Loup City Northwestern _/ _ VOLUME XXX LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1911 NUMBER 2 - EVERY Garment TO BE BI6IT! IF IT IS NOT RIGHT YOU HAVE NO TAKE IT! GASTEYER THE QUALITY HOUSE * ESTABLISHED 1888 1 ■-1 * ^ ft V N A Reliable 1 ■ Prescription. ten l*e properly com % Hounded if brought here. * .*Wr are carefa'ly exact in putting up drug* and medicines. and you may . Rely Upon-Us .Absolutely % . * to give you ^xactlv what the to have same allowed and the resi due distributed ss per the terms of the will i Bled sod probated la said cause, upon consid eration whereof said cause is set for bearing on the 3*h day of November. 1911, at one o deck p m at the office of the County Judge m Loup City in aaid county, at which time mad place all persons interested therein may be heard rooreratcc same. It tx further or dered that a ropy of this notice he published three weeks successively in the Loup City Northwestern a legal newspaper published ' and of generni circulation in aaid county. W uness my hand and ofBclal seal this 8th I day of Norember I9H jahAL] E. A. Smith. County Judge. (Last pub. Nov 3) NOTICE TO CREDITORS ’ Slate of Nebraska, i "86 tbennaa County. \ 1 la the Couaty Court of Sherman County! Ne I breaks. October >0 1911. la the matter of the estate of Jens Spengs To tha creditor* of said estate: Yea are hereby nodded, that I will alt at the county court roam m Loup City, In said county, on the Mth day of February. 1912 at tea o'clock a. a... and on the 3th day or May, M3, at,tea a slock a * to receive and exam Me all claims against said estate, with a view •e 1 -! Death from Blood POtson John Rushong came down from Comstock Tuesday morning with blood poison in his left am. Mr. Rushong accidently scratched his band on a rusty nail Sunday after noon although it got pretty sore be did not suspicion such a thing as blood poison until he relbhqd here and consulted a doctor. Mr. Rushong grew worse rapidily and was taken to the hotel where lie was under the doctor's care all night and most of the next day. Thursday morning be seemed much better and his friends and relatives thought he was prac tically out of danger. But shortly after noon he turned to the worse and passed away about 3 p. m. Mr. Rushong was about 27 years old and leaves a wife and child. The body was taken to his home in Dry Valley Thursday evening. Funeral services will ba held from the home Satur day afternoon.—Arcadia Champion. Biennial Elections Only a few states bare elections this year, Nebraska being among them as we all know. The tendency every where is toward fewer elections, as well as toward fewer elected offices. The result is brought about in many states by providing for biennial elect ions and making the terms of elec tive state, judicial and oounty offices terminate uniformly in the even year Municipal elections are still held sep aratly. and at odd times but the elim ination of the elf year general elect ions has proved acceptable wherever brought about, for no state we know of which has gone oyer to the biennial election system has ever gone back to the annual election. Nebraska is to vote a constitutional amendment for biennial elections np or down next year. Presumably there will be no outspoken opposition to it, and its only danger of failure will come from the indiflereuce or neglect of tbe voters. It is for that reason we call attention to it now when we have an object-lesson right before us. If the proposition to abolish one-half of our elections could be submitted next week, we are confident it would carry almossuinanimously.—Ex. Are Married Men Safe? Harried men is Chicago are likely on nettles, so to speak, these days. Only a few days’ since a woman was arrested oo suspicion of having helped some nine or ten persons to shuffle off this mortal coil, among them being three or four husbands. She now rests io jail awaiting judicial findings In a cell adjoining is another woman who is accused of burying three hns bandsbythe poison roots. If this thing keeps op, it will not be sur 1 o ads ttas trains otitef that dtp at an sariy data. TAX HIM UP1 EIGHT DOLLARS That's What Epparsan Would Do to the Voter Who Doesn’t Vote. The stay-at-home voter acquires a good deal of notoriety and provokes a lot of vitriolic comment about this time of the year. He is the loose cog in our goverment machine, the uncer tain quanity that plays havoc with campaign plans, turns victories into defeats and defeats into victories. He ought to be suppressed entirely or re juvenated completely. Ex-Senator Epperson of Clay Center has been turning his big guns on the non-voter and lias evolved a course of procedure with reference to this parody of a citizen. Mr. Epperson's investigation of facts has discovered: “In the prime.y only about fifty per cent of the legal voters participated, and that meansthatah|Mbone-founh of the voters named the candidates where there were only two candi dates on each ticket. Where there were three candidates less than twelve per cent named the candidates and in cases where there were four competi tors for the place six per cent named the nominee. If the corporations could handle as they did the old-time caucus because of the non-partici pation of voters, why can’t they con trol the primary nomination when the vote is light and when there are several candidates for each nomin ation? It is certainly time to remedy the governmental machine when six per cent of a party’s candidate." And Mr. Epperson has a remedy for the existing condition which appears reasonable and has excited much fav orable comment. He says: *‘A law might be enacted fixing a money penalty for non-voting. The annual poll tax which is now $2 could be raised to $10 and <8 of this remitted to every man who shows to the tax collector a certificate from the elec tion officers that he has voted, or prober reasons to justify his non voting. The state government has a way for enforcing the money obliga tions from each citizen. It takes hold of his property if bo neglects or refuses to pay his tax. The citizen can be forced into military defense of the government’ even though such Mense may jeopardize ids lift and liberit-y while he is being so used. The ‘draft’ will take the citizen from his home, put him in battle to be shot at, but the moral support, the vote that the citizen owes his government can be withheld and is withheld in every election by many citizens and in some elections by a large propor tion of the voters. And there’s no legal power behind present voting laws that can force the ballot into action. The money penalty can be justified on the therory that the man who has paid his taxes but neglected to vote owes more to the government than the man who has discharged the moral as well as the financial obliga tions.'’—Aurora Republican. Who Is Ho; What Is Ho? J. L. Ferguson, of Broken Bow, who is so far to political fame and fortune unknown that former residents of that place now holding office at the capitol never heard of him, threatens to break into the arena as a candidate for United States senator. As the first step, be has written to Govenor Aldrich asking bow to proceed for the purpose of getting his name upon the ballot. While Ferguson does not say directly that he intends to run for senator, his note to the govenor conveys that idea. It is as follows: “Would you kindly inform me how and when could one’s name be placed on the ticket for United States sen ator, and greatly oblige?” That is all there is to it. except that the missive is written upon a printed letterhead containing the in scription: “J. L. Ferguson, Engineer and Architect.” Secretary Boyse of the state bank ing board, State Trea usurer George and Bookkeeper Poor of the trea user’s offloe, all of whom came from Broken Bow are unaqnalnted with Ferguson and they would like to know who he is, as well as what ticket he expects to run upon.—Lincoln Daily Star. Thanksgiving Day has been pro claimed for Nov. 30th. The state of Maine retains her pro hibition constitutional amendment by the small majority of 158 votes. It tood a long time to decide the out come of the election on that question. It would be interesting to have Mr. Bryan “come back” over his late itin erary of the state and tell his version of how the democrats were Jeffriesixed so to speak Prof. E. L. Route of Peru, who has been one of tbs instructors *at the teachers’ institute here the past few years, was made p—liteut of tbs State Teaches’ Assnrtatlnn at the Look Out for Specials In Drv Goods Department Calicoes, 4c per yd. Men’s All-Wool Sweaters, 15 per ct. Discount We Sell the R & G Corset Nothing Better A LARGE SHIPMENT OF Ladies’, Children’s and Men’s Up-to-Date Shoes Just Arrived And Our Prices Are Right MEN’S CAPS AT A BIG DISCOUNT In the Grocery Department MAPLE SYRUP, Per Gallon, ... $1.00 Our Grocery Line is Complete, and at Lowest Living Prices. Call in and look over our stock. We will meet any prices our competit ors give you, and then some. The House of Quality and Low Prices Vic. Swanson. Successor to C. W. Conhiser. ^ Heart-Rending Episode Last week Wednesday evening a strange thing happened in an accident at the west bridge over tbe Loup river. We do not for one moment claim the finding of a strange, oval, elongated glass receptacle was the property of those concerned in the accident but one would like to know, you know, just how it happened. It seems that one of our best young men and his two best girls were returning from a musicale in Webster township in a buggy belonging to tbe aforesaid y. m.. and when at the east approach of the bridge the usually sedate quad ruped shied at some object and dumped the occupants off the approach and down the embankment, where they extracted themselves from the general mix-up and righting their vehicle came to town with nothing worse happening than to their lacerated feelings. The next morning, the par ental sire of the owner of the afore said four-wheeler, missing the buggy whip, lap robe, etc., sent a Younger brother to tbe scene of the disaster, and upon his return be displayed besides the aforesaid articles the above mentioned glass holder of “Blue Ribbon,” “Pabsfc,” etc, which he found among them. As all parties to the accident express ignorance of any knowledge of just bow such ar tksle could have had a place among tbe “Found,” tbe friends of the un named hero and heroines of the for tunate, yet unfortunate, Occident are still unable to solve tbe problem. Clear Creek Reas (From Last Week) Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burke of Ma son City visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Zahn over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Miller visited at the home of Mr. Frank Kuhn, this week. Paper bangers have finished work at the home of Andy Coppersmith. Mr. George Zahn marketed hogs at Loup City Monday. Superintendent Hendrickson visited the Lone Elm school Friday. For the first time in many months the Loup City Northwestern came out last week in quarto form with three pages well edited and printed home matter. The town and both the papers are better off since the Gauge quit. .The town is too small for three papers.—Ord Journal. Try the C. S. Stroud dray line. He will give you good service. Young Men and Boys of Loup City; we want you to become successful ousinees men; we want you to become thrifty and saving—and we want you to save part of your earn ings and deposit them in oar bank. If, while you are young, you keep an account at the bank, be the account ever so small, later on, when you en ter business for yourself, we will be only too glad to help you in a finan cial way. You boys of today will be the business men of tomorrow. Loup City State Bank J, S. Pedler. C. C. Cerlaen. F. ML Austin. President Cashier. Asst Cashier. RUGS, LINOLEUM, WALL PAPER, PORTIERES. 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