\ A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN _ ___ VOLUME XXXIV LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1915. NUMBER 21 UNITY CLUB STARTS ACTIVE CAMPAIGN Ladies’ Club Endeavoring to Raise Fund to Provide Pleasure For Young Folks of Loup City—Has Endorse ment of the Commercial Club. The ladies of the Unity club are endeavoring to raise sufficient funds for a club for young men and others, to be conducted on the Y. M. C. A. plan. The running expenses of the club, it is estimat ed, will be in the neighborhood of $1200 a year, of which $700 is al ready subscribed. The ladies have had the subscription paper in i circulation only a few days, and it is thought the necessary sum can be secured by a few more days work. The new club will be called the “Community club” unless it is decided to change the name at some future time. This is a very worthy cause and may be the nucleus of several other worthy enterprises needed in this city. We want to thank the school children for their contribution amounting to $10.50. So many of the little ones brought a penny or a nickel to help the little children of Belgium. This will help them to have a more personal interest in the important history now be ing made. The reflex benefit to the willing and cheerful giver is the greatest good. The committee on yard inspec tion went around two weeks ago, and children in every part of the town are busy making flowerbeds and raking alleys. Please don't forget to dig up dandelions, this is more important than some of the other work. If the plant is cut off about an inch below the crown it will not grow again. A very good meeting was held at Mrs. Hansel’s last Thursday afternoon. The club is working up some very important plans for the near future. The study for for the day was on modern litera ture. Harold Bell Wright’s book, The Eyes of the World, was re viewed. A paper by Miss Fav throp was very much appreciated. After the long full afternoon the dainty refreshments served by the hostess was very welcome. * WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST Issued by the U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington, l). C., for the week beginning Wednesday, May 12, 1915. For Upper Mississippi Valley and Plains States:—Generally fair weather is indicated during the week, except that local showers are indicated early in the week over the extreme Northwest. Tem peratures will be moderate with a rise Wednesday over the extreme Northwest. SOMETHING WRONG. We received a letter from an out of town subscriber some days ago requesting that we discontinue sending him The Northwestern. He said that he did not think he was getting his money’s worth, but was not explicit on that point. We think the paper is worth the money it sells for. It is worth the price for the reading matter it con tains: worth the price as a guide to live merchants who are striving to better their town and county. If a man does not care to read it, he can still get his money's worth. Each issue contains twenty-two and one half square feet of good print paper, which is useful in many ways, such as shelf-covers, carpet papers, lining for chicken coops, and to cover up plants to protect them from the early frost. Prob ably there are other ways in which a county paper can be put to use so a man can get more than his money’s worth out of it, if he only exercises a little ingennity. LOUP CITY FLOUR Why buy Flour shipped here by outside mills when you can get Loup City White Satin Flour for less money, and every sack guaranteed. All dealers handle our flour. LOUP CITY MILL &LIGHT CO. Nyal Store Soda Fountain The ideal meeting place for those who “know.” Only the purest drinks and ices are served. Swanson & Lofholm Loup City, Nebrasks I——i---i-- - M—M—■rimi^iii m -,.. ,■». ■'-* -1- «-** J—, , ■--■---- -- ^- - SPRINGTIME ! COUNCIL HOLDS MEETING City Dads Will Make Trip to Look Over Sewer Construction. The city council met in special sesssion Monday evening to look into the sewer proposition. The question was discussed at con siderable length and it was finally decided that a personally conduct ed investigation of sewers in neigh boring towns would help the board determine ilpon what policy to j pursue here in the matter. It was decided that the board go to St. Paul in a body today (Thursday) morn ing to look over the sewer system completed there, return to Loup City for dinner and then go to Ra venna, where k sewer is under construction. These personally con ducted investigations, the North western believes, is a good stroke of business policy. The citizens of Loup City are in favor of the sewer, and the mayor and city council are determined that it be as complete and serviceable as pos sible, and that no money be use lessly expended to attain that re sult. WHO PAYS THE FIDDLER? ' Who pays the cost of advertis ing? Five years ago a certain automobile manufacturer’s output was a few thousand cars which he sold for about one thousand dollars each. During the present season he is building more than two hun dred thousand cars which are vast ly better than the former output, and his price for them is less than five hundred dollars each. Exten sive advertising has brought this vast number of buyers, thus en abling him to equip an enormous factory where cars in such large numbers can be turned out much more cheaply. The same condition is found in practically all lines of business. Advertising reduces the cost to the consumer and improves the quality because of the large volume of sales it brings. In buying ad vertised goods you not only get the best value for the money, but a reliable manufacturer’s guaran tee of “satisfaction or money re funded.”—Plainfield, N. J., Press. START ON LONG TRIP. Mr. and Mrs. L. Hansen left for Los Angeles, California, yesterday morning where they will visit a short time with friends. They will visit the exposition at San Diego and San Francisco before returning. Treatment for Cutworms. Among the familiar pests which the experienced gardener expects to meet this season, if he has not already, are the various kinds of cutworms. One of the remedies suggested by the college of agri culture is the poisoned bran mash. To make it, mix 20 parts dry bran to one part Paris green; and the juice and chopped pulp and peel of orange or lemon fruits to give per ceptible flavor or odor and enough water to make a thoroughly dampened mash. A tablespoonful of the mixture may be placed near the bases of the plants. In the small garden it may often be easier to pick and destroy worms or brush them into a pan of oil and , water than to poison them. Clean culture, of course, is important. / SENIOR CLASS ENTERTAINED. M iss Eva Watts entertained the 1 senior class of\1915 at her home north of town last Thursday even ing. They started Wednesday evening but were caught in a heavy rain a short distance from town, but tlie.v are a jolly bunch and could be heard singing even though it was raining pitchforks, for it takes more than rain to stop this lively bunch of seniors. The evening was spent in playing inter esting games, all departing at a late hour, declaring it a time they will never forget. The trip out and back was made in a large hay rack, which is a very popular method of traveling by the young people. NOTICE. The public gatherings of com mencement week at Loup City, will be as follows: May 2d, baccalaureate sermon. May 24, eighth grade gradua tion. May 25, high school commence ment exercises. All these events will take place at the opera house. Admission free. When you want better shoes for less nionev, try L. C. Weaver, at Rockville. Our motto, (Quick sales and small protit.), ' 1" ^ What kind of a hat to buy tUY hats that have a style and individu ality that is all their j own. Hats from this I shop can be readily distinguished on ac- I count of thieir disctinctive- j ness and the chic appearance of the trimming. No need of \ having an unstylish and unbe coming hat when our hats can 1 be bought so reasonable. 1 m $1 and up The Busy Bee Hat Shop South Side of Square L- - 1 LOUP CITY WALLOPED Loup City Team Makes Costly Errors and Is Defeated. Friday afternoon Ravenna came over and played the return game with the high school here. It was a lierce game from start to finish. Ravenna majle most of their scores on errors. The trouble was with Bunnie who looked good only at times. This is a very unusual failing with him. Pug played about the same, being .afraid of the ball sometimes, and sometimes his feet slipped out from under him. Pig tried to pull off a grand stand, but instead pulled off a bonehead. Woten through his unusual activity did very well. The rest of the team did real well except Milo. His mother was in the grand stand. Old Sauerkraut was the star on the diamond; al though he had two errors chalked up against him, he chopped out seventeen men. The final score was 6 to 4 and of course these two extra scores were blamed on the pitcher. Loup City could have a very good team if they only would practice. A SMART MACHINE. Always progressive, and keep ing right up with the advancement of this day and age, and alert for any improvement that is really an improvement in every sense of the word, the First National "Bank in stalled, this week, one of the latest improved Burroughs posting ma chines. This machine combines direct subtraction and addition, is used as a regular adding machine for adding, subtracting and also as a posting machine. The machine does the following: prints and adds the old balance, prints and subtracts the checks, prints and adds the deposits. The new, balance is automatical ly computed and over drafts are instantly detected and marked. The old and new balances are handled in one run, when proving, and the machine is available for regular adding in any emergency. It is mechanically perfect and im possible for it to make a mistake if handled correctly. Besides the above features the machine also automatically prints the dates. All the ledger work in the bank is now done on this machine, elimi nating a great amount of pen and ink work, whichisslowandtedious. Special loose-leaf ledgers were purchased with the machine, the sheets being made the right size for utility and convenience. The new machine is more than human, for it cannot-make mistakes. There is no perfect happiness. The joyous child, the blushing bride, the dying man who sees the brighter way open before, often times seem supremely happy. The mirage is dispelled as the sun goes down and the shadows creep across the way. Man is of the earth earthly, and from the eaith springs the tares and the wheat. A woman in a Kansas town re cently gave a “white elephant” party, to which each of her eighteen guests was required to “bring something for which she had no use, but couldn’t well dis Itense with.” Eleven of the eighteen brought their husbands. DELEGATES ATTEND ST. PAUL MEETING i Representatives of Middle Loup Commercial Clubs Meet at Saintly City and Make Plans For New Automo bile Route—Will Benefit Loup City. ____ About fifty delegates from towns n the Middle Loup river valley attended a good roads convention at St. Paul on Monday of this week. Delegates from Loup City were E G Taylor, Win. Larson and O. F. Peterson. The convention was called by officers of the Central Nebraska, Loup river, Black Hills and Omaha route, and was for the I purpose of arranging to build an | auto road from Sargent to (irand j Island, a distance of about one I hundred miles. The new road was named the Grand Island and Middle Loup auto road, and will be known as I the road without a hill, following the Middle Loup river the entire distance. One fair sized hill is now on this road, which will be J cut down and levelled in order to make the road one long, level j stretch. Commercial clubs in the differ ent towns in this section of the state are now bodsting the good roads movement, the Loup City commerdial club holding a meeting 5 a week ago last night for the pur pose of aiding this movement. The travel through a country goes a long wav towards its de-' velopment and upbuilding. A county with poor roads is general ly a poor place in which to live, ■ as all travel avoids the poor roads and the places that are exhibited to travelers through the medium I of good roads receives the benefit [of a great amount of free adver tising that the avoided places do ,H»t get. Resides the benefits men tioned above, good roads help the pcopie who live in a community, which is by no means a secondary consideration. President Gall i way, of the commercial club rand the members of the committee ap pointed by the dub to attend the convention at S. Paul, arc certain ly to be commended for the prompt action they have taken in this matter and the way the proposition is being pushed towards an ideal culmination. , DEATH ENTERS HOME. The three weeks old baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Reed, of Greeley, died Friday morning at their home at Greele.v. The funer al was held at Loup City, Satur day. at the home of Mrs. Reed's father. Mr. I. C. Conger, conduct ed by Rev. Slocumb and interment was made in Evergreen cemetery. The many friendsof Mr. and Mrs. Reed sympathize deeply with them in their bereavement. Card of Thanks. \\ e \v