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, Loup City Northwestern A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN \ ul.l ME XXXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917 NUMBER 40 LOUP CITY NEWS NOTES. Bhiiy sells tor less. Try Chase's first—it pays. Mr- HenryV new fa!! mill’reey A the! tor- Chase was a I.* u. Sines* pas ■* • r*T to lire icvtlle. Monday. '* -*• A:ne GeMasten spent Su’ir iij with home folk- in tr Paui ’r Aug I 'lets came up from Hock • Monday to do some shopping Genev.ev* Welsch visited with —- : »ik» .is Central City last Friday r. G Ta .Jr was a business passen ;-■* t«- < ituaiia. Monday, via Ravenna Mr- f-.»w -»re Smith v .'t to North ■-oep Tu--<ia» to efaend the day with r«iath ***> 1- A Wi iiatn- returned home last •saiimt-it treat Grand Island where he was tMt business i-p . wpui services will t>e held in ttie German < : iryh next Wednesday net;mg, Sept 26. Mr- Wm Kay went to Grand Is -• - t-ia 'o vi-it over Suti das with relatives Mr- }', irr Kubbin* took her hast and the -juta; at St Path Monday fot medical treatment Mrs t j. Zijnn<~r' *t»*nt Sunday w » \;r and Mrs A. O Zimmerman and family, at Arrad»a. Mr u: d Mrs J li O'Bryan left last for Ogden I tab where they » -I-ud about ten days visiting Mr- S K Ga lawav went to Centra) City taal S 9 .nday with her daughter Mrs Turrentin? Tt.e Misses Hazel anti Doris Congei we: ■ • An adia . Saturday evening art - re :: expert to attend school. !!:-• Nina Anderson t me in las’ Saturday evening from Aurora to visit a few day - with Mtss Lillian Johnson v- G W Whitaker and Mrs Em tna toner were Grand Island passeu psr- last Saturday and spent Sunday trldtls(. Mr- H 8. Conger returnee to hei * >n Ar adia Saturday evening af ter a few days visit here with friend and relative*. V-* Tern M: llravy and Mrs Car’ • w autie-d to Anselmo last Satur e.a • v a few davs with Mrs Les ter Hddlleaon. Mrs Asa J Farnham and son. re turned home Monday evening from Omaha wh'-re they have lieen lb* pas: w<-ea visiting Mr- Lamoiit L Stephens returned ..s’ Saturday evenin', from I'lys ses. where she has been for some timi visiting with relatives. V and Mrs Frank Widdle cpme it lis» Saturday from W»< o and spent Sunday with the Chas Biehl family returning home Monday Mr and Mrs Oliver Johnson and Mr r *... • to Aurora last Saturday and spent Sunday with relatives and friends. Duff and Dorothy Hansen returne* home : > Hastings last Saturday aftei ar: extended visit here with their bro it rr and sikTer. IV E and Mable Han V — J1-* l» N Li.tnt-r and daughter Mr* Wui Banta. returned to then ■m- in Halting* last Saturday afte a short risi: here with their son ani brother C V Brner. and fami'y. The Bureau of Publicity, through •he .Northwestern, wants stories of trrs good < rop yields with full names and '..1 part;- And it particular iy mar • r*-[sjrt- of average tracts that have ievtr been cultivated and which nay te available for farming. Ad ires* Bureau of Publicity. State House. Lincoln. Nebraska. A tajut 20 dentists have come to La*up City from d.fferert parts of the hate to take their examination for the Dental Corps from Preliminary Examiner. Dr. S. A Allen. Several of the candidates have been commis sioned The army of the United States will have a regular Dental Corps very much the same as its Med al Corps. A soldier with aching or rotten teeth, it has been found, soon ■ me* inefficient, and is most li able to get sick. M ss Gladys Louthan of Holdrege e champion earner, pickier and preserver of Nebraska. She proved it i : y her exhibit at the recent State b air. and now has the proof in shape j of a certificate to that effect signed ' y the proper officials of the Nebras ka State Agricultural Society. Miss Luuthan showed twenty-six varieties of pickles, fifty-two varieties of jams, jellies and marmalades, thirty-one arietie- of vegetables and three var ieties of soups. She performed all the work herself in her home, and a goodly share of the vegetables she canned were raised in her own home garden. Miss Hazel Furaan of Kearney is the "runner up” in the canning contest, she having won second place at the state fair with 102 vanties of jams, marmalades and canned fruits and vegetables. The Holdrege girls seem to be hustlers, for Miss Irma Holtquist of that city won third prize with an even 100 var :: e>. Doubtless these Nebraska girls .m play the piano and dance divinely, but there are a lot of people who will consider their s£ill as housekeepers as a far greater accomplishment. There are many old fashioned people left, f you look around for them. HED CROSS. Janies liariuuek .HO.Or James Bowman . 2.50 Jens P. Hansen . 5.0C S C Fletcher . 5.0C i J S Needham . 5.00 ; J F Peters . 4.0C I Vern Alleman . 5.00 j F. G. Casteel . 5.0C j C. L. Alleman . 5 00 Guenen Rousc-h . 25 OC In addition to the above quite a num if r have taken membership in the Red Cross Society, and everybody seems v. iiiing to do their bit in furnisliini the quota of funds alloted to Sherman county to be forwarded to the Statf Council of Defense for the purpose of supplying material for the material needed by the women who registered for service on the 12th of this month A CALL FOR HELP. "We will be glad indeed for any ap pies you may send us; for while we had a bright prospect for several hun <!r*-d bu.-hels of apples, we virtually have none now. also, we had a flatter ini: prospect for at least three thous and bushel of corn that was literally destroyed:" 1 he above paragraph is taken from a letter dated Sept. G. 1917, signed by 11. Spurlpok. Superintendent -Mo i ther’s Jewel's Home. York. Neh. At this home eighty-three father less and unfortunate children are fed | clothed and educated. This is one o ' the institutions supported by the M S. Church. We have always been ac-cus . »omed to send them supplies, such a aimed fruits and necessities. This year the urgency of the call come from the fact that the farm on whirl Mother Jewel's Home is located lie j ;n the hail streak just west of Yon and the crop was destroyed, the or hard was stripped of its fruit, and the garden ruined. These children must be fed. The obii gaticn to feed and clothe them rests upon no one more than upon us. A1 ready our people have begun to re spond to the call. Apples, potatoes beans, canned fruit, and money if lef at Mrs C J Tracy's residence or a' the ofli'-e of J W. Long, will be glad !y and quickly forwarded to the Home Empty cans will be exchanged for fu! .•ans at Mrs. Trat v's. This is the list of some of the needs as sent out by the He me. "Overalls for boys from 6 to 1: years of age; boys' waists, aprons fo girls from 6 to 12 years of age; rom tiers for children from 3 to 5; unior suits for winter, all sizes; underwaists garters or elastics, shoes, buttons white thread, sheets, bedspreads, rag rugs, rag carpets, canned and dried fruit and dry groceries." I ak-sar-ben will show "TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRACY” Omaha, September. Depicting in all its granduer the Triumph of De mocracy.the electrical parade of Ak Sar- Ben, Wednesday night, October 3, will tell the story of the greatest of all institutions. Democracy, and will give the history of its rise in the most spectacular manner. Eighteen floats beginning with the first showing the fading away of I aristocracy and autocracy, to the last > showing “Peace”, emblematic of; brotherhood in Democracy will tell the story as it has never been told j before. Never in the history has i such a parade and delineation been j possible before, because never before has there been the incentive for such j an exhibition. This year’s festivities will mark the climax of a long time line of bril-; liant programs and will do honor to the Board of Governors who have but one desire—to please their subjects, the great citizenship of Nebraska and Iowa. Several good residence properties n Loup City for sale on the install ment plan. See R. H. Mathew. 25 tf « A LETTER FROM CASH. Out in tlie Jungle, between El Paso and Denting. X. M Priend Prank: Well Frank at last after months of patient waiting we have gotten off. At Grand Island the people there gave u , a great send off But at Hastings 1 ! believe we got a greater one. The Ord Company I joined us at Grand Island and at Hastings we were joined by Company G. of Hastings. Company E of North Platte and Company L. of Gothenberg, all together we number some seven hundred or a little bet ter and for discipline and war tactics you would be surprised to see what a few months training can do. We are • now prepared to leave Hastings. We have a train of thirty-six car loads of soldiers, just one-third of the good old Fifth Nebraska. You can tell the world that Nebraska can well be proud of h<* boys. The fire whistle is blowing and the two engines that are to pull us south are steaming up and whistling also there is three bands and they ate :ill playing ami the people will uumbe. some two or three thousand, are al. i yelling and raising a great rumyu; ; Patriotism is a great thing. This wa Friday morning. Our next stop was ii Topeka. Kansas. It is a no good fo: ! nothing town, with a great ]»opulatior. of negroes. We missed Kansas City I by a few miles and are ready to leave j I Topeka Great c heers from the popula | ‘ tion and along the line as we go through towns, villages and cities ! there is always a great crowd to meet us and the boys lean out of the win dows and cheer a:.d the peopie at the depot cheer back. More patriotism Our next stop was at Pratt. Kansas where we got out and paraded the streets for exercise. More cheering and the population followed us around sing i ing and a hollering and a raising the very devil. Pratt was all ours that night. More rambling along. You know we can do that when we can do i nothing else. | Our next stop was at Delhart. Tex.. ' where we unloaded and paraded the ! town going through several maneuvers 1 finally winding up with more morning J exercise. Once more we are started off ! on our way. Cheering all along the line wherever we go. We passed Fort Bliss Tex., where there are thousands and thousands of soldiers stationed and | then there was great chering 1 tell tou | Prank the Germans little know what > they are up against when this old | Steam Roller of Uncle Sam's gets istatted the Germans and the Kaiser will think that all hell has turned or | them and they shall throw away theit i little 33 centimeter guns and beg 1 for forgiveness Well Frankie here wc are in El Faso. Tex., a most beautifu’ city with the Rio Grande river sepa rating it from Old Mexico. We are. or 1 have been given forty-five minutes tc take in the city and say. believe me. | we sure did take it in in the forty-five J minutes. It sure is some city, the most j beautiful 1 believe that 1 have evei i been in. The boys are raising the devil | with me. they think 1 am writing tc j my wife. Well it was at El Paso that j 1 went broke, as I run my hand down my jeans and all that I pulled out was two little measley coppers But I am happy. How could I be otherwise Money is not everything in this world ! but it is a mighty fine thing to have. Well we are leaving El Paso. Xowr 1 can see the Rio Grande river. On the t other side there is the hills w here old j Villa, the Mexican bandit did his dirty : work, but he wants to watch out. for things are different now. We have the ‘ good old Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Xebr. I down here now and they never leave anything undone. If there is any friends of the Ger 1 mans left up there, tell them to write : over and tell their Emperor, the Kai ser. to get busy and make peace while | he can for after while he won’t be able | to. We have now crossed the Rio i Grande river into Xew Mexico, moun tains on one side and the river on the other. A most beautiful scene. We ex I pect to get into Demiug along in the ' wee hours of the morning. Well don’t ! forget to send the papers and when 1 I come back I feel sure that I can hold that polite judge job down. Send pa ; pers to Corporal Joe Prichard. Care of Co. M . 5th Xebr Deming, Xew Mexico, j P. S.: Tell Lew Williams and Yal Me ! Donald to hold the fort down until 1 i get back. ■ jCOUNTY BOARD HAS SPECIAL MEETING The state engineer requested the board of supervisors to meet in spec-1 j ial session last Saturday to take ac-j ! tion on the proposed state and federal aid road which is to be laid through Sherman County. The board has al ready taken informal action, but Sat urday passed a resolution asking the j road to be laid .along the Loup river through Rockville. Austin. Loup City. | Arcadia and to connect perhaps with | Broken Bow. Just what action the ) state and federal engineers will take: is yet hard to determine, but it is doubtful :f the road will be approved as requested by th county board for the reason that the government wants j these highways to cover as much post roads as possible and if at least . two thirds of the road as proposed | by the board was post road or mail i route there is Litle question but what it would be granted, but the people of j Austin and immediate vicinity express themselves as opposed to having a mail route and on that account the chances are largely against the grant ting of any federal or state aid. The highway as proposed would make a 1 most excellent outlet for -this entire | valley for people goif g east or west and everybody ougnt to boost it and if possible try and get this road through. The Austin people ought to ! reconsider their action and sign for 1 the mail route whicl. would give them better mail service and a highway ; that would greatly enhance the val ; ue of their land. The Austin irriga tion canal will some day he a huge I sucess and have a boulevard running along side the canal would be worth thousands of dollars to them, for it is the intention to spend in the neigh borhood of seven hundred dollars to the mile, which along the valley would make a most excellent highway. The Austin people ought to stop and con sider that the getting of this highway is strictly up to them The “city council have installed a j a double action pump on reservoir hill attached to one of the wells and from all reports it is doing marvelous work and throwing a strqam of water at the rate of about sixty gallons per minute. The reservoirs are full to top and if the wells hold out. which they apparently will, the water ques-' i tion for Loup City will be solved for j i a number of vears. — Provost Marshal' General Crowder has officially thanked Governor Neville for the splendid manner in which the Nebraska draft quota mat ter has been handled by Nebraska's chief executive. Nebraska's 5 percent was just 409 men . and on Friday morning September 8, 409 Nebraska boys showed up a: Fort Riley. Gov ernor Neville and his efficient staff have been on the draft job night and day for the pas: three months, Ne braska niled her quota on the date set. just as Nebraska stepped to the fore in the Civil War and sent more soldiers to the defense of the flag than any other state or territory, in proportion to population. FOUR NEW SERIAL NOVELS ANNOUNCED BV THE JOUR NAL. Four brand new novels by author: of national reputation as story teller: will be published serially in The Stat( Journal and Lincoln News according to an announcement just made by these papers The first of these novel: is "The Secret of Lonesome Cove." by Samuel Hopkins Adams, and the oth ers to follow are: “The Sign at Six.' by Stewart Edward White; "The Fly ing Vs Last Stand," by B H. Bower and "Chloe Malone," by Fannie Heas lip Lea. These authors will be recognized as those listed by the standard maga zines of the day as the big names ir fiction. These serials will appear ir these papers before January 1. As a trial offer the Daily Journal oi News, including these serials, will b< mailed until January, 1918. for $1.00 o: with the Sunday Journal and its col ored comics, magazine features, etc for $1.50. All Day Glasses That Help You See Everything. Yes, everything—from the pa per in your hand to the street car down the street. You can see both near and far objects with perfect clearness and dis tinctness, without ever remov ing your glasses from morning to night. KRYPTOKS The Only Invisible Bifoal Xo more fussing with two pairs of glasses—or putting up with the annoying lines and seams of the old-fashioned, age-revealing bifoals. Kryp toks look like single lenses. We examine eyes. Home of Tories—the deep curved lens. You take no chances in buy ing these glasses from us. We guarantee a fit. REGISTERED OPTICIAN HENRY M. ELSNER THE SECOND DRAFT BOYS. Sherman county is to furnish twenty four men on the second draft call and the men will leave on Saturday morn inc for Fort Riley. Kansas The fob ing twenty-four men are on the c-all. Benjamin Krakowskt. Rudolph Zeller. Vincent Grahowski. Elias Howe 3ut!er. Edward Kuticka. Fred C Travis. Frank Homa Albert Siebler. John Casper Meyers. Vernon R. Eastabrook. Chas. F. Carstens. Fred Schmidt. Lewis Martin Summers James H. Bowen. Alexandria Lewandotvski. J hn Schierling. John J. Dzingle. Steve Plaeek. Edward Kostai. Edward Hurt. Emmet Marion McLaughlin Ber: K Snyder Chris Larsen. Tht e six men are alternates: Henry P. Christensen Carl H. Jensen. Max ('. Stark Willi; m Snyder. Louie O. Johnson.. Ferdinand Jelinek. HOW NEBRASKANS ARE ASSIGN ED. Assignments of the Nebraska men to companies by countie* were mad< Saturday as follows: Headquarters company. Saunders Lancaster. Lincoln. Supply company. Dodge, Washing ton. Doug as (outside Omaha, i Machine gun company. Cass. Otoe Johnson. Nemaha. Richardson, Paw nee. Gage. Sarpy. Company A. First Battalion. Sioux Scottsbluff Banner, Kimball, Chey enne. Box Butte. Dawes. Sheridan. Company B. Deuel. Garden. Cherry Grant. Hooker. Thomas. McPherson Logan. Keith. Perkins. Lincoln. Chase Hayes. Dundy. Company C. Frontier. Red Willow Hitchcock. Furnas. Gosper. Phelps. Company D Keya. Paha, Brown Rock. Blaine, Loup Custer. Boyd Dawson. Company E. Second battalion. Holt Garfield. Wheeler. Valley. Greeley Sherman. Howard. Merrick. Company F. Buffalo. Hall. Adams Kearney. Company G, Harian. Franklin. Web ster. Nuckolls. Clay. Company H. Knox. Antelope. Boone Nance. Company 1, Third battalion. Ceda; Dixon. Dakota. Fierce. Madison. Stan ton. Cuming. Burt, Colax. Platte. Company L. Butler. Polk, York. Se ward. Compony M. Filimore. Saline. Jeffer son. Thayer. THE ROCKVILLE FIRE CASE. Along about the 25th of May the large store at Rockville, occupied by L. C. Weavers general merchandise stock and the Postoffice was mister iously destroyed by fire, causing an entire loss to both the stock and the building. Suspicion arose and the people of Rockville, from evidence gained, soon came to a conclusion as to the motive of the fire and who the theguilty parties were and they have not changed their minds from the recent events- As time went by the the authorities had things shaped up and a short time ago got out warrants for one, Frank E. Eastman and his whereabouts were traced to Des Moines where he was arrested by the state fire warden. Eastman made a full confession in writing and sworn to before a notary public to the facts about like this. That he set fire to the building for a compensation for which he was to receive 3 motorcycles and $100 cash. Thus far the affidavit states that he received but $96 and the balance is still due him. The affidavit further states that George Woten of Rockville was the man who made the offer to him to burn the building and that he was to receive the amount above stated. The prop osition to burn the building was be ing negotiated for about a year be fore it was actually done and East man would not consent to burn the building until Miss Agmess Maiefski who slept in the building was assured of being out of the building, that night and Eastman stated that the night of the fire she stopped at the Woten home. This and much more evidence was alleged in the affidavit against Woten and he was there fore arrested as an accomplice. The trial was had and Woten and East man both appeared before the coun ty judge last Tuesday for their pre liminary. Eastman reitered before others on the street up to within fif teen minutes of the time set for the trial began the truth of the fact con tained in the affidavit when through some process that we know nothing I about, he suddenly changed front and said he would not swear against Wo ten in the case, he was dismissed with out prejudice and should there be anva further evidence be revealed he will not he immune from a future trial. These are the facts as they appear ; and it is left for the reader to form j his own conclusion as to the sud den change of mind of Eastman and i the real guilt of Woten. The building i was owned by Woten and he received *3000 insurance money. Weaver, the owner of the stock received in the neighborhood of $8000. Eastman waived preliminary and was bound over to the district court and was taken back to Grand Island where he will remain until the next term of court. He is a nephew of Woten and has a wooden leg. We have tarted the facts as they are without trying to injure anyone, for the public are entitled to know the truth as far as we are able to give it. While the case is ended temporarily we look for new developments. If Eastman is guilty and he was paid for it the guilty party ought to be caught and punished by a peniten tiary sentence. Sherman County Registration Returns: The registration of the women o Sherman county was held at the regu lar polling places in the county 01 Wednesday. September 12th The County Council of Defense wr much disappointed that the-e was r.o a larger number of women in the coui: ty took advantage of the opportunity tr express their loyalty and willingness to stand by the government in case they are needed, but realizing tha there are many who did not know o' the registration or understand the im portance of such a step, the opportuni ty is still open to those who wish t< avail themselves of same Registry tion blanks may be secured from Mis Mabel Hansen or Mrs. E. M. Step” ant the Council urges every lady who ha not registered to secure one of thest cards and study it. and then registei for the work you would rather do. Tht returns of the registration are as fol lows: Ashton . Si Austin . 2f Bristol . ?( Clay . 23 Elm . . .-......_... ( Harrison .2-' Hazard . 3f I.ogan (East) . 17 Logan (West) . 5 Oak Creek . .. 21 Loup City (East) . 6: Loup City (West) . 7f Rockville .... 5( Scott .. No Repot Webster . 11 Washington . Total . 47? I am paying the highest cash price for poultry of all kinds. F. M. HENRY. Try Chase's first—it pays. LOUP CITY SCHOOL NOTES Thursday while Mrs. Willis wa* away Leona May substituted for her Tena French substituted for Miss Flora Ohlsen while she was sick with tonsilitis The Sophomores had a feed at the river Friday night. Although the w'eather was rather rainy we had a fine time. The teachers present were Mr Webber. Miss Welsh and Miss Lema ters. Some freshie and juniot bo took an unexpected dive into the river but all others reported a fine time. The Sophomore class is now in good running order. We beiieve we are go ing to have a fine year this year, bet ter than any before even though we hove lost some of our members. We hone to get Caesar witnout becoming cavalry men. All of us like history and geometry also. We all have a good start in botany and have gone on one trip. We hope to be able to name every tree in town before we stop. The Seniors held a class meeting !asi Fridavand chose Mr. Bitner as class advisor, Kussell Wilke as president, Tena French as vice-president and Ruth McFadden as secretary and trvaa 1 urer. They also chose Monday night as the time for a weinnie roast. The class met at Supt. Bitner’s where cars carried them to Cob creek. Thirteen of the cars, five of the tear hers and Mrs. Bitner and son were the party Wennies, buns and watermelon made upthe lunch and it was enjoyed by ail until it started to rain and the party was finished at Mr. Bitner's home. Tuesday, Sept. 18. an Athletic As sociation was formed. The board is made up of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and the boys' and girls' coaches. Russell Grow was elec t ed president. Ruth McFadden vice-prcs idem and Evangeline Waite sec retary Mr. Clark is treasurer and Mr. Webber Miss Lemasters and Mr. Bitner, make up the rest of the board. This asso ciation is to take in more than athle tics this year. We expect to have’de bating, the Girls’ Glee Club, and any thing else which is taken up this year in with the association. The financial part w ill be carried on by a budget sy tern, that is a certain per cent allowed each division. FRESHMAN NOTES. Christian Christiansen wa- absent Tuesday. Miss Welsh was chosen sponsor nv the class. A number of ninth grade boys are taking football. Fred Amick is taking ninth grade Latin this year. Miss Le.Masters always says “Isn't that right Christian?” Charley Sickles and Clyde Gilbert were absent Monday'. Christian Christiansen and Demen ick Haremza were absent Wednesday Most of the nineth grade girls are taking gy =r.asiam and we nop*- we cau organize a team. Daily sells for less. THE BRUNSWICK All Phonographs in One THE Brunswick is a final type phonograph, a composite model. In it are found all the desirable present-day features —plus. 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