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    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.
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A. A. GRAY
Auctioneer
Seven Years’ Ex
perience
For Rates and Dates
Phone 4304
Rockville, Nebraska
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HENRY
BUSHHOUSEN
General Blacksmith
and Wagon
Maker
HORSESHOEING
The Best Horseshoer
in Sherman
County
ROCKVILLE, NEBRASKA
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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
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