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Stanti;! i cy/fuMur c'f ilte Game andit- CoatLl Mcrcrrj dc. *iE*b*t*ddk fpedepk: twenhibg: /Gpn,-* rjm.BuAobjMzxz: arsx.tr SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I A' lh» bf-i.-.-rir of grewt ■MmUi IX* th* t? • am tar; of the M- try •lantan’a ma in». drops dead Rrrarsr youth. Jew E!oyd. • .usteors and is xcwptsA CHAPTER II—la the r*~t during th* ta'O* 1 -vr ho-r rare S'- -ion meets a •trancer. Mi*a CarthfJe, who introduce* ' f Th- rnertwc .an aa v«a machine from wreck. CHAPTER III T!.e Mercury win* rmc a _*t as r~ vie 4«ri* from Idea Car ksle. Which he ignore*. CHAPTER !V-*t«rton BMStS M1s Car ta, jo a train T «f alight to take e and train leave- Stanton and Mi»* tVrl.sto follow la auto. will chant for Joy: *A young man mar nef is a young man married.' " It was so long since any one bad caned to talk nonsense to Stanton, no* 'c mennon airily teasing him. that be caught it* brrg'k in sheer aston ishment And then a tingling, hu man warmth and sense of comrade: ship sac -eded. It was as If he had been living in a lone!}, silent room, when unexpectedly some one opened the door and entered. “I'm too busy." he retorted only, but his tone conveyed no rebuke. They walked cm down the room and out Into the train shed. They were almost at the train itself, when Floyd st oi Tied. “Some one is calling you." he signi fied. Stanton turned, and found a pant ing. black-gow ned y oung woman be hind him. “My mistress bade me ask yoi to wait, sir." she apologised “Year mistreasT* She stepped aside, and he saw a tall, fair haired g:ri. gowned with finished nchnevk :n a motor costume of pale tan silk, who advanced with leisurely grace toward them. Miss Carlisle, sir," supplemented the maid. “There is no need for you to go,” Siantcm checked, as Floyd moved to continue on his way. "Stay here." He waa obeyed without comment. Floyd Was Seated on One of tho Waiting Room Benches Reading a Magazine. Tho maid respeetfuhy withdrew a few paces, when her mistress came up. ' W uat a place to tn- t a mao of gasolene'- greeted Valerie Carlisle, ia her low. assured tone*. “Or are you also in die*ream. Mr. Stanton, and forced to prosaic train travel 7“ Her manner was that of one meet ing an ordinary acquaintance, she held oat her hand, in its miniature tan gauntlet, with perfect ease. No one could have guessed bow unconven tional and slight had been their intro dncdoa. ”1 am going to Massachusetts,*' Stan ton anewmed as composedly. "To Massachusetts* But so aro we! At least, we had everything ar ranged to motor out to our country place. until twenty minutes ago our chauffeur was taken violently ill. Now I suppose we must go by train—" she broke the sentence, her large brown eyes sweeping Floyd with a de liberate- question and scrutiny. "Miss Carlisle. Mr. Floyd, whom you saw beside be for many hours at the Beach mo ordrome.” Stanton made the presentation. iter lace cleared swiftly, be could have said It waa relief which shot across ber expression. "Tear raw-haul' an? Is St possible? You also are going to Lowell, Mr. Floyd?" Tea. since my next work Is there," Floyd replied, unsmiling and laconic, it was evident be icd Mis* Carlisle disliked each other at sight. ■ Mr. S-.r-cr.. I era going to make you a selfiih invitat! .a. Our place is abort seventy-live aciles from New York; will you not try our new motor car and give me ti e honor of being driven .here by you? You couid go on to Lowell with us to-morrow morn lac. or. if you insisted, finish the jour ney by train after dinner." Amaaed. Stanton look< d at her. Once -iga.a be mentally ached himself what abe could want of him. "Thank you; I have arranged to take this train." he declined. “Decidedly ?“ "Decidedly. Miss Carlisle." Sbe bent ber bead, patting ber small tan shoe on the platform. She was even more handsome than his might glimpse of her had shown, with an ivory-tinted, cultivated beauty whooe one defect was coldness. "Of course. I can not urge you." she •lowly rejoined. "Bat stroll back to the depot with me. pray; I bad some thing to say." "My train." be began. "la my train alao. since you will sot take me la the motor-car. We have than enough; I Inqilrod of the con the Train, leaving ih< ' back together, followed Oy “ n “I wanted to ask you of the race. Miss Carlisle said, when th®y were quite at the end of the long platform. The speech remained unfinished. There was a shouted order, the cough of the locomotive mingled with the ring and jangle of tightening coup lings, and the Lowell express pulled out of the shod. Stanton wheeled with an ejaculation, but halted without at tempting useless pursuit. "Hoy; —“ urfort-‘n-"d Mis* Carlisle, putting aside her tan silk veils. “How very stupid of the conductor!” Stanton turned from the departing i rain to the trauauilly regretful girl. t!s straight dark brow? knitting. For . instant he could have been cer | yin that she had c me this ir.testion -Ily and by a pre-arranged plan. But xi once reason reclaimed him; he re -alled her breeding, her father’s high position and wealth, her composed worldliness, and ridiculed himself. “Since I have made you miss your train, and missed my own, I can only repeat my former suggestion,” she added, as he did not speak. “Why should you not come with my father and me in our car? It is only a three or 4.cur hour trip, and you will be so much nearer Lowell, at least. I am sorry our chauffeur is ill, so I am forced to ask you to drive. Of course, if you fear tiring yourself for a race day after tomorrow—” Stanton started to speak, then ab ruptly shrugged bis shoulders. After all, why not? “Thank you,” he returned. “I scarcely think a seveniv-tive mile run will incapacitate me.” “You will come?” Her amber eyes gk-amed vividly. “You are ; o good. Let us find my father and the car. It is at least a car worthy of you—a hi-tier than the Mercury, I confess to thinking.” “A foreign machine?” “N’o. an Atalanta Six. Martha, find pupa in the station and ask him to come out to the car.” They emerLcd by a side exit into • he noisy, dirty, sunny X*w York rtr-ef. “Is it not well designed, v ■ 11 swung?” she chalknrcd. "it is fart ca the race track—you know that. la it not handsome?" She spoke eagerly, with mote ani r->a«ior. than he ha! yet seen ivt her. '•acton ran a care!-rs trance c .er tY.e big. tan-colored automehilo i udiag by the curb. “It is a good car. ’ agree 1 ccn l rvativc’.y; privately he cor dered it bofk too biLh and too heu- y ! - rac tg wcr!:. “Only that? You r: y only Irf? Tut nic, you have no: drive a it. \Y!k • papa comes we can star;.’’ Mr. Carlisle was coming; a ipure | nervous gentleman who wore glasses set on a Roman nose, from which they -lipp'd monotcnoualy. He and Stan ton had once met at the Mercury of fice. where one was arranging for a •ire centract, and the other waa sign ing an agreement lo drive ter the nti02. They recogtiiard each mher j no*-, while Miss Carlisle concisely j outlined the situaticn. “A most astonishing affair.” com :nen:ed her father. “Very kind ol you. Mr. Stanton, Indeed. These rail road men are careless. Valerie—” Miss Carlisle declined the invitation to enter the tonneau. “I shall ride beside Mr. S-aaton,* she announced. ‘1 wish to see expert driving at close range, for once.” “Ah?” queried Stanton: suddoly the conviction that she had done thit purposely flared up anew, and with it his anger. She would have a rac ing driver for her chauffeur? Very well. He swung into the seat. Cntil they were out of the city, hs drove with a wise obedience to traffic regulations. But when the country line was reached. Stanton stopped the car. donned a small pair of gog gles from his overcoat pocket, ar.d passed his hat back to Mr. Carlisle’! care. I am sorry I had no time to get I Into motor clothes/' he fibserved, jj little too pleasantly. “Still we wil] | manage.” They made the next ten miles in * ten minutes, having a fair road. Then ! rough hills and villages somewhat 1 lowered their pace. It was a dizzying rush through a gale of wind, a birdiike cleaving of the summer air, accompa nied by the weird howl of the electric horn upon which Stanton kept a fin ger much of the time, a vision of scat tering wagons. There was a curious circumstance, i Valerie Carlisle literally cowered in her seat, pale, shivering, usually with 1 her eyes shut. Yet she, the imperious demander of her own way, uttered no remonstrance, although faintly crying out once or twice when they slid by some obvious danger of cliff or road Stanton saw, from the corner of his j eye, and speculated as he drove. "Do you think this is safe?” Mr. Car lisle found an opportunity to urge. “1 think ao, If nothing breaks.” Stan i ton called back, twisting the cat ! around a load of hay. I They reached their destination in two hours and ten minutes. When they entered the village limits and the speed fell to fifteen miles an hour, Mr. Carlisle slowly revived, and regained his breath and his glasses. His daughter released her grasp of the seat, raised a shaking hand to touch veils and bonnet, then passed a hand kerchief across her dry Ups and looked up at the man beside her. "How do you like the car?” she asked Stanton surveyed her, almost sur prised into compunction. It hasn't the Mercury's poll, tc frtarrfsrtlg frank” he sn—fiwM JH isT a trifle Tieavy and less lively. But it is a fine machine, and of course you do not want to race with it." “Of course I do not want to race with it,” she slowly assented, and averted her face from him. watch ing the streets. Stanton, unruffled as in tne New York depot, except for his wind-tossed hair, whose blackness was flecked with yellow road dust, leaned back to reclaim his hat and inouire t'-.o:r destination. When be returned to the usual method of iriving with noth hands and facing forward. Miss Car lisle had altogether recovered hi-r poise. "Speaking or racing, I have nevi-r thanked you for the ether night,” she observed, uer low tones inaudible to those behind them. “I never experi enced anything like w?f- liiiig you on the track—you c; rri .1 no rrxav be yond conventionality. 1 a ■ afraid. And o fe 1 that 1 had a share in your be wildering fiats—” The ugly mood ros > again in C tau ten. 'iou need not nave ic.t taat re sponsibility,” he 6> viurcd. “My feats, as you are please<! to call them, are shared by no one. I olive for pur poses cf my ov.-n.” She understood at once. “You mean tliai you did not race with the Duplex because' 1 wanted to see your famous driving'.” He checked the machine to permit the passage of a trolley-ear. “I had my mechanician beside me and there were two men in the Duplex,” • ss his oblique reply. “I do net amuse by brushing near assassination.” The retort was thoroughly Stanton esque. Miss Carlisle bent forward to catch the slipping dust-robe, before answering hitr., but gave an exclama tion as tiie motor abruptly fell silent. “Oh, I am so sorry! The robe caught in the switch and moved it.” "It is nothing,” he assured, stooping to remedy the tangle, and sprang out to crank the engine. He had done this very act for Floyd, two weeks .cfore; only then the stop page had been Intentional. Stanton was thinking of that incident, while he bent to seize the crank, and not cf what be was doing. But he saw Valerie Carlisle lean toward the . teering-wheel, her red lips apart and her eyes glistening, just as he pulled up the handle. "Wait!” the girl cried, a second too late. There was a sharp explosion of the mo:cr, the crank tore itself violently cut of his hand. Only Stanton’s trained swiftness and instant recoil saved him from a broken wrist. As it was, his arm fell momentarily numbed | ;;t his side, “You left the spark up," Miss Car I lisle cried again, pale and shaken. “I j tried to fix It, but you had cranked. Have you injured your arm?" Mr. Carlisle bad risen, several peo ple paused on the sidewalk, but Stan ton stood looking at the girl who ' leaned across the folded wind-shield, i He, automobile expert, racing driver, | had advanced his spark and gone out to crank his motor? His reason re belled. Yet, what other explanation? “Yrou have injured your arm? Why was I so stupid as to catch the robe and stop the engine!” He recovered himself promptly. “No, no. It is nothing, Miss Carlisle, I am not hurt,” he disclaimed. But nevertheleas he started the en gine with his left hand, her narrowed amber eyes following him. It was not far to the Carlisle place. There Stanton declined every lnvl I tation to remain, or even to enter, firmly resolved M go on to Lowell by the next train. "We will be there tomorrow, also,” Miss Carlisle informed him, in taking leave. "I am so grieved that you can not use your arm.” "You see I have used it to steer i and shift gears,” he reminded. “Yes, but you will not try to race ' so hurt?” That was what troubled her? The fear that he would not drive and she would miss the excitement of seeing him on the thin verge of death? Her beauty went out to his eyes like the Llown flame of a candle. "I shall race,” he declared curtly. He had an odd fancy as he went down the village street; it occurred to him that he would like to see Floyd. He was tired, tired to nausea of the feminine as represented by Valerie Carlisle. He would have liked ; n.-ove With a Wise Obedience tc Traffic Regulations. hunt up his mechanician and hear m :a!k frank senre, man-fashicn. ilnt of course he did nothing of tha :*d. When he arrived at Lowell he ;r.t (o a doctor and had the strained :n eared for, Instead. CHAPTER V. Tuning Up. Floyd was sitting on a railing la ■oat of the repair pits, when Stanton roe cut to the ecurse next morning, gr ~rd in chatting airily with a cou cf jovial drivers from rival cars, 'e v. cs laughing, and so were the twe rtn. Clad in correct racing costume, '-‘i time, instead of the impromptu '•■tend of the former occasion, bia bright head tilted back, his gray eyes ■irthful, Floyd vaguely suggested a .ertain charming actress and a vt. .radical Peter Pan who refused to grow up. S«antoq paused in -Lhe -----*<iw .j survey the froup. So Floyd knew the other men, and was liked by them? He had not been aware of that: he d opposed his mechanician to ba as unsocial and unfriend-making as him self. Amid the mingling sounds of cars testing and starting out oh prac tice runs, of busy workmen and me chanics, he could hear little of what was said; but the bursts of laughter came to him, and as a climax he saw George of the Duplex lean forward and slap Floyd caressingly on the ; shoulder. "Til come to your funeral, sweet child." the big, good-humored driver chaffed, by way of adieu, his boister ous tones carrying above the complex din. •‘You’re too awfully dear to stay in this hard life." Floyd’s reply was Inaudible, but he wafted the other a mocking salute, and there was a shout of merriment. Something fire-hot pierced Stanton; for the first time in bis life he felt the stab of jealousy. Jealousy, not of the exquisite Valerie Carlisle, not of some fellow-driver’s fame, but of his hired mechanician. iuc giuup, aireauy ureaaiug up, drew apart at Stanton's approach, nodding grgetln^to him. Put, beyond rt iUiui.it," ill*' Miutesf he dit>i€gaiue<I all except Floyd, opposite whom he stopped. “You seem to have nothing to do; is the machine ready?” he flung, with his ugliest intonation. Floyd slipped oft the railing and stood up, his expression flickering in momentary surprise. "All ready,” he answered, quietly businesslike under the undeserved re buke. “Get it out, then.” The other men glanced significantly at one another. “Good luck, Floyd,” wished a slim Italian driver, whose reputation equaled Stanton's own, as he turned away. The Mercury ear was out already. One of the factory men cranked it, after Stanton took his seat. Floyd was moving to take the place beside, when his eyes fell on the driver’s bandaged wrist. “What’s up?” Stanton demanded, at the exclamation. “You have hurt yo-r arm?” "Slightly. I cranked an Atalanta Six yesterday with my spark ad vanced.” The mechanician stopped with one foot on the car, looking at him. “I set my spark forward and went around in front and cranked up and wrenched my arm,” Stanton explicitly repeated. Floyd regarded him blankly, then slowly dissolved into a smile of hu morous comprehension and stepped into the car. “T hod no right to ask, of course,” lie agreed. “I beg your pardon. Curious people should expect to hear nonsense.” Floyd believed himself pat off with an obvious tale, as cne reproves a too-i.nportunate child, so impossible lie considered such carelessness. And Stanton wholly coincided with his judgment. Only, the fact remained. The little episode had relieved the atmosphere, however, and restored naturalness of speec h. They shot down the course, in the sweet country air, and the day’s -work had commenced. Then Stanton had his first exhibition of what Floyd called tuning up his met or. “Got her all the way up?” shouted the mechanician, when they let out on the first straight stretch. Stanton nodded, fully occupied; the speedometer was indicating eighty fcur miles an hour. “Step her—she needs fixing." It was Floyd's hour of empire. Stan ton brought his car to a halt In an ap propriate situation, and the mechani cian sprang out to investigate the un heeded power-plant. “Now we'll try. She Is good for ninety an hour," he panted, returning. Stanton accordingly restarted. They spent the morning so; speed ing furiously, stopping for Floyd to fuss with one thing or another, watch ing the speedometer. Floyd listened to the engine as to a speaking voice, translating its plaint unerringly and going to remedy the cause. As the as sistant manager bad said, he was a gasolene freak, a clairvoyant magician of delicate touches and manipulation. At twelve o’clock the Mercury came to its camp and stepped. “How is she doing?” inquired Mr. Green. “You made that last circuit a record breaker, f can tell yon.” “Up to ninety-two miles an hour,” Stanton reported with brevity. “It never did »o well before. Get out, Floyd.” Flcyd got out, flushed, tired, bis heavy hair clinging in damp ring^ to his temples, but sunnily content. Mr. Green contemplated him anxiously; be had heard an account of Stanton* morning greeting to his mechanician,, and he was not pleased at the pros pect of having to find another man to £11 his place. “How,” he hesitated, testing his way, “how are you—er—feeling, Floyd?” “Hungry,” answered Floyd, p; om/ t ly ar.d unexpectedly. 'the boyish freshness of it hroug’ .t a smile to the lips of every one wf thin hearing. The assistant manager chuckled outright In his relict. “There* seme kind ot cuts, in a stand over there,” volume* red a grin ning reporter from a Co* ton icwsra per, “if you can hear tkeni. Say, Flcyd, do you know, 1 guest if you had a sister sh«*d bo a right, pretty girl.” “I have got one,” was the serene return. “You have? Can I ask what she lochs like?” “Jubt like me; wn're twins,” be re . plied absently, his eyes dwelling on the Mercury. The description accorded so oddly with' his appearance, as he stood in k's rumpled attirs. hi; serl jus face To be continued Reward of Merit. “I see one of our big corporations is going to do something for its old j clerks.” “Good enough! What form ! will it take?” “Well, after a man has I been with ‘hem 25 years, they're go ing to give him a gold stripe on his sleeve.”—Louisville Courier-Journak Here’s a Real Bargain Big 1912 Atlas Map FREE To the Northwestern Readers Here is an opportunity for your friends and our friends to obtain a yearly subscription to the Northwestern n yearly subscription to the Neb raska Farm Journal and the new 1912 official Atlas map of Nebraska. 1 MM FOB $1.50 This is the best offer we have ever made. 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And also, as long as they last, we will add the map of Sherman County, of which we have several hundred on hand, all for only $1.50 You want your home paper, of course, aud we believe you want alive, up-to-date farm paper that is devoted to the agriculturial and livestock interests of this state. Now is your time to get a bargain. We cannot make this offer fora definate 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 City, Nebraska. Date.......191 Gentlemen: I enclose herewith $1.50 for which please send me the .. and the Nebraska Farm Journaf for one year and the new 1912 official state atlas map of Nebraska as per your offer Name .... . ^ Address ... —————a—^—————^i— LOOK TO THE BABY’S TEETH They Mutt Be Cared for to Give the Uttle One Health and Comfort. If you were to put one good apple into a basket of bad ones, what would happen to that apple? It would decay, of course. Tet, you parents are al lowing something far more precious and of a life value to your child to de-1 cay because of neglect. What do I mean? Just this—you are allowing that child, who does not know what he is doing, to neglect his teeth, and you say: "It’s only his baby teeth; he will soon shed them.” Do yon know that when he Is six years old a permanent jaw-tocth. or six-yeai molar, as they are called, will come in just back of his baby teeth? It is often mistaken tor a baby tooth, and consequently it is neglected. He never sheds that tooth, and it is th6 most imporcint one in his mouth. If it comes into a dirty, uncared for mouth, where every other tooth is decayed, <b>cso’t It strad to reason It will decay; also? "Oh, well,” you say, “it's just cm tooth; pull it out.” Why not say: “Oh. well. It's just one eye; take it out; he can see with the, other?” Aacther reason for earing for baby teeth is to give the child comfort ’ With ordinary t are a child need never hstfc a toothache, nor the haunting fear of the dentist. From the time a child is three ytsars old a dentist should examine! its teeth every four months. Then it the first sign of a j cavity he may fi’ 1 it without the slight- j est annoy mce to the chili, and with j very litth expense- to the parent. If, however, you Is „ the tooth decay until it aches and taen h.»ve it pulled be fore jts dae. e>u car expect a crowd ed, uneven rt-w o.' -econu teeth for the reasca that wh-n the first tooth is pulled it retard: -.he normal devel- . opmeiA cf the jaw, and there is not f room oncigii tor the other teeth. Of cot rse it goes without saying j that, rde: nicies3 is th» one most essen | tU thit:g neojssary. From the mo- ^ me®. a child can be taught to spit i things from the mouth it should have Us teeth brus hod with a toothbrush I ar d a good tooth powder or paste be fr<rr» going to bed. “Why at night? you nsk. Because at any other time the .eaih will sotm be in use again while if done just before retiring they remit! clean ten hours or more. 1! ffi ht add that tills is the best rule | i'f.r grows:-np chlMren. After a child has all his perma-1 nent teeth (which, with the exception of wisdom, teeth, he should have at i about tw dve or thirteen years of j age), then comes the big fight to keep them, and with Just a little precaution they can be kept an entire lifetime It Is not necessary to visit the dentist so often now for examination; 1 should say. in ordinary- cases, twice a year would be sufficient to protect them. This is the more economical ■ plan by far, and a dentist's bills should be tool teal upor as an ii.vest ment. for we nil realize that an ounce ■ of prevention is worth many pounds, of cure.—Anna Mae Roiierts. (Copyright. Western Xew spa per TJnicn.) j REAL DENTISTRY IS MODERN' Moat of the Improvemonti* Have Been Brought About Wit tin the Last Ccutury. In some of the ruins of Egypt are engravings representing a man iving on his bat -k, while mjfher stan* mg over l£m pounding « '. tooth w.th | « a rock. T lir is pr m ;b . - dentistry and while I : -dght ee:n > i>e severe I yet, no det b it b -on .ht a mem arc of relief. U irvisc vud • xtrems measures zc M n' : J-r.v- 1 run ro se rtod to. In Chin . i‘ is Eii nrieti i- m: goes to tkt! native ti> it .3 . for r- li from the - oo A ache, . is t-o i 3u_ ,pro«5pdure_ .fo£_ the. .desistto. insert uis ffEger in tbe patient's mouth, and on removing jt, show him a worm which he says he has withdrawn from the tooth, and which, was causing the ache. This procedure, so we are told, usually stops the ache. These primitive methods are a fa: cry from the scientific attitude of the profession today, yet t ost cf the ir. provement has been trcnrht about . in the last one hundret. years. The causes of this rapid develop ment have been ninny, the rap:.' growth of knowledge in ether lines or work, the formnticn oi dental col leges, the invention and manufacture of useful instruments, ar.d the scien tific study of the mouth ani its dis eases. There is one other thing which has brought about this marvelous growth which is perhaps more important than ail the otuer causes, combined, and that is tbe professional spirit. It used to be the thing, if a dentist mace an improvement, to hide it from his brother dentist, so that he might reap the benefit alone. Many a se cret. or invention, has died with tho dentist originating it. In time this profession began to progress by leaps and bounds. Nowadays, if a dentist covers anything new that is good, he carries it to his society and ex plains it to every one, so that all may get the benefit. He goes to the con vention with one new idea and brings hack a hundred, and both he and the public are benefited! {Copyright, Western Newspaper Union.) Although there is never arv scarc ity of candidates, listen closely and ) on can alwavs hear that ruV.ic offi • ials are underpaid.—Atchiscn (Hun.) > tiobc. Temptation doesn’t have to make i hr it sc very alluring to get sort - i - i.table at it! SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS (Continued from last week,) Loup City, June 20, 1912. County board of equalization met at the court house at 1 p. m.. pur suant to adjournment of June 14. All members except Jensen present, also county attorney. On motion the following reductions were made on valuations: E1-2 nw 1-4 8-15-16 reduced 8800 00 Se 1-4 8-15-16 reduced 800 00 Opinion of attorney general was read in which he holds that the board of equalization has the right to increase or decrease the aggregate valuation of property in the county as brought in by the assessor. On motion the valuation of improve ments on block 5 Hogue's Add. to L.C. was ordered stricken from assess ment list, said improvements no: existing. Loup City, June 21, 1912 j Board met as per adjournment of ; yesterday at 9 a. m. On motion the valuation of all property in Loup City was reduced 25 per cent. The petitions presented by R. H. Mathew for others, asking for further reduction L. C. property were on motion denied. The valuation on the nel4 24 15-15 was on motion reduced 8800 00 On motion the petitions for further reductions of A. B. Young, Matilda Wharton, J. W. Burleigh, A. J. John son and W. E. Henry were denied. The valuation on nel4 12-15-14 was reduced 82000 and on same sec. 82000. On petition of E. F. Brewer, the valuations on lots 21 to 24, blk. 6, L. A K. add. to L. C. was reduced 8215 and on lobs 9 and 10, bik. 13, same add was reduced $50. Petition asking for reduction of valuation on n‘2 sec. 28 and lots 3 and 4 22-14-14 was on motion denied. Board adjourned to meet to-mor row at 9 a. m. Loup City, June 22, 191:;. Board met as per adjournment of yesterday, same attendance of mem bers. On motion the valuation of shop of Ed Radeliffe on blk 7, original town L. C. was rednced $550.00. Loup City village, $129.38 per lot: Ashton village, $68.41; Hazard village lowered 25 per cent. $50.09: Litchfield village raised 60 per cent, $50.09 per lot; Rockville raised 10 per cent, $31.47 per lot. On motion the township valuations were equalized as follows per acre; Bristol $31.49. Hazard $30.22, Ashton $29.53. Harrison raised 21J per cent, $29.26, Rockville raised 20 per cent, $27.66„Logan $28.40, Loup City $28.41, Scott lowered 10 per cent $25.59, Clay raised 25 per cent $25.06, Webster rais$d 10 per cent $20.30, Elm lowered 10 per cent $25.14, Oak Creek $25.10, Washington raised 10 per cent $19.03. An on horses the valuations were equalized on motion as follows per head Oak Creek $12.10. Logan $12.38, Wash ington $12.35, Elm $13.83, Webster / $12.61, city of Loup City $11.86, Loup City •$11.63. Ashton village $10.34, Ashton $12.84, Rockville village$11.12. Rockville $12.27, Clay raised 15 per cent $10.83, Litchfield $12.12, Harri son lowered 10 per cent $14.76, Scott $12.48, Hazard $12.18, Bristol $11.54. On motion the valuations of cattle, hogs and sheep to remain as brought in by the assessors. On motion board of equalization adjourned to meet August 6, 1912. W. C. Deitkrichs County Clerk Loup City 4, Ravenna 3 Our Loup City boys certainly wiped out a goodly number of their past defeats last Thursday afternoon by defeating Ravenna by a score of 4 to 3, in a hardly-fought closely contested 14 inning game. The game was a most interesting one from start to linisli, and it w as only in the last half of the fourteenth inning that the home team scored the deciding tally which gave them the best and most ■ .. -r closely contested game of the season. L>o it some more, boys: Following is the score. Ravenna ah r h o a e Hallet, cf 6 0 12 0 1 Thompson, 3d 5 110 10 Springer, ss 6 0 0 1 2 2 Greenslit, c o o 1 1 1 o Marke, 2d 6 0 o 2 0 0 Buea. 1st 6 0 1 5 0 0 Basteel. p 5 112 2 0 Bemish, If 5 1 2 0 3 0 Kostel, rf 5 0 0 1 0 0 Totals 51 3 7 14 9 3 Koup City Prichard, cf 6 2 2 2 1 0 Burt, 3d 5 0 2 0 2 0 Gilbert, p 6 110 3 0 Zyke, 2nd 5 0 0 2 1 1 Grew, ss 5 0 0 0 0 3 KilleeD, rf o 0 1 1 0 0 Rowe. 1st 5 0 1 > 2 2 Reed If 5 1 2 2 0 0 Johnson, c 0 0 0 ,1 '■ Totals 48 4 9 16 11 6 Rayenna— , „ Runs 1100001000000 3 Hits 1200100101010 7 Lou p City— Runs 0001010010001 4 Hits 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 9 Home run, Pritchard; 3 base hits, Casteel: 2 base hits Greenslit, Best 2; strnck out by Gilbert 20; by Casteel 16; stolen bases Loup City 0, Ravenna 8 Time 2:45. Umpire, Thompson " -
