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THIS AND THAT
Vaiu inaJSvents
Scandinavian riistcrs Aug is
Lawn Hocial H fvuy 17
Republican Convention Aus 20
Cloimlist Omiventifiii Aug
Democratic Convention- AueustJl
Old Sell lets Sept 2 3
D L Underwood has -returned from
his trip west
Henry Stetter spent Saturday and
Sunday in Cody
F M Baumgartel was down from
Crookston Tuesday
The Scandinavian Sisters tomorrow
night at Cornell Ilall
Simpson was ic from the ranch
1 ear Crookston Tuesday
W C Shattuck of Gordon was tn
own Tuesday on business
Work on the new school building is
jr1 expected to commence next week
M Y Nicholson and Mae OSullrcau
tspent Sunday at St Fiancis Mission
For Bent Xice large ofrice room
in stone building 18 T C Hornbt
Mrs Phillips of Xeligh is visiting
here with her sister Mrs J G Gibson
Talentine is the best town for busi
ness and thebesl town for sport in the
Dick Cook went up to Cody Monday
night to resume his duties on the
ranch
The annual field day and fair at
Norden will be held this year on Sept
15 anT 16
tarvis Richards was in town yester
day paying taxes and lookin g after
school lantt leases
The Nebraska State Sunday School
Convention will be held at Norfolk on
7 8 and 5 1897
Charley Cook went up to the west
part of the county Monday on the
lookout for a school
Y II Holmes and J A Douglas
were up from Bassett Tuesday as at
torneys in a contest case
Saturday is press day at the Chau
tauqua and each of the local papers
will send down a delegate
r
Irfie ITest Point XJeadwooci and
stj Fort Meade ball teams are expected to
pmy uiiii licic ucivic ivu
Will Anderson of the Anderson
stock ranch -south of Cody was doing
business in town Saturday
Our Rosebud correspondence evi
dently missed connections this week
Xakpa Tanka is all right
Wonder how long it will be before
another long sport attempts to lieece
Yalentine with a job foot race
For Sale or Rent
Large ranch
in best portion of Cherry county
dress this paper for particulars
Snks lloiubv are having
Ad-
2G
Dr Reichf 4 will be at Wood Lake
August 23 and 24 piepared to do all
kinds of dental work See large bills
Miss Lillian Stoner and Miss Iva
Efner went toLongpine Tuesday morn
ing to attend Chautauqua Education
Day
Dr Reicliard will make a full set of
teeth for 500 Extracting tree of
charge from 8 to 9 oclock the firt two
days
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A very interesting communication
was received this morning from A D
Gallop which will be published next
week
A restaurant laundry and grocery
store has been established in the old
-Cornell building on Main street neav
depot
It X Rainsford and Michael Boltz
two well known Cherry county citizens
yfrom Xenzel were in town on business
Mondav
If the people of Valentine will only
get out and hustle they can have a
house iu process of construction
by spring
Geo Hershey and family have
jsnoved into the Mrs Jones now Mrs
McQuado property south of thetlndian
freight depot
A new sidewalk ou Mam street to
the Episcopal church is one of the
possibilities and even probabilities of
taie near future
A gamn of ball is to be played at
Fort 2siobrara todas between the
officers of the Twelfth aud
ness men of Yilentiue
the
neat
frame nwnius put -up in front ol their
store today U G Dunn and Harry
Hilsinger doing the work
The populist county convention to
elect delegates is called to meet in Yal
entireou Aug 27 dominating con
vention will be called later
Dr Reichard wiii be at the Yalentine
House August 25 and remain 4 day3
3aiuless filling and extracting by the
imous application to the gums 29
T II T Geddis who sojourned here
a few weeks about a year ago is now
engaged in lecturing on Telepathy
in Rock couutv
The rF E M Y has arranged tor
another popular excursion to Hot
Springs which will take place next Fri
day Aug 20 Tickets good for 30
days
W E Efner spent Saturday and
Sunday at Lougpine He had the
pleasure Sunday of hearing Johnnie
Demeritt the Monderful 15 year old
boy preacher
Battleax Jack OConnor left last
night for Hot Springs From there be
expects to go to San Francisco
thence to the gold fields of Alaska
in the spring
Joe Potmesil returned Saturday
from an overland trip through the
Black Hills and has resumed his posi
tion with the
Cliadron llecordei
Windsor Drugstore
J W Evans and family of Fremont
the piano tuners who were here last
year spent a couple of days in town
the past week They are making the
trip west in a carriage
Jackson Brayton and J W Yeast
are putth j an exceptionally line orna
mental awning in front of their places
of business The whole thing is made
of iron
The Andrews team won the last two
games of ball with aSTehgh Thursdays
game lasted 11 innings and was won
on a score of 7 to 6 Fridays game
was a beauty Score 2 to 3
W R Towne and family have
moved into the Ferguson property re
cently vacated by Dick Ziehan and
Jas Hull and family moved into the
Strickland property thus vacated
Mrs A T White entertained a
number of her ladv friends Monday
afternoon from 3 to 7 Luncheon was
served and Mrs White once more
demonstrated her ability as a hostess
We publish a number of stock
brands this week and more will follow
next Dont be disappointed if your
brand does not appear It will
come in due time No
Sept 1
charge
W R Smith will sell 12
horses top buggy wagons
unti 1
head of
harness
shot gun and numerous other articles
Aug 21 Sale will take place in front
of Smysers livery barn at 1 p m of
day named
Watermelons are now com
mon George Schwalm has sold about
a carload it snras By the way did
you ever notice that you can always
get the first of everything at
Schwalms
Upon deliberation the Old Settlers
reunion at Sparks was postponed until
Sept 2 and 3 and will be held on those
dates instead of Aug 19 and 20 as ad
vertised A complete program will be
published soon
Martin Christensen finished his job
of painting at St Francis last week
and returned to town Monday While
there he covered the cross on the mis
sion church 100 feet above the ground
with xmre gold leaf
Fred Smith was awarded the con
tract for furnishing the Fort Niobrara
commissary with 300 bushels of pota
toes 50 cents is the contract price per
bushel J A Hornback will supply
150 bushels of the tubers
The ladies of the Episcopal church
will give a lawn social at the residenca
of J J G nth Tuesday evening Aug
17 This is the first lawn social ever
given here and should be well patron
ized Begins at 6 oclock
Sim Reinert brother of George
stopped in Yalentine Monday while on
his way home to Ainsworth Sim is
an old school mate of the editor and
bears evidence of being fairly prosper
ous even in these hard times
Poor old Jim Keene has only
made a couple of millions out of sugar
trust stock in the nast fortnight
And
if Jim who is on the outside and was
supposed to be broke anyway can
do that what will the insiders do
Robert Harrison brought dovn a
small limb cut from one of his apple
trees Monday which had on it a fine
cluster of five apples Bob says he
has about forty trees in fine shape
twenty live of which are bearing some
having as much as two bushels on
He also has some cherry trees from
which he took cherries this year This
proves that by a little care fruit can be
grown in the canyons surrounding us
dan ford Tribune
Tho F E M V is making a rate
of one fare for the round trip to Long
pine during Chautauqua One and
a third fare to Rushville aud return
during the races One fare 720 to
Hot Springs and return every Saturday
and Sunday good returning until
Tuesday 4910 to Xashville good re
turning until Nov 7 30 85 to Buffa
lo account of G A It ou Aug 21 22
Good returniug until Aug 31 with ex
tension privilege until Sept 20
The
A i 1 IV P TM J 7
V AijJM1 I IIS Hi
l0Eibl2R3ie1
IN THE COUNTRY
iii0vesi TliesiiKtivsS
In company with Mr and Mrs J A
Fike The Dkmocuat and wiie had
the pleasure of visiting J A Adam-
son anci ramiiy bunuay at their place-
about 12 miles southwest of town
Walter Meltendorf and family piloted
the pilgrims first named to their des
tination
We had frequently heard of Johns
plce on the Isiobrara and thought he
paid but little attention to tanning so
it was a surprise to us when wc
learned that the numerous
cam passed en the road
Johns housi is located on
bottom backed by bluffs on
and shaded by gigantic elms that have
stood for ages His garden or gar
dens for lie has four ot them are mar
vels of neatness and the amount of
garden sass -contained therein is
wonderful Cabbages tomatoes sweet
corn and beans peas beets cauli
flower and celery melons squashes
carrots and potatoes anything and
everything in fact can be found in
those gardens and in large quantities
Wild currants plums grapes and
chwkecherries are found in immense
quantities almost in the door yard and
quail squirrels and rabbits play hide-and-seek
in the brush Besides all
these good things John has a nice
bunch of cattle about 90 head plenty
of chickens and pigs 4i miles of iaud
fronting on the river jibout a dozen
good horses a splendid wife good
cook and estimable lady all in one
and three little girls
Speaking of cooking reminds us of
the dinner we ate We ought to apol
ogize for eating so much but cant do
it Those spring chickens about 7 of
em all crisp and brown and heaped on
one big platter proved tooo much for
our manners and we gorged Super
latives cannot describe what Fike did
He savs the dinner converted him to
the 16 to 1 theory 16 pieces of chick
en to one man and he gave ocular
proof of his conversion Space forbids
a further description of this visit and
language is too weak to express our
appreciation ol the outing but
memory will always treasure the name
of Adam son
For spme thing over a fortnight
Tiif DtokjCUat has mud a representa
tive making a trip south and west iu
Cherry count and iroin what he ob
served and what was told him by the
scores of ranchmen and farmers he
met in the course of his tour it is safe
to say that this is a banner year lor
the citizens of this county especially
ttsuse who are fortunate enough to own
huge bunches of cattle There is
abundance ot hay in all the sections
visited with small prospects of anyone
being obliged to begin early feeding
so that Cherry county cattle have every
chance to come out in good shape next
spring It is complained by a number
of paities however that the scarcity
of good hands will impede theprogress
of haying to some extent and make
the work rather late Cutting in the
vicinity cf Simoon Kennedy and
Jirownlee began shortly after July 20
and by the 28th much hay was aheady
in the stack West and southwest
however work began later many per
sons not commencing until about the
fourth of this month Among those
who are putting up the largest quanti
ties of hay may be mentioned Sam
Hudson of Simeon Marshall Wolf
enden the Kimes boys and G W
Burge of Kennedy Peter Roueche
Charles and Henry Faulhaber Johu
H Harnan W R Kissel Witt Bros
the Steadmans It M Faddis McNitt
Bros and Enoch Andrews of Brown
iee Loomas Pittenger of Mullen
E IT Gillaspie Ira Richardson and W
E Waite of Chesterfield Anderson
Bros Wheeler Bros H It Sears Win
M Dunbar D C Nelson Wm Shan
gren W II Carson and William Hook
of Cody the Richards boys and J W
Bownet of Merriman and Ridgeway
Simpson of Crookston Of course
there are others but those mentioned
are the ones who came in the path of
Tim Democrat man Everybody is
so busy it is hard to tell who Is work
ing the hardest
fciroat Joo Hace
xl foot race was pulled off here Mon
day afternoon between two cracker
jacks who had struck town and as a
result the Talentine boys are a couple
of hundred dollars ahead The race
was run by W H Copple of Bancroft
this state who is said to hold the
worlds record for 200 yards and
Frank E Wilson of Montana 100 a
side was the original bet and proba
bly as much more was put up after
wards by the backers of the two men
the Yalentine contingent placing their
money on Copple or Gordon as he
was known here Wilson is traveling
under the name of Dan Grinrod The
distance run was about 90 yards and
was made in about 8 3 5 Copjile win
ning by a foot and a half Both these
men were trying to get a race with the
negro sprinter Barnes of Fort Robin
son Wilsou has a race matched to
take place at Crawford on the 20th
but Copple couldnt get a race and has
i returned home
i or Azores
fields of
were his
the river
the north
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CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
1 I IP J VI III llii r I
VALENTINE CHERRY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY AUGUST 12 139
The Episcopal picnic was held in
Thachers grove west of town yesterday
and was jaile gemn aily attended
Lots of fun and eatables were Uie
features of the outiHg
Will someone kindly inform us of
the present whereabouts uf ff J Case
of Johnstown L W ioddard of
Simeon ana E Bristol of Carlisle
Ark These gentlemen left the places
named and forgot to leave their ad
dresses
The Lynch Journal of Lynch Boyd
Co is the latest addition to our ex
change table It is edited by A C
JvicFarland and is
column quarto in
ally it perhaps the best paper ever put
out 13 jjovel counrv
a very m at five
size
Y Northrop went to Irwin Tuesday
night to open a station at that place
for the stock season Y is one of
the swiltest operators on the line anu
his promotion from the nirht key at
this place is well deserved Arthur
Gore takes the night trick hero
Miss Pearl llav and her friend Mis
Connelly went to Valentine lat night
Miss Connelly returns to her home
thel e and Miss Kay will visit friends
aooutsix weeks Miss Donoher of
Yalentine came up yesterday and
spent the day with Miss Ray return
ing with her last night Cliadron
Journal
The Woodmen wlio went up to the
Hills to attend the logrolling last week
misled it thp picnic being put off un
til Monday on account of bad weather
hut the boys had a picnic just the
Sivme aud are loud in their praises of
the Woodmen of the Hills country
They were shown everything ot inter
est from the plunge bath at Hot
Springs to the Homestake mine at
Liead
Morions CJiarae
Walter Meltendorf was arrested last
Friday motning oi a complaint filed
by the village marshal charged with
selling liquor to Indians It was
claimed that the liquor was sold to
Henry Pretty Bird uii the night of July
29 Francis Standing Horse was a
witness for prosecution Defendant
ws bound over iuo00 bonds which
he furnished
Telephone fine
A telephone line is being construct
ed from the depot to the Minneeha
duza Mill and the village pump sta
tion Beside these three phones one
more will be put in some place in town
The line is to be constructed of No 14
wire is carried on iron poles about 20
feet high and runs along the alley be
tween Main and Cherry streets This
is an improvement which has long
been needed and in addition to being
of gieat advantage to the mill will give
tho whole town increased fire protec
tion
Xtfeciioii 3ia iVM
The late lamented legislature re
pealed that part of the election laws
providing for the election of judges
and clerks of election As the law
now stands the county judge appoints
the election boards at least one week
prior to election The judges shall be
members of the three political parties
polling the highest number of votes
The clerks will be selected the same
way
This year we will vote on what is
aptly termed the blanket ballot
Each party will have a column of its
own and a straight ticket may be
voted byraaking a cross at the head of
the ticket just under the emblem of
the party Each Darty will choose
some device to represent them as the
rooster for democracy eagle for repub
lican plow for populist rose for prohi
bition etc If a man can see to dis
tinguish pictures he can vote intelli
gently
Chautauqua Oolncs
Tuesday was Education Day at
Longpine and the opening address was
delivered by Hon Jas Morris on the
Three Rs Miss Austin of the
Lincoln Normal read a very interest
ing essay an Child Culture and this
was followed by a very interesting dis
cussion by Rev Sisson Rev Bates
Mrs Glover and Miss Austin In the
afternoon Miss Stoner read a strong
and practical paper on now the peo
ple Look to the Superintendent and
Mrs Glover gave an address full of
original humor and pathos on now
the Superintendent Looks to the Peo
ple
Yesterday was W C T U Day
and the exercises were presided over by
Mrs Mollie Ilawes Glover Reports
from Yalentine Ainsworth and At
kinson were received and stirring re
marks were delivered by Revs Bur
leigh and Glassner The afternoon
exercises were commenced with a solo
by Mrs Walker followed by work of
departments An interesting discus
sion on Child Study by Mrs Lizzie
Crawford came next followed by
Scientilic Temperance by Mrs Mc
Dougal Mrs G H Hornby presented
the L T L work
H ti itozB U S
s
NO 29
LE BLOWING
O pt
tS
Chop Feed 70c
Corn 55c
Oats 90c
M
U rt S M
a 2 a
And all other kinds
of cloth i mx
can be purchased more cheaply of I
TINARD
Than anyone else in town and
besides he carries the best qual
ities The best and most com
plete line of gents furnishings
Wanted An Idea
Who can think
of Eome simple
thlncrtoDateot
Protect your ideas they may bring you wealth
Write JOHN WEDDERBURN CO Patent Attor
neye Washington D C for their 81800 prize offer
and new list of one thousand Inventions wanted
Hill JPricesor Feed
Bran bulk 40c per cwt 700ton
i Shorts bulk 50c per cwt 900 ton
Screenings 35c
600
1300
To the East
Via ONeill and the PaciGc Short Line
The shortest and quickest route to
Sioux City South Dakota and all east
era points Save three hours time
Equal rates Buy local tickets to
ONeill When returning take the
same route Sure connections daily
except Sunday
H
If vqu have noticed our ad
vertisements and you probably
have or von wouldnt be reading
tills one yon have noticed that
we never indulge in bubble blow
ing that is we never advertise
that we will sell goods below the
cost of manufacture and things of
that sort Ye try to state facts as
they are For the next few days
though we will make some might prices on goods that
we want to get rid of before its time to stock up for autumn You
know the kind of goods we mean Dont forgot that we carry gents
i furnishings in addition to dry iroods shoes and groceries
the
T
HAGHER
he -Fruit Season
With all its glories is here and as in the past the bes of
tnmc and wild fruit- plums peaches pears banana or-
lemons etc
will be found for sale bv
NORTH OF POSTOFFICE W A PETTYOREW
Highest prices for Butter Eggs and Farm Produce
Riaht in Front
We are not to be found
comes to selling i oods
v
following
c
procession when it
because wc are in front and pro
pose to remain there both in quantity quality and price of
our merchandise We are disposing of our summer goods
rapidly and at ruinously low figures but we always keep on
hand a large line of dry good- boot- shoes and groceries
E McDonald
Indiau goods trinkets and curios a specialty Store at Croolwton stls
ill I
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m m i ku s n a a
ieiff b A Ba
VI t 3 K ii 1 6
Pacific Short Line
TIME TABLE
AT ONEILL NEBRASKA
PASSENGER
LEAVES 10o A M AKIil VES 930 P ft
D VI L V EXCE1T SUNDA V
Through connections botli ways with Black
flilh trains by taking this line you can go to
SioitK City and return thesaiue dav connections
made with all trains for the East and Souta
Dakota Buy local tickets to ONeill
OWMOREY
WATCHMAKER - AND - JEWELEE
I Fine line of plain and fancy jew
elry constantly on hand
Repairing promptly executed and
done in the best manner
Full line of sporting goods
O M SAGESEB
TQNSORIAL
ARTIST
Hair cutting and shaving
Shop in the TV n Moses building
HOT AND COLO BATHS
THE ELKHORN
RAILROAD
North Western Line77 is to be3t
to and from the
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OF
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