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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1896)
1 v V -4 - X- hr- v r I S4 CJt IN v TT THE VOL XL THIS AND THAT Ctnino Event Teachers Association Sept VI BrrauClub Septil Democratic Kepresentatlarc Convention 8parki 8epc 18 Hose Team meets Sept 14 Old Settlers Keanlo 8ept 18 19 MWA Picnic Brownlee September 23 Thb Dehocrat 1 per year Croquet sets at cost at C R tons Frank Rayeame down from Chad at Wat 29 John Brown is over from the Agency today 44 Yesterday was pay day at JFort JTISiobrara We want sidewalks now that school has commenced Shoes made en the 20th century last at T C Hornbys 82 Two bundles of old papers at -this for five cents Bob Dyer waa over from Rosebud the first of the week F L Brewster of Nbrden was in -town on business Saturday Miss Nina Longcor returned Icom Iher visit to Iowa Saturday night C C Thompson came in from Haek erry Late yesterday on business A large assortment of wall paper new styleB cheap at C E Watsons Mrs Logan Barker of Tekamah is Tisitingdoliiiyes in town this week Wanted Bated bay For particu Iara enquire of Dayenport Thacher Prof Chadey Strickland was to town a few days during the past week Jos Kounovsky and wife of Wood Hake were in Valentine on business Tuesday A carload of soap and twenty five wagons are being issued to the Indians this vseek ron this morning for a short visit with j -old friends Miss Evelyti Hiisinger returned from TekMaaU Iftlt week and is visiting j relatimin town - J It ii rumored that Alslp Son will contest theaXvard of the Indian school cdrftraft to Owen Hill The very best castor machine oil lowest possible price at C R Watson Try it arid baconviuced 29 Some at the Indians who were in town Mdfcdis night became Tether noisy TiufdJi rib damage Wilson he Ainaworth vegetable man was in town this wedk with a carload garden truck Mrs W E Haley is visiting at ONeill this week She will probably home Sunday night licB J Doerfus one of teachers arrived from lsmbeaii Wis Tuesday -night r Carlson received tetters patent for tneh new automatically soaping -washboard September I Mrs Brdwnaeo 74 yars died of typhoid fever atCrodkston last Friday morning and was buried Saturday D C Robinson of Rapid City SD and Jesse McCallum of Genoa Nebr registered at The Donoher Monday W H Wilnsbn and A J Walling ford were up frbm Kennedy yesterday -on their homesteads making final probf steads Mrs F K Bhrens and daughter Anna returnedlast night from their visit in the southeastern- pdft df the county Miss Marian Hurley of ONeill is visiting Miss MaeOSullivan fdr a day or two She goes to Arabia to teach school Saturday- J W WhUiahsand wife TetUrhett frow their Tislfat Omaha Elgin arid other pointBihthe easterh partDf the state Monday night Roland Robertson has returned from Crookstonand severed his cofc nectidns withthe geiieral merchandise firbf -E Mcionaldr Miss Etta Brown returning from Mt PteSsant Ibwa last Friday evening aijtuok her place in theTschool idoihi he 1 Monday mbrnmg i XI C Saiiher H B Clajp B Gr I ma John Bntt and L W fendy among biirmost pleasant caliert Uu to the past week I VALENTINE Cases Bans Burns Last night at lOjlS fire in some mysterious manner started in the livery barn of II J Case and inside of one hour thereafter the rbarn with all its contents was burned to the ground No cause can be assigned for the origin of the fire Mr Case having left the barn not mote than five minutes before it was discovered There were in the ban at tbeitime 14 head of horses five buggies harness blankets aed ether etceteras Of these but two buggies were saved Of the houses burned C G Thomp son of Hacfcherry Lake owned two A J Wallingford of Kennedy wo and Reuben Quick Bear of Rosebud one In addition Mr Wallingford lost a fine new carriage belonging to a neighbor of has which be had bor rowed for the trip to Valentine The balance of the property was owned by Mr Case and there was no insurance on same This loss is very hard on Mr Case behaving just completed two new additions to the -bam and the savings of years was represented in the prop erty His loss will amount to about 2500 M S Hostetter of Omaha is m town Rev Bassett of Norden filled the pulpit at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening He will preach here svery two weeks m the future G H Jewett government con tractor of Arlington was in town looking after business here and at Fort Niobrara Sunday and Monday AJ Wallingford took necessary steps to organize a school district in his neighborhood 7 miles north of Kennedy while in town yesterday Wanted to Buy Iron grey horse about 4 years old 15 hands high good knee actios carries his head high Enquire at Northwestern Fred and Sale Stable Rev 0 t Samsey preached his frewett sermon at the- MEU church TSttnday nigjht He went to Ainswortlj lo attend wnf erence yesterday morn ing MIbs Edith Stark commenced teach ing school at No 12 Harniony dis trict Moriday This is Miss Starks first term as teacher she having been a graduate of tlne High School here last spring Joe PotmesH has resigned his posi tion in Quigleys drugstore and will go to Lincoln next wek to take a laboratory course in the State Univer sity and shorthand and telegraphy at fthe Lincoln Nfcrmal County TfeaWer Crabb informs us that he wilVsobn commence makinar out the tax fist for iB5 and all delin quent real estte taxes not paid by October 1 will be advertised Better pay up and saVecests fe queer how things will slip ones rSind isnt it Now theres L D Lincoln for instance He is the father of a new girl Shd has been ever since Aug 24 anii nobody has said anything about it Mr Lincoln is lust as proud bfhe little dneiibw though ashewSTs ttiree vreeks ago JACarroll wiil speak on The Causes of Our Present Financial Trdiibles at the bid settlers reunion at ISpaiks Satdfllay September 19 Mr Carroll will handle this subject frSm a strictly ton- partisan stand- pdlhtand those who go to HeUr this ortor wiir receive a rare tfet Win Steadmdh broughta bunch of feihdrsup from Pass to Woodlake last SatUf day andttten ran up to tirie for a short Vfeit Sutiday and Mon day He informs rhis paper that It M Fadiils took 6 Cafsdf steers to mar ket last weekfrbmhisranch He has about 3t00 tons of hay put up for winter feed and every prospect is good f or the winter It does ones heart good to ledrn that atttie Norden harvest hbirie festi val a couple of weeks -ago cbfn stiilks 8 feet cane 12 feet popcorn 7 feet and niillet 6 feet high were oh exhibition while potatoes like sticks of cdfdVbod cabbages as large as tabs iid onions which which -weighed 1 Ohiids each bobbed up sefdnely and turned their smiling faces to the a3sembled multi tude irkska is Helrseff dgain JilliIiedfor TFemv Year gg CHERRY OOUNtY INDEPENDENT INCONSISTENT PROPERLY DESCRIBES MR CALQWEJLjL SPEECH He was Greeted by a JNarce Aadiefe rriaav Nfbt ana Kacerly jLlgteaed tit by JByrybody He Made no Vpnvevtu Hon J L Caldwell of Lincoln ad1 dressed the people of Valentine on the issues of the day as seen from a re publican standpoint appearing under the auspices of the local McKinley and TTnharf rlnh TTo matt trrRntii hv a i r filled to its utmost capacity Standing th Proper use ofheWseeHdo room however was not at a premium and yifcCaldweUis an expert The audience was an intelligent one u uaimwna eulogy but what Nebraska audience is not u 9 arraignment or juage Scott There was a noticeable lack of farm ers and country people generally but this is said to have been due to a lack of proper advertising not lack of de sire to hear an eloquent enunciation of republican doctrine The ladies were out in force and they composed probr ably one third of the audience and their presence added much to the gen eral appearance of the assemblage The remaining two thirds of the audi j ence were McKinley and Bryan men the latter turning out in large numbers but owing to a misunderstanding they did not attend in a body as originally intended Ten pieces of the 12th Infantry bancT furnished music for the occasionnd after a couple of seleotions the chair- man of the meeting Er J Davenport introduced the orator of the evening Mr Caldwell is a goodlooking man and a fairly eloquent talker With bis long blac coat aud quiet expression of countenance he might easily be mis taken for a minister until you heard his talk He has a habit of shaking his head when talking which is decid edly disagreeable to his audienee con stantly arousing apprehension for the Realize that these meP were democrats not protectionists He tHen grew sarcastic and oh hiv he did ridicule ttie dollars of aies We actually felt ashamed of our daddies and were sorry they eve hadk dollar Next he eulogizedourl ddllHr ijfesent and told how each is as good as the other and in the next tehee hedeplored the fact thate now have hundreds of millions of them m the treasiiryat Washington depreciat ing in value every day Here came a part of his ppeech that received the condemnation of all who heard it Although he did not say it he tried to leave the impression that silver is redeemable in old He en tered ubon the grandfloquent when he he dramatically wavedhis arms in the air and said Tbe lver dollar is in a better position ihi the Christian for it knows that its Redeemer liveth and is upon tbecaTtJfr After all of this it was not farpnsing for him to smash the iritfeVtfatiional agreement plank of hisowtt platform by declaring chat all tfoe diVilized natious of the world cotiH tfoteep the price of silver up V Mt tadWft made a very bad break wiren Ife atLtised the democratic fcJtm w eateniig to sectionalism fcyi DEMOCRAT VALENINECHBRRY CO NBBRASAi THlfRSpAY SEPTEMBER 10 1896 attempting to array the east against be west He seemed to forget tbst Wsf the g o pt for thirty years waijag the Jbjpody shirt and shrieked apw southern brigadiers and that sorttbJng and remained in power tiripftupftn this plea He forgot tnafctjie republican party always cat ere4 to the sectional prejudices of the ntoasieaand is eyen now denouncing theigndrant ill bred union destroy Taken as a whole Mr Caldwell gave a verygoiBd speech and was liberally applauded for hfo efforts but he ought po revise his speech and eliminate the inconsistencies- noted together with laree audience Cbrnell Hall beinff I feAe n aition to learning apd praise of McKinlewere very After the band had splayed March ing Through Georgia Judge Tucker was called for and genteelly roasted Sjfeje unknown Jersonrwho bad dis turbed the meeting by whispering and wound up with his oft iepeated asser tion tbatiie intended to make a speech later In the campaign v J safety of that necessary portion of his D y senator nl thi coirw w HA PJae Geo Elliott and Amos Caldwell ffiuhif S tip to Gordon Friday times dnring his speech The first part of Mr Caldwells ora tion for that is what it was was noth ing ixz a tirade against Bryan and his supporters having no excuse for its or igin but jealousy- Mr Caldwell being a brother member tT the bar and having an otece in Ihfc same buihftng with night and attended the republican senatorial convention Saturday George A Eckles of Chadron Was elected chairman and Geo Elliott secretary The west end of the dis trict had nbcahdidate and the east end was left out by the withdrawal of Syver lackey ot Ainsworth so the ma u ftawnart6 delegates ere iiva quandary over who v o -v -U wdirffTftiabn tfc6 fsiftfi At lust thnv hif iaUULM nnMni V T J V7TJ riZ SJ 4pon Dr Win B Ely of Ainsworth After having delivered himaeif qV r ail ihe villificatton he had In stock and xnausting all the belittfing adjectives o the dictionary he recovered his head and proceeded to discuss the finance question He quoted extracts from faVhous documents and reeled off std rlsttcs like a counting machine said tne country wVis going to the dogs and ofrarod no remedy but protection Sound money and de clared the speaker go hand in hand Jhrid the sentiment was loudly applaud- 4 To prove this proposition he Quoted from Jefferson Jackson Ben- toTiand other statesmen of that time to prbve that they were all for the bfd Standard and he didnt seem to It Teachers Association v Tae Valentine Teachers Association will meet at the High School building Sept 12 at 130 pm All interested mnisohool work are cordially invited to meet with us The following program will be given How to use new methods f Prof R H Watson Current Events Edith M Stark Teachers Reports MrsyBelle Hornback Discussion Mamie Jeffere The best method of teaching phonics and orthography Harry O Tucker The NEA from a teachers sand- poit Etta Brown 1 Lizzie Crawford Pres and he wa3 nominated by acclamation This wks a hapfty selection as the Doctor is a strong gold man J L Caldwell spoke at Gordon in the even rngahd altogether a nice time was had Death of 3 M V aricftblson morning S ebtember 4 1896 at her home in Valentine of heart disease and dropy Mrs Mary Estelle Nicholson aged m years and 6 months Like a leaf dfopped from a tree in autumn which faffs uion a rippling stream and floats ffOm view or like the shadow from a passing cloud the soul of thisbOd woman left its earthly home and went to the palace prepared for it by the Master Quietly she nad lived ana uetly she died surrounded by those who Wed her best All Who knew hef fdved her and her death though not unexpected was astiock to the entire cdtnnuinity uThe f uneral was held Saturday after noon at the Methodist church under the auspldes6f the Order of the East ern Star the Rev J M Bates df St Johns Episcopal church conducting the services The church was filled with friehds who took this method of paying a last sad tribute to the de ceased and the funeral procession was such aS is seldom seen in Valentine Jolm Nicholson wife and daughter Alta and Mrs Rose Porter of Ains worth and D L Nicholson Of Madison-attended the funeral Mary Estelle Sparks was born in Buchanan Mich Maitth 18 I860 and resided at that pMce until 1885 Hrben in company with members Of Iter fam ily She cairie to Valentine She was atone time a tea cher in the public schdols here and in 1889 married M I V the present cashier of Mhe rBanlr of Valeritine One child blessed this rinioh a little girl Estelle 6 years old Mrs N had been ah In valid or a number of years and but recently returned from a hospital in Omaba fche was a 3ister of Eltito Cbtfrics aud Levi Spuiks of this ptce j THIS SORT OF WEATHER 2C Ifakes one feel lite buying NO 33 2 t BLANKETS v- VI Of theCld Pweliable firm of Davenport Thagher ILIJI II I DIDNT YOU KNOW That the best plaee in town to buy fresh fruits and vegetables is at Pettycrews DIDNT YOU KNOW That the best place in town to buy gro ceries and confectionery is at Pettycrewa C a COSttiEUls President 5 DIDNT YOU KNOW That the best place to trade your produce to trade your produce is at Petty crews i If you didnt try him and you will Qherry Qounty Bank Valentine Nebraska Every facility extended customers consistent with ennjervative banking Exchange boughfrand sold Loans upongqod security solicited at reasonable rates -County depository - E SPARKS President CHARLES SPARKS Cashier Who we are CITY DRUG STORE J H QUIGLEY PROP What we are Where we are DEALER IN DRUGS PAINTS VARNISHES TOILET SUNDRIES MAIN STREET VALENTINE NEBRASKA BANK OF VALENTINE jr f ivjc8ev vgkur VateHtine Nebraska A fxetieral Banking UnsinesH Transacted Buk and 841 BtoWrlit ttnA Foreign Exchmngc CorietbfldentsCefttCl Nitioftsl flank Kow Tort Wrtt Katlonal Bank Oaai CITIZENS MEAT - MARKET VALENTINE WILLFTJitSraSfi Srne Tender Steaks Jncy Soasts -Dry Salt Meats andtlie finest line of Smoked Hams and Bacon ever sold in town kt letters Old Stand ilain Street - GEB H 8CHWALM PROP THE PALACE SALOON HEADQtTARTERS A WlNlS LiatTORS and CIGARS the Dhoieest Brands Nebraska