Tuesday. You can't keep a good man dow n. The infant son of Mrs. Lydia Rowe was reported very low yesterday with an attack of membraneous croup. The Hubstore will move from their present quarters into the building formerly occupied by Sweetland's feed store. On Tuesday of this week, John P. Leinineer purchased a fine 20-horse power steam auto. We understand it costs $2,150. We understand John W. Long is figuring on purchasing a steam auto, of the same pattern as that pur chased by J. P. Leininger. Jenner’s Park will be closed to the public from now until Opening Day, June 3d. All will please take notice and be governed accordingly. Rev. W. H. Smith, representing Hastings College, gave an instructive address at the Presbyterian church last Sunday morning on educational themes. John Briggs, of Stroud, Okl.. ar rived Monday evening on a visit to his sister, Mrs. Judge Hunter. Mr. Briggs is a veteran of the War of the ; Rebellion. Arcadia and Lpup City High School kids met on the diamond in this city Monday, resulting in a score of lrt to 17 in favor of the former. The rubber will be played at an early date. Rev. D. W. James, accompanied by his mother, left for Golden, Col., this morning for the benefit of his health. Father James wenLas far as Grand Island with them. At the M. E. church next Sunday the morning subject is, “A Rejected Suitor/’ Epworth League at 7 p. m. 3d Quarterly Conference and sermon Thursday evening, Mav 27th. by Rev. i L. H. Shumate. Workmen were busy patching up the old south river bridge the first of the week to make it passable till the bridge company receive their steel work to re-build the portion awarded them by the board. A Loup City man the other day. who was feeling rather concerned over the lack of moisture here, re ceived a paper from his old home telling of the dry conditions and im mediately a smiie of peace stole over his picture frame as he murmured, "Glad I'm in God's country: it must be-over there.” At Lincoln last Friday, in the second annual debate of the high school debating league. Clayton Rad cliffe of Sidney was winner of the first honors, Paul Good of Wahoo second, and Harvey Hess of Hebron third. This was the final result of ; the series of debates held here and at I various points over the state. Boyd Burrowes Saturday Boyd Burrowes’ company is now i complete and will present "What j Happened to Brown” in the big tent. | Saturday evening. May 22. This will ; be the only performance given in j Loup City this season. All new I people have been secured and a host of specialties, pictures, etc., will be presented. Ten per cent of the door | receipts will be given to the Loup 1 City school piano fund. School Notes. The Juniors gave the annual re ception to the Seniors last Thursday evening at the home of Elma Corning The pupils of Miss Young and Miss Smith will give a program next week Friday. A High School base ball team played the Arcadia kid's team. May 7th at Arcadia, with a score of 25 to 12 in favor of our team. Last Mon day the return game was played here Arcadia winning by IT to 16. Three pupils of Miss Smith’s room are absent on account of mumps, and one on account of whooping-cough. Rev. Bates visited the High School Tuesday. The sixth and seventh grades will play ball with the kids of Rockville Saturday. Coming UNDER CANVAS Present the Great Comedy What Happened to Brown BIG NEW TEXT . ALL NEW PEOPLE LOUP CITY, A A Saturday, Nay ONE-NIGHT-ONLY Commencement. The programs for the 12th annual commencement of the Loup Citv High School are now out. The calen dar for the days and various exercises are as follows: Baccalaureate sermon on the evening of the 2:ird at the Presbyterian church, Rev. J O. Hawk delivering the same; May 2<>6 class play aE Pilger’s opera house: May 27th, alumni reception and banquet atJenner's Park; commencement ex ercises at the Presbyterian church evening of May 28th. Prof. A. E. Davisson of Lincoln delivering the address. The graduates are: Flora A. Ohlsen, A rile Corning, Ada Smith, Lulu McFadden, Emma Rowe, Klea McNulty. Clifford Rein and Christian Sorensen. Alumni Notice The second annual Alumni Banquet and Reception of the Loup City High School w ill be held at Jenner's Park, next Thursday evening. Mav 27. 190P. commencing at 8 o’clock. Tickets on sale to the members at the office of R. H. Mathew. P. O. Reed, who is* local agent at Loup City for the irrigated lands in Scotts Bluff county, which are being so widely advertised throughout Ne braska. and in regard to which a large advertisement appears in this issue, went up into that now famous country with a party of excursionists Tuesday. Mrs. John Chipps died at her home on Davis Creek, Tuesday. May 11th, from the effects of a paralytic shock, which she suffered Saturday. She was born at Uniontown. Pa.. March 20, 1842, and was married to John Chipps. March 5, 1805. In 1883, she with her family, moved from Iowa to I Sherman county, onto the farm on which she died. She leaves to mourn her death a husband and seven chil dren, besides a host of friends. Funeral services were held from the house Wednesday, conducted by Rev. E. A. Wells of the Friends church, and the body was laid to rest in the North Loup cemetery.—North Loup Loyalist. M. Nickolaus. Jr., who removed two years ago this spring from this county to a farm he purchased near Loup City, was in Aurora last Mon day on the way home from a weeks’ visit with relatives and friends in Farmers Valley precinct and his parents who live in Sutton. Mr. Nickolaus is very well pleased with his investments in Sherman county and thinks there is a great future fur that part of the state. He sold the first farm he purchased up there an i doubled his money on the deal. He immediately purchased another farm, rented it. and moved into town, and expects to make a nice thing on this deal.—Aurora Republican. Memorial Day Program The following is the program for Memorial Sunday. May 30. to be held at the M. E. church at 10:30. The Comrades. Ladies of G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans are requested to meet at Society Hall at 10 o'clock a id march to the church, where t!ie lollowing program will be given: Song -Congregation Prayer—Rev. Montgomery Solo—Mrs. L. J. Holcombe Scripture Reading Anthem Sermon—Rev. J. O. Hawk Song— Congregation Benediction R -» .1 urces Decoration Day. *Va. 31. the*sd» >' children art reque-fed or !n i* at the Baptist church at 1 p. m an be escorted by tiie martial ban 1 Sociey Hall. v.her;- they will lie met by Comrades, L d e- of G. A. ;1. ait Sons of Veterans and march to tl M. E. church, where the following program will be rendered at 1:30 p to after which the services will !>e con tinued at the cemetery. Song—Congregation Prayer—Rev. James Male Quartette—Messrs. I>e Wolfe Smith, Mathew. Angier Gettysburg Address, Chris Sorensen Duet—Mrs. A. B. Outhouse. Miss Nettie Conger Address—John W. Long Solo—Mrs. L. J. Holcombe Song—Congregation Benedict ion—Rev. Montgomery 3 on n'4 Ashley Conger, the dra\ man. Get him. Nonce of Gaariiars Saie of Real Estate. In the District Court of Sherman County. Ne braska: In the matter of the application of Ida M. *>gle. guardian of the ►state of Helen Ogle, a minor, for leave to sell real estate j Notice hereby given that, in pursuance of an oid»T of the Honorable Brr.no O Hostetler. Judge of the District Court of Sherman Coun ty. Nebraska, made • n the ISth day of May 1.AJ9, ?'*»r the ftale of the real estate uereinaft^i described, there a ill be sold ai public vendu« to the highest bunder for cash, at the front and south door of the court house in Loup City, in said county of ^herman. on Monday, the nth day of June. at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon the following described real es tate. to-w»t: All the right, title, estate, and interest of the said Helen Ogle, a miuor. being an undivided half interest in and to a certain piece or parcel of land, lying and situate in the southeast quarter of the northwest quar ter of >. rtio'n t* n <!0> in township fourteen (14) tj'Tih «f range fourteen lit west of the sixth principal meridian, in Sherman county. Ne braska. and which is more particularly de scribed as follows: Commencing at a point south ten minutes east, variation eleven de grees three minutes east, one and 71-100 chain* from the southeast corner of ihe north half of the northwest quarter of said section ten (10). and running thence south ten minutes east four and 72-100 chains, thence south eighty eight degrees fifty-eight minutes west two and 30-100 chains, thence north thirty-three degrees west live and 50-100 chains, thence n* rt eighty-eight degrees -fifty-eight minutes east five and 38-1U0 chain* to the place of be ginning, containing one and 83-UJ(f"acres, sub ject to existing encumr ranees. Said sale will remain open one hour Dated this 1M h day o' Mar. 1900 IDA M. UGLK. Guardian of the Estate of Helen Ogle, a Minor. Last pub June 10 The most remarkable reproduction of the fashionoble rough silk weave was v made in a cotton wash fabric 27 inches Wide 36 Beautiful Shades and Colors Price, 35e Per Yard It is ideal for wSIst gowns, suits, coats, automobile w raps and children's frocks. In fact, for almost every article of outerwear. The nub yarn from which Himalaya Cloth is woven will never wear fuz zy and its elegant appearance is thus permanently assured. Added to all this, Himalaya Cloth will .wash beautifully. We also have a new linq of cotton values at 20c. direct from New York. Call and see them, * ' s. J The Hail Storm the Other Night Reminds us that it is time to put up your screens. Come in ano.let us make you an estimate on those that you need. No matter what the size of the window or the number of the lights, we can tit you. Screens from 75c TJp The Mites and Lice have Their Eyes Upon that Flock of Chickens A single dollar will get a gallon of Carbolinium. Paint vour roosts with this and save the chicks. SEE US FOR SCREENS AND CARBOLINIUM. KE'YSfOlME L’djVIBEpeO. Loup City, Ashton, Rockville, Schaupps, and Arcadia, Neb FENCE POSTS We have a good stoc k of lumber and all kinds of building material on hand. A carefully assorted stock of Fence Posts ranging in price from 12C to 250 No trouble to figure your bills and show our stock LEININGER LUMBEC. CD, Lo-p City, Net, NEW CiiNTIMY PLEASE CALI- AND SEE THEM T. M. Reed The Jmplepiept JVlap GET IN ON THAT 1 DO - PIECE-DINNER SET CONHISER’s REMOVED! TO THE Sweetland Block BARGAINS IN CHAIRS and ROCKERS Watch This Space Christensen & Ferdinand! _Furniture Company. Christensen & Ferdinandt, Undertakers and Embalmers E. G. Taylor, J. S. Pedler, C. C. Carlson. President. Vice President. Cashier -DIRECTORS W: R. Mellor, J. W. Long, S N. Sweetland LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. Capital Stock, - - $26,000.00 Individual Liability, $260,000.00 ANOTHER GOOD On May 22d the Government will open its second tract °f 12,000 acres of perfectly irrigated land in the Hig Horn Basin near Garland and Powell, Wyoming. This irrigation project of the Government is first-class and reliable. This I nd is adjacent to and along side of the Burlington Road. Powell and Garland are prosperous towns. The community s absolutely first-class, and there is not a better place to live in the whole west for climate, sunshine, productiveness of soil and many other good reasons, than the Big Horn Basin. This and is $15 an acre in ten annual installments, without interest 320 Acre Nondell Act:- Select locations for home steading in Wyoming near tie, Upton and Moorcroft. Plats on file. Write me. I conduct an excursion on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Only $27.50 round trip hmneseekers excursion rate. No charge for my services. Write me at once about this new tract. The excursion of Ale, 13 or in June will be in time for good selections. D. CLEM DEAVTR. Cjneral A a ext. Bufim^ton Route Land Seekeis Inforn.a.ijn Lu.eau, Omaha, 5*ebr. THE NORTHWESTERN THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1900 A Few Market Quotations. Corn, per bu.56 @ .58 Wheat, per bu.1.10 @ 1.15 Oats, per bu.46 (S .48 Rye, per bu. .65 Butter, per lb. .20 Eggs, per doz... .16 Hens, per lb. .08 Spring chickens, per lb.08J* LOCAL NEWS. FIRE! FIRE!! FIRE!!! Patronize Nebraska institutions. The Columbia and the State of Omaha are strictly first-class. Ira E. Williams. Resident Agent, at First National Bank. For field seeds see T. M. Reed. Bring your cream to the Loud City Mercantile Co. Loans on real estate, call on John W. Long. Try a sack of Loup City flour, for sale at your flour dealers. Alvin Clark is down from Thomas county on a business trip. If you want a dray in a hurry and get quick work, see Stewart Conger. We pay cash for eggs at the cream ery. Ravenna Creamery Co. Protect your buildings with Lead & Zinc. Geo. Stork does the work. I will guarantee 24c for butter fat I test and pav cash.—A. E. Chase. Have your house look like new with Lead & Zink. Stork will give you prices. Thoroughbred Plymouth Rock eggs, per setting of 15, 50c. See Mrs. W. T. Gibson. Reed. Bros, are selling land in the North Platte Valley. Excursions every Tuesday. You make no mistake in calling on the Stewart Conger drays when you want quick service. Frank Blaschke and wife last week moved into the little brick cottage near the Catholic church. When in need of shoes see the Mercantile Co. They guarantee every pair of shoes they sell. Col. Cash of Kearney was in the city on business last Friday, and in cidentally booming Judge Hamer for the supreme bench. tuts SAL,*,—in me city or Loup City, houses with two lots’ and with five acres. Prices from S550 to -11800, by Reed Bros. The Stewart Conner drays are on the rush from morning to night, but you will get the quickest kind of service on a hurry call. Try them. The Ravenna Creamery Co. will pav twenty-two cents for butter-fat till further notice, and two cents for de livering same direct to creamery in good condition. Geo. Collipriest has on hands one white (elephant?) pig, estray, which is eating up his garden patch. Take it away. Mr. owner: George don’t like roast pig in hot weather. Last Thursday evening the drouth was broken here by a quarter of an inch of rain. It commenced with a severe wind, accompanied by hail, which subsided after a few moments, without doing damage to speak of. You’ll be blown into “smithereens" if you don’t call at the bank and get Ira E. Williams to write a TOR NADO policy. Why worry over every big storm when a very few dollars will insure you for five long years? Do it NOW. The Christensen-Ferdinandt Fur niture Co. is now nicely ensconsed in their fine new store room in the Sweetland block. It is splendid quarters for this enterprising firm, and we believe the most showy and nicely appointed of any in the city. They are to be congratulated. The High School Juniors enter tained the Seniors and instructors at' the home of Miss Elma Corning, last Thursday evening. The rooms were tastefully decorated in the class colors and pennants and carnations. Dainty refreshments was served and a most pleasant evening reported. Mr. and Mrs. Ira E. Williams were made happy Fridav by the arrival of their daughter, Mrs. Nellie Platz. and their infant granddaughter, from Fremont, who will visit here for a couple of weeks. Miss Emma Wil liams. who has been visiting at Fre mont for a number of weeks, also returned home and will remain. Deliver Your Own Cream A Ion? experience has convinced us that we receive the best cream and have the most satisfactory deal with our patrons when the patron delivers his own cream direct to the Cream ery. Therefore, and as a matter of justice to tiie patron who will so de liver his cream, we have decided to pay two cents per pound of butter-fat extra to compensate the patron for the extra labor required, beginning May 1st, 1909. Ravenna Ckkameky Co. WANT COLUMN Local Notices. Want Ads. Lost. Found of i Stolen items. For Sales, etc., UDder this head at one-half cent per word, no item less than 5c Thoroughbred Plymouth Rock eggs, of the famous E B. Thompson strain. $1 (JO per setting. Phone. 8 on 289. Mas. E. C. Dteb. Pure-Bred Poland China Sows. I have for sale a few pure-bred Po land China sows, due to farrow this coming August. H. J. Johansen. HAIL! HAIL!! HAI!!! Insure your crops NOW. Company that PAYS losses. O. E. Adams, Resident Agent, at First National Bank. Mrs. Jas. Johansen is improving. Lee Bros, for finest of meats, fish, celery, etc. If you want a good cream separator | see T. M. Reed. Morg Ford arrived from Cheyenne. Monday, on a visit. Phone A. T. Conger, 3 on 62, when | in need of a drayman. The Loup City Mercantile Co. have i the best shoes for the money. Call and see the fine new lot of I shirtwaists at Mrs. Mathew’s. R. P. Starr had legal business at ( Ord Monday, returning Tuesday, j Buy Aztec or Canon City coal at ; Taylor’s elevator for summer use. If you waut to buy or sell Real Estate, call ou John W. Long. Have your house painted with White Lead & Zinc. See Geo. Stork The editor goes to Omaha this af - ternoon to purchase a large new job press. i ate your twitter and eggs to Con hiser's, where you can get anything j you want. Will French is now nearly his normal self again, his bad hand being almost well. Don't forget Lee Bros, constantly keep on hand fresh bologna of their own make. Mrs. M. E. Taylor of Sargent was a guest over last Sunday of Mrs. Emma i McCray of this city. We hear Dr. Chase purchased a new auto yesterday. Soon autos will be numerous in Loup City. County Clerk Beushausen made a business trip to Lincoln last Friday, returning Saturday evening. John W. Lone is prepared to make ail Real Estate Loans on short notice at lowest rates. Ernie Milfcurn last week moved his family down from Ord and occupy the cottage vacated by R. L. Arthur. Ladies, why sew all day when you can buy your summer underwear so reasonably at the Ladies’ Furnishing store? The Rebekahs of this city last evening entertained the lodge from Rockville and the usual good time was the result. Say, I always wear Star Brand shoes, for I think they are the best. I get them at the Loup City Mer cantile Co. Mrs. Henry Schirkofsky of Ravenna arrived here last Saturday for a few days' visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Bechthold. F. A. Pinckney of Webster town ship last week had his house moved down near the main road, and will build a handsome addition thereto. The David Cole Creamery Co. of Omaha has its local headquarters with O. F. Petersen, paying 24c cash for butter fat and testing same while you wait. Miss Lena Goodell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Goodell. south of Loup City, was taken to the hospital at Omaha Saturday morning to under go an operation for appendicitis. The operation was performed Monday morning and the patient is getting along nicely. Breeders will take notice that the noted stallion. Basco B.. will be in Loup City the first three days of each > veek during the present season, with headquarters at McLaughlin’s barn. Ales Baillie marketed a fine bunch of hogs last Saturday, receiving per hundred for tlie same. Ales chuckled when he remarked it was some difference from the price of *2.«) not so very long since. Charley Mellor and Will Simpson arrived home Tuesday afternoon from their trip to Oklahoma and western Nebraska to look up a loca tion. We understand they have found a good location in western Ne braska, to which thev will go in about a week, although their fami lies will remain here till fall. J. W. Long nearly suffered a broken leg last Saturday, but escaped with only a bad wrench to that member. While moving the heavy safe of Christenson & Ferdinandt to the new store-room, a plank v»as broken in the floor of the old building, and Mr. Long entering shortly thereafter and not noticing the bad place, stepped into the hole, the whole force of his body falling and only being saved from the full violence by friends catching him and breaking the force of it. It was a mighty luclry accident.
