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Loup City Northwestern ___ _ • VOLUME XXX_ LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 16. 1912 NUMBER 27 Professional Cards iio bt. p. sr Aim Attorney-at-Law, LOUP CITY. NEBMSKA NIGHTINGALE A SON kraj ai CumcmUav LOUP CITY. NEB U H. MATHEW, Anorney-at-Law, And Bonded Abstractor. Loup City, Nebraska AARON WALL Lawyer Practices in all Court! Loap City, Neb ROBERT H. MATHEW Bonded Abstracter Locr City, • Nibbaska. Osij set of Abstract books in coant] <>7fc. long AC re PHYSICIAN lid SURGEON Office. Over New Bank TELEPHONE CALL, NO. 39 A. J. KEARNS-" T» Ufflcr, t-t T* >pbooe Ceatrs! Loup City - Nebraska XsTmain PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Loup City. Nebr. (Jfltot- at Residence Telephone C onnection S. A. ALLEN. DE.TTTMST, LOi r CITY. • - XEB. Oflice up stair# in the new State alack build inr. W LMARCY, DENTIST, LOUP GITY, NEE OFFICE: East Side Public So uaie. Phone. 10 on 36 C. E. Thornton The Drayman Attend# ali order# promptly and carefully. Htcae either lumber yard or Taylor s elevator V. I. McDouall Prompt Dray Work Call lumber yard* or Taylor's elevator. -Satisfaction guaran teed. Phone 6 on 57 A i ail m 4 € mmntmrr t» mi Kore lain* Than ln« «»f Mhrr. A. L. GILBERT High Grade and Artistic ROUSE PAINTING 3732 1031*35 DO ViU PAPERING W. T, Draper The Old Reliable PLASTERER Beat of work always Phone 1« on Loup.Otr Neb. C. E. Stroud Former: j of Kuhu City. Painting, rapering and Decorating Special attention paid ti Autos and Carriage?. All tops re newed and repaired. All work guaranteed. Phone 0 Enele & Cook (••tractor* sml Builders LOI P CITY NEB. Call and see as and allow us to figure with you on above work. Allen J. Furgeson LOUP CITY, NEB Treats all disease? of all dome*ic animals. 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And also, as long as they last, we will add the map of Sherman Countv, of which we have several hundred on hand, all for only $1.50 You want your home paper, of course, and we believe yon want a live, up-to-date farm papep that is devoted to the agricultural and livestock interests of this state. Now is your time to get a bargain. We cannot make this offer fora detinate period. Use Cbis Order Coupon To take advantage of this offer fill out the coupon in the corner of this advertisement and either mail it or bring it to the office of the North western, Loup Gity, Nebraska. Date___191_ Gentlemen: I enclose herewith $I.5G for which I please send me the I -and the Nebraska Farm Journaf for one year and the new 1912 official state atlas map of Nebraska as per your offer Name ___ Address .._..... ■ ■ ■ ■ .1 TORNADO VIGTIM Teacher Writes a Letter In & letter. Miss Carrie Mills, the young school teacher who, with ! twelve pupi,*. was in the Algernon J school house when it was torn from its foundation and carried several Hundred feet by the tornado that ; swept the southeast part of the ! county two weeks ago, tells of their thrilling experience. Said Miss Mills T first noticed the clouds when it i commenced getting dark in the school room, so I dismissed the children about 3:40. not more than three min uses before the storm struck. We really hadn't time to get any place for safety. The bail broke the tran soms above the doors and the doors were blown open and we fell upon the floor. The roof was torn from the building. The children were so frightened they were frantic and I i could not keep them together at all. j The last 1 remember of being in the building. I was crouched upon the floor protecting my bead from the falling lath and plaster. Whether the i cUldren were all with me at that time I could not say, for they were screaming and crying. Then 1 suppose I we were lifted with the remainder of the building. That is as far as I have an. recolection until after the storm. 1 was found about cne hundred yards east of where the school bouse stood and was taken to Mr. West's bouse. I was bewildered and could not re member anything to speak of until 1 arrived at my boarding bouse, about a mile distant. The children came to Mr. West's bouse one by one. I think they must have fallen near the barn, ] which is about one hundred yards j from the school bouse. Two or three i of them received cuts and bruises that were quite painful. One of Mr. West's little boys said be remembered being in the school house near the black board and the next be remem bered be was sitting on the front porch at borne. It seems there was a space of time when none of the children could remember anything. My left band and arm are badly cut | and bruised: also my shoulders. My left eye that was injured is healing: the sight was not destroyed. The cut below my eye, which received four stitches, is healing. I am surely thankful that the lives of the chil dren were spared. All the school property was completely demolished, nothing except two layers of bricks of the foundation is left where the Algernon school bouse once stood. Good-bye to at least a portion of our fruit. A heavy frost crept in on this section Monday night of this week and played the deuce with fruit and garden track. When is the man who said if the snows and bad weath er held on till the 30th of April there would be no danger to the above? .J WINS STATE _MEDAL Elizabeth Erazim Wins Honors I in State Declamatory Contest Formerly a Resident of Lonp City. Ravenna people were exceedingly well pleased to learn that Elizabeth Erazim. Ravenna's representative in State High School Declamatory con test, held in Kearney, Friday evening of last week won the gold medal and second honors in the dramatic class. Miss Erazim came so near winning first place that the judges were di vided on the issue and Mr. Jesse Faes. of Madison, was the winner of the first place only by a fractional margin. Miss Erazim won the local contest and first honors in the district con test. held some time ago at Aurora,; in her presentation of “The Polish Bey,” a highly dramatic composition. Her rendition of the piece, without special training, has been such as to | win the plaudits and praise of the ex-, perts and judges. Her success is con sidered quite remarkable considering the fact that she has had practically no training as an elocutionist, and has won in all the contests in which she has participated by force of nat ural and undeveloped talent. The judges in the state contest after hear ing her splendid performance could scarcely believe that she had not spent months in special preperation, and they were unanimously of the opinion that if she should devote her self to special study she has a brill iant future in this line of work. In the oratorical class, Guy Alex ander, of Fremont, won first honors in “Toussaint L”Overture" and De Wiu. Foster of Kearney won second place in ”A Plea for Cuba,” In the humorous class Doris Chapman, of Gibbon, won first honors in “Aunt Eleanor's Hero”, and Leon Mallory, of Alliance won second in “Mrs. Casy’s visit to the Beauty Doctor.” Miss Erazim was considerably handicapped in her presentation by heavy windstorm and some disar rangement of the electric lights, which resulted in the lights going out while she was speaking. The; fierceness of the storm without and the darkness within, was disconcert ing alike to speaker and audience Miss Erazim held her place on the* stage, however, for nearly five min utes before the lights were turned on: again, when she resumed and finished, in fine form and without a break.. With a less talented speaker, or one; with leas presence of mind, the effect* of the effort would have been ruined, but in spite of this unfortunate oo i curaooeMlss Erazim made an excel e Fine Collection of Ancient Curios To be Seen Later at the Park. We had the pleasure last Suuday of seeing and examining the finest bunch of curios to be seen outside of some of the large museums, and no doubt containing many never before seen in this country. They are the property of Mr. Henry Jenner. who gathered them up while on his trip to Eng land. They are at present at his res idence and later will be placed in his elegant park for the public to see. There are guns, swords, cutlasses, daggers and war weapons of nil kinds, shapes and descriptions used by the savage tribes of Africa, India. Persia, Turkey, the South Sea Islands, shells, horns, antlers, whale teeth, elephant tusks and teeth, ancient pipes, ivory with ancient carviug, nindo gods and heathen idols of all kinds, moccasins, wooden clogs, strings of beads and wonderful bead work, and acountless multitude of strange and wonderful images and carving by civilized and uncivilized people, monstrous snake skins, samples of which he had over thirty feet in length by two feet in with, which were only portions of length and circumference of the hides of the mamouth serpents, while he has hundreds of ancient coins, many of them hundreds of years of age. the whole collection being of great value and wonderful to see and examine. Mr. Jenner has evidently a small for tune tied up in his collection and may be justly proud of it. Improvements. The way Loup City is forging ahead j along boom lines is a caution. From ! the number of new improvements in the city which have been completed, under way. and proposed, we know- of no town in the state anywhere near the size and population that can hold a candle to it. To enumerate to some i extent, outside of the large number of new residences erected the pasi j few months and the number now in ■ process of erection, there is the Electric Light plant to be in opera tion by June first, the Keystone Lumber Co.'s new office building and enormous lumber sheds, nearly completed, the Oliver Mason imple ment house going up fast, the Sehu man garage, completed and in opera j Lion, the new postoffice block ready for the wall work, the change in own ership of the St. Elmo, which is to be known as the Mil burn House, and which will be made over and up-to date. the putting in of a large number of water mains for fire protection, the great number of residents over the city patting water into their homes, and an hundred and one minor evidences of the city’s prosperity. In addition to the above, last week Felix Makowsti purchased from Mrs. Viola Odenhal. a lot just south of the court bouse square and soon the excavation for his new brick building, with pressed brick front, 25x100 feet, will be begun and rushed to completion, Henry Olson having the contract. The storeroom he now occupies, just north of the First National bank, will be remodeled as soon as be vacates it. and also the building occupied by the postoffice, the latter to be extended to the alley on the north, while the one Felix occupies will be divided up, the rear part attached to the room just above mentioned, while the front part will be divided up into two good offices for professional men. R. H. Mathew will, we understand, as we mentioned last week, soon begin the erection of Ids law office just south of the State bank. Besides the above, Mr. Henry Jenner contemplates erecting a com panion cement building adjoining the proposed new postoffice building on the south, which is proposed to be a duplicate of the same. Just west of the new proposed Makowski building, the prospects are tli&t one of our moniea men will erect a big business house of cement or brick, though at this writing arrangements have not been completed. We are also to have a new and up-to-date opera house at I the southeast corner of the public ! square, built by Mr. Thos. Daddow. : who has the plans and specifications ready and will at an early date begin the work of construction. With all . of the above, and in addition thereto, j we are assured that Mrs. Viola I 1 Ode tidal;! is completing arrangements for the building of her proposed tine fnew hotel on the corner just east of the &id St. Elmo, that it is a sure go. and parties are here figuring on the plans and specifications. And still ! further, Mr. W. S. Waite promises posuveiy tu^at he will uus summer pat up a substantial two-story brick building on the vacant lots adjoining ; Lite Society Hall building, which he recently purchased from Mellor & Long, and is only delaying the work on account of certain minor details and the fact of being called away to Mexico this week to look after the business affairs of his brother. Will, who was recently murdered by Mexi can bandits, it being absolutely nee ' essary for him to go in person to see i after the matters. Add to the above the new cement sidewalk work ordered i in by the city and contracted for and j being put in for private parties, there I is not much danger of matters going ; slow in this city for the next number ! of months. Stand up for Loup City and Sherman county, is a good slogan and proper. The Loup City Mercantile Co., is just finishing up a grocery depart ment of brick »t the south end of their merehantile building. 18x15 feet, with basement underneath the entire room, cement floor, fine toilet room and general warehouse for bulk goods in said basement. An elevator will run from basement to first floor which will be wholly given over to the grocery department, opening on the alley, which will make it very convenient for farmers loading and unloading their groceries and produce away from the rush of the main street with its immensity of travel. Besides this the Mercantile com pany has taken a wav the partition and stairway in the center of the store, making the entire length of the building. 140 feet , into one large store | room, placing the stairway leading to ! the upper floor to the west side of : the great room, and in which over : looking the main part of the build i ing Manager Larsen lias his busines office. It is a great improvement and bespeaks well for the enterprise of the Loup City Mereaneile Company. County Clerk Deiterichs new resi dence is nearing completion. Carpen ter Radcliff and men are rushing it railroad speed. The house is being wired this week by Clannce Sweet land and water is being piped in by Oliver Mason. All the boys doing good work and giving the county clerk a tine home when completed. Robt. Hinsdale has commenced his fine new home north of his feed yards. Council Contracts For Fifty-five Arc Lights At the meeting of the city council Tuesday evening of this week a con : tract was given the Loup City Mill and Light Company for fifty-five arc j lights to be installed, which will | cover all the block corners of the city, save tiie outlying districts, and give i the city one of the best lighted sys tems in the state. David H. Carson, M. D., of Drs, Higgins ft Cbrson of Grand Island, will be at Dr. Longacre’s office Thurs day. May 23. Practice limited to Diseases of the EYE, EAR. NOSE, THROAT and FITTING of GLASS ES. Parties wishing work done can consult him at that time. 4 fi $ See Loup City D 0 h CEMENT BLACK COMPANY IF YOU ARE GOING To Build a House or Barn OR AN Y KIND OF CEMENT Construction As Cellars, Caves, Sidewalks, and Floors, Call and get our prices err (STOUT, Manager Big Millinery Sale Ten Days Only, Beginning Thursday, May 23,19I2~~ A large and complete line of fresh new hats* Flowers, and veilings just from the wholesale house, will be sold at cost Children's street or school hats, 50 cents each Ladies trimmed hats, $1,50 and up Flowers per bunch 10 cents and up Veilings of best grades and fashionable colors at 18 cents and up. Some below Everybody come and get their share of bargains Miss Alta M. Johnson , - At Variety Store jW While You are in town visit The Picture Show Our pictures are instructive as well as ENTERTAINING All pictures passed by the National Board of Censorship Come and take a trip around the world with us on each day night, by seeing Pathe’s Weekly current evens A. O. LEE Hail! Hail! Hail! I If you are interested in hail insurance don’t try an experi ment but call on or write F, E. Brewer and insure in the old reliable St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co. of St. Paul, Minn., the only company that has written Hai insurance successfully for 25 Consecutive Years and have adjusted and paid their losses fairly and promptly. I also write Fire and Tornado insurance of kinds. F. E. Brewer Loup City, Neb. FENCE POSTS AT I2C AND 25C EACH i - Let us Figure your bill of Lumber and all kinds of .'*3vLilcLijQ.g f MATERIAL AT THE f LEININ6ER LUMBER. GO., Loup Citv Neb