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* Loup City Northwestern THANKS YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ALL ITEMS OF NEWS YOU MAY CONTRIBUTE • _ LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY. LIST OPEN TO PATRONS AT ALL TIMES. VOLUME XXXII LO0P CITY, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. March 12. 1914- NUMBER 1 WHY CANT WE FOLLOW SUIT Wmmmm Sal tassraacc at CaaL State Officials Gratified Osar Saccass at Ptaa. It leaks Gas4. TIE STATE LIFE Fill IISIMICE IS SMII [Below we give space to the Wisconsin plan of state insurance. It looks good. Read it What is the matter with Nebraska, and why can't we do something along this plan for our people' — Eli.) Vkat Wmmm PIm luaraace Costs At age of Vt, 01 . mo Hr fty M urith Y<ar • *4tmr/ ilfe «1 :a »ITM > ptymmt life 2 3 36 13 » !>» year (aOjeatat ' > *1 24 h»4o*MU M. 1.26 »> 22 Term to 'A 1 23 U.23 Ml.l:aOb. WuCUDMIt. A wide spread interest in Wisconsin'* plan for state life and endowment in Mtraiy-e ba« le*-o indicated by re for information from all orer the country. AppIt'-sLtoft* are coming in ttemdily and iwtuirin from pro— per-t.re |olic> holders are being received daily frnm all putts of the state. One «a11tigs hank m Mil waukee is advertising the life fund «.n its own circulars, and manufacturing rooceras hare co operated by distributing literature among it* employes. Nr death ha* occurred, but mor tality food* are available to pay any death which may occur. Thr accumulated funds have already hem invested in real otale a>*rt fip« yielding C per cent interest net to the fund. The department is gratified over the camber of inquiries and ap piesbatts received and the suc ce» of the plan thus far. "Per hpi.** said Deputy Insurance CmraNMuner W. S. Braddork. "nothing spriks more for state life insurance than tbe enthusiasm and great interest of those who V have become policy holders. " As the policies issued were dated as of the tame of the application, the second payment has already hem made on a considerable num ber. and not a tangle policy has failed to renew. Among 'he more recent appli cants. preference seems to be shown for the endowment at age of policy, doe very likely to the fact that many of tbe appli PASTOR MEETS Prom the Worthington. Minne sota. Gioae. a copy of winch was received by <»*orgt- 7~ Lean, we learn of the sudden death of Rev. C. M. Aldhdfe February £», at Reading. Minnesota, where he was pastor of the Presbyterian church. He preceded Kev. Davies as pastor of the church here, and Dm rather traffic death will be a shock to the community. The Minnesota paper says in part: "Mr. Aldridffe was in the vil lage blacksmith shop fixing his machine. He had taken the rear wheels off and had jacked up the machine on its rear axle in order to more easily get at it to do the work he desired. He was lying on his hack under the rear axle and busy at work when for some reason or other the supports under the axle gave way, letting the heavy machine fall upon the prostrate man. Mr. Aldridge's young son. a mete toddler, was with his father at the time and the unfortunate man told the child to tell bis mother that papa was un der the machine aad needed help.’1 It was some time before the word rearhed Mrs. Aldridge and when cants are young: men. who are be ginning to save toward a compe tency for their later years. Quite a few endowment policies have l»een i—ued to women. The 20 imyment life policy is also popu lar. The ordinary life policy, the 1" year term and the K) year and i" year endowments have been is - ied to same extent. The term to age of seems to be the least popular. A pamphlet issued by the state gives the following facts: ~ The state life fund insurance is -ound, is granted at cost on a rate that is low. yet safe. A dividend is paid each year, beginning with the first; gives the right to borrow, the right to sur render for cash, protects against forfeiture for non-payment of pre mium by charging a premium as a an. gives the right to pay at t.me- and in amounts suited to your convenience and allows in terest at full rate earned. The life fund saves you the agent's commissions, the overhead charges, from any forfeiture if you want to make any change, and from any doubt as to what your contract really is. VERY AGEI LADY LAIB TO REST Mr. MNRnIhu Sckniinl i Pi# •••r «f This Otaaty Sam UTS Psss^s Avty PAST IIITY TEAK OF ML Last Sunday afternoon. March 8, 1914, at about 1:30. occurred the death of Mis. Wilhelmina Schneidereit in this city, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Louis Bechthold. at the advanced age of 90 years and a little over. Grandma Schneidereit had made her home with her daughter for a number of years. The funeral oc curred from the German church on Tuesday afternoon following, Kev. Jueling officiating, and in terment was made in Evergreen cemetery. Wilhelmina Kalniska was born December 23, 1823, in Grabowen, east part of Prussia, Germany, where she was married in 1847 to Vred Schneidereit. They came to America in 1871. settling in New York. A year later they moved to Fairbury. Ills., and eight years later to Sherman county, her hus band dying in 1886. To this union were born two children, Fritz Schneidereit and Mrs. Minnie Bechthold, both of whom survive the mother, together with eleven grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren. She was aged at death 90 years, 2 months and 16 days. Mellor Very Much Alive Regardless of Knockers W. R. Mellor was home wr la~- Sunday And the early part of ti ' week. He i< very much alive in 'j"*e of the fact that a few of the would-be spokesman for the newspapermen of Nebraska have relegated him to the scrap heap and hare endeavored to elevate 4 themselves by pushing him down. Such fellows as judge howard at Columbus to. «. bravo of Kear ney. and a few others of their ilk. would have to go some to be big enough for Bill Metlor to notice *s little pigmies, let done being of enough importance for him to pay any attention to. help arrived it was too late as life had left the body. The funeral was held from the Reading church of which deceased was pastor, last Friday and was j largely attended, members of the IL O. O. F. of which he was a member, and of his Ministerial Association, attending in a body. Mr. Aldridge was born in North J Carolina in 18.r>9 and had spent j thirty years in the ministry. In closing the Worthington paper i says: “In his work at Reading, Mr. Aldridge made himself felt and was loved by his parishoners j and respected by his fellow towns men. He was a man of fine character and greatly loved by his people wherever he labored/’—St. Paul Republican. CITY HIGH SCHOOL j ROTES IH BRIEF The Juniors don't get along very well without Miss Burt. Caesar class number two is tak ing an examination this morning, ■ (Monday.) Congratulations. Orena Ohlsen taught the fourth j grade one day last week. They j reported a jolly old time. Miss Frances Sweetland is teach ing in place of Miss Burt who has resigned. Two High school pupils were required to remain upon the reser voir hill one afternoon last week. Clarence Petersen had a serious accident befall him one day last , week, which laid him up for re pairs for a half a day. , | A new rule was introduced and j passed by the High school teacb , ere, which seems to be so compli i J cated that but few can interpret it. >ome of the play books irrired Saturday, they being three weeks late, means that we mast get to work that much hander. —The Senior class. Lillian Brown, one of oar bril liant scholars is going to move out on the farm after school is closed. (Special Dispatch to the Corre spondent.) Mr. Mackey and Bernard Slo cumb prepared to go hunting Sat urday morning, but the beautiful snow flurries and sunshine scared them out of the idea. The Senior class finished book keeping and took their final exami nation Friday afternoon. If any body is in need of a good book keeper call on the Senior class. The boys of the High school are patiently waiting for warmer weather so as to start playing ball. The High school team is go ing to be one of the fastest and strongest in this part of the* state. There are a few Revenges which they are going to surely have this spring. The four most bashful gentle men of Loup City again visited us during chapel. Earl Harper, one of them, played us a number of his many pieces on the piano. He ranks next to Paderuski. The other three gentlemen were too bashful to even say something. Nevertheless, gents, come again. We need a new school .house. We are getting so crowded that when spring opens, some of the classes will have to recite oat side, especially the botany class. A new school house the same of the old one wouldn't hart any body. The old building could be used for the grades, and the new one for the High school. A new school house wouldn’t be" nearly as foolish as that long ditch which was built along the foot of the hills to save Loup Uity in (one of floods. COItT IOVSE INSPECTION TON ■ITO MEN’S IMPtESSION Ed. Northwestern: I send you a few notes of our trip of court house inspection made prior to the receipt of petitions in circulation which I am told already contains 25 per cent of the voters, which compels the boatd to call a special election for the purpose of voting bonds to build a new court house. As the first step necessary for the board, after calling for a spe cial election is to pick out a plan of building and hiring an architect to superintend the construction and give an estimate of the cost that voters muy have a chance to examine plan.- and cost of same, the board deemed it wise to visit the court houses at St Paul and Greeley and others if thought nec essary. They were accompanied by a building committee of seven representative men from over the county comprised of Jas. McBeth, Christ Zwink. Frank Badura, W. Jacobs, C. W. Trumble. Hans Johnson and W. S. Waite, the whole gang being valiantly led by John W. Long, president of the Loup City Commercial Club. In Howard county, the court house contract was let for $75,UO0 in round numbers but the contract was let for about $6.» >00 less than the architect's estimate and he was praetteaUy ■ins.dveD'- when be-bo*-' gan building, hence failed finan cially after the building was par tially complete. His bonding company, however, sent an agent and put the architect in eharge of the work, instructing the county to pay the bills up to the contract price and the company would pay the balance, the county losing nothing and certainly getting* fine structure. TPxifci feet 4 stories high and jail in top story. The build ing is of brick and Bedford stone, with stone pillars, giving it an im posing and lasting appearance. The first walls are 17 inches, and the three upper stories are IS inch es . the piers *5 inches first story, tapering to 21 at top. the building nicely appointed, finished and up to-date in every way. The people pay for it with an issue of 4 1-2 per cent dodos. In Greeley county. Henry Ohl sen of Loup City is in charge of the new court house and he was certainly proud as he explained the structure in detail, and the Greeley people appreciate his work. The building is 10 feet shorter than St. Paul's and trim med in terre cotta, which is less expensive than Bedford stone. It does not look quite so nice, while the pillars are of brick instead of Bedford stone, the whole thing costing about $5,000 less than St Paul court house, though arranged and equipped the same, and is a fine building also. We went next to Central City, where they have just completed a fine court house at a cost of $90, 000, is same size of Howard coun ty structure, is of brick and Bed ford stone, with first story all of Bedford stone. The architecture is some different from the first two mentioned but designed by a dif ferent architect and equipped a little more expensive and contain ing much more marble. The ar rangement is some different and owing to the sandy soil at Central City it was necessary to make a foundation ten feet wide at the base, this helping to make the cost greater. They have a separate jail, although there is room in the fourth story for a jail. The build ing was paid for by a bond issue of $100,000 of 4 per cent bonds, and contractors were compelled to take bonds for pay and had to dis count than $10,000, so the county only got a $90,000 structure. THREE IRJIREI IN EXPLOSION AcciOnt Nor Pltisutu Niy Hk* aft hi tuft. Arthur Ashur will die. P. Holl singer was badly injured and Har vey Wort was badly shaken up as the result of an accidental explo sion which occurred at Pleasanton. Thuesday afternoon of this week. The men had planted a stick of dynamite in the hill to secure clay for surfacing a piece of mad, not wanting to wait the slow process of digging the clay. The fuse not going off soon as expected, the men who had retired to a safe dis tance returned to see about it just as the explosion occurred, tearing Asher's face, blowing out one of his eyes and leaving him in a ter rible conditiou. Hollsinger. had his back turned toward the dyna mite. but was badly powder burned beside having his teeth blown out and his lip cut clear into his nose.; Wort was not seriously hurt. The two former were hurried to Pleas anton, where it was thought Asher would die but Hollsinger would recover Asher is an automoble man. Hollsinger a local druggist, and Wort owner of a garage, all of Pleasanton. Mr. and Mrs. Wrn. Hancock enter tained about sixty relatives and friends Saturday evening. March 7th, in honor of the 21st birthday anniver sary of th<ir_ son, Harold. A good time was reported by all who were present. FORMER LOUP CITY I WOMAN HONORED Mr*. Harry I. Massar, PraiiA—< af tba ThH Histrid Faiaratiaa of Womb's Cttt RAPID RISE FROM TIE RAHKS TR LEADERSHIP A rapid rise from the ranks to the leadership of a district federa tion has been accomplished by Mrs. Harry B. Musser of Parsons, who came to Kansas as a stranger a little more than three years ago. and who was elected to the presi dency of the Third District federa tion in the fall of 1912, just two years after her arrival. Mrs. Musser is a woman of force and brilliancy, as her rapid rise in clubdom shows, and is one of the influential woman of her district. One of her accomplishments in club work was the organization of the Country Club Womans club of the Labette county, which held its first meeting in September, 1911, a year after Mrs. Musser first came to Parsons to live. The first meeting was held at the Musser country home. Elm dale, where fourteen women gath ered in response to invitation. They not only talked over plans to organize a club but proceeded at once with a temporary organiza tion, then nominated and elected permanent officers. A committee was appointed to draft a constitu tion and by-laws, and before ad Of Special Interest to “Movie” Faos At the* I'rwuaaiand theatre next -Monday evening bp given a three-reel turn of the much talked of swiy 4 "TV Wreck" which ts saw! to bo onto of the most fas* (iaitinjr pictures shown on the screen at the present. You will mws somethin# line if you are not there. Then on the 90th at the] same place will he given ooe the famous "Jungle'’ pictures, which a few have Keen seen here in the pas*. These pictures have seventeen thrills to the square inch and any one who has seen a jungle picture once, rarely fails to see others. IXus't miss die above datos. s,a We next vent to Grand Island. Mr. Waite and myself to get some j liquid refreshments and the rest to ; inspect the court bouse. I will not put in the description here, as I seemed to get things mixed, as when written Bill Brown said I had gotten either the standpipe or the new brewery, he couldn't tell which. It cost $130,000, to old fashioned and high-priced for us. After several desertions, the weary and almost penniless bunch went to Broken Bow, where we had heard tales of terrible court house graft. We found a 3-story building of brick and terra cotta, 73x103, with 17 inch walls from bottom to top, with foundation, of course, heavier, 21 inch pillars, and beautiful and imposing en trance, nice large rooms, tiled floors in corridors, and everywhere maple floors, laid on concrete back of counters. This building com plete cost $77,000, built by direct tax—4 mills one year, 3 mills the next, aided by $14,000 insurance and material from old court house. All the buildings described were completed and equipped in every way at prices given. One thing is practically certain for the peo ple to consider. We can get our money optional payments at 4 1-2 per cent interest to sell bonds at par at the lowest rate. „ In closing, a word of apprecia tion of oar kind reception and en tertainment by county officials and commercial clubs of various towns visited. Commercial dabs surely have a place in the new order of doing things. Yours, . Hire Am. Mr. and Mrs. W. EL Henry left Twsday morning for their future home at Flagler, Colo., where Mr. Henry has an interest in and will be cashier of a bank. The North western will of course keep them posted on home doings. May suc cess and happiness attend them. -- The early part of this week A. E- Chase moved his frnit and vegetable store one door north and the room he vacated has been fixed up for the use of Miss Fan nie Sutton, who will open a ladies’ furnishing store therein. We learn B. F. Tucker and family have moved to Coster county, where he has bought a large tract of land and will run a ranch. BIBLE CLASS GIVE RECEPTION The Bible class of the M. E. church gave a reception at the parsonage Tuesday evening of this week in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Oltjenbruns. A large crowd and a very enjoyable even ing was the ultimate result. Mrs. John Golus was taken to Grand Island Tuesday noon of this week to be operated upon for an abscess in the abdominal re gion. She was taken cm a cot, and a number of dose relatives accom panied her. Her age and serious condition give little hopes of her surviving an operation. journment they decided upon a name, club colors, and voted to federate with both district and state federations. Since its or ganization the club has lent its in fluence to all sorts of plans for the betterment of that community and has given to its members a center for their activities and interests. The work of the Country Wo man's club is greatly to the liking of Mrs. Musser, ^rho is much in terested in club extension work, and she advocates the establish ment of social centers making use of rural churches and school houses for that purpose. Before coming to Kansas Mrs. Musser lived in Nebraska, where she began her career as a club wo man about fifteen years ago. The first club to which she belonged was the Columbus Woman's club, with a membership of fifty-four. The, club was divided into differ enf departments, each one an or ganization within itself, with one general meeting held each month. The club was active and accom plished the things it set out to do, a characteristic which Mrs. Mu> ser has carried with her through the years of her club life. Five years later, upon removing to another part of the state. Mrs. Musser, who was then beguung to be known as a club woman, was cordially welcomed as a member of the Unity Club of Loup City, Neb., an organization, which took up civics in a practical form. In 190$, when the Musser family moved to Lincoln, she became a member of Lincoln Woman ^ club The Lincoln Woman's dub is on*' of the largest in the country, num bering among its members over 1.3vX> women and having twelve departments of study, covering a wide range of subjects. Mrs. Musser went to Parsons to mate her home in the (all of 1910 and was soon elected to member ship in the Athenaeum dub, which has furnished another leader among Kansas dub women in the person of Mrs. W. D. Atkinson, past president of the state fedora- * tion. Mrs. Musser has had value able training and varied experi ence in her connection with live and effective clubs and her work in the Third District federation has been characterized by execu tive ability and a good deal of push. BY WIRELESS FROM LEJtVEHSWORTH A wireless which means this time a letter, was received last week from Leavenworth, Wash ington, to the effect that the stork had been at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Grow and left a fine boy there for Jimmy and Heniet ta to love, cuddle and bring up to be a future president. Those of our readers who do not know the above happy couple we give the information that the proud father is youngest son of ex Postmaster Grow, while the mamma is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Conger of this city. Now having properly introduced the characters in the above interest ing drama, the Northwestern sends wireless congratulations to the grandpas and grandmas as well as to the happy parents. Frank Mickow went to McCooi Junction Monday morning to see how his farms are looking;
