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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1916)
LOUP CITY NORTHWESTERN Entered at the Loup City Postofflce for transmission through the mails as second class matter. CHIPMAN & HARTMAN, Publishers. Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly removed from our mail ing list at the expiration of time paid for, if publishers shall be notified; otherwise the subscription will remain in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the con tract between publisher and subscriber. FROM FAR AWAY The Ia>up Oity Northwestern is sued a crackerjaek edition last week of twenty-six pages in celebration of its thirty-fifth anniversary. It was filled with descriptive matter galore and many creditable pictures. The town and the publishers may well share in the credit for there is enough for all.—Fremont Tribune. The Loup City Northwestern's re cent holiday number was certainly a fine edition. The issue was in cele bration of the paper’s thirty-fifth birthday anniversary, as well as a holi day number, and contained over one hundred cuts of Loup City’s leading institutions and men.—Grand Island Independent. THE DEAD TOWN. Did you ever go into a town and, as you stepped from the train, have it strike you suddenly that the town was dead ? Have you ever had a town des cribed to you as a “dead” town? Have you ever stopped to analyze just what is meant by these words “dead town?” In the last analysis they mean just one thing—and that is that the mer chants of the town don’t advertise. A dead town has certain positive aspects of demise which are as bald as a piece of crepe hanging on the door of a private house. The stores seem to be merely existing. Their shelves are covered with apparently unsale able goods. The storekeepers seem to be vying with each other to see vhich will win the first prize as the town grouch. If you talked with them they knocked the town, they knocked business, they knocked the mail order house. They were continually com plaining that other people did busi ness and made money but that they didn't seem to be able to sell any thing. They guessed it was the town. Yes, that was it, the town. If you asked that merchant if he advertised, he would have looked at you with amazement. What was the use of ad ^ertising when business was so bad? People who had money to spend, he would tell you, were sending it to the mail order houses. No, he would say he didn’t advertise? He wouldn’t throw good money after bad. On the other hand, go into a live town and what will you see? The merchants have attractive displays in their stores. The weekly newspapers are filled with big annoucements of special sales or low priced goods. They are not afraid of the mail order houses because they have the same means to reach the people, advertising - -that makes the mail order house great. The merchants have their lo cal association for mutual help, and behind the association the local news paper is pushing. Everybody is work ing and everybody is happy and boost ing. If you want a live town get be hind the newspaper and the news papei will do the rest. Forget the timeworm arguments that the paper is a dead one. The paper is alive enough if the people are alive. The surest test of a live town is a live newspaper, and a newspaper can’t be alive unless the town boosters do their share. In 1908 Wilson wanted Bryan “knocked into a cocked hat.” In 1916, it is evident, Bryan intends to accom plish that end with Wilson. Debate on the resolution for the ex tension of the direct tax law shows that the democatic realize that they are on the defensive and must explain the record of the party in the admin istration of national affairs. American wool growers will be in terested in the news that wool valued at $15,000,000 is on the way here from Australia, South Africa and Argentine in a fleet of nearly twenty chartered steamships. The foreign producers will pay no revenue tax to the United States treasury but will sell it in com petition with American growers who pay county, state, and federal taxes. “America First," is merely a slogan nothing more—to the men who made the Uuderwood tariff law. trade commission, says: “The Ameri can manufacturer should realize that not a smokestack has been destroyed during this war in England, Germany, or Italy, and only a few in a small part of France. Unless we take advant age of the great opportunity we now have we will find that ninety days after the war is over, Germany, France and England, and other Euro pean nations, will be on their way to position in the markets of the world even stronger than they occupied be fore.” Former Senator Allen of Nebraska, says it will be necessary “to get a con siderable amount of support from Washington in order to carry Nebras ka for the democrats in 1916.” This language is delphic. What kind of suport? Words? Washington will overflow with them. Money? The federal trade commission can doubt less divert a golden stream from the corporation coffers. Offices? The pie has already been pretty well dis tributed. But there is no doubt that it will take even more than “a con siderable amount of support from Washington” if the democrats are to carry Nebraska next year. Four years ago Wilson had 36,000 plurality in the state. But the combined majority against him was 17,000. Next year this majority will be combined on one can didate. A GREAT PETITION. Below is copy of a petition which one of Loup City’s practical jokers circulated last week. It is said that some of the auto owners took the mat ter very seriously and grew very in dignant when the petition was pre sented to them. Realizing the great curse the auto mobile has been to business interests of this great state because it has taken money from the rural districts and sent it to the manufacturing cen ters. Because homes have been mort gaged to buy automobiles when the same were not a necessity and be cause of the constant drain on the country in keeping the said automo biles in repair. Because estates accumulated by long years of industry and thrift are dissipated by the young and unsofisti eated before they find the place in life where they can make their bread and butter. Because the models of automobiles are constantly changing so that a ma chine three years is not to be desired chine three years old is not to be de sired because it is out of date and be cause of many other methods resorted to by the manufacturers to attract the attention of the public to the age of automobiles with the aim of putting old cars in the discard. uccaujc ui me uicu iuc auiu a very dangerous machine and many of them are placed in the hands of novices who go about to the great danger of the traveling public and Because the automobile drivers have not a proper regard to the safety of those who wisely have still clung to the horse and buggy and drive them out of the road in many places into dangerous positions which often cause serious accidents and loss of life. Because the automobile has caused the value of a large per cent of our horses from which Nebraska derived a large income from the sales as driv ing horses to be depreciated to the extent that there is no market for said horses to the great detriment of our honest and hard working farmers who have developed this breed w’ith which to pay off the mortgage on the old home. Because they have not increased business but made the pursuit thereof more expensive. Because in 1911 there were 24 auto mobiles in Sherman county, in 1912, there were 111, in 1913, there were 117 and in 1914, there were 492, and at this time, increasing at the same rate, there must be 2,000, which sold at the very lowest price of $500, shows an ex penditure for automobiles of $1,000, 000. For these reasons we submit to the thoughtful voters of the state he op portunity to do away with this curse. To the Honorable Charles Pool, sec retary of state for the state of Nebras ka. We, the undersigned citizens and legal voters of the state of Nebraska, and county of Sherman, respectfully demand that the following proposed amendment to the constitution of the State of Nebraska shall be submitted to the legal votres of the state of Ne braska for their approval or rejection at the regular general election to be held on the seventh day of November, 1916 A. D., and each for himself says: I have personally signed this petition. I am a legal voter of the State of Ne braska and the county of Sherman. My residence and post office address are correctly written after my name. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. BE IT ENACTED by the people of the State of Nebraska: That the constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended by adding thereto the following to be known and designated as article XVIII there of: »_ The operating, the sale, the keeping for sale, or barter under any pretext of automobiles, the keeping of repairs for automobiles, the handling of auto mobiles in any way is hereby prohibi ted from and after July 1st, 1917, in the State of Nebraska. The above amendment does not apply to engines commonly known as trac tors but is intended to cover all speed cars whether called automobiles or not that travel on the public highway and to cover all flying cars that pass through the air. The desire and in tend being to prevent our citizens from becoming infatuated with such means of travel and jeopardizing their living to acquire the same and does not prevent exhibitions of air and ground flyers where a proper place has been provided and where the public is not endangered unawares. From Bad to Worse? Imagine yourself, near death from cold and exhaustion, struggling in the waters of San Francisco bay. Fog shuts out sight and sound, and your cries go unheeded. At the instant your consciousness is slipping away, you i are rescued by the crew on a schooner and revived. They laugh at your pre- i dicament. You discover they are the | most wicked men imaginable, and that you face serious trouble. What will you do? What can you do? Read the opening chapter of “The Sea Wolf,” Jack London’s great story and see if you would do what Humphrey Van Weyden did. The serial starts In this iaue of the paper. FAILURE OF RADICALISM. For several years past radicalism has been pre-eminent in the national life. The press has been bombarded with all sorts of propaganda pro-this and pro-that. Questions of vital im portance to the nation have ben rele gated to the rear to make room for the fad of some politician or organiza tion, and all kinds of governmental schemes have spread over the country with alarming rapidity. Not all of this propaganda has had the basis of truth, Big business organizations have been known to bring on contests such as prohibition or woman’s suffrage in states which had not been prepared through a campaign of education to vote intelligently on the adoption or rejection of such proposed laws. In the meantime the organization which brought about the contest, safe in the seclusion in which the apparently more important movement shrouded them,have been able to secure legisla tion of tremendous importance to their special interest. But the people are no longer being fooled by the radicals, the adoption of laws that tend to up the adoption of laws that tand to up turn the their entire economic status. Thus woman's suffrage, which had been adopted wildly by a number of the western states in the first throes of the demand of votes for women, was defeated in New York, New Jer sey and Pennsylvania. The women of these states claim that they will adopt women’s suffrage eventually. In the meantime they will continue their educational propaganda, and voters will have a chance to study both sides of the question. When the decision is finally made the re sult will be a lasting and beneficial one. The prohibition question, like wise, was slated for several states this year, but wiser heads prevailed and these states postponed the con test until Ohio again passed upon the question, realizing that the Buckeye state held millions of dollars invested in the liquor business and that the decision of the voters of that state would not be made lightly. This is as it should be. Reforms must come slowly in great bodies. No matter how desirable a law may seem, it should not be forced on an ignorant public by fanatics or radicals. It is only through careful study and step by-step that we can make substantial and lasting progress. A FARMER WHO IS ALIVE. Down at Rulo in Richardson county there resides at present a man, Arthur Little, who occupies a unique position. Years ago he was a fisherman and fol lowed that business for a livelihood. Needing a home, he located his hum ble hut on what was a small sand bar island lying near the Missouri shore south from Rulo about two miles. As time went on the accretions made his domain of very respectable side, and now it has swollen to nearly two sections of land. Seing early the possibilities open to him, he began to farm and fortune favored him from the first, and the hut gave way to a house of normal size and the sheds made place for barns and fed lotss. He was “monarch of all he surveyed,” as neither Misouri nor Nebraska mo lested him for taxes, and in each of the states he was forbidden to vote as his holdings were regarded as only under the jurisdiction of the general government. He grew acres of tobacco and large fields of corn and small grain, besides raising stock on a large scale. He has resided on the land continuously for twenty-two years and acquired a large competence, but now makes his home at Rulo, the better to give his children the advantages of the schools there; but he is not yet claimed as a citizen of any state.—Pawnee Repub lican. WHAT BECAME OF ADAM? Washington.—Efforts made to lo cate the descendants to learn what finally became of Private Adam N. Eve, United States marine corps, who deserted January 13, 1811, from the command of Captain Anthony Gale at Philadelphia, Pa., have so far been unavailing. "Probably beat it back to the gar den of Eden,” facetiously wrote an Ohio Eve. “Still raising Cain somewhere, no doubt,” replied a member of the Texas branch who also disclaimed kinship with the original Adam. “Growing apples in Oregon. I know him well,” was the response from an other Eve who was probably mis taken. And now, the government agents directing the search, are of the opinion that certain points in the in terrupted military career of Private Adam N. Eve, United States marine corps, must remain forever cloaked in mystery. THE CHURCHES. German Evangelical. Regular services next Sunday at the usual hour. Your are cordially in vited to attend. Methodist. Sunday, January 9, 10:30 a. m. Sub ject, “Character.” 3:30 p. m. preach ing services at Wiggle Creek. 7:30 p. m. Subject, “Success.” The young married people’s Sun day school class has been organized with Mrs. Albert Boecking president. Mrs. Edwgar Foster vice president. Mrs. Chris Domgarrd secretary and treasury, and Mrs. Orin Goodell, teach er. St. Josephat’s Catholic Church. Every Saturday evenin at 7:30, Rosary devotion. Services on Sundays as follows: VIorning service at 10:30, Mass, and :he usual Polish sermon, except the ast Sunday of each month, when the English sermon is given instead of he Polish. A cordial invitation is extended to ill to attend all our services, and es >ecially the English services. ORGANIZED AGRICULTURE. The mid-winter meetings of organ ized agriculture will be held in Lin coln, January 17-22. Programs may je secured by addressing W. R. Mel- i ior. Chairman, or George W. Kline, Secretary, Lincoln, Nebr. LIVE STOCK PRICES AT SOUTH OMAHA Fat Cattle Market Active and Fully Steady. HOGS 10 TO 15C LOWER. Sheep and Lambs 15@25c Higher Prices Advance Sharply All Around. Lamb Top Touches $9-50—Best Ewes Bring $6.25 Union Stock Yards, South Omaha, Neb.. Jan. 4.—A tolerably libera! run of cattle arrived yesterday, about 8, 000 head There was a very good showing of corn fed cattle and the market was fully steady and if any thing a little more active and a shade firmer than last week. Cows and heif ers were also in good demand and in the same notches as the close of last week. Veal calves were in very good request and quotably steady to strong, and there was a fair call for bulls, stags, etc., at full recent figures. The demand from both yard trader and country buyers for stock cattle and feeding steers was very good and the market was active at strong to a shade higher prices all around. Cattle quotations: Choice to prime yearlings, $8.5009.00; good to choice beeves, $7.75®8.50; fair to g^ktd beeves. 7.00@$7.65; common to fair beeves, $6.00@6.85; good to choice heifers, $6.00@7.00; good to choice cows, $5.50@6.50; fair to good cows, $5.00@5.50; canners and cutters, $3.75 @4.75; veal calves, $7.00®9.50; bulls, stags, etc., $4.50® 6.25; good to choice feeders, $6.80® 7-50; fair to good feed ers. $6.25@'6.75; common to fair feed ers, $5.00@ 6.10; good to choice stock ers, $6.85@7.35; fair to good stockers, $6 00@6.75; common to fair stockers, $5.00@6.00; stock heifers, $5.50@0.50; stock cows, $4 50@6.00; stock calves, $6.00@7.50. Some 9,000 hogs showed up yester day. On account of the extreme heavy run of hogs at Chicago the lo cal market was quite slow with prices generally 5@10c lower than the close of last week. Bulk sold at $8.45 @ 6.60 and tops reached $6.35. Sheep and lamb receipts amounted to 10,000 head. Lambs were in good request and anything at all desirable moved In good season at a fully 15@ 25c advance, most sales showing the long end of the gain. Best handy weight lambs reached $9 50. the high est price paid since July. Bulk of the fair to good offerings brought $9.00@ 9.25. As a general thing muttons showed about as much advance as lambs. Best ewes reached $6 25. which is as high a figure as has been paid for ewes since August. Wethers touched $7.00. Choice light Colorado Mexiean yearlings moved at $8 25. the bset that has been paid here since last spring. Quotations on sheep and lambs: Lambs, good to choice, $9.25@9 50; lambs, fair to good, $9.00@9 25; lambs, clipped. $7.75@8.25; lambs, feeders. $7no@8.50; vearllngs. good to choice light. $7.75@8.25; yearlings, fair to choice heavy, $7.00@7.75; year lings. feeders, $5.75@6.25; wethers, fair to choice, |6.25@T00; ewes, good to choice. $6.00@6.25; ewes, fair to good, $5.00@6.00; ewes, feeders, $4.00 5,2o> St. Paul Man Cured of Rupture Without An Operation JOHN LUKASZEWSKI Farmer, St. Paul, Neb. Read This Letter. St. Paul, Nebr., Nov. 19, 1915. Dr. Rich, Grand Island, Nebr. Dear Sir:—For nineteen years I was troubled with a bad rupture. I tried three different trusses but not one would hold the rupture. On Septem ber 18, 1915, I called at your office and was fitted with a truss that held the rupture, which I wore with much com fort. Four weeks later I took only 3 treatments for the cure of my rupture and I am now confident that I am cured. To any person who is ruptured I can recommend your treatment as safe and reliable and can say that any one visiting your place will cer tainly enjoy themselves while being cured. With kind regards and wishing you much success. Yours truly, JOHN LUKASZEWSKI, DR. RICH, Specialist RUPTURE, PILES, CHROMIC AMD CHROMIC DISEASES Hr and Island, - Nebraska Eat Fresh Fish One Salmon or Chicken Hali but direct from ocean to your table, packed in ice and re-iced daily by express companies. Guaranteed to arrive in prime condition. Get a fresh Salmon, bake it according to our directions and you will be sure to give us a weekly standing order. They are cheaper than beef and have a much higher food value; and what is more delicious than a well-baked Salmon? Each fish is in a separate box and weighs from 9 to 11 lbs. Our price is $1.50, prepaid to any ex press office. Check, Postal or Express order should accompany orders. Send us a trial order and be come our local representative. Buckley Fish Co. 4154 Arcade Bldg. SEATTLE, - - - WASH. AUCTIONEER Get O. E. Schlote for Auctioneer Terms one per cent. Make your dates at The Northwestern or call me at 9403. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA CARD OF THANKS. To all of our kind hearted friends and neighbors who so kindly remem bered and assisted in the illness of our late beloved mother, Susan Miller, we take this occasion to tender our sincere and heartfelt thanks. May you all fully appreciate the comfort these loving and tender little acts have been to us in our sad be reavement, they give to us a new light, and soften our pillows through the long sad hours of the nights which follow. Eugene Miller, Anna Miller, E. E. Miller. Kiano at a Bargain. Customer near Loup City is unable to finish payments on piano contract. We will turn piano over to first satis factory party who will pay balance either cash or five dollars per month. Address Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. Omaha, Neb. Washington, D. C.—Abbreviated Tril by, a new avenue of escape from the drafting officer in time of war, has been opened up in the order just is sued to recruiting officers of the United States marine corps to enlist no man who wears smaller shoes than the commercial 5-D. Although the Quartermaster's department of the marine corps furnishes sixty sizes of shoes that run all the way up to 11 1-2-F, it does not make shoes to fit abnormally short, wide feet. “My feet were too small to serve my country” would not be often heard as an excuse however, according to the marine corps recruiting officers. / N A. A. GRAY Auctioneer Seven Years’ Ex perience For Rates and Dates Phone 4304 Rockville, Nebraska - HENRY BUSHHOUSEN General Blacksmith and Wagon Maker HORSESHOEING The Best Horseshoer in Sherman County ROCKVILLE, NEBRASKA _ ■ Business and professional Guide ROBT. P. STARR Attorney at Law LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA R. H. MATHEW Attorney at Law And Bonded Abstractor LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA AARON WALL Lawyer Practices In All Courts LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA LAMONT L. STEPHENS Lawyer First National Bank Building LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA ROBERT H. MATHEW Bonded Abstracter Only Set of Abstract Books In County LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA 0. E. LONGACRE Physician and Surgeon OFFICE, OVER NEW BANK Telephone Call No. 39 A. J. KEARNS Physician and Surgeon Phone 30—Office at Residence Two Doors East of Telepone Central LOUP CITY .... NEBRASKA A. S. MAIN Physician and Surgeon LOUP CITY - - - . NEBRASKA Office at Residence Telepone Connection J. E. SCOTT Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director With Daily Furniture Co. Loup City, ... Nebraska C. R. SWEETLAND Plumber & Electrician I For good, clean and neat work Satisfaction Guaranteed Come and Get My Price# 0. S. MASON Plumbing and Heating. Tinwork. Loup City, - - . Nebraska WALTER THORNTON Dray and Transfer Call Lumber Yards or Taylor’s Elevator Phone Brown 43 J. E. Bowman, M. D. 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 s Licensed Embalmer Funeral Director Graduate in Anatomy. Sanitary Science and Em balming of Barnes Embalming School. New Elliptic Springs and rubber tired Funeral Car. Call* answered day or night. Phone 104. Lady Asuttaat. JACOB RITZ Wall Paper, Paints and Varnishes Oils and Stains Agent for the Beatrice Creamery Co. FURS! FURS! J. W. THOMPSON, THE FUR BUYER I will pay the highest market price for all kinds of furs. SEE ME BEFORE YOU SELL At the Pool Hall Loup City, Nebraska ' T- : .. =gB . = -- AN AD IN THE NORTHWESTERN OETS RESULTS
