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Loup City Northwestern A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN VOLUME XXXV. _LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1916 NUMBER 6 STATE’S ANNIVERSARY Good progress is being made looking toward the appropriate celebration of the 50th anniversary of Nebraska as a state. Some eight or ten months ago, the state historical society, with a view to having the event properly recognized, appointed a committee of 100 representative citizens from differ ent parts of the state to outline plans for celebrating the semi-centennial of Nebraska. This committee decided up on three celebrations; the initial one to be in Omaha in the fall of 1916, and the Omaha committee in its turn has dele gated this celebration to the Ak-Sar Ben so that the coming fall the Ak- j Sar-Ben festivities will be commemor ative of fifty years of Nebraska’s statehood. It was agreed by the com mittee of 100 that there should be in every public school in the state, ap propriate exercises on March 1, 1917, the date of Nebraska’s admission to the union; also that in as many places as possible, there should be county seat celebrations on March 1st on the same event. The third celebration and the climax of the series, was fixed for Lincoln, the state capital, and the Lincoln representatives on the com mittee of 100, decided that commence-1 ment week of the university in 1917 would be the most appropriate and i best suited time for the final celebra tion. On Tuesday of this week, upon in vitation from the commercial club of Lincoln, and the local committee of twenty-five appointed to take charge of the Lincoln celebration, the com mittee of 100 met for dinner at the club rooms and the outline of what the Lincoln committee expected the Lincoln celebration to be, was submit ted to the entire committee and unan imously endorsed. In a broad way, this is the plan for the Lincoln celebra tion that will be developed between this time and the three days fixed for the event during commencement week in June, 1917: First, an invitation and reception to be extended and given to the presi dent of the United State. Second, invitations to the governors of states and their staffs, a governors' day to be one of the features of the celebration. Third, home coming days for all former Nebraskans, wherever now located. Fourth, a reunion of all former mem bers of the legislature and of state of fleers who have served the state since its admission to the union. Fifth, an athletic field day to be par ticipated in by athletic organizations from universities, colleges, high schools and other athletic organiza tions. Sixth, a program which shall center in one entertainment, all the best pro duced by the March 1st celebrations held in counties and public schools over the state. Seventh, the presenting of the uni versity of Nebraska's historical and musical pageant that in turn will pre sent the growth and progress of the state. Eighth, the arranging for and hold ing of reunions of old soldiers and of the membership of business, social, fraternal and professional organiza tions to the end that there may be on the different days of the celebration, reunions of every kind and character. —Trade Review. THE BUTTERMAKERS. The thirty-fifth annual convention1 of the State Dairymen’s association closed at the state farm at Lincoln last Friday afternoon. The association asked the State Fair board for a new dairy cattle barn at the state fair grounds and recommended a wider ap plication of the tubercular test and al so recommended compensation to owners for the slaughter of condemned cattle. In the butter making contest of the association, J. H. Healey of Lincoln won the Frandsen loving cup. John Juiigles of the Ravenna Creamery company at Ravenna, scored 90% and T. L. Grierson, butttermaker for the same company at Loup Citv, scored 90. COUNCIL HAS A BUSY TIME. The city council has held several meetings the past week for the pur pose of revising the ordinances so that they can be published in book form. It is a big undertaking and the work will be completed Friday evening. An ordinance has been passed, known as an occupation tax and each business house and professional man in the city will be taxed a certain amount under the new ordinance to create a fund for street maintainance and street sprinkling. The amount of the tax to be assessed has not yet been decided upon and will be fixed at the meeting Friday evening. The occupation tax was recom mended by a meeting of the business men, held last- Thursday evening. j GOVERNMENT RIFLE CLUB. A government rifle club has been or ganized at Loup City with a member ship of twenty-two. Officers were elected as follows: Dr. O. E. Long acre, president; Wm. Schumann, vice president; H. M. Eisner, treasurer, and R. H. Mathew, secretary. The club was organized under the rules of the war department and guns 1 and ammunition are supplied by the | government upon the same terms and i conditions as to the state militia or I national guard. The local club is known as the Loup City Rifle club and is a member of the National Rifle association of America. The guns and supplies ar rived recently and regular practice meets will soon be held. Following are the charter members of the Loup City Rifle Club: R. H. Mathew, Wm. Schumann, H. M. Eisner, Willard Thompson, Henry Schumann, Mont Worlock, T. H. Els ner. Dr. O. E. Longacre, E. H. Chaffhe. Art Hansel, A. F. Eisner, O. L. Tockey. J. M. Sorsensen. Oscar Swanson, Al bert Johnson, C C. Carlsen, J. S. Ped ler, Gus Lorenz. B. L. Sloeumb, J. W. Long, Wm. Dolling, Gus George. AN ENJOYABLE OCCASION. A large number of people spent an enjoyable time at the Frederick hotel Wednesday evening. Dancing and cards were enjoyed until a late hour. An orchestra from Ashton furnished the music. Many people from other towns attended and the affair was a great success. Two More Premiums Every customer was pleased with the prem iums I gave away just before Christmas and for that reason, I am now going to give away two more premiums that are sure to be appreciated. For the first premium I am offering A $55.00 Set of Team Har ness Free •This harness is a lf-inch heavy team har ness of my own make and trimmed in fine shape. All who have any of my harness will know how good a harness this is. A Horton Washer Free For our lady customers we are going to give away one of of these celebrated, easy run ning washing machines at the same time we give away the harness. Save your coupons and remember that you can also get them on pay ment of your book accounts. James Bartunek Hardware and Harness | Uncle Sam Intervenes, in Washington. : . Goodtime to Keep YOUR SHIRT OH! ) LITCHFIELD EVENTS Alfred Flint went to Ravenna on business, Tuesday. Ed Aehenbach shipped a ear of hogs to the Omaha market on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John Duncan went to Hazard on No. 40 Sunday for the day's visit. Clarence Trumble, the Hazard hard ware merchant, was on our streets on Wednesday, doing business. Dr. C. E. Paul is on a flying visit to Minnesota to visit an old aunt, who is about eighty-three years old. A. D. Jones shipped one of his thor oughbred Hampshire hogs to George Brand of Cairo, on Wednesday on No. 40. O. A. Clark left Wednesday on No. 40 for a visit to his old home in Indi ana. for a visit. He will find it changed since his boyhood. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Aehenbach were passengers to Ravenna on No. 40 Sun day, to visit with Mrs. Freeland. Mr. Achenbach’s sister. Ernest Brundage shipped two loads of hogs to Omaha on Tuesday of his own feeding. They are said to have been remarkably good. Ed Aehenbach shipped a load of hogs Sunday to the Omaha market. The Howard Bros, also shipped a car to the same market on that day. Oscar F. Kirchke, architect, of Grand Island, has been awarded the contract to furnish the plans for our new school house and superintend the building of it. Alex Willson left for home on No. 40 Wednesday. He has been visiting relatives and friends here for a few days. Alex is one of Nebraska’s suc cessful farmers. George Curry was taken suddenly sick at Loup City on Monday, and was unable to return home and is still in Dr. Bowman’s hospital. Dr. Rydberg went over on Tuesday to see him. The De Foliart & Vierras Hawaiian Singers and Players gave a delightful entertainment at the Plaza opera house on Wednesday evening. We are sorry that so few came to hear them as those that stayed at home missed the best entertainment that we have had for a long time. Mrs. R. L. Farnsworth returned from Clifton, Kas., Thursday on No. 39, where she had been visiting her father and mother for a few weeks, they having been sick. She also went to Manhattan, Kas., to visit a sister, who has just recovered from a very severe attack of erysipelas, from which she had not been expected to recover. The second of the series of our Lyceum bureau was given in the Plaza theater on Monday evening. The Concert Entertainers, Elja Lowe, con cert violinist; Elizabeth Pease, con tralto, soloist and pianist, and One Miller, harpist; reader, mezzo-soprano, banjoist and accompanist, certainly entertained the audience. It was well patronized, as it deserved. Anyone who has not availed themselves of the privilege of a ticket for these enter tainments, had better be doing so. You are missing something. The Brotherhood of the community held their weekly meeting on Tuesday of this week, as the concert enter* » tainers had the floor on Monday even ing. This organization, for the social gathering of the men folks, young and old, has been ra'Uer misunderstood. It is not a Methodist institution, as some have thought, but is entirely un denominational. Everyone is welcome to gather with us to eat, drink and be merry. We have a program every Monday evening and everyone is ex pected to do something for the pro gram. Come in, boys, young and old, and help us out. You will be glad you came. — PUBLIC SALE ADVERTISING, There is no man who can use ad vertising more effectively than the farmer who is holding public sales, or having anything to sell or trade in the way of animals, vehicles, imple ments or grain, says an auctioneer. It must also be said that there are few men who lose so much money through failure to appreciate the value of advertising and the necessity of spending money for it. It is true that sales are advertised better than they were a few years ago, but it is also true that a great many farmers are so averse to letting loose a little money for advertising that they in dulge in false economy and they greatly reduce their receipts on the day of sale. The average farm sale should be advertised to the extent of $15 to $25, and there may be many that could spend twice as much and have more returned on sale day; there are men who expect to sell several thousand dollars worth of property who think they have adver tised liberally when they have stuck up a few bills and cards. They save a few dollars by leaving the newspa pers alone, but one additional buyer would more than compensate for all the advertisements, and the average newspaper is read by hunderds of prospective buyers whom the bills or cards never reach. That newspapers are the most valuable medium for ad vertising the public sale will be ad mitted by everyone who gives the matter a little thought. The cards and bills may be all right and should by all means be used, but the territory they reach is limited. If no ad vertising at all were done, even if the bills and cards w’ere not printed, there would be some of the near neighbors that would 'know you were going to have a sale, but it is the newspaper that gives the most valu able advertising. The farmer thinks nothing of driving fifteen or twenty miles to a sale if, in reading over the list of stock offered he sees some horses or cattle that he thinks would suit him, and it is these farmers that live several miles away from the sale that would not learn of it from the bills, but must depend upon the news papers for information concerning it. A farmer sits in his home and reads in his paper a description of the property that some one at a consider able distance is offering, and makes up his mind to attend. And that kind of a visitor to a public sale is worth a dozen who come for the purpose of visiting, with.no definite intention of buying unless things are extremely cheap. The farmer who is going to have a sale should look well to the advertising proposition, for more money is lost by those holding public sales by advertising too little than is wasted by advertising too much Ju diciously.—Coimsn’s Burn. World. BABY WE^EK MARCH 4 TO 11 March 4 to 11 is to be Baby Week ir Nebraska and all over the United States. Sponsored by the children’s bureau of the United States Departm ent of Labor and assisted by thou sands of members of women’s clubs all over the country, an effort will br made to bring about a better under standing concerning children’s pro blems. Although conditions in Ne braska are not so acute as in other sections of the United States, Ne braska women are expecting to take a keen interest in the movement. In an effort to co-operate with the work, the Extension Service of the College of Agriculture, Lincoln, will send a program for this occasion to anyone interested. A WILLING WOMAN. Syracuse. N. Y.—“Take him””! freely consent to his enlistment and recommend him to you as a good fight ing man. However, if he serves his country like he serves his wife, God save this noble land of ours.” So wrote a Horseheads, N. Y.,wlfe to Sergeant Frank X. Bleicher, in charge of the local recruiting station of the United States Marine Corps, in reply to his letter inquiring if she had objection to the enlistment of her spouse in the service of Uncle Sam’s sea soldiers. Sergeant Bleicher, upon receipt of the letter rejected as undesirable the Horseheads applicant who sought to exchange martial woe for martial weal. FOUR STATION HEADS PRESENT. The directors of four agricultural experiment stations of as many states were scheduled to speak on the pro grams at the Organized Agriculture held last week in Lincoln. They were E. A. Burnett of Nebraska, C. F. Curtiss of Iowa, J. H. Skinner of Indi ana, and C. E. Thorne of Ohio. In ad dition to these men, many prominent farmers and other speakers were pres ent. Despite the cold weather pre ceding the meetings, the attendance is declared to have been entirely up to normal. FOR SALE.” Five and one-half acres of land, al so another tract of four and one-half acres; six lots fenced chicken tight, half in cherry and plum trees. A team of four and six year old dark brown mares, weight 2,500 pounds. Also a bran new two seated spring wagon, set of double harness and a sow with five pigs.—Alfred Anderson. Hammond, ma.—A garnishee case resolved ltseli into a fistic encounter in Judge Reiland s court at Indiana Harbor recently, when L. W. baric and Marcus Herschcovitz, lawyers, passed the lie. The court refused to call time. In tact. Judge Reiland adjourned court to give the belligerents all the time they wanted. They took ten minutes and then an armistice was declared and Judge Reiland went on with the cnai oi the case. baric looked as though he had tought with a oearcat. 100,000 Sparrows Drown. Hutchinson, Kan.—It is estimated that fully 100,000 sparrows were drowned here during a sudden rain tod wind ■ torn. A DAY OF RECKONING Washington. D. C„ Jan. 25.—The United States treasury faces a deficit of over $100,000,000. The party re sponsible for that deficit must either meet the situation or surrender the reins of power. In other words, the American peo ple demand that a political party either make good or give up. The handwriting on the wall was revealed recently by Representative Joseph W. Pordney of Michigan, in a discussion of the democratic tariff and revenue policies before the house. He showed that the democratic party has failed to make good. “The treasury balance is nearly $100,000,00 less than it was when the republicans were in power,” said Mr. Fordney. “The war in Europe is the excuse, but it is not the cause for the deficit. Without that war the demo cratic party would have been com pelled to admit ere this that their tar iff law is a complete failure. “Comparing nine months from March to November, 1915, with the corres ponding nine months from March to November, 1913, imports showed a gain of $72,716,000. Customs receipts showed a loss of $76,000,000. The maxi mum loss of customs receipts that can he attributed to the war in Europe is $5,520,000 per month, and the war tax so-called, is producing $6,800,000 per month, or about $1,300,000 per month more than the loss in customs re ceipts. “Notwithstanding the fact that the war tax is more than making up for the loss in customs receipts, the bal ance in the general fund declined $75, 603,336 from July 31, 1914, to July 31, 1915. On July 31, 1914, the balance was $143,776,800 and one year later it was down to $68,173,000. “The Underwood law started out with a good balance in the treasury. That is not an argument in favor of the Underwood law. Credit for that balance belongs to the preceding re publican tariff law. The real question is, what balance will you have at the end of the operation of the Underwood law? “Up to the present time some $85, 000,000 has been raised by the so called war taxes, and notwithstanding this and the fact that importations at present are breaking past records in volume, the balance in the general fund is now down to about $50,000,000. “When the Underwood act is final ly repealed and the reckoning is made, it will show some hundreds of millions raised by objectionable methods of taxation, and an empty treasury!” WEATHER RECORD FOR 1915. Nebraska farmers will long remem ber 1915 as a cool, wet year, and the records of the weather bureau station I at Lincoln will sustain them. There was an excess of precipitation above the normal in every month of the year execpt April, June and October. July was the coldest July and August the coldest August ever recorded, which explains why the corn crop was so tardy in maturing. The year had its warm spots, however. April was the warmest April ever recorded at Lincoln, while the weather from September to December, inclusive, was warmer than the normal. Below is the condensed summary of the weather for the year at Lincoln as prepared by Director G. A. Love land. Records at other Nebraska sta tions may vary somewhat from the trend shown at Lincoln, but this is doubtless quite typical of the weather for the year throughout the state. “The mean temperature for the year was 50 degrees, which is 1 degree be low the average for the past thirty three years. The coldest month of the year was January, with a mean tern perature of 22 degrees, and the warm est was July, with a mean of 72 de grees. April with a mean of 59.3 de grees, which is 8.6 degrees above nor mal, was the warmest April recorded at Lincoln during thirty-four years of record. The mean monthly tempera tures were below normal from May to August, inclusive. July, with a mean of 71.7 degrees, was the coldest July recorded at Lincoln, and August, with a mean of 67.9 degrees, was the coldest August recorded. The lowest temperature for the year was 22 de grees below zero, on January 28th, and the highest was 96 degrees, on May 14th. “The total precipitation for the year was 36.81 inches, which is 7.91 inches above the average for the past thirty three years. There was an excess dur ing every month of the year except April, June and October. The precipi tation for January, 1.78 inches, has been exceeded in January but once, in 1886, when 1.80 inches was recorded. The February precipitation, 2.53 in ches, was also heavy, being exceed ed but once, in 1881, when 2.76 inches was recorded. “The snowfall for the season, Octo ber, 1914, to May, 1915, inclusive, was 59.4 inches, «which is about 34 inches above the normal. The greater part of this amount fell during the first three months of the year, as is usually the case. The greatest excess occured in January, when more than four times the average amount of snow fell.” BUY SEED CORN NOW. Farmers who last fall neglected to lay up or buy a sufficiennt supply of good seed corn should neglect it no longer. The College of Agriculture says that indications are that despite the realization of a shortage during the fall, the situation is still critical, and the man who buys late will pro bably pay more and get poorer corn than if he buys at once. This situa tion seems to be particularly true in the North Platte country. The college says that those who cannot get sound 1915 corn had better fall back on the 1914 supply if it is to be had, as it is for the most part in excellent condi tion. A number of farmers are looking up their supply of alfalfa and sweet clover seed for the coming season. Again, the indications seem to point to the fact that the supply of good quality is limited and that the early buyer, with more time in which to test samples, will have a better chance of getting the best to be had at a cheaper price. Have you ever been in a tropical country where you could stand at a safe distance and watch the alligators snooping around and waiting for an opportunity to pounce upon their un happy victim? Mexico of today! Williame Graefe was able to be at the store this week for the first time in over six weeks. He has been hav ing a tussle with the rheumatism. Don’t worry about the mistakes of yesterday. Oil up your think works and avoid making any more of them today. Our new Pateh Phonograph will demonstrate our new line of popular sheet music for you, L. Schwaner’s. Sheriff Williams was badly shaken up and bruised by a fall on an icy side walk Wednesday. Dr. Carrie Bowman is very ill with pneumonia. 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