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VoLt ML XXXIII LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. July 9, 1914. NUMBER 31
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CREAMERY BURNS
_ TO THE GROUNB
Tfct Imau Cni—n » Ptaet lore a Total Lots, Valued at Over $15,Ml
leteroMO Meet $MM.
WILL K IENILT IMMEDIATELY.
At about «o’ei>ck last Thursday
rtnoig. tbr ttateuna Creamery
Cu.t building wa» diawnreied uu
fur and in lea* tiian me hour was
banked tu tbe gr >uad. entail trig a
tutaJ look of tiuilding and *•»intents.
Manager Tbiaupson »a« just
closing to* day ** »<*rk. when Mrs.
(inrnua. wife of butter-maker.
«iw to tbe oftnr and saui site t«e
1 e-red the iHolding was «*n tin*.
Mr. TlMwnpwat remembered after
wari that he tiad brunt a crack
ling sound for for «**tend minute*,
hot owing to tbe none of the
mar binary. Hr., bod payed no at
tenuun to it. thinking it came
fraon tbe working* about tbe
plant. However. almoW before
t>e ■ mbi get out of tbe utt*. tbe
tbe roof fell in. ami be laid) «*>
raped po—iblr injury. About tbe
same tiflkr other* connected with
the creamery -ismered amoke
and *Mming a taiider to mresti
gate found tame* jus* breaking
Urubpi and rofmaf a portion or
tine In an lamdibij; abort
urn* iknrltrr lie- entire laddug
a welluBf furnace and
waiun one b<«r only the burning
riS ~n*»er«- afjl. At -gtm a* the
hie a ns dmrotered. an alarm a a*
given, the fere bell rang and soon
the hre laddie* arete hurrying U»
the «*» with aii ti«e city hoar.
)«t the crewmen bwiMing n>
situated wa far from the neare-t
t»r*- plug that the hue larked a
great distance of reaching the
n &*gr*lt<«i and nothing could
lae done but stand and watch the
dest ructjot: complete. There were
uo ahisis il'in pound* of butter
ready for shipment, be-sie* cream
atthreot to make at hast
\ pound* more, ami the shipment
would have bees make that -mine
evening, a ear Iwing on the tracks
to knl. >o quickly did the fire
tpesd from the tint alarm that
nothing, not even the books,
could be Ht«d. though fortunate
ly most of the book* and stnunU
were kept at the Ravenna head
quarter* of Use company. mi the
loss la that regard will not hr of
From Mr. Clark, the bead of
the Karettit* < reamer) Co. w ho.
fortanateJ.i >» lerr at the time,
we learn that the lua will be in
the nrtghbortrmd of ilj.i**'. w ith
about §£.«»•'insurance.
After the lire ana Melon* retir
ing that night. C. A. Clark, bead
of the Kateuna c- <mpaay. whx-h
ha* il* lx*ad<j uarier* al Katerina
had rerured thr rental of the Cns*
garage as a temporary quarters
1 for Ihr ouwitauijr hen*, wired into
hnaha atei ordered a cuosignmrnt
of milk ran*, with a «-tan {dement
of Iptb-r nth, and began bu*i
•m the iuihvug morning. with
out w<Mug aa order and by that
wight had rewired wane iat tana
of cream. a inch they ship daily to
thr ereamrry at Kavetma bead
quarter* and at the present turn
uox* are right down to txiciaeias
without the loss of any time or
thr lows of any customer*, They
also hhl ad order* for ice '-ream
for their trade the Fourth, and ex
cept fur the luaa of the borne *ta
Hat by fire owe would not know
that they had w feral thr revere
setback caused by thr fire.
Abo. before thr chaw of the
week. Mr. dark had secured thr
opteoa on and purchased a build
ing axle un the vacant kite just
emit of thr Burlington depot and
will exert thereon an up-to-date
creamery building, tjeguming the
yereeftaoo of the some, a modern
creamery and manufacturing sta
^ M r. Clark had brew cmmdenng
muring ip town and erecting a
plant for some time. only holding
off •■ectus' of lack of sewerage.
This has 'K*en overcome to some
extent by an arrangement with E.
<». Taylor, whereby, if the city
does not put in a system, they
they will instal a private system
to til! tin , r demands. And this
brings up to our city the*pressing
demand of a city sewerage system.
>»iii‘ h has lns'D agitating our |»eo
ple for some time, and which
should U- talked up. agreed uja>n
and sufficient 1* >nd> voted to give
tl»e city a sewerage system which
will do away with the present
drainage and cesspools over the
city. I jet the commercial club
meet and see if the matter can not
'■e }*e*i with successfully. Bonds
sti" i 1 lie voted to build a sewer
age from tie* railroad tracts to the
nv**r. From t »e tracks up to and
over tin* city can be divided into
districts ond be put in at private
co* to property owner* who wish
the *ame. eventually giving a
sewerage system over the city,
which means much to the health
ana welfare of our townspeople,
ixl action be laLtn at onue.
Claus Carves the
Wrong Kind of Meat
While Clan* Ej®ers was carv
ing meat at the Eggers shop last
Thursday. lie inanaged to slice a
chunk of Ins own flesh and into
tl»e 1 Mine at tlie base of his left
I
thumb, which will place him hors
tie combat, or words to that effect,
for a few days. But really it was
an ugly and mighty painful in
jury. all the same.
The Hasting- Republican makes
a spirit* | defense of the direct
primary. It needs defenders, as
we have the primary law in this
state. The Hub was one of ori
ginal boosters in the primary law
in Nebraska an*I lias been great
ly disappointed. as year after
year unscrupulous and corrupt
■ andidales are foisted on the tick
et through tlie primary who could
not have had a “look in* at one
of the o|«l jiolitical conve.ntions.
Tlie theory of the primary is right
I>ut its practical utilization has so
far merely given promise of im
provement over the old methods.
Kearney Hub.
T. R. Sire to
Rub iu 1916
"I don't think any one doubts
that Theodore Roosevelt expects
to obtain the nomination for the
presidency in 1916. Furthermore
I don't think there is much ques
tion out tliat he can have it if he
want* it,” said Representative
Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming,
one of the stand ;»t leaders of the
House, yesterday.
“How large a part of the Re
publican parti or those people
whom Roosevelt has attacked
must viciously will refuse to re
ceive Col. Roosevelt back?*’ Mr.
Moodell was asked.
“None," lie replied. “I think
Col. Rooseveh will do what he
can do f«»r a few Progressive can
didates in some States. I don't
tiunk lie will make the active cam
paign be might have made had
the trouble lieen of more recent
origin.
“I don’t think you will find Col.
Rooseveh saying anything which
MERCHANTS
EASY OH HOT
Young Man Apprehended For Forging
Cheeks Promises to do Bettor.
WAS A MERE BOY IB YEARS.
Some weeks since, our mer
chants were in a deep puzzle over
the doings of an unknown person
who had developed a very decided
penchant for writing checks on
the local banks, on which he had
no funds, and to vary the mono
tony of the work, signed the same
with various fictitious signatures,
receiving therefor a part in mer
chandise and the balance in cash.
Last Thursday the culprit was ap
prehended by the sheriff, arrested
and recognized by the business
men upon whom he had perpe
trated the swindle. A consulta
tion being held and the check
writer being willing to make re
stitution, he was permitted to go
free ui>on promise to do that kind
oi work no more. The fact that
he is but a mere boy in years, of
a good and resjiected family and
also connected by marriage with
another most respected family,
who are deeply grieved and hu
miliated by his shady transactions
his name is withheld from publici
ty with the trust that this may
prove a salutary lesson and that
he may in the future prove a good
and law abiding citizen, living
down by correct demeanor this
most grievous error of youth, who
we believe was not Yuliy aware of
the henutosness of the offense.
will widen the closing breach bet
ween him and the Republican
party. 1 suppose he will continue
to attack the individuals he singled
out before, but the party gener
ally, I believe, will not be the ob
ject of his attack. The Demo
cratic party will be his target’'
. “But how can Col. Roosevelt
who declared time again that the
differences between him and the
Republican party were fundament
al reconcile these statements with
a return to the fold now or two
years hence?”
'W ell. Col. Roosevelt will come
back to a slightly different party,”
replied Mr. Mondell. “The
leaders of the party, and the
party generally, realize that they
have been severely punished, and
perhaps not altogether by politi
cal malcontents. They have come
to understand that among those
who followed Col. Roosevelt out
of the party were a great many
clear-thinking citizens, firmly
grounded in Republican principles,
who. believed, and still believe,
that the party had fallen into a
rut, is not sympathetic to the pro
gressive thought of the time, and
not sensible to the demands and
needs of its people.
‘The party leaders realize that
the party cannot afford to lose this
type of supporters, and that it can
bring them back into the fold by
adopting a course more nearly in
accord with their views.
“In other words, Col. Roose
velt will return to a chastened
party. No doubt certain reforms
will be exacted by him as the
price of peace and will be agreed
to, but he will find that he still is
a Republican, and his Progressive
followers will find that they are.
if they ever were, still Republi
cans. and the Republican party
reunited will present the strong
front so the enemy in 1915 that it
presented before 1912.—Washing
ton Post.
THE VERA CMZ
ATTACK WRONG
unnge ■roww Mir inpco n*
dares livaam a Midakt
SAYS NIERTA SAVER ANEUCAIS.
It will be but a short titae before
the people will discover that Presi
dent Wilson's Mexican policy has
destroyed the lives of nearly 100,
0**0 helpless people,*’ declares P.1
W. Warner, an American fanner
who was in the Atascador colony,
sixty miles from Tampico, for
eight years, until foreigners were
forced to leave Mexico. He is
now making his home at Fremont1
and was in Omaha for a day, stop
ping at the Merchants hotel.
"Candidates for office.'1 Mr
Warner contines: "should be very
cautious al>out endorsing the Wil
son administration for that reason.
The president's policy, in giving
his moral support to the Mexcan
rebels and allowing them to get
arms from the United States, has
not only resulted in the killing of
many Mexicans and also some
Americans down there, bat has in
addition enabled the murderers
to rob Mexican citizens and
foreigners of hundreds of millions
of dollars worth of property.
“And. finally, to cap the climax |
of all blunders and follies. Wil
son's poliry led to the slaughter
ing of several hundred helpless
Mexican men. women and children
in the attach on Vera Cruz. That
murderous and practical act alone
drove 10,< >00 Americans from their
homes and property in Mexico
and their lives saved only by the
exertions of President Huerta.
The American people owe their
most profound thanks, for lie
saved many of them, even after
our nation had armed his enemies
and had imprisoned 4,000 of his
soldiers who had fled across the
border. *'
The refugee, in criticising Wil
son's policy asserts that the
trouble in Mexico started with
capital furnished by “a large oil
corporation of New York*' (Stand
ard Oil company), which, he says
financed Madero, through the con
trol of whose administration it
would reap millions of dollars.
“Wilson has not been “watch
ing and waiting/" Warner de
clares. The president has been
meddling with the Mexican feder
al government and has been help
ing, with all his power, the rob
bers and murders who oppose that
government
“The net results of Wilson’s
policy have been to direct against
us the enimity and distrust of 17,
000,000 of a sister republic and of
other American republics, thereby
driving trade and commerce from
our-people to European nations; to
cause the loss of many innocent
lives: to drive thousands of Amer
ican farmers from their Mexican
plantations: to lose for them all
their worldly possessions down
there, and to bring the United
States on the brink of war with
Mexico that would cost many
lives and much money.—Bee.
Number ef Milk
Cows eu Farms
Nebraska had 623,000 milch
cows on farms of the state, accord
ing to the year book of the de
partment of agriculture, issued a
few days ago. Last year the
number was estimated at 607,000.
The milch cows were valued at
$47,209,000 on January. 1, 1914,
and at $30,107,000 in 1913. Other
cattle on farms and ranches were
estimated at 1,883,000, valued at
$71,742,000, January 1, 1914. A
year previous the number was
1,902,000, but there was an in
crease of approximately $10,000,
000 in value, the cattle in 1913 be
ing valued at $61,625,000.
Information received by the
State Board of Agriculture indi
tates the probable incease of cattle
in tbe state during tbe ball and.
winter of 1914-15. It is also be
lieved that there w91 be an in
crease in tbe numb— of miich
cows.
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PASTOR’S WIFE
BADLY HURT
Mrs. L‘I. Stocumb Fails Down Stairs
m Parsonage Nome.
HURRIES ROT SERIOIS.
Monday afternoon of this week,
Mrs.L.Y. Sloeumb was severely
injured by a fall down the cellar
stairs at the parsonage. First re
ports were to the effect that the
lady had broken both lower limbs
i ntbe fall, but later that report
was found erroneous. -She had
started to carry down a tub and
wringer, when she fell, but is un
able to say what caused the acci
dent, she managed to get up the
stairs and to bed, but by evening
she was feeling so bad. Dr. Bow
man was called. She was badly
bruised over the body but no
bones broken. It will be several
days, at least, before she will l>e
able to l*e up and around.
Under date of July 2. we re
ceived a post card from our good
friend, John Wameke, at Zephyr
hills, Fla., with an interesting
picture scene on the same, which
is as follows: The photo show- the
hauling of watermelons to town
the latter part of May to load on
to cars for shipment north. They
were waiting for the trainmen to
spot a car. This is now what they
call rainy season and rains nearly
every day some, and so through
out the summer.*' Each wagon is
hauled by a yoke of oxen, a pic
turesque scene, indeed.
THE GLORIOUS
FOURTH OF JULY
What Oar People DM and Where They Celebrated ea the Ireatoet Day ia
the History of Oar Hatioa.
PILLING THE EAGLE’S TAIL-FEATHERS OUT.
Once again has the National
holiday come and gone, and with
it history records one of the best
days, one of the sanest and one of
least accidents in the Nation's
supreme holiday."
At Loup City
As usual, Loup City turned
over its celebration to the man
agement of Jenner's Park, where
those of our people who did not
go elsewhere to find enjoyment
made the park headquarters, and
while the crowd was comi>aratel.v
small, owing to other celebrations
and the further fact that nothing
short of good sized catastrophe
could have kept the farmers from
their fields, the successive rains of
the past month having kept work
back so far that necessity com
pelled the laagest number to
stay at home. While the crowd
at the park was small, good
nature and enjoyment was the lot
of all and fully made up in good
time what was lacking in numbers.
In the afternoon came the princi
pal event, a ball game between
Ravenna and a picked nine from
Loup City, which was one-of the
best of the season, Ravenna win
ningby one score. No scores
were made by either team till the
: eighth inning, when Loup City
soored one. followed in the ninth
by Ravenna scoring twice on a
wild pitch by the local twirler,
Dieterich. who up to that time
had played an errorless game.
Batteries-Loup City, Dieterich
and Johnson; Ravenna, Tibbetts
and Greenslit. Score 2 to 1 in
favor of the visitors. Time, one
hour and thirty minutes.
There were a few sports pulled
off in the afternoon, but owing to
the ball game and smallness of
the crowd down in the park, not
very maty were given. After
supper, the Miller boys did a most
interesting stunt, Warren agree
ing to throw Clarence twice in 20
minutes, but the latter managed
to break numbers of holds and
kept Warren busy for 23 minutes
before he clamped the necessaries
on the foxy lad and pinned him
down. Following this came a fine
exhibition of fireworks, the even
ing crowd being several times
larger than in the afternoon.
Dancing in the p&villion was as
usual the scene of activity and a
goodly number enjoyed the • occa
sion.
Mrs. Ira Timson
Meets Accident
Last Thursday morning, while
Mrs. Ira Timson of Elm township
was carrying a pail of water from
the well to the house, she in some
manner fell, breaking three ribs
on her left side just in front of the
spinal column. Dr. Main was
called and attendee! the suffering
lady, and she is getting along
nicely, though it will be at least
two or three weeks before site can
be up anel around again.
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A new postal card is issued by
by the postal department at Wash
{ington. The new cards will bear
I the profile portrait of Thomas
1 Jefferson, founder of the demo
cratic party. All postoffices can
; not be supplied with the new
i cards at once, but they will be
I furnished as rapidly as possible, j
The size of the card is the same as
j the present No. 4 card. The pa- j
I per is cream color and is printed 1
I in green ink. The subject of the
stamp is a profile portrait of
Thomas Jefferson looking to the i
left. The background of the por
trait is open and is surrounded
with a circular border bearing in
capital letters the words “U. S. |
Postal Card. One Cent,’’ This!
border rests upon a base contain- j
ing a curved ribbon in which ap
pears the name “Jefferson," with j
the numeral “1."'—Ord Quiz.
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Among our announcements this |
week will be found that of Chas.
Bass of Hazard, asking nomination
at the hands of the democratic vot
ers for the office of clerk of the dis
trict court, which he now holds
by appointment of the county
board of supervisors till a new
clerk is elected and qualified.
While Mr. Bass came new to the
official duties, he has been making
good, so far as we can learn, and
is an old and well known citizen
of the connty, and no doubt will
fill that trying position most satis
factorily, in case he is honored by
the voters at the coming election
by being selected for the office to
which he aspires. So far lie has
no opposition.
Mrs. J. W. Burleigh entertain
ed the members of the Entre Nous1
Club Tuesday afternoon of this
week at a two-course luncheon,
with cards and music.
Two men were disputing over
their respective churches. One
was a Presbyterian and the other
a Baptist. Finally one called a
neighbor who was passing by and
asked his opinion as to which was
the only church to be saved.
"Well," he said, ‘‘My son and I
have been hauling wheat to the
mill for years. Now there are
two roads leading from our place
to the mill—one's the valley road,
t'other takes over the hills. And
never yet has the miller asked me
which road I took, but -always
asks: ‘Is your wheat good?" Ex.
B. J. Swanson came up from
Ulyses Monday on business.
Base Ball Games
ef the Past Week
Farwell, Xeb., July 5, 1914.—
Farwell took their fifth shutout
this time from Elba by the score
of 5 to 0. Cook was in the box
for the locals but timely hitting
coupled with errors gave the vis
itors the game. The disaster.
Elba 1 0 6^2 0 0 2 0 0 5
Farwell 000000000 0
Batteries — Elba, Summoviek
and Fofeita: Farwell. Cook and
Jacobsen.
Boelus lost to Rockville Sunday
by a score of 6 to 1. Ashton and
Dannebrog did not play.
STARMK OF TEAMS
Club W. L. Perct.
Elba 10 3 769
Rockville 8 3 727
Ashton 6 3 667
Ilannebrog 4 5 444
Boelus 4 9 308
Farwell * l 10 090
Lise where
A special came up from Grand
Island the evening of the 3 to take
a crowd down to the Island, but
only about a dozen took advantage
of the special from here, and some
of them only went as far as Rock
ville. where they took in the cele
bration. reporting a most enjoy
able time. However, quite a
number came in from the north on
the Burlington and helped swell
the excursion.
Quite a number of our people
went to Arcadia and by the
auto route, where a most enjoy
able celebration was had, with a
large delegation from Sargent,
making Arcadia the Mecca of a
big crowd. One unfortunate ac
cident occurred at Arcadia to mar
the otherwise unalloyed enjoy
ment. Clarice Bellinger, the 12
year-old son of Harry Bellinger,
while firing a cannon cracker,
holding same in his hand, it ex
ploded tearing the band badly.
Litchfield also held a celebration
a goodly crowd attending, but as
it was out of cummunication with
this city and can only be reached
overland drive or round by way
of Grand Island, very few, if any,
from Loup City or vicinity at
tended. However, we hear they
had a fine crowd and a most en
joyable time.
Outside of some private picnics
and social gatherings here and
their over the county, the cele
brations above seem to be the
only ones within the county’s con
fines.
When an inch of rain has fallen
it means, literally that the amount
of water descending from the sky
in that particular shower would
cover the surrounding territory to
a depth of one inch, providing, of
course that it did not run away or
soak into the ground.
It means that on one acre water
enough to fill more than 600 bar
rels of-45 gallons each has fallen.
This quantity of water weighs
more than 110 tons. If the rain
storm covered a territory com
prising a thousand acres, which
would be a very small shower,
113,000 tens of water would fall
from the clouds. Rain storms
frequently cover whole states, and
often four and five inches of water
fall in one: rain. In this case the
total number of tons of water
falling to earth is enormous.—Ex.
Mrs. Boss Owens and two little
daughters left yesterday at noon
for a two months, visit with her
late husbsod’s parents at Toledo,
Iowa.