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WHY NOT SAVE THE COUNTY EXPENSE BY VOTINO “YES” NEXT TUESDAY Loup Ctty Northwestern OFFICIAL PAPER OF SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA._ i LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY. THE PAPER THAT THE PEOPLE READ m _ * - — . - - _ VOLUME XXXIII LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. May 7, 1914. NUMBER 22 DOES THE MONITOR REALLY BELIEVE IT C« Hb PeeoiMe That Oar Editor-Frieod Frva The West Side Hu AHewod Hiseelf to Itcue u Cuiptetoiy Looted. •4 BOOMS- SOME COBBT HOUSE, EH? 'differing balls of mud! Did >"U read last weeks' Monitor! For a short article it stands su f e lie numier of mathe matical cyclones. For the love of Mike. Jack, do yoa **e|jeve all of that' Now we are for-ed to believe you an* in favor of the new court house. Why a boy with a stub pencil cbewed into a *M"ti*h could figure •m been r. • Mae-! man county will have to pay in-j terra uo fT.V< MJ for Sm years f "-re v you can not liave read the proportion in your own paper. I Every time yoa |*y ~>me prin rt|4e the -Mere*? stops on tluit which i» paid. Every tii»ea | mi ne nt i* ma te lie* interest i~ less tie- next time. The last y ear it will t«e only #1S5. even if it runs T- years. i«it these l«oo*ls are op tional and may la* paid in lialf the time. Jack when your finger* mixed tnat type t read “the peo ple allow a few prominent men iwoHi^v* di- reputable) to do! the thinking f>»r them’* did you i believe that the committee of 40 i U' men and the county board and the people m favor of improve ment should liave such an attack ma te <« them! Eighty - four iwnt. wliew! ... aw— ■ -Lj----y-i Sherman County’s Special Election TV ri4m uf Sbrnun (.judit ' wilt have an opportunity on tlie IJth of May to way whether they ar? satisfied with an oM tumble 4»wn shark of a court house, or whether they are desirous of er ecting a new and up-to-date build ing. similar to the one that is now being «onstrorted in this city. The Phonograph is not interest- ; ed to any great extend m the >ber-1 mtn county bond election, hut we wish we could show our friends in 1 that county * hat it really means to them. If they could realize the satisfaction that there is in seeing a new court house going up to re- i place an old and oiaolete building, they would vote for the bonds to a j man. In tots county considerable opposition was maintained during the campaign for the bond elec tion, but since the building was started, and the outline of tlie building is up so that all may see what a tine structure it will be, no opposition whatever is heard of and everybody is satisfied, even those who were most upimsed are 1 now well pleated that tliey were in the minority. la >bcnuan county tlie Phono- j graph lias a large num'» r of read ers. and we hope that every read er of this jwper will hesitate be- i fore voting against that much need- i ed ltnprot .-tnent. We hope they w i II go to tlie polls and vote for! the new court lions*, thereby keeping up with the prncemion j started two years ago in Merrick aav eout.ty. and quickly taken up by i Custer. Howard and Greeley' counties, l^et >l«erman county on the west and Valley on tlie north lx. ild new court Houses, and this Msctioe of the state will be well j supplied with good buildings, and j vhutors to this section of Nebraska will realize that they are in the gae>ien spot of the state. We1 well realize what Sherman county w ll uruir in the way of a court , house. It will he practically the snow* as the one being built here, and will be a credit to the voters of that county for generations to I crane tf they go to tlie polls on i election day and vote for that magnifirieot building w hich they will receive. — St. Paul Phono-1 frvaph- _______ Jm Firu her returned from bisi ranch near H> annis a few days' i since, he having been up there for a couple of weeks building him a home and making arrangements to move up there, which he will /de this week. We trust be may have all kinds of splendid success in has new venture. Suppose a pantry with ice chest and box of matches would be 3 rooms. The proposition as out lined in the papers is perfectly reasonable, definite and plain. Nothing hard to understand just an ordinary business proposition and is to be considered as the building of a bridge, its up keep etc. Nothing strange about it as it follows along lines which have t<*en the same since man knew how to hammer, saw and mix mud- has opposition been just the same as progress always has had since man ‘knocked*, saw calamity in all improvement* and ‘threw* mud at the other fellow. All that in your article which was tlirown in ‘for good measure’ i* included in the contract price and the fire insurance is nix be cause not one dollar of insurance i- necessary as the building is FIKE-PRCM >F. MEETS WITH AH ACCIDENT Fraak Awtoa Lasaat Part af Two Fncars aai Tkaak A shocking accident occurred last Saturday afternoon, at B. J. Tierney’s feed yards in west Ans ley. Frank Horton an employ of Mr. Tierney, was operating a power com grinder, Mr. Horton was alone and no one witnessed the shocking affair. He says he was feeding the grinder and while shoveling in the corn, a com cob under his foot caused him to lose his balance and fall. In the ef fort to protect himself as he fell toward the grinder he reached out, and two middle fingers of the right hand and the thumb of the left hand being caught in the cogs. Mr. Horton, after the ac cident, came up town to Mr. Tierney's office and informed them of the accident. A physi cian was called and the crushed and bleeding members were cared for Mr. Horton is getting along well under the circumstances. The unfortunate man has the sym pathy of the community in his affliction.—Ansley Herald. Miss Brockway of Lincoln was a guest of the Drs. Bowman a few days last week. A NEW LODGE ORGANIZED TIm Mystic Wtrkcrs of Gm Wtrtt Social, Fraternal mi Daaaftetery. TWENTY-SIX CNAITEI M EMBEDS. • A lodge of the Mystic Workers, of the World, a social fraternal | and beneficiary order of life in-1 surance was organized in Society ! Hall on last Friday night, with a charter membership of twenty- j six members, by State Deputy T.; L. McClive. The following were ! elected to office and installed. Prefect. Arthur B. Conger: Monitor, Nettie A. Doner: Secre tary, Otto F. Petersen; Banker, Wm. H. Doner; Physician, Carrie L. Bowman, M. D.; Marshal. Florence Lyons: Warden, Anna! McFadden: Sentinel, Charles T. j Irwin: Supervisors, Leslie Lyons, j John W. Fay, Earnest E. Me-: Fadden. The Order was chartered under the insurance laws of the state of Illinois in 18%, and now has a membership of over 76,0tx3 mem bers. The head office building is located at Fulton. 111. A petition containing 75 names of citizens of Litchfield and vici nity was filed with the county clerk Tuesday morning nominat ing Sheriff L. A. Williams to suc ceed himself in that office. BODY OF PAGE CHILD FOIHD Starch for Bed? cl CUM Onwnd ■ Cedar April t E^d FOIHD BY ACCtBEHT. Our readers will recall the ac count of the drowning of a small child in the Cedar near Ericson on April i, and the unsuccessful at tempt to find the child’s body. Since that time an almost inces sant search for the body of the child has been kept up. For weeks the neighbors aided in this sad work, but they had given up the task. Not so with the parents who kept on. though no trace of the child was found save the foot steps in the sand by the river’s edge, made on the day of drown ing. But yesterday the body was dis covered by aceident by Charles’ Pain. Mr. Pain saw an object partly covered in the sand. On investgation he found it to be the clothing and the wasted re mains of the missing child. The clothing had caught on a barb wire submerged in the water at & point about two miles below the place of drowning. Since the death of the child, the mother, Mrs. Page, has been in terrible suspense. Until the body was recovered sbe could not be re conciled. We are glad that this comfort may at last come to the parents that it is given burial. ———^— FINAL WORD OF THE COORT HOUSE CQMMITEE TO THE VOTERS Ttje Sherman County Court House Committee strongly recommend the court house prooosition to all taxpayers and voter* of sherman county, and urge them to make it a special duty to go to the polls oa Tuesday, May 12th, and cast their vote in favox of the proposition oa the following spund . because we can mst tope So get a more favorable proposition at any time in the future, and pomibly not so good as the one which we now present and which has been published in detail in the legal notices in all papers in the county the past six weeks. Because our public records are in a very unsafe condition in the old, dilapidated building, and if they are lost they can never be restored. Because the old court house and old jail are unsubstantial and unsafe: no office room for the majority of the county officers within the building, which is a great hindrance to the correct, prompt and convenient transaction of the public business. Because the plans and specifications of Burlinghof and Davis, one of the leading firms of architects of the state, insure us a massive, solid, tire-proof building, ample, neat and perfectly arranged in every respect and fully furnishsd to the least detail for not U) exceed $75,000, and we are convinced that we are getting big value for* our money. Because if we put oil building a new court house until the old one is destroyed, which risk we are continually running, we will both lose our records and the building will cost us more, or we will get a poorer building when the matter has to be rushed. Because the tai to pay for the court house will be so light as to be felt by no one. Because Sherman county can not afford to lose its self respect and the respect of its neighbors and continue to do business in the old shack that has been left over from the sod house, dug-out, grasshopper period, when all of the surrounding counties are building up-to-date fire proof court houses. ^Because the bond terms are so arranged that the amount can be paid off by a very light annual assessment, if the twenty years' time is taken, or can, at the option of the people, be paid off in a few years by a'larger levy, but not so large as to be bur densome Because the court house proposition has the active support of a verv large number of the heaviest property owners and land owners in the county, both resident and non-resident, who recognize the risk they run daily of having their evidence of title de stroyed Because the court house proposition and the sentiment favoring It is now so far developed that it would certainly turn up again in the near future, if defeated now. A matter is never settled until it is settled right. Let us tackle the job now and not have to deal with future elections. In sitort there is every reason to build the court house now and no serious reason against it. Therefore this committee of 46 citizens from every township in the county will earnestly urge every friend of the proposition to make it his special business to go to the polls T uesday, May 12t. hand cast his ballot for the proposition as made. This committee has spent much work aad time in an honest endeavor to promote this worthy enterprise and get a court house and jail for the 175,000. that will ba sate aad Pr^!eal * credit to the county. We are dealing with reputable architects and have sufficient guarantee that the cost of the building fully equipped and furnished will not run above $75,000, and any contractor who bids less than that and whom bid la ac cepted by the county board will be compelled to give a bond of not less than $25,0.X). that he will complete his contract in ascerd ance with the plans and specifications now on file in the county clerk’B office for the amount of his bid and if it be less than $75, 0«0. the county receives the benefit thereof. A building committee is to be elected, one member from each township, ttodttmns of that township selecting by mam meeting or any way they may desire a man in whom they have the utmost confidence to act as their representative on the building oommitttee, to advise with and to aid and assist the county board in getting a building true to the plans and contract and that will be a permanent satisfaction and credit to the oountv. TIE MERMAN COINTT C0IRT NOISE COMMITTEE. _W. S. WAITE, Secretary. Litchfield Monitor’s Mistakes Corrected The court house committee in presenting the court house proposition to the people have tried to deal in noth ing but absolute facts which can be proven from the records in the court house and by the simplest rules of arithmetic. _ 1° rite issue of april 24th, the Monitor stated that the interest on the bonds would be, before the principal was paid, the sum $67,500, when in fact it only amounts to $35,437.50, if the least amount is paid each year, that «*»n be paid under the proposition presented to the people by the county board and published in his paper the entire time he has been making these misstatement of fact*. And if paid in less time, as the county has a perfect right to do under its option, the interest will be correspondingly leas in proportion to the payments made. Thus we haves right to pay the entire $75,000 in six months after the bonds are used and interest commences. In that event the interest would only amount to $1687.50 and could not exceed the sum of $35,437.50 under the proposition as above stated, showing a misstatement of $32062.50. In the aame article is even a more glaring misstatement of facts with regard to main tenance, in which be states that the expense will amoont to between $3000 and $5000 per year. The court house committee have figured the necessary expenses of maintaining the present courthouse and rented offices, lights, coal and telephone service, jam tor, extra vsnlts, halls for conducting teachers’ examinations, jury rooms and insurance as $844 per year. The committe estimates the maintenance for the new courthouse at $1204, made up as follows: lor janitor $50 per month or $600 per year. Bear in mind that there are living rooms in the upper story of the court house for the janitor, which have heat, light and water furnished. $400 for coal. Telephone and lights will be prac tically the same as they are now, which we estimate at $304. There will be no rent for ontside offices «nd it being t fire proof building, no fire insurance will be necessary. Thus we find that the difference in the maintenance of the old court house and ontside offices and the new courthouse to be $360 per year, and not from $3000 to $5000 as the Monitor stated. * In the issue of the Monitor of April 17th is the statement that ’‘The reason for the special bond election was. that the bends would not carry at the regular fall election, unless that they would cany by a two-thirds majority, and that would have been hard to get. At a special election one majority will be enough to get the bonds.” Again the Monitor is mistaken. The same law governs the carrying of the bonds, either at a special or general election, and a majority of the votes cast will cany the proposition, in either case. The committee believe that the building of a new courthouse is a business proposition of sufficient importance to all taxpayers, to be put before them in such a manner that they could not be mislead by candidates and contending political parties at general elections. The ballot at a general election contains a long list of notional, state, county and precinct officers and constitutional amendments and a vital question, like this courthouse proposition,would meet the same fate that all questions of like character meet, being lost sight of by the voter. The cost of the special election amounts to about $450, of which the non-resident taxpayer, melnding the rafl raads, pay at least ooe-third as shown by the tax list. There being about 2000 voters in the county, this would coot at an average at fifteen cents for each voter. The only people that could benefit by the Monitor’s levy plan in preference to the bond proDoaition as m*^* would be the banks of the county who would receive the money on deposit as collected at two percent interest per annum and the money would remain in the hawks until toe entire amount necessary to build the courthouse, was levied and collected, which would take five yean, tons endangering loss at the records unnecessary risks with no sation therefore, or M the county denes to build on toe levy plan before all the money is accumulated in toe treasury, they ** c<?apelled to bBfld m *time PtoposMou and toe county would get from a twenty-five to thirty per cent poorer building, because of toe tone preposition, as toe county board of supervisors and toe courthouse committee found to be the cate, from investigation and mnparivon of courthouses built on the two different p»«w We all dmd have a eommoe intamrt and a common purpose, viz: toe welfare of toe gtertert number of our citizens, and we believe toe new eotwtoooM is for toe public good and a public necessity and tort toe present plan and proposition should receive toe support of toe people at toe pHW Mar 12th. COURTHOUSE COMMITTEE, Ry W. S. WAITE, Seoetrty* FROM THE WAR BORDER LINE Letter Freni Freak Aaick, of B Paso, Texas, to Mis Parents Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Aniek of TMs City. VILLA’S FRIENDSHIP SORT LOOK SINCERE Below we print a letter from' Frank Amick, son of Conductor Amick of this city, who is at El Paso, Texas, and just at the edge of war border. It is most inter esting at this time, coming from a Loup City boy, giving local color- j ing to home interest in the troubles between this country and Mexico: El Pasq, Texas, April 25, 1914. Dear Papa and all:—Well, here I am and going to work tonight. 1 feel pretty good. Things look bad down here at the present time, there are about 15,000 soldiers in El Paso and they have the big cannon placed up on the mountains so that if Villa attacks they can bombard Jaurez. They have issued guns to all the citizens and the city is under martial law, and every body has to go to bed at 9 p. m. I went to the fort and offered my service as a conductor, in case Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Zimmer man and daughter, Mrs. Beth Owen and two children are ex pected here from North Yakima. Wash., the last of this week. We understand Mrs. Owen will make her home with her parents. Barns Doesn’t Love Steelier It is a fact, however, that Farmer Burns does not feel kindly toward Joe Stecher —* perhaps, with some reason. Several months ago Bums quietly arranged for a match between Stecher and an un known in Stecher's home town— Dodge. It developed that the Farmer’s “unknown” was the re nowned Ynssif Hussane. But Stecher, although a comparatively green wrestler, was game and he and the Bulgarian hopped to it in one of the most grueling contests ever put on in the west. After Hussane had twice thrown the Ne braska boy off the stage and the latter kept coming back for more, the Farmer decided that he and his Bulgarian prodigy had plucked a Tartar. About that time Stecher clamped a punishing head scissors onto Hussane and the friends of Dodge county boy claim that the Bulgarian, to free himself, bit Stecher on the leg. This was a signal for a demonstration by Stecher's neighbors, so Farmer Burns and Hussane, claiming they feared violence, fled from the hall. The referee then awarded the de cision the Stecher. Meantime, the management refused to Burns or his Bulgarian any of the re ceipts, asserting they were entit led to nothing because of their re fusal to go on with the match, since, which day the veteran Om aha wrestler and his protege have been vowing vengence on Stecher and his trite. A Peculiar Swine Disease in State A rare swine disease has made its appearance near Tecumseh. Owen Morrissey, who lives five and one-half miles west of Tecum seh, lost nine porkers with the dis ease in a single night recently. The hogs were suddenly stricken, seeming to be all right the even ing before death. Dr. Sullivan, the government veterinarian, who is working in an effort at eradica tion of hog colera in Johnson county, was sent for at once. As a result of a post mortem exami nation Doctor Sullivan pronounced the disease to be gastrointeritds. a small worm in the stomach, the worm being grathostoma. The veterinarian pronounced the dis ease a rare one, and he has sent a history of the work of the disease in Mr. Morrissey’s pens, together with samples of the worms, to Washington. l 'they went down into Mexico. Gen. Bliss thanked me and took my name and address. He said he thought they would need about 350 brakemen. engineers and con ductors. he also said he would call on me as soon as he needed any men. Gen. Villa is doing a whole lot of talking about how he isn't go ing to war, but at the same time he has his men digging trenches along the river, and there has been three train loads of soldiers come to Jaurez from Torreon since yesterday. But I don't want you to worry about me, I am all right. Uncle Ross got scared and went to Denver. Here is some of Villa’s money I got it from a street ear conduc or. Well, I must close, hope yt got the papers I sent you. Love to all, Frank Amick. 1124 San Antonio St, Items of news ! FROM ASHTON I At last the B. B. B. on the side walks is overshadowed by the beautiful color of green which as a rule comes every spring. Mr. Webhey has rented the house across the street from Pat Chervinski's and will move his family here from Omaha. On account of the bad roads the ball team did not play the game at Elba Sunday, thereby saving Elba defeat. Mat Ignowski purchased a sec ond hand Ford from Joe Roy, last week. Stanley Goc drove it home for him. The Schaupps Ball team played the Ashton 2nd nine on the Ash ton grounds Sunday. Ashton won 9 to 6. The dance that was given by the Young Ladies Sodality was fairly well attended and a good lunch served. Cash Pritchard was down from L)up one day last week and got a few of the boys to enlist for ser vice in the army the boys expect to leave for Mexico any day now. The barn of John Skibinski, north east of town was struck by lightning Saturday night and four valuable horses killed. John hsd no insurance on the horses ar d it is quite a loss to him. The B. B. B. held their regular meeting last Monday evening. The kind of lunch they served is a pretty good indication of how they feel, the lunch consisted wholly of pickles. A miscellaneous shower was gi ren at the Kwiatkowski home Sunday evening in honor of Helen who will be married this week, a large crowd were present and a very enjoyable time reported. Chas. Jamrog is carrying a smile that wont come off, he says, did you see my grass, look, look at it at last it has come and I thuk it will stay this time, plenty of wet, well thats all in style in Ashton. Lawrence Polski clerk of this great county was in Ashton last week shaking hands with his many friends, and we understand he is running for re-election, well its a cinch, all liis friends told him that you will be our next county clerk, we think a county clerk that had to stick in that old court house ought to have a chaince to hold office in a new oourt house. We beg to be excused for not having any Ashton items last week, but on account of having so mi ch rain farm work was at a stand still and we could not resist thf temptation to take a short va cation. The writer visited with his brother near Alliance for a few days. The western part of state have had lot6 of rain this spiing and crops are looking fine. »