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THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
VOL XII
THIS2AND THAT
Com inaJRretH
County CwmnisIonci Juneli
Bull Game lunejV MiirtSssiMCIi
Jtces Tone 10 17 18 amlt
School Meeting June 29
Independence Daj July
Teachers Institute July iS Hl
jf Fred Miller has
week
been quite Hl this
The IDonoher is receiving aiiew coat
oTpaiaat
Levi G Sparks haefceen que ill the
past week
M Harris is renouoiing the iinterior
of her restaurant
J C Pettijohn is taking the -school
census this week
F Fischer made a
Ainsworth Tuesday
Hying np to
fPkft flriinln rn Jsm 4 rfinwr
are getting out the gaper
and
Remember the printer whenou are
m town with garden sass
Prof A T Schriber was in town
from Wood Lake Saturday
Why not attend the Fourth of July
celebration at Kennedy this year
Milk delivered 23 quarts for one
ollar 0 Miss Eva Haiiben
FoslRsnt Xice large office soom
m stone building 18 T C Horns
Bail games and horse races are the
only topics of conversation nowadays
Condemned mule sold at a sale at
Fort Xiobraia last week for 40 tier
head
Almost every street in town where
sidewalks are laid now has cross
walks
Rev Bates held services at the Epis
copal church Sunday morning and
evening
The state apportionment of school
funds was larger this spring than ever
before
Dr and Mrs Bratton of Fort Xio
brara are the proud parents of a new
baby girl
Work commenced Monday morning
for I IL Yeasts new residence on
Cherrv street
X
Mrs S S Billiard of
in town on a business
trip Tuesday
1 company won the
Time 1 hour 2 J inin 5 1
Oochou in commainE
JjOsebnd was
and pleasure
race
sec
today
Lieut
G A Wagoner of Lavaca was in
town Tuesday with the assessors
books fiom his precinct
Miss Annie Sageser of Bassett
ltod with her brother Clarence here a
a few days the past week
The Fourth of July will be celebrated
at Crookston on Saturday Inly wi
der tihe auspices of the M W A
The family of J F Prentiss anivetf
here Saturday night and are now oom
fortirbly quartered at The Doncher
Rev Bates accompanied by Mrs
Carroll and Miss Childe went out to B
A Piercys near Kennedy Tuesday
Martin Christensen made flying trip
to Pine Ttidge this week going Sunday
uight and returning Tuesday morning
J H Davison of Ainsworth has a
good Jack for sale or will trade for
horses cattle or good draft stal
lion 18 20
Mis Dr Baker of Valentine Xeb
made a professional visit in the north
part of the county Tuesday Bassett
Eagle
Jvennedy will celebrate tfce Fourth
of July on Monday J uly 5 Remem
ber this Full program will be given
next week
Valentine has not had a business
failure or assignment or anything of
that sort since we came to town over a
year ago
Capt Mills of Co E 11th infantry
who has been on detached service for
a couple of years has joined his com
pany here
Wing Sing the Chinese laundryman
at Fort Niobrara was off bis base
last week and spent a few days in the
guard house
Judge Westover was on Sunday
nights passenger returning t o Rush
Tille after holding a term of court in
IBoyd county
fe editor arid family went to
Longpine Sunday morning Mrs
Democrat remained for a Jew days
visit with her parents
Jlyannis Grant county is to have a
bank soon Bartlett Richards and A
A Record of Chadron having decided
to locate a branch there
Mrs W R Smith went to Valentine
last Monday where she meets her
bajjd aud nrobablv will sjo irorn
Mrs Allen Sparks and Master Leo
nard have been visiting with E Spark
for severaldays
Prof J M Pile of Wayne and
Prof A 0 Thomas Minden have
been -employed to instruct in the com
ing Earm of institute j
Monday C IL CorneAl put in a new
sidewalk in front of his lots at the
southeast corner of Cherry and
also fenced the Jots
JQ E Sherman was -taken suddenly
ill at Wood Lake the first of the week
while on his way home -from a weeks
outing at the -lakes and was compelled
to remain there a tew days
John Tucker who has been attend
ing the law department of the state
university since last lull returned
home Saturday night ad will remain
her during the summer vacation
The Fort Niobrara rkids came to
repeat their victory of two wees ago
on ihe ball ground but they 4idnt
The Valentine -brownies won the
game by a scors of 32 to 9 Saturday
Miss Iva Efner has purchased the
millinery stack of Mrs X W Morey
and has tendered her xesitmatiou as
teacher in the jublic schools neqtyear
Miss Mary Shaughnessy has applied
for the position in us left racant
For a purse consisting of two horses
and harness Monday afternoon J P
Suttons gray horse outran one ot Billy
Days -bays Distance mile The
start was a splendid one and the gray
won by a full neck only
Until the last of October the F E
M will teil Sunday excursion
ucfcyts to Hut Springs goud for return
until tne loiiowiug Tuesday lor 720
liie rate Lor the T P S O E meet
ing at ban Francisco is 2480 Tick
ets on sale irom June 29 to July 6
It has come at last Tuesday morn
ing Attorney Bnidridge who is one ol
the proseecuiers in the Barely defalca
tion case at Omaha tiled an informa
tion before Judge Baker charging the
defense with attempting to bribe
jurors Tina shows that Bartley is
afraiu 01 conviction
Mrs Chas Sparks and son returned
to their inline at Valentine last Satur
day night after spending a six weeks
visit with her sifter Mi Pearl Kay
Mrs sparks has made many new
lriends in this city and liur departure
caused many regrets Uhudrou
Sheap shearing will be iu full blast
next week The writer roughly esti
mated the total amoiinl of the wool
crop tributary to Kimball this ear and
manes it about 1oOUIM pounds It
will probably exceed tins somewhat
Tliebe liimres show
crease over last year
i considerable
Kimball
1 C Xorthrop and wife and W R
Smith and wile or Harris ju father
and mother ut Mrs Morthrop left ou
yesterday mornings passenger for a
months vinit in Illinois Iowa and
Kausjis M C Liuninger of Hot
springs has charge of the F E M
station duing Mr Northrops ab
sence
Owing to a miscalculation Max Vier
tel and W A Parker came to town
Tuesday to sit as a board of equliza
tion Upon discovering their error
they went into session as brand com
misioners aud transacted considerable
business The board meets ou the
second Tuesday alter the first Monday
instead of the second Tuesday ia June
G W Fritz editor of the Keya Paha
Call is the proud father of a il pouud
girl which was presented him last
Thursday Bro Fritz did not divulge
tuis importautaut item during the edit
orial meeting but his filial pride oer
came his secretiveness when in private
conversation with the editor Sunday
The Democrat extends
1 tions
The 9th Cavalry base ball club of
Ft Robinson came out victorious in
the game played Sunday at -that place
with the Alliance nine the score being
23 to 4 We understand that the boss
team of Ft Niobrara will be here in a
short time to play a game with the 9th
Cavalry boys which promises to be in
teresting as the Niourara nine are re
ported to be cracker jacks Craw
ford Bulletin
ChnrlieM vs IMcknps
Sunday afternoon the Charlies not
the Chollys by the way played a
hot game of ball on the diamond be
tween the Presbyterian and Episcopal
churches with a picked up nine The
game raged fiercely and long and was
witnessed by a large number of citi
zens The score at the close of the
ninth inning stood 31 to 26 hx favor
of the pickups
Store CrirlN
Last Thursday night a baby girl was
born to Mr and Mrs Chas G Ander
sonv
Sunday June 6th Mr and Mrs G
II Hornby became the parents of a
girl baby This is the fourth girl baby
lor Cherry street citizens within the
last month and the record thus estab
lished by that thoroughfare will be a
Lhese ito Chicago Harrism Journal J hjird onfc to break
Published forFour Years as
CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
VALENTINE CHERRY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY JUNE 10 1897
THE EDITQRS MET
THE ELKHORN VALLEY EDITORIAL
ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED
A Pleasant Tisae and a Profitable Meeting A Visit to Fort
3olrara 3i Banquet in Town a Business Session
in Afternoon and a Public Evening Meeting
dThe annual meeting of the
ElIOIOIOT VAIiEY EDITOKIA i
Association was held in Valentine ou
-Saturday June 5 1897 fourteen pa
mpers being represented at the meeting
as follows C C McHugh ONeill
Sun D H Cronin ONeill Frontier -EL
H Jenness Atkinson Graphic G
W Fritz Keya Paha Call W ST
Skinner Herald G A
Miles Ainsworth Home Kule I 0
Berkley Ainsworth Star Journal Le-
ISoy Leach Wood Lake Oracle H G
field Crawford Gazette AV H Davis
Harrison Press W S Barker Valan
Republican G H Reinenfc Western
Xews Roberfi Good The Valentine
Democrat
Seven weeks ago W S Barker of
the Republican G H Reinert of the
Western Xews and Robert Good of the
Democrat met and decided to invite
the editors of the newspapers in the
Sixth congressional district to come to
Valentine on June 5 and organize a
press association for mutual pleasure
and profit The local press agreed- to
pay all expenses of thebhoys while
here Invitations were sent to the
ninety odd newspapers in the district
and considerably enthusiasm was
manifested over Ihe meeting
The local press organized by electing
Barker president Reinert secretary
and fJood treasurer Valentine busi
ness men were seen and contributed
funds sufficient to provide for the en
tertainment of the editors and a skel
eton program for the meeting was out
lined by the local press Owing to the
fact that this was the first meeting of
the kind ever attempted in this sec
tion the work of preparation was hard army
but success attended all efforts that
were made This is a condensed his
tory of the association up to Saturday
The west hound passenger Friday
night was met by the committee and
the boys who arrived on that train
were escorted to The Donoher and put
to bed The enstbumd passenger Sat
urday morning was also -met and after
breakfast a meeting was held at Cor
nell Hall and after being called to or
der by President Barker a neat ad
dress was deliverfcd by Mayor Sparks
and the freedom of the city was given
to the newspaper men The Mayor
said he would not turn over the keys
of the city because he had first opened
everything wide and then thrown the
keys in the river besides repealing all-
the ordinances of the town and render
ing the police force useless by revok
ing their commissions If they wanted
more he would give them the com
bination of his money vauit He was
roundly applauded and tben the car
riages were brought and the drivers
headed for Fort Niobrara
After introductions at the post the1
commander Col John K Andrews
ordered out his entire regiment the
Twelfth Infantry IT S A for review
and -inspection
As evolution after evolution was
made the regiment marching and
countermarching wheeling and per
forming the tactics in the manual of
arms many exclamations of surprise
and gratification escaped from the lips
of the visitors The dark green sward
of the parade ground the company
quarters of the men and the hills and
canyons of the Niobrara for a back
ground the Colonel and his staff on
their splendid horses in the fore the
men standing at attention in the mid
dle distance with the sun glinting
from rifle barrel and white helmet all
made a picture which even time that
destroyer of love and hate and memory
itself will not efface from the minds
of those who stood enraptured with the
sight The machine like movement of
the boys in blue as they obeyed the
orders of their superiors aud the clock
work precision with which hands and
feet obeyed the slightest command
evoked many words of praise for them
as well as the officers who had drilled
them until they were in such a high
state of perfection The work and
musiof the band too received many
flattering words and was appreciated
highly and added greatly to the enjoy -
iableness of the occasion
After the review and while waiting
for guard mount the brethren were
taken through one of the company
quarters and were shown everything
of interest from the new rifle and
sword bayonet now in use to the
Lyon Gordon Journal F R Wing 1 library and kitchen All marveled
greatly at the neatness of the appoint
ments
immediately after guard mount
Lieut Angium quartermaster took
charge of the visitors and proceeding
to the4prairie southwest of the post
had his wagon train drawn up for in
spection After looking at and ad
miring the ambulances wagons and
mules the train was started and for
the next half hour mules and drivers
were kept busy The wagons were
placed in position as if to protect the
mules from an attack and then start
ing over thi prairie in single file were
made the object of an imaginary at
tack The alicritv with which the
wagons were brought together and
parked was surprising
The Officers Club was the next
point of interest and refreshments
were served to all who wished to par
take Jn charge of Lieut Angium the
boys next visited the canteen stables
and guard hotse while Lieut Ballou
showed ye scribe Bro Lyon and the
ladies through the post exchange and
the quarters of his company C which l
bears the distinction of being the neat
est in the regiment if not th8 entire
Leaving the post with many thanks
to the officers and regrets that their
stay could not be longer the boys were
shown the wonderful water power of
the Minnechaduza and the way it is
used and then came dinner which
was served at The Donoher at 130
That statement describes it as well as
a half column article could
At 230 ithe business meeting of the
association was called to order by
Bro Barker and upon motion
he was made temporary chair
man and Geo Miles of Ainsworth
was elected secretary by a unanimous
vote
The first thing on the program was a
short talk by Rev O T Moore on the
Relation Between the Pulpit and the
Press The reverend gentleman
spoke numberless words of praise for
the members of the editorial fraternity
and said he knew of no class of people
who were more unjustly abused than
they On behalf of the churches of
the district he thanked the press for
the work they had done for them and
fadded that though the press was great
in the upbuilding of humanity the
church was no small factor either
The newspaper and the church should
work in accord with each other and he
asked that the newspapers be still
more helpful to the church by sending
repesentatives and giving full reports
of special occasions in church work
He intimated that they gave undue
prominence to worldly affairs At the
conclusion of the address he was ten
dered a vote of thanes
H G Lyon was next and read a pa
per on Delinquent Subscribers that
did the heart of every newspaper man
good He sketched for their edifica
tion numerous characters which may
be met in nearly every locality dwell
ing on the trait which seems to pre
dominate in many individuals of never
paying a newspaper until they want a
favor Mr Z for instance who
came to the town unknown hung
out his shingle and through lib
eral notices succeeded in buildmg up a
law practice but always forgot to pay
a dollar on subscription Farmer X
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Davenport Thachei
The leading merchantsfof
Valentine extend to you a
cordial invitation to visit
them if you wish Groceries
or Dry Goods or anything
else in the line of General
Merchandise Its a 10 to 1
shot that youll come again
Thats what we want
Look over our line of spring goods Ask about the portraits
BOYS PANTS
ONLY 25 CENTS
BOYS SUITS
ONLY 75 CENTS
D STINARD
mill Prieenjor Feed
Branbulk 40c per cwt 700ton
Shorts bulk 50c per cwt 900 ton
Screenings 35c 600
Chop Feed 70c 1300
Corn 50c
Oats 80c
4 Flam Straight Talk
of the advantage to you of taking the
Pacific Short Line via ONeill when
enroute to or from Sioux City You
save three hours in each direction
make close connections with Yankton
Sioux Falls and Mitchell trains you
can go to Sioux City and return tbe
same day and it costs just the same
for tickets as via the other line Buy
local tickets to ONeill
Ranch to Rent 22 mile3 south
of Valentine with hay land pasture
sod house stable and sheds Also
good wind mill and tank
A Payton Simeon
Race3 June 16 17 IS and 19
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EVERYTHING
In Pettycrews stock of groceries fruit confectionery and feeel
IS THE BEST
All our Groceries are fresh and good Fruit is the finest and cleanest
Confeciionery 1 lie best and sweetest Feed pure and nutrition
Iliirhe t prices for Butter Eirsrs and Farm Produce
NORTH OF POSTOFFICE W A PETTYGREW
Inventory Sale
AVe have just completed our spring inventory and have fn
hand a large amount of odds and ends remnants etc vhkh
will sell below first cost For instance we will sell
PIECE GOODS AT 1 0 GTS PER YARD
These goods are double width first class quality We sel
BLACK LAWNS FOR 5 CENTS
Worth 20 cents Must make room for new good-
E McDonald
SPRING
CLOTHING
JC
We have an excellent line of new
clothing gents f nrnishing
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
TO THE PUBLIt
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In til lit Ion to the Iio of
Groceries ivJiicft J re
opened at my old atJtrti Oct
Jlain Street I will fteveafr
carry a stoclt of Noizoi - -Laces
Jlihhons Needier il
Thread Jiitttons jSc u
Socks Overalls IndoiVcT
etcfirtd J resjectfitZr
a share of your twiCc
J M CARPENTER
0 W MOREY
WATOHMAKEE - AND - 3EV7SISB
Fine line of plain and fancy jep
elry constantly on hand
Eepairing promptly executed ami
done in the best manner
Full line of sporting gc Crd
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