1 OFF 3 CLOAK SALE As we hdve more Cloaks than we want to carry over, we are going to offer them at % off, which makes A $5.00 coat at $3.35 A $10.00 coat at $6.70 A $15.00 coat at $10.00 Do aot miss this Sale BOYS’ SUITS. We have a big line and our price is right. See us first, A Xew Line of Ladies’ Skirts. Price $5.00 to Si 1.50, they are good ones. Suit Cases We have a bi^line. Price S2.00 to S20.00. LOUP CITY MER. CO I Along Rural Route One Clarence Wilson was hauling corn to town Monday. They are having a weeks vaca tion in the Appel district. W. E. Miller held a big shoot at his place Wednesday. 'Ernest Kroues" brother arrived last Monday from Sweden. L. A. Betzer expects to leave for Lincoln in a short time. Miss Alice Meston spending the holidays in St. Paul. Mrs. Clarence Wilson’s father from St. Paul, is here visiting. John and Martin Nelson are putting up a new frame building. Mr. Bell and W. Engle and fam ilies spent Christmas day at the J. Bone home. Miss Zoe Lee per has been vis iting at the Douglas home lately. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Curry spent Christmas at the It. W. Curry home in Litchfield. O. A. Clark. Cbas. Hatch and Kred Zwink hauled corn for Ezra Newcomer this week. Eric Olson, who is attending college in (hnaha is spending the holidays at home. Andrew Franzen aad C. S. Morrison have opened up some bad places in the road. The Misses I’earl tinnier and Blanche Towlea are spending the holidays at the l’iuckney home. Mias Thresa Weller spent part of the Christmas holidays at the Par sley home. Buy your stamps and supplies of the carrier. Do not leave loose change in tlie mail box. J. H. Bone and family and also their grandchildren spent Christ mas evening at the A. L. Zimmer man home. The Misses Hal and Esther Ol sen and .John Olson returned Sat urday morning to Omaha where (her have employment. Please put your name on your box as soon as convenient, then if a new carrier goes you get your in>il, otherwise you may not The carrier wishes to thank one gnd ell who remembered him on Christmas and during the past mi, nth for the many Rood things he received. Beginning .January 2nd and lasting one month rural carriers have to count and weigh all mail handled by them and would appre ciate it very much if the patrons would mail all the mail on the route so I may have the count. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to return thanks to all the new and old subscribers to the Northwestern for the help they so cheerfully gave us in winning the Maxwell auto. Your kindness is very much appreciated. Wishing you a prosperous year, we are yours gratefully. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cooper. FOR SALE OR RENT For Sale—Over 400 Plymouth Rock Chickens. Mrs. D. Domgard. Two thoroughbred Duroc Jersey boars for Bale. S. Iossi: Route 2. For Sale—Six-horse power gaso line engine. Chris Domgard. Used Typewriters, all makes, at all prices O. E. James, Y. M. C. A., Grand Island. Nebr. nov 10 For Sale Right—Lumber mill, fully equipped and in good running order, inquire of A. M. Lewis. For Sale-Three Stallions choice 3&00.00. Kenneth Kay. — For Cash Rent —My ten-acre tract just west of this city. In quire of L. W. Schlote. For Rent—My residence,known as the Enevoldsen building, in northwest part of Loup City. I Can give possession at once. L. W. Schlote. For Sale—1 team of horses, 5 years old wt. 1000; 1 set light work harness; 1 low truck farm wagon; 1 good top buggy; 1 Jen nie Lind walking cultivator; 1, 14 inch stirring plow; Deering mow er; 5 f&nale thoroughbred Duroc Jersey pigs, wt 150 each. Alfred Andersen. For Sale or Trade—My resi dence and three lots, known as the old Judge Hunter property, in first block north of court house square. Price and terms made known upon inquiry. J. W. Burleigh. For Sale—Two dozen pure bged Barred Plymouth Bock puHets and six Cockerels. R. L. Arthur. LOCAL NEWS Mrs. Will Taylor returned Monday night from a two weeks’ trip up into Platte and Knuckles county. Flumes cleaned and re-curled. At Loup City Tailor Shop. Will sell High Grade Esty Piano, Cheap. Pa.vinertts or cash. H. M. Eisner. Miss Marie Cooper is home from Kearney over the holiday, accom panied by her cousin, Miss Helen Clark of Fairmont. All kinds of repair work done at L. B. Hale’s hardware store. Be sure and come in and pet a Free Suit. Loup City Tailor Shop. Glen Auble and sister of Ord are here spending the holidays with their sister, Mrs. Lou Schwaner and family. The Misses Julia Siefert and Hilda Von Krosigb of Boelus vis ited the N. A. Steen family over Monday. Miss Franees Sweetland went to Oswego, Ills., last week to visit Rev. Ray Kearns and wife during the holidays. If you want good, prompt draying, call on John McDonall, successor to L.C. McDonall. Phone Red 104 Miss Carrie Cole of the First Trust Co. returned Monday from North Platte, where she had spent a few days of the holiday season. Wanted—For the Eastern war zone, the best and most market able horses, sufficient in size and qnality for any of the duties re quired there. See Myrl Warrick. Public sale at my farm a mile north of Loud City, Nebraska, on Tuesday, Jan. 5th, 1915 at 1 p. m. Three head of horses, 7 head of cattle, 38 head of hogs, farm machinery etc. 8 months time at 10 per cent. Mrs. A. H. Hansel, owner; W. F. Mason, clerk; Col. J. G. Pageler, auctioneer. I will compete with any cata logue or mail order house. Bring in your catalogue and be convinced I handle nothing but what is Stamped by the makers name ab solutely the best. Henry M. Eisner, The Reliable Jeweler. Joe Stecher, the Dodge demon, and George Turner, the South Dakota mat artist, who have pre viously met three times without definite results, are matched for a wrestle at Hooper tomorrow, New Years Day. Turner weighs 220 pounds and Stecher 202. It will be some wrestle. We have good values in all lines. Ladies mesh bags, newest designs 83.00. Ladies Open Face Elgin 20 year Gold Case $10.00. Henry M. Eisner, Reliable Jeweler. Yesterday C. J. Tracy brought to this office samples of oranges and grape fruit from the orchard of his brother-in-law, O. E. Briggs, at Zephyrhills, Florida, which Chet helped to set out two years ago years ago when he and wife visited there. They look fine and are most delicious to the palate. The Ravenna creamery has raised the price of cream to 32 1-2 cents, starting Saturday, Dec. 31. Some prices of interest at the Tra vis5, lo and 25 cent store. Fancy tango cords and pins 10 & 15 Fancy burntwood boxes 10&15 Fancy cups & saucers 10,15, 25 & 35 Fancy salad bowls 16, 25 & 35 Fancy work baskets 10, 15 & 25 Good Fresh candy 10,15 & 20c 2500 Thanksgiving postcards lc each. All accounts owing to Blaska & Woznick have been left at the State Bank for collection. Those owning on same will 'confer a favor by early settlement. The Ravenna creamery has raised the price of cream to 32 1.2 cents, starting Saturday, Dec. 31. Recovering Rapidly. When the doctor came down from seeing her husband he told her that her good man would shortly be on the road to convalescence. “What’s that?” she asked. "I mean he will be get ting better,” said the doctor. "You will know because he will get irritable —extremely so.” When he called the next day the doctor found the devoted woman as bappy as a sandboy, smiling and singing to herself. “And how are we today?” he asked. “Oh, he’s get ting better all right.’ she answered. “He came down to the kitchen this morning and threw a coffeepot at the cook, and shot our old house dog be cause H wouldn’t say ‘Please!’ So I cooked him a dish of tripe and onions and he has gone back to work. It’s wonderful how you doctors know things!” What the Railroads Do With Thoir licome (Continued from Fourth Page) Burning the Candle at Both Ends As a matter of fact, if every rail road in the country had charged off a proper percentage for depreciation, instead of having had a surplus of $15.1,000,000 left in 1013, they would have had an actual deficit running into the millions. Some of the larger systems have a fixed yearly deprecia tion charge—but scores of the weaker lines, in their frantic endeavor to pay the interest on their debts and main tain the standing of their securities, use every dollar of their income to this end. and lienee one of the most alarming phrases of the present rail road situation is that this process of ‘■burning the candle at both ends” means a deterioation of rollihg stook and roadpeds which will render the continuance of adequate and safe service for the public impossible in the very near future. In a recent article, James J. Hill, thegreat “Em pire Builder of the North,” points out that American railroads should spend at least $500,oo0,000 annually in im provements ond betterment—and it is therefore no exaggeration to say that rapidly deteriorating equipment is one of the ghosts which haunts hundreds of railroad managers throughout the country at the present hour. As was stated in last week's article, the operating income of the railroads for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, was 1120,000,000 less than for 1913, while expenses and taxes were $10,000,000 greater. Is can therefore be seen at a glance that unless the railroads are given some increase in rates in the very near future the time when many of them will go upon the rocks of financial ruin is not far off— and yet the slight fbcrease necessary to save them is so small that the average citizen would not be conscious of it after it had gone into effect. A Barometer of Prosperity. It is an old saying that when the railroads are prosperous everybody is prosperous, and the manner in which their income is disbursed, as above explained, tells the reason why. In short, for years they have been re garded as the great business barom eter of the nation. No other indus try in the country employs so many men as do the railroads, and, fur thermore, it is a high grade of labor employed upon as lucrative a basis as obtains in any other large indus try. When times are good nearly two million people, first and last, are employed by the railroads, and when this vast army is working full time and is contented the millions they pay out for merchandise and for the living necessities produced on the farm cannot help but have a tremen dous effect upon the commerce and agriculture of the country. But this is only half the story. Aside from the nearly two million operatives directly employed by the railroads in normal times, the hun dreds of thousands of men who work in the great steel mills, the coal mines, the lumber industry and in the big car and locomotive shops are equally vitally affected, for when the railroads are making extensive Im provements and buying heavily of these supplies it means that these great industries are running full shift, while when the railroads are subsist ing only upon absolute necessities it means that many of them are only working half shift while scores are shut down altogether. That the farmer has a very vital and personal interest in this situation should be apparent at a glance. When the millions of laboring men in the United States are profitably employed and when all our great industrial en terprises are running full shift it means that he will have a larger de mand and receive a higher price for the things he produces on his farm— for his corn, wheat, pork, beef, mut ton, cotton, wool and other farm products. In other words, so closely, allied is the transportation problem to all the other great industries of the nation that the general welfrre of the railroads has become a funda mental concern of every other inter est. (Paid Adv. To be continued next next week.) Card of Thanks We wish to express our heart felt thanks to the friends and neighbors who so kindly aided us during the illness and at the time of death of our beloved wife, daughter and sister. George H. Zahn,x R. D. Adams and Family, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Adams, Adam Zahn and Family, . Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Zahn, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burk. CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our heart felt thanks to the many kind friends who by their Aidiurd sym pathy in the loss of husband and father meant so much to us in our hours of sorrow. Mrs. R. M. Jackson, Eva Jackson, George Jackson, Bob Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Waggoner, Guy Fowler, Mr. add Mrs. Wesley Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. M. Silvia. A GOOD RESOLUTION and trade with R. L. ARTHUR Deer Creek Items The pupils of Deer Creek school presented their teacher with a lot of Christmas presents. Anton and Sophia Wiess and Mary Rasmussen visited the Deer Creek school last Thursday. Miss Agnes Mogeson was a pas senger to Grand Island Monday to have an operation on her eyes. Aug.-Mascka lost some 15 hogs from cholera. Harry Maciejewski and wife and Ignas Haremza and family visited F. J. Maciejewski Sunday 1 ast. Ignas Haremza and wife were guests of Walter Kochnowski at Ashton last Friday. Mrs. Frank Bydalek was called to the bedside of her Aother last Saturday, who was very low. Marry Maciejewski and wife were guests at the home ot Aug. Zochol. Sr., last Friday. Clemens Maciejewski was a pas senger to Loup City last Monday to attend the Miller-Rief wrest ling match and to visit with rel atives. OPERA HOUSE MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY January 4th, 5th and 6th. THE JACK SIMMONS STOCK CO PRESENTING EDNA FOY SUPPORTED BY Clever Company of Clever Artists 8 PEOPLE 8 MONDAY NIGHT JANUARY 4th “A Woman’s Vengeance” Sensational Comedy Drama in Five Acts. FOUR Vaudeville Specialties FOUR One Lady Admitted Free With 50e Ticket Sold Monday Night. Reserved Seats now on Sale at Swanson &. Lofholm’s Special Bargain in Season Tickets, Usual Price SI 25 now $1.00. Satisfaction or Money back Beautiful Special Scenery. Tickets 25-35 50 cents A^nnounceivienT 26928 6 Our business for Fall, Early Winter, and the Holidays has been very good. This Sale will, be a Profit Sharing Sale to you oooooooos sssosss NEXT FRIDAY, JANUARY 1st, 1915 BEGINS OUR o o o o o o c JANUARY CLEARING SALE We still have a good stock of Ladies’ Gent’s and Children’s Underwear, Dress Goods, Dress Trimmings and a complete stock of new Groceries. Everything fresh and quality good. There will be Bargains in this Sale that you cannot afford to miss. o o o © © o Remember our store is a 1 *ony Store Store and you get a pony vote for every cent you buy or p