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
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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.
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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
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Our business for Fall, Early Winter, and
the Holidays has been very good. This
Sale will, be a Profit Sharing Sale to
you oooooooos
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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<iy on account, 1 lelp
your favorite to get the Pony, Cart and
Harness by trading at our store, o o
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THIS SALE CLOSES FEBRUARY 1ST 1915
G. G. Gooper
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