Professional Cards1' AABOS WALL Practices m all Courts | Loup Cfrr, Neb. _I ROBT.P. STARR Attorney-at-law. LOUP CITY. HEBR£SK£. I H J. NIGHTINGALE ksunq ai Snaaur^Liv LOUP CITY. NEB E. H MATHEW, Attorney-at-Law, And Boated Atatnctor. Loap City, Nebraska a L LONGACRE PHYSICIAN am SURGEON Office. Over New Bank TKLKPHOXE CALL. NO. 39 A. J. KEARNS PHYSICIAN AND SORGEON n, . a* IM» U KnMnn Tm Umi Emu of TeiepbutK’ (Vbtrml Loup City. - Nebraska A. S. MAIN PHYSICIAN aid SURGEON Loup Gity. Nebr. OHw u Ratdmn-. Tr^plio-H- ( utiuecUon ROBERT P. STARR Sacraat f U> M 11 Mead Bonded Abstracter UxrfCin, - Nkkravea. Oiklj act of Ateiract book* id «.oun!j S. A. ALLEN. DB.YTtXT, ua«* arr. - seb. UCcr tip iuir> m iLr w» Stale Bank buildinr. wTlTmaKCY. DENTIST, LOUP CITY, NEB OFFICE: Eant Snk- Public Mjuair. Ftioot. ItfoaB dbTj. k. gubgg VETERINARY SURGEON 1 iiave located In Loup City, with tin- introU jn of pmc-tkiiiir Wierina rv Medicior >urjfrr« and Dentistry. alia promptly aiu-i*i»- da) or nifffit Otoe at Huund Front Barn. Piles FISTULA NrwkMCvd Al Rectal Dimmm cured with out a auyieol operation. No Alorefora, ether or other yee «*» eaoethetic wi CURE GUARANTEED to loot LIFE TIME. Ft> wine lira nil RUPTURE CURED Pay when Cured. DR. RICH SPECIALIST The Labor off Baking l» many Unn reduced if you use Uie right kind of Flour, and if the ques tion, "What is tlie best Flour?" was put U> vote among the bakers and housekeepers in tills part of Uie counter, the unanimous reply would he White Satin yon would vote for it if you were and k> It. ian't it worth riviof a Loup City,Mills rHE NORTHWESTERN Catered at the Loup Utt» Postofflce for Irani ail—Ion throucn the malls as seeoad elaas matter Office Phone, - 6 on 21 Residence, - - 3 on 2:1 J. \V. HtRI.Eir.il. Ed. and Pub Candidates' Cards Fop l' HKNUKICKsON. Telephone Trouble Talk Below will be found an article sent in to us by Mr. J. A. Peugh concern ing trouble arising over telephone matters: Last Wednesday evening a meeting was held at the Wiggle Creek school house for the purpose of signing a pe tition against paying more than $12 per year for telephone rental. A large number were present and each one signed the petition, thus saying it was $12 rental or the removal of their phones. There have been meetings lieid for the same purpose in various localities We lave been told that the mana ger of the telephone company claims Uiat each phone caste a little over $12 a year. They mean to put in new poles every four years and new bat teries when necessary. Of course we must count the necessary help that is employed in this work. This is unjust to them to run it as a loss for themselves. If a man is elected to the legisla ture by the farmers on the couutv option issue and goes to Lincoln and works hard for county option and to secure laws to aid the farmers and laboring men: then if he puts in a little spare time supporting the ' tel ephone merger'' bill and also the bill prohibiting any company to put in a telephone system where one already eii~i>. we ask him to stop running this company 90 and thus lose by it. I Since most of the poles have been standing four or live years, they will ! certainly remove them at once, as they have agreed, and replace them w ith new ones, why couldn't the farm ers co-operate and purchase the old ones. Since they are worn out, they could he secured at a low price, for the present company do not want to keep on as they have been doing. If tiie farmers would do this, they could tay the present company ill or $3 50 j annually alien each man would pay , tiie same) for switch fees. The farm ers could put in tiie necessary poles and keep tiie line in repair. This plan lias been tried and has ! proved a complete success. The ex lierise for each man did not exceed $3 i or $4 per year. It has been said that stock is worth more than formerly , hut this cannot he when they are not making any thing by it.(?) We understand that a member of ■ Lite company said that they were making a nice "nest egg" for the telephone company, but this cannot tie so. Perhaps it is like the Iiish mxn who was called to the witness stand and told he must only tell what lie knew . They did not want hear say evidence '"How old are you?” inquired tiie lawyer. “1 don't know.” responded tiie Irishman. “Why. didn't your mother tell you how old you were?" "Vis. hut liegorra that would be hearsay evidence.” Many prominent farmers on the creek and neighboring vicinities hope that tiie company will not come to $12 per year, as we are told they did with George Zeigler, for then a Farmers' line can be put in. Let us do something at once, before another legislature meets, for laws may be made prohibiting farmers' lines. Many states in tiie east are deprived of putting in an independent system, and it would have been tiie same in Nebraska lad notour just governor vetoed it. This is a strange old world. Our legislators meet, their salaries are raised, also the governor's salary, then when they come home they think tiie farmers, who have only one exchange, ought to pay more for talking. Isn't it strange that such salaries and telephone rentals should raise, while everything the farmer sells is going down? Why not raise a little on the county rights and the phones of tiie business men rather than on those laving one exchange only? John A. Pkuoh. In giving space to the above com plaint. we deemed it only fair that both sides of the question be given and interviewed Mr. Waite, ofiering him space for his side of the contro versy. We have up to the present given no thought to the matter involved, and taken no stand either way. The only question particularly of moment to us is the possibility of two systems.thereby involving the ex pense to the business man of two phones, to which we are unalterably opposed. We trust now, that both have been given hearing, the matter ; will be taken to the Railway Com mission. where it of right belongs, and where only it can be settled, un less l*r the parties to the controversy the.n-elves. Instead of threshing it it out in the newspapers, which can : only result in further contention and widening the breach of unfriendli ness. and with this week’s paper closes our columns to it. save as paid advertising matter. Following is Mr. Waite's statement: To tl»e patrons of the Sherman County Telephone Company: My attention having been called to the above article regarding a de mand and petition to the Sherman County Telephone Company from certain subscribers and patrons of said company stating that thev would not pay over $12 per year for phone service. I thought it due the patrons of tiie company that a statement of the facts as they exist should be made at this time. When the Sherman County Tele phone Companv bought the present system six years ago, there were only about eighty phones upon the Loup City exchange, and the subscribers paid *L50 per month for residence phones The Bell Company, who at that time owned the system, refused to build to the farmers throughout the county, although petitioned and requested so to do at the same rate or $18 a year, except YW O. Brown. A. H. Hansel, L. X. Smith and Her man Johansen, who paid $1.50 per month for the privilege of talking to the eighty subscribers then unoo the Loup City exchange. At the first meeting after the pres ent company purchased the plant, they reduced this rate to $1 per year and further made a rate to the farmers of $12 per year, reserving the right to put twenty phones on a line, the subscriber building and paying for the stub line from the main line to his house. At this same meeting Lite toll rate from Arcadia and from Litchfield to Loup City was reduced from 25c to 15e per message. Since that time the Loup City exchange lias grown to 500 phones and the lines extending in all directions from 0 to 15 miles, the intention of the com pany being that to take Loup City as the center of this system and radiate their lines in all directions and give to all citizens and patrons of the county who desired phones an opportunity tosecure them and reach as many subscribers as possible. The experience of the company in endeavoring to give the best service to all its subscribers, both town and country patrons, is that twenty party lines were unsatisfactory both to the farmer and the business man, because of this condition, and upon request of many of the subscribers both in the county and in town, the company after thorough and careful investigation of conditions elsewhere, decided to cut their lines from twen ty-party lines to ten-party lines, and | in order to do this it necessitated the re-building of some lines, putting in heavier poles, re-cross-arming, stringing nearly double the amount of wire formerly required, taking double the position at the switch board and further, the company pur chasing all the stub lines that the farmers had built and owned at a ten per cent per year depreciation, necessitating the out-lay of much additional capital in order to render this service, the company filed a rate with the Railway Commission of $15 per year, and eighteen out of the twenty-six farm lines connected with the Loup City exchange have at the present time ten or less phones, and up to the present time, the company in making this change last July, re ceived the co-operation of the sub scribers and lost no phones and had no complaints up to the time that I left my work here to take up my duties at Lincoln. in answer to Mr. Peugh’s claim as to the cost of operation and changing of poles every four years, will say that we only figure ten per cent depreciation per year and buy and sell on that basis, which is show n by the experience of all telephone com panies operating in the state of Ne braska to be the correct per cent of depreciation. I ain confident that the subscribers of the company will bear me out in the statement that 1 have always claimed the average life of a tele phone pole to be ten years, although I have stated, which is a fact, that we have replaced some poles that have rotted off in from three to four years. As to the operating expenses, if any of the subscribers will take the trouble to call at my office. I will and can prove to them that the actual operating expenses per phone to gether with a ten per cent deprecia tion upon the average cost per phone ! will equal $11.80 per year, and the operating expenses of each exchange of the entire system and all of the expenses, making up the above item j of $11.80 per phone per year can be verified by the evidence of the em ployes of the company or from the books of the company or from both. At the present time, our total in vestment equals about $4o per phone, thus giving the advantage to the farmers from the fact that it costs more to build and equip farm lines than town lines, and further because it has been definitely proven that it costs two and twenty-two one hun dredths times as much to keep up the trouble work as it aoes in town. As to the merger clause in the telephone bill, which I supported conscientiously, believing that it was a protection to both mutual and in dependent companies of the state, thereby preventing the Bell or Inde pendent monopoly from absorbing the small companies throughout the state, and further, that it was for the best interests of the telephone using public. I invite and am willing to defend my record and vote in the last legis lature upon this or any other ques tion before the farmers or citizens of Sherman county. As to selling any or all of the sys tem. will say that the entire plant is for sale, or if they prefer, they may purchase stock in same and will guar antee to pay six per cent on said stock. With reference to the assertion concerning Mr. Geo. Zeigler, I wish to state that Mr. Zeigler is on a twenty-party line, and that 1 accept ed his twelve dollars with thorough understanding that when his line was divided and made a ten-party line, that I would purchase his stub line and allow him the difference be tween the twelve and fifteen dollar rate. Since April 1st, 1910, we have written all new contracts at $15 per oear. furnishing the stub lsne to the house with the express understanding that the subscriber is entitled to a ten-party line as soon as we could string out the wire and divide the same. So subscriber prior to April 1st, 1910, has been charged $15 per year until he was placed on a ten party line and renumerated for his stub line. In closing, I wish to state that 1 (irmly believe that had 1 been here and explained the situation personal ly to the subscribers, this agitation would never have been started, and I believe that aftercaretul considera tion, the subscribers will see for themselves that it is not a raise of rates when the increased investment and better service is considered. Yours ve-y respectfully, W. S. Waite, Gen. Mgr. Lincoln went) “wef’ Tuesday by a majority of about 500. It went “dry'’ lastly ear by a majority of 831. Frank Harrison and his weakly Capital did not seem to have the proper control over the majority vote. Also, Lin coln did not seem to have a proper appreciation of the one-sided "dry” advice given by the newspapers and people over the state outside the state capital, nor the powerful in fluence of William Jennings. The last legislature decided in favor of a second agricultural school in the state to be located west of the 99th meridian and south of the 4th stan dard parallel north. A number of towns are red hot after the location most of them in the southwest part of the state. The principal place after It in this section is the live-wire town of Broken Bow, and she is mak ing strenuous efforts to locate it. We believe if Loup City and Sherman county were to take a vote on the location Broken Bow would get their solid vote. The Northwestern can see no location more pleasing to it unless it came to Loup City. ! 1 Is now open for the Spring Trade See Us for Solid Concrete -Work Sidewalks, F*°°r£> Etc. Call and get our prices. We have in connection a line of Feed, Ground Corn and Baled Hay. GUY STOUT, Manager. .. '■■■ ' . .. ..■! 1 " " 1,1 1 . ”■ 1 111 ■ Gfechep Gombiped DISC CORN PLANTER The Grechen Disc Planter can be operated both as a hill and drill drop planter, doing perfect work as either. Farmers who are using it claim that it is one-third lighter draft than any runner planter. RAYR u PST ■ GALL A WAY HARDWARE GO. PA I N T H AT To preserve yoar bouse — your property — your dollars, you might say — you Aut use paint. To do so economically the paint you use MUST have lasting qualities. Remember, poor paint costs more than goal paint, for the work baa to be done oftener. Start right by getting Horse Shoe Paint •ad you emn make up your mind it’s on to stay. The reason for this is plain. Horse Shoe Paint is wholly composed of the strongest and best materials known in the science of paint making — it contains ne cheapening or adulterating materials what ever. It's made of strictly Pure Zinc and White Lead for pigments. Add to this Pure Linseed Oil —crushed by the manufacturers themselves to insure its purity —then the necessary drier and coloring matter and you’ve got the best paint that money, brains and material can produce. Horse Shoe Paint has stood the test for 20 long years—it's a proven paint — and is sold in almost every town and city in the United States. Should not that fact aloa* convince you that Horse Shoe Paint gives satisfaction beyond question ? Hots* Shoe Paint does all we claim—we guarantee it to be pure and to wear. Horse Shoe Paint is abaolutelv pure: you buy it subject to chemical analysis lofl It's paint that lasts. Pais* your house with H-vse Shoe Paint this season by all means. SWANSON-LOFHOLM PHARMACY FARMERS Don’t you want a Lister, both single and double row, Two-Row Disc and Shovel Cultivators, Single Row Disc -rid Shovel Cultivators, Harrows. Com Planters. Harrows or anything else in the wav of Machinery? If so, call and will be pleased to show you my iine of goods T. M. R e e d A BARGAIN Barrels to Pickle Pork in, Oyster Shells and Green Cut Bones for Chickens Pickles in Bulk Olives in Bulk. A Large Price Paid for Hides and Chickens. Lee Brothers. FENCE POSTS We have a good stock of lumber and all kinds of building material on hand. A carefully assorted stock of Fence Posts ranging in price from 12c to 26c No trouble to figure your bills ami show our stock. LEININGER LUMBER. C0>t Loud City Not>, Notice of Chattel Mortgage Sale| Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a> chattel mortgage executed by Georg* F. Pttaes- } ter and Andrea W Ptiaester to the First Na tional Bank of Imup City. Nebraska, on July 9th. 1910, to secure the payment of one promt*- j sory note for the sum of $SOO. payable on Jan • uary the 9th. 1911. with interest from date at ten percent per annum, and upon which there is now due the sum ot Five Hundred Dollar*, with interest from July tbe 9th. 1910. at ten i per cent per annum Also, by \irtue of a Chattel Mortgage executed by the said George • F. Pflaesler aud Andrew Pflaesler to me said First National Hank on December 31st 1910, to secure the payment of one promissory note for the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, pay able on April 3uth. 1911. with interest at ten per cent j»er annum from date and ujK»n which there will be due ou Aoril 30th. 1911. the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, with interest at teu per cent per annum from December 31st. 1910 Also, by virtue of a Chattel Mortgage | executed by the said George F. Pflaesler and I Andrew Ptiaester to the said First National | Hank on December 31st. 1910. to secure tbe payment of one promissory note for the sum of , Two Huhdred and Ninety-five Dollars and Sixty-five cents, payable on January the 31st. 191 i. with interest from December 31st, 1910. at ten per cent per annum, and upon which there is due the sum of Two Hundred aud Ninetx -five Dollars and Sixty-five cents, with interest from December 31st. 1910. at ten per cent per annum. Also by virtue of a Chattel Mortgage executed by George F Ptiaester to Grant Stickney on December 3lst. 1#10. to secure the payment of one promissory note in the sum of Eighty-one Dollars and Sixty seven cents, payable on May 1st. 1911. with interest from date at ten per cent per annum, and which said note and mortgage have been paid by the said First National Bank in order to protect the lien of the last described mortgage and which said First National Hank now owns, and upon which there is* due the sum of Kighty-one Dollars and Sixty-seven cents, with interest from December 31st. 1910. at ten per cent per annum and coats and expenses in the sum of $1715. Also by virtue of a Chattel Mortgage executed by the said Ptiaester Brothers to the said Fim National Bank on March 24th. 1911. to secure the payment of four promissory notes as fol lows: One for Three Thousand Dollars dated December 3lst 1910, and payable April »kb. 1911. and one for Two Hundred Ninety-five Dollars and Sixty-five cents dated December 3181. 1910. and payable Jauuary 31st. 1911. and ; one for One Hundred Dollars and Fifty cents 1 dated March 2ith. 1911, payable on demand, j and one for One Hunored Twenty-four Dol j lars and Seventy-five cents dated March 24th. | 1911, pa* able on Demand and upon which there : is due the sum of Thirty Five Hundred j and Twenty Dollars and Ninety cents I with interest at ten per cent per annum from the respective dates of said four miles. And upon all of which mortgages there is now due the sum of f3ftl9 72 and interest at ten per cent per annum from December 3ist. 1910. wow therefore, default having teen made In the payment of said notes and the interest thereon as to all of said notes which by their terms are past due. and as to said notes which are not by their terms past due. the said mort rtgugee deems itself unsafe and has elected to foreclose the same at this time, and no suit or other proceedings at law having been Instituted to recover said debts or any part thereof, we will sell the property therein de scribed to wit: One sorrel blaied face horse, six years old. name Jim. One bay horse five years old. name Tom. weight 1600 pounds. Oue bay mare six years old. name Dolly, weight 17iw pounds. One dun mare, ten years old weight 1300 pounds, name Buck. Two bay horses six ami seven years old. weight W*) pounds each, name Dick and Ginger. One team of black mares live and six years old. weight 3CU0 pounds, names 1 anny and Dolly. One team of mares, bay and sorrel, names He«sie and Dolly, both white face, four and five years old. weight J»00 pounds. One bay mare six years old, weight 1600 pounds, name Doll. One roan mare ten years old. weight 1130 pounds, name Nell. One roan horse nine years old. weight 1150 pounds, name Sam. One team of mules, mare and horse, eight and nine years old. brown, weight 1100 pounds each. One sorrel horae eight years old, weight 1000 pounds, name Dick. ' One sorrel mare with bald face, yearling. One sorrel mare with bald face, yearling. One bay colt, horse, yearling. One black horse colt, yearling. One ten year old dark brown horse, weight 1000 ponnds. name Dick. One bay saddle horse four years old. weight about 11(10 pounds, name King. And including all the horses owned by the said George F. Pflaester and Andrew W. Ptlaester. An undivided one-half interest In one hun dred and fifty bead of hogs, and one hundred and forty head of cattle, inclnding eighty head of cows from two to four years old. and about tiftv head of one and two year old steers on full feed and balance young calves, being all the hogs and cattle owned by said George F Ptlaester and Andrew W. Pflaes ter jointly with Louis S. Howe of Council Bluffs. Iowa. One large roan bull, four year* old. One large dark red cow with red cmlf. Two sets of nearly new double harness, complete with collars. One set of double work harness.-complete, and in good repair. All of the corn in the crib and granary on the Howe farm, both ear and shel ed corn. One sevtnty bushel Great WesterniMauure spreader. one combined aweep-and hay stacker. One new gang plow. One lister, complete. One nearly new mower, and one mower that has been used about two years, both cotnplete. One hay rake complete. One dire One four section harrow complete. One fetid grinder Two lumber wagons with top boxes, complete. One h»v rack Three cultivators, complete One three row "Go-Devil." Also, all other articles of personal property belonging to the said Andrew \Y Pflaester and George F. Pflaester. not above described, ami now on the Howe farm, on Sections fifteen and six teen. in Township sixteen. Kange fourteen, in Sherman County. Nebraska Said sale to be made at public auction at the Howe farm on the Southwest Quarter of section fifteen, in Township sixteen. Range fourteen. Sherman County. Nebraska, on Frtdav. May sth. 1911. at the hour of ten o'clock and thirtv minutes a. m Dated the 10th day of April. 1911. First National Bank ol Loup City Neb.. Mortgagee. Bv Ira E Williams President. ROAD NOTICE (Neilson) To All Whom It May Concern: The commissioner appointed to lo cate a road commencing at the south east corner of section twenty-four, and running thence west on the sec tion line between sections twenty four and twenty flve. twenty-three and twenty-six. twenty-two and twen ty-seven. and terminating at the southwest corner of section twenty two. all in township sixteen north range thirteen west of the t»th P. M. in Sherman county, Nebraska, lias reported in favor of the establish ment tliereof, and all objections there to or claims for damages, must be filed in the county clerk's office on or before noon of the 28th day of May, A. D. 1911, or such road will be es tablished without reference thereto. W. C. Dutkuchs, County Clerk, i (Last pub. May ll) Notice 1 will stand my three imported stallions at the same barn in Loup City, two l'ercheronsand one Belgian, weighing from 1700 to 1900 pounds, i Come and see me. as it eosts no more to raise a colt from a good imported horse than a grade. Terms. $15 to ' insure colt to stand and suck, $12 to insure mare with foal. $$ for season. All mares that are sold, traded or alx*ut to lx* moved from vicinity where nred the service becomes due Yours resp't. James W. Jons son. Order of Beanig oi Petition for Distribu tion of Residue of Estate ; In the County Court of Sherman County. Ne braska. State of Nebraska, j VSS. ‘ Sherman County. I To the Heirs. Legatees, ami all persons inter ested in the Estate of George S. Keeler, deceased: On readme the petition of Prances Keeler, praying that the distribution of the residue of said estate be made to the parties entitled thereto. It is hereby ordered that you. and all persons interested in said matter, may and do. appear at tne County Court to be held in and for said county, ou the 8th day of May A D. 19U, at 10 o'clock a. m.. to show cause, if any th»*re be. why the prayer of the petition er should not be granted, and that notice of j the pen. ency of said petition and that the hearing l hereof be given to all persons inter ested in -.aid matter by publishing a copy of ; this ord* r in the Loup Citv Northwestern, a weekly » ewspaper printed in said county, for i three successive weeks prior to said day of j hearing. j Witness my hand and seal of said court, this 1-tth day of April A. D 1911. isEAL] E. A. Smith. County Judge. iLast pub. May 4) Notice to Creditors State of Nebraska ^ ! Sherman County i State of Nebraska 1 In County Court within and for Sherman j County. Nebraska. April loth. 1911. In the matter of the estate of Jacob Schmal john. deceased: To the creditors of said estate: You are hereby notitled. that I will sit at the County Court room in l.oup City, in said county, on the 7th day of November. 1911. at one o'clock in the afternoon, to receive and examine all claims against said estate with a view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims at-ainst said estate is the Tth day of November. A. D.. 1911, and the time limited for the payment of debts is one year from said Tth day of November. 1911. Wituess my bund and the seal of Said county court this 10th dav of April. 1911. Iskal) E. A. Smith. County Judge. East pub. May 4 ROAD NOTICE (Obermiller) To all whom it may concern: The commissioner appointed to locate a road commencing at the | northeast corner of Section 20, Town i ship 14. Range 14, Sherman county. Nebraska, and running thence south on Section line two miles to the southeast corner of Section 29, same jtownshio and range, thence east on Section line to intersect with Road No. 2»> between Sections 27 and .14 and terminating there, lias reported in favor of the establishment there of and all objections thereto or claims for damages must be tiled in the County Clerk’s office on or before noon of the 8th day of June, 1911, or such road will be established w ithout reference thereto. W. C. DiETEKicns, County Clerk. (Last pub. May 18) Poland China Boars for Sale. 1 have a few good Poland China Boars of the big type for sale, from i sows like Ora Wonder (130353), which 1 purchased at the Ed Andrews' dis persion sale last winter, bred to Longwonder No. 131707a—54207. a 000-pound boar, and from LadyJS., No. 136001. The sire of these pigs is Nebraska King (403:10). The rest are sired bv Grand Look (50737). M. A. GILBERT. OURCOAL IT Heat. Force We will admit that slate and rock would be just as good, and maybe better, To Throw at Tramps as our high prade coal, but in filling your orders we have but one thought in mind, and that is to furnifh you Coal That Will Born Keystone Lbr. Co. Goal yards at Loup City, Ashton, Rockville aad Austin.