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Loup City Northwestern A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN YoU MK XXXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1917 NUMBER 21 WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. A. C. lUcry had a telephone put in last Tuesday. John Anderson «u hauling hay one day last week Ed Welty * urked (or Rov Leininger several days last week Mr* riant liurihart visited at the Malm home last Sunday K_ K Kn< k*c»n lost a fine and yal sstde cult one day last week. Miss Has*-! Burns visited a couple of daps last week with Miss Edith Malm Mr aad Mr* Wm Hudson visited at the A. I*. Malm home Monday e*r endue * Mrs G W Anderson spent a (ew ays with Mr. and Mrs. August An derson this week. Alfred and Emil Malm, attended the . 'unerai ot Mrs CUa* Swanson of Cum stock. last Sunday Mr and Mrs J W. Harrow and Mr aad Mrs A E lnrkinson spent Sun day afternoon at the J H Welty home. M m Leintwger left Monday for Kan sas City U bring home his wife who Urn* been there taking medical treat meats A large crowd attended the- sewing society at the Malm place last Wed nesday in spite of the disagreeable weather The Happy Hollow and Cole Creek ’«*a* hall team* will c rows bats atll riu'cdav It ha- not been decided ywt who h teal! park the game will be placed c*r You better come and help us •ML Whew the smiles of spring appear. I*rag the roads; A lien th< summer time is here, Brag the roads Whew the torn is in the ear la the winter cold and drear !very season of the year 1 *rag the roads When you've nothing else to do. Itrag the roads. If but for an hour or two. ftrwg the roads It will keep them good a* new. With a purpose firm and true 1'hU ia line its up to >'ou . Brag the road*. Taken from the Kansas Industrialist ” NEBRASKA PATENTS. Ofu ial list of letters patent of in rcwtbjw issued from the Cniied States Patent offbe at Washington. D. C. ta inhabitants of Nebraska for the week ending May 5, 1917. as reported through the office of Sturgess & Stur g<- s. Registered Patent Attorneys. Suite ;::jo Bee Bldg., Omaha. Neb. Mason O. Goble, Beatrice, carrier for handling eggs. John C. Green. Harwell, rotary tooth brush. Chailes T. Nelson. Oakland, auto mobile jack. Thorwald B. Peterson. Omaha, au ; tomoblle* steering mechanism. George M. Rice. Lincoln, trench ex ; cavating machine. Charles K. Stenberg. Genoa, dirigi ble automobile headlight. Clifford Wilcox. Belden. flexible buckle. Ralston M. Van Ness, Fairburv, dis tributing so ut and overflow receiver for grain elevators. CITY COUNCIL MEETS. The city council met Monday even ing. The meeting was important and several hou. s were spent in discuss ing ways and means for the better ment of conditions in Loup City. Seve ral ordinances that have been violated frequently recently, will be enforced to the letter in the future, and notices to that effect are printed elsewhere in this paper. Mayor \V. T. Gibson outlined a plan for a lean up” campaign and issued a pro. tarnation to that effect. The new council is now thoroughly 'organized, the “newness” of several of the members having worn off. and it is expected that the boys' sessions will not hu so long now that they are thoroughly onto the ropes. NOTICE. Cow owners of Loup City and vi cinity will he held strictly account able for all damages to lawns and gardens and the depredations of such animals while at large. This nuisance must I..- abated, and the ordinances will tie strictly enforced in regard to all violations thereof. PETER ROWE, City Clerk. NOTICE. .■ s wagons. lots, roller skates or kindred de - on tile sidewalks within the fire limits of Loup Citj must cease at or.ce All offenders after this notice aiqe-ars w ill lie subject to arrest and a fine as provided by city ordinance. PETER ROWE. City Clerk. Mi-- Julia Jelinek came over from her home at Ravenna. Wednesday evening for a visit here writh her friend. Miss Lucille Bartunek. i ASSOCIATION Men are mighty careful about the friends they select, for in their friends are usually reflected their own characteristics. Too few men appreciate the fact that a good or bad impression may be formed of them through the hasty sun - y of their apparel—they do not realize the necces lty for care in the selection of their wardrobe. High Art Clothes have for fifty years distinguished men who knew the personal value of correct^ attire. In that style of these well known clothes, best adopted to your type, you will • And the solution of your clothing problem. . Wear these clotees—your association with them will redound to your benefit. GUS LQRENTZ LOUP CITY NEWS NOTES. Remember Saturday, May 12. is “tag day.” Homer Ogle was a caller at Rock j vilie. Wedntsday. If 'any man refuses to be tagged next Saturday shoot him on the spot. P. E. O. "Tag Day” Saturday, May 12. For the benefit of the public li ' brary. Take your cream, eggs and poul , try to F. M. Henry, the independent j buyer and get the top price. Mrs. W. S. Day arrived here Wed nesday evening from Aurora for a visit with her daughter. Mrs. B. G. Travis, and family. — Carl Amick came home Wednesday, from Lincoln, where he has been at tending school the past year, for a fe-. days' visit with his parents. A very large crowd is expected to be in town tonight to attend the U. P preparedness special at the opera house. Do not fail to attend. John Cynova and wife were up from Ashton Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Cy nova will soon leave for Crosbyjpn. Texas, where Mr. Cynova will have charge of a garage. I Carnations for Mothers’ day, from the Pritschau greenhouse, for sale at the Rexall Drug store on Saturday. May 12. The supply is limited, so put in your order early or phone 58. — J. S. Pedler. W. T. Chase and O. A. Woods made a trip to Broken Bow in Mr. Woods' auto last Thursday and returned Friday. The roads wers something fierce and the gentlemei were about all in when they arrived ! home. -- The Northwestern has been re quested to announce that there will l be a ball game at Wes Miller's place 1 on Cole Creek next Sunday. The Cole Creek sluggers will play the Happy Hollow smashers. A good game is looked for. _ Mrs. H. L. Miller and little daugh ter came over Monday from Scotia to spend a few days visiting with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Daily. Mrs. Miller left Tuesday morning for Lincoln, where she will visit a while with relatves and friends. P. E. Hansen of the Hansen Lumber i Co., has an ad on the fourth page of this week's Northwestern that is in eresting reading. Mr. Hansen has giv en a few figures about prices that are i surprising to say the least. Turn over to the fourth age and read the Hansen Lumber Co., ad. The Northwestern received a card from Emil J. Schoening this week re questing that his paper be sent to Great Lakes, Illinois. Mr. Schoening will receive several months training at Great Lakes before being given a position on one of Uncle Sam's war ships. Beginning with today. Thursday, May 10. the Union Pacific morning and evening trains wrill carry no mail. While this cuts down the service ma terially, no one will be seriously in convenienced as the Burlington will handle the mail the transfer being made at St. Paul. Ashton is the banner towrn in the state, if not the United States in the number of men joining the colors. Since the war began twenty-four men have enlisted and if there is another town of less than 500 inhabitants in the country that can show a record that equals this we would like to hear about it. The P. E .O. ladies will be on the street next Saturday and each lady will have a supply of tags which they will sell for from ten cents up. The proceeds will be used for the benefit of the township public library. Re ('member Saturday, May 12. is tag day You can buy all the tags you want tc but don't be grouchy and refuse to buy any. John G. Gayler, Ensign U. S. N., C. D R., and George Barrett, chief electri cian in the navy, will be in Loup City tonight. May 10. and deliver interest ing lectures on the question of sub marines. The meeting wil be at the high school building and every young man shold be there. Arrangements will be made to adjourn to the opera house when the farmers meeting is over and to show moving pictures in connection with the submarine question. Monday’s Daily Bee contained an item of news that probably would have never been known in Loup City had it not appeared in the daily. The item was in he college notes and an nounced that Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Tay lor had given $30,500 to the endow ment fund of Hastings college located at Hastings, Neb. This is a magnifi cent gift and is evidence that Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are doing all in their power to make the educational facili ties of our state equal to any in the union. — Mrs.- Dick Bradley was recently operated upon at Grand Island. She sent the two oldest boys, Clyde and Lee, up to Ord to stay with their aunt. Mrs. Geo. Hubbard. This was a coun l>le of weeks ago and when Clyde came up he had something the ma'ter with one of his eyes. It was not thought to be serious however. Later it proved to be an ulcer and it was thought best to take him home. He went to the Island Sunday under the care of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Huff.— Ord Quiz. Rev. F. W. Burleigh of Cortland, pastor and soldier, is one of the first Nebraskans to qualify for attendance at the Fort Snelling officers' training camp. Rev. Burleigh passed the phy sical examination and was accepted. Mr. Burleigh is pastor of the First Congregational church at Cortland, and the church may grant him a leave of absence during his service. He will enter either the infantry or coast ar tillery. having served in both.—Rev. Burleigh is the son of J. W. Bur leigh, formerly a resident of Loup City and for nine years the editor of The Northwestern. The Burlington construction gang finished up a set of large platform scales at Cashing last week Thursday evening. The boss balanced the scales when he left them for the night. In the morning when he sawr the plat form covered with snow he went to see how much of the “beautiful" was heaped upon the platform and found it weighed 720 pounds. A gallon of water weighs eight pounds so that Uiere was heaped up on those scales as the result of the Thursday night storm just 90 gallons of water. That will give you a chance to figure, if you are good at figures, how much water 1^11 during that storm on one acre of ground or on a farm or on the whole surface of Valley county.— Ord Quiz. The Courier editor was surprised and pleased this morning to greet Judge Aaron Wall and C C. Outhouse of his old home at Loup City, this state, who came in on 41 and left for Lusk, Wvo„ on the Northwestern, where they were going to look after some land holdings owned by them and others of Loup City. Judge Wall is one of the most prominent lawyers and politicians in the state, serving several terms in the state senate anti on the judicial bench, and considered one of the be^t criminal lawyers in the west. Mr. Outhouse is one of the leading stockmen of central Nebraska and both gentlemen are old time friends of the editor and royal good fellows all around. Wish they would come out to this best bountry on earth to make their homes.—Crawford Cour ier. PRETTY HOME WEDDING. Married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Casteel, Tesday evening. May S. 1917, at seven o'clock, their daughter, Bernice Eliza beth to Mr. Claude E. Burt of Lincoln. Rev. Waggoner, pastor of the United Brethren Church of Litchfield, tying the nuptial knot which united the lives of <hese estimable young people, the ring ceremony being used. Only a few of the immediate relatives of the bride and groom and a number of in timate friends witnessed the cere mony. Promptly at 7 o'clock to the strain of the wedding march played by Miss Lila Goodwin, the young couple took their places amid beautiful flowers. Af ter congratulations a three course din ner was served and a most pleasant evening was passed. The bride was most becomingly attired in a dress of white satin trimmed in silver lace and carrying the beautiful bridal roses. Mr. and Mrs. Burt are well and fa vorably known in this community anrl are highly esteemed by all who know them. The hapy couple leave for Lincoln, Thursday noon where they will make their future home, the groom being employed as bookkeeper for the Amer ican Brick & Supply Company in that city. They have the best wishes of the entire community. HAPPILY MARRIED. A very pretty wedding took place at the'home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Pray, ten miles northeast of Loup City, Wed nesday evening. May 9. Rev. J. L. Dunn officiating, when their son. Jay E. Pray was united in marriage to Miss Lottie Bell Henderson. The wedding took place at 8 o'clock. Only the relatives and immediate friends of the bride and groom be ing present, but there were sufficient fo fill the house. The bride was beauti ful in her gown of white silk, carrying a bouquet of carnations and ferns and no less handsome was the groom in his conventional black suit. Imme diately after the ceremony the com pany were invited to the dining room where the tables decorated with large bouquets of cut flowers and ferns, were sptead with a most sumptuous feast to which the guests did ample justice. Mrs. Pray has a host of friends in Greeley county who feel that their loss wTill be our gain as she was belov ed by all who knew her. Especially will she he missed in the home where she was housekeeper for her wMdowed father since the.age of ten years. The groom js a young man well known in the community and to judge by the royal reception given him by the young people of the neighborhood last even ing. Mr. Pray must have been a favor ite among them. Mr. and Mrs. Jay E. Pray will be at home on the J. Q. Pray farm, as Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Pray expect to move to Loup City. Try an ad in the Northwestern. MONTHLY CROP REPORT Washington, D. C.. May S. 1317.—A i summary of the May crop report for the State of Nebraska as complied by the Bureau of Crop Estimates (and transmitted through the Weather Bu I reau). l\ S„ Department of Agricul j ture. is as follows General Review of Crop Conditions in State, May 1. Most of the counties will have a lit tle winter wheat, ranging from the ; occasional field to a better condition ' in a few of the less important counties where possibly one-third to one-half <(f the acreage will be left. Many of the most important counties will have | practically no wheat.. In eastern coun i ties farmers have not yet decided | whether to plow up the wheat fields or : ‘o leave them. If many of these fields I do not show at least a fair prospect by the latter part of the month they will be planted to corn. The condition of the wheat in the eastern counties is very bad. Even ! some of the better fields are nearly | a month late, weedy, thin stand, and , j with many of the underground stems 1 sa badly damaged that it is doubtful if many of them can carry the neces- ] sary nourishment from soil. At be.st. the yield will he light, with unfavor able weather it may he almost nothing. In the western part of the State, the condition of a part of the wheat is fairly good. In the central part of the State where we have the large acre age. there is practically no wheat upon which to report condition. Even the rye was more or less dam aged and many reports indicate a cer tain percentage of abandonment. The condition of ryt left for harvest is low hut is improving. i ne abandonment ot aitaita win be very large but the extent is yet doubt ful. The greateSt damage appears to be confined to a strip east and west through the center of the State which includes many of the most important counties, hut reports indicate damage over the entire State. Fields over three and four years killed out worst. The extent of the damage to last fall seed ing depends upon the quantity of mois ture which was conserved previously | to seeding. Red clover killed out bad ly. From a study of many field condi tions. both clover and alfalfa was damaged by the drought and freezing. The supply of hay on farms is per haps the lowest for some time. The shipments were much htrger than us ual but not equal to the demand. Farmers are delayed with the plow ing due to a late spring, rains, extr.' large per cent of work to be done and the shortage of necessary power. Pro •ically all small grain is seeded ami orn planting has begun. With a large increased acreage, this means a very busy month. Pastures are backward. General Review of Weather Conditions For April, 1917. The weather for the month averaged cold and wet. The lowest temperatures occured in the first ten days and were near 20 degrees; the highest occured between the loth and 20th and were mostly above 85 degrees. The precipi tation was slightly below normal in most of the western half of the State, where it was near or somewhat below 2 inches. In the eastern half it was de cidedly above normal and ranged from 4 to 6 inches generally. Much of tl# precipitation was snow but it melted as it fell quite generally. GIRLS’ TRACK MEET. The high school girls will hold a track meet on the high school play ground Wednesday, May 16, at 3:30 p. m. The events are as follows: i Baseball throw. Basket ball throw. Hundred yard dash. Fifty yard dash. High jump. Running hoard jump. Class baseball relay. Inter-class baseball game. Freshmen and Juniors vs. Sohomores and Seni ors. Admission 15c. Grade children 10c. A BIG SUCCESS. The campaign of the Union Pacific railroad to bring the spare land along its right of way under cultivation has met with phenomenal success. Approximately 26.000 acre3 will be under cultivation in 1917. Including the branch lines, the right of way of the Union Pacific is almost 3,700 miles long, and the right of way acres which will be used for the raising of food crops during the coming sum mer, if all in one piece, would make a strip of land approximately 100 feet wide and 2.200 miles long. Most of this land has been leased to the owners of adjoining farms at a nominal rental of one dollar per year.j Some of it has been under cultivation in previous years, but the recent ap peal to President Wilson for co-op eration in increasing the farm yield of the country has given tremendous impetus to the extended use of these right of way acres. ^ *The figures given above do not in clude small patches that will be cnl ! tivated by the Union Pacific employees and others with whom temporary ar rangements have been made and will be made during the planting season. By the "time all of these small pieces are put under cultivation it will prob ably add several thousand acres a.I ditional to the sum total. If the other railroads of the country do as well in proportion, it will mean a tremendous increase in the pro duction of more food stuffs which is now so essential in the world wide struggle to overcome the destruction being wrought by German subma rines. , The maority of this land is in the richest agricultural sections of the dates through which the rairoad runs. It is scattered along the main line if the Union Pacific in Nebraska, Kan sas, Utah. Wyoming and Colorado, and on the branch lines, especially in ■Cansas and Nebraska. Not all of the right of way of the Union Pacific is available for farm purposes. In some places the right of way is leased on both sides of the track, and in others only one side of ihe track is under lease. The Union Pacific officials antici pate that practically all of this land will ultimately have to he used for purely railroad purposes, but until that time conies, it is intended to en courage the leasing of it for agricul tural purposes to as large an extent as possible. Especially is this true during the present war emergency. PROCLAMATION. As this is a time of the year when the accumulation of the past year, and j especially the winter months are lit tering the streets and alleys of oili city and the regular clean-up time has been delayed several weeks by un favorable weather, I. as mayor of Loup City hereby issue this proclama ion; That from May 15 to 20 be ob served as annual clean-up days in Loup City and that the streets, alleys and back yards of the city be thor oughly gone over and all rubbish, manure and tin cans be removed. Done at Loup City, this 7th day of May. 1917. W. T. GIBSON. Mayor. DENTISTS TO MEET AT OMAHA Omaha. May 2. — The Nebraska State Dental soi iety has selected June 4 to 7 as the date for their annual convention in Omaha. This organiza tion. one of the largest in the state, has assurances of the biggest attend ance in its history. A program of enteraihment is being arranged by the local committee which will surpass any previous af fairs of the conventions in Omaha. The program will include Nebraska dentists as well as out of the state dentists who come to Omaha for this meeting. BOYS AND GIRLS CONTEST J. \V. Long, O. E. Longacre and J. S. Pedler as a committee, have arranged the following prizes for boys and girls contest: For the Loup City boy or girl under 18 years of age who labors as’a farm hand or domestic the greatest number of days between the closing of school in the spring and commencement of school in the fall, not including Sun days : First Prize.$15.00 Second Prize. 10.00 Third Prize. 5.00 For the most productive acre of corn in the county planted, tended and husk ed hv any boy in the county under 18 years of age: First Prize.$15.00 Second Prize. 10.00 Third Prize. 5.00 For the best kept garden lot in Loup City by a boy or girl under IS years of age. lot to be the size of 25x50 feet or more: First Prize.$15.00 Second Prize. 10.00 Third Prize. 5.0* * A prize of $10 will be given to the organization of boys or girls under IS years of age for the best kept vacant lot as a garden, in Loup City. Contestants for best kept garden or vacant lot must register with the sec retary. J. S. Pedler on or before July 15. 1917. Contestants for best acre of corn, on or before Sept. 1, 1917. Contestants of time employed as -i farm hand or domestic, Sep. 15, 19.7. Boys and girls, get busy and register in the time required by the commiuef By Order of The Committee. CANE REPLACES CORN. In case patches of corn are de stroyed by too much rain, replanting with cane as late as the first of July is recommended by the department of animal husbandry of the University of Nebraska. Cane is an appetizing feed for stock, produces a crop in a short growing season, and gives a large yield. Furthermore, it is very hardy. Attend the Union Pacific Prepared ness Special tonight. PROGRAM. The following is the program to be given by the choruses and the girl’s gym nasium class of the high school, on Friday evening. May 11, at the high school auditorium. !. Spring Morning ...Prindlp O'er the Waters Gliding (from Tales of Hoffman).Ofienbach Gleam. Gleam, O Silver Stream.P. De Faye Chorus ***iigli 2. Lift Thine Eyes (from Elijah)....Mendelssoim Crossing the Bar . Barnby The Lost Chord .Sullivan Chorus 3. Daddy . Behrend Welcome Pretty Primrose .Piasuti Girls’ Double Quartet 1. All thru the Night .Old Welsh Autumn Lullaby . Fean's Chorus 5. Bridal Chorus (from the Rose Maiden) .Coweti Chorus 8. Just a Wearvin’ for You .Bond Helma Jung 7. Soldiers Chorus (from Faust) .Gounod Boola Song .'..Hirsh Boating Song ..Ely ; Chorus % GYMNASIUM CLASS 1. Tactic Drill 2. Mazurka Step 3. Wand Drill 4. Calisthenics 5. Swedish Folk Game Star Spangled Banner to be sung by audience and chorus Program begins at 8 P. M. No Admission. Summer Normal Session ACCREDITED OPENS MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1917, IN THE St. Paul Normal and Business College SL Paul, Nebraska ! COURSES OFFERED All subjects leading,to all grades of County Teachers’ Certificates. All subjects leading to all grades of City and State Teachers’ Certificates. All subjects leading to a Life or Professional Certifi cate. Our Model School Work and Primary Methods will be a strong feature. Full credit will be given for all work done during our Summer School. Expenses will be LOW and accommodations excellent. Commercial and Stenographic Courses also offered. 9 For Further Information Kindly Address ST. PAUL NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE JOS. S. ZOCHOLL, Manager St. Paul, .... Nebraska - w... —1
