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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
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Licensed Embalmer
Funeral Director
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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,
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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
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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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