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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1915)
OLDEST PAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN SHERMAN COUNTY. THE PAPER THAT THE PEOPLE READ VOLUME XL LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. March, 4th 1916. Nl’MHKR 11 MEETS SISTER AFTER 30 YEARS D. L Adamson Rides From Seward on Same Train With Sister Whom He Has Hot Soon For Over Thirty Years NEITHER KNOWING OF OTHER’S PRESENCE Quite an interesting romance in real life occurred to Mr. D. L. Adamson of this city last Satur day with the most pleasant finales. Last Saturday he took the train at Seward, after an absence of some seven weeks at Dwight, Nebr., working for Ohlsen & Son on the Catholic church there, coming on to Lqup City, for an over-Sunday visit at home. On the same train was a lady from Creston. Iowa, a Mrs. Blakesley. who was bound also for Loup City, with her destination the D. L. Adamson home. Arriving in Lamp City, the lady passed up the nearest street to the home, while D. L. went around through the business section, making his home-coming a few moments delayed, the lady getting there first. Imagine, if you may. the surprise and aston ishment of Friend Adamson when ui>on reehing home he found his traveling compauion there and proving to be a sister whom he had not sen for thirty years. She however was known to Mrs. Adamson, who had viisted the sister in her Creston some two or three years ago. and together the two ladies planned a coup on the mystified and perplexed husband and brother on his arrival at the house. It was, however, a joyous reunion of brother and sister, who out of a large family of children were near the same age and played together as inseparable compan ions when little tots. Mrs. Blakes According to the Ord Quiz, a buch of gamblers at Burwell were rounded up the other night by the town marshal and held to the district court. According to the Quiz, the sheriff winked at that transgression of the law, and when the marshal stepped in for a few minutes and watched the game as a casual observer, as they sup posed, they kept right on. The result was unexpected. A few evnings after, while the marshal was fixing his fire, some one took a shot at him from the outside. He gave chase, but the would-be assassin escaped in the darkness. Life must be one round of pleas ure in that lLtle burg. Put two and two together and what do you find? A good reason why sale adver tising is done best through the newspapers is because that’s where the people look to find what's going on. When a man dies his relatives do not get out some bills containing the obitu ary—they give the facts to the newspaper. When the daughter gets married, Paw doesn’t print a bill and tack it up on the north east side of the livery stable—he has mother put it in the paper and the daughter files it away in her sf'rap book to show the grandchil dren forty years from now. The newspaper is the place where folks go to find out what other folks are doing or are going to do, or ought to do.—Fairbury Journal. Wm. Larsen of the Merc. Co. is getting out a mercantile rating book at the Times office, we un derstand. Some few years ago, such a rating book was gotten out to show the commercial standing of patrons of the business houses, and this, we understand, is along the same lines. To the man who has good rating such a record can cause no uneasiness, but to the one who fails to pay his his bills promptly it is—just what Gen. Sherman called war. ley returned to her Creston home Tuesday morning of this week, Mr. Adamson being able to ac company her as far as Seward, he returning to his work at Dwight, but not this time as before in the title roles of strangers. At Lincoln last week Tuesday evening Joe Stecher defeated Tay lor, the Canuck champion heavy weight, in two straight falls. 31 and 3 minutes respectively. Tay lor frankly admitted the superior ability of the Dodge county boy, but wants another try in the fu ture on Canadian soil. Stecher and Westergard will probably come together at either Fremont of Lincoln the latter part of this month, arrangements be ing perfected to that end by their managers. Following that Joe is to take on Cutler at one of these points, Stecbers friends insisting one of the "‘rassles” shall be staged at home. Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Main re ceived last Friday the announce ment of the marriage at Detroit, Minn., Feb. 17, of Miss Carrie Douglas to Frederick L. Day, the wedded couple to make their home in that city. The bride will be remembered as formerly of this city, where she taught in the ru ral schools of the county, and for a time was hello girl at the cen tral office. She is a sister of Jno. Douglas, who moved from hereto Minnesota a few years ago. LIKE OLD TIME PIONEERING Tony Erazim of Ravenna Writea En tertainingly of Recent Sterna. LUCKY THE WEATHER WAS MILI. In enclosing a couple of years’ subscription to the Northwestern the other day, our friend, Anton Erazim, at Ravenna, writes thus entertainingly: “Dear Friend Burleigh: Pardon me for not be ing more prompt, as no doubt you know what it is to be a stoct man in such a weather as we have had in this locality this winter. Driv ing out to my ranch from town every day, which is three and a a half miles out from house to house, I tell you the hired man and I experienced regular old-time pioneering, going through six feet of snow drifts, scooping out three feet depth of a path and allowing the horse to walk on the other three feet below with tne buggy trailing behind on top of the drifts while we walked over the same to our destination, finding my cattle regular heroes, standing up on top of snow drifts as high as the roofs of their sheds, which were filled with snow inside, through which the cattle had pushed their way to the level of the roof and faced the blizzard. I think we were fortunate that it was not so cold as I have seen it during for i mer blizzards in the early eighties or there would have been awful loss to our state. Everything is getting better now, except the roads, and they are certainly a fright. However, I think a few days of nice weather will improve them and we will be happy again. ! With best regards for yOo, your family and all my friends. I am yours, truly.” Harry Hinman reported his | home turned into a hospital the j past number of days, three or ; four of his children being on the , sick list. Route Patrons Take Exceptions to Article We received a pleasant call on Monday of this week from Mr. A. F. Kuhn of the west side, who was in the city on business mat ters. Mr. Kuhn, referring to the article in last week’s Northwestern from the pen of Postmaster Beush ausen regarding the keeping open of the carrier routes during the late tempestuous season, expressed some indignation of himself and other patrons on Route one over its tone and the evident lack of understanding of the conditions as they existed at the time. Had he been out along the route and seen the difficulties farmers had to con tend with in caring for their stock he would have been a little more temperate in his tone and not so severe in his arraignment of the farmers along the routes, and left a far better impression, to say the least. And Mr. Kuhn only voices a large number of route patrons who feel the same way. Loup City will have another lecture course this ceming winter, Revs. Slocumb, Steen and Dunn, with Prof. Burwell. having signed up with the Britt Lycem Bureau of Lincoln for their “A” (best and highest) course. There will be five numbers, as follows: Mau pin Family Quintette; Henry C. Clark, lecturer; Keyo Lui Inui, the Jananese lecturer; Hawkeye Glee Club, and Harrell, magician. This is said to be a very much higher priced and better course in every way. It is to start about the first of October. The alleged gambling case men tioned last week as occupying the center of gravitation for court loungers, came to an inglorious end Thursday morning, when County Judge Smith took the bull . by the horns and threw the whole r thing out of court, the complaint failing to establish a case. , Mr. LaPedman of Wymore was , here last week for a few days vis ; iting his brother-in-law, Mr. F. 5 Martin, and family, joining Mrs. > j LaPedman, who had preceded | him a few days. The K. of P.’s will present the “Three Twins,” a 3-aet comedy drama, March 19. It is full of l*ep and merry chasers. Remem | he the date. About 15 people in the cast, all beautiful. More next week. K. af P.s alwayes give i more than your money’s worth. Everybody invited. Admission: five to 12 years, 25c; adults, 36c: reserved seats, 50c. A lady who sat down on a piece J of ice in front of the Northwest ern office during the late slippery period, remarked that it always hurt her dignity to fall. Those who saw her fall stand willing to be that her dignity is black and blue to this day. S. N. Criss went to the St. Jo seph hospital last week Tuesday, where he was operated upon for hernia the following day, passing through the ordeal finely. A let ter received from him Tuesday says he is getting along the best in the world. Mrs. Chas. J. Peterson and lit* tie son went to Omaha Tuesday to visit relatives a wesk ai>d at tend the Wilms-Jensen wedding. HAVE YOU AN ANSWER READY Writer Wants to Know if Slang is Es sential in Preaching Word of God. SEEMS TO BE MOST SUCCESSFUL. Moody not purposely slangy but by education. Sam Small, Billy Sunday ami other evange lists seem to have won their suc cess and fame as evengelists by theic use of the vernacular of the slums. Other evangelists are clean in the use of the King’s En glish, have succeeded, but none of them seem to have got hold of the public mind a-- the slangy ones do. What is the reason? Surely the answer is not that the people love dirty Engl/sh, in preference to the pure use of words. Neither is it true that the language of the slums is better calculated to ex press the teaching of a pure Christ than the language of good society. But the fact remains that the man with a vile tongue seems to sieze upon the hearts of men more readily than the man of pure lips. There must be a reason for it. Have you the answer? The only answer that approaches satisfaction in the mind of the writer is that people are tired of the stilted language of the pulpit and the old time Christian. It smacks of hyprc craisy or at least of insincerity and we are therefore quickly drawn to a voice that gets away from the style of si>eech that is suggestive of deceit. As the years pass and we hear and note the common language of the pious our thoughts are instinctively turned away and our yearning is for the street or some less holy place. If slang is the popular protest against a stilted form of religious expression, let us for goodness sake reform our style of religious speech and save the awful penalty of descending to slang. -Ex. C. W. Ling and'family left for Hampton, Iowa. Tuesday noon of this week where they will make their future home. Our people, while regretting their departure, will follow them with best wishes. "The Northwestern will keep them posted on new from here. Poisoned Rolls at Church Festival Alma. Neb., Feb. 24.—One per son is dead, another is reported tonight to be dying, and thirty are seriously ill, as a result of eating rolls sold at a church festi val held here several days ago. Some rat poison, it is believed, accidentally became mixed with the flour from which the rolls were made. A. A. Billings, cashier of the Alma State bank, died last night after being taken severely ill from the time of eating the rolls. The life of Lola Hagg, daughter of a merchant, is de spaired of. Doctors believe, the ! others will recover. At Broken Bow last Friday, ac cording to a dispatch in the State Journal, before Judge Ford in county court, R. H. Mathew, an attorney from Loup City, sued Benjamin and Marie Snyder, an aged couple living in Custer coun ty, for alleged abstractor’s bills and attorney’s fees. The case had to do with the trading of Loup City property by the Snyders for a section of land in Custer coun ty. Mrs. Snyder denied liability for the acts of her husband and Snyder, who is over eighty years of age, denied that he had ever employed Mathew in any capaci ty. The sum involved was $107, and the court allowed Mathew $93 and dismissed the action against Mrs. Snyder. UNAPPRECIATED NEWSPAPER jExdiangt Writes Slowing Article in Defence ef Country Papers. IT STANDS FOR PR06RESS The weekly newspaper pro motes the interests of the town in which it is published to such an extent that it becomes impos sible t° plaee an estimate upon its worth. There is no enterprise that does so much for the corpo ration or the individual citizen as the paj*er. It stands opposed to the town knocker, the town kick er, the town fanatic and the town drone. It stands for action as against dry rot It stands for progress as against stagnation. It is ever ready to combat the schemes of visionaries and as ever ready to aid the constructive plans of the wise and level-headed citi zens. It is for the up-building of! the community. The paper has! not yet come into its own however; liecan.se it is never appreciated to the extent yf its worth by the people at large. Yet when battles a re to be fought for town or coun ty a rush is made to the news' paper office always to find the loyal editor ready, usually with out hope of reward. Many other enterprises are encouraged by a lion us, but rarely is the news paper offered any such help and still more rarely it is given the support it is entitled to. Com* munities frequently lose sight of their real benefactor when they fail to recognize the weekly journ al as such. The editor and his paper stand as the bulwarks of of defense against the attacks of evil designing schemes affecting the good of the indiridtral or the town. For these and other reasons the newspapers of the town and county should receive the support of the public at large in a very liberal degree, for it is really the most important busi ness of the community.—Ex WOMAN’S CLUB HOLD RECEPTION Annual Reception of Woman’s Unity Club Held in Honor of Lady Teachers of Loup City Schools. PR. CECIL F. CHARLTON DELIVERS ADDRESS. The Woman's Unity Club held its annual reception to the lady teachers of our schools last Sat urday afternoon at the home of Mrs. S. N. Sweetland. In spite of the snow storm most of the mem bers were present. The program was in honor of four February birthdays: Wash ington, Lincoln. Longfellow, and Lowell. Large pictures of these distinguished men were placed a round the room. Souvenir programs, having a picture of the Lincoln Monument on our state capitol grounds, were very much prized by each one. The duet by Mrs. Henry and Mrs. Slocum was so much apprec iated that the company insisted on an enchore. The ladies felt especially favor-! ed by the excellent talk on Mex ico by Dr. Cecil F. Charlton. It combined, as he said, information ; both first and second band. He! had an assortment of hand-work J by the Mexican women both! weaving and drawn work. Before reciting, “The Vision of Sir Launfal’' Mrs. Burwell gave a short sketch of the tradition on which it is founded. She said, “It is one of Lowells choicest gems and may be likened to the opal so refined is its beauty, j To illustrate another phase of Lowell’s work Mrs. John Leining er gave ‘‘The Courtin,” a bright' selection from The Bigelow Pa-! pers, that gives a choice bit of of New England dialect. Three young ladies in costume Warren Miller Defeated bv Clarence Eckland Lincoln News, Feb. 25: Up at Loup City the wrestling fans have been touting a home boy. Warren Miller, as the coming champion heavyweight “rassler” and as a grapple r competent to take the measure of JoeStecher, the Dodge county boy. But there is only grief today in Loup City, for Mil er wsis defeated last night at Ans ey, Neb., by Clarence Eklund, the Canadian light heavy. Miller outweighed Eklund at least thirty pounds, but the Canadian ath lete’s superior skill enabled him to flop the pride of Loup City in straight falls. Miller stuck it out for an hour and thirty-six min utes, when Ecklund secured a front body scissors and half nel son and pinned his husky oppo nent to the pad. The second fall was oxer in seven minutes. Miller being so exhausted from his pre vious efforts that Ecklund was the easiest sort of winner. Another good Ford story is told and this time on Pete Ogle. As the story goes, Pe,e took a party out into the country the other day in one of his Fords. Twelve miles frarn town, the car stopped and Pete got out and could not find the trouble till upon lifting the hood he found he had left the en gine back in the garage, and tne Ford had traveled twelve miles on its reputation. Another unadulterated and most pleasurable snow storm visited us last Friday night and Saturday-. Thanks; especially since we have been so little blessed that way the past winter. A baby girl was born early last Sunday morning, Feb. 28, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Chaffee. Congratulations to the happy young couple over their first born. Herman Houdescheldt and fam ily moved to Boelus last Saturday where he has a job as section fore man. May good fortune attend them. Fred Winkleman’s little boy is reported on the sick list. The coming city election is lia ble to develop into a lively scrap before it ends, esoetially on may or and city clerk. This week petitions were filed for I)r. S. A. Allen for mayor and Lou Schwan er for clerk, while former peti tions were filed, as before pub dished, for Dr. Chase for mayor and Pete Rowe for clerk. Another and ’steenth spasmod ical attempt at blizzardy condi tions Tuesday night and yesterday, with plenty of snow and blow at tachments—not love affairs by a long shot. Let ’er bliz; we're here first, and getting used to it. At the stated meeting of the Modern Woodmen last week, A. M. Lewis was installed as venera ble consul; S. F. Reynolds, bank er, and Alfred Anderson. I. W., elected to till vacancies. Rev. Shepherd of Gothenberg filled the Presbyterian pulpit last Sunday, morning and evening, in the absence of the pastor. The entire family of Frank Pruss of Oak Creek has been on the sick list of late, but are mend ing slowly. represented Longfellow's best known characters—Priscilla, Miss Fawthrop; Minnehaha, Miss Ade line Leininger, and Evangeline. Miss Madge Holmes. This rmm l>er was a very pleasing variation in the program. The ladies then gave quotations from most of the best known of Longfellow's jtoems. The ladies wish to express their appreciation of Mrs. BurwelPs work as leader, and especially to thank the committee on refresh ments, also to say that each one feels that the success of the after noon was due, in a large measure, to Mrs. Sweetland's gracious hos i a happy group that sep arated in the gloaming. The world seemed better and brighter and larger for the association with each other, and the uplift from the inspiring words and liv<ss of the great men commemorated. Popular West-Side Couple Married A quiet little home wedding, with only the immediate relatives present occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Parsley in Harrison u«fnshi.p, at hugh oooa on Wednesday of this week, Mar. 3, 1915, when their only daughter, Winnifred, was united in wedlock to Mr. Ernest J. Garnett of Litch field, the Rev. E. F. Wagner of the U. B. church officiating. The bride is the only child and charm ing daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Parsley, and is highly esteemed by her large circle of friends. The groom is one of the enterprising and progressive young farmers of the west side, and- also esteemed by a large circle of friends. The ceremony was followed by a splen did dinner prepared by the moth er of the bride, after which the happy pair departed for Omaha anti other points east on a short honeymoon trip. Upon their re turn. they will be at home on the farm of the bride’s parents, where the groom will assist Mr. Parsley in working Jhe farm the coming year. The Northwestern joins with all friends of the new home makers in wishing them a long, happy and prosjierous married life. The annual meeting of the Cem etery Aid Society will meet at the Hotel Frederick Friday afternoon, March 12th. It is hoped that all interested will be there* Mrs. Viola Odendahl, president. Presbyterian—President Crone of Hastings college preac hes morn ing and evening. The pastor will be home the last of the week. Evangelistic services will begin Sunday, the 14. Rev. Walter E. Spoonts of Jacksonville, Ills., a man of great ability, will do the l preaching. F urther announce ment next week. Methodist— Dist. Supt. I>r. G. W. Isham will held the second and third quarterly conference on Saturday evening, March 6th, at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. Isham will also preach both morning and evening on Sunday, the 7th. Baptist—Morning subject, ‘‘Not Very Far Away.'* B. Y. P. U. at 6:30, subject, “How to make this a happier world.” 7:30, song and gospel service. You an; cor dially invited to all these services. German—Services March 7 at Ashton 10 a. m.; English sei-vices at 10:45. Everybody welcome.
