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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.