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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1914)
L. HANSEN, Cashier If. F. MASON, President Che Seasons Greetings AND A SUGGESTION FOR A NEW YEARS GIFT What are you going to give that Boy or Girl of yours for a New Year’s Present. Why not a Bank Book with the Entry of the First Deposit Therein? It is a gift that will last and prove more beneficial as the years go by. Give them an Early start in the saving habit -and they will never regret. With the Compliments of the Season and Best Wishes We are Yours to Command. First National Bank Loup City, Nebraska. We Pay 5 par cent on Time Deposits. E. P. Daily Furniture Co Sells for Less, and Pays the Freight Furniture, Rugs and Linoleum Loup City, Nebraska If Yon Can Pay $320.00 Now and S680.00 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 balance 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 ttiis over with us at once. FIRST TRUST COMPANY, Loup City, Nebr. LOUP CITY FLOUR Why buy Flour shipped here by outside mills when you can get Loup City White Satin Flour for less money, and every sack guaranteed. All dealers handle our flour. LOUP CITY MJLL &LIGHT CO. Notice THE MOVING PICTURE SHOW At the New Opera House Will Run Every Other Night in Week Hereafter A 4-Reel Show Every Tuesday»Thursday ind Saturday 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 ne tness and dispatch. Give us your order. OVER A MILLION AND A HALF WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDS IN THE UNITED STATE*. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers’ Union. Our government never faced eo tre mendous a problem as that now lying dormant at the doors of congress and the legislatures, and which, when aroused, will shake this nation from center to circumference, and make civilization hide its face in shame. That problem is—women in the field. The last federal census reports show we now hare 1,514,000 women working in the field, most of them south of the Mason and Dixon line. There were approximately a million negro slaves working in the fields when liberated by the emancipation proclamation. We have freed our slaves and our women have taken their places in bondage. We have broken the shackles ofT the negroes and welded them upon our daughters. The Chain-Gang of Civilization. A million women in bondage in the southern fields form the chain-gang of civilization — the industrial tragedy of the age. There is no overseer quite so cruel as that of unrestrained greed, no whip that stings like the lash of suborned destinr, and no auctioneer’s block quite so revolting as that of or ganized avarice. The president of the United States was recently lauded by the press, and very properly so, for suggesting medi ation between the engineers and rail road managers in adjusting their schedule of time and pay. The engi neers threatened to strike if their wages were not increased from ap proximately ten to eleven dollars per day and service reduced from ten to eight hours and a similar readjust ment of the overtime schedule. Our women are working in the field, many of them barefooted, for less than 50 cents p*r day. and their schedule is the rising sun and the evening s’ar, and after the day’s work is over they milk the cows, slop the hogs and rock the baby to sleep. Is anyone mediat ing over their problems, and to whom • hall they threaten a strike? Congress has listened approvingly to those who toil at the forge and be hind the counter, and many of our staiesm^n have smiled at the threats and have fanned the flame of unrest among industrial laborers. But wom en are as surely the final victims of industrial warfare as they are the burden-bo rers in the war between na tions. and those who arbitrate and mediate the differences between capi :al and labor should not forget that when the expenses of any industry are nneces-rrily increased, society foots he bill hr draftine a r°w consignment of women from the home to the field. Pinch no Crumb From Women’s Crust ct Bread. No financial award can be made without romeone foc'ine the bill, and ve commend ro the- ’ who accept the ■esponsibility c! ‘he distribution of in dustrial bistice. the still pins?? voice of ‘he women in the field as she pleads for merer, and v e bee that they pinch no crumb Irani h r cmrt of bread or mit another patch upon her ragged garments. We bey that they listen to the scream of horror from the eagle on every American dollar that is wrung from the brcv.ot toiling women and ■ear the Goddess of Justice hiss at a verdict that increases the want ot woman to satisfy the greed of man. The women behind the counter and In the factory cry aloud for sympathy ■Mid the press thunders out in their lefense and the pulpit pleads for mercy. but how about the woman In 'he field? Will not these powerful txponents of human rights turn their ricnt. energies and influence to her relief? Will the Goddess of Liberty enthroned at Washington hold the cal loused hand and soothe the feverish brow of her sex who sows and reaps ihe nation’s harvest or will she permit the male of the species to shove women—weak and weary—from the broad-line of industry to the back al leys of poverty? women ana cnnaren First. The census enumerators tell us that of the 1,514,000 women who work in the fields as farm hands 409.000 are six teen years of aee and under. What Is the final destiny of a nation whose fu ture mothers spend their girlhood dayB behind the plow, pitching hay and hauling manure, and what is to become of womanly culture and refinement that grace -the home, charm society and enthuse man to leap to glory in noble achievements if our daughters are raised in the society of the ox and the companionship of the plow? In that strata between the ages of sixteen and forty-five are 950,000 wom en working as farm hands and many of them with suckling babes tug ging at their breasts, as drenched in perspiration, they wield the scythe end guide the plow. What is to be come of that nation where poverty breaks the crowns of the queens of the home; despair hurls a mother’s love from its throne and hunger drives Innocent children from the schoolroom to the hoe? The census bureau shows that 135, 000 of these women are forty-five years of age and ever. There is no more pitiful sight in civilization than these saintly mothers of Israel stooped with age, drudging in the field from sun until sun and at night drenching their dingy pillows with the tears of despair as their aching hearts take It all to God in prayer. Civilization strikes them a blow when it should 'give them a crown, and their only friend is he who broke bread with beggars and said: “Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and 1 will give you rest.” Oh, America! The land of the free and the home of the brave, the world's custodian of chivalry, the champion of human rights and the de fender of the oppressed—shall we per mit our maidens fair to he torn from the hearthstone by the ruthless hand of-destiny and chained to the plow? Shall we permit our faithful wives, whom we covenanted with God tocher and protect, to be burled from the home to the harvest field, and our mothers dear to be driven from the old arm chair to the cotton patch? In rescuing our citizens from the forces of civilization, can we not apply to our fair Dixieland the rule of the sea—“women and children first?" There must be a readjustment of the wage scale of industry so that the women can be taken from the field or given a reasonable wage for her serv ices. Perhaps the issue has never been fairly raised, but the Farmers’ Union, i with a membership of ten million, puts its organized forces squarely behind the issue and we now enter upon the docket of civili/atio,: the case of "The Woman in the Field” and demand an immediate trip! Professional Cards ROBT. P. STARR Attorney at Law LOUP CITY. HEBRSSKE. -a . 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. INC LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA ROERT H.MATHEW Bonded Abstracter Loup City, - Nebraska. Only set of Abstract books in county O. E. LONGACRE Physician & Surgeon Office, Over New Bank. TELEPHONE CALL, N0.39 A. J. KEARNS Physician & Surgeon Phone, 30. Office at Residence Two Doors East of Telephone Central Lnnp Eiifi. - Nebraska A. S. MAIN Physician & Surgeon Loup City, Nebr. Office at Residence, Telephone Connection J, E. Bowman H. D. Carrie L. Bowman M. D. BOWMAN & BOWMAN PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS Phon«114 Loop City, Sakruki S. A. ALLEN DENTIST LOUP CITY, - - NEB. || Office up stairs in the new State jiank build in?. W. L MARCY DENTIST Loup City, Nebraska. OFFICE: East Side Public So uare. Phone, Brown 116 \\ I. McDONALL Prompt Dray Work Call lumber yards or Taylor’s elevator. Satisfaction guaran teed. Phone Brown 57 C. R. SWEETLAND PLUMBER & ELECTRICIAN For good clean and neat work Satisfaction Guaranteed Come aDd get my prices Rufus 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 Eieva tor or eitherlumber yard. Chris Kleeman Boilder & Contractor Satisfaction Guaranteed. Resident 3 blocks north and 1 block west of Catholic church. LOCAL NEWS. Miss Irene Bomer is here from Columbus for the holiday season at the home of her autit Mrs. Viola Odendahl. Read my Free Suit adv. in this issue. Loup City Tailor Shop. Burr Robbins is sporting a fine overcoat made from the hide of the Shetland pony lie lost last summer. It’s a dandy. Leave orders for John McDonall dray at either lumber yard, or at E G. Taylor’s, or Phone Red 104 Jess Marvel and wife were down from their Custer county farm last Thursday for Christmas cheer at the home of Mrs. Mar vel’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ohlsen. If you want a dray,* gihone A. L. Enderlee, Black 63, or leave your or der with either lumbar yard or E. G. Taylor. Best of service guaranteed. Burr Robins last week brought up a couple of cars of—feeders to add to the bunch be is feeding on his farm up the valley. Burr is feeding upwards of 100 head of young catt le. Pure country sorghum, by the bar rel. shipped direct- front the mitts of Illinois: 803 per gallon. Loup Otv Mer. Co. Herman Ohlsen, who was home from David City for the holidays, orders the Northwestern to visit him there the coming year, where lie will be in charge of the Ohlsen brickyard. Herman is one of Loup City’s brightest young busi ness men. Winter will soon be hert. You better fill your coal bins while you can get good coal we have several kinds on hand our prices are right lit Taylor’s Elevator. Mr. and Mrs. W. N.- Brandt wishes the Northwestern to return their heartfelt thanks for the bright Christmas cheer brought to their home by geaerous friends on that date in quantities of the necessaries of life. “It is more blessed to give than to receive. ’’ IF YOU HAVE $1000 to in vest see our advertisement in an other column. First Trust Com pany. Jim McDonald and wife arrived last Wednesday evening from Edgewood, Iowa, and will remain for an extended visit here with re latives and friends. Jim says he hardly mi sses the two fingers be lost in a circular saw lasbsommef, and is able to do work -almoat -as easily as before. L. H. Spahr cleans and repairs all kinds of sewing machines and guns at the L. B. Hale Hardware store. An alann of fire last Saturday afternoon, about* 2:3b- from the home of John Wisher -brought out the hose cart in quick ~ order, but the incipient blase was extinguish ed before the fire laddies reached the scene.. We vadecatand that children ptafdd£-*^wiIII matches set a gunny-saek tm fire, bat was not allowed to spread to any greet extent, the loss being- only some $35. I am repairing all kinds ctf shoes at reasonable prices at J. J. Slominski’s Feed Store. John A. Galus. Here is one of the pathetic in cidents coming out of the shambles of Europe: Two wounded soldiers —one French, one German—lay side by side on the battlefield. The former passed his water bot tle to the. wounded German. The German sipped & little, kissed the hand of the man who had been his enemy, and said: “There will be no war on the other side.” Kid Glores and Kars cleaned at the Loup City Taller Shop, Public Sale, 4 miles northeast of Ashton and 6 miles east of Schaupp3, on Tuesday, Jan. 5th, 1915 commencing at 10 a. m. sharp. 7 head of horses, T^oows, 20 head of hogs, farm machinery. Free lunch, iOmonths at lO per cent. Tony Beydaihr1 earner; Col. Tony S. John, auctioneer; S. S. Polski, clerk. Gasoline, only 15c per gallon, at the Loup City Mer. Co.’s. Simultaneous with the printing of the Omaha Nebraskan wherein Bryan is lauded copiously there is published in the daily press the bull made by Bryan in rushing to the British with the declaration that a certain bill, which has not yet got the first reading, was not an administration measure. If anyone had any doubt that Great Britain is running the Wilson ad ministration they ought to see the lion’s (Bryan’s) tadLnow.,, Aqyr way the just mil if in i rilniioen’i too glib tongue doeauxit g» with the nice things Metcalf aa saying ing of him—for the stake of game. | —Ord Q uiz. Che Seasons Greeings for H prosperous New Year to HU Our patrons and hereby wish to tbanh you for Your Liberal patronage in the past and Respectfully solicit a continuation of the same in the future. THE HUB Yictor Yiener, proprietor. WHEN LOOKING FOR A SQUARE HEAL DROP IN AT THE Ideal Bakery & Restaurant SOUTH SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE Meals, Lunches aod Short Orders at all Hours Wt Also Carry a Full Line of Bakery Goods. Careful Attention Given all Special Orders. \ NOTICE TO FARMERS I have on hand a quantary 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, Loup City, Nebr. Dreamland Theater Changes Pictures Every Mtiday, Wednesday and Friday. Only the best pictures shown. Everyone passed on by Board of Censorship. Fer an Evenings Fan and Pleasure Meet Ne In Dreamland. JOHN OLTMAN, OWNER JANUARY TRAVEL SPECIALTIES One of the big events of Nebraska is the Annual Convention ind Exposition of Organized Agriculture, Lincoln January 18 to 23,1915 This is the convocation of the Agricultural, Horticultural, Live stock, Dairy, Floral, Good Roads, and Home Economics Societies; it interests farmers, orchardists, live-stock men, business men aad bankers. Tie Bert Apple Show and Corn Show of the Biddle West daring this Period. Over twenty-five associations interested in the development and improvement of Nebraska’s agricultural, live-stock and dairy interests and allied subjects will hold conventions that will in terest every inhabitant of Nebraska. Bullion For official programs, information, etc, apply to W. R. Mellor, President Geo. W. Kline, Secretary Lincoln, Nebraska Compare oar Job Work with others * • word to the wise Is suffteleat.