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Loup City Northwestern A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN VOLUME XXXV. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1916 NUMBER 29 WASHINGTON LETTER _ Washington, D. C„ July 5:—Speakei Champ Clark says that it has been estimated that at one of the long sessions of congress two whole months * of time was wasted in calling the roil. It takes fully forty-five minutes to call the roll of the 435 members ol the house, and when the obstruction ists and filibusterers get busy they waste days at a time with one roll call after another. Doubtless the present session would have been fin ished before this, except for the time consumed in roll calls—but the end is not in sight. The House of Repre ss ntatives is seriously considering ^^egulating itself in the line of better efficiency. It has been giving con sideration to a resolution authorizing the purchase and installation of Bob rod's system of electrical and mechani » ral voting. Wisconsin’s lower house has already accepted the new voting devise, and therefore it is reasonable to expect that the House of_Represen tatives will follow its usual practice of putting an O. K. on all the progres sive methods of the Badger state. House of Congressional Efficiency. B. L. Bobroff, an efficiency engineer, of Milwaukee, is the inventor of a new voting device which congress is con templating adopting. He has been working long and ardously in trying to* put his idea across—but it has al most arrived. When the thing is done iJobroff's statute ought to grace the hall of fame, since congress evidently ias long loved its lazy methods. Czars" and "Rules” that bind but io nor help legislation, will receive sort of solar plexus wlieu members of congress are compelled to be in the louse and watch the process of legis lation. in place of answering the eleo trie signals that bring them from the House office building to the chamber \nd when the new way is adopted so hat a vote can be recorded in a few -aconds. instead of consuming the bet or part of an hour congress will have onquered a big part of its own in efficiency and will be in better shape 10 further regulate the internal af fairs of the nation. All the members of congress who have seen the Bob ^roff invention, which has been ex ^ ibited before the committee on Ways and Means and the committee on Ac counts, are enthusiastic in its Braise. 11 will likely be adopted by the pres 1 oil session of«ongress. [ tes between the interests and the people. Is Uncle Sam Keeping a Cool Head? These are strenous days in Wash iugtou-*-something • like the times our fathers’ told us about a generation or two ago. There is a determination to keep cool heads, and while Uncle Sam is trying to uphold his dignity and honor, yet the deep sense of justice i of American influences them to be lenient toward poor old Mexico, even though Carranza and some of the other Mexicans are unreasonably stubborn TAKEN UP. One red sow. weight about 177 pounds. Slitted in each ear.—W. J. j McLaughlin. FOR SALE. My eight room house. Good barn and outbuildings with twelve lots in cherry and plum trees. Also 4% acre , lot land and another tract of 3% acre-* all in alfalfa and fenced chicken tigh Nearly new two seated spring wagon I and a Jersey red sow with six pigs. ! Alfred Anderson. THE CHURCHES. Methodist. Regular services will be held a: the M. E. Church next Sunday morn ing. Rev. J. L. Dunn will preach at : a union service to be held on the M. E. Church lawn at eight o’clock p. m. German Evangelical. As usual there will be German church next Sunday morning at lo o'clock. On account of the storm two Sundays ago the meeting of the young , people was postponed. So next Sun ! day evening there will be English ser i vices and the young people will or ganize a Sunday evening league. Everybody invited. Beginning at 8:00 o’clock. TAKING THE HOME PAPER. Do you know of a person in this I whole community who would be will I ing to go through life mouth by month j and year by year without a knowledge I of the news features of the townshin 'in which he resides? Would you like to be that person? It is difficult to convince the average reader of the ‘ real value of his home paper unless he has at some time or other bee > . forced to do without it. Then it is tha. its value is brought home to them Most people subscribe for the hom ! paper, read it. enjoy it. and absorb the "news it contains as a matter of course, giving scarcely a thought to the vast amount of labor entailed in ! the production of the issue. And yet that issue means a tremendous con 1 centration of thought and energy anil perseverance on the part of both the editor and his entire force of em ployees. The work thus represented on an issue of this paper, for instance, costs the reader the trifling sum of three cents. Would you like to fill the editor’s shoes for a week, or a month, or permanently? Would you consider that the labor thus involved had met with just compensation? Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Mason, on Thursday. July 6th. a nine pound girl. All concerned are doing nicely. Vho Looks After the People’s Case? An examination of the advertising and news columns of a large part of ;he metropolitan press shows that the industries of the country, commonly Known as “Big Business," are spend ing money by the bucketful in trying m “educate" the people that the gov ernment is incapable of forming its f,wn conclusions in reference to arm or plate or the manner of regulating 's railroads. But as far as known, there is no one sufficiently interested <o spend a dollar of cash to tell the eople the other side of the story. This being the condition it is very • •asy to figure out why so many people conclude that affairs of government might be better run. It also makes a • asy to predict who will “come out at • lie little end of th? horn” in the con The Fly Season is again here and you will need fly protec tion for your horses and other animals. We have everything in that line and at all prices. Leather Nets, Cord Nets, Buggy Mesh Nets, Burlap and Nemco Covers £ asonable Hardware Oil Stoves Everything needed in the kitchen or dairy during the hot weather season. Look our line over before you buy. You are sure to find something that you need. Stacker Rope No. 1 pure 4-ply Manilla rope at 22 cents per pound. JAMES BARTUNEK Hardware and Harness *• OF COURSE NOT. W. E. Herbst, who runs a general merchandise business at the town of Western, has recently proved again that when it comes to supporting a town, to contributing towards its business growth, to joining with the business men in entertainment fea tures, for the trade of the territory, that the mail order houses have no in terests in that line. Mr. Herbst, after all of the business men of Western had contributed to the Old Settlers’ picnic that will be held in August in that place, wrote to Sears-Roebuck & Company, telling them what the merchants of Western were doing and asking them for a con tribution towards the success of the picnic. He received a reply, a letter which among other things, said: “It is simply impossible for us to help you. We have ct stomers all over the United States and we feel unable to contribute to picnic*- or otherwise.” The eastern mail order houses do not fail to enter Western as other other places, pull out all the business possible from under the local mer chants and give nothing in return. The local merchant pays taxes along with the rest of the community, pays for police protection; for lights; for good roads, for all that goes to make a cont inuity a pleasant place in which to live and when he does this, he is forced to do business in competition with big houses that take all they can get and give nothing in return to the local community. The question has been discussed from time to time and it is worth con tinued discussion,—the question of se curing legislation that will make houses that take from a community, pay back to the community a percent age according to their volume of trade, proportionate with the expense that the local merchant has in doing business and building a community and maintaining its public interests. Undoubtedly, if Sears-Roebuck <K Company contributed proportionately for the Old Settlers’ picnic in Western along with the local merchants, that picnic would be financed" as no other such entertainment was ever financed before. If mail order houses from other states were required to report their sales in every county in the state and then were taxed on those sales for the good of the community proportionate with other mercantile institutions, there would be more jus tice in the whole business. Peddlers who enter towns and sell goods from house to house, are com pelled to pay an occupation tax. There ought to be a way found to require eastern mail order houses to pay taxes in different localities proportionate to their business. They are the only ones that now escape entirely. Mean while, such showings as this merchant in question at Western has made, re garding the attitude of one mail order house, ought to awaken the community to a realization of the selfishness of the foreign mail order houses and help to engender a broader community spirit so that the buying public will put its money among those who in re turn use their means to protect, de velop and support their home town and county.—Trade Review. THE DEADLY MACHINE GUN. When the first clash came between recognized Carranza troops and the men of General Pershing's command the meager reports contained this short but significant sentence: ‘-A machine gun used by the Mexicans is | reported to have done heavy execu tion.” Probably more than a score of American soldiers fell under that rain of fire. There is not in all Mexico a plant for the manufacture of machine guns or of machine gun ammunition. Therefore it is reasonably safe to as . sume that the dreadful weapon which IT’S DIFFERENT NOW I I was turned unexpectedly upon our boys was manufactured iu the United States and was one which President Wilson in his vacillating moments of indecision, allowed to be taken across the Rio Grande. According to the best information obtainable, there arc quite a number of machine guns among the Carranza troops. And if more encounters occur between Mexi can and American soldiers many of our men are likely to fall pierced with the bullets from these terrible instru ments of war. Various Cannarnza leaders boast \ that their men are plentifully sup plied with munitions of war. It seems highly probable that they could have secured means of carrying on any ambitious campaign against the American troops had they depended upon any other nation than our own for their fighting machinery. The fighting in Europe has effectually cut off any supplies from that source, and South Amherica and Central Ameri can states have little to spare from their slender stores. There have been no reports of any received from Ja pan. President Wilson lifted the embar go upon arms at a time when he was coddling the unspeakable Villa as a patriot and a deliverer of his people. Villa was permitted to im port unlimited quantities of arms and stores from the United States for the ostensible purpose of restoring order in Mexico. During this bright period for Villa activity the bandit made ostentatious display of his pretended friendship for this country and he seems to have fooled not only the government at Washington but some of its highest military officers as well. At least, these officers did not hesi-. tate to have their pictures taken with Villa or to accept gifts from him which were, of course, part of the loot from his many raids upon the homes and rEftiches of his enemies.— Kansas City Journal. CIVIL WAR FOUGHT BY THE YOUNG MEN. Surprise is often expressed that there are so many veterans of the civil war still living. The fact is that the war was fought, at least on the northern side, by boys. Of the 2.159, 798 enlisted there were only 46,626 who were over twenty-five years old. The official figures of the age at en listment in the civil war were read in the house of representatives the other day by Joseph C. Cannon and they are as follows: Those 10 yrs. and under. 25 Those 11 yrs. and under. 38 Those 12 yrs. and under. 225 Those 13 yrs. and under. 300 Those 14 yrs. and under. 1,523 Those 15 yrs. and under. 104.987 Those 16 yrs. and under. 221.051 Those 17 yrs. and under. 844,891 Those 18 yrs. and under.1,151,438 Those 21 yrs. and under (these two classes make the total number of enlist ments) .2.159.798 Those 22 yrs. and over (these two classes make a total numb’er of enlistments)... 681,511 Those 25 yrs. and over. 46,626 It will be noticed from this state ment that the greatest number of en listments were boys of eighteen and under. In a great number of cases they were twenty, some of them reach ing the rank of captain. The methods of war have so changed that in fu ture armies there must be a far great er portion of mature men. There must be a large number who can handle the intricate, complex and death-dealing machinery and engines of destruction. But as far as the civil war was concerned the fighting was done by boys, and the phrase “boys of sixty one” is a literal expression of the truth,- and not metaphorical. The men of big business, the represents HOW WEUtfrOTO WHEN A H0R5ELe^»5 WRRiAfcE W&NT By NOW, W£R£ LUCKy if W£ REACH 'TrtE ALIVE— tives of hundreds of millions which they were able to accumulate by the sacrifices of these boys, assembled at Chicago the other day to hold a na tional convention, but they forgot all about the "boys.” There are still 400,000 of them alive.—Star Herald. STATE CONVENTION. The republicans of the state of Ne ! braska are called to meet in conven tion in Lincoln on Tuesday. July 25, 1916, for the purpose of adopting a platform and selecting a state central committee and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the convention. Sherman county is entitled to nine delegates to the convention. The total number of delegates in the state is 1.151. * No proxies will be delivered and the delegates present from each of the counties will be authorized to cast the full vote for their delegation. In accordance with the rules of the Republican State Central committee, credentials of delegates to the con vention should be filed with the Sec retary of the State Committee at least five days before the date of the con vention. The members of the County Central Commitee for each county, who are to conduct the 1916 campaign, must be chosen at the Delegate County Convention and reported at once to the State Committee. AS THE EDITOR SEES IT. Some times the editor “sees it” and some times he don’t, but he writes right along just the same, for he is ex pected to see everything and know everything and tell everything he both sees and knows. But he don’t. If he were to publish everything he sees and spread everything he knows a cy clone would be mild in comparison to the storm that would sweep over the community. And yet, our fair baili wick is no worse than the normal com munity the world over. But few peo ple ever realize the^amount of patience and discretion the average publisher must observe. He hears and sees many things. Their publication could serve no legitimate purpose, could re sult in no good whatever to the com munity, could be of benefit to no hu man being, but on the contrary would bring grief and suffering to many innocent people. It is in such matters that the humane, publisher tempers his actions with mercy and adulterates it with the milk of human kindness. Yet but little of this consideration is ever extended to the publishers them selves. THE BEST TOWN. If you meet a man who is down in the mouth, who thinks that his town is all wrong, just take him aside or out for a ride and hand him this quaint little song: “There are fancier towns than our own little town; there are towns that are bigger than this, and the people who live in tinier towns all the city excitement must miss. There are things you can see in the wealthier town that you can’t in the town that is small, and yet— up and down, there is no other town like our own little town after all. “It may be the street through the heart of your town isn’t long, isn’t wide, isn’t straight, but the neigh bors you know in your own little town with a welcome your coming await. In the glittering streets of the glitter ing town, with its palaces and pave ment and wall, in the midst of the throng you will frequently long for your own little town after all. You measure a town, not by money, or miles its border extends; the best things you can have, wherever the town, are contentment, enjoyment and friends. If you’ll live and work and trade in your town in spite of the fact that it’s small, you’ll find that the town—your own little town—is the best kind of a town after all.”—Spot light, Portland, (Ore.) Ad. Club. LOCAL INTEREST ITEMS L. A. Williams was a Rockville visi tor Wednesday. Special feature at the opera house Tuesday night. July 13. Irvin Rowe came up from St. Paul Tuesday to spend the fourth. — Miss Emma Anderson visited from Saturday until Tuesday at Austin. Bud O’Bryan, wrife and baby came up Wednesday evening for a visit with his parents. Miss Louise Bartunek spent the fourth with friends in Ord. return ing home yesterday. R. M. Hiddleson was a business passenger at Dannebrog Monday, re turning in the evening. Mel Gordon and wife, of Arcadia, were in our city Tuesday attending the celebration at Jenner's park. Dr. J. E. Bowman operated upon Fritz Bichel on Sunday morning. Mr. Bichel is getting along nicely. Mrs. C. R. Conger and children, of Dannebrog. came up Tuesday to spend the fourth and visit with relatives. T. M. Wall returned from Grand Island Wednesday evening where he had been taking medical treatment. Miss Nellie Stanczyk was a pas senger to Schaupps Wednesday to ac cept a position in the general store. Roy and Robert Kieth came in Mon day evening from Omaha for a visit here with relatives and many friends. Miss Bessie Fisher returned Wed nesday evening from Ashton where she had been visiting and taking in the celebration. J the season the Loup City ball team defeated the Arcadia team at Jeu ner’s park on July 4 by the score of 3 to 1. Gilbert pitched for the locals and held the visitors down to a few scattering hits. At no time was Loup City in danger^of losing the game, playing a steady and strong game the entire nine innings. A large crowd attended, it being estimated that neary 450 people attended. St. Paul will play Loup City on the home grounds on Sunday, July 9. Be sure and attend this game. C. A. CLARK DEAD. C. A. Clark died suddenly from heart failure at his home in Ravenna last night. Mr. Clark was a veteran in the creamery business, having creameries at Ravenna, Loup City and Ord. He had been enjoying good health, and was in Loup City last Saturday looking after his creameiy interests. Mr. Clark tvas well known here and had a large number of friends who will regret to hear of his sudden demise. Obituary will be printed next week. STECH ER-LEW IS WRESTLE. Joe Stecher and Ed. Lewis wrestled for four hours and fifty-five minutes at Omaha on July fourth and at the end of that time the referee stopped the match and declared it a draw. Lewis stalled the entire time and at no time made any attempt to wrestle, but was busy keeping out of Stecher's way. Ten thousand people saw the match. Lewis stalled for time, as many of his friends had bet that Stecher could not throw him in a cer tain length of time. He won for his Eriends but disgusted all who like good ■lean sport. PERSONAL TAXgS IN COUNTY. Following is the recapitulation rec ord of personal taxes in Sherman jounty for the year 1916 as taken 'rom the assessor’s books: Actual Assessed Value Value 3ak Creek .$ 95,080 $ 19,016 Logan . 160,845 32,169 Washington . 141,415 28,293 Elm . 96,085 19,217 Webster . 120,460 24,092 A>up City . 167,895 33,579 3ity of Loup City 474,350 94.S70 \shton . 82,910 16,582 tshton Village... 99,985 19.997 Rockville . 186,225 37,215 Rockville Village 65,710 13,142 -lay . 188,450 37,690 larrison . 164,900 32,980 Atchfield . 201,815 40,363 Scott . 13(1.000 30,000 Razard . 173,255 34.651 lazard Village... 54,905 10,981 3ristol . 204,235 40,847 Total $2,828,820 $565,762 J. B. O'Bryan returned home on last Saturday from Grand Island where he had been on business and pleasure combined. Mrs. E. C. Kilpatrick returned home Wednesday evening from Grand Is land where she has been in the hos pital for treatment. Miss Victoria Lisy came up from Rockville Wednesday and visited be tween trains. She is the new teacher .11 district No. 42. Miss Lucile DeC&mp came up from . Jrand Island Tuesday to spend the .'ourth and visit with her sister, Mrs. S.’A. Allen and family. < - 1 Mrs. Williard Lay and children, of North Platte, arriver here Monday evening for a visit at the Tockey and Lay homes a few days. j Mrs. Floyd Janulewicz and three children arrived home Monday even ing from Omaha where she had been the past two weeks visiting with rela tivcs. Mrs. Ed. Brown, of the Brown Fruit * Company at Grand Island, came up < Wednesday evening for a short visit 1 at the C. W. Conhiser home and with 1 other friends. t - t Mrs. F. B. Martin returned home t Monday from Bradshaw, Neb., where < she had been visiting with her mother, , Mrs. L. M. Johnson, who accompanied £ her home for a short visit. — The Misses Carrie and Olive Bog seth. and Blanche and Fay Warner, of f Erickson. Neb., and the Misses Eva 1 and Lila Goodwin, of Wiggle Creek J are visiting at the Sam Daddow home 1 this week. t The old school building at Austin I will be sold to the highest bidder for 1 cash on Friday afternoon, July 14. at 1:30 o’clock. The Austin district will ( soon commence the erection of a new 1 school building. I ... 4 CITY OUT OF WATER. Street sprinklng was out of the [uestion Monday because there was inly three feet of water in the reser oir and the supply was fast being ised up. The water shortage this ime was explained as being due to hree pumps being broken at one ime. While the gasoline engine and ne windmill were in operation the rater was being used about as fast s it was beng pumped. According to the view of The Jorthwestern the frequent shortage f water in Loup City would not ex st if the city had a larger reservoir, ne that would hold water enough o carry a supply equal to all emer ;encies and then if anything went rrong with the pumps the water sup ly would not be exhausted before th" ceded repairs could be made. We believe it is up to the city ouncil to provide another or a larger eservoir, and not depend upon the lumps to keep the city supplied with rater and then be out of water when he pumps fail to work. To allow he water supply to get so low ts angerous business. We hope to see onditions improved before long, as a ire undeit conditions existing here his week would be a disasterous hing for the little city of Loup City. Some folks would give anything if t they could get rid of constipation, t Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea will c do the work and do it quick, lake ft < once a week to be regular, happy and j free.—Graefe’s Pharmacy. t Miss Maud Stephens, of Salt Lake 1 City, stopped off here last Saturday on her return trip from Chicago and visited over the fourth with her bro- ( ther, L. L. Stephens and wife, re- j turning to her home in Utah yester- . day. I Special feature at the opera house 1 Tuesday night. July 13. “The Beloved 1 Vagabond” in six reels of motion pic- 1 tures. These pictures are beautifully 1 colored—the first colored pictures ever 1 shown in Loup City. These pictures will please you. 1 J_ t Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sorenson and > daughter, Lucile. Mr. and Mrs. George 1 Kinsey and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 1 James Grow, and Mr. and Mrs. Moneil 1 Milhurn and baby, were among those c from Arcadia attending the celebra- ' lion here July 4. - \ GOING TO MARKET. Miss Hattie Froehlich, proprietor of the Busy Bee Hat Shop, will leave I for the eastern markets tomorrow, f where she will spend some time pick- i ing out the latest models and purchas- < ing new goods for her store. Miss t Froehlich will send new goods from time to time during her absence and 1 invites you to call and see them with t Pizer & Co. 1 - t LOUP CITY DEFEATS ARCADIA. t In one of the fastest ball games of i A GOOD SHOWING. With an increase of more than,$107. 00,000 in the bank clearings for Oma a for the half year closing June 30, iresperity manifests itself in no un ertain way. With this same prosperi y reflected throughout the great ter itory which Omaha serves, is it any Fonder that the nation's eyes are urned to the bread basket of the rorld? The best part of it is that the pros erity is not onesided. It isin evidence verywhere. Grain receipts for the half ear show a gain of 7,000,000 bushels; eal estate transfers are nearly a mil ion more with a total of nearly ten lillions; new buildings show a gain f nearly three quarters of a million ritli a total of more than three mil ons; bank transactions for the period rill total one and one-half billion dol irs. And to show that the prosperity is ermanent, the savings accounts have rown correspondingly. On the clos ag day of the month, savings asso iations in Omaha declared dividends otalling $605,810. Live sock receipts go right along a an interesting way with other ac ivities and, of course, the packing allows the receipts. In the end, Ne raska, Iowa and Omaha can well be atisfled with the evident develop lent