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LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY. LIST OPEN TO PATRONS AT ALL TIMES. Loup City Northwestern THANKS YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ALL ITEMS OF NEWS YOU MAY CONTRIBUTE VOLUME XXXII LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. January 22 1914. NUMBER 11 THE LURE OF THE SUHHY SOUTHLAND ■. I. Zmnia Jnt Ink Fro* the firif Coaatry Finds It finattr and Mara Attract** Thu It Iad In—d. MEETS ME OF MW AM COIITT'S PlOflEEl SETTLERS A* »• mint >f oar pruple tu>d the people of uor neighboring U>*M '»rf the craw of Tnn and tbe S • itbt&ni. and bas caught *u :b well known >bennan county m-s a* lhr|ib Blaschke. Clou*. >.aaad -rer. Aufust V->lL.nan and oth -rs »i(f3 we could name, we took uecMun to interview Mr. Zisarraui who returned last week F nday from Edenburg. TrUv wh*re be bad 'em inspect ing bni lie ha» for sale. and U».*k ore that and the country adjoin ing. lin» b .rig hi* brst rh.it to tbit ta ley and section of Team*. said <ae found the country much totter than tie bsdeapectrd Cr<p* were hat and be saw corn in mb that fanners claimed aver aged I s. bushels to *be acre. He m* on a'fa.f* field of seventy - twu acre*, sowed ten months ago. MARMION L0D6E INSTALL OFFICERS Lad w*rk Wi j>eri>y evening Mm;. * God**- K. of P. installed it* ot ers for liie c .filing year. Amm wtt*' “ •f'***r ibe bun. f ecKirwr. harm* tbnr usu a_ gtmtd tins**. Following is th» nr* oft *1 rotten G. C.. S. A. Alice: V. C-. A. » 5Jnn: Prelate. * > L. >«*naun: K- of K and >-. Ixxt M. of F.. G. A. C .ilipr»es*; M. of L. S. E. Gal la«ay: M of A.. H. A. Hmman; M of T.. H. Si Conger; I. G-, EL E. Tr*c>: O G.. W*. Larson. TOWNSHIP CLERK’S FINANCIAL REPORTS Oar *b«*w m tfc*» i»l*er mav Ir* f td Ir financial rep. rt* of art real f the l»»**a op- of ? Ir-rmai omir. Oar readers are advised t A r(f tbr r**p .ft of their tuvtaliip aii 1 a bat is the finan t. ii mdition of tiirir treasury T f*-.» rt rr a new thing and nf :» *r in conformity with a la pi» -d . *!»• last icgiflature. Th tax jtt f-r* are a right U» kno» boa the bo* news of tbrir town ship if ••ring conducted. In just k** to tlir many clerk* who hav* fjnwbed iW -tatrmenu i a . uid be -4atrd that there ha> b m no for -uggested to br f«»l K> *ed and tberr if a wide discrep an« i in tbr f .rat.. N an arr mor (•tap* b? than «>tberv The tax p>> -n. want to In -• l»ow muci money bam received and ho* i: va» -(otit Tt«r town officer^ »,».» ir to br keeping tb. lr ac c uioaruralrb but if they bavr ii !r u rn*l .for • tht te*t wiL ■mre w mak • them m< re rarrfu a-i t .*rr tear. Brad tlir report ol y >tsr 11 *rnmkip and » * if it i> dr *r en »igh. If n H ask your cirri for particulars. / BITS TOWNSHIP IF LA1III TEXAS Od M• ii>d»v rooming of thi week, Atheney tt. P. Starr left for Cr abjr V <u id the northern part of Trims, accompanying Alonzo F<>«Vr of Arcadia, win has purchased a township of land is that part of the country U which Jim Parker went sotn« <Tow»tl>fc ago, and who returns ben every few weeks to induce other lo go. However, according U Jim. it* a great country. Mr Starr expect* to be absent sou* tan day*. from which six crops of ha.v have been cut and yet the alfalfa st<K>d | nearly a foot high in new growth. Speaking of fruits they grow oranges, lemons, figs, dates, grajie fruit, pecans and nearly ail kinds* of tropical and semi-tropical fruits. Winle there he ete new cabbage, head iettuc’ and vegetables of all kinds in growth there now. He met people fr »m Nebraska. Iowa, Minnesota. Ohio and various other «*taVs and inquired of them, of course, as to what they thought of the c< untry and each and every • rv* expressed th m-elv.-s as beii g highly pleased anJ content with tiieir new homes. He also met ne of the old pioneer settlers of H -ward county. Nebraska, by the name of Sunderup. who has lived * in tiie valley for t te past six years, and when asked how he liked tie ! valley. Mr. Sunderup was unstint-i in his praise of th.* country* em phatically saying the valley is the ! only place to live. Certainly, ac cording to Mr. Zimmerman, that country must be an attractive i place, and judging from the num-! ber of people who have gone, are going and making arrangements to that end in the future, the lure . of tb» Southland must have some thing most tangible to have such a hold on the jieople of this and other states to secure the mign tion to that much advertised coun I Crosses Ocean Alone Weds Man of Choice Tit** God of Hymen knows no | untry. t reed, nationality nor re ligion. He simply acts upon the human heart from affection's -tand point. Distance, also. provi?s no bar to hive as witness the fol io* injr. I Ast week Thursdav, dan. 15, lhl4, at Grand Island, xeb.. occured the marriage of Mr. ■sieve Grozdan. the baker employ d by Wn. Dolling of the city, to Nl:ss Mamie Algia of Austria Hungary. who hud just arrived in ins country a few days before. V« we und rstand it. the young «eopl*- had been sweethearts in the ] old country. Some seven years i ago, Mr. Grozdan came to this' country from Austria-Hungary to j make a home for himself and the girl who was last Thursday made his partner for life, and having se cured a livelihood for himself and a certainty of the future for both a home in this country he sends back to the mother country for the girl of his choice who come all by herself to the new country and the man of her choice. May each find in the ties which now bind them the happiness for which they sought. J. W. CONGER BIYS ARCADIA KILL RACE Lust Wednesday, J. \\ . Conger losed a contract whereby he pur c .used the mill race at Arcadia, dim said he had lieen trying to purchase the mill race for several wars. As'mg Mr. Conger what lie expected to do with it, he was somewhat evasive, saying it could be made into a good skating rink, a good place for ice, etc. As he never does anything in a hapt)E.z ard way. we may be sure he has mighty good financial reasons for taking over the new property. The Misses Louise and Ella Taylor re.umed from Chicago last Saturday evening, where the ladies have bien uking a course in manicuring and ; >iie beautifying of the human being divine, or words u> that effect, and after a week’s visit at home wi'l go for a short visit to a sister at CunJs. ' Neb., and from tliere to Everett, i Wash., where they are to open a i “Beauty Parlor" in that city. The Northwestern wishes all kinds of ; j good fortune may follow the young ' ladies in their now work. WOMAN’S CLIB INSTALL OFFICERS Thursday afternoon the Wo man's Unity Club held their regu lar election of officers at the home of Mrs. C. J. Tracy. The follow : ing officers were elected for the next club year: President, Mrs. Tracy; vice-president, Mrs. Main; corresponding secretary. Miss Out house; recording secretary, Mrs. ,Henr.v; treasurer, Mrs. Slocutnb. j Mrs. Tracy in accepting her posi , tion spoke of the fact that she had held the same office twenty-one years ago, which recalled the fact that this club is one of the oldest federated clubs in the state. Hivt r PurpSse. Tb« first great rule U that we mot do something—that life must have a purpose and an aim—that wo should be not merely occasional and spas modic, but steady and continuous. Pleasure ia a Jew?, which will oalp retain its lustre when It Is in a set ting of w-ork; and a vacant life la one < ’ae worst of pains, though the Is 'u»-e tha ^*ud a crowded, uc Hi ' among the k with the i greatest uongiU-—buu)'. CLAIMS BRIGHT’S DISEASE CURE Patients’ Kidneys ‘Washed’ With Alkaline Solution hy County Hospital Physician. SUCCESSFUL IH 21 CASES. Positive arrest of Bright's dis ease by a newly evolved treat ment of “washing"’ the human kidneys with certain alkaline sub stances was claimed as a medical certainty yesterday when John Frohman, a patient at the Los An geles County Hospital, was declar ed immune from further ravages of the disease. Dr. A. T. Charlton, one of the leading physicians at the hospital, and who devised the new method of treatment, declared that not only in the case of Froh;nan but in twenty other cases the disease had been stopped in its progress to such an extent that each patient treated could live a natural span of life, as far as further trouble from the kidneys would be con cerned. The case of Frohman, however, is taken ns exceptionally remark able by the hospital physicians, in that he arrived at the County Hospital in an apparently hope less condition. The terminal or dropsical stage of Bright's disease had set in. The Dr. Charlton spoken of in the above is a son of our well j known citizen. A. E. Charlton, and J is one of the two sons who are mak- , ing themselves known and even famous in the annals of medics, as * will be noticed by the above. Dr. j Charlton gf>es on in the interview i published in the article above and ’ gives a thesis of th^treatment al luded to and with firm belief in ! the efficacy of the same. If the i alkaline treatment above provesef-! ficacious. Dr. Charlton will be-j come famous as a benefactor of the race. Space forbids publish ing the full article. OUR CROWDED PUDLIC SCHOOL Do Hot Present Conditions in Oni Public Schools Bound Imme diate Relief? A FEW FACTS ARD HOBBES My Dear Mr. Burleigh: Prompt ed by a knowledge of the almost impossible conditions in our schools at present, and also by the pres ent agitation for improving the situation, I wish to set forth a few of the facts and figures which bring about these conditions. In the southeast room on the first floor (not the basement) are housed two grades, with a com bined enrollment of 73. The di mensions of the room are 21x32, with 12 foot ceiling. It has five windows 24x40, three on the east, two on the south. Adding the two teachers in charge of these two grades, we h ive 75 human beings with 21x32x12 feet, or 108 cubic feet of space fur each indi vidual in the room. The desks are so close together that the teach ers are obliged to walk sidewise when going up and down the aisles. As the desks are placed, both teachers must sit at their de>ks with the sun shining square ly in their eyes. If the light is adjusted for the convenience of pupils in one part of the room, those in the other part must either study in glaring sunlight or in semi-darkness. Similar conditions prevail in the room above it, which is used as a study room for high school pup*3r Here, when the teacher passes along the front blackboard, some of the pupils be ing too large for the seats they are occupying, must half rise in order that access may be given to the blackboard. It seems that these conditions ought to be remedied, even before bonds are voted for a new school house, or for an addition to the present building. Why not hire somt; unoccupied building in this town for one of the two grades now housed together? Surely one could be found which would be no w >rse than the present crowd ing. An old store building with all its light coming from one end is infinitely preferable to the pres ent condition. These children must go to school another eighteen weeks, the enrollment has in creased siuce Christmas, and with warmer weather and brighter days coming, ventilation and lighting will be even greater problems. After the old opera house, where schoo had been held, was burned, school was held over a year in va rious old store buildings in the main part of town. It surely could be done again. Meeting the situation in this way would give opportunity for deliberation and reflection in regard to the advisa bility of voting bonds for a couple of wings or for a new building. And it would render school for the rest of this year less of impris onment and torture for both teach ers and pupils than it is at the present time. This is submitted to you for publication, not in a spirit of crit icism, but because it is believed that not "even the school board actually realize the present status of affairs at the school building. A Teacher. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Outhouse stayed over Friday night in Lin coln to witness the German Dra matic Club play Flachsmann ak Erzieler in which their daughter Winifred had a part. The play was given entirely in German, and was a criticism of present day German education, as Frou Bees endahl, mother of one of the pu pils, Miss Outhouse appeared tc I register a complaint because hei I boy had been called a blockhead TAKES POSITION AS INSTRUCTOR Carlyle Campbell of Ravenna Cream ery Coes to Ames, tows, to Be come Instructor ia Bairyiag IS ONE OF THE BESTIR NISURE I Last Saturday, Mr. Carlyle | Campbell, the expert butter maker, i for the Ravenna Creamery Co. inj ;Loup City, having resigned his i position, left that morning for Ames, Iowa, where he will take a position as instructor along agri cultural educational lines. Mr. I Campbell was a quiet, reserved young man while he passed quiet ly to and fro, very few knowing , who he was or that we had in our i midst one of the very best of this . day's experts along butter making lines. That he has been offered and accepted a responsible posi tion as instructor in the Iowa State Agricultural College, gives ev idence that he must have been cer tainly well versed along his work, j And this brings to us a romance j connected with Mr. Campbell’s I stay among us. It was some time in the later part of last August I that a young man called at the Northwestern office and secured announcements of a wedding to be held the 30th day of August, 1913, of Carlyl* Campbell to Sarah J. Elkins. Nothing more was thought ^ of the matter at this time, till on j the morning of the 31st, Rev. Dr. Leeper called at this office and re ; marked that the evening previous he had been called from his downy ’couch to perform the wedding ceremony of the afore named young j»eople. who had besought his kindly offices at a late hour that evening. Nor did we learn ; the particulars of the story of the i young people till a few days be Miller Scores Quick Victory Over Mullen Last Saturday evening at the opera house was staged the wrest ling contest between our own lo cal pride. Warren Miller, and one Mullen, of Alda, this state, who came to us heralded as an unde : feated mat artist of many blood less battles, but if he was, he is not now, as Warren took his measurement twice inside of ten minutes and with very little hard work at that The wrestling tournament was held after the picture show and begun with a preliminary between Lester Hiddleson and Hal Jenner, in which each scored a fall in the two rounds preceding the main j event and the boys gave two of the gamiest contests one could ask or expect Following came the main event However, when Mullen appeared with Miller in the ring, it was at once seen that the visitor was too ENTERTAIN FRIENDS NT 6:30 DINNER Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Larsen Tues day evening entertained at a 6:30 o’clock 3-course dinner, with an evening at flinch, the following guests; Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Tourtellot, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Ta.vlor, Mr. and Mrs. Ward Ver Valin, Mr. and Mrs G. A. Colli priest, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Galla way, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Morris and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burleigh. A most pleasant evening resulted. The friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mis. Harry Gardener gave them a very pleasant surprise last Friday afternoon. Lunch was served, and a splendid time reported by all. YOUNG WIFE HANGS SELF IN BARN John WieUod of Hoar Madison, Nebraska, Discovers Body of Young Wife Swinging from Rope in Barn. WOMAN ROT IR HER RIGHT MIRB. John Wieland, a fanner, return ing home from church at Madison, this state, last Sunday morning. 4 miles east of there, found the body of his wife hanging from a beam in the bam, where she had hanged herself. Wieland had left early in the morning and it was about 9 fore the departure of Mr. Camp bell and his bride of a few months previous for their new home at Ames, where Mr. Campbell's par ents live and are well to do, and where at the big state college Mr. Campbell will be instructor as he was in the past a pupil and gradu ate. It seems that Mr. Campbell and his bride, who lived before her marriage at Fairview, Mon tana, met first at Wayne, this state, and the little god of love shot his arrows swift and fast, which culminated later in Mr. Campbell securing the consent of his future bride to make the trip from Montana to Loup City alone and join her life with his. Ac cordingly, she was to arrive on the 30th of August, which she did, but as misfortune would have it the train was unusually late and it was accordingly necessary to arouse a minister from his slum bers to unite the happy but be lated pair. After the ceremony, Mr. Campbell and bride immedi ately repaired to the hon.e which he had all in readiness for her re light and slender build to even prove interesting for the local man, and so it was, as Miller with a half Nelson and crotch hold in the first and a quarter Nelson in the second, won in straight falls in 7 and 3 minutes respectively, and with comparatively small ex ertion. Mullen is quoted as say ing, when the local elephant was pointed out to him, “Is that what I have to go against? Had I sus pected what a giant he was, I would never have come.” Mullen, while much lighter than Miller, is as lithe and active as a tiger cat and with a man more his size and equal in the mat game would be a difficult man to down. An effort is being made to get up a match between our local champ and the noted Lee Scott of Ansley, and there is said to be at least $250 of local money in sight for Scott and his friends to cover, if they will come across. COMMERCIAL CUB BAIQBET THE 3CTH All arrangements have been completed for holding the Com mercial Club annual banquet the evening of the 30th instant at the opera house. The Loup City band will furnish the music for the oc casion and there will be numerous toasts given by speakers securec. for the occasion. This banquet will be for the members of the Club, their wives and invited guests. Riches and Happ:ness Seek not to be ricn. bill >ue Ue«> in bags, .be oUu in which wealth can never gives.—.._ * o'clock when he peached home again. He found the house cold and the fires out, while his twin babies, 2 months old, were lying crying and shivering on the floor. Even the breakfast dishes lay un washed upon the table. Ttiere was no sign of his wife about the hou9e and repeated calls brought no response. He ran to the l»rn and as he opened the door saw the form of his wife swinging from a rope attached to a beam. He cut the rope and examined the body, findiug it evident life had been extinct for more than an hour. He then carried the body to the house and telephoned Sher iff Smith at Madison, who, with Dr. Smart, went to the Wieland farm house where they were joined by Coroner Baker of Tilden. It was apparent the woman had hanged herself in a moment of in sanity and no inquest was held. She was reared in Madison and had been married only about a a year and a half. ception, and all was well. How ever it might be added that our young friend kept from the news papermen the story as told above all these months, only to acknow ledge the facts as told above just prior to his leave-taking. The Northwestern wishes for Mr. Campbell and his fair companion a long, happy and useful life, only regretting they could not have founf it possible to make their permanent home in Loup City. JUDGE SMITH UNITES Y0UH6 COUPLE Last Tuesday morning there ap peared at the office of his honor, County Judge A. E. Smith, Mr. Chas. Bondegard of Aurora and Miss Harriet C. Sundall of Sar gent who were united in the bonds of hymen. And hereby hangs just a little of the romantic. The groom is a brakeman on the Bur lington between Aurora and Sar gent. At Sargent, where he ends his run each day, lived the girl of his choice. Tuesday the boys of nis crew concluded they could run the train from Sargent to Loup City without any aid from him, thereby allowing him to take the morning passenger to Loup City with the girl of his choice, get married and join the crew there and proceed to Aurora without damage to the company’s feelings. That is what happened. When the freight came through Loup City, the newly married couple were ready for the added trip to Aurora, with Brakeman Bonde gard attending to the duties of his position with an added dignity be fitting his station in life as a full fledged Benedict. WHAT WE ALWAYS LIKE TO HEAR Our old friend, H. M. Mead, from Fallon, Nevada, in remitting for an »Lher year’s visits of the Northwest ern. says: “The Northwestern is the chief link that couples our present to >ur past. It is perhaps needless to ay that we scan its columns weekly ii quest of tidings of old time friends .nd acquaintances. As for ourselves, we are well and reasonably happy. Within the projects things are pro gressing satisfactorily. The big dam, which will impound the water for the project is nearly done and the remain ing lands will be opened for settle ment in the near future. This will resu t in a large influx of people and lor a time at least will make things lively, and eventually result in the re clamation of all the furtile lands in the project. Kindest regards to y oux | Mil and ail old friandB.”