Loup City Northwestern A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBUSHED IN A LIVE TOWN VOLUME XXXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1917 NUMBER 6 LITCHFIELD EVENTS. John Vina was a passenger to Ra venna cm Wednesday morning lira II P Taffee was a passenger to Gland Island on No. 49. Friday George Hesktn came tn on 39. Tues day evening to attend the Ed Kens ler funeral Fred Richmond went tn Ravenna on No 44 Monday morning on business I •■appose as be had no grip J E Waller of Conies a cousin of Rom Hager, has been visiting at the Hag" home the past few days A D Jones shipped two of his '-gis'ered Hampshire bred sows to Wm Zoerb. of Mildale. Neb., one day g _a#i week The ladies of the Royal Neighbors • the Litihfield lodge, went down to < aire on Saturday to Install the of ficers of that lodge Homer Hocket shipped a load of at tie to South Omaha on Sunday. ' Las Givens also shipped a load of at tie cm the same train. Gass Weilzel and wife and baby left oh No 4* Monday morning for their home at Nemaha. Iowa, after having vluted w.th relatives a few seeks. W M Huibert. who has been here i .e Waters who has rented the I'd Keasier place came in on No. 49. Wednesday His nephew. E S Coch ran. Just from southern Kansas, is looking for a place to rent The Ppeits Bros shipped anotb-ri cud of horses. Tuesday A number of • ' em they sold at home, to Oliver of Grand Island They will cross the •a’cr as navy artillery horses James Hanaford is up looking after is land interests here I understand be baa rented his farm to E. S Coch ran a nephew of Joe Walters who has rented the Ed Kessler farm west cf town • James Hanaford left on 44 Monday Bon E* It Should have been here if on :.me at t ^ Sunday evening He - (>ped three bead of horse*, that he bought here, home on 46. Sunday, that I will arrive before he does. Mrs. Henry Read and son. Fred Douglas, with Ora Moore, left for Ulysse* on 44. Thursday, to attend the funeral of Mrs. W. R. Moore, their father and grandmother. They arrived home on 39. Monday evening. H. E» Mallery left on 39. for Mason City. Wednesday to take No. 44 to Grand Island, where he will take the IT. P train to North Platte, where he goes as a delegate from the Odd Fel low lodge, to attend the Weldy *uni versary and a special session of the Grand lodge. By the way. he is a Grand lodge officer now. M B. Myers has sold out his inter ests in the State bank of Litchfield to F N Austin of Ashland, who has been actively engaged in the banking busi ness in this state for eighteen years. M B informs me that he had no idea of selling out. He put a price on the business that he thought would not be accepted, but he was wrong. Mr. Aus tin taking him up. He takes posses sion the first of February. Mr. Austin is a family man. having three hoys and two girls ranging from 3 to 10 years old We are sorry to lose Mr. Myers, his wife and family, as they have been with us so long They ha'e been very active members in the Methodist church. They have also en dcared themselves to the residents of this town and vicinity by the active part they have taken socially. Ed Kensler died suddenly Monday afternoon. Althouh he has been sick for some time his departure, although not unexpected, was rather sudden. The funeral services Will be held in the Methodist church Thursday after noon. A sister is expected from Pitts burg. Pa And so the old timers, one by one leave us. reminding us that the old must die and the young may live. Mar in da Crooks was born at Waterloo. Indiana. May 6. 1S46. died at Litchfield. Neb January 15. 1917. One year and 35 days after her husband preceded her by death on Dec&nber 31. 1915. She mas 70 years. 8 months and 9 days old She was married to Theodore McCosh at Waterloo. Ind.. April 26. 1874 To this union was born two children. Marshall Herbert of Litch field and Stella Hackney of Hardon. ........■•■.■•>MMiiiimiiiiimiMiiiiiiiiiiimtiiiiiiiiimiiii>^ = Monarch Sootless Lump | | Radiant Long Burning Lump | And the old reliables f | CANON CITY AND N1GGERHEAD | Lump Nut and Pea Coals § | USE COKE IN YOUR BASEBURNER | Ideal fuel, cleaner and hotter f than hard coal | | LET US FIGURE YOUR LUMBER BILLS | Lumber for every purpose = | HANSEN LUMBER CO. { Fence Paints Roofing — -." ■ ...... -» Special January Sale During the remainder of January Special Prices will be made on the following * Overcoats Sheep Lined Coats Mackinaws Duck Coats L nderwear Flannel Shirts Overshoes Caps Don’t Forget These Bargains Come In and See LORENTZ | - _« » Mont. Mrs. McCosh. with her husband, left Indiana and moved to Nebraska in the pioneer days, locating on the homestead just south of the present sight of Litchfield on October 18, 1884. With the characteristic fortitude of the early pioneer, they endured all the hardships and privations incident to the settlement of a new country and were rewarded by the successful establishment of a permanent home until called to meet in the better land above. Mrs. McCosh united with the Presbyterian church at Litchfield on April 10. 1910 and the funeral ser vices were held in that church on Jan 17. Rev. J. C. Ambrose officiating. She leaves to mourn her loss the two children mentioned above, three bro thers. one sister, several grand chil dren and a host of friends. We wish to thank the friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us in caring for our beloved mother dur ing her recent illness and the consider ation shown us at her death. M. H. McCosh. Mrs. W. L. Hackney. SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS. January 9, 1917— The county board of supervisors met this afternoon in regular session at the court house with all members present. W. O. Brown was on motion made temporary chairman. Chairman appointed Kozel and Richmond committee on credentials to examine new supervisors' credentials. Committee reported that same were found O. K.. which report was on mo tion accepted and the new membeis were declared seated. Board proceeded by informal ballot to elect chairman. W. O. Brown, re ceived all the votes cast on the prop osition. he was therefore on motion duly made, seconded and carried un animously chosen chairman for the en suing year. Mintues of last meeting read and on motion approved as read. Loup City Northwestern and Sherman County Times awarded contract for printing and advertising for the coming year. O. L. Swanson awarded contract for supplies. Bridge committee instructed to get a car of lumber for Rockville and Loup City. Estimate for 1917 is as follows: Emergency Bridge .$ 4.000.00 Bridge Fund . 18.000.00 Road Fund .:. 2.000.00 General Fund . 22.000.00 Court house . 18.000.90 Fair Association ...- 776 49 The following is a list from which a jury is to be drawn for 1917: Scott—Geo. Johnson. Ed. Clock. A. Eberly. Harrison—G. W. Wolfe. W. M. Seed. K. Hill. John Haller. Harry Al kire. A. D. Jones. Loup City—Alonzo Daddow. H. E. Gregg. H. L. Hartwell. J. W. Hatch. R. E. Hartzel. Dan Mc Donald. J. H. McCall, E. T. Magnu sen. C. P. McLaughlin. M. Nicholas, Park Paige. M. Rentfrow. Otis White. Logan—D. L. Jacoby. John Fisher. S. V. Hansen. Washington—J. H. Weltv, A. E. Charlton. Gust Johnson. Andrew Pierson. Webster—W. H. Newhouser. Sim Criss. Wm. Hawk. Clay—Henry Biehel, Horace Eastabrook. Henry Obermiller. Elm—Guy Richmond. S. C. Eastabrok. M. H. Burtner. Rockville— John Anderson. Geo. Dymek. Walter Goc. E. T. Strom. Gus Werner. Oak Crek—F. Chilewski. Bernard Gappa. F. Manchester. Ashton—St. Grella. Hans Rein. John Kwiatkowski. Geo. Lukas czewski. M. Galczenski. Bristol—L. Treon, J. F. Karel, R. Schmaljohn, Phil Moritz. Hazard—Albert Rathjen. Geo. Green. Wm. de la Motte. O. A. Larsen. * Chairman appointed the following standing committees: Bridge—Richmond. Gibson. Rewol inski. Road—Kozel. Brammer, John son. Claims—Kozel. Richmond. Fi nance—Brammer. Gibson. Rewolinski. County clerk's request for deputy, assistant and salary granted. Deputy salary $1,000. County treasurers’ request fqr depu ty granted. Deputy $900. The chairman was on motion in structed to approve bonds in absence of board. County superintendent’s fee book approved. Fees last half $96.55. County judge’s request for assistant granted. Salary not to exceed 500 per annum. Adjourned to March 20. 1917. L. B. POLSKI, County Clerk. THE WEBB-KENYON LAW. The supreme court of the United , States has decided seven to two, that the Webb-Kenyon law is valid. This means that a dry state can prevent shipments of liquor in from “wet” states. The decision also held valid the West Virginia prohibitory law which prohibits citizens of West Vir ginia from shipping in liquors for personal or family use. The decision, reduced to its essence means that a state may now prohibit the possession, receipt, sale and use of intoxicating liquors, and not be hampered by In terstate agencies. Judge Holmes and Vandeventer were the dissenting jud ges. The establishment of the validity of the Webb-Kenyon law will paralyze the liquor business as no other agency ever has. Under its provisions it may be made a penal offense to ship liquor into a prohibition state, and also a penal offense for a citizen of a prohi bition state to have liquor shipped to him.—York Democrat. In the event of a shortage in gold we might use eggs as a circulating medi um. No fluctuations, however, have been noted in the market quotations on postage stamps. CONTEST NOTES. The Northwestern subscription cam paign is progressing nicely and the contestants for the big prize are put ting in their best licks. Several con testants failed to turn in their sub scriptions and receipt book stubs on Saturday, January 20. However, we give fair warning that all business not turned into The Northwestern office or mailed on or before Saturday. Feb. 3, will not receive double votes. To get the double votes it is necessary that the rules be complied with. The weather has been better the past few days for active work by con testants and all should take advant age of the good weather while it lasts. As the specifications for the auto mobile to be given as the prize have not been printed, we publish them th-'s week. The car is a Buick 4-cylinder. 5-pas senger touring car purchased from Grassmueck k- Mausr distributors for the territory. The car can be seen on display at their show room in Loup City. Following are the specifications: Motor. Four cylinder, valve in head type, suspended at three points. Cylin der 3 3-S bore. 4 3-4 stroke, semi-steel block with detachable head. 35 actual brake horse-power. Starter. Complete Delco system for electric starting, lighting and ignition. Integral with the motor and operating in conjunction with storage battery. Current supply automatically regulat ed. ~ ’ | Carburetor. Marvel t.—Special auto matic float, feed supplied by vacuum system from gasoline tank on rear end of frame. Transmission. Selective sliding gear type. 3 speeds, forward and reverse. J Drive. Through single lare universal joint and enclosed propeller shaft tc bevel gears in rear axel. Rear Axle. Three quarter floating type. Front Axle. Drop forged I beam drop forged tie rod yokes all heat • treated. Cup and one ball bearings far from wheels. Steering Gear. Semi irreversible. | split nut and worm type. 16-inrh j steering wheel; spark and throttle levers on top of steering wheel. Frame. Reinforced pressed steel channel section, four heavy cross members. Springs. Extra long and flat semi elliptic springs. Standard Equipment. Electric head tail and instrument lights, double bulb headlight, elertri? horn speedometer extra demountable rim with tire car ries on rear of frame. One-man top adjustable side curtains, rain vision wind shield, complete set of tools in cluding jack. pump, and tire repair ; kit. and robe rail. Weight 2052 lbs. \ The Contestants Votes Mrs. Nettie Doner. Loup City. .200,000 J. J. Golus. Loup City.164.000 S. T. Richmond, Litchfield. 90.000 C. L. Tapolski. Ashton R3.— 25.000 Harry Bydalek, Boelus R1. 25,000 R. L. Arthur, Loup City.10,000 Lee Bly, Loup City.10.000 Ignatz Haremza. Ashton R1.10.000 C. R. Sweetland, Loup City.10,000 Alta M. Johnson, Loup City.10.000 Frank Manchester, Ashton R3... 10,000 LOUP CITY NEWS NOTES. Will take in Ford auto in on resi dence.—W. P. Reed. 4tf A. B. Outhouse was a business pas senger to Sehaupps, Wednesday. E. G. Taylor went to Ashton Tues day morning to attend to some busi ness matters. For rent:—40 acre farm three miles from town for rent. Inquire of Aug ust Jaeschka. Allen Johnson, of Aurora, came up Sunday, via Litchfield, to visit with _ relatives for some time. The dance at the opera house last evening was well attended and a very pleasant time had by all. Ravenna or chestra furnished the music. Mrs. Rowen Sutton came up from her home at Ashton. Wednesday evening for a short visit with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Wilson. George Klimper shot a golden eagle northeast of Loup City Monday. The eagle was a big one. weighing sixteen pounds and measuring eight feet and two inches from tip to tip. Mrs. V. A. Seamonds and children left Wednesday morning for Woot stock, Iowa, where she will visit with her parents for some time. Mrs. G. W. Collipriest accompanied them as far as Grand Island. The Mystic Workers of the World put on initiation work at their meet ing held in society hall on Tuesdav evening. The lodge meeting was fol lowed by a banquet and social hour.! About thirty members were present. An embargo act was issued by the Burlington this week against the movement of carload freight destined to points east of Chicago. This action was taken because of the utter inabil ity at present for eastern roads to handle carload traffic east of Chicago and secure a return of the cars. There is such a congestion at seaboard points in freight, that cars are held for a long time from lack of handling facilities and inability to handle them in eastern terminals. Freight move ment this side of Chicago will not be affected by the embargo. It is an every day occurance with trainmen to have to wait a few sec-! onds while somebody finishes a hard j race with time to catch the train. Yes. j and these same trainmen will give you | the laugh when they see you panting! for breath and your face as red as an i American Beauty, but what do you j think of a brakeman on a passenger ' who doesn’t even get up in time to ! make the race to the depot? Last ] Thursday morning Zeke Johnson, the brakeman on the passenger between Sargent and Aurora, was nowhere in sight at 5:45 when the train was ready to leave Sargent and. as trains are said to wait on no one. Mr. Johnson was given the day off which is what | Conductor Powell believes to be the j main want of Zeke and the reason j for Zeke not setting his Big Ben. There , is considerable curiosity among the j passenger crew as to where brakeman Johnson spent the day. but we hope he enjoyed the rest. To top it off Mr, Johnson is a married man and his wife lives in Aurora, which is the reason for so much curiosity. Keep mum Zeke and no one will be the wiser. _ DAVIS CREEK NEWS. Morris Hassel hauled a load of hogs last Thursday. Lorence Spotanski was hauling some straw a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Zaruba were In Ashton the middle of last week. Clarence and Gladys Manchester were absent from school Friday. * The Sperling boys bought some corn from the Ashton elevator Saturday. Mike Pruss moved to Loup City last Wednesday, where he expects to live, i Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Barnett and chil- j dren autoed to North Loup. Wednesday oi last wees. Frank Manchester did some veteri-1 nary work for George Barnett and Ed. , Stillman. Friday. Mrs. George Barnett and daughter. Miss Nettie, visited at the home of Mrs. Charley Young. Friday. Miss Mollie Sperling and little bro thers and their Grandpa Manchester, were all in Ashton. Saturday. Mike Palu sold his cattle to Peter Sekutera and Peter drove the same to his farm last Wednesday. Stanley Zanke. who has rented the Mike Palu place for the coming year, took possession last Thursday. Remember the Tony Orent place will be sold at auction at Ashton on Thursday. Jan. 25. Don't forget the date. Our nice weather has ceased for a while. Sunday morning dawned with j a heavy blanket* of sow and it snowed | and bio wed all day. Frank Manchester was an over night ] visitor with John Chipp at Scotia, on Thursday night. He purchased a fine black mare while there. Miss Vida Hutman of Yumpo coun ty. who has been visiting at the Bar nett home, returned to her home in Colorado, the first of last week. Walter Kaminski. Pete Sekutera. An ton Orent and son. John, were among those at Ashton. Saturday. Glenn ] Trump and Peter Pruss were also in Ashton. John .Orent and Albert Sowokinos drove to Elba last Saturday for a few days' visit with Sim Petaratus, and family, and other friends, returning home the middle part of the week. Frank Trump has moved onto the Pruss farm which he has rented for the coming year. This will make our school enrollment smaller in Dist. No. 24 as the pupils will be in another dis trict. There was a fine dance given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewan dowski. last Sunday night. There was a fair sized crowd present on account of the bad storm and blizzard. A good time was had. George Sperling while rounding up his horses was accidently kicked on the calf of his leg by one but nothing serious happened, only a bruise which was sore for a few days. Luckily his leg was not broken. Walter Xelson. teacher in Dist. J4. and his pupils are planning another program for the near future. He had a dandy one a while back but the right was so cold there were not very many out. Watch for the date of the next one. This has sure been a fine winter and very good roads for those who have to move but just wait until Mr. Ground Hog sees his pretty shadow on the 2nd day of Feb., then see how nice it wili be. If he sees his shadow it means he will remain in the ground for six weeks, the result being six weeks of cold winter weather. I hope he doesn't see his shadow, dont you? ACT QUICKLY. Delay has been dangerous in Loup City. Do the right thing at the right time. Act quickly in time of danger. In time of kidney danger Doan's kidney Pills are most effective. Plenty of Loup City evidence of their worth. Mrs. D. L. Adamson. Loup City, says: “For the past ten years, we have used Doan's Kidney Pills in our home and they have always done just as represented. I have been a sufferer from my kidneys for a long time and many weeks was laid up so that I couldn’t do a thing. My feet and ankles were swollen and m sight became af fected. Backache made me nervous, stiff and lame. After using Doan’s Kid ney Pills, which I got at the Rexall Pharmacy. I received relief. Price 50 cents at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Adamson had. Foster-Milbum Co., Props.. Buffalo, N. Y. POULTRY PARASITES. You keep the chicken house clean to keep the parasites off the chickens. You spray to kill germs—but what do you do to get the germs and parasites inside the chickens? Hens especially show it at moulting time and during the winter. How can you expect them to lay. Free them of all internal para sites by feeding B. A. Thomas Poul try Powder occasionally. If it doesn’t make your hens happy, we will return your money.—J. J. Slominski. Loup City, Xeb. LOUP CITY SCHOOL NOTES Francis Hansel visited school last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Curtis visited the girls’ gym nasium Monday afternoon. Many juniors and seniors were ab sent from school Friday, taking the teachers’ exams. Last Friday we run over the new schedule as a try out, so that we could take assignments and have our les sons ready for Monday. The girls’ quartette sang a couple of selections Wednesday morning dur ing assembly period. They have been practicing under the direction of Mrs. Owen. Don’t forget to attend Mr. Bush’s lecture this coming Friday night to be given in the high school auditorium. He lectures on a very interesting sub ject, “Pikes Peake or Bust.” It will be well worth your while to attend. Basket Ball. Inter class games.—The juniors and seniors played their class game last Thursday night. The score stands 17 to 11 in favor of the juniors. The Freshmen vs. Sophomore girls played their game Wednesday night. Their score stands 10 to 9. The Freshmen and Juniors will nekt play The first and 2nd teams had an ex cellent practice Wednesday night. The boys played Austin. Thursday night. The score being 55 to 5 in fav or of Loup City. FOR SALE. My eight room house. Good bam and outbuildings with twelve lots in cherry and plum trees. Also 4% acres of land and another tract of 3% acres all in alfalfa and fenced chicken tight. Nearly new two seated spring wagen and a Jersey red sow with six pigs.— Alfred Anderson. HE ENJOYS LIFE. The man who carries a vest pocket box of those laxative vegetable tab i lets—Figsen—is certainly wise. Why i don’t you give your system aid when • it's needed, by taking these candied tablets? Figsen is safe, sure and sen sible. Buy a box today.—Nyal Store. INDEPENDENT GARAGE j * complete line FORD REPAIRS * j ALL WORK GUARANTEED TO LIGHT PATRONS Having changed onr lamp contract from the West inghouse Lamp Co., over to the Bryan Marsh Co., we will give a reduction of 5 cents on each lamp bought at our office when five or more than five are bought at a time. The prices on lamps from now on will be: 300 Watt Mazda C.$3.50 200 ” ” ” ...*. 2.25 100 ” ” ” .s.. 1.10 75 ” ” ”.75 60 ” ” 55 40 ” ” 40 25 ” ” 35 10 ” ” 25 71 ” ” 25 32 ” ” 30 16 ” ” ./.. .25 8 ” ” .20 High Low Lamps.v. 1.00 We also will give a rate of 6 cents per K. W. to any one putting in electric stoves. This to take efleet Jan I uary 1. LOUP CITY LIGHT AND POWER CO. __ -■ I