The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, May 13, 1897, Image 1
v w V -A - 5 Xl Ail Wning to lounrup ii t HiS AND THAT ittin5 t Uittti Vl mJ h t IN- JVt IS irind l5 liiwi iiivi i ltiii4 I hmii UaMI i t itt Kcii1miis May 22 PMim - y t limrml Sixth lsir r LMjUv une A vw i iiiitrjlit - Cfinuly oiniNiliri l unit - S jiKi Jiif W T hcr I9 il Suw is the tinn to subscribe IUjimjj to vent Mis s If 1 Mills 15 Martin Ohristns has repainted his iVSidv UCii 0 wvnt brt da mriiing - sMrs J O VinMtvrifI sou Ross are ill wliih uir aslvs The Hiiw DonohobniMinr is A T White and family sjent div on the Schlad The next retsusar merlin k Sun- RemembKs the printer when you are dn fijwti with garden sass Milk delivered 2 3 quarts for one dollai 0 J iss livA Hakden a DYiehoff of HuosH fc Falls X Y registerciirTie Doroher Tuesday of the mard of conimissioirors will be held on I nne 8 With three mm sidewalks ordered ur neonltMvill snaii have nothing to kick about rresiding Eid r Irli in will hold jartMilv meeting ni the vf Tl church nexr Stniday Indications point 1o an increase in ihe number or bi ycle riders in Valen 4Akh ihis surainT SL Johns Guild wi meT Friday af ternoon at 2 oYliuk it the home of Mrs 1 X Ciuol Jjs WelUord ba b u iSl this week ami Oorge Framris has een driving riio yibrara stajrf Dr J DiwT ha bvn repainting iid Viivatiii his sanitti riuiri tin- rt ttefsc i v i lTaus TTzrxh is moving his family With mu nihVc srfeets ft in prtbahip that fh jTy wLSf Vi Us pres tirje as a lovers - Willis Jirirnavd nid family of Wood Lake visited J E Mlirman tnsd fam ily a few days the past week A Howie I Fair orjnni r for the loyal IFghlsu rs jumped his board - nil as The Douoher Monday Alex Hoffman down from torkston Monday wwh ihe Minue hadnza ireciuc assessors books J K Fee was down from ivokslon 2lnday to wuwh the canvas1 of voles on the court house bond proposition get a much tor the Anderson hoys He will bo gone a month oitwo Homes Wanted For five girls 2 T 10 11 and 14 years old and one boy siged 12 also fourteen other children D Stinard has vecovcrcd from his recent attack f mf n slos and his three slaughters are now Hi with the disease Kev James F Pross and wife came over from Rosebud Tussday and yes terday morning lei t for a short visit east J G Stetter has purchased the Shaw properly on Cherry street nd is mov ing his family and household goods this week Connection with the village water rriains was made this werk and a water hydrant now adorns the CaUiviic church property A license to sell liquor as a heverage m Hay Springs costs 750 Druggist permits can be had only on the- pay ment of 150 Lieut W C BnnUt who has been at Fort Niobrara for some time past rtirned to Fort Thomas Kentucky yesterday morning It is reported thai a high rade ball game will b plaved in town ere long betwet n Fort Niobrara and a visiting team from Omaha J 17 Setter Monday rerjeied r a a i 1 - JXrl Jt rg w t wo jarlnadri of vonnjj Colorado cattle and 4Heat them to the ranch Tusdnv i rare of Jas OsJlaspi JSro J V Verli of the Stuart Led- County Clerk ICIIiott Tuesday morn ing received plans for a court house from a Council Bluffs Qrm They evi dently believe than the early bird etc Chris JSchlotfeldt and J F Prentiss UWU Ul Llll KV JLUIK JjUtJ UUlIlUilliy Si j rustling agents wereiu town Satur day evening Prentiss remained ovei Sunday The Cherrv Countv Teachers Insti tute will be held in Valentine from the 19th to the 31 si of July Prof Pile of J Wavne has been engaged as one of the instructors A dilapidated looking outfit passed through town Tuesday on the way to Sheridan county from Arkansas One by ons the wanderers are returning to happy Nebnvk Frank Whitteear left Monday after noon for Valentine with a horse and buggy He will visit the Agency and several other places before returning Ainsworili Star Journal If any of our readers hand us a 100 bill in change for subscription they must not feel hurt if we examine the bill closelv A counterfeit of that de nomination is in circulation Rev J F Moore of Omaha preached at the M E church Sunday morning delivering au eloquent ear nest and instructive sermon using the Parable of the Sower for his text J W Stetter returned Saturday morning from IJichmond Virginia where he spent the winter and will remain in Cherry county this summer His wife is much improved in health The Omaha Brewing Association ball club will play a series of three games with the Fort Xiobrara cracker jacks on the hitters grounds Friday Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 2 oclock IJpmember Iishnp Episcopal church on Bishop is always a welcome visitor to 43ilentnej ndl49jrmonsjjier 4 to arouse good thoughts m the breasrs of ids hearers C A Johnson wbs up from Wood Lake yesterday or business at the court house Mr Johnson is one of the best citizens and heavipst taxpayers in the Dick Cook has yonp to Colorado to county and needless to say was very much in favor of the court house bono Owing to the number of entertain ments which are billed for next week the concert which was to have been given by the Guild of Sb Johns church on Wednesday the 19th has been post poned until a date which will be an nounced later J M Clarkson contributed a num ber of fine Early Ohio potatoes to the larder of The Democrat family last week The tubers were of excellent guality and large size showing clearly that Nebraska soil will produce the best when properly tilled Thswir greets and Jackson waists l Davenporr present new stvles sizes and cors Tnis flr idvertisem nr t ir readers this week j Their prices are li gln and so are their lOOiS has Wellford our trpo wns taken ill ypsteulav presumably with measles and tlie eoiror is working as a conse uence Jackson fc Drayton have just re ceived a new invoice of Flexibone in all m is the sole agent for the Flexibone corsets which are said to be the finest on the market Mr and Mrs John Clarksou who t went to their home near Sparks were suddenly called back to Valentine Fri day on account of the sickness of Harry Presho with measles He is verv id at this writing bi tt under the nursing of Mrs Olarkson there is hopes for his recovery A II Karley ai old resident of this county sold his claim in Schlegel pre cinct and Monday started for- Uriiish Columbia lie took his family with him and as he is driving through and intends visiting m the Black Hills and Montana will probably be on the road all summer He expects to locate uear i ii Ki C2 i r t rM hs cni sc terPSts of thP s iv New Y - uuMfiur supervision or irot Workman are progressing rapidly with iheir work and are finding quite a number of bones ol exuuofc animals They have a some bones of hor es e wfiels and He phans which the Prof says have been mined in tw r rtu over twenty thou sand years They are here ih -the jn a - Mnfjenrn off lVf ijJ tiuiiriard kTf k g -3 ft Xf W ft 35 MAJORITY THE COURT HOUSE BONDS RECEIVED 427 VOTES Alter tho Ccturns Were CnnvaMseil ami fn Opposition Kforcrt IDS 1 JTijreHt of the ISjturn aiicl tlio Moral They Joiut to The election is over and the bonds have carried by a majority of 35 votes according to the canvassing board whii e met and counted the returns Monday afternoon Tii is means that Cherry county is to have a new court house something which is a crying necessity Jt means that those who were short sighted enough to work against the improvement are to be benefited as well as those public spirited citizens who believe in -advancement and economy Up to the time the canvassing board met Monday evening it was supposed that he bonds had failed to carry be cause the vote as reported by the var ious parties who brought in the re turns was as follows Vote on bonds Totl Al ay 4 1897 Vote Precincts For Agnst 1806 Buffalo like 47 42 Uoilinj Springs a 30 S3 Uovelatid 3 18 55 UcwevLtilce 4 28 45 Kiiv i3 44 KH 21 45 Gillasniu 3 33 53 icrnian 10 l 21 Georgia 19 H 32 Irwin 33 til Kewaiiie 7 1 24 Ksnuily 8 20 44 Loup 38 04 Iivaia 2 Oi i9 Merriiiian lti 41 87 lUiiiiiii iiuiliiza 29 7 53 Mother Luke 30 33 eiizel 9 2 24 Pleasant Hill 14 32 S iiirkN 32 4 r Steen 12 28 Selllegel 14 8 33 Sharps Itaueh 9 33 Table 23 45 Valentine 190 5 216 Wood Lake 43 4 114 Totals 457 4Cf 1410 iUrsvn out 30 78 Correc ceil totals 427 392 and fheretums from those precincts ere uoireounted In fact from tbese pwieincts there were legally no re turns at all the election board in three precincts failing to sign the poll books and in the two others no votes either fr or against were certified to There will probably be more or less kicking over this action of the board but under the law nothing else could be done There will undoubtedly be talk of mandamus or contest proceed ings but the less there is done the better off the opponents to the bonds will be The canvassing board counted all returns which were properly signed and certified to They could not question the validity of the returns when this was done but if a contest ensues facts like the following will be brought out and the vote from each of the precincts named will undoubt edly be cast out by the district court In Buffalo Lake one of the clems took the oaths of theremaining mem bers of the board Under the law the oath must be administered by one of the judges the clerks having no authority to administer same In Boiling Springs the clerks sworo each other and the three judges were unsworn The ballots from Enlow were not sealed but came in loose This in ad dition to the fact that the book was not signed by the board One of the clerks in Irwin was not sworn Xone of the board in Kewanee was sworn in Kennedy die board was unsworn anv it is evident that one man signed treatment of Dr Evans and kind tne Hanws of his four companions on the board In addition no return was certified A D Gallop appears from the depo sitions to have been the only officer in Mernman though five persons signed the returns In Mother Lake the board was sworn in by C S Johnson as assessor but an assessor has no power to ad minister oaths only as legards proper- The party of osteologists under the ty One of the clerks in Pleasant Hill swore in the board and the same thing occured in Schlegel These are only a fpw of the more gr s i rrguhrilies noled There are oilier which in the eyes of the Jaw wid s in s glaring but those cited ahri ie sinciput to show what a uonltib would bring out and wo would rf S i i 1 a bs t - jl jll jy lnhllfilmd fhv I onr Wars h CHERRY COUNTV INDEPENDENT U JiM 0 j Jti A VALENTTKE CHERRY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY MAT 13 1897 tu tion Flttlii if r will sell at prbic auction to thG highest bidder for cash at Fort Nio brara Thursday June 3 1897 at 1030 a m one 24x32 1nimo barn seven horses one light wagon two open bug gies three good saddles and two sets buggy harness John T Heath advise the opposition to save their money There is food for reflection in the foregoing The mistakes given show a lack of care or education Every poll book has printed upon it plain in structions and it seems difficult to go wrong yet it is done An election board is supposed to be composed of men possessing average intelligence and it is a sad rellection upon our peo ple when so many eiror are made This may serve to caution election boards of the future to be more care ful in making up returns It is rather hard to have thn vote of a whole pre cinct annulled on account of the in competency of one or two men The vote throughout the county was light every precinct except two show ing a large decrease from the total vote of last fall the decrease in the whole county being 488 The twa precincts which cast nearly the same vote as last fall were Mother Lake 30 and Buffab Lake 47 A study of the returns will show that precincts return ing majorities against the bonds polled a larger percentage of their total vote 8than did those in favor Wood Lake for instance polled less than 50 per cent of its vote Kewanee 33 per cent Eli lesB than 50 percent Table 50 per cent Nenzel less than 50 per cent and so on while Buffalo Lake got out 113 per cent Mother Lake 90 per cent Gillaspie 80 per cent etc This cer tainly indicates that the sentiment of the majority is in favor of the bonds The canvassing board was composed of Geo Elliott county clerk W S Jackson merchant and D II Thurs ton attorney and they were unanimous in their decision to throw out the vote of the five precincts A rechanical 3Iarvcl The Edison Vitascupe which will be seeii here next Thursday evening the But gross errors were discovered in 2011 is one of the wonders of the Graves at the jtlie precincts ol Dewey Lake Enlow nineteenth century It should not be the 23d The j Tvionifilv VphypI and Shams Uanfih confounded with the old timo maprift Mrs J Hancock relumed Satur day from Valentine where she in company with her brother had been visiting relatives Her brother re turned on the same train to his home in Burt countv Stanton PfcJtet Ttobert Good of Thtc Valentine Bemopuat was united in marriage Iaat wtVic to Miss Iva M Davisson of Longpinea sister of Estelle Mae the onlv woman countv attorney in the United States Chctilron Recorder -v I f D- lantern orstereopticon There is as vmuchidifference between the two as there is between a music box and a phonograph The magic lantern shows stationary pictures only while the Vitacope reproduces actions looks and all but speech Figures grow larger or smaller advance or retreat before the eyes of the audience in a very lifelike manner The scope will be at Fort Niobrara Wednesday and in Valentine Thursday Dont fail to see it Xew Sidewalks Petitions were presented at the last regular meeting of the village council for a sidewalk on the east side of Hall street from Catharine to Virginia and on Virginia street from Cherry west The board ordered the walks built J J Guth built 120 feet of walk in front of his Cherry street property last Monday The railroad company laid 180 feet of walk along its lots on Catharine street Monday L N Layport has built another 150 feet of walk along the south side of his property Cherry street walks are badly in need of repair and if they are not put in or der soon a damage suit may be the re sult Iecoration Day Program Sunday May 30 sermon at the M E church by Rev O T Moore Com rades meet at J W Tuckers office at 1030 a m and march to the church to attend sermon All other societies are invited to meet and march with the G AR May 31st Decoration Day All old soldiers aud all citizens desiring to par ticipate in the decoration exercises are requested to meet at Cornell Hall at 9 a in sharp At 930 drive to Fort Ni obrara and decorate graves returning to Hall at 1130 Adjourn for dinner reassembling at Hall at 100 p m Music by Twelfth Infantry Band Son by Quartette Oration by Comrade J A Scamahorn March to cemetery and decorate graves return and adjonrn until 730 p m Music by the Band Sohk by Quartette Solo by Mrs J A Carroll Address b Hon J A Carroll Soi Music by the Band Address by Hon J V Tucker Music Adjournment All are iDvited to attend and assist the old bo sin decorating the graves of their deceased comrades and help us have a good time BY OliDER OF COMMJTTEE A STRAW HAT A PAIR OF OVER - w f SPRING CLOTHING - C We have an excellent line of new clothing gents furnishing goods hats caps boots and shoes Have a splendid line of shoes for both ladies and children Clothing is cheaper and better than ever Come and see BOYS PANTS ONLY 25 CENTS ROYS SUITS ONLY 75 CENTS D Stinard Precinct committeemen and al others Interested in the welfare of th populist party are requested to meet in Valentine on May 22 at one oclock p m to consider matters of special im portance to the psrty G P Ciabb Chairman v Really we hardly kno to advertise during th Changeable weather I If yon want a genuine bargain i call on us We can Suit Look over onr line of spring goods Ask al VENPORT EVERYTHIN on V 1 I H i I I 1 K m In Pettycrews stock of groceries fruit confees IS THE BEST All our Groceries are fresh and good Fruit is the Confeciionery the best and sweetest Feed pun Highest prices for Butter Eggs and Fan NORTH OF POSTOFFICE W A PE1 Inventory Sale We have just completed our spring inventor hand a large amount of odds and ends remna will sell below first cost For instance we wii PIECE GOODS AT 1 0 OTS 3 These goods are double width first class bLAOE LAWNS FOR 5 Worth 5a0 cent3 Must make room for E McDc KERNS LIVERCU FOR LIVER AND KIDX An efficacious remedy for Habitual Constipation pepsia Sick Headache Biliousness Kidney Bheumatism Pimples and Blotcln -Price 75 cents per bottle For For sale at Kennedy by Haeber Gr 0 M Si T0N8C ART1S Hair cutting an Shop in the W i HOT AND Full line of THE o w WATCHMAKER - - Fine line of plai elry constat Repairing pronrp done in the t RAiLRO orth Western to and i SUGAR BE NORTH HL v -U-- v-