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r ^ $3.00 Worth of Reading for $1.50~,<The Homestead," ’•Todays" Magazine and "Tim Northwestern", all One Tear, for $1.50 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. December, 4th 1914. NUMBER 50 EMERGENCY \ WAR TAX WHI Rais* $100,000,000 in Reserve Revenue. LAW GOES INTO EFFECT. The emergency war tax bill to raise $100,000,000 in revenue went into full effect, Monday Novem ber 30. The provisions of the measure levying taxes on to bacco, beer and wine went into ef fect on November 1, and the re maiming sections become effective tomorrow. The latter include taxes on bankers, pawnbrokers, brokers, proprietors of theaters, including motion picture houses, owners of circuses and other shows ]>erfume, cosmetics, chewing gum and similar articles; commercial paper of all description, steam ship tickets, parlor car seats and sleeping car berths and telephone and telegraph messages where the charge exceeds 15 cents. Stamps in denominations of from $5 to 1 cent are to be affixed to these arti cles. A young lady in this city who is given to wearing more than ^ordinarily short skirts met a youngster who was bare legged last Saturday morning. Her great sympathetic heart went out to the | child and she stopped and asked him, “Dear little fellow, arVt I your legs cold?” The “dear little [ fellow” dropped hiseyes to where i her skirts scarcely met her shoe ! tops and replied, “Nope, are [ yours?” The Churches For the Week On Sunday, Dec. 6th there will be services in the German church at Ashton, preaching both in Ger man and English, services at the usual hour. F. W. Guth. Presbyterian, Sunday morning, at 10:30, preaching subject, “What we need for Effectiveness’’ and Sunday evening at 7:30, sub ject: “The result of rejecting Christ.’’ Christian Endeavor at 6:30, Miss Pearl Needham, leader. Methodist—Sunday, 10:30 a. n>*, “The Price of the Revival.’’ 7:30, regular services. Revival services will begin early in January. As a church let us center our plans around the Revival effort and make it truly a Harvest time. L. V. Slocumb. Judge Pedler says if you should happen into Dr. Allen’s office some of these fine days and discov er a hole in the roof about such dimensions as would be necessary for the doctor to pass hurriedly through, don’t be alarmed, as it would simply indicate the natural result following a misunderstand ing as to the proper manner of running automobiles. Doc will return all right as soon as he ar ranges to credit John Long with first place at Forddale. The Judge also says the next time Allen goes Fording with him and gets up the among the spirits, convers ing with overworked St Peter, he will just leave him there until the Ford gets from under and when i Allen hits the ground, he will ■ have the chance of his life to hoof I it to town. An exchange asks: “What do you think, Mr. Rural Route Car rier, of Postmaster General Bur leson's proposal to have the ser vice on rural routes let by con tract to the lowest bidder?” The rural carrier need not answer that question, because rural route pat rons will answer it so promptly and unanimously against such a hair-brained proposition that it will make the p. m. g.'s head \ swim. The rural mail service in I this country is the finest public | service in the world and the sug L gested change would make it the B most unpopular. Let it alone! DANGER OF COM MUNITY SUICIDE Merchants of Your Town Deserve the Patronage of This Community. TAKE VERY IMPORTANT PART. The merchants of your town de serve the patronage of the people of your community. They are a part, and a very important part of the community. They pay a very considerable portion of the taxes of the town and of the coun ty. They contribute to the sup port of the churches and other social institutions and make possi ble things the community would not have if they were not here. The mail order houses of the cities are spending thousands of dollars for the purpose of putting the country merchant out of your town, and other towns, out of business, and every man who spends a dollar with them assists in the accomplishment of their selfish aims. The ultimate end of the mail order method will be the centraliz ing of all the business of the country in the large cities and the financial destruction of the smaller cities and towns. You know the men who are in business in this community. You have known them for a number of years. You know them as being honorable and upright in every dealing you have had with them. Knowing them in this way, are you willing to go to their stores and pay to them money for mer chandise of which you must wait from one week to a month after they have received your money ? Of course you are not. But you are doing that very same thing with people you do not know when you send your money to the mail order houses of the cities. You have only a pic ture or a brief description of an article from which to determine its value. After you have sent your money you must trust to the intelligence of a poorly paid boy or girl to send you in return the merchandise you want. The people in this community who persist in dealing with the mail order houses are doing both themselves and this town an in justice.—Arthur Capper, Gover nor elect, of Kansas, in Topeka Capital. Play Ground Association In view of the fact that there is some thought of attempting to raise more funds for this organi zation and of extending its useful ness with the coming of spring, it may be well to make a statement of what has thus far been done. At a meeting held in August, on motion of Mr. Williams, chair man of the governing board of the association, Rev. E M. Steen j was elected president and J. H. i Burwell secretary-treasurer. It i was also decided to place on the school grounds temporarily any apparatus secured for the as sociation. The subscriptions at the Chau tauqua amounted to $65. Amount collected $45, expended for slides, balls and inflators, $31.40. In the hands of treasurer, $14.90. Un collected $19.00. J: H. Burwell, Secretary and Treasurer. Tom McCarthy of Ravenna, the heavyweight pugilist of that city, who is now in New York City cleaning up the pug element, is getting way up in his class. On Thanksgiving, he scored a ten round draw with Battling Levin ski, one of the best of the uppers, and had the best of the game throughout. Tommy is proving a puzzle to the Easteners. 125,000 EXTRA VOTES ON EACH $25.00 We Will Give $500 Te Some Charitable institution if This is Hot the Very Largest Extra Vete Offer of the Contest AHY CONTESTANT CAN MAKE THEIR SUCCESS ASSUNEO NOW. We will give 500 dollars to some charitable institution if this is not the very largest extra vote offer of the contest. And you should realize the great importance of this period of the contest. Go after the long term subscriptions and the new subscriptions as they count the most. Any contestant can make their success assured by their ef forts this week. The campaign will close at 6 p. m.. Saturday, Dec. 19th, and it will pay you to be one of the suc cessful candidates. The campaign has resolved itself into days in stead of weeks and the candidate who will make the best use of re maining time will be the winner of this 1915 Maxwell Touring car. Now is your chance—make good. The time is short, and there is not much time left before the winners of the grand prizes will have been rewarded for their efforts. So get right down to business, go after the subscriptions, and get every vote that you possibly can. We wish you all success and are only aorvy that tkora is- noi. ait auttaao- j bile for each of you! “Old Gen tleman Time" is clipping one by one the days from the length of the Northwestern campaign. Are you going to let many more days go by before you make up your mind that you will be the winner? There are just two conclusions you can reach, one is affirmative, the other negative. If you decide to let our offer go by, then you have again snubbed “Dame For tune*’ and ’tis said that “Dame Fortune” does not rap continually at the bolted door. Make this week your banner week. What a joy it will be to know that you are the winner of one of those fine prizes. The joy of accomplish ment is the sweetest of joys. You can feel this great joy if you wish. Whether you stand at the top or bottom of the list, always remem ber that where there is a will there is a way. Get after your friends now and have them help you, get the five years subscriptions, they are a little harder to get but they are worth the effort. Remember that every subscription counts and that the winner mav win by a single subscription, the finish will be close and the victor must take advantage to obtain every possible subscription. Tin Day of Days. On December, lyth the North western’s campaign will close and the winners will be announced. Will you be able to look back on that day as the day of all days? ! Some Home will be made happy | with a present of a 1915 Maxwell Touring car. Will It Be Your ! self? A Beautiful Race. Enthusiasm is supreme and we expect a beautiful race down the home stretch. Father, mother, brother ancl sister have you a dear one in the race? Suppose, young man. that “She” is entered and you are desirous of seeing her win. It would be the work of but a few minutes on the phone or in person before one of your friends would enlist in her support, and they in turn secure a dozen or more of their friends to rally around the standard of the “one girl”you desire to see win. It is merely a suggestion that now is the time to make the concerted ef fort in “her” behalf, and what a half dozen or more fellows cannot do in the remaining time of this campaign when they set their shoulders to the wheel is worth considering. Editor Davis After Plum We understand Editor Davis of the Ord Journal is an applicant for the postmastership at Ord. It is said by the Quiz that in the Journal office a life-size picture of Williams Jennings Bryan has a prominent place on the wall while a picture of Senator Hitch cock is turned face to the wall Judging by the success of the present postmaster here, Davis is on the right track, and now he has only to feed the face of the three times candidate *for presid ent at his family board when in Ord, auto him to the next point he wishes to go, state in his paper that the present postmaster has some three years yet to' serve, hypnotize the rest of the democrats into a deep sleep, work over-time and prevent a vote taken of the patrons of the office on whom they would wish to fill the responsible place, put some stool-pigeons in charge of his plant and call it a company concern, and the deed is done. Let Davis take a day off and come over and interview a number of our prominent demo | cratic friends and find out how | easy it can be worked. Dr. J. W. Isham, District Sap-| erintendent of Kearney District of Methodist church preached and held the First Quarterly Confer ence in the Methodist church, and j proved himself a very able preach er and an executive. Frank Robbins and family were over from Greeley county and spentThanksgiying season with Franks parents and brother, Burr, and family. Burr went over after them with his car Wednesday and took them back home Friday. Little Ada Hiddleson celebrated the 10th anniversary of her birth day last Friday with a party given to ten of her little girl friends of the same age. A nice afternoon was enjoyed by the little fallrn. Even the war has its bright side. Two negro porters were discussing it as they waited for a train to pull into the station. “Man." said the first, ‘‘dem Ger many submaroons isshol'ly gwine ‘splode dem navel boats dot’s waitin’ out yonda."’ “Sho!” said porter No. 2. “An’ what’s gwine to happen den?” “Why dem Germany subma roons’ll come right on ‘cross and ‘splode de rest ob de navel boats ob de world. Dot’s what’ll hap pen den, Sambo!” “Well, looky herh, Gawge. Ain’t yo’ an’ me better deck’ ouahselves a couple o’ noot— nootural—nootralities ? ” “Man,” said George, “yo’ all kin be nootrality if yo’ wants to. Ah’m a German.—New York Sun. Harvest of the 6rim Reaper Dorothy Ida Marie Beckmen, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Beckman, was born March 14th, 1914 and died November 26th ! at 6:35 a. m., thus reaching an age of only 8 months and 14 days. Interment was from the house to the German Evangelical St. Pauls Church, and from there to our beautiful Evergreen Cemetery, where the little baby was tender ly laid to rest. The sorrowing parents, brothers, sisters and other relatives have our heartfelt sympathy. Word was received here Tues day morning of the death of F. J. Bock at Pacific Junction, Iowa. Mr. Bock moved from here to his Iowa hqme some months ago and latter was taken ill and was for some time in a precarious condi tion in the Omaha hospital, re corded at the time in our columns. Still later he improved sufficiently to be removed to his home, where after many months of failing health death claimed him as above stated. We understand the body was to be brought backWednesday for burial. We have no further particulars. Later—The funeral will be held today from the Ger man church in this city, at 2:00 o’cIock p. m. Ole The Swede Detective, Soon A Swede lad arrives in America and after looking around for some thing to do meets a land sharp in Chicago, who sells him a farm up in Michigan for $250. Ole goes to his farm. When he gets there he finds it nothing but a swamp and worthless. Ole is broke and compelled to walk back to Chicago. He tries to find the man who swindled him and fails. He hunts for work, and while stroll ing about the city runs into a Pin kerton detective, who gives him a star and tells him he will make him a member of the force. Ole secrets the star under his coat. Soon after he finds a gentleman called Jack Rand, who gives him a job guarding his home. One of the first things he discovers after going to work is the very man who swindled him out of his money in the farm deal, trying to swindle his boss out of his home and all he owns through a bogus Steel Trust scheme. Ole takes a hand and at every turn wins. In the first act he blocks the game by finding the pocketbook with $5000 of the vilban’s ill-gotten gain and keeps it for evidence against him. In the second act he catches and stops the villian in his treacherous work agfdnst his own wife and blocks him again. Then the vil lian puts up a job on Ole in a sociable game of cards, and tries to beat Ole by cheating, but Ole sees through his scheme and catches him and turns the tables on the villian and breaks him, and wins all the villian has. In the third act when the villian is about to turn another trick Ole shows h:is true colors and stai and arrests him. However, he does not send him to prison, but paroles him for his family’s sake after he makes good his wrong doing. And OLE gets back his $250. At Dnddow opera house, Dec. 4. A jolly bunch of Cantons went to Arcadia Saturday night to - pat on the irigher degree work of Odd Fellowship. STECHER GOES STEADILY UP Now Champion of Kansas and Ne braska,Prospective World’s Champ. KANSAS CHAMPION EASY. .Toe Stecher, the phenomenal Dodge county heavyweight "grap pler, now holds the championship of two states—Nebraska and Kan sas. Stecher clashed with Allen Eustace, the Kansas champion, yesterday afternoon at Dodge. Neb., and flopped the Jayhawker husky in straight falls, the time being 11 and 7 minutes. Eustace, who tips the beam at 210 pourids, which gave him an advantage over Stecher of fifteen pounds, was a plaything for the Dodge county phenom. The hall where the match was staged was packed to the doors, and when Stecher was de clared winner his was carted away on the shoulders of his enthusias tic followers. Stecher expects to establish himself as the American champion before the coming wrestling season is over and has challenged Westergaard,Ordeman and Roller, but to date not one of that trio has evidenced a desire to tackle the Nebraska phenom’s game. Letter From “Bill” Kennedy J. F. Nicoson a few days ago received a long and interesting letttr from our mutual friend. “Bill*’ Kennedy at Cobrmbas, Ohio. It will be remembered by our readers that we spoke a few weeks ago of changing the address of W. H. Kennedy to Columbus. In his letter, W. H. says he sold his farm for a nice little profit over the amount he paid for same and purchased a home in Colum bus, where he and wife will be at home to all old friends, especially his old Loup City friends. “Bill’' has now passed the 70th milestone, by some few years, and proposes to take life easy from now on. He still speaks of making a visit back here some future time, but we all are “from Missouri” on the proposi tion, which nothing will dispel till he makes good Business Change _in Ashton J. W. Lundy on Monday of this week disposed of his stock of merdhandise at Ashton to Paul G. Held of Grand Island, receiving in exchange therefore a half sec tion of what is known as the Scott land in Oak Creek township, and returned to Dorris Lake to look after his big interests there. Mr. Held is highly spoken of as a busi ness man, and while we regret Friend Lundy’s departure, we be lieve he is succeeded by an equally good man. Mrs. C. A. Stevens of Moun tain Home, Idaho, arrived last Thursday on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Theo Wilson. The ladies later visited over Sunday in Valley county with Mrs. Wilson’s daughter, Mrs. Sutton, returning to Loup City Monday. Dr. Carrie L. Bowman was cal led to Capec, Mich., Sunday, driving over and taking the train at Litchfield that day, by a tele gram stating the death of her aunt I Mrs. Waltz, that morning. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Erazim were over from Ravenna and spent Thanksgiving time with their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Lorentz, returning home the following morning. Miss Vida Cowling spent a few days last week with friends in Arcadia, returning home Satur day.. POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE MARRIED December Second el Home of Bride’s Parents Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Brown BROWN-McILRAVY. On Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1914, at the hour of 11:30 a.m., at the home of the bride’s parents, and in the presence of only the rel atives and a few of the most inti mate friends, occurred the quiet and unpretentious ceremonies unit ing in marriage Mr. Thomas R. Mcllravy and Miss Edith Brown, the Rev. J. L. Dunn, pastor of the First Baptist church of Loup City officiating. Following the ceremony and warmest congratu lations to the happy pair, a sump tuous dinner, prepared by the mother of the bride, was enjoyed by the assembled company, after which the bride and groom left on the afternoon motor for a few days absence on their bridal tour to Omaha and other points east. Returning they will be at home on the the groom’s farm in Webster township. The bride is youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Brown of this city and a prime favoite in her circle of friends. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mcllravy of Webster township and one of Sherman connty’s most esteemed and en terprising young farmers. The Northwestern joins with their host of friends in wishing them bon voyage o’er the seas of life. Either Grandpa Willis Fulliton was woefully exeited last weeK, when he told the Northwestern of the birth of twin boys to a son, or the writer failed to get squarely at the facts, as the paper mention ed that Howard Fulliton was the happy p*,pa of the brace of boys, when instead the happy daddy was Morris Fulliton, another son, at Everton, Mo. Fortunately No Damage Done Last ThanKgiving day, as Chas. Sicides, wife and young son, were driving near their farm, their hoise shied in passing an automo bile on a narrow road, and upset the buggy, throwing all violently the ground. Fortunately no one was seriously injured, and aside of the buggy no damage was done. Mr. SieKles retained control of the horse, which is usually a quiet one. No blame is attached to the passing auto by Mr. SieKles. Miss Buelah Traer and Mr. Otto Bettenmayer of Arcadia were married in Chicago on ThanKsgiv ing day, returning to Arcadia last Saturday evening, where a recep tion was held for them. The groom is a young business man of that village, while the bride was one of the Traer Sisters musical com pany, and has been visiting here and at Arcadia for the past number of months and is most well and favorably Known. The groom has a nice home prepared for his bride in Arcadia where they tvill go to houseKeeping at once. Marmion Lodge, No. 121, of K. P., has a wealth of musical ability and its glee club will furnish the music at the M. E. church next Sunday evening. Every one come and hear them. Dr. Carson of Grand Island will be in Dr. Longaere’s office on Wednesday, Dec. 9th, prepared to fit glasses and to treat the eye, ear, nose and throat Clyde Wilson is now agent for the Ford ears at Ashton, opening there the first of this month, with a garage in connection. May he reap rich reward for his efforts.