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IX NEVER RAINS IN NEBRASKA, IX SIMPLY POURS Loup City Northwestern J _OFFICIAL PAPER OF SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA. LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY. THE PAPER THAT THE PEOPLE READ VOLUME XXXIII_1,0UP CITY, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. June 18. 1914. NUMBER 28 ODD FELLOWS CAPTURE CITY I. 0. 0. F. Rally Last Friday Was a Howling Success in Every Way, Large lekgati—s Present From all Adjoining Towns. PARADE NEARLY TWO BLOCKS LONG Ij'i Friday and all that night till thr following morning, Loup, Cit) was turned over to the (kid Fellow* and one of tie* biggest events of the kind wa.* pulled off ever in Central Nebraska. Karly Friday morn tlie city was a mas* of flags, bunting, and mottos of "Welcome" to the fraternity, at d what with those wit<> had arrived the evening pre vious and tie >*e coming in from the i**ighl*>ring towns and coun try roundabout, it was plain to we that tkid Fellowship predomi nate- i. instead of asking "An* you an Odd Fellow I** the salutation wa* "W i-re are you fruinf' or to Wiatt lodge do you belong!" as,, it seemed that ever)' <>ne you •net proved to l« a three linker. While the order had private ses sion* in the forenoon, they kindly let tiw outside public in on the ground floor, in the afternoon. by holdings mass meeting of tlie elect and uoo-imtiate. men. women and children at the ofiera home from S to j o'clock, witli a splendid pro gram of music and oratory, which was most liberally attended by our people. . At the close of tiw program, the < Kid Fellows aDd Kebekahs, beaded by our silver cornet imnd. gave a public parade nearly two blocks in length, tlie Cantons in toeir natty uniforms, tlie sub ordinate membership in regalia and tbr Msters of Kebekah in white suits all making an impos ing sight as tiiey unirvlied and counter - mnn bed on Nebraska avenue. Tlie all-nigiit session at tlie opera bouse was. of course, not open to tite public, but as the ho) * kept "oj**n bou«e"’ till day While attempting U» hang up a quarter of beef in the Goreliick market last Saturday. Chris Jo hansen caught hi* left hand on one of the large hooks making an ugly wound ia*t ween t lae index and middle finger of tliat hand, tear ing the fle-l» open for several inches. I* tile** complication* an*** *e will n<4 *uffer any *eri ou* consequence* frmn the ac cident. Items of News From Ashton Tin* Mi**cs Keta (iasteyer and Knar 1 tolling of lamp City were business visitors ui this city last Friday. Quite a number of Ashton's young people attended the park opening at lamp City Wednesday. Gillie Smith returned to < tmaha Frida\ after a few days visit at borne. T. C. Wilson, W. J. Burowski and W. F. Moeller were those who lust stuck by lightening Thursday afternoon. The kit-mro Miller* of Grand Is land are staying at Hems' during their atjaence to the east. W. Frantz was a passenger to Grand Island Saturday. A nurnler from here attended tl«e dance at Schaupp* Saturday Bight. It » understood that Mr. Peer ha» given up hta position here and will remove to Keriesaw. He will be mu*ed by bi» many friend.* and ovmtiers of the M. G. U. It wb* imjsissible for the rural carriers to make their entire route* Monday on account of the ^ bad roads. L. B. Jam mg and bride return ed from their honey-moon trip to light arul kept the goats so busy that the ‘■butters" were about butt -d out and had to be groomed often to make them keep up their duties, there must have been one continual round of pleasure to the initiate and a hospital full of vic tim- l»efore the night was over. As all the local members of the order have not yet awakened from their -lumber- following the ex haustion of the great all-night session. we have not been able to secure fnun them any special re l>ort of the day and doings, and as wluit they did is for the most l*art secret from the world, they perlia|»s will not tell us what curi o-ity would wish to know. Besides Grand Master Frank John and the past grand master of the Patriarch- Militant of Nebr aska, K. S. Davis, there were de legations fn>m a large number of i -i-ter towns outside* the county, while there wen* local members present from all over the county, givingto Loup City the largest number of Odd Fellow visitors L*ver in the city at any one time. FriMMlfi of Miss NeHie Jeffords will L* gratified to hear that she Im- l>een awarded a scholarship in the Damrosch Conservatory of Music in New York City, as a result of unusual ability display ed in the past year's work there. WEAK IN MIND NOT INSANE Man Supposed to bo Insane Adjudged Sane by Board. A RESIDENT OF HOWARD COUNTY. Last week Thursday afternoon Sheriff Williams was called out to the Jensen neighborhood a few miles north of this city, where a man supposed to be mentally wrong was wandering aimlessly about> unable to give any lucid ac count of himself. The sheriff re turned towards evening bringing with him the wanderer, who was placed in the county bastile till morning, when he was taken be fore commissioners on insanity, who found his name was Hood, that he had relatives, in Howard county and some property inter ests in a tangle, and while his con versation was more or less of a rambling nature, the board found him sane but somewhat weak mentally, owing possibly to his real or imaginary troubles over family property interests, leaving his mind in an unbalanced state, but not sufficiently so for the to do otherwise than to restore him to liberty. The sheriff took the nmn back up where he was Found, he claiming his team and tent were somewhere in that vici lit.y, from which he had wandered »nd could not locate them at the time he was taken in by the sher iff. The man was aged and gray, inshaved and dressed in overalls tnd jacket and walked painfully is though footsore, and had been through town several days pre viously with a poor looking old earn and outfit on his way north. Fie was a pitible object and ex ited the commiseration of all. If ie has relatives and property in terests over in Howard caunty as claimed, the county should see ffiat he is taken care of, or that the relatives do so. Boy Hit By Freak Stroke of Lightning I lie west ixmion of the county was struck by a minature cyclone ami electrical storm yesterday af ternoon. the worst exiierienced in years. The telephone wires were almost all out of commission, .lame- Kngleman. a boy living a half mile south of Litchfield and working in a field, was struck by lightning by a freak stroke. Four teeth were knocked out and others were splintered. The bo.v seems .dazed and his condition is consid ered very serious, Oliver Ellis, living three miles north of town was also struck and his left arm and left limb were badly blistered and his feet were numbed. He is also suffering from a pain in his right side. Sjniall buildings were blown down and roofs of many were re moved and silos were overturned. Duluth Minn., Sunday. Con gnttulatuftis with a happy and prosperous road through life isi wished them. Ijoo Beza and John Rapp were business visitors at Farwell Tues day evening. Clara Bogacz and Lillie Golcz, i were east bound passengers to < hnaha Saturday. Ralph Lunger, of Niobrara has takeu Leo Beza's place with the i Ashton Pharmacy. Friday niglit 1.64 inches of slow rain fell, on Saturday 1.14 inches fell, which brought Oak creek to the highest point since 1896, many i bridges are rej»orted out. J. W. Lundy arrived Monday j to take possession of the Lorenz! Bros, store, which he traded Mr. j Lorenz some land for. the land! living near Sargent. Garrett ex-j pects to remain here for the pre-! sent. ^ Miss Mamie McCartney of St. j Paul, who lias lieen visiting here j for a week with her aunt, Mrs. John Fisher, returned to her! home Monday morning. C. C. Cooler left Monday morn- J ing on a business trip out into' Wyoming. Mrs. Cooper went as far as Grand Island with him. The Misses Fay and Fern Bond, who nad been here several days visiting their sister, Mrs. C. H. Ryan, returned home to Gresham, this state Monday. Miss Elizabeth Perkins of Kearney, who had been visiting her friend, Mrs. A. W. Boecking, returned home to Kearney Mon day morning. Loup City Young Man Takes Bride Chris P. Petersen, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Petersen of this city, was married Monday of this week, June 15, 1914, to Miss Fay Hannawaldt, at the home of her sister in Lincoln. They ar rived in this city that evening where a supper was provided at the home of the groom’s parents, after which they immediately re paired to /he home prepared by the groom in the south Charlton cottage. The bride was a stud ent of the Nebraska School of Business in Lincoln, where she would have graduated this year as a stenographer and shorthand reporter, aud where the groom met her while attending that school the past year. Mr. Peter sen has a position in his father’s store. The Northwestern, with our entire people wish them hap piness and prosperity through life. _ Merle McLaughlin, who has been on the fair road to recovery, left for Omaha Monday noon, where he will take hospital treat ment for a season to more rapidly get his health back to its former state. We trust our young friend will soon return in the very best of physical condition. A. D. Hinman and daughters, who had been visiting at the home of their son and brother, Harry Hinman, for a week, left Monday morning for Long Beach, Calif., where they may conclude to make their future home. \ : ; \ AGED SETTLER PASSES AWAY Was a Sufferer Par Some Months With Cancer of the Liver. SETTLED IN THIS CODNTY IN 1179. Last Sunday morning at lu o'clock, June 14, 1914, at his home in this city, occurred the death of August Beushausen, an old resident of Sherman county, in the 75th year of his age. For some time deceased had been a severe sufferer from cancer of the liver, specialist diagriosing his case some months ago and so de ciding and refused to undertake an operation as offering no relief. Since that time he has been grow ing gradually worse, until the pain became so great that his last days would have been that of in tense suffering had not paliatives been used in such quanitities as to deaden the sensibilities, and he passed away in an uneouscious state quietly and without previous warning of the nearness of the hour until the final end. De ceased was most highly sjroken of by those who knew him best, and his last years while residing in this city were quietly passed, he having retired from all active la bors. making few new friends,1 but retaining all those of former years still closer in friendship. The funeral occurred Tuesday af ternoon from the Methodist church the pastor officiating, assisted by the pastor of the Presbyterian church, and under auspices of the A.O.U.W. of which he was an honored member, after which in terment was made in Evergreen cemetery. The Northwestern, with the entire community, will sympathize with the bereaved ones in their hour «f sorrow. August Beushausen was born in Hanover. Germany. March 5, 184f*. ’ He moved to New Y'°rk City while a young man, thence to Nebraska in the spring of 1879 and located on a homestead five miles southwest of Ashton. In 1900 he moved into Ashton and in 1906 moved to Loup City. On Oct. 6, 1869, he was married to Matilda Beck. To this union were born five children, one dying in infancy. Besides the wife he left four sons—August of Steamboat, Col., Julius ofLanore, Okl.jEmil of Provo, Utah, and Chas. F. of Loup City. He served as a soldier in the Prussian-Austrian war. He was a member of the A. O. U. YV. He was aged at the time of death, 74 years, 3 months and 9 days. Brilliant Young Attorney Locates - / Lamont L. Stephens, graduate from the law school of the State University, whose picture appears below, has opened an office in the suit of rooms vacated by R. J. Nightingale over the First Na tional Bank, and his card will be found in this issue of the North western. Mr. Stephens is a Sher man county boy, whose home has been near Rockville. He is a young man of most pleasing per sonality and we predict for him success here in Ids chosen profes sion. We commend him to the best friendship and warmest wel come of and from our best people on earth. Miss Henry Young left Tuesday morning for Ogden, Utah, .after several days visit with former friends. She will visit a few days at Grand Island en route. WEDDING DELLS NEAR AUSTIN Very Pretty June Wedding Solemn ized Last Wednesday. McFADDEN-BURKE NUPTIALS A very pretty June wedding was that of Miss Lulu McFadden and Thomas Burke, which was celebrated Wednesday morning, Jnne 10, 1914, at the home of the bride's parent's, Mr. and Mrs. S. K. McFadden, near Austin, Rev. E. M. Steen of the First Presby terian church of Loup City offi ciating. The bride was very at tractive in her wedding gown of white crepe meteor, made pannier effect and trimmed with point d* esprit lace, carrying a shower bouquet of white bridal roses and orange blossoms, which were sent from Kansas. The rooms were profusely and elegantly decorated with white and pink roses, poenies and garden flowers. The Loehengren wedding march was very effectively played by Miss Ada Smith. Immediately after the ceremony, a three-course wed ding dinner was served to forty guests present. Those from a distance were Hugh McFadden of Kimball and Mrs. John Hull of Coshocton, Ohio. The bride is well and favorably known to all our people, having taught six very successful terms of school in our county, and is a favorite with a large circle of friends. The groom comes from his Wyoming home with a splendid reputation as an active and aggressive young busi ness man and very popular with all. Mr. and Mrs. Burke jeft the day following their wedding for Denver, where they will spend several days, going from there to future home at Grand Junction, Colorado. The best wishes of our l>eople go with them. l JUPITER PLUVIUS j LinLE TOO ACTIVE ! Visits Loup City Friday and Saturday Nights With Cloud Bursts, Floods, Hail and Heavy Wind Storms. JENHER’S PARK VERY LinLE DAMAGED I Last Friday and Saturday nights, .Jupiter Pluvius, who has J been handing down a bunch of big rains this spring, concluded to break a few clouds in two and give it to us in such generous quantities that we would yell quits. The first night mentioned, he gave us a gentle reminder of what he could do, by throwing down anywhere from an inch to three inches over the county, ac cording to locality. Finding that the lay of the country carried away that amount easily, without flooding cellars, caves, carrying away bridges or culverts, etc., the old rain god got busy Saturday and gathered together the ele ments at his disposal, ready for a latter day deluge during the night. At about midnight, hav ing everything in readiness, he let loose. Concluding Jenner Park was-a good place to try to drown out, he let fly two cloud bursts up towards the head of Dead Horse, the flood breaking down the darn’d reservoir owned by Mellor and Johnson on that stream, adding the reservoir wa ters to the volume of the Dead Horse, which passes through the park, The night before the creek had safely carried through the park over three inches of down-pour, without damage to even the foliage. Feeding that his reputation was at stake J. P. Over-Study Causes Girl to Lose Mind Miss Emma Gipe, brillant and beautiful daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Gipe, was adjudged insane Tuesday evening and in the morning was taken to the asylum for treatment. She is but 17 and was a good student at the Ord schools. Hard study is as signed as the cause of her trouble, which began before the close of the school and she had to be re moved before the close of the term. There is every reason to believe that she will be cured under the good care she will re ceive at the state institution—Ord Quiz. -- I Boy Badly Hurt By Torpedo Exploding Monday about noon Maxwell Routh aged five years, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Routh, was very severely injured by the explosion of a torpedo of the kind used by railroad men for signaling trains. The Rouths were just moving in to a house in the west part of town and the parents were busy at work when the little fellow found the torpedo. Having some idea what it wasT but not understand ing the danger, he put it on a brick on the sidewalk and hit it with a hammer. The resulting explosion was heard all around the neighborhood, and the boy ran screaming to his mother. A physician was promptly call ed and found the injuries to be very painful and quite severe. The hands and arms were bruised and burned, the bare legs and feet were similarly injured, and the face was blown full of powder and what appeared to be Boarse sand. Four grains of sand were taken from the child’s eyes, and two pieces of the metal casing of the torpedo were taken from the flesh, one from the arm and one from the leg. While the child is very pain fully injured, the physician ex presses the hope that the. injuries will not prove permanent and that the eyes will be fully restored.— Ravenna News, • ‘3 Earl Gardiner, brother of J. R. Gardiner of the Northwestern, left Tuesday morning for his home at Brewster, after a three week’s visit here. He is a very pleasant young man and made many friends while here. He owns a ranch in that sandhills country. Mrs. E. G. Taylor and little daughter, Lucille, went to David City last week Thursday morning to visit a brother of Mrs. Taylor, who she had not seen for a number of years, who was there from a .distance on his way west. E. G. Taylor went to Omaha Monday morning to take charge of the Ta.vlor-Schwanek grain ele vator, while Mr. Schwanek took a week’s vacation. We understand the company, of which Mr. Tay lor is a senior member, is doing a fine business. Mrs. John Fisher went to Lin coln Monday morning to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Ware. Jenner Park will be in fine shape for the Fourth of July. By that time all traces of the big storm will have been loss at that popular re sort. At the opera house this (Thurs day) evening will be produced a 4 reel film of the Mexican war, showing the battles of Jaurez, Tierra, Blanca, Messa and Ojina ga, being actual pictures taken on the firing line, with picture of the rebel chief, Villa. You can’t af ford to miss this up-to-date pro duction. concluded that nothing short of two or more cloud bursts could make Jenner Park take water— that is more water than Bob and Harry needed in their business— so ha proposed to show them. And then he came out second best except to make the boys lots of work and some little loss. As the water from the rain god de scended it came down the Dead Horse a little to copiously even for the deep channel to carry it away, taking out the bridges, re sulting in the flooding of the park for a few hours, strewing debris and loliage over the grounds, car rying away a few cages in the lower park, drovyning a coyote and a cage of Guinea pigs, leav ing the merry-go-round, owned by foreign parties, a mass of wreck age, taking the fence away from around the ocean wave, but all in all doing but little damage that can be remedied by a few days’ work. The result shows conclus ively that nothing short of cloud bursts? can put the park out of commission and even they can not do so but for a short time, as within a few days the park will have i*ecovered from its trouble and show little if any effects of the late storm. In fact, by the Fourth at which time will be held the celebration of that National holiday in the park as usual, you would never know it had been in a pretty pickle from the work of his rain majesty. While Loup City, and surround ing country has had more than usual rains, showing 10.87 inches so far this year, as against 7.46 last year up to this time; has had 5.53 inches so far this month and Saturday night's downpour regis tering 5.58 inches, we have had almost a dry spell beside some other sections. A report from Kearney gave 5$ inches the other day, North Loup has had 9 inch rains, while numbers of other points have had liljjfe results. After passing through the park and on down the creek, the banks were not high enough to hold the water, which took out the ap proaclies to the bridges, and just below the creamery broke out of the west bank and across the road into the lower lands, flooding the fields, and doing much damage. At the same time the waters from the city drains passing down into the bottoms added to the volume of water from Dead Horse, mak ing the culverts entirely to small and inadquate to carry the water under and through the mill race, causing much damage to the lands and property owned by residents of the section. C. W. Conhiser had his forty acre tract under water and his crops entirely ruined. Werner Pritchau, the nurseryman; John Heasler, the dairyman; Henry Dolling and Stewart Conger, all met with severe losses, wnile the later had his cave ruined and Mrs. Conger lost some 400 chickens besides a great quantity of fruit she had put up, the total damage to these residents approximating a thou sand to fifteen hundred dollars. Besides the damage enumerated in the above account, we leai^i that crops over the county visited by the heavy rains have suffered se vere loss, it being estimated that at least one-fourth of the com is washed out, while other crops rfte more or less damaged. Altogether, Loup City and many i>ortions of Sherman county will be found to have had losses amounting up into the thousands of dollars, because of the rains of the past few days. While both the Burlington and Union Pacific branches have had some washouts the past week, yet they have been light and so quick ly repaired that train service has not been crippled nor trains de layed beyond an hour or so any day, .
