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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1914)
w. F. MASON, Present L KAISER, Cash* CHRISTMAS GREETING F * rtr ..f Hethlebem never shown on a brighter Christ, mas than thi>. I rue liappiness begins by making others :tpi*v. ber.oe. true enjoyment lies in giving. The giver’s - ntiae iii is U-t expressed in the gift that provides for the personal comfort or pleasure of the recipient. You can aii account at this bank for the boy or girl with one ■’oi.ar or more, as you wish. AN e give you the pass book n t:.- .-ntr of tlie fir*'. «le|»osit therein, which may be pWCSted **► a Xmas gift. A oung people who learn to save n \ ...I' form a habit that will prove beneficial throughout le. Hie “nest egg** debited will not be spent like a gift ‘ ‘ ' ;rr,':- >' ,,r c<*io. but will encourage the recipient to add i an 1 lay t!»e foundation for a substantial bank account. NN tilling you a Merry Christmas and extending to you all i *'■ c>mpi:iuents of tin- season, we are yours to command. First National Bank Loup City, Nebraska. We Pay 5 per cent on Time Deposits. . E. P. Daily Furniture Ge Sells for Less, and Pays the Freight Furniture. Rugs and Linoleum Loup City, Nebraska If You Can Pay $320.00 Now and ^bSO.OO March 1st 1915 we can sell you your! choice of 10 quarter sections of fine Nebraska vallev! land, near town, and give you 9 years time on the! bai iiic** at 6 per cent. This land is all in one body and you can buy one or more quarters on the same terms, or families, friends or relatives can locate to-, gether WHY RENT LAND when you can own a! home on terms like this? Come in and talk tnis. over with us at once. I FIRST TRUST COMPANY, Loup City, Nebr. LOUP CITY FLOUR \\ ;iy buy Flour >hi|»ped here by outside mills when you can get Loup City White Satin Hour for 1.— money, and every sack guaranteed. All dealers handle o\ir flour. LOUP CITY MILL &LIGHT CO. Notice | THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW At the New Opera House j Will Run Every Night in the | Week Hereafter A 4-Reel Show Every M::J:y, Wednesday and Friday Change of Program Nothing but the best pictures will be shown here. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. THOMAS DADDOW We do all kinds of Job Work . with neatness and dispatch. Give us your order. Tearing Down the Home Town What a “Converted” Iowa Fanner Says About the Mail Order Businoss. Editor's Note:—According to a bulletin issued by the Kansas Retail Merchant's Association, an Iowa farmer, Hans Garbus by j name, wrote a letter to the Farm Journal deploring the growth of the mail order business, acknow ledging his part in advancing it at the expense of the country town, declaring that he would de vote the remainder of his life to building up the home town and urging all farmers to join him. M e farmers need awakening to the fact that we have unmistak ably reached the period where we must think and plan. I am one of the slow German farmers that had to be shown and I am now giving my experience that others may profit, for knowledge in more ex pensive now than ten years ago. Twenty-nine years ago I began my farm career. I had an old team and $50. Our furniture was mostly home made—chairs, cup board and lounge made from dry goods boxes, neatly covered with ten cent cretonne by my girl wife. We rented eighty acres. Being a boy of good habits 1 got all the needed machinery and groceries of our home merchants on credit until fall crops weie sold. The first year was a wet season and I did not make enough to pay the creditors. I went to each on date of promise and explained condi tions, paying as much as possible, and they all carried the balance over another year. They continu ed to accommodate me until I was able to buy a forty-acre piece of my own. As soon as I owned these few acres the mail order houses began sending me catalogs, and gradual ly I began sending my loose change to them, letting my ac counts stand in my home town, where I had gotten my accommo dation when I needed it. V\ e then had one of the thrifti est little villages in the state—good line of business in all the branches, merchants who were willing to carry an honest fellow over a bad year, and a town full of people who came twice a week to trade and visit. Our little country town supported a library, high school, band, ball team, and ^ve had big celebrations every year. A farm near a live town soon doubles in value. I sold my forty acres at a big advance and bought an eighty, gradually adding to it until I had 200 acres of the best land in Iowa. 1 then felt no need of asking fa vors, and found it easy to patron ize the mail order houses. I re gret to say that I was the first to make up a neighborhood bill and send it to a mail order house. Though we got bit every once in a while we got the habit of send ing away for stuff. Gradually our merchants lessen ed their stock of goods because of lack of patronage. Finally we Ijegan to realize that when we needed a bolt quicklv for machin ery, or clothing for sickness or death, we had to wait and send away for it, which wasn’t so pleas ant. One by one the merchants moved to places where they were appreciated, and men of less ener gy moved in. Gradually our town has gone down; our business houses sre “tacky” in appearance, a number are empty, our schools, churches and walks are going down, we have no band,no library nor ball team. There is no busi ness done in the town, and there fore no taxes to keep things up. Hotel is closed for lack of travel. Go down to the dejiot when the freight pulls in and you see the sequel in mail order packages. Nine years ago my farm was worth $195 an acre; today I’d have a hard matter to sell it at $167 an acre. It is too far from a “live town”—so every farmer has said that wants to buy. He wants a place near schools and churches, where his children can have advantages. I have awaken ed to the fact that in helping to pull the town down, it has cost me $5,600 in nine years. Like the majority of farmers, I didn’t fig ure far enough ahead. This sort of business means the doing away with country towns. What will it mean to farmers to have only a few large cities at 500 or a 1000 miles distance?What are we going to do with our children, who are demanding even better advantages than we had? Those cities we help to build re turn no favors; they take our money but offer no credit in time of need. If we want high schools etc., we must raise the money and build near farm homes or send our boys and girls to the cities at great expense, amidst temptations of which the farm has no equal. Neither am I the only awakening farmer. These mail order agents that come to our home every week are becoming a nuisance and mak it unsafe to leave women and children alone on the farm. With farm cordiality we take these strangers ipto our homes, often as one of the family, and we are sometimes paid in having them entice our girls to die city. These are some facts that need t consideration, and 1 have decided the safest way, all around is for the country people to look after their own interests and build up their owu country towns that bring value to their farms. Let those who want to patronize the city mail order house go there to live, getting their living where they get patronage. The remain der of my life will be given to building up the home town that I helped to pull down. Brother farmers you can take my advice or get your knowledge the way I got mine. IIans Gakbus. Professional Cards 9 ROBT. P. STARR Attorney at Law LOUP CITY. SEBMSKS. R. H. MATHEW Attorney at Law And Bonded Abstractor, Loup City, Nebraska Aaron Wall Lawyer Practices in all Courts Loup City, Neb. LAMONT L STEPHENS LAWYER FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILD ING LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA RO ERT H.MATHEW Bonded Abstracter Loup City, - Nebraska. Only set of Abstract books in county O. E. LONOACRE Physician & Surgeon Office, Over New Bank. TELEPHONE CALL, N0.33 A. J. KEARNS. Physician & Surgeon Phone. SO. OIBce at KeaMenon Two Doors East ol Telephone Central Lnnp Eiifl. - NEhraska A. S. MAIN Physician & Surgeon Loup Gity, Nebr. Office at Residence. Telephone Connection J. E. Bowman M. D. Carrie L. Bowman M. D. BOWMAN &. BOWMAN PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS Phonell4 Lo»pClty.S»hJ»*h» S. A. ALLEN DENTIST LOUP CITY, • - NEB. || Office up stairs in the new State Hank buildinp. W. L. MARCY DENTIST Loup City, Nebraska. OFFICE: East Side Public Sauare. Phone. Brown 116 \. I. McDONALL Prompt Dray Work Call lumber yards or Taylor’s elevator. Satisfaction guaran teed. Phone Brown 57 C. ft. SWEETLAND PLUMBER & ELECTRICIAN For good clean and neat work Satisfaction Guaranteed Come and get my prices Rnfns Hiddleson DRAY AND TRANSFER Your Business Solicited Phone, Either Lumber Yard or • E. G. Taylor’s Elevator Norton Lambert DRAY A TRANSFER Solicits Your Business— Phone Blue 60, or E. G. Taylor’s Eleva tor or eitherlumber yard. Chris Kleeman ' Builder A Contractor Satisfaction Guannteed. Resident 3 blocks north and 1 biodr west of Catholic church | LOCAL HEWS. The next meeting of the county board of supervisors will be Jan. 7, 1915. _ Fritz Leschinsky came home from Lincoln Saturday evening for the holiday season. Read my Free Stilt adr. hi thh issue. Loup City Tailor Shop. Mrs. J. A. Chandler went to Ravenna last Saturday morning for a holiday visit. Our schools closed last Friday for two weeks, till past the bob day season. Leave orders for John McDonat) dray at either lumber yard, or at E 6. Taylor’s, or Phone Red lOt Albion Ohlsen and Frank Adamson came home Wednesday night from Dwight for over-Sun day visit at home. Any one wishing ice to fill a small ice house, let me know at once as my ice is ready. Jas. W. Conger. Mrs. Gas Lorente and children left last Saturday morning to spend the Christmas season at the parental home. If you want a dray, phone A. L. Enderlee. Black 63. or leave year or der with either lumber yard or E. G. Taylor. Best of service pda ran teed. Mrs. Earl Thompson entertain ed her Sunday school clasft last Frida.v evening at the home of Mrs. W. T. Owens. Pure country sorghum, by the bar rel. shipped direct from the mills of Illinois: 80c per gaMen. Loop Citv Mer. Co. Miss Nancy Harrod came home from Hastings last Friday even ing to spend the holiday season at home. Winter will soon be here. You better fill your coal bins while you can get good coal we have several kinds on hand our prices are right at Taylor’s Elevator. Miss Marcia VerValin arrived home from Hastings college last Friday evening to be at home over the holidays. IF YOU HAVE $1000 to in vest see our advertisement in an other column. First Trust Com pany. Miss Esther Kettle, returned home from her school duties at Hastings last Friday to visit over j the holidays at home. L. H. Spahr cleans and repairs all kinds of sewing machines and guns at the L. B. Hale Hardware -I store. E. G. Taylor and family left Tuesday for a ten days’ visit in Kansas City with Mr. Taylor’s sister and husband. Mrs. JoeSmaikrctid chtkken went to Grand Island last Friday to visit over Chnstoms season with the lady’s mother, Mrs. Em ma Moore. I am repairing all kinds of shoes at reasonable prices at J. J. Slominski’s Feed Store. John A. Galus. Mrs. Clemma Conger and Mr. Mrs. Will Steen left Tuesday morning for a few weeks’ visit at Oklahoma Gty, Okl., with Mr. Fred Beck, a brother of Mrs. Conger. Kid Gloves and Furs cleaned at the Loup City Tailor Shop, Gasoline, only 15c per gallon, at the Loop City Mer. Co.’s. Wanted—For the Eastern war zone, the best and moat market able horses, sufficient in size and qnality for any of the duties re quired there. See Myri Warrick. George Leschinsky’s opinion of mules has been somewhat revised the last few days. Saturday last, as he was driving the long-eared quadrupeds which make delivery of Rockefeller’s products here abouts a pleasure, an auto coming up suddenly behind caused the mule product to start on a idea sure trip of their own "f^ing winding up against Lambert’s dray. This was too utterly too too, and after overturning the Lambert delivery livery, were easily persuaded to resume their natural attitude of lassitude, with no special damage done. All accounts owing to Blasts & Woznick have been left at the State Bank for collection. Those owning on same will confer a favor by early settlement, ■Kh Cost ef Lfvtog Retaccd owing to down prices made by wholesale firms, Commencing Nov. 25, we will reduce our price* stent 30 per cent on *11 sired Mazda or Tungsten lamps. Loup City Mill * Light Go. Merry Christmas and a Rappy New Year to HU Our patrons and fiereb? wish to tbanh ?ou for Tour Liberal patronage in tbe past and Respectful!? solicit a continuation of tbe same in tbe future. CR6 RUB Tictor Tiener, proprietor. SUGGESTIONS FOR CHRISTMAS This season’s holiday line is the most complete and varied we’ve ever displayed. Here you’ll be sure to find some thing for every one on your Christmas list. A few sug gestions are given to aid you in your Christmas shopping Games Books Mirrors Perfumes Pennants Bibles Calendars Stationery Tourist Sets Toilet Sets Toys Jewel Boxes Post Cards Nylo Chocolates Smokers Outfits Post Cards Art Novelties Manicure Sets Safety Razors Hand Bags Collar Boxes Fountain Pens Come in with your friends—you’ll enjoy your visit. The more choice gifts are selling fast—make your selection today—reserve them until Christmas week. SWANSON & LOFHOLM Druggists THE PLACE YOU GET PONY VOTES NOTICE TO FARMERS i I have on hand a quantiry of the Council Bluffs Remedy and would be glad to figure with you on your spring supply of Stock Remedy. All of the big feeders are good feeders of the Council Bluffs goods. Phone or see Alfred N. Cook, Loop City, Nebr. Dreamland Theater v i ! Changes Pictures Every - Monday, Wednesday and Friday. ; Only the best pictures shown. Everyone passed on i by Board of Censorship. I For an Evenings Fun and Pleasure Meet Me In Dreamland. JOHN OLTMAN. OWNER BURLINGTON ROUTE Passenger leaves Loup City 7:05 a.m Due Aurora 10:20 Lincoln I2:55p.m Omaha 3:30 Nebraska City 5:50 St. Joe 6:25 Kansas City 8:40 Sioux City 6:45 DesMoines 9 k St Louis, next morning 7:19 a.m Chicago, “ 7 k Davenport, “ 2:30 St Paul “ “ " 7:15 Minneapolis “ 7:50 ! With connections for all points beyond. Please ' phone or call for any information desired re garding rates; time, tc, to all points. J. A. Danielses, Agent