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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1916)
I ! 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 OFFI&E. 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 For good, clean and neat work Satisfaction Guaranteed Come and Get My Prices 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 i Licensed Embalmer Funeral Director S| I The "SILENT SMITH” —Model 8 shows what should now be expected of a typewriter. te* as. Ball Bearing£ Long Wearing The success of the L. C. Smith <5c Bros. Typewriters has been due to the fact that the wants of the user have dictated its construction. The user has decided in favor of certain improvements now incorporated in Model 8. Among them are: 1 Silence of Operation—The most silent running efficient typewriter ever placed on the market. Absolute silence has been very nearly attained. Decimal Tabulator—A help in billing and tabulating. There is no extra charge for this convenience. Variable Line Spacer—Enables the operator to start on a given line and space from point of starting; also to write on ruled lines whose spacing varies from typewriter spac ing. A great help in card work. Fatter Ribbon Feed—Insures new place of impact for each typeface. Choice of Carriage Return—Upon special order the new left hand carnage return will be furnished in place of the right hand return. t All the important features of previous models have been retained — ball bearing carriage, tvpebars and capital shift, back spacer, ft key-controlled ribbon, removable platen, protected type, flexible W paper feed and automatic ribbon reverse. 31 Write for New Catalog of Model 8. It will explain why the L. C. Smith &. Bros. Typewriter is a synonym for superior service. L. C. SMITH dc BROS. TYPEWRITER COMPANY Factory and Home Office, SYRACUSE, N. Y., U. S. A B 1819 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. REMEDIES FOR LICE ON HOGS. Of the remedies commonly used for lice on hogs, the College of Agricul ture says that crude oil is probably the cheapest and the most effective, as it kills not only the lice but the nits as well at one application. The most convenient method of applying is by means of a hog oiler, of which there are several good types. These have the advantage of being always ready and need little attention except keep ing oil supplied. The best type of oiler is one that enables the pig to get the oil to all parts of the body. ^ The oil can also be applied with a > sprinkler, a spray pump, or a broom L or brush. If there is any indication" of skin disease, the part should i>e scrubbed with a broom or brush so as to get the oil well into the skin. Where crude oil is used, it will be noticed that the skin and hair are improved in appearance. Where any of the coal tar dips are used, at least two applications should be made at inter vals of seven days. Where the floors of the pens or sheds are of dirt, a liberal application of oil will keep down the dust as well as aid in kill ing lice. Change of program every night at the opera house. Some people are so superstitious they wont sit down to a table of thir een. Cut if there’s thirteen dollars under the plate they’ll grab ’em with out ever a blink. The Y. M. C. A. in Minneapolis, Minn., raised $1,150,000.00 in eight days. We, however, would be quite well satisfied if we could raise or.e tenth of that amount from our de linquent subscribers in eight years. ROUTE 2, LOUP CITY E. Gross is working for Wm. Wag ner. J. E. Roush received a car of corn the past week. King sold,cattle on the Loup City market Saturday. Geo. Plambeck sold out his farm in terests to John Lars. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Doner were out on route two Monday. Dutchy Rettenmayer marketed hogs at Loup City last w-eek. Obe J. Boma has been sick with the measles at Arcadia the past week. Miss Ellen Mendyk visited with Nellie Kaminski Sunday afternoon. Miss Neva McLaughlin visited at the Kilpatrick home last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. losSi and children attended church in Loup City Sun day. Andrew Thompson dragged the road to the south and west bridges Mon day. Mat Ignowski was on route two to see Peter Kaminski Monday after noon. Rudolph Jung drove a bunch of cattle out to Wesley Fowler's place on Monday. W. H. McLaughlin and son. Em mett, helped Ed. Tucker put up hay last week. Loney Woods and Vincent Johns were seen autoiug toward Loup City last Saturday. Latest reports from the St. Francis hospital are that Mrs. Ed Kilpatrick is improving. City marshal Reynolds mowed the weeds on the road leading to town from the Brown bridge. Another nice rain fell oa route two Sunday evening. We are all giad to see our crops grow now. Wm. Rettenmayer did some carpen ter work for J. P. Leintnger on the Gross place last Thursday. G. B. Wilkie and family went to Ra venna Sunday to spend the day visit ing with Dr. Wilkie, a cousin. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kaminski and daughter, Thressa, were visiting at the John Spotanski home Sunday. The Big Four graded the road from John Callaway’s mail box to the Hawk school house last Thursday. W. O. Brown and C. J. Norstedt as sisted by the Big Four replunked the steel bridge at Oltjenbrun’s last week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goodwin at tended the funeral of G. A. Curry on route four out of Litchfield last Thurs day. C. S. Morrison and family. Harriet McFadden. and the Kilpatrick chil dren. visited at the McLaughlin home Sunday. Mrs. Ed. Kilpatrick was taken to the hospital at Grand Island last week. She has gone for a two months treatment. Dr. Bowman was seen last Thurs day with D. C. Grow, M. C. Mulick anil Taylor Gibson autoing towards Litchfield. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Arnett and son. Clarence, of Loup City, and Charles Cogil and family, of Phillips, Neb.. spent Sunday at the Gust Youngland home. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sinner on route one. a nine and ot'.e haif pound girl last Thursday. Of course grandpa and grandma Garner were soon on the scene. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tucker, Victor Tu< ker and wife and Kathleen Piggoi .if Aurora, motored to Loup City last Saturday for an over Sunday visit with td and Fred Wallace. I will make a special delivery of ice to any part of the city the morn ing of the 4th. It does not matter how large or how small the orders are. 1 will appreciate it. Phone my residence, Red 28.—J. W. COiiger. RICH MAN—BEGGAR MAN. He used to be as wealthy as you— every wish in the world was his. But that was when he lived tu a tumble down house on the edge of the Land of Dreams where the riches grow.. Now he's the rich old man who lives in the poor house across the street. He has all kinds of money—stacks more than you’ll ever get—all sorts, except the spending kind. He didn't educate his fortune, so it grew up ignorant and illiterate. He didn’t train it to meet things, but stuck it away in dark vaults and let it gu blind, or sent to out in the world to work in grimy shops and toil in counting rooms, where it grew mean and meaningless. He taught it to barber and battle, to drive hard bargains with weak folk and needy people, until it became wolf-money, which turned upon him in its hunger, fed upon his nights and days, and ate up his heart and imagi nation. It trailed the lanes of poverty and raced the avenues of profit so long that he couldn’t tame it to hunt happi ness. He thought that love and friendship and play-hours would wait behind while he hurried on to make his pile. He meant to send his millions back to find them when he had the time to spare, hut they died of neglect, and even a golden spade won’t dig them oui of the years. He emptied his life to fill his purse, and now he can’t reverse the deal. His ship will never come home. Somewhere beyond the horizons of memory, the yearlings of his youth lie stranded on the reefs. We still go sailing in our argosies of hope. Poor old maroon—alone on a barren island with a treasure-chest!—Herbert Kaufman in Cosmopolitan CROWS STEAL CHICKS. Lancaster county farmers are mak ing an unusual complaint. They say their baby chicks are being seized and carried away by crows. This is such an unusual procedure that It has caused a great deal of comment. Most of the farmers are at a loss to ex plain the sudden appetite of crows for little chickens, but some of them say it is due to the fact that, with the hoard of health rules regarding the exposure of dead animals growing more and more stringent, flesh-eating birds are beginning to feel the scarcity of carrion and are turning their at tention to those live animals that they can catch. Although crows are gen erally found feeding on corn and small grain, they have been known to de part from their vegetarian diet. Along the crejk bottoms especially they are this year preying on young chickens. As i£ the loss of a part of their flocks was not enough, the farmers are hav ing other troubles. The one thing they need: right now, they say, is hot weather. The cold of the past week has materially retarded the growth of the corn, they believe, and unless the mercury begins to climb soon they will be face to face with a serious proposition.—Journal. THE PRICE OF FOLLY. The world is paying the price of its folly today, and the price is exceed ingly large. It is appallingly great. Over in Servia the folly of a half witted dupe of unscrupulous plotters resulted in the assassination of a worthless archduke. That shot, con ceived in hatred and executed in the blindness of folly, has plunged half the world into the bloodiest and most gigantic war of all history. It is de vastating the fairest spots in Europe, making millions of widows and or phans, prostituting humanity, and transforming a land of peace and hap piness into the mire of misery and degradation. Paying the price of folly. Mexico had a ruler in the person of General Porfirio Diaz. He was a man of blood and iron, whose simple word was a law unto itself, but he ruled wisely and well, or as much so as could be expected of any man in that illiterate country. His country was prosperous and laws were reason ably enforced. But folly crept in and Francisco Madero headed a success ful revolution. The old warrior presi dent fled to Spain and death. Madero was proclaimed president, and was promptly deposed and murdered by the minions of his chief general, Huerta. Carranza and Villa joined forces for the overthrow of Hureta. but the United States practically forced the Indian dictator to forsake his bloodstained laurels and flee the country. Carranza became the ruler and Villa promptly turned his guns againut his erstwhile friend. Now Carranza is about at the end of his rope, with defeat and assassination as his probable reward. Mexican soil is soaked with blood, and the ground is strewn with the bones of its fallen sons. Had Diaz been left in peace the country would have continued to prosper and develop and grow, where as today it is barren with the ashes of decay. Paying the price of folly. While the warring factions were operating in northern Mexico outrages upon American citizens in that region became so frequent and the situation became so serious that President Taft sent our tiny army to the border as a wanting to all evil doers. He com mitted the error of stopping the forces at the border, and the warning went unheeded. Conditions became worse aiiu uie neruage 01 our umiauy is the contempt with which Mexicans view everything American. Mr. Wil son became president and failed to alter the mistaken policy of his pre decessor. Anti-American demonstra tions continued, outrages upon our citizens became more frequent, and eventually culminated in an American expedition being landed at Vera Cruz. A salute to the American flag was de manded of the Mexicans—and was never given. The American troops were soon withdrawn without accom plishing any results other than to in crease the contempt of the Mexicans lor the American people and the American army. Villa's hords raided across the border and shot up Colum bus. New Mexico. General Pershing was dispatched across the border with orders to “get Villa dead or alive.” It was the first sane order since the day Taft sent the troops to the border and committed the folly of stopping them there. But Pershing was ham strung with diplomatic red tape and official timidity, and his expedition is a failure. Now other raids have occurred, our citizens have been murdered and kid napped. Funston has demanded 50. 000 national guard troops, and he re ceives the troops of Texas. New Mex ico and Arizona, about 4.000 in num ber. Had Taft sent his troops right on at i os; the border, supported by the 129.000 national guardsmen, and fol lowed by levies of volunteers, Mexi co would have come to her senses in short order, for nothing impresses them as much as promptness and firm ness. But the timidity and procrasti nation of two presidents has caused them to view us as a bunch of cow ards who are beneath their contempt, until now nothing will ever restore order along our border hut interven tion and a long and bloody war of pacification and occupation. The price of folly is great, but the penalty of timidity and procrastina tion is even greater. And we are paying both. AS THE EDITOR SEES IT. There are many things we could do, and ought to do, for the good of this town and the adjacent farming com munity. There are many things which, if we would do them, would give us a better town and a better community. For instance— We might improve, and enlarge, and broaden our educational system. What we have is good, but it could be made better and more productive of gratifying results. We might have better and more sanitary buildings. We might have greater care in the training of our children for the battles of life, as well as the implanting of purely educational knowledge. We might see that the bodies of our chil dren are exercised, and strengthened, and developed in a more scientific manner, in addition to their intellects. We might give greater moral and ma terial support to principals and teach ers. instead of the meagre and half indifferent support that is accorded them now. We might do these things, and if we did we would have children developing into more intel lectual and powerful men and women of the future, and it would be good for the community. We might encourage each citizen to be more loyal to local interests, and more considerate to each other. You can break a pipe stem with your fing ers without difficulty, but it takes an axe or a saw to bring down a tree. And yet time was when the tree was no bigger or stronger than the stem of the pipe. Its strength comes from constant growth and development, - Federal Inquiry or Railroad Strike? Faced by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen that would impose on the country an additional burden in transportation costs of $100,000,000 a year, the railroads propose that this wage problem be settled by reference to an impartial Federal tribunal. With these employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the railroads have no differences that could not be considered fairly and decided justly by such a public body. Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration The formal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of the controversy is as follows: “Our conferences have demonstrated that we cannot harmonize our differences of opinion and that eventually tha matters in controversy must be passed upon by other and disinterested agencies. Therefore, we propose that your proposals and the proposition of the railways be disposed of by one or the other of the foilowiug methods: X. Preferably by submission to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only tribunal which, by reason of its accumulated information bearing on railway conditions and its control of the revenue of the railways, is in a posi tion to consider and protect the rights and equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue necessary to meet the added cost of operation in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be just and reasonable; or, in the event the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the premises, that we jointly request Congress to take such action as may be necessary to enable the Commiision to consider and promptly dispose of the questions involved; or S. By arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law’’ (The Newlands Act). Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote j Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in New York, June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration or Federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question whether | authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike. The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the public body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: No other body with such an intimate knowledge of railroad conditions has such an unquestioned posi tion in the public confidence. The rates the railroads may charge the public for transportation are now largely fixed by this Govern ment board. Out of every dollar received by the railroads from the public nearly one-half is paid directly to the cm ployes as wages; and the money to pay increased wages can come from no other source than the rates paid by the public. The Interstate Commerce Commission, with its con trol over rates, is in a position to make a complete investigation and render such decision as would pro tect the interests of the railroad employes, the Owners of the railroads, and the public. A Question For the Public to Decide j The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of 1 $100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid and constituting only one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that shall determine the merits of the case after a t»eview of all the facts. The single issue before the country is whether this controversy is to be settled by an impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare. National Conference Committee of the Railways lxl, airman P. R ALBRIGHT, Gen’l Manager. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. L. W BALD WIN. Gen'l Manager. Central of Georgia Railway. C. L. BARDO. Gen'l Manager, New York. New Haven A Hartford Railroad. B. H. COAPMAN. Vice-President. Snnthern Railway. S. E. COTTER. Gen I Manager. V* abash Railway. r.B CROW LEY. Asst. Vice President. New York Central Railway. G. H. EMERSON, Gem’l Mama tee. Great Northern Railway. C. H. fc\V i.NG, Gem'l Manager. Philadelphia & Heading Railway. E. W. GRICE. Gen't Snpt. Transp.. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. A. S. GREIG. Asst, re Receivers. St. l.ouie A San Francisco Railroad. C. W. K.OUNS, Gem'l Manager. Atchison. Topeka A Santa Fe Railway. H. W. Me MASTER. Gem’I Manager. Wheeitni A Lake Erie Railroad. N. D. MAHER. ViaPmtd—t. Norfolk A Western Railway. JAMES RUSSELL. Geo7 Msmagm. Denver A Rio Grande Railroad. A. M. SCHOYER, RuuUmt V—-Pwm* . Pennsylvania Lines West. W. L. SEDDON. Vici-Pm. Seaboard Air Line Railway. A. J. STONE. Vic+Pmidsnt. Erie Railroad G. S. WAID, Vic*-Pm. 9 Ces7 Aja Snnset Central Linea. just as we as a community w’ould grow and develop if we could only make up our minds to stick together. We ought to do it, for our own indi vidual good and for that of the com munity as a whole. But loyalty to home interests must be the first and most vital step in our advancement along the road to local prosperity. Without the first step no others can be taken. We might encourage our women to take a more active interest in the af fairs of the town and the rural terri tory. The day is past when women are supposed to have no minds above dress or the wash tub. Today they are recognized universally as the mental equal of men in practically every sphere of life. In many re spects the average, woman is un questionably our superior. There then would seem no valid reason why she should not have an equal voice in civic as well as domestic affairs. Certain it is that if we could inject the strong and splendid personality of our w'omonhood into municipal affairs w’e would in time come to see a vast and wonderful improvement in local conditions. W’e need their aid, their advice, their assistance, and some day we will have it to our everlasting joy. we might try the experiment ot in ti alging in praise and commendation instead of fault finding and crit'cism. By commending that which is good in our midst we might unconsciously stimulate a desire in our own minds to improve that which is not so good, in order that it, too, might be com mended and praised. The bitterest and most nauseating pill is rendered pleasant and agreeable by a little coating of sugar, and it might be even so with the rough spots in our daily existence. Every great ending has had its origin in a small beginning, and a few humble words of praise might produce results where hours of abuse would fall upon deaf ears. We might keep right on agitating for better country roads until we get them. Not only agitate ourselves, but induce our neighbors and friends to do likewise and pass the good work along to their friends, too. If we all agitated and insisted and kept on at it we in time would get what we want and what is sadly needed in this com munity. We might do this with last ing advantage to every resident. We might inaugurate a question campaign. WTe might ask everyone we meet what can be done to improve local conditions. We might ask them to do the same with others, and keep pn asking and absorbing a knowledge pf conditions until not a subject re mains undissected. We might do this with infinite advantage to everyone concerned, for it would serve to bring into the limelight those defects which are retarding our commercial growth and enable us to advance on ward to even more desirable and pro itable conditions in the future. NEWSPAPERS ARE HARD HIT. Ever since the momentous August pf 1914—especially in the last six months—the skyrocketing of the prices of necessities around a news paper plant has gone on with a beauty pf consistency which arouses abso lutely no enthusiasm among publish ers throughout the country who have to foot the bills. Products essential ---1 to the publication of newspapers have jumped in price all the way from 10 to ! 15 to 3.000 and more per cent. War, directly or indirectly, is given as the reason for the enormous in 1 crease in the publishers bills. And if war continues., so too the market j skyrocketing promises to go to heights even beyond the present | high prices and it is now next to im | possible to obtain market quota-tions for even so short a time ahead as “next week.” Press rollers which are made largely of glue, glycerine and molasses, have gone up. so manufacturers notified the consumers last week, IS per cent. Glycerine—and the quality used in newspaper plants is not the pure white glycerine one buys in the drag store, but a quality less refined—has taken one flying leap from antebellum price of 19 cents a pound to 54 cents. Rags, which are being bought up by the powder manufacturers eagerly and are needed also by paper manu facturers in a cleaned and more or less sterilized form, are a necessity in the mechanical department of newspapers. The price of rags has jumped just 100 per cent, or from three cents to six cents per pound. Writing paper is an important item in a publishers paper bill and it is worth nothing that this item has gone up 25 per cent. But it is when the consumer of anything to do with dyes or any other department of the chemical section of printing and photographic repro duction goes up with his shopping list that his hair grows gray. Metol, which the art department of a paper cannot get along without, cost~^4 a pound before the war. Now it costs $50 a pound. Increases of 1,000 to i 3,000 per cent and more loom up all over the printing plant. As an ink manufacturer explained a day or two ago the acids and dyes and everything else used in the col ored inks especially exploded from 300 to 3,000 per cent in a jiffy, once the exports from Germany had been i blocked. Blues that cost 58 cents before the war now cost $14 and $15 a pound, with increases in yellows also ail the way up to 3,000 per cent. And, what is more of moment, the manufacturers of inks fear that pros pects of filling demands in the future : look doubtful. Violet coloring, used in the manu facture of inks, printing paper and wall paper has advanced from 60 j cents a pound to $30 a pound, or an increase of 5,000 per cent. : Bulletins tell us that the limit has not yet been reached, and that should the war cease tomorrow, it will re quire not less than two years for the supply to be made ample to bring the price to normal again.—Attica (O.) Hub. A GOOD CLEANING UP • BY BART. 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