Loup City Northwestern
A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN
VOLUME XXXIV. „ LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11.1915 NUMBER 47
ODD BITS OF NEWS
San Francisco, Cal.—“My, how
cute,” was the expression of a society
girl who motored down to see the
"oldest tree” which celebrated its
three thousand one hundred and
fiftieth birthday recently. A family of
five could have pieknicked under the
the tree when the Greeks were build
ing their wooden horse under the
walls of Troy, and Pharaoh was being
engulfed .n the Red sea.
Coleman, Wis.—By the death by
lockjaw of Miss Emily Ermis, 18,
John Ermis, the father, loses the
eighteenth member of his immediate
family. Miss Ermis' death followed
closely that of her 21 year old brother
who was accidentally shot. An older
brother was drowned two years ago.
Mrs. Ermis died recently, and sixteen
children have succumbed.
Charlestown, W. Va.—The mystery
of the “Old Man of Kelly’s creek,”
who is alleged to have been one of
the most successful bootleggers in the
state, is believed by federal officers
to have been solved by the arrest of
Louis Peters, 22 years old. It is al
leged Peters disguised himself as an
old man, wearing false hair and a
patriarchal set of whiskers to sell
his liquor. Otherwise he was a
miner.
San Francisco.—While San Francis
co acknowledges Atlanta, Georgia’s
claim that its women have the small
est and prettiest feet in the world, it
asserts that the legs of San Francisco
girls are the shapliest. Physical di
rectors of the public schools say the
graceful carriage and shapely forms
of the San Francisco girls are due to
the hilly streets of the coast city.
Bethel, Pa.—Miss Maria Kurr, one
of Pennsylvania’s most noted charac
ters is dead of tuberculosis. For a
quarter of a century she kept the
Kurr house at Millersburg, which was
famous as a place to eat and stop. She
was the confidant of politicians and
controlled elections in her own town
ship. She was an expert at mixing
drinks, a horsewoman, a hunter and
could outplay the men at chess, cards,
pool and checkers. She was six feet
tall, strikingly handsome and refused
steadfastly to marry.
Monroe City, Mo.—Farmers of this ]
community are spending their nights
in the marshes catching frogs by which
Albert Farquer hopes to be cured of
a cancerous growth which threatens
his life. The breast of a living frog
is placed against the sore, and ab
sorbs the poisons. Farquer is rapid
ly recovering. The farmers hunt frogs
with sacks and electric torches, whici
they flash into the eyes of the croak
ers and blind them.
LITTLE LIGHT ON 50UNT.
Census Officials Conservative in Esti
mates of City Increases.
Omaha, Neb. Oct. 27.—The census
bureau, always conservative to a
marked degree, has overshot its owe
consevativness, in calculating the
present population of Nebraska cities
An estimate, just made public, gives
Omaha 163,000; Lincoln, 46.02S;
Grand Island, 12,519; Hastings, 10.
470; Beatrice, 10,127; and Fremont,
9,494.
Undoubtedly these figures, without
exception, are below the true figures
which indicates the population of
these Nebraska cities. Those who
have followed the remarkable growth
of Nebraska and its cities for the last
five years, know that the census bur
eau has not given a correct estimate,
due in the main to a lack of intelli
gent investigation.
The middle west has been unusually
active during the last three years.
To put the growth of these cities at
two per cent a year is surely putting
the census directors in a position
where they can justify their esti
mates.
Omaha has nearer 185,000, due to
consolidation of South Omaha and
Dundee, and its natural growth. Lin
coln will come near the 70,000 mark,
while the other cities will show a
■orresponding increase.
With the arbitrary methods of cal
culating increases, these figures of
:he government mean nothing, save
m acknowledgement that Nebraska
uid her cities are progressing and
ncreasing, a fact known to every one
save the census officials. This he
ated acknowledgement of the census
ifficials is appreciated but with the
iesire that they get busy and give to
Nebraska her just increase.
HEAR MISS WYMAN.
If our women would know more
ibout foods, they may consider it their
privilege to hear Miss Frances Wy
man at the famers’ institute. Miss
iVvman is a graduate of the course in
lome economics at the University of
Nebraska. She has been assisting in
he junior short course and farmers'
nstitute work since that time.
Try Chase’s first—it pays.
BRING YOUR GRAIN
TO THE
Loup City Mill & Light Co.
Furnishes all the light and power and also makes the
best of flour. Handled by all Merchants.
• BUY FLOUR THAT IS MADE IN LOUP CITY
HEADQUARTERS FOR
ALL KINDS OF
Hard find Soft Coal
TAYLOR’S ELEVATOR
• LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA .
AUTUMN TRAVEL FEATURES
TO CALIFORNIA: Novembre is the last month of the San
Francisco Exposition. The Burlington’s through coast sleeper
service, in connection with the Rio Grande through Scenic Colo
rado, will be maintained. The usual nine-months’ round trip
rates to California will be in effect all winter.
TO THE SOUTH: Winter Tourist rates to and through the
South, Gulf Resorts, Florida, Cuba, etc., are now in effect. They
include attractive circuit route tours of the South, which are
steadily becoming more popular for winter visitors.
NEBRASKA-IOWA annual football struggle, Lincoln, Nov.
20th. You do not have to go east these days for high class foot
ball. Nebraska Varsity will show it to you.
Exposition folders, Southern Tours leaflet, descriptive fold
ers of California and Southern lines, all free on request. We
■ are always at your service in connection with any
tour you may have in mind.
J. A. DANIELSON, Local Ticket Agent.
A L. W. WAKELEY, GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT
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“Do Your Christmas Shopping Early”
By J. A. COLEMAN.
grr The above slogan in the hands of an astute business man, changed
the whole practice of Christmas shopping and stimulated holiday
j] business as nothing else could have done This man, with the
nerve of a Barnum and the judgment of a Wanamaker, grabbed the
thought from the public mind and put it into big BLACK TYPE where
“He who runs may read”—in the newspaper! He backed a popular
conviction with his coin and advertised the universal belief that it
would be better for everyone concerned if the inevitable Christmas pur
chases were made at once while stocks were fresh and new and the choice
was wide and ample.
MTT The result not only paid the advertiser as it always does—but the
whole country profited besides.
M || This slogan has since slipped into practical use in every corner of
commercial America. Excepting perhaps its fellow slogan,
Jj “Safety First,” which reduced the accident death rate enormous
ly, it has done more good in the world than any business phrase ever
coined. It has been the means of discontinuing the time honored
practice among large metropolitan department and specialty stores of
keeping open in the evenings a week or two preceding Christinas Eve.
It has enabled manufacturers to prepare their goods and fill orders far
enough in advance to insure clear store rooms long before the Yuletide
candles were lighted. It prevented the disappointment of millions of
Christmas shoppers who were wont in times past to wait for the more
attractive novelties which turned up at the last moment. And not the
least important, it saved the heartaches of neglected ones who leant
upon the broken reed of mere man’s thoughtlessness.
/
fTT That phrase, “Do Your Christmas Shopping Early,” was instantly
taken up and flashed before the eyes of the world through the
medium of its newspaper. Just as every other worth while thing is
told this nation of readers by the ever present, constant, reliable, all
knowing morning, evening, weekly, or Sunday newspaper. Nothing
the world does is done without ITS knowledge, nothing you want the
world to know can be made known without its aid.Ahnost any national
manufacturer will tell you that most of his fame and profit were the
product of newspaper advertising. No newspaper advertiser who kept
it up wisely ever lost money.
gTT The newspaper pays the advertiser. The latter merely invests in
business publicity. The cost of advertising is like a phantom
Zeppelin—it never lights anywhere. It is a bugaboo made of thin air
and a yellow streak. The common supposition that advertising ex
pense is levied upon the consumer is likewise a fallacy. The fact of
the matter is that the non-advertiser pays for it out of the business he
loses to competitors who do advertise.
f|T Advertising doubles output, halves overhead, divides selling cost
* j and, by making two customers buy where ONLY ONE BOUGHT
BEFORE, it creates a hundred per cent, increase in profit—out of
which any business man can well afford to pay for his own advertising.
UVE STOCK MARKETS
Union Stock Yards, South Omaha,
Nov. 9.—Cattli^ receipts yesteruay
were fairly liberal, some 13,200 head
arriving. Very little corn fed cattle
were included in the receipts yester
day, but good choice cattle were
wanted at fully steady figures, while
the common gratis were a little low
er. There was a very fair demand
for the good grass beeves and they
went at prices about steady with the
close of last week, but on the ordi
nary run of “betwixt and between"
cattle it was a rather dull and lower
trade. Cows and heifers sold at
prices generally steady with the
I close of last week and the best of
the Stockers and feeders also sold
steady. Medium and common grades
however, were in excessive supply
and slow sellers at little lower
prices.
Cattle quotations: Prime beeves,
$9.75(010.00; good to choice beeves^
$9.00@9.5Q; fair to good beeves, $7.75
@8.75; common to fair beeves, $6.50@
7.50; good to choice yearlings, $9.00@
9.75; fair to good yearlings, $8.25 @
8.75; common to fair yearlings. $6.50
&S.00; prime grass beeves, $8.00@
8.60; good to choice grass steers,
$7.40@7.90; fair to good grass steers,
$6.70@7.30; common to fair steers,
$5.50@6.60; good to choice grass heif
ers, $6.00@7.00; good to choice grass
cows, $5.8006.50; fair to good cows,
$5.00(0:5.75: canners and cutters. $4.00
@s:oWrVeal calves, $6.00@10.00;~ bulls,
stags, etc., $4.(>0@6; good to choice
feeders, $7.40®8.10; fair to good
feeders, $fi.50@7.30; common to fail
feeders, $5.50@6.50; good to choice
Stockers, $7.50@8.00; fair to good,
$6.75@7.50; common to fair Stockers,
$5.50@6.50; stock heifers. $5.75®6.75;
stock cows, $450@5.75; stock
calves. $6.00@8.25.
Some 4.500 hogs arrived yesterday>
The market was rather dull and pri
ces were generally a big dime lower
than last Saturday. Bulk of the
sales were made at $8.70@6.80, with
a sprinkling up to ?t>.85, the top.
Sheep and lamb receipts totaled
21,000 head. Trade in fat lambs
opened out in good season on'about
a steady basis, the bulk of the
lambs going at $8.75. Practically
the entire mutton supply consisted
of ewes, and the market showed lit
tle or no change, bulk of the good
ones being bought at $5.50. Most ol
the trading in feeders was done on
a good Arm basis, several strings of
the best stuff moving at $S.50@8.fi0.
Quotations on sheep and lambs:
Lambs, good to choice. $8.60@8.75;
lambs, fair to good $8.50®8.60: lambs,
feeders, $7.75®8.60; yearlings, fair to
choice, $6.00@6.80; yearlings.feeders,
$6.00@7.15; wethers, fair to choice
$n'.50®6.00; ewes, good to choice
$5.25@5.50; ewes, fair to good, $4.75
@5.25; ewes, feeders. $4.50(5)5.m
Austin school notes
Chris Larson has been sick the past
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Couton visited near
Boelus Sunday.
The pupils are enjoying themselves
with volley ball and croquet.
Mr. N. T. Daddow and family
visited at Fred Zwink’s last Sunday.
Alonzo Daddow took dinner with his
mother, Mrs. Sam Daddow at Loup
City Sunday.
We have had forty-four visitors.
We want the patrons of The school
to come and visit often,
<
Nilla Couton, Alma and Clarice Mc
Call and Helen Ogle, took Sunday
dinner with their teacher.
The Austin school has added the
ninth grade this year and have four
pupils enrolled in that grade.
A party was given by Miss Irene
Jack at her home Saturday night. The
evening was spent in playing games
and dainty luncheon was served.
Those neither absent nor tardy last
month were; Anna and Nora Couton,
Ethel and Harold Daddow, Clarice,
Alma, William and Seldon McCall,
Helen Ogle and Albert Fletcher.
Try Chase’s first—it pays.
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CHEAP ADVERTISING SPACE.
A lady came to this office Monday
morning and asked us if we charged
for running advertising when it did
not produce results. On being in
formed that we charged for the ad,
not in the ratio of its results, but on
the basis of the time and labor it re
quired on our part, and that all ad
vertising was charged for, she re
plied that she could get it printed for
nothing but that she was afraid no
one would see it in the paper that
gave its space away. When you think
of it, her head was working better
over a two-bit ad than some adver
tisers’ heads do over a $10 space. A
very safe policy to follow in business
transactions is that, commercially,
things of value are never given away.
—Clay Center Sun.
UNCLAIMED LETTERS.
List of unclaimed letters remaining
in the postoffice at Loup City, Nebras
ka, for the month ending, October 31,
1915:
C. E. Todd, John Powemo, Dick
Cretcher.
Persons rlaiming the above will
please say “Advertised” and give date
of list. C. F. BEU9HAUSEN,
Postmaster.
For general repair work, call on L.
H. Spahr.
THE CHEERFUL CHERUB |
Tkis world’s ke,e.T\.
revolving for
tkovsericfs of yeco'j
And to tkink of it
sometimes jvj>t
kores me> to
teers!
Rirc**"*
PLENTY OF BAGGAGE
Though John Prentiss Poe, jr„ fam
ous ex-Princeton football star, soldier,
adventurer, and ex-private in the Unit
ed States marine corps, was killed in
France on September 25, last, when
his regiment, the Black Watch, was
practically annihilated during the
British advance in allies' forward
movement, he met the kind of death
his adventuresome spirit had often
pictured in fancy as a befitting end.
Keenly disappointed at the lack of
action he found in the Filipino insur
rection, and knowing that the United
States marine corps offered greater
chances for excitement and adventure,
i lie enlisted in that branch in 1903 by
authority of the then secretary of the
I navy, John D. Long, for the threat
ened war with Columbia over the
Panama canal strip. That war never
materialized, and since Poe could not
think of “soldiering” unless there was
“something doing” he was discharged
from the marine corps and enlisted in
the Kentucky state militia during the
Governor Goebel shooting trouble.
Even duty on the “dark and bloody
ground” during those troublesome
times didn’t bring him the excitement
he craved, and one time bitterly con
fided to marine corps friends, “I be
lieve that if I ever get to hell I’ll find
the fires banked.”
Still in pursuit of the elusive
“strife,” he became a captaiu in the
Honduran army in 1907, when that
country was at war with Nicaragua,
and during the brief struggle got sev
eral thrills at the siege of Anapal and
the battle of Beunavista. It was after
the conclusion of that war that Poe,
with five other Americans, who were i
serving in the Honduran army, be- ■
came involved in some sort of trouble j
with the government authorities, and. '
for a time, their lives were in jeop
ardy. At the urgent request of the!
American consul, the United States
Steamship Princeton was dispatched 1
to the Honduran coast to aid in |
bringing the adventurous Americans I
back to “God’s country." and the |
Princeton’s cutter, on reaching shore ;
at an agreed point, found the Ameri-!
cans alive and well and anxious to
get back to the States.
“But my baggage,” said Poe to the
Princeton’s captain, who had come
ashore in the cutter. “What of my
baggage? Please to remember that
I am an officer and gentleman in the
service of the Honduran government
and I have much luggage.”
“We’ll attend to that all right,” said
the Princeton’s commander, easily.
“How much have you got?”
“Fifty-four pieces all told,” replied
Poe.
The Princeton’s skipper was aghast.
“Do you think my gunboat is a
freighter, sir? However, we'll fetch
it off for you. Kindly enumerate the
pieces, and what they contain, so that
I may send sufficient small boats and
men to handle it.”
Poe was deeply engrossed in
thought a moment as if trying to re
member everything, and then said,
“One park of playing cards and an
extra pair of socks.”
AN ERROR IN THE PRICE.
Editor Northwestern: —
Gentlemen.—In last weeks' issue of
The Northwestern we noticed a kindly
mention of The Nebraska Record.
This is to inform you and your readers
that we greatly appreciate the kindly
mention and will endeavor to recipro
cate whenever opportunity offers. In
return for this courtesy we wish to
say that The Northwestern, under its
present management, is no doubt a
.source of useful information to its
readers, and, judging from the adver
tising columns, profit to its publishers.
Permit me, however, to say a few i:
words about The Record through your
valuable columns and to correct a
statement which you doubtless unin
tentionally made last week. The sub
scription price of The Record is now,
and has been for the past four months,
50 cents per year, whereas your state
ment last week puts it at 25 cents
per year.
The change in the subscription
price was made when we changed the
form of publication, making the maga
zine more attractive and at a consider
able increase in expense.
The aim of The Record is to give
timely interesting pioneer stories,
early day history, and perhaps editor
ials on current events and two or
three pages devoted to educational
work. As you stated, The Record is
“made up of matter peculiarly its
own.” Practically the only thing it
handles in the news line is accounts
of the happenings of the most import
ance and the story is told of it in edi
torial form. There is but very little
current news which appears in our
local papers that may be found in the
Columns of The Record.
And now we wish to say to our edi
torial brothers that it is our wish t.o co
operate in the work. We are here as
commercial job printers and doing job
printing exclusively. We wish to as
sist the printing fraternity whenever
assistance is needed. Our magazine
is intended in no way to deract from
any business which is rightfully yours.
In fact, we are very careful to make
it so.
Again thanking you for courtesies .
extended, I am.
Respectfully,
GEO. E. BENSCHOTER,
Editor Nebraska Record.
MORE CURIOS FOR PARK.
Judge Aaron Wall presented Jen
ner’s park with a number of valuable
curios this week. The collection con
sists of relics of the time of the Civil
war and are a fine addition to the
collection at the park. Mr. Jenner
greatly appreciates such gifts and it
is always a pleasure for him to display
his collection to visitors.
Try Chase’s first—it pays.
COME HERE AND
BE HAPPY
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Wliat will make a person happier or more contented
with the world than a nice juicy steak? Another one,
of course.
Every steak we sell has a hundred per cent of pure
unadulterated happiness and contentment, for there
is not a piece of meat to surpass them in this whole
community.
Good meats are healthy and strengthening, but
poor meats are just the reverse.
Come here for every kind of meats, and rest as
sured that there are none better and none cheaper.
PIONEER MEAT MARKET
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