Loup City Northwestern
A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN
VOLUME XXXIV.
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1915.
NUMBER 44
THE LATE WAR STORY
The following article appeared in
some of the dailies recently, and while
there is probably nothing to it, it is
neverthless, interesting reading:
PARIS, France.—The subjoined
curious communication, written on
thick official-looking folio paper
without any indication of its origin,
has been delivered by messenger at
the office of the Agence Havas, the
principal news agency in France:
"THE UNITED STATES AS THE
PRIZE FOR SETTLEMENT OF
THE PRESENT EURO
PEAN CONFLICT.
“It is stated on high authority that
suggestions have been made in the
diplomatic circles of European chan
celleries declaring that the easiest so
lution and the one most acceptable
to all the warring nations would be
the participation among them of the
United States of America. The United
States of America are a most inviting
prize as compensation for the sacri
fices rendered by these nations, and
an arrangement on the basis of the
respective relations of the different
nations is surprisingly practicable.
"So far from being a visionary
scheme for the solution of this great
world conflict, the fact is only too ap
parent that only a small part of the
effort expended in the sanguinary
struggle, now raging, would have suf
ficed to satisfy all nations in their
respective ambitions.
"A noted diplomatic declared his
surprise, that this idea of the parti
tion of the United States had not
emerged sooner, because the land is
so largely made up of the constituen
cy of all the warring nations.
“The tentative plan to satisfy thus
the national ambitions of the Euro
pean countries at war, instead of
prolonging the internicene struggle,
is broadly outlined as follows:
“Great Britian is to occupy New
England, Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida.
“France is to get the French parts
of Eastern Canada and the states of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Ar
kansas, Tennessee and Kentucky..
“Germany is to occupy the states of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi
ana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa,
“Japan is to take th.e Pacific coast;,
the state of Oregon, Upper and Lower
California.
“Mexico is to be compensated for
Lower California by ceding to it Ari
zona, New Mexico and part of Texas.
“Russia will receive Alaska.
“The Panama canal will be declared
free, whilst the western states. North
and South Dakota, Nebraska, Okla
homa, Washington, Montana, Wyoming
Idaho, Utah and Colorado will be con
solidated into an imperial crown-do
main of the German empire.
“Though these ‘satisfactions’ are to
be acquired in a concerted campaign,
each of the several nations is to effect
the occupation of its own alloted ter
ritory.
“Thus, it is claimed, would best be
met the rights and interests of the
different nations of old Europe, as it
would safeguard their nationals under
their respective flags.
“Whatever be said about this bold
solution it should be appreciated that
in many ways it is more feasible than
the three successive partitions of Pol
land, which nevertheless are historic
facts.
“Truth is sometimes stranger than
fiction. This alleged tentative under
standing of the powers at -war may be
relegated to imaginative fiction, but
it is surely not stranger than the sober
truth, and it might easily take its
form.” .
WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST.
Issued by the U. S. Weather Bureau.
Washington, D. C., for the week begin
ning Wednesday, October 20, 1915.
For Plains States and Upper Mississ
ippi Valley: With the exception of lo
cal rains Wednesday or Wednesday
night in the upper Mississippi and
lower Missouri valleys, the weather
will be generally fair during the week,
although unsettled weather is again
probable over the extreme northwest
toward the end of the week. It will
be somewhat cooler Wednesday in the
northwest, and on Thursday in the up
per Mississippi valley.
FOR SALE.
Improved stock farm consisting of
160 acres. Good bearing orchard, two
houses, barn 40x60, and plenty of good
water. Only one-half mile to school.
Located on sections 1 and 12, 14-16, six
miles northeast of Litchfield. This
place is a bargain and must be sold
at once. Inquire of C. H. Wall, Hen
derson, Neb. *41-2
ESTRAYED.
Three head of yearling steers and
one yearling Hereford bull.
H. A. JUNG.
FOR SALE.
Five or six acres of land, in alfalfa,
fenced chicken tight. For terms and
particulars see Alfred Anderson.
O. F. Peterson arrived home last
evening from Rochester, Minnesota,
where he had accompanied Mrs. Peter
son to the hospital v.-here _she was
operated on for the removal of her
tonsils. Mrs. Petersonstopped off in
Omaha to attend the Rebekah con
vention.
The famous tale of a woman’s faith,
“Tess of the Storm Country,” will be
shown at the Daddow opera house,
Thursday evening, October 28. Mary
Pickford, famous movie actress, who
draws a salary of $104,000 a year,
plays the lead part in this highly in
teresting story.
Mrs. S. E. Thrasher and Grandma
Reiman went to Arcadia last night
to visit with relatives and friends.
Carl Bauman was a passenger to Ar
cadia last night to visit with friends,
some medical treatment done etaoe
CLOAKS
Most complete line
ever shown in Loup
City. Prices from
$8 to $15
The Ladies of Loup City
and vicinity are tnvited to
call and see these Cloaks.
All the new colors and styles.
Hub Clothing Store
VICTOR VIENER, Proprietor.
UNSINKASLE
ODD BITS OF NEWS.
Hailey, Ind.,—Unable to speak and
tell how the accident happened. Miss
Lucilla Guita, 1" years old, is re
covering from an operation required
for the removal of a fork which she
swallowed. It is believed she was
examining her throat with the fork
when it slipped from her hand.
Oilton, Okla.,—Mrs. F. Tanner of
this place believes she is the only
woman in the country who conducts
a pool hall. She says under the con
duct of women, such places should
become clean, high-standard places
of amusement.
Anahuac, Texas.—Mrs. Fritz Otter
arose in the night to raise a window.
Something, like a snake, touched her
neck. When she aroused other mem
bers of the family, they found the
snake 'coiled comfortably around her
neck.
Los Angeles, Cal.,—Girls have you
caught on to the new fads? One is
a peace ring, made of silver with a
dove and an olive branch enameled
on it. The other is a “sweetheart”
ring, in which the face of the girl’s
best beau is worn.
Vandalia, 111.—Six hours after she
had been pronounced dead by the
family physicitn, Mrs. Lydia Adams,
70 yef 3 old, arose, walked into the
adjoining room and greeted the chief
mourners.
Plainview, 111.—An ingenious farm
er attached a rubber hose to the ex
haust of an automobile, drove through
his fields and inserted the hose into
every gopher hole he found. Every
gopher was killed. The farmer then
inserted the hose into rat holes,
turned on the engine and the rodents
have disappeared.
Jersey Shore, Pa.—Jane Reachard,
19 years old. was taken with a fit of
laughing while listening to a funny
story told by a friend. She laughed
for three hours and it wTas necessary
to put her under the care of a
physician.
Sioux Falls, S. D.—Deliah Wyant,
16, is dead here because she laughed.
She began laughing while eating peas,
and a pea lodged in her bronchial
tube, choking her to death.
PUBLIC SALE
Wm. T. Aufrecht will hold a public
sale on the northwest 30-16-15, 9 miles
northwest of Loup City on Thursday,
November 4th, and sell 25 head of
horses and mules, 53 head of cattle,
55 hogs and some farm machinery.
Sale commeiffces at 10 o’clock. J. G.
Pageler is the auctioneer and C. C.
Carlsen, clerk.
AN UNIQUE SALE.
The entire last page of The
Northwestern is taken up this week
by the ad of the Rexall Store, William
Graefe, proprietor, advertising a one
cent sale.
It is a sale where you buy an item
at the regular price—then another
item of the same kind for one cent. As
an illustration: The standard price
of Rexall tooth paste is 25c. You buy
a tube at this price and by paying one
cent more, or 26 cents, you get two
tubes. Every article in this sale is
a high class standard piece of mer
chandise—just the same as they have
sold you every day at regular prices,
and have sold you for years.
This sale was developed by the
United Drug company as an advertis
ing plan. Rather than spend large
sums of money in other ways to con
vince customers of the merit of these
goods they are ' spending it on this
sale in permitting the Rexall Store to
sell a full size package of high stand
ard merchandise for one cent. It costs
money to get new customers and the
loss taken on this sale they consider
well spent if the goods please.
At this sale many, other goods in
addition to the Rexall line will be
sold for one cent, such as candy,
j cigars, stationery, pens, etc. For full
information read the ad on page
I eight
"SAFETY FIRST”
LESSENS LIFE LOSS
The Union Pacific railroad system
will be given an absolutely clean bill
on ‘‘Passengers Killed” during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, in
the report of the Interstate Com
merce commission which will soon be
issued. And the number of passen
gers injured, for the same period, will
show almost negligible in the Com
mission’s report.
Two years ago the Union Pacific
system adopted a motto of “Safety
First.” Every employee, regardless of
his position, was enliste-s. :n the work
of making the Union Pacific not only
as safe as any other system in the
country, but ABSOLUTELY safe for
the traveling public as well as for the
employees.
The clean bill which the Interstate
Commerce commission’s report will
show is the result of that “safety"
campaign.
Not one passenger was killed on
the entire Union Pacific system, from
end to end, main line and branch line,
during the last fiscal year. In that
period 8,951,364 passengers entrusted
themselves on the thousands of miles
of branch roads of Union Pacific, and
upon the main line trains from Omaha
to Portland. Seattle and Spokane,
from Salt Lake to Butte and from
Kansas City to Denver and Cheyenne,
and not one single passenger lost his
life, although, together, these 8,951,
364 passengers traveled nearly ONE
BILLION miles during that year. Not
only does this apply to those passen
gers actually on board the trains, but
it includes those who were preparing
to go aboard, or who were leaving the
trains of the company. Regardless of
whether the blame lay with the rail
road, or was due to the grossest, most
flagrant carelessness on the part of
the passenger, the fact remains that
D.URING THE FISCAL YEAR END
ING JUNE 30TH, 1915, NOT ONE
SINGLE UNION PACIFIC PASSEN
GER WAS KILLED.
One of the points insisted upon by
the Interstate Commerce commission
is that, should any passenger die a3
the result of an accident while on
board a train, or while either board
ing or leaving a train, that death
shall be charged to “train accidents."
So, when the Commission gave Union
Pacific system a clean bill for last
year, it meant that not only was no
passenger killed instantly, but that
not one died from the effect of an ac
cident during the year.
And speaking of accidents, the num
ber of passengers injured on tha
Union Pacific system for the entire
year, according to the Commission’s
report, was just 399 and the total
number of passengers carried for the
year was 8,951,364. These 8,951,364
passengers traveled 847,938,544 miles.
None were killed and but 399 injured.
But Union Pacific’s “Safety First"
campaign is not benefitting passen
gers alone. Employees are reaping
handsome returns on the efforts they
are making to prevent accidents to
each other. A comparison of the
figures show that the number of
casualties in 1913, before the “Safety
First” campaign was launched, was
more than cut in half last year. And
the number of injured from accidents,
for the same years, was just quar
tered. To be exact, there v.as a re
duction of 52.5 percent in the "em
ployees killed” column and of 25.6
percent in the “employees injured”
list
FARM FOR QUICK SALE.
South one-half of Sec. 13, township
16, North Range 14. Inquire of J.
J. Slominski, Loup City, Nebr. 4-4
' FOR SALE.
Grade Red Polled bull, 18 months
old.—A. J. Cook, Arcadia, Nebr.
WILL BECOME “FIRST LADY OF
THE LAND."
Last Thursday news went out from
Washington to the world announcing
the engagement of President Wilson
and Mrs. Norman Galt, of that city,
and therumors current indicate that
the marriage will take place some
time during the first half of Decem
ber. Mr. Wilson had been a widower
just fourteen months on the day
when the engagement news was sent
out. Mrs. Galt is prominent in Wash
ington society and in the circles of
charity work. She is the widow of
a wealthy and well known jeweler
of that city, who died eight years
Rg. Mrs. -OaVxnr. thirty-eisi* yeau
of age. The story of her meeting
with the president, resulting in a
friendship that ripened into affection
is told by their friends this way.
A year or so ago Dr. Cary Grayson
met Miss Gertrude Gordon. Miss
Gordon introduced him to Mrs. Galt,
her guardian. He introduced Mrs. ,
Galt to Miss Helen W. Bones. Miss
Bones introduced Mrs. Galt to Miss
Wilson. Miss Wilson introduced
Mrs. Galt to her father. All this in
j the fall of 1914.
j There is a tinge of romance attach
i ed to the engagement Of these two
I prominent people because of the fact
that the bride-tobe is a descendent
of the Indian princess, Pocahontas,
whose story has been sung through
the days of American history. The
newspapers have been giving a de
lightful story of her ancestry and
the woman who is to become the
first lady of the land.
“A real American of royal blood,
a descendent of Pocahontas, the In
dian princess whose name has so en
riched the history of the new world,
is to be America's first lady of the
land. Mrs. Norman Galt, who will
become Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, is
proud of the fact that she is a de
scendent, in the ninth generation,
from the marriage of John Rolfe and
Pocahontas, who saved Captain John
Smith’s life wrhen the doughty English
colonist was to have been killed at
her father's orders.
THE CHURCHES.
SWEDISH MISSION CHURCH.
The regular services will be held
in the Swedish Mission church on Sun
day. October 29th. Sunday school at
10:30 a. m., sermon at 11:15 a. m.
Good songs will be given. Come and '
hear. In the evening the sermon will
commence at 7:30 p. m. Everybody
welcome.—Teodore Young.
German Evangelical.
Unser jaehrliches Erntedankfest
werden wir am Sonntag den 24ten.
Oktober feiern. Der Gottesdienst zu
dem alle Glieder und Freunde herzlich
eingeladen sind wird um halb elf Uhr
beginnen. Eine ffcllekte zum besten
unserer Lehranstalten und des inneren
Missionswerkes wird abgehalten wer
den welche eurer Liebe empfohlen ist.
Kommt alle!
Der liebe Frauenverein versammelt
sich am Donnerstag um zwei Uhr im
Hause der Frau H. Ohlsen zu seiner
monatlichen. Alle Glieder sind gabeten
zu erscheinen.
Der Chor uebt am Freitag abend zur
gewohnten Zeit—F. W. Guth.
As an exhibit of what ingenious
man may do the achievement of an
odorless onion is all right. But no
onion lover would part, with that one
distinct and appetizing fragrance for
any price offered.
From early spring through the year
its penetrating, unmistakable pungent
smell appeals to the soul of man.
Children revel in them. Poets have
written of them, at least one has.
Sydney Smith begs that in his favorite
salad “onion atoms lurk within the
bowl, and half suspected animate the
whole.'’—Oil City (Pa.) Blizzard.
THE PICTURE EXHIBIT
The Woman’s Unity Club desires
to thank the townspeople for their
kindly support and generous patron
age at the picture exhibition last
week. Since it was the first efforts in
that line for our city, it was not sur
prising that many did not know what
to expect.
We thank the teachers for their
loyal co-operation. We thank the
newspapers for their advertising.
There are many individuals we would
like to name whose kindly encourage
ment and readiness to lend a hand
was a great help.
The grades as they came with their
teachers must be complimented on
their order and attention to the ex
planation of the pictures.
Particular mention must be made of
the valient efforts of the pupils in
tehir sale of tickets. Two pictures
were offered as prizes. The ninth
grade ranked first with near $18, tenth
grade next with 14.45, sixth grade,
$9.60 and fifth grade, $6.95. The
eighth, seventh and fourth grades did
pot enter the contest, but brought in
$4.25, 1.40 and something over $2.00
respectfully.
The total receipts was something
over $60.00, reduced by expenses to
$40.00, to be expended for pictures.
Four very good pictures have been
selected. These togthr with th two
prize pictures make six high class pic
tures to be placed on the walls of our
school rooms.
It was a pleasure to see the mothers
with their little ones going from pic
ture to picture, telling the story, ad
miring the beauty, or interpreting the
truth taught by the artist. It is most
gratifying also to hear he pupils re
spect some of the strongest points
naploylaPp olatht-soe shrdlu shrdlu
brought out concernig some of the pic
tures.
Adam’s “Cat and Kittens,” some
times called the “Cat Madonna” as
me little boy said, “The mamma cat
s hugging her little one;” and Land
seer’s two dogs, “Dignity and Impu
ience,” pleased the lower grades,
rhe older grades had been giving
lonor to Columbus Day so they were
nterested in Brozik’s “Columbus at
he Court of Isabella” and Reid’s
‘Coming of the White Man”. The
'-feu visual iy took a fancy to Land
peer's “Shoeing the Bay Mare” or some
picture expressing force or power, as
The Wave by James,” “The Evolu
ion of the Book” and St. Ganden’s
itatute of Abraham Lincoln, of Lin
coin Park, Chicago.
The ladies enjoyed Corot’s land
scapes, French’s Alice Freeman Pal
mer Memorial and some of the homey
scenes of Dutch pasant lif.
Many were attracted by the strong
resolute figures of European peasant
life as pictured by Millet.. They
seemed symbolic of the unrecognized
forces of earth, the forces that make
toward human advancement and free
dom.
The workers were well pleased with
the success of their efforts and feel
that fruits will be returned for years
in the future.
Story of Dying Trees.
Attention has recently been directed
to the number of trees in Glasgow
which are in a dying state, their sick
ly condition being attributed to smoke.
A correspondent mentions a singular
coincidence in regard to five trees
which a John Paitison planted in the
center of his garden in Kelvingrove
on the birth of his five sons. Two of
his sons died early in the nineteenth
century, hut three lived till after 1850,
when there were only three of the
trees standing. On the night that his
son Matthew died one of the trees
fell, and on the night of Frederick
and John’s death (some years be
tween l one of the trees fell, certain
ly, as th-' writer remarks, a singular
coincidence.—Glasgow Herald.
The Flea a Dangerous Enemy.
The principal indictment against the
flea is that it is the partner of the rat
in the propagation of the bubonic
plague, and is, indeed, the more guilty
of the two. Tt is perfectly well estab
lished that the bacillus of the plague
exists in rats of a certain breed. These
rats a- ,'ested with fleas which by
their l>' g transfer tin disease germs
to other rats. When the rats die the
fleas desert their bodies for other rats
or for human beings. So fleas are the
; essential factors in conveying the
plague virus to men, and it is possible
that they convey it from one man to
another, from a plague patient to a
healthy man, without the co-operatioa
at rats at all.
People Ask Us
What is the best laxative? Years of
experience jn selling ail kinds leads us
to 11 ways recommend
ns the safest, surest o~ I r-c.t satisfuc
to-y. Sold only 1 >y us, 10 cents.
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I MARY PICKFORD |
| In the Famous Tale of |
| Woman’s Faith |
| “Tess of the Storm Country” |
| A Story of Hardship,* Love
| and Devotion |
= An Elemental Type of Womanhood Struggling with E
= Modem Conditions and the Delicate Tortures
of Civilization. Best in Photo Play.
I At The Daddow Opera O O x L 1
I House, Thursday, Oct. ^ O l IT |
l Admission 10 and 15c =
Depositors in this bank have the additional security of the De
positors Guarantee Fund of the State of Nebraska.
Checks Have An |
After Value \
When you see a man with a checking account “hand over” E
checks in payment, do not conclude that the whole service
of a checking account has been performed. ^
Not at all. Checks have after value. The bank “hands ™
back” every check to the man who writes them. The checks ~
return cancelled and have an after value because they are “
legal receipts and sure records of past payments. ™
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