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