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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXXI _LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 31. 1913 NUMBERS • rROFESSIONM CARDS BOBT. P. STARR Attorney-at-Law, LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. NIGHTINGALE & SON Attay ui CnimumUav LOUP CITY. NEB ' H. H. MATHEW, Attorney-at-Law, And Bonded Abstractor, Loup City, Nebraska AABON WALL Xj a. -w tt- e r Practices in all Courts loipCity, Neb. | ROBERT H. MATHEW Bonded Abstracter Loir City, - Nebraska. Ouly set of Abstract books id county O. E. LONGACRE Office, Over New Bank. / TELEPHONE CALL, NO. 39 ' A. J. KEARNS Phone, 30. Office at Residence Two Doors East of Telephone Central Luiip City, - Nebraska ASM AIN PiiYSIGIAN aid SURGEON Loup City, Nebr. Office at Residence, Telephone Connection J, E. Bowman M. D. Carrie L. Bowman M. D. j BOWMAN & BOWMAN i l - | Physicians and Snrgeorts Phone 114 Loup City, >abra*ka — —---- -.. \ Dr. James F Blanchard OSTEOPATH I ST Office hours 1 p. m. uutil 5:30 p. m. only S. A. ALLEN, dejvtist, loup crnr, • - neb. Office up stairs in the new State dank buildinc. w, lTmarcy, DE2NT1BT9 LOUP SITY, NEE OFFICE: East Side Public Sauaie. Phone, Brown 116 V. I. McDonall Prompt Dray Work Call lumber yards or Taylor’^ elevator. Satislaction guaran teed. Phone Brown 57 C. a. SWEETLAND PLUMBER AND ELECTRICIAN For good clean and neat work Satisfaction Guaranteed Come and get my price* Contractor and Plasterer Phone White«70 Give me a call and get my prices. I will treat you right. Satisfaction Guaranted H. KREBS Funeral Director Licensed Embalmer Business Phone Black 65 Loup City, Nebraska FRANK & ADAMS General Blacksmithirg H<rse Stoeing and Wood work Coma in and see me. - Cow Testing Association «—h Such an Organization Recom mended for this Territory RUSSELL SNYDER’S WORK Same of the Interesting Facts De veloped in this Work_Some Facts and Figures Mr. Russel Snyder, son of Mr. C. Snyder of Ravenna, has been in charge of the operations conduct ed by the Merrick Cow Testing Association, for the past five months. This work is carried on under the supervision of the state and national agricultural depart ments , and Mr. Snyder, who is a graduate of the Agricultural Col lege of Nebraska, and one of the honor men of his class, has proven to have special fitness for the work, and is making a fine record in the work assigned him. The Messrs. Snyder, father and son, were callers at this office on Saturday, and considerable inter esting information was gained from the younger man as to the purpose of the Cow Testing Asso ciations and the results achieved, and the possibility of organizing a similar association in this terri tory was discussed at length. ' Mr. Snyder says that at least 325 milch cows located in adjacent territory is necessary for a prac tical and successful testing cam paign. The charge is $1.25 per head per year, the minimum charge being $14. This means that a dairyman must pay at least $14 a year to include liis herd in the test. If he has to exceed 11 cows in the herd the charge is $1.25 per head additional. To show the interesting things a campaign of this kind develops, Mr. Snyder referred to three herds in the Merrick County As sociation. One herd of twelve Shorthorn milch cows returned the owner a net profit of but 95c for the first five months of 1913. This herd was owned, by the way by a man who did not believe in silos. Another herd of 12 Short horn cows, one-half mile distant from the first, fed on silage and alfalfa hay, returned the owner a net profit of $1^1 during the same time. A third herd of 30 Short horn cows showed a net loss of $58.69 in four months, at the end of which time the owner disposed of the entire bunch and replaced them with a herd of fifteen Hol stein cows. To show the difference, between the Shorthorns aud the Holsteins, Nr. Snoder referred to a herd of 13 Holstein cows of only average quality, which showed a net profit to the owner of $500 in five I months. The method of determining the 1 performance of individual cows is quite simple. One day in each month the milk from each cow is weighed and tested for butterfat. The production for the month is | determined by multiplying her daily production by 80, and the value thereof is computed at the average price prevailirg for but terfat during the month. The different feeds consumed by the cow on the same day is weighed, and its value computed at the prevailing price, and its value for the modth determined by multi ploing by the number of days in the month. The value, of the skimmed milk is figured on a basis of 22c per hundred, and is reck oned the calf and the skimmed milk pays for the expense of handling. The cost of feed is deducted from the gross product of the cow, thus determining the net loss or profit from each indi vidual cow. In the opinion of Mr. Snyder it is probable that at the end of the first year’s test that every man who is milking Shorthorns will replace them with dairy breeds, probably Holsteins, which he con 1 siders ^without doubt the best all round breed for the averag< Nebraska farm. He has a higi \ opinion of the Holstein breed for milk production and says they do fairly well in the feed lot, and says that it is an established fact that Holstein veal commonly tops the market. The University feed iny experiments show, he de clares, that the Holsteins compare quite favo'rably with most of the best breeds of cattle. In Mr. Snyder’s opinion land is growing too high-priced in cen tral and eastern Nebraska, to make it a profitable business prop osition to keep a cow only for her increase. He says that it has been determined by thorough ex periments in sections of the state where land is more valued at from $100 to $150 per acre, that it re quires an acre and a half of such land to keep a cow seventy-five, days, while the same ground, if in cultivation and producing corn si lage and alfalfa will keep the same cow 366 days. Mr. Snyder says that the Cow Testing Associations are proving popular among the farmers and it is considered that the money is well si>ent in maintaining them. The Agricultural department of the Nebraska University is doing everything to encourage the or ganization of these associations, and a movement is now on to or ganize associations at Dannebrog and Ord, this state, and he would like to see a movement started to this end in the territory between Ravenna and Broken Bow. Mr. Snyder is thoroughly post ed on the subject and is a very in teresting man to talk to. He has youth iand enthusiasm coupled with technical knowledge acquired in college and in the field, all of which admirably fits him for the work he is engaged in.—Ravenna News. Would Abolish the Making of Liquor Senator Works’ Proposed Con stitutional Amendment to This fcffect Proposed to Allow Three Years for Adjustment of Business A constitutional amendment to prohibit the ‘sale, manufacture and importation of distilled liquor con taining alcohol, except for mechani cal, scientific and medicinal pur poses,” was proposed by Senator Works. The amendment would allow three years for the adjournment of the liquor business before it became ef fective. Senator Works said he had become convinced that the only way todeal effectually with the big traffic is to prohibit the manufacture or im portation of liquor. The Local Paper ' Each year every local paper gives from one to five hundred dollars in free lines for the benefit of the com munity in which it is located. No other agency can or will.do this. The local editor, in proportion to his means, does more for his town than any other ten men and in fairness, man to man, ought to be supported, not because you like him or admire his writing but because the local pa per is the best investment a commu nity can make. It may not be brilli ant or crowded with great thoughts, but financially it is more of a benefit to a community than a preacher or a teacher. Understand us, we do not mean morally or intellectually, but financially; and yet,' on the moral question you will find the majority of the local papers are on the right side of the question. Today the local papers do the most work fo'r the least money than any people living_Ex. The Wicked Express Companies We are constantly hearing com plaint about the high cost of living. The pessimist, who is always with us cries out that we are taxed from the cradle to the grave; but the worst, it seems, is yet to come. The Penn sylvania state anatomical board, which has charge of the pleasant task of the distribution of the bodies of the unclaimed dead to medical schools has complained to the railroad com mission that the express companies are about to double the rates for car rying this class of freight. The only explanation of it is that the express companies, being no longer allowed to I practice extortion on the living, pre pose to take it out on the dead.— Philadelphia Inquirer. Chautauqua Gomes Again Next Year Business Men Take Matter in Hand and Change Methods. The Chautauqua will be with us again next year. This was settled by a bunch of the business men at a meeting previous to the close of the Chautauqua season. The method which has been in vogue from the first time the Chausauqua was with us was found very unsatisfactory, that of guaranteeing the sale of a certain number of tickets by individ uals, and so the business men have taken the sale of tickets in charge and as a whole sign a paper to tiie effect that they guarantee the sale of $ti00 worth of tickets, said tickets to be on sale in from three to six places, the business men standing good for the total sale and to make good any number not sold. The Chautauqua just closed developed the fact that a number of those guaranteeing and paying for a certain number of tickets got cold feet and some of them sold their tickets at a discount in fear of having some left unsold, which com pletely disarranged sales, many pur chasers holding off their buying until the last moment, thinking that they could secure them at a cut rate. By the new arrangement season tickets will be held at the regular price, and all cuts will be eliminated. several good features were inaugu rated at the recent Chautauqua which give promise of doing much good for the community. Among them is the Supervised Play Ground idea, the Domestic Science stunt, in which the women, girls and boys, as well as men, will have part. The Domestic Science idea will be divided in two parts. Our B. of E. club composed of Loup City’s best young ladies, and the younger generation, with the ladies of the P. E. O. standing as sponsors, will comprise the two sections of the Domestic Science work. These les sous will be furnished by the Chau tauqua management, and cannot fail of making good along the lines of housekeeping. While the Chautauqua just over was in some respects riot up to former standards, yet there was enough good to amply repay th<jSc wttotflcd and parted with their iSdney, while the new ideas formed and to be put in operation will undoubtedly prove of untold value to both old and yoong of our community. One of the nice suggestions of the last Chautauqua is that of supervised play. We believe that too much stress cannot be put on this import ant suggestion. The children on the play ground find their place to be that of rooters for other players, or observers from the side lines, has been known by the parents of small and weak children for ali time. In the ball games the strong and hardy find themselves engaged on the team, but that only takes a few and it is the strong ones who are chosen. The ones in fact who can best forego the exercise, while the weak and small who most need the exercisj are the ones who are put out of the game for the very good reasoo that the team is organized to win and there is no room on the winning team for weak folks. Thus we see that the object of this play ground is practically lost, where as under supervised play competitive games are not introduced to the ex clusion of the little folks, but when ball is introduced among boys of one age another game is started to inter est those of different ages. The thought is that all should have exer cise at play time. We saw little 4 year old children playing on the court house lawn together with the chil dren of forty, aftd all seemed to be enjoying themselves. Some thiik that no one but Miss Proctor can interest the children in this way but we believe that any of the six teach ers of our schools can iuterest the the pupils in their department and. that it will be a great help to the teacher in that all of us need exer cise; and then the pupils who know their teacher as a play director will have quite a different idea of him or her than if they only know them as hearers of lessons and someone who tells them how to march in the halls. The educational feature of directed play is not to be overlooked. Many good lessons will be learned on the school ground as to politeness, march ing and trustworthiness, which is so important in tjhe young man or wom an. Supervised play will do away with the playground lights and other occasions of abuse when teachers and parents can not tell whether a child has been hurt or whether it is crying for effect. Again, if we have supervised play on the school ground the influence of the bo£ or girl with the wrong ideas will not prevail but all such will be stopped by the presence of the teach er. If this plan is put into practice by the school faculty ahd by the school board this year they will ever have our esteem and appreciation, f We are not sure that the faculty or > any member of the faculty can inaug ' ' / nrate any such plan as suggested, hut if the school board makes the order that s > far as possio e the intermis sions of play shall he supervised b\ the'teachers of the various depart ments then there will he unity in the effort and it will not he aborted in the start. Our coming superintend ent, who, we are sure, is interested in supervised play will then have the hacking that all teachers in charge must have. The suggestion lias teen well re ceived by many of the people of the town who have taken pains to look into the matter and an attempt lias been made to give supervised play during the summer but it is to be conducted by housewives and busi ness men whose contact with the children is somewhat remote and who for various reasons may find it impos sible.at all times to meet as intended but if the idea shall get hold of our' school board and school /acuity then ' we feel that a great thing lias been accomplished. Here is strength to the arm that puts the suggestion into practice. Other towns are taking up the sug gestion as never before. Let Loup City not be behind. Good Man Galled Home i Earthly Career of Well Known Char-j acter Ends in Death of Wm. Cox William Cox, whose death on aj farm near Loup City, was briefly ; chronicled in these columns last i week, was born at Oswego, Illi-1 nois, August 11, 1844, being 68 j years, 11 months and 6 days old.! He was one of ten children, of 1 whom four brothers, James M., Joshua, Levi and Reuben, are well known in this section. He was'married in 1870 at Plano. III., to Miss Clara Henning, who with three sons and one daughter, Charles, Fred, Loren and Hattie, survive him. Three other chil- ' dren born to this union are dead. Mr. Cox came to Hamilton Co. in the early 80 "s and settled on a ; farm now owned by T. M. Scott, j The family resided there until about ten years ago. when they re-1 moved to Aurora. Last winter' Mr. Cox purchased a farm in i Sherman county and in the spring went there with his wife to keep house for his son Loren, who was managing it. About a month ago his health began to fail and rela tives were hastily summoned to his bedside. They returned after a few days believing him to be in no immediate danger. A sudden collapse due to heart failure ended his career at 5 o’clock Thursday morning July 17. The body was brought. to Aurora for burial, funeral services being held at the Methodist church by Rev. Buck ner Saturday afternoon. The universal esteem in which Mr. Cox was held was manifested by the large number of people who paid silent, tribute to his memory on that occasion. Of the lite of VV llliam Cox it can be truthfully said that the world is better for his having lived in it. He was a man of gen erous impulses and seemed never to forget the hospitable ways of j the pioneer. Like many in this county Mr. Cox had suffered vi cissitudes in years gone by, but he bore adversity bravely and in 1 later years enjoyed prosperity without ostentation. He was a man of fine habits and fine moral character, an independent thinker, clear-minded and logical. There was a charm about his daily life that won every heart. In tem perament he was gentle and can did and yet remarkable for an uncompromising firmness in de fense of his ideals. He gained the confidence of men when he seemed least to seek it. To be counted a friend of William Cox meant more than friendship as measured by the usual standards. Those who claimed this privilege regarded him more as a brother than as a friend. When he died, the grief that was felt over the close of his career was wide-spread and sincere. His best monument will be the good report that he has left in the community in which he lived for many years. He filled the var ious relations of life as son, .hus band, father, brother, friend, and filled them well. God never cre ated a man that could do more.— Aurora Republican. |the home of| • • | Quality Groceries | Come Give us a trial! 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