Loup City Northwestern
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VOLUME XXX_ LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 16. 1912 NUMBER 27
Professional Cards
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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. All calif
answered promptly.
day call, Phone 0
sight * ” 7 on 78
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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
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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
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Let us Figure your bill of
Lumber and all
kinds of .'*3vLilcLijQ.g
f MATERIAL AT THE f
LEININ6ER LUMBER. GO., Loup Citv Neb