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LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY. LIST OPEN TO PATRQNS’AT ALL TIMES. Loup City Northwestern THANKS YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ALL ITEMS OF NEWS YOU MAY1CONTRIBUTE VOLUME XXXI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1913. NUMBER 52 LAUNDRY GIRL HAS HAND MANGLED St Paul Girl Catches Kami in Steam Mangle and So Badly Crushed That Amputation Was Necessary. ACCIBENT MORE OR LESS CARELESSNESS Some months since an Ord woman working in a laundry had her arm caught in the steam mangle, re sulting in the loss of that arm. One day last week, a girl, named Saduski, working in a steam laun dry at St. Paul had a hand caugnt in the steam mangle and so badly crushed that it had to be amputa ted. The accident was more or less due to carelessness, as at the time she was talking to some one and was not watching closely, the rollers suddenly catching the hand and drawing it between them be fore she could stop the machine. She was feeding sheets and had the guard off, as operators do ' LOCAL LEAGUE HOLDS MEETING Editor Webster Selected as President G.A.Gills of Farwell, Secretary. ALL DISPOTFS SETTLED BY THEM. The annual meeting of the Sher man-Howard base ball league was held at St Paul ast week Tues day* at which all the old officers were re-elected, Editor Webster of the Phonograph president and G. A. Gilla of Farwell secretary shall settle all disputes. If Loup City gets into the league next year it is claimed that St. Paul will stay in, but otherwise St Paul has not decided. The officers claim the finances of the league are in good condition and hope for a prosperous next year’s season. ALONG ROUTE TWO Oscar Bechthold autoed out on route two Monday. Herman Jung hauled a load of corn to Loup City Saturday. John E. Peterson did a lot of fine work on the roads this fall. Ed Shipley had a load of grain on the Loup City markets Saturday. Roy and Marvin Watson attended Sunday school at Loup City Sunday. Fred Johnson and Yern Alleman butchered last week. Miss Mable Slawson returned to Omaha last week after several d&vs’ visit at the home of H. W. Brodock. J W. Cowling was out after his daughter Vida at the Bichel school last Friday. Frank Lorchick, Mike Kaminski and Bert Curtis have been hauling a house on the route. Mrs. W. O. Brown and son Colonel came home from their Eastern trip last Satu rday. Fritz Bichel bought several thor oughbred cattle while away from home some time ago. They were all ' white faces. J. E. Rousch and Henry Kuhl had their wheat threshed this week. Tiiese are the best jobs on the route. Ondrake threshing outfit did the job. Those who donated work in claying the road from the Hughes school house to Oltjenbruns were W.„0. Brt.wn, C. J. Nordstedt, Oltjenbruns, Will Hawk, A. Rettenmayer. C. O. J .hnson, H. Jung, John Gallaway, Frank Daddow. Clarence Burt, James Me Beth and J. W. Conger. While Clarence Gallaw&y was play ing ball at school one day last week, he in some way got hit on the left cheek bone just below the eye. At first he thought little about it, but a few days later it commenced swelling and pained severely. He was taken to a doctor Sunday and had it lanced. It is hoped that in a few days be will be feeling better. The pain is in tense. While Henry Biel el was hauling hay last Thursday he started to light f his pipe when a spark-dropped in the hay setting it on fire. It took quick y, ... - * • * f > after they get used to the work. It was a sister of the Saduski girl who was shot by a jealous lover at Grand Island a couple of weeks ago. Mrs. L. Banks Hale and little daugh ter of Manville, Wyo., arrived in Loup City Saturday last and visited over Sunday at the home of M. C. Mulick, she being on an extended visit with her parents at Grand Island. L.Banks will also come from his Wyoming home this week to Grand Island to join wife and baby and ma^come on up to Loup City to spend a day or two with old friends. SURPRISED ON SILVERWEDDING A jolly crowd surprised Mr. and Mrs. George Whitaker at their home, last Wednesday even ing, in honor of their twenty fifth wedding anniversary, they brought with them baskets of good things to eat, and left a lovely parlor lamp as a token of their friendship and good wishes. BIG PRAIRIE FIRE MOWING SOUTH Started November Second Near Rose .bud Reservation. DOING BIG DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. A big prairie fire started near the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota Nov. 2nd Is traveling southward and eating up much property north of Valentine, causing much alarm as it proceeds. Thousands upon thousands of best grazing lands have already been devasted and strenuous efforts are being made to arrest its progress, but exceeding high winds make all ef forts of little avail. RETURNFROM WISCONSIN TRIP John W. Long returned home Monday evening of this week, W. R. Mellor accompanying him to explain just where he and John had been “at to.” They came dir ect from Madison, Wis., where they went to visit Dr. Roach, and incidentally to take in the Wis consin-Minnesota football game in that city, of which National pas time both gentlemen, in fact all three, are enthusiastic rooters. Messrs. Mellor and long also stopped over a day in Chicago en route to Madison. Old gentleman Schroth, living in the northwest part of this city, who has been quite feeble for some time, is growing weaker daily and ; no hopes are entertained for his I ultimate recovery. Later, Mr. Schrouth died Wednesday morn ing at!0:30. Lucky Home People In Land Drawing The close of the land drawing at North Platte last Wednesday even ing showed quite a number more lucky home people if drawing four figures may be so termed, to be added to those mentioned last week in our columns. The additional holders of numbers drawn by Loup City people were'- 1002-E. J. Pugsley, 1009-C. C. Cooper, 1070 Jesse W. Fletcher, 1158-Chas. S. Fulton, 1277-Homer W. Hughes, 1697-Tony Gzehoviak. L i t ch fieldians also oame in for a few l more numbers, as follows: 1092 i T. J, Carlsen, 1749-Lewis Engle man, 1858 James Nelson, 1942 Harvey Nelson. Our dandy little village of Rock 1 ville seemed to be nearly left out in the c#ld, as one securer of a number came from there, in the person of Alex Cynova, who just got in under the canvas with No. 1 1926. , And now it appears that our fortunate young friend, Clark I Reynolds, is even more lucky than ' his capture of No. 3 in the draw ing would seem to indicate, in that it is rumored that the holder of No. 2 has enough land in his name to bar him from taking ad vantage of his number, and that Clark will thereby fall heir to No. 2, by reason therof. We’ll bet our chance in the drawing against any sum that an astrologist would read Clark’s as being born under a lucky star. And now, again, copses the question of the government engag ed in the lottery business. Some years ago the government put the Louisiana lottery out of business as fraudulent and illegitimate, and is now engaging in the same kind of work. If a merchant or citizen engages in any kind of chance, even down to a slot machine, the powers jump onto his frame and flatten him out. That being the case how can the government put up the same kind of a game with its people? If ihe others are il legitmate, would not the higher courts comdemn and knock out the governmental acts along the same line? Think it over. - ■ -1 work to get the team unhitched from , the load as in almost a moment of time the load of ha; was one roaring furnace. The hayrack, wagon a con ' tents burned to the ground. It also set fire to the prairie and it took some more fast work bo get it under con trol, As it was, it burned over sev r era! acres until it reached plowed I ground. Had the wind been in the . south hundred of tons of bay would , have been burned. Ed Flynn, Fritz Bicbel and Henry > Obermiller were helping the road » boss, John Peterson, work the road along Fritz* Bichel’s home last week. - Nothing pleases ru>al carriers more , than to see the road bosses working the roads, and especially when thev i leave them in good shape. i Ralph Teeters was hauling corn on > the route last Thursday. E. B. Corning did surveying down j between Hazard and Clay and in Scott . townships the past week. Mrs. John Gailaway returned home from her vist to Buffalo. N. Y., last [ Thursday. She reports lots of rain a while there. c Mrs. James Roush received a tele I gram Monday telling of the death of ' her father who bad died that morning at his home in Shenandoah, Iowa. Mrs. Roush took the train at Raven ! na that evening to attend the obse bales to her loved parent. Willis Holcomb hauled -wheat to Loup City last week. Miss Madge Holmes visited over last Sunday at the home of her brother, Don Holmes. Frank Blaschke hauled hay from Jim McBeth’s last Friday. Wm. Rutherford is building a new fence. Mrs. Iver Lynne’s father died and was buried last week. Jim Roush threshed out over 12 bushels of alfalfa seed Monday. Henry Kuhl had a day’s threshing of alfalfa seed. -—'-- ! * Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lacy of Aurora who had been here since Friday last visiting their son, L. Scott and family, eight miles south of Loup City, returned home Tues day morning of this week. HALLOWE’EN IN LOUP CITY Many Pleasurable Doings Take Place Here on Night of Ghost Walks. THOSE BROUGHT TO OUR NOTICE Hallowe’en came to Loup City this year with quite a number of parties, and entertainments and the usual pranks of the boys and grown-ups. In regard to the lat ter, what can’t be thought of by the coming and near men is not worth mentioning. However, they were compartively easy to what has been accomplished in years past, though the main streets and residence portion of the city, at least in some sections, look as if a modern tornado had swept over those sacred precincts. Among the entertainments, we might mentionv those coming to our notice. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. French gave a ghost dance at the Society hall in the evening at which quite a number of young people partici pated and enjoyed the happy oc casion to the utmost. C. L. Tracy entertained his boy scouts the fore part of the evening and had the time of their lives. At the home of Banker C. C. Carlsen. the ladies of the Young Married People’s Club gave a 7 o’ clock dinner to their worser halves, followed by an evening at Whist. The dinner was served in the upper rooms which were profuse with Hallowe'en decorations, lighted with wax candles, making wierd appearance commemorate with the occasiop. , The *vjning.was jiasg ed most delightfully by all. At the editor s home, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burleigh, assisted by Mrs. H. Mathew and the Misses Pearl Needham and Myrtle Keeler, entertained a number of friends with a 7 o’clock dinner followed by Hallowe’en games and pranks, the home being lighted with wax candles, and ghostly doings pre dominating, while the gentleman guests were the most highly fav ored in the wa.f of souvenirs. A Hollo we’en party given at the beautiful county home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Draper last Fri day evening was the most enjoy able event of the season. About seventy-five guests assembled, and were ushered into the mysteries of the evening by white robed ghostly beings. The beautiful queen of the Gypsies was kept busy telling some of the curious secrets of the future held in store for them. A beautiful solo sung by Arthur Rowe was very much enjoyed by alL The greatest treat of the evening was the in strumental music given by Iver and Einer Holmberg. Light re freshments were served by the hostess and in “the wee sma’ hours’’ the guests departed having spent a very pleasant evening. Misses Lillie Brown and Eunice Chase were hostesses at a Hallo we’en party to their Sunday school class last Friday evening at the home of the former, at which an evening of jollity resulted. V 3 course dinner was served at mid night when the witches were sup posed to roam unmolested. It is said Daddy Brown made about the most ponderous ghost ever in vading a peaceful community of Sunday school sprits, but was so exhausted that he was lost sight of early in the ceremonies only his gentle snore during the later hours giving evidence that all that ^ was mortal of the vanished spirit I was tucked away for the night, I nor could be disturbed by the un | earthly disturbances forthcoming after his departure. Some twenty six of the angels of the class were present and enjoyed the occasion, beside the dignified teacher, Ward Ver Valin, who was summoned by anto at a late hour to witness PARALIZED IN RIGHT SIDE > Mrs. John W. Fisher Suffers a Severe Stroke ef Paralysis Monday. PATIENT RESTING EASY. Monday morning of this week i Mrs. John Fisher of this city suf* fered a severe stroke of paralysis affecting her entire right side and rendering her speechless for sev eral hours. At this writing (Tues day noon) she is resting easy and , if there is no recurrence of the dangerous trouble will undoubted ly get along all right. PIPE CAUSES DE STRUCTIVE FIRE Last Thursday, while our young friend, Henry Bichel, living a few miles southwest of this city, was hauling a load of hay on his farm, he lighted his pipe for a smoke when a spark dropped into the hay. In a moment or so the en tire load was one flaming mass and Henry had barely time to slide off and unhith the team from the wagon to save them. Soon hay, rack and wagon was reduced to a charred mass. In addition the prairie grass surrounding was set on fire and was only stopped after burning over several acres and only then upon reaching plowed ground. Luckily the wind tvas from the north. Had it been from the south hundreds of tons of hay must necessarily have been de stroyed. i ————————— " 0 S NIGHTMARE ORVILLE PHAIR The Fellow Who Has Used Up All Sorts of Newspaper Space in the Ord Papers, In Bad Again. HAS SERVED TERM IH PENITENTIARY. Up at Ord for several years back there has been a bad human egg named Orville Phair who has been a godsend to the papers, when news was scarce especially. We had read so much about the king of uglies in the Quiz and Journal the past years that his name be came as familiar to readers of those papers as the titles of the papers themselves. Later the fellow was sent to the penitentiary under a five year sentence for rape, and Ord's nightmare, Orville Phair, in limbaire, ceased to be a care on the hard worked reporaire of each papaire. But Orville was not to be for gotten, and after serving a part of his sentence and so good as to get ten months of time off for cor rect behavior, was parolled. How ever, his innate cussedness crop ped out so speedily that down at Giltner a few days after he got on a high lonesome, and being a brave warrior upon meeting a woman on the street took a smash at her was arrested therefor and is now back at the pen to finish his sentence. Nearly 20,000 People Scramble to Gamble The rush of people to the land of fices at Broken Bow, Valeutine and North Platte emphasizes an incon sistency of the federal government that should be corrected. The reason for it is a land lottery. The hunger for land and the hope to get something for nothing are at the bottom of it. Add to these liberal advertising by the railroads and we have the answer to this big rush. Twenty thousand people have paid railroad fare and traveling expenses to the land offices to take a chance in Uncle Sam’s lottery. The folly of it is clear when it is remembered that most of the land was open to home stead entry without let or hindrance for many years. Finally some of it was set apart as a forest reservation and after experiment it was found coniferous nor other kinds of trees could not be grown. Then it was resolved to let the people gamble for the worthless stuff, where for the most part it means a life of want and woe to those whoget it and try to eke out a living on it. This week will close the registration and next the lottery will be carried on. There may be a couple hundred claims worth having. The spectacle of Uncle Sam and the railroads get ting twenty-five or thirty thousand people to scramble for opportunity to gamble for them is the ciimax of ab surdity and inconsistency in a coun try where lotteries are forbidden by federal statutes.—Fremont Tribune. j the final ceremonies of “eat” at which he is proficient in capacity, even if lacking in surrounding scenery. STORK VISITATIONS. Born, Wednesday morning, Oct. 29, 1913, to Mr. and Mrs. Felix Makowski of this city, a son. A. M. Lewis recieved word the first of the week that he was grand pa for the fourth time, a little daughter being bom a day pre vious, to his son, Alvah and wife at Aurora. A. M. bears his honors meekly, however. A charming litt’e daughter arrived at the home o' Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Boecking about high noon last Sun day, expressing her intentions of re maining therein indefinitely. Mother and daughter are doing nicely, but Deputy Clerk Boecking can hardly be expected to keep bis mind on Ae office records for the present when he is a new and happy daddy. The editor is now grandpa for the sixth time, he receiving a card Tuesday that a little daughter was bom Sunday, Nov. 2, 1913, to Rev. Frank W. Burleigh and wife at Kilgore, Nebr. The many friends of Frank will be pleased to hear' of his good fortune. A new dentist arrived in this cit last Thursday, Oct. 30, 1913, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Allen, whereat the genial doctor, with the pleasantest smile ever, haa been busy the past few days distributing fra graBt Havannas to bis male friends and boxes of bon bons to the ladies. Congratulations, and may the young man have all the business acumen of his papa, and the grace and comeli ness of his mamma as he approaches the years of maturity. ALONG ROUTE NO. ONE Boss Haddix fixed his box up in good shape the past week. Frank Kusek donated one days work on the road east of his place. George Ellinger graded the roads on his north line this week. John George has put ninety acres of winter wheat in this fall. Orsie Henderson was putting some new fans on their windmill Tuesday. George Doulas and Ed Tucker have bought a new corn shelter. Neighbors and friends of Einor Holm berg gave him quite a surprise Saturday night. Andrew Franzen is doing a good job on the road along the Phillips and Curry places. Miss Lena Zwink spent Sunday in York with her sister, Effle who is there going to College. L. Domgard has moved back on his place and expects to stay there till he can sell same. Irvin Barrick moved his box to a more convenient place for the carrier to get to. Gage and Johnson counties are so disturbed over the presence of hog cholera in those -counties that an ex pert has been assigned to them in a strenuous effort to stamp out the plague. The fact that he was unacquaint ed with the woman, who was highly esteemed by Giltner people and the assault was wholly unpro voked makes the affair the more outrageous. REQUESTED TO STEP OUT President Wilson is understood by yesterday’s dispatches to have issued an ultimatum to Huerta to resign from his presidency of Mex ico, and in doing so not to leave any of his official family in charge of affairs. If this is true, it means a practical declaration of war, un less Huerta goes. Tuesday evening, Nov. 18, at the opera house will be presented the great drama “Thelma,’’ taken from Marie Corelli’s book of the same name. The company this week is presenting the drama at the Brandies Theater in Omaha, and is being presented at other houses in the cities and larger towns, giving evidence of its popu larity among theater goers. The play is taken from a Norwegian tale and has a number of specta cular scenes of “The Midnight Sun,” “The Burning Viking,” “The Rainbow of Death,” “The Fxho Cave,” and the “Vision of the Valkyrie,” very apectacular and given with special scenery and electrical effects, which added to the story given by a splendid cast of characters will make it the finest production ever given in this city. Watch for it Tuesday evening, Nov. 18/ JOHN HEASLER HAS FIRE LOSS On Tuesday of this week, the milk house belonging to Dairyman John Haesler, in the southwest part of this city, was discovered on fire, but was extinguished in time to save the building, though not before every thing within the walls had been de stroyed, including the cream sepa rator. Harry Jenner received word Tuesday evening of this week of the sudden death at Portland, Ore gon, Sunday last, of J. Woods Smith, formerly of Loup City, well known to our older citizens, who at one time owned a consid erable portion of what is now a part of our city, but who left some twenty-five years ago. No particulars were given. The many friends of Mrs. J. Burnett will learn with regret that her condition is extremely critical and that she has been failing very fast the past few days. The many friends of Will Simp son will be pained to learn that he will be obliged to go away for an operation on his leg, as it is found that the knee cap is very much out of place, and unless the matter is remedied he will never have the right use of that limb. ASHTON NEWS W. Peer left Friday on a ten days vacation. A good crowd attend the dance Thursday evenijpg. Miss Lena Zwink of Loup City is visiting here a few days. Misses Mollie and Ollie Sterling left for Omaha Saturday. Miss Marie Beza returned Saturday and is again clerking in Lorenz’s store. Mr. and Mrs. Anderstrom, Marie ; Beza and John Rapp were in Loup City Sunday. G. L. Polski and John Rapp autoed to Dannebrog Friday to take, in a Hallowe’en party. H. W. Ojendyk, Albert Anderstrom and F. G. Smith autoed to the river early Sunday morning on a hunting trip. The State Teachers' Association convened in Omaha yesterday and lasts over tomorrow. Quite a number of Sherman county teachess are in attendance. *
