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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.”