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VOLUME XXXII
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. February 5 1914.
NUMBBR 13
DIGGING GRAVES
WITH THEIR TEETH
Laa# City fs—nrrial Oak Entertains Members, Their Wives and lavited
Guests at dabs Second Anneal BanqaeL
250 PEOPLE PRESENT.
It may I* that banquets, great
sappers. srveral-course dinners,
and multiplicity of eats at unsea
«MOsi it- • . r* an- in effect “Dig
ging 4irav«~ With Your Teeth,
as is be.ng proclaimed by health
authorities and writers on correct
liviii;' I so we know of no
more agreeable means of inad
vertantly playing into the hands
of tie- Gnm Reaper.
And last Friday evening was no
exception. (hi that evening oc
r .rmi the second annual l»anquet
of the Loop City Commercial
Club. accompanied by fine music
and a flow of oratory, in which
the Club wa* host to its memU-r
sh:p. their wives and invited
guest* r iHi’erinjy perhaps 2T**> of
our beat citizenship.
At ti* appointed hour of 1
or shortly thereafter, the opera
h -jse presented a most animated
appearance. I hi the stage was
the Loup City Cornet Bund dis
cours.ng sweet music as tiie great
tables rapidly tilled with tlie ban
queters. proving a most inspiring
scene.
At about 8 o'clock, all truest*
bi-.ng seated 4! tlie banquet tables,
tie- lade-* of tbe M. E. church,
to whom had been given the prep
aration of said lianquet. began the
sen : g. as-.sled by a bevy of 20
of tbe ni-*st charming of the myr
iad* of ace*-mplisbed young Loup
City girls. who. ranjred in line,
with the precision of soldiers,
and waited upon tbe tables with
out accident to mar the the ban
quet hour. And in this connec
tion allow us to give great credit
to the ladies of the Metbodust
church for the splendid four
course supper served on this occa
sion. m no res|**et of which could
have been more pleasing and sat
isfactory.
At tbe close of the banquet,
came the following musical and in
tellectual program of toasts, with
that prince of orators as toast
master. Judge Aaron Wall, pre
siding"
Invocation- Rev. J. C. Tour
telkx.
M-isic. Wood Bros. Quartet of
Aurora, com|NMBd of Messrs.
Cliarles. Haney and Kills Wood
aid Mr. Sami. Bvirt. with Mrs.
Haney- Wood accompanist.
"Commercial Club history, "ex
President K. C*. Taylor.
mnerence tv-tween irermany
ai*.I America.” Rev. P. Jueling.
**ibe Church and Business."'
Rev. J. C. Tourtelk.t.
Song hy quartet.
**0i6ce of Commercial Club in
Municipal Building." R. P Starr.
"Commercial Clubs: Their Ben
efits. ” Secretary Howell of the
Ha't;ngs Bureau of Commerce,
one of the truly treat Commercial
Ciubs of the state, from every
fand point.
**Our Debt to < iur Parent Coun
try." R. J. Nightingale.
Solo. M. Vioriuck.
Vaudeville sketch. A. T. Con*
ger.
"Church Unity.** Rev. Suther
ImkL
*‘Whal a Commercial Club
Means to the U pbuiid of City and
Country.*’ Secrecary A. M. Con
nors of the Grand Island Cham
ber of Commerce, second to none
ocher in cities of that class.
■*Tbe Lawyer in Civil and So
cial Life." R- H. Mathew.
'The Place of the Polish Peo
ple in Sherman County.” Father
Groddnski.
Music, quartet.
“The Militant Sulfraget and
Drb Reform. ” J. S. Pedler.
"W ork of the Church in Com
munity Building.” Rev. L. V.
Slocumb.
Patriotic selection by the Silver
Cornet Band.
Time and space forbids extend
ed comment on the various re
si»on-es to the toasts, every one of
which contained good, intellectual
food, and many of them well wor
thy of reproduction through our
column-. The music of the band
was most inspiring, the numbers
by the Wood Bros. Quartet espe
cially entertaining, and the solo of
Mr. Worlock good as always.
In all ways the members of our
great commercial club may be
congratulated. Being only two
years old, it starts out at the be
ginning of its third year with an
enrollment of 75 of the very best
<>f the boosting element of Loup
City and in many ways has justly
earned the reputation of being
ranked among the leading com
mercial organization of cities of
its class in the state. Within the
club there is no friction and each
individual member is working
shoulder to shoulder with his fel
low in boosting for our city and
it- betterment. Why not every
one join the club and boost. There
are numbers of our very best and
mo-t active and enterprising busi
ness men who are not as yet mem
bers. Why not? Get in, boys,
and let's make it unanimous.
BIG WRESTLING
MATCH STAGED
Lee Scott of Andey, ud Warren
Miller of Loop, Moot Potatory 11.
PBRSE OF S1M.M IP
Wrestling fans are jubilant over
the final matching of our local
giant, Warren Miller, and Lee
Scott of Ansley, who is among the
top-notchers in the wrestling game
in the state. There are many of
our local sportsmen who have so
much confidence in Warren that
they are willing to back up their
faith in no inconsiderable amount,
and we understand not a little of
the rhino will change hands on the
result. Lee Scott, we understand
is not only a big fellow on the mat,
but also a big fellow physically,
tipping the beam at way above
200 pounds, while Warren, strip
ped, stands at 190 pounds and is no
infant, also. He is getting heavier
all the time and will soon be
among the 200-pounders himself.
Our local man has all to gain and
nothing to lose in the coming
match. If Scott bests him, it
would not be so very surprising,
! considering the Ansley man's re
putation, size and experience in
the game, which has been of sev
eral years duration, while Miller
has had only a few wrestles to his
credit and not over a couple of
years in the game, and if he suc
ceeds in pinning Scott's shoulders
to the mat, or prevents Scott from
doing the act to him, then our
local man at once gets in among
the clouds in the sporting arena.
Any way, the contest is going to
be a battle royal from start to fin
ish, and we believe Scott will find
he has run up against one of the
hardest propositions he has ever
tackled, with chances that Warren
will take his measure in two falls
out of three, if, indeed, not the
first two straight falls.
Says Loup City
Ought to Bo Proud
The gentleman composing the
Wood Musical Quartet from Au
lora. who gave such splendid male
quartet music at the late Commer
cial Club banquet evidently re
turned home with a most pleasing
impression of Loup City and her
people, as witness the following
excerpts from a letter to our
townsman, Wm. Larsen, of the
Mercantile Co., from the leader,
Mr. C. W. Wood: “We haven’t
got over talking about your ‘Big
Icings' on last Friday night. It
is something you all ought to be
proud of, for, it was the best plan
ned and executed ‘Doings’ that I
have ever attended in my life, and
the Wood Brothers Quartet will
always remember Loup City as
one of the pleasant places among
the many where they have sung
during the past quarter of a cen
tury.” And here comes right
back at the quartet with the solid
fact that to them personally and
as members of the splendid male
quartet was due in a great meas
ure for the pleasure of the even
ing.
HOME MISSIONARY
SOCIETY PROGRAM
Propram of Home Missionary So
ciety to be Riven in the M. E parson
ape Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Piano Solo.
Vocal Solo,
Piano Duet,
Ueadinp.
Vocal Duet,
Piano Solo.
Mrs. Starr
Mrs. Schwaner
Mesdames Starr and
Root
Miss Francis Sweetl&nd
Schwaner and Zimmer
man
Mrs. Root
Mr>. J. K. Ward spent Satur
day in Loup City. Mrs. Ward is
now Assistant Principal of the Ar
cadia schools having accepted the
position left vacant by Miss Emily
Rough, who resigned to accept a
jtosition in the Department of El
ocusion in the Wesleyan Univer
sity. Miss Rough spent Thanks
giving in Loup City, the guest of
Miss Addie Leininger, and is
known by a number of our people.
There was a surprise party given
last Friday evening on Mr. and
Mrs. A- R. Jack, it being the 30th
anniversary of their wedding. We
understand some 20 friends were
present and enjoyed the occasion.
WOODMAN OCCIPY
NEW HEADQIABTEBS
The Modern Woodman of Amer
ica have changed their meeting
place from the Gzehoviak hall to
Society hall and their next meet
ing night will be the 10th instant
The Royal Neighbors have also
changed to Society hall.
Master Howard Starr last Sun
day evening at the M. E. church
rendered on his violin “Cordelia
and King Lear" in such a manner
as to bring forth rounds of ap
plause from the audience. Master
Starr's teacher is Mrs. Minnie
Donnell Gould of Arcadia, at one
time a student with Carl Steckel
burg of Lincoln. Mrs. Gould has
a large class of pupils in this city.
The bans of our popular county
clerk, L. B. Polski and Miss Helma
Froehlich were called at St Jose
phat church last Sunday.
Mrs. A. E. Charlton left last
Friday morning for a trip to
Iowa to visit her aged mother and
her daughter, Miss Ruby.
STRAY DOGS KILL
VALDABLE STOCK
Tine Our City Barfs Were Makiaf
Provisions to Dispose of Sons of
Oar Worthless Cars.
A STITCH IH TIME SAVES HIRE
Loup City has always been
cursed with an over-plus of worth
less dogs, and as the years ad
vance the pests seem to be getting
worse and more numerous. Last
week Wednesday afternoon, a
number of dogs got into the hog
pen at the home of John W. Long
and killed and mangled two 100
pound shoats l>elonging to little
Johnny Long. Not content with
that, the pests went to the pasture
wherein are cows belonging to J.
P. Leininger, and chased the bo
vines to their hearts’ content, leav
ing those domestic animals in bad
shape. Interviewing Mr. Long
later, we asked if he knew who
were the owners of the dogs, he
refused to say, but acknowledged
that he had a pretty good idea.
It would seem that some action
should be taken along the line of
getting rid of the hundred and one
worthless curs which infest our
city, many of them ownerless and
public nuisances. It is among the
impossiblities, almost, to place
any article of food on the rear
porches of the homes for even a
few moments, and be sure some
stray cur does not take advantage
of the fact and make way with the
same • There are many valuable
dogs owned in the city, but so far
as we know, none of these are
among the ones who do damage, as
their owners keep them up, but it
is the stray dogs, a good many of
them ownerless, and the others
belonging to people who allow
them to become public nuisances,
that cause the trouble such as
given above. Cannot the city coun
cil draft some drastic law that will
at least lessen the nuisances by a
few hundred of these fourfooted
pests? Some of these days, some
innocent child may be bitten and
mangled by some stray dog, pos
sibly a hydrophobic cur, as we (
read about every few days in our
exchanges, and then it will be a
little late to take action. Why
not cut out the danger in advance?
INTERESTING INITY
The Woman's Unity Club held
a very interesting session at the
home of Mrs. J. P. Leininger last
Thursday afternoon. A spirited
discussion of the school situation
led to the following action by the
club: A committee was appoint
ed to confer with the school board
about inviting in an expert to talk
to the public about modem school
improvements along the lines of
lighting, heating, etc. This was
done, and Mr. A. A. Reed, high
school inspector, has been asked to
come here and give an address.
; Furthtr notice of this meeting will
| be given later.
YOUNG COIPLE GIVEN
MMYPIESERTS
On Monday afternoon of this
week, the friends and relatives of
Mr. and Mrs. John Curtis met at
their home to celebrate the 20th
birthday anniversary of Mrs.
Curtis. It was a most pleasing
surprise to the couple. A 3-course
5 o'clock dinner was served.
Among the many choice presents
was a 100-piece set of china dishes.
Mrs. Curtis has made many friends
during her residence in this city
and air wish her a long, happy and
prosperous life.
Master Willard Lay has been
visited by the chicken pox, con
tracting the same while visiting at
Arcadia a few weeks ago.
COURT HOUSE
BAOLY NEEDED
lufaqute Accomodations Force Of
ficers to Find Other Quarters.
VALUABLE RECOIBS SHOVE! OUT.
We should at once take the nec
essary steps to secure a substan
tial new court house:
Because of the unsafe condition
of the county records.
Because of convenience and nec
essary office room for the efficient
conduct of the business of the
county.
Because of the fact that now the
county officers or many of them
have offices elsewhere than at the
court house and the county pays
rent for same.
Because now three officers of the
county have their offices in one
little room not large enough or
suitable for the proper conduct of
one of said offices.
Because now it is necessary to
keep a part of the valuable records
of the county in bank vaults and
elsewhere, making them more li
able to be lost or misplaced in re
moving them from one place to
another.
Because our present court house
is in no sense in harmony with
the progress of the county in the
last twenty years and in no sense
supplies our needs.
Because the public welfare and
civic pride demand a good sub
stantial fire proof court house.
Because the building of the
court house would have a tendency
to increase values all over the
county.
Because the small increase in
county taxes necessary to pay the
bonds to build same will never be
noticed.
Because the great increase in
taxes for the past ten years is due
largely to increased state, school
district and township taxes, and
not to county taxes.
Many other reasons could be as
signed but more will follow next
week. The time is ripe, the ne
cessity is here and we must have a
new court house.
IN REGARD TO A
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
An Interesting Article in Regard to the Present Much Talked of School
Question, Written hy Miss Meroe Outhouse
GREATEST GOOD TO THE GREATEST NUMBER.
I
Mr. J. W. Burleigh, Editor of
Loup City Northwestern: I sub
mit to you the following figures
relative to the voting of bonds for
a new school building. I do this;
because I believe that many peo
ple, anxious to secure “the great
est good to the greatest number,
think that a new, modern build
ing cannot be erected because of
present taxes. These people,there
fore. favor the addition of wings
to the present building, which
means that either (a) modern ideas
of sanitation, ventilation and
lighting must be sacrificed to
architectural conformity with the
present structure, or (b )these ideas
must be preserved and incorporat
ed at the expense of sightliness
and appearance. If we can afford
to vote bonds of sufficient amount
to erect a modem, up-to-date, sci
entifically constructed (with refer
ence to school problems) building,
would it not be better to do so
than to erect an addition \frhich
would be either an eyesore to the
outside public or a source of dis
comfort and inconvenience to pu
pils and teachers?
The schoo^bonded indebtedness
at present is in the form of three
bonds of $500 each, payable at
any time. There is a general levy
of 27 mills for general school pur
poses and a special 4-mill levy for
the purpose of paying off the
Pioneer Settler
Passes Away
Henry R. Neisner was born in
Ramersteat, Austria, March 7,
1873, died Feburary 1, 1914, aged
40 years, 11 months, and 7 days.
He moved to this country with
his parents in 1884 at the age of
lL years, grew to manhood in
Butler county. He was married
to Cora Loveless, of Bulter county,
in 1898, to this union were born
four children, three boys and one
girl. Besides his wife and child
ren he leaves to mourn his untime
ly demise an aged and loving moth
er and four sisters. He was high
ly esteemed by all who knew him,
being a loving husband, a kind
father and a good neighbor.
Funeral services were held Tues
day, February 3rd, at 11 a. m.,
from the Wiggle creek church,
Rev. J. C. Tourtellot officiating.
ASHTON IN NNIEF
LOCAL ITEMS
Miss Ina Todd left Monday for
Burwell.
Wm. Schumann of Loup was in
town Monday.
Dr. Wanek was a passenger for
Omaha Tuesday morning.
Tom Zoucha and wife left for
South Omaha Thursday last.
Lila McNulty and Anna Kwiar
kowski drove to Schaupps Thurs
day last. '
Elmer Brammer of Rockville
was visiting friends here Sunday
last.
The 23rd anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. Kolkowski was celebrat
ed Saturday evening.
A small crowd celebrated the
23rd anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.
John Rapp Tuesday evening.
C.A. Kettle took horses to Aus
tin Saturday and shipped them to
Grand Island for market He left
for the Island Monday.
Jos. Hruby, S. S. Polski, Peter
Zeyewski, Albert Anderstrom and
W. T. Fletcher took a matched
bowling with Dannebrog at St
Paul Tuesday,
Music will be furnished by the
Rapp-Smith Orchestra at Danne
virke hall Saturday, February 21,
1914.
Jos. Hruby, S. S. Polski, Peter
Jczewski. Albert AnderSkiom, Ed
Adamski and W. Fletcher took a
bowling with Dannebrog
Tuesday at St Banl.
TRIE LOVE NEVER
III RIN SMOOTH
Last Saturday evening, a young
couple, named George R. Duryea
and Miss Rosa Olive Anderson
came down from Arcadia, with in
tent to be married and return that
evening to our suburban villiage
on the north. However, fates
worked different. Going to the
county judge’s office, they found
that worthy absent and not to be
found. They later began a hunt
for the official, and were directed
to the picture show, where he was
said to be watching the movies.
Going to that amusement resort,
they found the judge had just left.
Going to the telephone, they cal
led up Lawrence Smith, only to
find they had got into communica
tion with the wrong member of
the Smith family. To then get
hold of his honor they made a
systematic search, and of course
found him, but it being rather late
in the evening, his honor refused
to put the seal of his approval up
on the worthy young people, vis
ions of various kinds coming be
fore his eyes, among them elope
ments, runaways, etc. Finding
the judge inexorible, the young
people were perforce obilged to
register at one of our hostelries
till morning, when with the peep
o’mom, his honor appeared in his
ministerial garb and most appro
piate tieing mode and made them
one for life. It is an ever true
saying that true love never runs
smooth, and we suppose this was
in observance of the truth of the
old saw.
bonds. The report made at the
regular election last June indi
cated that these bonds would be
paid in June of this year, at which
time the special 4-mill levy would
cease.
Voters in this school district are
also paying the following taxes—a
state levy of one and 80-lO0ths
mills; a county levy of 12 mills,
3 1-2 being bond and interest; a
township levy of 10 mills (6 1-2
road, 2 bridge, 1 1-2 general) and
in addition a 5-mill levy on the
ditch bonds which will be paid off
annually in November of this year,
and the citizens of the village of
Loup City in addition pay a levy
of 10 mills. This makes a total
for the resident of this city of 76
mills, which, less the 4 mills on
school bonds to cease in June,
means 72 mills. For those out
side our city it is 62 mills. After
November, when the whole
amount of the ditch bonds will be
paid off, there will be no levy for
bonds, except the county levy of
3 12 mills, why not then levy the
4 mills plus 5 mills at present be
ing paid on the school bonded in
debtedness and the irrigation ditch
bonded indebtedness^ for & mw,
modern and up-to-date school
building? It surely will be no
burden to pay a few mills on
bonds for a new school building
which will be a credit to the com
munity and an advantage to the
school children, than it has been
to pay bonds for an irrigation
ditch, which after a years of ben
efit ceased to be of any value
whatever to those interested in it.
Our public schools ought to be
quite as vital a concern as our ma
terial prosperity, for our material
prosperity in turn depends very
largely on the citizen whom our
public schools educate. The gen
eral idea in regard to building a
new court house seems to be to
wait until the county bonds and
interest on that are wiped out,
which will be in two years, and
then to commence work in regard
to a court house, why not, then,
since the bond levy for school
bonds and irrigation ditch bonds
(and irrigation bonds concern only
Logan and Loup City townships)
will be removed this November,
why not vote a new bond levy for
a new court house?
Respectfully submitted.
Meroe J. Outhouse.
Don’t forget the next lecture course
entertainment— Lincoln’s birthday,
Feb. 13—the Wood Orchestral Trio,
composed of ladies. They are said to
tie most excellent.
CAN HEAR FROM
L01P CITY ANYWHERE
A short but interesting letter re
ceived a few days ago from our
good friends, Mr. and Mrs, T. L.
I*ilger, at Butte, Montana; under
date of Jan. 20, reports all well.
They write: “The winter has
been mild and pleasant here. The
ground is covered with about three
inches of snow, but that seems to
make no difference to the auto
trucks and teams, as they go tear
ing up and down the hills. We
wonder there are no more acci
dents, but none have been report
ed so far!’ Mr. Pilger at the city
library run across a copy of the
Bee containing the account of the
accident at the laundry last week,
which was wired in from here for
the next morning's paper, so it
shows that one can hear from Loup
C ty wherever he goes, when any
thing of note occurs._ _
