LOUP CITY NORTHWESTERN
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ANOTHER HEAVY LOSS.
The democratic congress is re
sponsible for a heavy loss, both of
money and efficiency, in the work
of the office of public roads.
Three important phases of good
road development practically had
to be abandoned for a year be
cause the democrats failed to pass
before the close of the fiscal year
of iyi3, the agricultural appropria
tion bill, which provides money
for good roads.
The first loss fell upon the ex
perimental road work. A portion
of each year’s appropriation is de
j voted to experimental road build
ing in and near Washington, in
order to make scientific tests and
discover improved methods in road
construction. The offiicials could
not carry out these tests properly.
The delay in securing their ap
propriations caused an estimated
loss of about one-tenth of the fund,
with an even greater loss in efficien
cy because many of the experi
ments could not be made at all.
The second loss occured because
officials were unable to contract
for new work until the money was
actually appropriated. It is a
maxim in good road building that
all work undertaken must be com
pleted in the same summer. Con
gress failed to appropiate the
money until nearly the middle of
August. Before bids could be se
cured and contracts let, fall was
approaching and the roads would
not be completed. Machinery
either had to be moved to warmer
localities or remain idle, all of
which entered into the amount of
the bids. The new roads cost
more and their construction was
delayed for an entire season.
The third loss occured in con
nection with furnishing govern
ment road engineers to local com
munities to give advice in local
road building. Scores of these
experts were in Washington at the
time, ready to start for local points
as soon as congress passed the bill.
There was nothing they could do
here, and no money to send them
to the field.
When the appropriation bill was
finally passed, it was too late for
many of them to report to the
local communities to which they
had been assigned. Their efficien
cy was destroyed and their salaries
and expenses were a total loss dur
ing the weeks they were delayed
by the inaction of the democratic
congress.
DO TRIFLES ANNOY?
What a blessed thing it is that
we can forget! To-day’s troubles
look large, but a week hence they
will be forgotten and buried out
of sight. Says one writer: “If
you would keep a book and daily
put down the things that worry
you, and see what becomes of
them, it would benefit you' You
allow a thing to annoy you, just
as you allow a fly to settle on
you and plague you; and you lose
your temper and you justify your
self by lading thrown off your
balance by causes which you do
not trace out. But if you could
see. what it was that threw you off
your balance before breakfast, and
put it down in a little book, anP
follow it up and follow it out, and
ascertain what becomes of it, you
would see what a fool you were in
the matter.” The art of forget
ting is a blessed art, but the art
of overlooking is quite as import
ant. And if we should take time
to write down the origan, progress
and outcome of a few of our
troubles, it would make us so
ashamed <>f the fuss we make
over them, that we should be glad
to drop such things and bury
them at once in eternal forgetful
ness. Life is too short to be worn
out in. petty worries, frettings,
hatreds and vexations.
Though the people of this coun
try undoubtedly want a perman
ent, non-partisan tariff commission
they don’t want it appointed by a
democratic president who will se
lect a majority of its members
from among men who are opposed
to a scientific protective tariff.
They want a tariff commission
created by the friends of the pro
tection principle. They want it
to ascertain the facts and submit
those facts to congress for its
guidance in determining the
amount of duty necessary to give
the American wage earner ade
quate protection from the cheap
labor of foreign countries. They
want a tariff commission not sub
servient to the white house but
acting in its own judgement under
authority of law, definitely pre
scribing its powers and duties.
They want a commission governed
by law and under no obligations
to a democratic president who op
poses the principle of a protective
tariff.
The American dollar roles the
financial world—not through the
wisdom of the democratic law
makers but through the folly of
those European rulers who pre
cipitated the most ruinous war in
the world’s history. Our own
economic system is just as weak
at the foundation today as it was
in July, 1914. when the balance of
trade was running higher and
higher against us. We have been
saved from disaster, not by our
own action but by the extreme ne
cessities of our unfortunate cousins
across the Atlantic. Foolish,
foolish ineeed, the man who de
ludes himself with the idea that
such an economic structure can
endure beyond the day when its
foundation falls.
The New York Times Annalist
index number on wholesale prices
of 25 leading articles of food for
the second week in August, 1915,
was 145.17, compared with 139
for the second week in August,
1913, under republican law. The
index number for the year 1914
was 146.07 compared with 139.98
for the year 1913.
The balance in the general fund
of the national treasury on Aug
ust 23 was $55,760,889 as compared
with $126,663,944 on the corres
ponding date two years ago under
republican laws. The administra
tion spent $27,382,411 more than
it collected during the first 54days
of the present fiscal year.
A federal judgeship is vacant in
Nebraska. We don't exactly see
how this can be split fifty-fifty be
tween the Bryan and Hitchcock
factions.
INTERESTING FIGURES.
An interesting compilation has
been made as to the World’s debts
after the end of the first year of the
war. This compilation, published in
the Economic World, shows that
Great Britain’s debts at the close of
July, 1915, were more than double
the debt at the close of July, 1914:
Germany lias also practically doubled
its indebtedness in the year; Russia’s
is increased over one-half, and France
has increased its debt one-half during
the first year of the war. Neutral
countries have also added to their in
debtedness, owing to the necessity
existing for better preparedness on
their part, although the increase of
debts on the part of neutrals is in
consequential compared with the
enormous increase shown by the na
tions directly at war.
Farmers you will soon want
threshihg coal. We have a full line
of threshing coal. Our pinnacle
coal cannot be beat. We guarantee
our prices as low as the lowest.—
Taylor's Elevator.
Report of the Condition
OF THE
Rockville State Bank
Of Rockville. Charter No. 851. in the State
of Nebraska, at the close of business
Aug. 20. 1915:
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts__180.305 27
Overdrafts. . .. 192 78
Banking house, furniture and fixtures 2.500 00
Current expenses, taxes and int, paid 3.178 15
Cash Items...
Due from National and
State Banks__ *30.052 70
Checks and items of ex
change... 445 15
Currency.... 1.238 no
(iold coin... 1.895 00
Silver, nickels and cents.. 927 20— 40.358 05
Total. *132.534 25
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid in. * 7500 00
Surplus fund. 7.500 00
Undivided profits__ 5 483 58
Individual deposits sub
ject to check. *47.185 20
Demand certificatesof de
posit. 437 pi
Time certificates of de
. 63..XW 39
Certified checks.
Dueto itafionalaand state hanks 111.288 78
Depositor’s guarantee fund . 761 so
Total--. *132.534 25
State of Nebraska. 1
j-SS.
County of Howard. \
I. E. Dwehus. cashier of the al»ove namec
bank, do hereby swwar that tine above state
ment is a correct and true copy of the repor
made to the State Banking Board.
Attest: R 1)WEHUS
P. .1 eksex. Director.
Olof Nelson. Director.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2tith
day of Aug.. 1915. Chkis. Appel.
Iska1-1 Notary Public
Do Not Gripe
We hare a pleasant laxative that will
Just do what you want it to do.
We sell thousands of them and we
have never seen a better remedy for the
bowels. Sold only by us, 10 cents.
Wm. Graefe.
Third Annual Rural Route
Picnic and Parade
of Route 2 will be held at
LABOR DAY. SEPT. 6
All Business Houses Will Close From 1 to 4 P. M.
Parade, Headed by the Loup City Concert Band, leaves W.
0. Brown’s at 10 A. M. and arrive at Park at 11 A. M.
The Chenoweth Film Company Will Take Motion Pictures of the Parade
Basket Dinner at 11:30 for patrons of Route 2 only. The Ocean Wave will
run during this hour for the amusement of the children.
DANCE FROM 12 TO 1:00 O’CLOCK FOB ROUTE 2 PATRONS ONLY
LOOK! READ! COME! HELP!
BOOST FOR GOOD ROADS
Program For Rural Route Patrons and Public:
Admission—Rural Route patrons FREE. Public—Men and Boys over 12
years of age 25 cents. Ladies and children Free.
1:00 to 2:30 P. M., Baseball, Upper Wiggle Creek vs. Lower Wiggle
Creek. Winning team, $5.00: losing team, case of ice cold pop.
2:30 to 3 P. M., Wrestling match, Miller Bros., C. W. Conhiser, referee
3 to 3:30, Bronco Busting Exhibition, by Bert Kay.
\/ _ H _ Scene — Homestead. Time — Supper
f ears A£0 time. Company leaves. “An Owl Call.”
■.-.-..- “Indians.” The attack. Son escapes.
Daughter kidnaped by chief. Son returns with cowboys to rescue. Goodbye.
4:00 to 5:00, Vaudeville at Park for patrons of Route 2 only
DANCE FOR THE PUBLIC-Tickets 50c
There will be a dance for the general public, beginning at 8 o'clock and
lasting till midnight, at the park, proceeds to go to “Two Goods Roads Day”
fund, to be used on Route 2 in October.—H. S. Conger, Floor Manager.
[ At the Daddow Opera House (
SEPTEMBER
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COMMENCING TUESDAY
WHEN LOOKING FOR A SQUARE NEAL
DROP IN AT THE
Ideal Bakery & Restaurant
SOUTH SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE
Meals, Lunches and Short Orders at all
Houfs
We Also Carry a Full Line of Bakery Goods.
Careful Attention Given all Special Orders.
irder of Hearing and Notice on Pe
tition for Settlement of Account.
n the County Court of Sherman County. Ne
•rask a.
tate of Nebraska, f ..
herman County, f *'s
To the heirs, legatees. devisees and all per
ons interested in the estate of John Copper
mith, deceased:
On reading the petition of C. C. Carlson. Ad
ministrator praying a final settlement and
llowance of his account tiled in this court
n the 21st day of August. 1915. and for decree
f distribution of the residue of said estate,
it is hereby ordered that you and all persons
iterested in said matter may. and do. appear
t the county court to be held in and for said
imnty. on the 17th day of Sept. A. D. Hw5. at
) o'clock a. m.. to show cause, if any there
e. why the prayer of the petitioner should
ot lie granted, and that notice of the pendency
f said petition and the hearing thereof l»e
iven to all persons interested in said matter
y publishing a copy of this order in the Loup
City Northwestern a weekly newspaper
printed in said county, three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing.
Dated Aug. 26th. 191 :>.
^ (Seal) E. A. Smith, County Judge.
Notice to Creditors.
State of Nebraska, i .. In The County Court.
Sherman County, t s
In the matter of the estate of David Kay de
ceased.
Tt> THE CREDITORS OF SAID ESTATE:
You are hereby notified. That I willsit at the
County Court room In Loup City in said coun
ty. on the 18th day of March. 1018. to receive
and examine all claims attains! said estate,
with a view to their adjustment and allow,
ance. The time limited for the presentation
of claims atrainst said estate is the 18th day
of March. A- I>. 1016. and the time limited
for payment of debts is one year from the 2uth
day of August. 1015.
Witness my hand and the seal of said county
sourt, this 20th day of August 1915.
30-4 (seal.) E. A. Smith. County Judge.
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Owing to steady
advance in price
of photo materials
I am compelled
to make an ad
vance of 25 per
cent on some of
my grades.
ELSNER STUDIO
O. S. MASON
Plumbing and Heating
Tinwork. .
NEB. 1
LOUP CITY
; Business and professional Guide
J. E. SCOTT
LICENSED EMBALMER AND
FUNERAL DIRECOR
With Daily Furniture Co.
Phone Red 65 LOUP Cl Y
C. R. SWEETLAND
Plumber & Electrician
For good, clean and neat work
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Come and Get My Prices
WALTER THORNTON
Dray and Transfer
Call Lumber Yards or Taylor’s
Elevator
Phone Brown 43
J. E. Bowman, M. O.
Carrie L. Bowman, M. D.
BOWMAN & BOWMAN
Physicians and Surgeons
Phone 114
LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA
S. A. ALLEN
Dentist
Office Upstairs in the New State
Bank Building
LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA
W. L. MARCY
Dentist
Office: East Side Public Square
Phone Brown 116
LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA
E. T. BEUSHAUSEN
Licensed Embaimer
Funeral Director
Graduate in Anatomy, Sanitary Science
and Embalming of Barnes
Embalming School
New Elliptic Springs and Rubber Tired
Funeral Car. Calls Answered Day
or Night.* Phone No. 104
Lady Assistant In Connection
Houses For Rent
We have several de
sirable seven and eight
room houses for rent
at reasonable rentals.
FIRST TRUST COMPANY
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA.
The
marlin
’ft" Repeating: SEXiftc
Shoots all .22 short, .2? long and
.22 long-rifle cartridges; ex
cellent for rabbits, squir
rels, hawks, crows, foxes
and all small game
Here’* the beat-made
•22 riflo in the world!
and target work
up to 200 yards.
It s a take-down, convenient to carry and clean. The tool steel
working parts cannot wear out. Its Ivory Bead and Rocky Mountain
sights are the best set ever furnished on any .22. Has lever action_like a big
game rifle; has solid top and side ejection for safety and rapid accurate firing.
Beautiful case-hardened finish and superb build and balance. Price, round barrel,
$14.50; octagon, $10.00. 4ji Model 1S92, similar, but not take-down, prices, $12.15 up.
TTlar/Jyt firearms Co.,
42 Willow St.* New Haven, Coon.
Learn more about all Marlin repeaters. Send 3
stamps postage for the 128-page Marlin catalog.
THRESHING COAL
It is impossible to get a coal with more steam
makiny properties than these we handle. The price
is right, too. Here is what we have;
Rock Springs, Canon City and Juniper Nut, Old Ben Egg,
Niggarhead and Canon City Lump.
KEYSTONE LUMBER CO.
Yards ab Loup City, Ashton, Rockville, Schaupps and Arcadia
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