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Loup City Northwestern A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN ME rnv 1 LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1917 NUMBER 30 * mmrnmm - ■ —..... .. WAP. FUND IS GROWING nltttno::* have Bern mtnitu. in > f<* t*n- K*h1 Crw» War Fund •tu: maty's quota is tS.Mdi ant! - * -? T! ..•• •! that about ..of this ,51011*1! ha- bee* »ub*.r-rib**d. .v F Masco $100.00 J & Pee e- 10T.00 Van T We scott 25.00 L B P • 25.00 D C Ote» 25.00 Mlm Larsen 25.00 M R H William* 25.00 C C Carisen 100.00 A E. Cna-iton 25.00 A B Outbcuse 100.00 L ~s Bats 25.00 £»re non Loose 50 00 0 F Be-i-iwser 25.00 - - - -mar Canten Mo. 14 5.00 0 L- Snansen 25.00 1 -p C ty Loop- 33 A. O. U. W. 50.00 - ta J f jrnram 25.00 jnaen Lbr. Cc 50.00 E Galianay 25.00 -.-ter L03pe '06 A. F. A A. M. 50.00 E. P Daily 25.0C L. Hansen __ . 50.0C Get Lcrentx 25.0C Loup Vaiiey Camp 338 W. O. W. 50.0C E A Smith 25 0C L H Currier 25.0C . Mr Long 100.0C D-s Ben man 25.OC W R. Merer 52 0C Aehn Orisen 25.0C tu . rr>. .A Ledge 50.0C Ha.et.na Cr. 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Is*a down m«. river and re port* tl.e p»s.ple almon nm per cent iatrK>t. am. almost Urn j^r ct.nt gen •-rass A number ul the subscribers report •d !tus week also took membership! * bub we »:ll have no report of unlj, tbe blank, get into the bands of tt»e ^airman of tbe membership commit but »e *-xpe<t before the lampeiei * i*er to publish the names of all wbt Lsi. contributed to the cause in ant way ur any .um Judge Pedler with a bunch of Ret Crows girls was in Webster and Wash lngtu!. townships this week trying u put Sherman county oa the map am square uatrselves with the nation if doing Hs . .are to the Red Croc# wai fund, and returned all swelled up re porting that the people of Shermai ■•a; y were the best ever and the Red Cross girls as near angels as they can get. it is reported that some disloyalty is exhibited in Loup City and vicinity Opposition to Red Cross work and open empathy with the German govern tuent will not be tolerated. We have! been forced into this war, a war for liberty and democracy and people who; are not heart and soul with our coun try should not be allowed to share its iienetit- or reside within its borders Disloyalty in this critical time is the; blackest of crimes. SAVING A NATION. It is the history of all nations since history was written that there come i rises in the national life of all peo ples when prompt action is impera i.\e if destruction be averted. Some peoples have taken such action and lived, while others have slumbered and died. Grave as the consequences of our present struggle are apt to be, the American people, it can be seen more - learly as time passes, are being saved b> it from an even greater danger which threatened them—the danger of ’ over prosperity and over-indulgence. Kven now. since we have entered upon the task of mobilizing American re-ourecs, the mind staggers at thei ■ seal- values aggregated. Where a : ears ago we whispered in awe, of millions, now we speak of billions: as g. tiiy as a school girl prattles of, pin money. 11118* HI UMMl V* • UIU IIVI < Uii 'll luit-d such a grave danger had not' ■ Ur people trained then personal li es| -ii th same va.-t scale. Front talk , tug m thousands to living in thous and* an easy step. The same is true, '•f minions. As our operations in-1 i rea>etl and our national wealth piled’ up our personal ideas enlarged apace., until w hen w e woke up last April to j find ourselves the probable deciding .faitor in the greatest war of all his-] to-\ wt discovered ourselves living at' a raie that could have had but one possible ending national disaster, if i.ot national death War i* horrible We shrink from it and w ish from the bottom of our; hearts that it could he banished from tt- 'art!, forever more. Yet in this’ war the heroes who die for us on the fields of France will confer a: greater blessing upon their country than merely preserving its honor, as; the world sees honor. They will have , saved us from national moral decay] ami death For the domestic revolu tu: without which our part in the ot.fi t . an not be carried cut. is the upheaval that was needed to lake our feet out of the road to death and set jthem on the road to a broader and I i saner life. BIG MEETING AT LITCHFIELD Sunday. July 1st will be long remem • red by the people of this locality as me of the most significant dates in the history of Litchfield. It was the ocea- i sion of the great Red Cross rally in the Park when the rank and file of our ■ I'izenrv assembled for the purpose of n.rming a Red Cross auxiliary chapter. Never ha- there been a subject brought more vividly before the minds of the I - ,|c . f i. chfield than that of Sun day afternoon. Hon John W Long of Loup City, hair-man of the Sherman Countv • hapTer of the Red Cross, delivered the opening address, detailing briefly' i he things that the Red Cross intends i. do in the great war. i i. '!.u men iniroaucea non J. s j Pedler who spoke on the different j phases of the work of the Red Cross! .is a helping unit in war time. Judge Aaron Wall was the next' speaker on the program. The Judge ! delivered a stirring and patriotic ad dre-s on the subject of the Red Cross and ver\ agressivelv attacked the sy» (tem iif autocracy which is now en deavoring to overcome the great demo . rati, forms of government of the world He denounced the submarine warfare, characterizing it as the most ; despicable form of fighting that has ever ie-en introduced by a world pow j er and one that in its savagery would nuis a Sioux Indian blush with shame I :u his palmiest days. George Slate, the local chairman. • made a short address after which sev • eral committees were chosen. Nearly seven hundred nollars was lie. red just after the meeting. One msand is the apportionment for this ilistri't. and its up to us as citijens of1 a wideawake community to get busy and rai<e our balance.—Litchfield Mon- j j itor. A FOURTH WITHOUT FIREWORKS ; St ward county had a new kind of a Fourth of July this year—a celebra i •inn in which fireworks, cannon crack j ers and burned powder played little part More than S00 farmers and farm ! -trs' wives in lL’H autoes took part in j a monstet agricultural tour of the coun : : ty. looking over the best farms and ; farm homes. This tour was arranged jointly by C.^ \V. Smith. County Agricultural Agent, and Miss Esther Warner, County Home I»emonsitration Agent All of the towns of the county gave up their usual cele brations and turned their attention to making the tour a success, with no | counter attractions elsewhere. Things , of the farm and of the kitchen were dis i cussed by speakers on the trip. A patriotic address at noon and a ; patr the , it distinctly an Independence Day af j fair as well as an instructional event. LOUP CITY NEWS NOTES. Daily sells for less. The Loup City hall team will play Arcadia at Arcadia next Sunday. Mrs. Lula Rurke came up from her home at Austin yesterday to do some shopping. ' Miss Gladys Swanson of Murphy, is in our city this week visiting wi’h her many friends. Miss Halena Jamilewicz went to Schaupps. Wednesday morning to visit her friend, Rose Tapolski Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Fries and Mrs. Jane Landers autoed down from Ar cadia. Wednesday and spent several hours in our city. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Taylor and daughter. Lucille, will leave tomor row for Colorado, where, they will spend ten days in the mountains. Vic Swanson came up from Mur phy in iiis auto S: turday and went to Pony Lake Sunday morning with sev eral local men on a fishing expedition. Henry Jenner left Tuesday morning for Lincoln, where Ite will consult an optician about his eyes which have been bothering him considerable of late. Dwight Willis left las Saturday via auto to Ravenna where lie look the train to Hvanuis to visit with his par ruts a while before lie 1 i ailed to the front. • Tuesday afternoon the Loup City Boy Scout ball team defeated the Litchfield Boy Scouts in a ten inning game at Jenners' park by the score of ft to 8. E. P. Daily has purchased a new auto hearse to use in connection with his business as undertaker. Mr. Dailv dxpects the new hearse to arrive about August 1st. Mrs. A. H. Hansel returned home Wednesday evening from Omaha where she had been to see her soil who was hurt a while back while switching in the freight yards at Grand Island. The fourteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Bauhard, residing northwest of Loup City died Wednes day of tonsilitis. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at three o'clock p. m. Obituary- next week. William Meryhew came down from Arcadia and worked at I. L. Conger's barber shop while Mr. Conger was up to Pony Lake on a fishing trip. William Iks joined the Ord company and will join his company the fifteenth of this month. t > James W. Conger was seriously in jured at Pony Lake Tuesday afternoon when a loaded shot gun fell out of an auto he was driving and exploded when it hit the ground, the charge tearing a hole in his arm and twenty six shot entering his chest Medical aid was summoned immediately and as it was feared that the wound in the arm would result in the loss of that member. Mr. Conger was taken to the Grothan hospital at St. Paul yesterday, as that was the closest; point to Pony Lake where expert med ical aid could be secured. Mrs. Conger went to St. Paul yesterray to he with her injured husband, latest reports from the hospital state that Mr. Con ger's arm can be saved and that he is resting easy. While the injury is serious, it might have been much worse and is a sad ending of a vaea tion trip that was looked forward to with much pleasure. — LUTHERANS TO CELEBRATE. On July 22. all Lutherans of Sher man. Buffalo, and Custer counties will assemble in Ravenna. Neb., just south of the viaduct, for a joint celebration of the Four Hundredth Annivesary of Jhe Reformation. Sermons, four in all. will be delivered in both the German and English language, giving the his tory of the Lutheran church, and es pecially setting forth what the Refor mation has meant and still means to i all nations of the globe. The names of the speakers engaged are: Professors F. W. C. Jesse and P. Reuter of Seward Seminary, and the Reverends J. Joeckel and A. Schormani of Germantown and Staplehurst. Neh..j respectively. Lutherans all over the country are celebrating the anniversary of this great national event, the Reformation, in like manner. The Evangelical Lutheran church is the largest Protestant church in the world, numbering almost as many members as all the others combined over 70.000,000. In this country it ranks third among the Protestant bodies, its membership being 2.445.000 communi cants—communicants being confirmed members above the ages of 13 or 14 years. Nearly 10.000 pastors minister to over 15,000 congregations. The last ten years, according to the census, it increased 4© per cent more rapidly than the population of the Unit ed States, and 20 per cent more rapidly than any other church. Its actual in crease is ©4.68 per cent. During the last fifty years in our country it has doubled its membership every fourteen years. The American Lutheran church is conducting 139 schools of high edu cation—seminaries, colleges, academies —with 1,200 teachers and over 17,000 students. The largest theological semi nary in the United Stab - is the Mis souri Synod Concordia Seminary in St Louis, where over 330 students are pre paring for the ministry. The first service in Ravenna will be gin at 10 a in. sharp. All. also those outside the Lutheran church, are cordially invited. Refreshments will be on hand but everybody bring his own sandwitch. . REV WM. PEI ERSON. Hazard. Neb. NEBRASKA GUARD IN JULY 15. The Nebraska national guard will be called into the federal Service July 15 In less than a month the Nebraska boys will be on their way to the southern concentration camps in preparation for actual participation in the European struggle. August 5 is the date set for formally drafting the Nebraska troop - into the service. President Wilson issued a proclama tion Monday drafting the entire nation al guard of the country mo the Unit ed States army to date from August 5 next. He also has called out the regi ments for active service. The national guard of Nebraska, Io wa. North and South L.-.kota will be called into federal service July 15 and sent to concentration < amps in the south although the draft will not applv formally to these troops until August 5. This call covers all m- tubers of the national guard and it- t serve not al readv in federal service except a few officers and si>e< ial unit not required for tactical orgauizaiou. Rape For Fall Hog and Sheep Feed Rape plained in the a at the time the corn is "laid by" wi. make an ex cellent forage for hogs and sheep in the fall, according to th animal hus bandrv section of the * Nebraska Ex periment station. This w 1 give an ex tra crop from coni grout. 1 without In juring the corn, as the n.pe makes its growth after the corn 1 well on its way to maturity. Rape contains a high per cent of protein, and consequently makes an excellent supplement to corn In Lincoln it often stays green as late as Thanksgiving. In ca>e it is not used as a feed, it may be used as a soiling crop by plowing it under in the fall. It may be sown in the cornfield broadcast. I1" to it. pounds an acre. Seed retails at about 15 cents a pound in small quantities. VACCINATE HOGS AND CALVES "This is no year in which to take chances: vaccinate your hogs for cholera and your calves for blackleg." This is the advice of the department of animal pathology of the Uiverstty of Nebraska. Meat is so high that no stockman can afford not to take out the insurance vaccination affords. Vat cine used for blackleg is supplied by the government through the Depart ment of Animal Pathology. University Farm. Lincoln. HOUSE FOR RENT. I have a small house with five lots for rent at $fi.0O per month.—R. H. Mathew. 25 tf “Tailoring First” in Palm Beach Suits The genuine Palm Beach Cloth has merit—that is an established fact—but the first essential to satisfaction in clothes made of this fea ther weight mid-summer cloth, is tailoring. There is hardly anything cooler than a Palm Beach suit, one who would enjoy mid summer comfort, should buy a “High Art• Palm Beach” We have all sizes and models including sport backs. Cast off that woolen suit and know%what real hot-weather comfort is. Gus Lorentz I COUNTY BILLS ALLOWED — July 2, 1917. Board of Equalization met this af temoon with all members present ex eepf W. T. Gihson. Minutes read and on motion ap proved as read Board on motion adjourned till Aug 15. 1917 July 10. 1917. County board of supervisors met in regular session ibis morning with all members present. Minutes on motion approved as read. J. C. Bone tax protest disallowed. Board on motion adjourned for din ner. Met after dinner. Pee books of county officers examin ed. found correct, on motion approved j and follow. ! Sheriff, first half 1917. 44.25 Judge, first half 1917 . 409.9.7 Co. Treas irer. first haK 1917 33.25 County Clerk, first half 1917.... J.137.75 ‘Co. Supt.. first half 1917. 14S.55 I Clerk District Court, first half 1917 . 503.3P ! Poor farm on motion duly made, seconded ar.d carried rented to \V. H. Watts for a neriod of three years for $1,000 cash per year. Thos. Grella on motion allowed $100 for strip of land taken for change of road on section 15-15-13. Chairman appointed Gibson and Johnson omn. ttee on construction of hog house on poor farm and a coal house for the • ourt house. Board on motion authorized $75 and Clerk of District Court's old npevsrit er for a new na< bine for said office. Kozel A.- Gibson ordered to look al ter riprapping at Rockville river bri dge. General Fund. Mrs. Daisy Fletcher, potatoes $ 10.00 State Journal Co.. Xo 12 and 13 217.00 Prompt Printery. supplies. 2.25 University Pub. Co., supplies.... 6.39 Klopp & Bartlett Co., supplies 79-S0-81-S2-S3-S4 . 97.46 Hammond & Stephens Co., sup plies . 22.42 | Sherman County Times, sup plies . 39.41 | C. A. Potter, juror . 1.00 jjohn Cvnova. juror . . 1.00 IH. W. Hale, juror . 100 Geo. B. Heapy. juror . 1.0' Chas. Dorman, juror ....'.. 1.00 \V. S. Waite, juror . 1/T I Dr. C. A. Rydberg, witness . 1.00 : Aaron Wall, insanity board, tax 3.00 Dr. A. J. Kearns, insanity board 8.0 | Chas. Ba«'«. insanity board . 6.5 j Geo. E. Pelton Sales Co., twp. ribbons . 10.00 ' C .E. Thornton, drayage .5f i Austin Store, flour . 2S.35 | Klopp & Bartlet. supplies Xo. 85 5.12 'Wilber S. Waite, rent . 116.00 ] Zimmerman & Waite, livery.... 33.00 Hansen Lumber Co., coal . 17.15 Hammon k Stephens, supplies 72.5S W. H. Rightenour. notice, tax 1.30 Dr. A. S. Main, professional services . 10.70 ! D. C. Grow, office expense . 13.00 j State Journal Co., supplies 14 62.50 ij. A. Arnett & Son. supplies Brandt . 41.S4 I C. R. Sweetland. sweeping com pound,. etc. 3.60 L. H,, Currier. Co. Supt.j.. 125.41 , L. A Williams. Sheriff. 27.33 Welch Mfgr. Co., supplies. 22.50 Chas. Bass. Clerk Dist. Court 26.25 O. F. Peterson. Co. Assessor.... 11.26 | C. L. McDonald, drayage. 2.40 i Loup City Xorthwestern. sup piles . ii.iv ; C. C. Carlsen. insurance. 41.12 Times Pub Co., supplies . 10.45 : E. A. Smith, Co. Judge . 69.75 j L. L. Stephens. Co. Attorney.... 25i.20 F. X. Badura. supplies Mrs. Jaros . 9.25 O. L. Swanson, supplies. 16.50 j Mat Janulewicz, labor . 29.00 | Keystone Lbr. Co., lumber etc. 72.15 ! Aaron Wall, insanity board, tax 3.0C | A. J. Kearns, insanity board.8.00 I Chas. Bass, insanity board. 6.50 i C. E. Paul, witness .. 2.0C | Keystone Lbr. Co., coal . 9.85 j T. A. Gzehoviak.' lumber . 29.70 | Ida Benson Betts, rent . 7.00 j Arphie Arnett, expense insane patient . 9.20 Dr. A. S. Main, expense insane patient . 6.45 Aaron tWall. insanity board, tax .26 Aaron Wall, insanity board. 2.74 A. S. Main, insanity board . 8.00 Chas. Bass, insanity board . 6.00 E. J. Maus. trip to Hastings. 22.00 Loup City Northwestern, sup plies . 7.85 State Journal Co., supplies 15 26.75 L. B. Polski, Co. Clerk . 56.75 Rockville Auto Co., livery. 6.00 Hans Johnson, supervisor. 37.00 Wenzel Remolinski. supervisor 37.00 F. T. Richmond, supervisor. 39.50 E. F. Kozel, supervisor . 39.50 i W. O. Brown, supervisor.,. 57.40 ! W. T. Gibson, supervisor. 32.00 ! Geo. Brammer. supervisor. 39.50 Bridge Fund. Ashton Lbr. Co., bridge lumber 159.10 A. Seabeck, unloading bridge plank .a. 24.00 1 S. E. Sorensen & Co., nails. 18.65 j Hans Johnson, supervisor . 20.00 IWm. Jung, bridge work. 6.00 | E. F. Kozel, supervisor . 4.00 | W. O. Brown, supervisor . 18.00 G. W. Brammer. supervisor. 4.00 Road Fund. E. B. Corning. Co. Surveyor. 141.10 V. 1. McDonald, chainman . 52.50 Ross Corning, chainman. 52.50 Mat Janulewicz, chainman. 5.00 Hans Johnson, supervisor.. 7.00 E. F. Kozel. supervisor . 10.00 -1. \V. Brammer. supervisor. 6.00 Dragging. Ijopan township . SO ( 0 Hazard township .. 80 00 Board on motion adjourned tdl 0 \. M.. August 15. 1S17. L. B. POLSKI .Countv Clerk FARMERS AND FOOD CONTROL. An illuminating side light on the food situation is contained in some expressions inserted in the congres sional record recently by Senator Smith of Michigan. These were from farmers' organizations and individual farmers, and they without exception endorsed the food control measures before congress. These expressions give us a pretty clear idea as to whence come the present panic prices. We are told wjth great unction that this is the first time in our history that the farmer has received for his products what they were really worth. But let us see. What is the object of food control? Whence comes the in sistant demand? Plainly, the demand is the direct result of food prices that are out of all proportion to wages and to prices in every other line. Is it rea sonable to believe that if the farmers were receiving anything like the pres ent retail prices—minus, of course, a reasonable per cent of middlemen's profit—that they would be not only willing but anxious to kill the goose that lays the golden egg? The plain truth is, the farmer is not benefitted by the present high prices of food in any degree to recompense him for what he is injured hv extrava gant prices in other lines. He is pay ing vastly more for every purchase he makes, from a plow point to a tractor engine. What he gains from his small profits on his sales of food stuffs is more than offset by the enor mous increase in the cost of every thing that he must buy to operate his farm. This the farmers know, and this is why they are, almost without ex ception. heartily in favor of govern ment food control—a control which will establish a minimum as well as a maximum price. The speculating food pirates will have to hunt some other scapegoat for their sins instead of the farmer and his '‘interests." RECORDS OF THE TROOPS. At this time when our heroic young men are entering the service of their country, we, at home, ought to take steps to keep the records, that future generations may know how the war was fought and history made. Let the Selectmen of every town and the Mayor of every city appoint a local recorder or historian: To keep a record of the deeds of those who serve their country. To keep in touch with the Casualty Bureau at Washington. To keep each individual soldier in touch with his home town. To supply friends at home with the details of casualties, the location of the injured in hospitals, and of the prisoners in prisons. To forward letters and donations to them. A man without relatives at home will feel that someone is interested in his personal experience and that they will be put on record. When the end of the war comes * then the records can be put into shape and filed in the town archives, or pub lished. as shall seem best. Such a record would be of incalcu lable local historic value. Meanwhile now, at the beginning, is the time to get started on the records. Let those in authority organize and act before the record is lost. AUGUSTUS H. F1SKE. in Providence Journal. HERE AND THERE. Newcastle (Ind.) Courier—Even if Gen. Pershing didn't get “Villa.” that's no sign he won’t get the Kaiser. South Bend Tribune — The proper place for food speculators is in the front line trenches; but perhaps the army officers would reject them as re cruits on the ground that they were of poor moral character. Evening Wisconsin — The “very great powers” for which President Wilson asks should be considered be fore being conceded. The conclusion may be that under existing circum stances they are greater than should be given to any man. Pittsburg Gazettt-Times—The more one hears of what the administration intends to tax for war revenue, the more one wonders why they don’t de cree a tag day for Uncle Sam. Minneapolis Tribune — It will help some if the necessities of war lead the South to raise more hogs and fewrer dogs. MARRIED. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Harding of East Lincoln. Neb.. July 9. 1917. Mr. Charles K. Kupke of North Loup. Neb., and Miss Nancy J. Lewis of Loup City. Neb.. J. L. Uunn officiat ing. Miss Lewis is well known in this community, having lived here a num ber of years. Mr. Kupke is an indus trious young farmer, having accumu lated considerable property and is the owner of a good farm well improved, seven miles southwest of North Loup, where the young couple will hereafter make their future home. Many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Kup ke join in wishing them a happy and prosperous journey through life. Try Chase’s first—it pays. Every man admires a pretty girl— and she knows it MONTHLY CROP REPORT Washington, July 11.—A three bil lion bushel prospective crop of corn this year is the answer returned by farmers of the Ignited States to Presi dent Wilson’s call for food for Ameri cas allies in the war. Never before has such a crop been grown. Production forecasts of the coun try's principal crops announced to day by the department of agriculture follow: Winter wheat 402.000.ortO; all wheat 678.000. 000. Corn 3,124.000,000. First announcement of areas plant ed: Corn 121.045.000 acres; white po tatoes 4.384.000; sweet potatoes 904 000; tobacco 1.418.000; flax 1.9S9.0OO; rice 968,000; oats 1,453,000; barley 214.000; rye 561.000; white potatoes 452,000; sweet potatoes S22.000 tobac co (pounds! 1,215.000; flax 17.000, hay (tons), 103.000; apples 200,000 barrels; peaches 435,000 barrels. Condition of corn and spring wheat by important states: Corn—Ohio, 85; Indiana 80; Illinois 81; Iowa 86; Missouri S7; Nebraska 86; Kansas 77. Spring wheat—Minnesota 87; N Dakota 73 and S. Dakota 89. Wheat remaining on farms July l estimated at 15.720,000 bushels. Conditions of*crops July 1. follow: Winter wheat 75.9; spring wheat 83.6; all wheat 7g.9; corn 81.1; oats 89.4: barley 85.4; rye 79.4: white po tatoes 90.1; sweet potatoes 81.9; to bacco 86.8; flax 84.0; rice 85.1; hay 84.3; apples 64.0 and peaches 55.2. In its first forecast of corn produc lion this year the department of ay riculture announced that July 1 con ditions forecast a crop of 3,124,000,OUO bushels. Sixteen million more acres this year were planted to corn than last year and the acreage exceeds the former record area planted in 1909 bu. 13.000. 000 acres. The wheat crop, responding to bet ter weather conditions during June, shows an increase of about 22.000.000 bushels in prospects, with a total of 678.000. 000 bushels, or 38.000.000 larg er than last year's crop. A record crop of white potatoes al so is forecasted with a production of 452.000.000 bushels. That would ex coed the previous largest crop grown in 1012 by 32.000.000 bushels. Pros pects of the rye crop show a slight decrease from the June forecast but the production will be a record with a total of 56,100.000 bushels. KEEP THE DOLLARS MOVING. Business is activity. Stagnation means decay. As there can be no life in stagnant waters, just so there can be none in stagnant business. Gets this fact well tn mind: Business activity comes not from hoarding, but from spending. What would the world do without its spendthrifts? They may carry a virtue to an extreme, but as to the effect on business, better far that than the hoarding of the miser. We are urged to rally to the colors we are urged to enter the army of the furrows; we are urged to conse crate our all upon the altar of our country, and we are urged to practice the strictest kind of ecohomy. The advice is conflicting. Our ad visers should employ a different term from "economy." It is right that we eliminate waste—wanton waste that brings good to no one. But quit spending? Never! That way lies business stagnation, want, ar.d ultimate panic. Imagine a community entirely inde pendent of the outside world. It has a combined capital of $100,000. which is sufficient to carry on ali of its business. But the cry of “hard times-’ goes out, purses are closed, and the result is inevitable. The world is composed of communi ties. In and between these communi ties the public life blood (gold) must flow if life be sustained. But stop the flow of that life blood and industrial decay and death is the inevitable re sult. We must earn, and keep on earn ing. And equally as important, we must spend, and keep on spending. Xot waste, not reckless extravagance, but systematic, intelligent spending, that shall keep the golden life blood bounding through the commercial ar teries of the nation, stimulating every nook and corner of the land to a well night superhuman exertion. We must keep the armies of dollar^ moving if wre would keep the living armies progressing. The idleness of one will insure the impotence of the other. Red Cross Meeting at Rockville ; The people of Rockville and commun | ity are cordially invited to attend the | Red Cross meeting on the lawn of Chris i Nielson next Sunday afteroon at three i o’clock. Prominent speakers will be | present at this meeting and a good program will he given. No American citizen in the entire community should miss this important meeting. NOTICE. On account of the advance in prices of everything, all the owners of thresh ing machines in the county have de cided to charge more for the threshing of grain. Oats 3% cents, barley 4 cents and wheat bVx cents and coal fur nished.—Threshers of Sherman Co. Howard and Fred Beck of Steam boat Springs, Colo., are here visiting this week with their uncles, E. T. and C. F. Beushausen, and families.
