UNITED STATES Go Carefully over the condition of this bank at different intervals. Depositors' interests are protected first, before any body or anything else. The continued growth of this batik is the best possible evidence that we treat all patrons with courtesy and extend to them every facility to be found in a mod ern banking institution. Your account is welcome here. FIRST NATIONAL BANK CD f. Mjm*. F>rett .4. B. Outhouse. Vice f>rts L. hasten. Cashier THE NORTHWESTERN ADVERTISING RATES In Effect After Jan. 1st. Itl2 t» *p-*j wal'-er pr- :k>B per mr-r* t in \* dopte* Biurf '**•*> for less tban Sr per »r»» ' awrter pxr per »r». * M Mo.? pap* per rrr. 6 rB-: poer per week lie Kr««m per a. t per Mwnux » t wren pie Be per lemua .e ' Srur. Le*a. K»t»' LOCAL NEWS. All kind- of graining d >rw. ~ee Hil bert. OTtf (itrilua nrit Tureday. Don't forg*t All work and t^jdr fully warranted f> at iTiliagm i'i Let Gilbert tell you a few tiling* about graining vhwaner can a id will make your wauh rua right. J. 1 Dapew went to Gregg Monday morning on ImiIm* Mr* 11. Uamtnk b> recovering] from a severe sock spelt. < Hster siiells for chicken* Go to! Lee Bite.' meat market. 1'riu Johansen left la*t Monday :s. ml*** for Reserve. Kansas. Take your wau h bo Schwaner's for •juick. sure and permanent repair*. Inetnct ixiurt will convene liere the >«U. of April It will lie jury term The mote? n u>e I*. I*, was out of. « cmuaiO'i again on Wedne*4»vj ■ nrning 1‘ainta and wall paper that wears like the noae an a gig at Jones the PlRttf Mrs Ans.ie l»a*ts and rhildren left Tuesday morning for tlieir home at Greeley. He to Lea Bros ' meat market for home-made summer sausage* Only j lie per pound. J. L. Ha* - - i successor to Stroud will do your liauling promptly. ami satisfactorily. Mis* Blanche l'raper visited friends at Arcadia Monday evening, return mg home Tueaday morning I have laid in a stork of wall paper and paint* on Um> cast Mdf of the square J «a the l*ainter Walter Herd lia* teen appointed a imtnbtrater if tie estate of his de ceased tattler. T. M. Heed. Wanted A lady to do rooking at the Boa Ton t ale, Good wage, and steady ;ob to right ooc We nave a full supply of all kinds of . . ump coal and our prices are right. Oil at Taylor * Elevator. Mis* l»es*ie lianielson returned to school at Lincoln Monday morning after a week's va< ation at tome. Will Cording of Grand Junction. Ctlorado. b here visiting old friends and lib brother Joe at Litrhiield. Go to Mr*. Mathews for your pretty New >pring Clothe- Hat*. l're*r» 1 at* Wai-t*. Skirts. Cor •et* air., «»ur awaa-Uecollege student*, who a>t br»n enjoying a week's vacation at borne, returned to liieir studies a»t Saturday morning IMi t forget t * opera to I* given tomorrow Friday evening at the Gem T1 .eater by tie High School Glee Club v»f different samples and stock of wall paper to pick from. * cent* and up per double roll. Hast side of the square June- the 1‘ainter. * IHdyrru say coair" "Yes. 1'innacle, nut coal.' Tlds is a good coal for cook stove*, free from slack and easy to start Try it. For sale at Tay lor's elevator Thursday April ith at the Gem is tie date of tie Buffalo Kill's show in moving picture* of «»*• ft. of film. Aftemooa and evening Admission 1« and 30 rent! An adjourned session of tie dis trict court convened Monday to finish up unsettled business before tie court tie post berm Tley adjourned Tues day afternoon The Ladies Aid Society of tie Baptfct church will hold an Faster .lit irg- at Lee's meat market on tpril eiii Home made bread and y—eggs a specialty. Utm Son Beckman lost her gold wtlcS on the streets here last Sat u r _i,t afternoon, with pin attachment jf wader will leave same at tills oflicv reword will be given i For a satisfactory repair job go to Schwaner's. We pay cash for eggs delivered at the creamery. Let J. W. Dougal sell your farm or city property for you. round bone fore chicken feed at Lee Bros.' meat market. Try the J. L. llagood dray line, lie will giveyou Foodservice. Heo. Curry was over from the west! side yesterday greeting old iriends. Mr>. J. T. Hale left for her future home at Ogdon. Ctah. this morning. i Big lied Millet Seed for sale. $1 per bu'hel. I’hone 2-on-lfl. Route 3. L. B. Milligan. Let Hilbert fix your old painted doors and windows to look like new . Home-made summer sa.sages at Lee Bro>' meat market at 15c per pound. O. S. Cross on Monday shipped a lialf-breed Nhetland ponv colt to I)es Moines. List vour farm or city property witn.I.W Ikiugal. ‘The New Real Hstale Man.” Mrs. C. .1. Tracy has l»een quite ill the pa»L week, but is much better at present writing. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Muliekand Miss Maude Hiibert visited at Hrand Is land over last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Alex Baillie are to leave Saturday morning for their fu ture Lome at Clakimas. Oregon. Mrs. K. H. I’ugslev and children visited a few days this week witn Hrandma Foster and Uncle Ed. Mrs. ElTie Cooper entertained tie B. of E. club at the homeof her sister. Mrs Edw. Angier. Tuesday evening. We are paying cents cash for cream delivered at the creamery. We test and pay cash for cream. Ravenna ( beanery Co. Hie Misses Ha/el TlfTany and Bess ('amp. two of Arcadia charming young ladie-. were Loup City visitors last Saturday. All kinds of old painted woodwork made to look like new. without tak-; ing old paint oil. Ask Hilliert how it: is done. Glenn A. Steven and M, C. Alex tndrr went to Omaha last Friday morning on a business engagement for a few days. For up-to-date millinery goods, call ! and see Alta M. Johnson's stock be fore purchasing elsewhere. At W. I’. Heed's Variety Store. >pring is here or the geeseare badly fooled, as flocks of the honk honks are daily skiting northward at safe distance from earth. 1k> you want to buy a farm or city nroDerty worth the moneyV If so see J. W. lhjugal. tiie new real estate man at LoupCity. Miss Grace Adamson went to Coun cil Bluffs last Saturday, taking home her little nephew. Jack Taylor, who has been visiting here for a few weeks. Mrs. Minnie Becker came up from Omaha last Friday for an extended visit with her mother, Mrs. Geo. Keeler, and brother and sisters. if you want a dray, phone A. L. En derlee. * on t>3, or leave your order with either lumber yard or E. G. Taylor. Best of service guaranteed. We understand that Will Mulick has aceeppted and will tie transfered to a position with the railroad com jiany in California. He is at present | on a Ctali division. II v. Blom went to Aurora last Saturday where he tilled the Swedish pulpit for a orother minister on Sun day, Her. C. G. F. Johnson tilling Rev. Worn s pulpit here. When you buy your next sack of flour, buy White Satin Flour, made by 'your home mill, from home grown wheat. All merchants in town handle it. Lour City Mill and LiohtCo. Tlie 1*. E. O. society ga\e a fare well party at the home of Mrs. R. P. Starr on Tuesday afternoon of this week to their departing sister, Mrs. J. T. Hale, who was soon to leave for tier future home at Ogden Utah. Frank Bagnuski, wife and eight children left yesterday morning over the Union Pacific for New York City from wiiicii point they expect to sail on April 2nd for their old home in Germany. They had lived here some sit years Our jolly friend. Mike Mulick, says he is going to sellout and go to South America. lie seems to have the fever strongly. Estrays—Two pigs taken up by John A. Peugh. Owners can have same by calling for same and paying costs. John A. Peugh. Mr. and Mrs. Henthorn of Aurora were over Sunday visitors at the M. A. Phillips and W. .1. McLaughlin homes in this city. The lady is a sister of Mr. Phillips and Mrs. Mc Laughlin. Voters on the Omaha primary bal lot will have the exquisite satisfac tion of having to make 91 crosses on their ballots—if they do all the mark ing neccessary to make a complete ballot. But how many will? C. W. Conhiser last Friday traded his farm soutii of town, known as the Vic. Swanson place, for the Rag nuski 20 acres in the west part of Loup City. Charley tells us he is going to make a chicken farm out of it and if he does you may bet he will have a good one. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bowzer from the west side, accompanied by Messrs. Porter Curry and Byron Halcomb, as witnesses, were over last Sat urday to prove up on Mr. Bowzer's homestead entry, but as the county judge was out of some necessary blanks. the case was postponed till the first of April. Mrs. Effie Cooper last Friday after noop entertained her lady friends of the Entre Nous Club at the home of her sister. Mrs. Edw. Angler, and had one of their mostenjoyable club meet ings. Mrs. Cooper goes to look after her claim in the Box Butte country next Monday, where later Mr. Cooper will join her and they there make their future home. Frank Kennedy was down from his farm Tuesday on a pair of crutches, the result of a severe seige of rheu matism which had kept him in supreme misery for the past four weeks. Frank says if lie don't soon get relief he will take in the springs at Excelsior. Mo. Frank has our sym. We’ve had our till of the beastly old trouble. Mrs. Frank Winklemann left Mon day morning of this week for Oslo, Texas, on receipt of the distressing news that her good mother was lying at tne point of death there from an attack of appendicitis, which together with ill-health, gives little possibi iity for recovery. The lady visited here some four months since, and will be remembered by the many friends of the grief-stricken daughter. The lecture on “Jerusalem'' given at the M. E. church last Sunday even ing by Hon. W. R. Akers of Alliance was full of historical meat and most interesting to all who have interest in Biblical knowledge. He took his audience with him over the holy city and the spots of interest in and about the most ancient city, and while the lecture occupied nearly two hours’ time, but very few expressed weari ness and most of them present could have liatened much longer with the lecturer over the interesting facts pertaining to Jerusalem. We received a pleasant call last Friday from our good friend A. M. Lewis of Hampton, Neb., who came up for an over-Sunday visit with his son Ed Lewis, a ruggedcbip of theold block, who also accompanied him to tiie office. Mr. Lewis, Sr., owns some valuable farming land in this county which Ed is looking after in best siiape. Of course both are readers of the Northwestern. A. M. renewing and the younger adding bis name to the best list of leaders any paper ever had. May kind fortune continue to follow both gentleman through life. We received a pleasant call last Sat urday from Mr. Fred J. Chapman of Scotts Bluff, who is here for a fort night’s visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Chapman. Mr. Chap man, Jr., is engaged in the sheep business in his country and had just returned from Omaha where he had marketed forty-two cars of his pro duct and concluded te stop over here for a visit with his parents and old friends. He will keep posted on his old home hereafter through the Northwestern. Tomorrow (Friday) night at the opera house, the High School Glee Club will give the second operatic entertainment to our people entitled “A Dress Rehearsal” which a perusal of in advance assures us is one of the most charming little musical come dies ever written, and in the hands of “Our Girls” will prove just such a success as did their first opera, “A Japanese Girl,” given in the opera house on the 10th ot February of last year, which was heartily received, well attended and so favorably com mented upon at the time and since. Anything Loup City girls attempt I they gloriously succeed in, and our people may expect this to be no ex ception. Size us up. Notice the angelic twist to our usually homely facj. All because we received last Saturdoy a card from our son, Frank W. Burleigh at Columbus, Ohio, announcing the arrival at his home on the evening of the 20th of this month(March, 1912) of a darling baby girl, weight 6 1-2 pounds. Just imagine Frank’s elong ated frame prancing around in the wee sma’ hours ’o morn, with the precious bundle of femininity in his arms. This makes us grandpa five times and we should be getting used to it by this time, but as this is the first girl to four boys who have come to bless the homes and hearts of the editor s children, he has a perfect right to yell “Bully”’ and take a day off to celebrate. The river yesterday was overrun ing its bank west and soutli of town and it looks as though Loup City might be in the flood zone within a few days. The water has cut across the bottom from just below the west bridge and quite a stream is coming down across Geo. Petersen's land and just across the road this side of the south steel bridge. It is to be hoped the break-up will come moderate. It is claimed that at Arcadia things look bad for the bridge there across the Loup, and damage is feared. - . . case of the Union Pacific road against L. Hansen, appealed from , the county to the district court, was j up at the adjourned session aud has | been taken under advisement bv Judge Hostetler. It is the case where the U. 1’. is attempting to make Mr. Hansen pay an extra amount over the purchase price of tickets to the coast and return, the history of which the Northwestern has previously given. We have just learned that a certain fellow who is too economical to sub scribe and Day for the Northwestern, and who wanted to see last week's number, started bis little boy to a neighbor's to borrow ins copy. In his haste the boy ran over a $4 stand * of bees and in ten minutes looked : like a warty summer sqnash. His fa ; tiler ran to bis assistance, and failing ; to notice a barbed wire fence ran into ; that; cuttinga handful of flesh from ! his anatomy and ruining a 54 pair of pants. Tiie old cow took advantage | of the gap in the fence and got into ! the corn field and killed herself eat ing fodder. Hearing a racket, the wife ran out, upseta four gallon churn i full of cream into a basket of little : chickens, drowning the entire hatch. ; In her haste she drop, ed a $25 set of : teeth. The baby having been left I ! alone, crawled through the spilt milk and into the parlor, ruining a brand new $20 carpet. During the excite-1 ment the oldest daughter ran away with the hired man. the dog broke up eleven setting hens and the calves got ont and chewed the tails off of four tine shirts on the clothes line. PKESBYTEKIAN Beginning Thursday evening of this week, March 28. tliere will be an interesting series of subjects for dis cussion at the Presbyterian church, 8 p. in. The general subject is “Chris tianity and Practical Social Studies". March 28th "Religion and Politics,” April 4th “Sunday and the Labor ing Man,” April 11 “The Religion of Sanitation and Hygeine,” April IS "The church and the Peace move l ment” Hymeneal Mr. Melvin E. Sickles and Miss Orah A. Ilenrickson were united in holy matrimony yesterday (Wednes day) March 27. 1912, at high noon at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. j and Mrs. Frank Hendrickson, near i Austin, in the presence of about 50 guests. The ceremony was performed . by Dr. I). A. Leeper of the Loup City ; M. E. church. The groom is one of ! Sherman county's progressive young i farmers, while the bride is a bright , amiable and attractive young lady. ; A host of friends of the young couple | unite in wishing for them a life of j abundant happiness. Legal Notice In the District Court of Sherman County. Ne* braska: Bert P. Fiebig. Plaintiff, | vs. The Unknown Heirs j anti Devisees of ; Notice of Publicatiou. K< uben S. French. | tieceaseii. and Jo- j seph Bray. Defendants. To the unknown heirs and devisees of Reuben S Frruch. deceased, and Joseph Brav. de fendants. in the above entitled cause. You will take notice that on theW.’hday of March, 1812. the above named plaintiff tiled his petition in the district court of sherman county. Nebraska, the object aud prayer of which are to proceed against said unknown heirs and devisees without naming them, to obtain an order upon sai l defendants t»\ pub lication aud to remove the cloud cast i Plaintiff's title to lots Nin acres broke, 20 acres alfalfa, balanc ' hay and pasture. Sod house 14 x28, all finished inside; stable for 6 horses, cow barn 34x60; hay shed 40x50; double corn crib and granary 10x32 two chicken houses 14x16; good well and windmil', cistern and and water works, five acres fenced bos; tight price S32 50 per acre. Teams, cash 82500, balance five vears at 5 per cent. Must be sold by May 1st One hundred and sixty acres six miles from Arcadia and 11 miles from Loup City; 125 acres broke, balance pasture and hay land; 100 acres level, balance rolling. New 3-room hou«e, new barn for 6 head of horses and grain bin: good well, windmill and tank. Price 857.50 per acre. 83.450 cash, balance five years at 5 1-2 per cent interest with optional payments. Four hundred acres 9 miles north of Loup City, 7 1-2 miles southeast of Arcadia; 256 acres level farm ground, balance rolling and rough* fair improvements; some alfalfa; all fenced and cross-fenced; Price. 860 p* r acre. Two hundred and thirty acres; about 6 1-2 miles north west of Loup City; 50 acres broke; 12 acres in alfalfs, balance hay and pasture. Price, $30 per acre. For Sale by J. W. DOUGAL, Agent, Loup City, Nebr. Discount Sale on if Great Western Manure SPREADER At The T. HI. Reed Implement Store Tliey Must C3-o O. S. Mason, Owner Here is the Grocer’s Side of the Story So much has been said about small dealers who cheat their customers by selling underweight, aDd so on, that the following extract from a letter from a grocer, published in the April Woman's Home Companion, is inter esting: ‘•There are honest grocers, and one does not not need a lantern and tub to tind them. Look at the other side Take coffee at twenty-five cents a pound. Mrs. Smith wants ten cents worth done up in a bag (that of course i costs nothing).tied with string (that ! costs less) and delivered (which is even < less a tax on the grocer). Does she I get ten twenty-fifths of a pound? Most certainly not: and and any gro- , cer who would give it to her deserves to go into bankruptcy. This coffee; cost twenty-one and a half cents per j pound in hundred pound sacks; weigh j it out in ten-cent parcels, and you get slighty over ninety pounds. Where is the grocer's profit? “Another mistaken idea is that cash buys cheaper than credit. At j the bargain counter of any and all ! kinds of merchandise and inferior grades it may; but of staples—no, de cidedly no. If you get a staple, gro cery or meat at less than the regular piice, there is something wrong with it. “Again, if I weigh exactly and do not give downweight, I cannot keep Mrs. Bjones's trade. She never kicks at half or one once overweight on her sugar or meat and it is impossible to cut meat and shade it so finely: but if the scales do not come down with a bang, she complains of dishonest weighs, etc. And Mrs. Bjones is the persynifieation of the housewife in America. “There is another thing. Some Saturday night Mrs. Brown comes in and says:‘Mr. H., my husband was not working last week. I'd like to let my little account run over. “She is a fair customer, pays once a week or once a month, and gets her credit at ‘cash’ prices, as everyone else does in any reputable store, so it's ‘All right Mrs. Brown,' and I carry her right along for two and three months, pa ing my wholesaler every week or thirty days, as his terms may be. If she pays in the end, I'm safe; if not. I’ve lost. “Now when sick or loss of work intervenes, it is not the big ‘Cash Store,’ in the center of town, on main street, that helps the customer along: it is the little corner grocery in your neghborhood, that you have been maligning for not selling you a dollar’s worth of goods for ninety nine cents." Liniment. One cup vinegar, one cup turpen tine. one raw egg. put In bottle and t hake well A most excellent liniment foe man or beast. Preacher’s Favor Picture Shows Picture shows are swelling the congregations in Omaha churches where prayer meetings of the custo mary kind have tailed to attract. The latest of tne cnurches to try picture shows as a means of bringing out i sinners is the Southwest Methodist ; Episcopal church,of which Rev. Thos. Bithell is pastor and which will give the second of its series of t avelogues Thursday evening. The congregation flocked to the first show’ a week ago ami enjoyed it so much that the siiows are to weekly * vents. The ide i -;.n ed with Mrs. C. J. Roberts. president of the Frances Willard Women's Christian Temper ance union who gave tne first travel ogue, the subject of which was '‘New Yotk to Alasga" illustrated with postcards used in a radioptican ma chine. Tomorrow evening's enter tainment wih be on ••California,” by O. J. Pickard, who lias just returned f rom the golden west. The motive behind the shows is civic as well as social and religious, sincj the pro ceeds of the small fee are to pay the churches’ share m the tax levied for grading the street on which it is lo cated. A church which used pictures to win back an indifferent congregation stlie Presbyterian church of Benson of which Rev. Jessie C Wilson is pas tor. The congregation has increased five-fold since intrducing the pictures says Mr. Wilson. He uses Bible themes and stories, the life of Christ! and stories which have ethical value such as “Ben Hur” and “The Vicar of Wakefield.” The pioneer in picture shows for churches is Rev. M. O McLaughlin of the United Brethren church, who started them in his church early in the winter. He gives a different sub ject each Sunday evening. He de clares his congregation has increased 200 per cent since starting the shows He combines his sermons with the pictures, using one to illustrate the other. His subjects are Biblical and taken from other literature which has a religious or ethical value. “Last year, traveling through the state on Christian Endeavor work, I noticed that the people were crowd ing the theaters and neglecting the churches. The reason is psycholog ical. People receive ten times stron ger impressions through the eye than through the other senses. So I de cided to use the pictorial method in my evening services.”—Bee Seed Corn. 1 have for sale 46 bushels of Silver Mine and 36 bushels Yellow Dent seed corn t hat has been personally selected and tested and I guarantee that 95 per cent of it will grow—price #2 per bushel in one to five bushel lots, in lots of more than five bushels 11.75 per bushel delivered at railway sta tion here. Reference, any business man in this vicinity. E. Wickham, Salem, Nebraska. Mar. 21-4. Something Different **■ At Gasteyer’s Every Friday Fresh Lettuce and Radishes Parsnips English walnuts Brazil Nuts | Almonds Cocoanuts Oraages Bananas Apples Lemonc Dates: Not the kind you make, but the kind you eat. Salt Herring, White Pish. Smoked Blotters; Sweet Pickles Sour Pickles, Dill Pickles. Try fmi <£/»#>• The new cooking compound vllow* cheaper than lard, goes far ther and tastes better Casteyer’s The Quality House Established 1888 Should be an acurate time piece. The movement should not be slighted. On account of size or case ornamentation. Ladies watch- i i es from our stock aTe guuran teed to be accurate and relia ble time pieces, and, as with everything else that comes from our store, our guarantee stunda behind them. liOtr iCIWANBR FENCE POSTS AT I2C AND 250 EACH Let us Figure your bill of Lumber and all Inin.a.s of T3nll<3.irLg t MATERIAL AT THE f LEININ6ER LUMBER, CO., Loup Citv Neb Easier Terms for Government Water Rights Payments for water rights ou the government Shoshone Project in the Bifg Horn Basin are now’ $4.70 per acre first year—$1.00 per acre second year—$1.00 per acre third year, $3.40 per acre fourth year $6.00 per acre fifth, sixth, seven th eigth and ninth years, and $11 00 per acre the tenth year. No interest. 6300 acres to be opened to entry soon. 320 acre free homesteads in Campbell County, Wyo ming, g »od lor dairing, stock raising, and mixed farming, the kind that injures a steady cash income. New folders free—write me today for new folders telling ail about the c heap lands along the Burlington. Get in on the ground floor before the coming land movement starts. Homesekers rates from Eastern Nebraska every first and third Tusday. Drop your posal in the box today. D. CLEM DEAVER, Immigration Agent 1004 Farnam St, Omaha, Neb.