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Loup City Northwestern
OFFICIAL PAPER OF SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA.
LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY.
THE PAPER THAT THE PEOPLE READ
VOLUME XXXIII
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. Jannart, 7th 191^
NUMBER 3
TRAGEDY MARS
HOLIDAY JOYS
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Farmer's Wife AfSad by Discharge of $hot(nn in Hands of Her Husband—
* ■ Trank Hobbs Accidently Shoots His Wife.
A SAD NEW
:'$ DAY
's an unwelcome visitor,
ne in peculiarly distress
n to the home of Frank
miles south of Giltuer.
oar^1* Tuesday morning when Mrs,
riobbs succumbed to injuries sus
tained two days before from acci
dental discharge of a shotgun in
the hands of her husband. Short
ly before noon Sunday Mr. Hobbs
took his gun from the house and
started toward the barnyard for
be purpose shooting a sick hog
at was suspected of having
'^a. Mrs. Hobbs accompan
1 apart the way, but turned
he house as the husband
> crawl through a fence,
as discharged in a man
hei \ria»„.o one seems to be able
to clearly explain and the entire
(jjiarge entered the unfortunpte
woman's back just above the hips.
She was so close that the shot had
ii\ o chance to scatter and the wound
tao*\uld almost have been covered
. ® a silver dollar,
f abp horrified husband summon
\ I'aHk'Al aid from Giltner, Au
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tp our heart is the
fer, Who pays in;
'ad>»W\©e£\*v*^p birth of each year.
\S «io lays down the money and
does it quite gladly, And casts
’round the office a halo of cheer.
He never says: “Stop it; I cannot
afford it, I'm getting more papers
rora and Harvard as quickly as
possible, but aside from dressing
the wound nothing could be done
for the stricken woman’s relief.
Several vertebrae of the backbone
were badly shattered and the
spinal column was affected in such
a way that she was completely
paralyzed from the hips down
ward. She retained consciousness
except when under the influence
of opiates given to relieve pain
and recognized all the anxious
faces at her bedside. Death oc
curred at a little after 5 o’clock
Tuesday morning.—Aurora Re
publican.
Our Methodist friends commenc
ed a series of revival meetings last
Sunday evening the other church
es'abandoning their Sunday even
ing services and attending the re
vival exercises, and which we
understand they will continue to
do as long as they last. Rev. Slo
cumb will be his own evangelist,
so far as the speaking is concerned
but has secured the services of
Mr. G. 1. Waltz, a prominent
singing evangelist of University
Place, to conduct the singing and
chorus work. The church was
crowded to its utmost Sunday i
evening, with a choir of some 50
voices. An earnest invitation is <
extended to all to attend the ser
vices each evening. i
than now I can read.” But al
ways says, “Send it; our people
all like it—In fact, we all think it
a help and a need.” How welcome
his check when it reaches our
sanctum, How it makes our pulse
throb; how it makes our heart
dance, We outwardly thank him;
we inwardly bless him—The
\ steady subscriber who pays in ad
vance.
The Misses Outhouse returned
to their various school duties last
week, Miss Emma to Spencer,
where she is principal of the
schools; Miss Winnifred to Ra
venna, where she teaches in the
public schools, and Miss Orpha to
the State University at Lincoln.
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Along Rural
Route One
A
been
Mfs* ^rank Zwink has
1 mite sick the past week.
SIL a. L. Zimmerman and family
1 iiP^Eunday at the J. H. Bone
A
* RO<l Dunn, wife and nephew
\site(F'^ith the Bone family
JSonday.
C‘ Kilpatrick and family
mt New Year’s day at the home
H. Bone.
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In.
of J.
W. B. Reynolds and wife of
Litchfield visited at the S. S. Rey
nolds home from Sunday until
Tuesday.
Will Engles has been putting
the finishing touches on Fred
Zwink’s new house.
S' The roads drifted in, last Tues
day and were in worse condition
I than they have been before this
winter.
\
The carrier wishes to the road
overseers and patrons, who sc
kindly opened the roads after the
wind storm Tuesday.
The first part cf last week some
one broke open S. F. McPhearce’s
mail box. This is a very serious
An Explanation
To Our Readers
Complaints having reached us
that those of you who were en
titled to receive the Homestead
and To-Day’s with new and re
newed subscriptions to the North
western, where subscription is
paid a year ahead, have not re
ceived the same. We assure you
that we have written in to the
publisher of those premiums ask
ing explanation and shall be able to
explain the delay very soon. We
are extremely sorry regarding the j
same and will adjust the matter ;
at the earliest moment. The fact \
that our check covering the cost
of these publications has not been
returned to us, leads us to believe
the same, with list sent in must |
have been lost in the mails. How
ever, be patient and we will try
and adjust the affair satisfactorily
in a short time.
offense, if the guilty party were
discovered.
J. H. Lee and family, J. A.
Mcllravy and family and Tom
Mcllravy and wife spent New
Year’s day at the Marvin Lee
home.
Fred Zwink has grown tired of
leading a life of single blessedness
so he and Miss Coral Daddow are
to be wedded Thursday evening
of thid week.
When Dr. Bowman was called
several miles west of Loup City,
last Wednesday night, he was
two hours getting three miles
from home on account of bad
roads.
W. R. McCullough came up
from Geneva last Friday evening
for a week’s visit with his son, A.
L. McCullough, and family. He
leaves here today for Fremont,
for a further visit with a daugh
ter. He is looking well and feel
ing fine.
Miss Lois Steen gave a party
for the Gleaner class of the Pres
byterian church, on New Year’s
day from 2 to 5:30. All had a good
time. A delicious supper was
served. The rooms were prettily
decorated for the occasion.
(
Meetings at the
Different Churches
Presbyterian—The pastor will i
preach Sunday morning at 10:30
from the subject: “The Possibili
ties and the Power of the Regener
ate Life.”
Christian Endeavor will meet
at the usual hour, but there will
be no evening service, because
of the Revival at theM.E. church.
German—Sunday, January 10.
Morning service, 10:30, Sunday
school at 10:00.
German church at Rockville,
Sunday, January, 10. German
service, 3 p. m. English service,
8 p. m.
Baptist—10:30 a. m., sermon by
Rev. Fred Berry of Lincoln, Sup
erintendent of State Missions for
the Nebraska State Convention.
You will enjoy hearing him.
B. Y. P. U. service 6:30 sharp,
( led by the pastor.
O. A. Woods last week sold
his livery barn to Joe Caddy, the
transfer to take place as soon as
Mr. Caddy returns from a visit
he has been taking the past num
ber of days in another part of the
state.
MASKED BALL
BIG SUCCESS
Big Crowd and One of the Most Suc
cessful Events Held in City.
PRIZE WINNERS GfVEN BELOW.
The masquerade ball given New
Year’s Eve at the opera house by
our friends of the Germania
Verein was, in point of numbers
and excellence of entertainment,
one of the very best ever held by
that splendid organization in our
city. The night was propitious
and the opera house was filled
with merry dancers who ushered
the old year out and the new year
in. The music was par excellence
and the order could not have been
better. The contest between the
wearers of the various costumes
was very spirited and the gener
ous rivalry gave the judges diffi
cult work in determining the win
ners, so many being especially
good. Following are the winners:
First Prize, Ladies’ Costume—
Mrs. Ella Odendahl.
First Prize, Gents’ Costume—
John Jezewski.
Ladies’ Comic Costume—Guy
Martin.
Gents’ Comic Costume—Cliff
Rowe.
Fool’s Prize Costume — Dan
Bauman.
Prize Miscellaneous Costumes—
Mrs. John McDonall, Mrs. Ike
Kieth, Miss Alice Rufenacht, Mrs.
Will Dolling, Mrs. Lizzie Shrove,
Mrs. Cora Kinman and Mrs.
Hiram Cramer.
Word was received here a few
lays ago that a baby boy was
horn Dec. 29,1914, at Windsor,
Colo., to Rev. and Mrs. P. Juel
ing. former pastor and wife of the
German church here.
LETTER FROM
THOS BURTON
From His Letter We Take The Fol
lowing Interesting lews.
LOCATED AT WICHITA, KANSAS.
We received a few days ago a
letter from our good friend, Thos.
Burton, who is at Wichita, Kan
sas, enclosing remittance for an
other year of Northwestern visits.
From his letter we take the fol
lowing interesting news to his old
friends:
“Maybe some of my Sherman
county friends would like to know
what I am doing. Well, I am
yard foreman at the Sedgwick
House Headquarters of the As
sociated Charaties and Corrections
Associations. They feed all the
men who are out of money and
work who call here. The said
“down-and-outs" are supposed to
work an hour for a meal and an
hour for a bed. We have a wood
yard where they can saw and
split wood, and a rock pile, and
two paper presses where we bale
paper, and other work. There
are plenty of professional tramps
who fade away without working,
besides taking every thing they
can get their handson. Then there
are poor men with families who
are out of work in the winter.
They are furnished work sawing
wood and paid in groceries I
have all that part of the business
to look after and see that all the
wood sold is delivered as it should
be. It is an interesting job. One
gets acquainted with all kinds of
human nature. Som«; people ap
preciate help and some don’t.
There is a free employment depot
that furnishes a great many men
and women with jobs. Every
morning there is a crowd in the
office looking for work. Some
nights we have from eighty to
ninety men here. They are not all
hoboes. Some have a little money.
They pay ten cents for a meal and
and ten cents for a bed. There are
two large reading rooms where
men can read and smoke. The
women have all their rooms on
second floor. The Sedgwick House
is a three story fire-proof build
ing. You will have to imagine
the other things I could tell, as it
would take up too mnch space to
write it.”
Girl Accidentally
Stabbed by Brother
A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.
Sorensen, a girl about eighteen
years old, lies dangerously wound
ed, at the home of her parents in
the east part of town, the victim
of an accidental knife thrust re
ceived while making an effort to
separate her youthful brothers
who were engaged in a fight.
The family is naturally secretive
concerning the details of the re
gretable affair. The story goes
that one of the boys had a knife
in his hand, while engaged in the
tight, but whether he was at
tempting to use it on his antagon
ist, or happened to have it in his
hand when the trouble started,
can not be said. The boys are
little fellows, but ten or twelve
years of age, and the sister who
was attempting to separate the
combatants and restore peace, is
somewhat older. In the melee,
presumably accidental, the knife
penetrated her side to a depth of
about six inches.
A doctor was called to attend
her injuries. The wound was
probed to determine its depth and
course, and it was found that it
reached no vital point, and bar
ring infection or other unfortunate
developements she will probably
recover.—Ravenna News.
Old gentleman Sharp is report
ed very ill and has been so for
some weeks, with no perceptible
improvement.
STEGHER TO
MEET PIETRO
J«e Steelier to Wrestle the Antrim
Huskey in Unetn.
WEDRI.SRAT RIGHT. JANRARY IS.
Joe Stecher, the spectacular
heavyweight wrestler from Dodge
county, Nebraska, who is now un
der the management of Frank
Gotch and Emil Klank, has been
matched to clash in a finish match
with Tony Pietro, the Austrian
champion, Wednesday night, Jan
uary 13, at the Oliver theater,
Lincoln.
Pietro, who is a newcomer in
America, recently sent a challenge
to grapple with Steche,- or any
other American heavyweight.
The challenge was forwarded to
Emil Klank in Chicago, who re
si>onded yesterday by sending a
wire accepting the dcfi. Klank
also sent word that Gotch would
try to arrange his ufff ‘-'
Stecher’s second.
Stecher won a sensational vic
tory New Year’s day from George
Turner, a 225-pound husky from
South Dakota, by pinning Turner
twice in twelve minntes. Klank
is confident Stecher is champion
ship material and the agreement
between Stecher on one side and
Gotch and Klank on the other
provides that Stecher is to be the
personal pupil of Gotch, who
plans to tutor and develop the
Nebraska phenom until the latter
is the recognized heavyweight
champion.
Herman and Albion Ohlsen left
for Dwight, Neb., Monday morn
ing, where they are engaged in
constructing the new Catholic
church.
be at the ringside
UNITY CLUB GIVE
ANNUAL BANQUET
Womb's Unity Club Celebrated Twenty-Third Anniversary at The Home of
Mrs. A. L. Zimmerman.
WILL BE REMEMBERED^AS RED-LETTER DAY.
On New Year's evening the
Woman’s Unity Club celebrated
its twenty-third anniversary by
giving a banquet at the home of
Mrs. A. L. Zimmerman. Mr. and
Mrs. C. J. Tracy were the only
people present, who attended the
first banquet given New Year’s
day 1892. The latter was presi
dent at that time and is president
now.
We are especially grateful to
Mrs. Zimmerman for opening her
home to us for the evening. The
three large parlors opening togeth
er are well adapted to such an oc
casion. The committees that had
such an important part in the
work are to be commended for
the perfect arrangement in every
detail. Last, but, not least, the
club wishes to thank the invited
guests who made such happy re
sponses to the toasts.
A company of about thirty-five
people were assembled around the
tables. In the excellent three
course dinner, mention should be
made of the splendid pumpkin
pie. The national appreciation of
purely American dish is well ex
pressed in Whittier’s lines,
What moistens the lip and what
brightens the eye,
What calls back the past like the
rich pumpkin pie?
The spicy plum pudding that
had its origin from our English
ancestors completed the perfect
menu.
Mrs. Burwell, as toastmistress.
Large Number Attend
Watch-Night Service
The union watch-night services
at the Methodist church last
Thursday night, New Year’s Eve,
brought out the largest number of
people ever in attendance at such
in the past history of the city.
The early part of the evening was
given over to social time, with
coffee and doughnut attachments,
up to about 10 o’clock, the church
being crowded with people, com
ing and going. From that hour
up to the dawn of the New Year,
the building was comfortably fill
ed in the main part, listening to
the songs, short addresses, etc.,
all of which proved most enter
taining.
W. R. Mellor was up from Lin
coln the latter part of last week
for a day or so on business mat
ters, returning home Sunday.
Reunion of the
Class of 1910
The class of 1910, with about
12 other boys and girls who used
to associate together while in
High School, met at the home of
Edgar Foster, last Wednesday
evening to go in a bob-sled to the
country home of Mrs. Elma Corn
ing Zwink, seven miles west of
town
All were nicely seated and we
were of, when alas, the sled run
ner broke. Some of the boys
went for oysters, while the others
bitched to a wagon, in the mean
time the girls were walking on,
some of them walking over two
miles before the boys were finally
ready.
Our destination was reached
about 9:45, after visiting and re
calling school-day incidents, the
evening was spent in card games.
After all had done justice to the
oysters, we departed for home,
wishing for a reunion again, even
if we were home only ashort time
before old Sol could be seen in the
east. Those present were: Muses
Outhouse, McCray, McFadden,
Smith, Lofholm, Fowler, Corning,
Lee per, Daddow and Mrs. Lettie
Peugh Foster. Means Jones,
Tracy, Musser, Whitaker, Prich
ard, Burrows, Gilbert, Foster,
Coltrane, Zwink and Rowe.
When a newspaper gives you a
lot of free advertising in order to
boom some concert or entertain
ment in which you are interested,
keep track of the lines that are
printed week by week and multi
ply that number by the regular
advertising rates of the paper.
Compare the results with the
actual money value of any favor
that you get from any other busi
ness concern. Then take into con
sideration the fact that advertis
ing and circulation are the only
two things that a newspaper has
to sell. Now, in these da.f s of
higher prices, how much do you
think it ought to give away? —
Aurora Republican.
Downing Charlton has been se
lected by the Nebraska senate as
first assistant secretary of that
body for the present session. Don
will make good.
The Ladies’ Industrial Society
will meet next Wednesday after
noon (Jan. 13) at the home of
Mrs. S. E. Gallaway.
Banker Dwehus of, Rockville
was in this city on business, Mon
day.
after a short introduction touching
on the beginning of ‘Women’s
Clubs, their work and their
growth, proposed the toast, “The
Club Woman’s Outlook,” to
Supt. Burwell. He said, “Their
possibilities are bounded on the
north by the Aurora Borealis, on
the south by the precession
of the equinoxes, on the east by
the rising sun and on the west by
the Judgement Day.”
Rev. Slocumb responded to
“The Club and the Community.”
He told of libraries established by
the club, cemetaries cared for by
their efforts and public fountains
placed on convenient corners as
some of their best known work.
The next toast was “Our Pro
grams” by Miss Meroe Outhouse.
She said, “Most of our programs
for this year can be grouped un
der the headings of History
and Art. The history considers
the great European war. In art
wTe are studying great American
painters and tlieir work.”
Mrs. Oltjenbrun toasted, “Our
Husbands’’ brown. She began
by saying, “I presume they as
signed this subjedt to me because
I am the most newly married wo
man in the club, following the
theory that the least experienced
can usually say the most.” After
her speech, one of the husbands
was heard to say, “‘Well. I"d
rather be toasted than roasted. ”
Rev. Dunn gave “A Farewell
to 1914,” the company came near
shedding tears—from excess of
laughter. He left the thought that
the year 1914 would go down in
history as a year frought with
events of the most far reaching
consequences.
Rev. Steen gave “A Welcome
to 1915,” one of the thoughts he
gave us was, “We should have re
gard for the past, but we owe our
greatest concern to things looking
toward the future.”
Rev. Steen’s solo, “His Eye is
on the Sparrow,” was greatly ap
preciated by everyone present.
The Banquet beginning theyear
1915 will be remembered as one
of the red letter days of the
Woman’s Unity Club.
Will Play Return
Date Tuesday
The Jack Simmons Stock Co*,
which has been playing here the
first t!hree days of this week is a
company that does exactly as ad
vertised, presenting new and ex
cellent plays, with beautiful spe
cial scenery, good and clean vau
deville between each act.
On Monday night the play’ “A
Woman’s Vengeance” pleased the
audience greatly, all having noth
ing but words of praise for the
company, the clever work of Miss
Edna Foy being especially well
spoken of. Tuesday night, “The
Crimson Crown,” a play that was
quite different, held the audience
spellbound as the plot and motive
of the play was revealed, and Miss
Foy, in her delineation of “Inez
Carol, ” the woman struggling be
tween the right and the wrong,
had the audience completely un
der her sway at all times. The
company as a whole gives posi
tively the best for the money we
have had in Loup City for years,
and it is with pleasure we learn
that by special request a return
engagement has been arranged
for next Tuesday night, Jan. 12,
when a new play and new vaude
ville will be presented, ‘ The
Prison Brand,” an intense prob
lem of the day, in three acts, and
three vaudeville acts, prices 25-35
50c. Reserved seats on sale at
Swanson &Lofholm’s Drugstore.
