. “LETS MARCH WITHOUT THE NOISE OF THREADING DRUM”—HENRY IV,
Loup City Northwestern
_OFFICIAL PAPER OF SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA.
LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY. THE PAPER THAT THE PEOPLE READ
VOLUME XXXIII__LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. Aug 27, 1914. NUMBER 38
JONES & WILSON’S
ANIMAL CIRCUS
Fiats! La! al Trsiaatf Animals Ever in This City—Storm Causes Animals
la he Very Crass and Unruly.
GAMBLING FRATERNITY PREVALENT
Luup City received a genuine
treat la*t Thursday, when it was
x isited by the Junes Brother* and
Wila*<u circus an>i trained animal
show. Vever ba* the city liefon
seen *ttcb a *j4eiidid exhibit of
trained lion-, tigers, leopards,
'•ears and other wild animals as
am* exhibited by this show. If
y -«i had Ijeee looking for thrillers,
yoa were ma disappointed a lien
/ tie- little ia*iy entered tlie den of
mixed animals and made them do
the work she wanted, ami further
on alien a trainer entered the den
of some half -iozeti mammoth
hutis and made tbetu do his bid
ding. The manager informed us
that oa iiig to the 8ppr*rt:ing big
«4**rm lie bad never known the an
imals to exhibit such ugly tem
pers and such ferociousness as in
lire atwive .ndance. In the latter
instance, tlie Unit tier expressed the
fear that this would lie bis last
exhilut!■ m. as the amm.U showed
sie h unwonted '-eltavior that lie
couldn't contrul them, and in fact
swell ugliness was shown by tlie
largest animal that it was only
with difficult! tiiat be entered tin*
big cage, and only tlien when In*
had Hied several shots his
gun intimidating the monster so
that he retired from the door of
entrance wiiere he liad barred the
<•-tiling in of the trainer by the
nwaa thrilling exhibition of rage
and utmost efforts to get at him
through the liars. While the
audience for tlie most |>art took
aii this a* a |*art of tlie regular
da^y performance. tlie mana
ger and trainer both said that the
big coming storm had so bad ef
fect of tlie behavior of the ani
mals that tlie rage they exhibited
' had compeiiej them to use the
quieting effects of powder to a
greater extent than ever before
and really was the most danger
ous exhibit tan of animal ferocity
ever shown by the animal'. Aral
so ugly was the temper and so
dangerous the behavior of the
animal* that the coming storm
was gladly hailed and taken as
tbe pretext for closing the exhibi
tion which was not nearly through
with, and the trainer was nearly
in a stgte of collapse as the lions
were driven back into llieir cages
Wlnie tire trainer is scarce it
years of age. yet he lias !<e**n en
tering the annual cage* since lie
was «i >ear* of ige. and lie insisted
tiiat thi' U't has been tbe most
danger*ni* mod most thrilling of
any exhibition* lie has ever en
gaged in: and at its dose expre**
“• ed tie- utmost relief and thankful
ness tlmt 1m* came tii rough it alive.
While the last named animal ex
h: loti was in progress, the on
coming storm ha*l gathered so
Ihreatr .ugly that the manager
stepped to the center of the big
canvass and advised the audience,
which filled all the seals and made
standing room at a premium, logo
rapidly from tbe tent as a bad
storm was coming tip, making it
dangerous to remain causing a
rapid exodus, while the show peo
ple looked to the safety to their
animals and gave up the idea of
the after chow entertainment,
those who bad purchased tickets
being left to bold the lost*.
While the show was in all re
spect* a good one and far ahead o(
any trained animal entertainment
ever witnessed here, there wa>
v one bad feature, which will giv«
them a bad eye should they evei
come again, as they claim they
will, and make this city a regulai
I'lai-e on their route every 2 years,
and taat was the following of thej
gambling and short change fra
ternity ap|tearing with them and
which w»« strongly in evidence to
the sorrew of those who tried to!
beat the game. While no sym
pathy i> felt for the grown-ups
who were parted from their
money, yet for the mere boys who
were drawn into the whirlpool
mud indignation is felt, and
while in some instances the money'
wa- refunded on complaint, yet
undoubtly others lost who failed
to raise objections and lost out
through sluune over iteing gulled
by the shell and other games be
ing worked.
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W. 4. Fi-dier on Monday of this
|
week receive*! appointment as col
lection agent for the Acme Har
vester Machine tat., with territory
• '
'•ver the west part of Oklahoma,
to leave for his held of labor next
Tuesday. Sept. 1st. We congratu
late Mr. Fisher and wish him the
utmost success in his new work.
ARM HURT
IN RUNAWAY
Mr. and Mrs Alfred Jorgensen Have
Experience Don’t Care to Repeal
AUTOMOBILE FRIGHTENS TEAM.
Last Sunday, as Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Jorgensen were driving
home from church at Wiggle
Creek, their horse became fright
ened at a passing automobile and
ran away, throwing both from
the vehicle, smashing up things
badly. Mr. Jorgensen was picked
up and brought in to D^s. Bow
man. who found him suffering
from a badly injured right arm
and more or less bruised over the
body, which they pro.mptly at
tended. He is badly shaken up
from the fall.
Wm. Young of Boelus was here
on business Monday afternoon,
not concluding the same in time
to retu rn home the same day and
remained over till Tuesday morn
ing. Grandpa Young is one '.of
the few veterans of the Civil War
left to tell the tale, coming to
this county forty-one years ago
and settling on the southeast bor
der of the county. He is yet hale
and hearty and we trust good for
a quaater of a century longer stay
with us.
This office is in receipt of a fine
perforator, a Boston stapler and 1
a duplicate numbering machine,
and is thus able to do any class
of fine work desired.
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Drs. Bowman’s Mew
X-Ray Machine
Probably the first X-Ray ma
chine in this section was lately re
ceived by I)rs. Bowman and Bow
man of this city and can now be
seen at their office. It looks to us
somewhat like a Chinese puzzle,
with its intricate mass of electric
coils, glass tubes, etc., and is a
study for an artist, which will
have to be seen to be appreciated.
The editor is seriously thinking
about incurring some accident
that will make it necessary to get
a portion of his anatomy examin
ed by this almost human machine
and thus get a scoop on some one
else. But yet has another think
coming.
Votes of Candidates
Not Tabulated
Following we give the total vote
on candidates not appearing in the
tabulated statement: For gover
nor— YeLser 38. Stevens 29, Cep
loeha 14. For lieutenant governor
—Albright 64, Hoagland 150,
Shotwell 52, Yanalstine 29, Pear
son 2"*‘>. Potts 128, Snavely 149.
For '-'cretary of state—Wait 215,
Barnard 9:5. Pool 280. Shields
214. For 'tate treasurer—Hamer
13*. Teeganien 162, Hall 318.
Caliagher 166. For state auditor
— Miner 18o, O'neil 120. Forstate
s i« rintendent Elliott 80, Thom
as 169, Hays 56. Walker 112,
Monroe 120. Cline 125, White
bead 141. For attorney general -
Ayres 133, Sears 66, Devoe 64,
McQuiston 40. For land commis
sioner— Eastman 269. MeKissick
1«*6. Marti 104. The above is
only on state candidates who had
| opposition in their own parties.
| County: Democrat—For sheriff.
;(>gle 96. Bly 73, Rowe 65. Super
visors—No. 1. Rewolinski 119;
j No. 3. \\ arrick 5;No. 5, Maiefski,
143; No. 7. Harve Chapman 9.
| Surveyor — Corning. Coroner—
Main- Republican: Surveyor—
'Corning. Coroner—Main. Super
visors—No. 1, Paddock; No. 3,
Brown; No. 5, Kozel; No. 7,
Richmond. Howard Lang got the
socialist nomination in No. 7.
Vota on Amancimanta
Republican No. 1, for 141,
j against 84; No. 2, for 121, against
79; No. 3, for 114, against 92.
Democratic — No. 2, for 222,
against 147; No. 2, for 204,
against 135; No. 3, for 188,
againt 157.
Total Primary Vote, 1022
Townships. D. R. Prg. S. Pro. PI.
Oak Creek... 35 6 0 0 0 0
Lod&n. 32 18 2 0 0 0
Washington. 16 17 0 4 0 0
Elm. 15 15 1 1 0 0
Webster. 26 16 0 0 o 0
Loup City... 182 144 18 3 1 0
Ashton. 120 10 0 0 0 2
Rockville_ 72 14 0 1 0 1
Clay. 21 13 o 0 0 0
Harrison_ 25 69 1 8 0 0
Scott. 18 7 1 1 0 1
Hazard. 34 24 0 0 0 0
Bristol. 27 6 0 0 0 0
Total vote. 623 359 23 18 1 4
Church Services
Next Sunday
Baptist—10:30 a. m., subject,
“No Rain,” evening, 8 p. m. sub
ject, ‘The New Birth." All
other services as usual. Come
and bring your friends.
J. L. Dunn.
Methodist—Aug. 30, 10:30 a.
m. “The Shelter from Condemna
tion.” 8 p. m. “The One Saving
Name.”
German—Aug. 30, services at
•0:30 a. m., Sunday school at 10
a. m. Everybody cordially invit
ed. F. W. Guth.
Presbyterian—Preaching Sun
day at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m.
If the weather should be ex
tremely warm in the evening the
service will be on the church
lawn.
The church anti Sunday school
picnic will be in Jenners Park on
Wednesday afternoon Sept. 2nd.
The Ladies’ Bible class will have
charge of the supper and the Men’s
bible class will arrange for the
entertainment. Everybody af
filiated with the Presbyterian
church are cordially invited.
ANNUAL KNIGHTS
PYTHIAS PICNIC
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Big Crowd of KoigWo, tMr Famlm
and Guosts Picnoat Joraor Park.
BANQUET, NALL GAME All BAHCE
Last Wednesday afternoon and
evening at Jenner Park occurred
tiie annual picnic of Marmiom
Lodge, No. ill, K. of P,, and all
in all one of the finest and mo6t
enjoyable of all past annual re
unions. The afternoon was given
over to a ball game, which our
sporting reporter, one of the
best and most comprehensive and
highest salaried writers, given be
low. Those who were not inter
ested in that kind of sport put in
the afternoon in bowling, enjoy
ing the ocean wave, swings and
other forms of amusements. At
the close of the ball game, before
and after the banquet, various
athletic stunts were pulled off,
followed by a dance in the puvil
lion enjoyed by the number who
are wont to trip the light fantas
tic. It was a day long to be re
membered in Pythian local history.
Whole hand and no tips ex
clauied Knight Long tossing the
national fun mixing stick to
choosers of the Jap-Dutch ball
game part of the days sports. In
the line up were representatives
of all decades of base ball, ex
cepting the present and some had
so far forgotten what they ever
knew that it keep the captains
busy keeping the players on their
own side. Shrill voices from the
out-side of the fence told us of the
use of every knot hole. Gee, see
Bob Young miss that easy one.
Watch Slocumb stealing second.
That fatty runs like a fish, came
over in words with more truth
than poetry.
Knight Mathew of the Japs
would when bis o»-*i were batting
slip over and get on third and
no one would know how he got on
the bases. Rev. Steen hit a dandy
but instead of running for first
lined out to third and made it.
standing there smiling as sweetly
as though he was just as good
ball player as he ever was.
Knight Beushausen got tired and
joined the bunch in the grand
stand, yelling for the Dutch.
Hinman pitched several innings
but was ruled out for eating a
hand sandwich stolen from Ump.
Johanson's pocket.
By tiie way. the writer of these
lines played with the Japs and it
is hard to let Knight Johansen's
name slip off our pen without
some hard references to his un
fair treatment of the Japs and his
favor to the Dutch. It was fun
from start to finish even tho it
took all the Dutches ability stuf
fing the score and coaxing the
Ump to come out ahead.
In speaking of his competitor
the editor of the Loup City North
western tells of “the gray matter
involved in his spleen.” This is a
physiological problem that needs
expiaination. If the complaining
editor had referred to his esteemed
contemporary” withsueha phrase
as “the milk of human kindness
that pervades bis editorial col
umns” it might have been anato
mically as inacurate but the jar
would have been less pronounced.
—Ord Journal.
Rev. F. W.Guth of the German
Evangelical church leaves Tues
day. Sept. 1.for Talmage.this state
where he goes to attend the pas
torial conference of the Nebraska
district, the conference to open its
session the following day. *
Big Reunion
at Litchfield
This week. Tuesday and Wed
nesday was the big Woodman
picnic at Litchfield. The writer
had the pleasure of attending
Tuesday's doings and found one of
the biggest and best crowd of peo
ple over assembled in the county.
Litchfield never does anything by j
halves, and Tuesday celebration
brought to that city a great num
bers of people bent on having a
genuine good time, and they sure
did have it. A parade of finely
decorated autos and vehicles, filled
with happy humanity, was given
at noon, with the streets lined
with perhaps two thousand sight
seers, who cheered the paraders
to the echo. The afternoon was
given over to a ball game, foot
and horse races, and renewing old
acquaintances, and all seemed to
enjoy the day to the utmost
SEVERE STORM
HAIL AND WIND
The Most Disastrous Storm to Stock
-and Crops in Years.
MORE SEVERE FIRTHER EAST
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The severe rain and hail storm
which visited this section of the
country last week Thursday after
noon, was very damaging to parts
of Sherman and adjoining coun
ties. North of Tjonp City, hail
ravaged a goodly section. At
Ashton corn fields were riddled
and much stock kilted. Traveling
in a southeasterly direction. Far
well, Oannebrog and country
roundabout was badly used, corn
fields stripped and covering the
country over. Grand Island and
portions of Hall county lost heavi
ly. In fact the hail accompany
ing the rain, which was wide
spread in this and adjoining coun- j
ties was said to be the most severe
on corn in field and grain in stack
of any this season, the damage to
some fields being almost complete
loss of all corn and small grains
not yet threshed.
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The Ladies Aid Society of the •
German Evangelical church, will;
give a social on the courthouse *
lawn, Saturday, Aug. 29. The J
social will commence at 1» a. m. 1
Ice cream, coffee and sandwiches i
will be served. Everybody is in
vited to attend. A cordial wel
come is assured to all. Come and
join us in having a good time.
JAPAN DECLARES
WAR ON GERMANY
Russians Claim Great Victory Over Gormans and Dispatches From Berlin
Credit Great Battle to Tauten Farces.
ITALIANS STILL FORMING ON BONNER
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Monday's war dispatches are to
the effect that Germany making
no reply to Japan's ultimatum,
the latter had declared war against
it, so by this time we suppose the
Japs are strictly in it. A great
battle on Belgian soil between the
Germans on one side and the
English, French and Belgians on
the other was reported in pro
gress, in which possibly two mil
lion men are engaged, the bat
tle line of the opposing forces ex
tending from Charleroi twenty
miles eastward. The Russians
claim great victory on the east
German border, while dispatches
from Berlin credit the Teuton
forces with having won a great
battle and effectually stopped the
advance of the French army into
Belgium. Indications were that
she relations between Italy and
Austria-Hungary had reached
ibout the breaking point, and it
is possible that a declaration of
var between those countries will
x forthcoming by the first of
aext week. Influential Italians
led a re thev have good reason to
believe that Italian intervention
Mrs. Will Zaruba
Receives Bad Fall
Last Friday, Mrs. Will Zarub,
living some ten miles northeast of
Loup City, while riding in a
farm wagon, and with her baby
in her lap. was thrown out by the
wagon sliding into a rut by the
side of the road. At first it was
thought that both woman and
baby were badly injured, but Dr.
•I- E. Bowman was immediately
called and found the baby unin
j jured, but Mrs. Zaruba suffering
from a severely injured right
knee, which the doctor attended
| to and the lady is at present get
■ ting along finely.
Calls Primary a
State- e Farce
The statewide farce of nominat
ing people for office was pulled off
Tuesday in all the counties of the
state. If you voted you know
just what the trouble with this
system is -you did not know any
thing about one quarter of the
candidates on your ticket outside
of your county. Yet you were
expected to select the best men
for the various state offices. What
did you do with the cases where
you did not know one of the men
named? You made a dab at one
of them or passed the lot up alto
gether. Well, you are like 99
out of every 100 other voters who
went to the polls. You might
just as "well have put the names in
a hat and pulled out one of them
and let him have your vote. What
can you expect from such a sys
tem for nominating tickets? It is
evil and nothing else. But the
remedy is plain. You can see
how the system ought to be work
ed by your own experience while
in the booth. The county candi
dates you knew and for them you
cast an intelligent ballot So did
nearly every other voter who
voted last Tuesday all over the
state of Nebraska. This, then is
the remedy. Carry out the idea
of the primary ballot as far as the
county ticket is concerned. That
is, let the primary elections be
held as n°w, but let the elections
be only for township and county
offices and delegates to the county
conventions of all parties be held
on certain days. Let the county
conventions organize for the cam
paign and elect delegates to the
state* congressional, judical and
other conventions. A primary
election held like that would eli~
minate the boss just as effectually
as the present state-wide primary
is doing, and it further will per
mit the voters to vote intelligent
ly. We will have to come to this
some day.—Ord Quiz -
Ord Barber Some
Smooth Crook
Prepartory for an extended
trip to the DakotasClate McGrew
secured the services of a new bar
ber a couple of weeks ago. The
new barber, Clarence King, was a
fine looking fellow with a suave,
winning way, and was further
more a first-class artist of his
class.
His manner of proceeding and
style of conversation was such
that the proprietor left him in
charge while he went away on his
trip to the north.
Why he should have left him in
charge of the business when his
other man, Ulysses Gano, is
known to be throughly reliable,
can b« accounted for only on the
theory that the new man had, by
his smooth ways; won the entire
confidence of the boss.
Mr. McGrew left soon after the
arrival of Mr. King and all went
well to all appearances till Mon
day morning. At opening time
Monday morning Mr. Gano came
and found things in a turmoil.
The usual tidy appearance of the
1 in the war in favor of Great Brit
ain, France and Russia is only a
matter of a few days.
Tuesday’s dispatches give a
great battle as going on between
the allied forces and Germans,
with heavy losses on both sides,
but nothing definite known.
These forces are divided into
three great armies. It is claimed
Russia has advanced into and is
occupying some fifty miles of
German territory on the eastern
border. War between Italy and
Austria-Hungary is almost a fore
gone conclusion, and Italy is con
centrating on the Austrian fron
tier. Japan, aided by English,
French and Russian war craft,
are bombarding the German
strongholds in the far east. It is
not believed Japan will operate
farther than in the far eastern
sphere. Austrian troops are re
ported to have been crushingly de
feated by the Servians.
shop was no more and it was evi
dent that something had happened.
It di<l not take him long to dis*
cover the absence of razors, strop,
clippers, etc., and later it was dis
covered that the cash box had also
been taken. As Mr. King was al
so conspicuous for his absence it
■was an easy conclusion that he bad
taken the stuff.
Investigation proved that he
had left on the morning passenger
over the C. B. & Q,, having
bought a ticket for Greeley.
Kirby McGrew then took things
in his hands and started a move
ment to capture the recreant bar
ber. Sheriff Sutton was notified
and sheriffs in other localities
were asked to keep a look-out for
the abscounder.
It addition to the property
taken from the proprietor of the
shop it was discovered that %
satchel belonging to some custom
er, which had been left at the
shop, was missing. This was pro
bably used to store the other
stolen goods in.
Along with other things, a cer
tain young man remembered that
King had playfully removed a
valuable ring from his finger the
day or two before, which he had
forgotten to return before going.
The ring is said to be worth $25.
Some bills, also, with the mer
chants have been reported. But
the barber showed his smoothness
ness by paying his board bill.
The law, you know, makes jump
ing a board bill criminal, which
fact was without doubt known to
the young man of exalted name,
so he made sure thrt the boarding
boss would not be after him.
Up to this moment no reports
are had of his being captured.—
On! Quiz.
Miss Melvia Danielson left Tues- \
day morning for her coming
duties as musical director in the
state normal school at Duluth,
Wis., visiting at various points
for a few days en route.
^ Chas. Schwaderer and Fred
Schneidereit left Tuesday morn
ing for Columbus, this state, to
attend a two days’ session of the
state Germania Verein, beginning
that day.
The great and good George
Deininger came up from St. Paul
Monday evening for a few days’
visit with old neighbors and
friends.
A. F. Eisner and bride returned
last week from their trip to Yel
lowstone Park and points of In
terest in Colorado.
Mrs. J. E. Paige of Morrill,
Nebr., is here on a visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Wil
son.
Mrs. F. Hapke was seriously ill
and suffering from a high fever
the early part of the week.
Miss Frieda Ohlsen visited
friends at Arcadia last Saturday
and attended the chautauqua.
Miss Ernestine Odendahl spent
last Sunday at Comstock with her
brother Will and wife.