C. C. Cooper generalmIrchandise a 6 CASH IS WHAT TALKS 4 Come In and Hear What It Hat to Say Our Full Line of Can Goods and Groceries is Unbroken Some Good Selections to Be | Had. Don’t Wait Until it is | to Late. b WSWSWS \ Lay in a Good Supply Mow j Before Spring Work Begins. I You Will Be Too Busy Then. ! C. C. COOPER’S STORE MUSLIN UNDERWEAR NOWIN We have just received our spring line of Muslin Undewear, Underskirts, Corset Covers. Call and see them. Loup City Mercantile Co. FOR SALE OR RENT Few choice male Poland China hogs, for sale. Milo A. Gilbert. For Sale—Imported Percheron stal lion and purebred Holstein cow,fresh, with two bull calves, Grant Rogers. For Sale—Two registered Short hornbulls, yrs. 1 and 4 years. G. B. Wilkie, Route 2, Loup City, Neb. We have still on hand at the old brick yard a large quantity of brick for sale. Prospective purchasers will do well to see or write us regarding same. At their earliest opportunity. Henry Ohlsen & Son. Loup City, Nebraska. 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. Alfred Andersen. For Sale—Some of the best farm and ranch land In south Cherry county, In tracts of from a half section to four sections, close to good towns, schools and churches. For further In formation, write or call on R. F, Osborn, Cherry, Nebr. 118-4. For Sale or Trade—My resi dence and three lots, known as the old Judge Hunter property, in first block nortli of court house square. Price and terms made known upon inquiry. J. W. Burleigh. If sold before March 1st, will take S2.000 for my place In Loup City, a good place to raise chickens and hogs. Plenty of room for garden. Phone or write me at Arcadia, Nebr. feb23-2 H. S. Conger. News Along Rural Route 2 Ellen and Hilda Steel have been very sick the past week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Schwad erer. Dr. Main was out on the route last week attending the sick. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Gehring will soon move to Ashton. Jake Albers helped Wilbur Curry market ids hogs Monday. Irene and Mildred Warrick have been on the sick list the past week. The Wiggle Creek grange gave an other program last Friday. Tom McFadden lost a good yearling colt with colic last Friday. W. II. McLaughlin hauled carrier a load of hay Saturday. Floyd Howard got home last week from a visit to Albion. Emil Schoening will farm the place where Mr. Cox lives next year. A. II. Newhouser hauled hay last Saturday. G. B. Wilkie has been a grippe suf ferer the past week. Miss Meroe Outhouse spent last Sunday at her home in Loup City. Clarke Alleman bought a cow of John Gross last Saturday. Fred Daddow sold some cows on the Loup City marketslast Thursday. Gus Younglund hauled hay from Route 2 last Thursday. Floyd Howard and Glen Cash were over on the east end of the route on business Tuesday. Fritz Bichel got home from the Hereford meet at Grand Island last week. Miss Carrie Bogseth spent last Sat urday and Sunday with her sister, at O. F. Henning’s. Wilbur Curry and Mr. Eastabrook shipped hogs to South Omaha the past week. Adam Ghering traded his farm for the Jaulewicz butcher shop at Ash ton the past week. This winter proves that all the willows on each side of the road to the bridges ought to be cut. If they had been, there would not have been half the snow on the roads. While Miss Elsie Oltjenbruns was driving to school in Loup City last Wednesday, her horse pulled a little to one side of the road, tipping the buggy over, throwing her out and a load of turnips also into the snow. The horse did not seem to mind it, Miss Elsie was unharmed, and with the aid of the carrier was soon on her way again. W. O. Brown tells the carrier that he took a can of cream to the cream ery one day last week and the road was so rough the cream was churned into butter. We believe he told the truth, for the same day we lost two wheels from the mall wagon and sprung the front axle. We can prove this by Otto Henning, who saw the accident and helped us to recover the wheels. LETTER TO PATRONS OR RURAL ROUTES The past three weeks have been trying times for the carriers on rural routes to make the rounds, and they have suffered many hardships, which the department does not require them to do. In some cases they have had assist ance from the patrons, but in many cases the patrons have shamefully neglected to do their duty. It is not the duty of a mail carrier to shovel his way through snow banks, take down fences and go through fields, but it is the duty of the patrons and the road overseers to see that the road is kept open, or opened as soon as possible after the storm is over. The department cannot compel patrons or overseers of highway to open the roads, but it can sus pend the mail routes to an inde finite period, and as Postmaster of Loup City, I shall in the future notify the Postoffice department with recommendations that the route be suspended, for any rea sonable failure to open the roads. The cost of carrying the mails is costing the Government enormous sums of money, and the ..patrons, or their overseers should take suf ficient pains'to assist the 'Govern ment in keeping the highways passable. C. F. Beushausen, Postmaster. LOCAL NEWS What do you think of the groundhog b.v this time? At Vic Swanson’s for Friday md Saturday, finest California □ranges at 50c per peck. Quality and Quanitity groceries it Joe Vaughn's. Mrs. LaPedman of Beatrice is here visiting her brother, Mr. Frank Martin. Pay cash, Pay less, for your groceries at Joe Vaughn’s. The weather man made another miserable attempt to raise—bliz 5ardy conditions Monday, but in continently failed. Daily sells for less. The various departments of our city schools celebrated the anni versary of Washington's birthday Monday with appropriate exer cises. Leave orders for John Mcl jnall Iray at either lumber yard, or at E‘ S. Taylor’s, or Phone Red 104 Stationery, tablets, and school supplies at Joe Vaughn’s. R. P. Starr was called to Omaha last Friday on legal business con nected with a damage case against a railroad for the injury to an em ploye. Daily sells foi less. If you want good. prompt draying, call on John McDon&ll. successor to L.C. McDonall. Phone Red 104 German -February 28. Sunday school at 10 o'clock; morning de votion at 10-30. Choir meets on Friday evening at 8 o’clock. F. W. Guth, Pastor. Daily sells for less. Little Wilbur Waite, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Waite, was turned from Platte Center after a month’s visit with relatives and friends. The big six was scoping snow on the mail carrier's route on Dis trict 19. A birthday party was given at Arthur Lorenz’s last Tuesday in honor of his birthday. Encourage Children 1:e Play. Play gives Joy, freedom, content ment and occupation. A child who plays thoroughly, with perseverance and determination, will be thorough and persevering in life Children are full of Imagination, which finds expression in their game* and play. A child's world is very real. Blocks, balls, water colors, scrap books, sands, spools or garden tools have a significance for him. Garden Soil That Lasts. So valuable is good date garden soil that the Arab will refuse $5,000 ;i:! acre for It. Through ages of cultiva tion it gives no indication of wear out. hence the exceptional veiu i placed upon it. I_ Better Ten Thousand Sneer*. Better to staLd 10.000 sneers than one abiding pang such as time could not abolish of bitter self reproach.— De Quincy. Eighteen Years In Cold Storsge. It is an axiom of good cooking that beef should be well bung before bet:: sent to the chef, but the owners of a certain bind-quarter which waa ex hibited at Smithfleld market In Lon don recently have surely gene to rath er extreme lengths in this matter, for they have kept It in cold storage for 18 years. When it was taken "off the ice." so to speak, and looked at by ex perts armed with nothing more formidable than magnifying glasses, they unanimously reported it was still sweet and sound, and apparently lacking but little In nutritive quali ties A piece was cut off and sent to the analysts so that they might ascertain by scientific methods exact ly what chemical changes, If any. it had undergone. The now famous joint was shipped lu 1896, and sold to a firm of military contractors at Malta, who retained it In their cold store there for experimental purposes until th * government tbok-eYer-'their-warefaou-* some months' wgo, wtre* the quart** was sent on to London. 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