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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1897)
it i f N r 1 - hv i h r - THE VOL -XII THIS AND THAT ftontlna Event - Populist Convention Auk 27 TXMiiocTttc Conventiou AuctatJ3 Old SeUIM nirks Sept 2 3 Gus Carlson is still on tho sick list W S i up from Longpine today Waited Baled hay Davenpout Thacher 0 3 G3L Watson spent a couple of days -this week in the country Anumfeer of kids camped out on tho Minnechaduza last week iFok Rent Nice large office room antone building 18 TGHornby Every democrat who possibly can should attend the convention Saturday Alex Cbarbonneau and W A Bon- 8er were over from Rosebud yesterday Stock run is not so heavy this week -as It was lastonly about 20 trains so fat this -week Hiss Dickson Mrs Mrs H R Coming of Chatfield and Rosebud are in town today Amos Strong went to Lincoln yes terday morning to attend the republi can convention Shaws concrete walk is a failure Guess Valentine will have to stick to good pine boards L L BivenB went to Lincoln Tues day morning to attend the -republican state convention R S Dennis ihas just turned out some nice specimens of carriage paint ing for John Smyser J A Fike spent a couple of days in Newport the first ot the week looking after his farm interests C H Glover was on the sick list last Saturday and unable to attend to his duties in the land office The Indian warehouse at this place received 365000 pounds of Indian freight up to August 24 - W E Efners new business house on Main street is about completed and -is an ornament to the town F M Sewart Secretary of the Black Hills Stock Association of Buffalo Gap is in town today on business F B Eettibone and Z C William son two stock buyers of Albion were in town the first of the week Maj McLaughlin TJ S Indian inr spector arrived in town last night and went over to Rosebnd this morning Dr Reichard will be at Wood Lake August 23 and 24 prepared to do all kinds of dental work See large bills Dr Reichard will make a full set of teeth for S500 Extracting free of charge from 8 to 9 oclock the first two days 29 Davenport Thacher are- selling shoes for 1 per pair which formerly old for 4 Better get some of these bargains QM Christensen went to Chadron to hear Bryan Jtoday and while gone will figure on painting 10 Tine Ridge Indian schools W R Smith had very poor success with his sale last Saturday Every thing went nt a low price and horses did not sell at all Born Monday August 23 toH W Graham and wife a fine girl baby Henry is is tickled as a boy with his first pair of boots Mrs Orris of Sloan Iowa who had been visiting her parents Mr and Mrs L H Perkins returned to her home yesterday morning Lost Saturday Aug 14 a Spanish coin attached to gold chain Coin is dated 1868 and marked Four Eds Finder leave at this office 11 V Nicholson is having his house repainted and otherwise improved in -appearance Of course nobody thinks thi3 in anyway suspicious The party who without leave or li cense took the road scraper from the race track may save trouble by re- turning same Immediately Wood of all kinds is as good as cash for subscription Several parties who were to have brought us wood can do so now Any kind or length Misses Gertrude and Myrtle Mo Dougall returned home to Neligh yes terday morning after a pleasant visit of two weeks with friends here Word reaches Valentine that Col Oglesby at one time Indian -shipping clerk here has been removed from his position as special Indian agent Frank Weeks nephew of DStinard and family of New York who left here several years ago for Arkansas returned to Valentine Friday night Sisters Laurentia and Borgia of the Sisters of Mercy Omaha visited with the family of WE Haley last week TUhe Cornier is a sister of i Mrs Haley Democrats will be united this fall Come o the convection Saturday Mrs J J McXichoIs of ONeill visited with her daughter Mrs W E Hatey from Wednesday night until Tuesday morning Senator Allen promised before going to Rosebud that he would make a speech here on his return but we are uuable to announce the exact time Mae OSullivan -was taken suddenly ill while attending to her duties at the postoffice last Thursday and was not able to resume work until Monday W H Copple the foot racer cleaned up several thousand dollars in Omaha last week and it is said broke the worlds record running 100 yards in 9 3 5 seconds A free for all fight took place in the Indian camp south of the railroad last nigbtand this morning some of the half breeds are nursing broken heads No fatalities Last week ijarnes L McElderry of Woodlake was granted a pension for his servicesrto the government during the war Its a pity we havent more of such news tottjhronicle Tuesday -a wolf was treed in a rail road culvert east of town and about a dozen sports armed with guns-pitch-forks and fishpoles went out to bring him in The wolf escaped MrB W L Mahoney and little son are sojourning in town while Mr Ma honey is here with the push engine for the benefit of Mrs Ms health They come from Missouri Valley Iowa O W Hahn threshed his wheat last week The entire crop yielded about 800 bushels averaging 8 bUBhiels to the acre Where a fair stand was secured it went about 12 bushels to the acre Passenger traffic on the F E is very heavy these days and a woman is for tunate who secures a seat in the chair car i esteraay morning about a doz en women had to ride in the smoker The Democrat family are very much indebted to Mrs D D Dunn for a lot of yellow wax beans They are about the finest we have seen averag ing about sis inches in length tender and succulent G P Crabb has been appointed by Governor Holcomb as one of ka8 eight delegates to the farmers congress whichmeets in Minneapolis Augu8t31 to September 6 Mr Crabb expects to attend the meeting There is strong talk ot navmg a baseball tournament here fair time Tie Fort Niobrara and other strong teams have signified their willingness to come and there is no reason why we cannot hold another successful tourna ment Butte Gazette While in town Monday J B Finney informed this paper that he has al ready delivered 150000 pounds of flour on his Indian coutract He will have to deliver about 600000 pounds more At his -mill in Ainsworth he has been payingbut 60 cents for wheat Sept 1 the Second Battalion 12th LVS Infantry commanded by Maj Humphrey will go to Stuart about 90 miles east of here on a practice march returning by the 15th of the month when the first battalion under Lieut Col Comba will make a trip of equal length C H Thompson left Saturday for Buffalo N Y for a thirty days visit with relatives and friends in the Em pire state Cicero has not visited his people for several years and will enjoy bis trip very much no doubt During his absence Jas Hull will attend the bar in the Owl Saloon J A Carroll wife and children left yesterday morning for Kansas where MrCarroll goes to assume his duties as Chief clerk of the Pottawattom ie ana ureat isemaha Indian agency Many people in Valentine will regret the loss of this family and we wish them success in their new home The Fort Meade boys came down from Sturgis last Saturday morning to play ball with the Andrews team and the result was a couple of fine games Score Saturday was 2 to 1 and Sunday 17 to 11 in favor of Andrews Mon day morning the Niobrara boys went to Norfolk and we are told they were badly defeated in two games J A Fike and daughters Lena and Mabel visited in Newport a couple of days last week but were called home Saturday by a telegram to Mr Fike announcing the serious illness of his infant daughter He arrived home on No 27 and found the babe had very much improved under the care of Dr Dwyer and at this writing the little one seems to have entirely recovered At Ainsworth Saturday the republi cans of Brown county nominated E B Smith for clerk C F Barnes for treasurer J O Berkley for superin tendent John Murray for sheriff and J C Tolliver for judge Three of these Smith Murray and Tolliver now hold the positions for which they were nominated We extend fraternal con gratulations to Bro Berkley on his nomination for superintendent 1 - - if- VALENTINE Pnlriiftlietl for Four Year as CHERRY QOblfTY INDEPENDENT Itcsul15fun UonvcnCiou The republican county convention held in this city Jast Friday afternoon was chiefly notable for the small at tendance thereat and the large gobs of harmony which spread over tho dele gates Verilv it iit coodfor brethren to dwell together in harmonv Demo crats please take notice and govern -yourselves accordingly next Saturdays The convention organized by elect ing J Wesley Tucker chairman and Max E Viertel secretary R B How ell A Lewis and Andrew Bruce were appointed a committee oncredentials and reported the following as entitled to seats in the convention J M Ilanna C S Reece and J W Daniels of Dewey LSke precinct B S Hobson J J Stowers and R B Howell of Table A K Kuskey C P Ilamar N Po len and Andrew Bruce of Sparks G M Troffer M E Viertel and T F Kelly of Minnechaduza Amos Strong of Cleveland And the twelve delegates from Valentine whose names were pub lished last week All the delegates were not present but each precinct named was represented The temporary organization was made permanent and the following were elected delegates to the state con vention which meets in Lincoln today Jj L Bivens A Lewis H Razey C A Johnson Amos Strpng and C S Reece The convention then r - School House oivs At a meeting of the school board last Saturday evening it was decided to allow the contractors for the new school building to give separate bonds for the faithful performance of their work and Tuesday the bonds were presented and accepted Monday the foundation confers of tne scnool neuse were located survey or Tate doing the work Th building will face south on Virginia- street the building being 150 feet from that street and80 feet east from McCcrab street This leaves the playground on thejjastj and north sides of the school Tuesday excavation work began un der the supervision of W R Smith This gentleman will do all the teaming for the contractors The black dirt taken from the basement will be used for grading the giounds Part of the sand so obtained will be used for the mason work the balance hauled away na nsa RnmiNlo - v J Last Saturday a plasterer Darned McGuire jumppd a 16 board bill at the Valentine House and left for the east Landlord Hooton telegraphed to Longpine and the marshal caught the man locked him in a hotel bedroom and went his way with the conscious ness of having done his duty Mr McGuire however didnt relish the idea of staying in that room all alone so he gently raised a window stepped upon a porch jumped to the ground visited a saloon and left his regards to the marshal and disappeared Dep uty Sheriff Razey went after the pris oner Sunday bwt the above story is all he brouglit home Onite a Variety As an eyeopener to some of our east- era friends we give the following par tial list of articles intended for the use of Indians which were turned over to Judge Tucker by Shipping Clerk Car roll last Tuesday 50 crates or 300 wash boilers- 5 bundles blankets 32 sacks or 4256 pounds of coffee 32750 pounds of corn 5200 pounds flour 5 bundles buckets 10 hoes 10 harrows 10 hay forks 50 hay rakes 1 box shoe brushes 13100 pounds sugar 10 wag ons 1 box needles From all which it will be seen that Uncle Sam provides a nice variety of stuff for his wards After the Cattle Trail Yesterday Senator W V Allen and John A McShane ex congressman and present Vice president of the Omaha Stock Yards Companv were in town on their way to Rosebud in the inter ests of the proposed cattle trail men tion of which was made last week Mr McShane represents the stock yaTd people while Senator Allen represents the feeders of northern and eastern Nebraska all of whom would be bene fited by the opening of the trail The Indians at Rosebud are considering the matter today and it is very proba ble thattheir action will be favorable Business Changes Tuesday E Sparks traded his bank building to O W Morey for that gen tlemans jewelry store building and the Efner property on Hall street Morey will occupy the bank building as a store and residence while Mr Sparks will put up a new business building on the corner where the Bank r of Valentine now stands The latter bank is being moved to the vacant lot between Carpenter Vincents and JacKson Bray tons and in the spring C H Cornell expects to build a fine stone or brick block for the accommo dation of his business The government has built a great naval dry aoci at port lioyal aud as soon as a channel is dugirom the dock to the sea the United States will not have to go to Halifax and use Great Britains dock DEMOCRAT VALENTINE CHERRY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY AUGUST 26 1897 At the recent meeting of the Guild of St Johns church resolutions were adopted expressing regret at the loss of Mrs I A Carroll lrom the society Her voice especially will be missed nt jfbe services of the church F E Wilson the Montana Kid who was beaten in the foot race with Copple here a few weHs ago made a monkey of the negro Barnes at Craw ford last Friday The was job bed on the stare bus won the race easily There would be little demand for flying machines if all trains ran at the speed of the Philadelphia and Atlantic Jity Express which regularly makes the 55 miles between Camdeu and Atlantic City in 52 minutes This is tfaejiastest regular train in the world - The Mother Lake ball team pub lished a challenge some time ago to play the Pullman boys for 100 We are authorized to state that the Pull man nine will play them and that the money is ready They name as stake holder Frank E Mason of this place Whitman Sun On Wednesday the two troops of the Sixth Cavalry arrived at Fort Robin son The Ninth Cavalry band mount ed met them north of Crawford and escorted them through the main street of Crawford and on to the post Tho boys looked weary and were undoubt edly tired after their march from Yel lowstone park Crawford Bulletin Editors and preachers have to handle their flocks with a great d6al of deli cacy People are so touchy you know We frequently have to stretch the truth mightily in order to make some people appear right in the eyes of this world and the minister thon applies a sort of post mortem polish that fits them for society in the next Gordon Journal A C Hickman formerly of Eureka Kansas last week secured control of the Alliance Pioneer Grip having pur chased Frank Broomes interest in the paper and succeeds W II Trainor as local editor and business manager of the8heet Col Broome will we un derstand still look after the papers politics which will in the future as in the past be national democratic J B Finney and his attorney L K Alder of Ainsworth were in town Monday for the purpose of instituting replevin proceedings against A D Gallop to obtain possession of the latters herd of sheep It seems that Gallop has been caring for the sheep for a share of the increase and Mr Finney not being satisfied with the re turns has adopted this method of get ting possession of his property After clipping our article of two weeks ago relative to foreign advertis ers the Hyannis Tribune says No no they dont catch us either unless they pay for it And when as you say country newspapers quit filling their columns with worthless ads the oeiter mey win ue orr and tiwir pa trons netter suited iiive the advan tage in advertising to home people and thus encourage them to advertise more freely The populist county convention to elect delegates to the state convention Will meet in this city tomorrow and at that convention there will undoubted ly be more or less talk ot fusion with democrats What the convention will decide to de is uncertain The mid dle of the road element will of course oppose it but the business brains may secure a majority of the delegates in which event the convention will de clare for fusion While on his way to Crookston sev eral weeks ago E McDonald was vio lently thrown from his seat by the sud den stopping of the train and was se verely shaken up Though knocked senseless at the time he supposed that no injuries beyond a few bruises had befell him but last week it was found that spinal trouble had developed and this may prove serious but we hope not The train was a freight and the engineer who gave vent to his anger by so suddenly applying the air brake I was immediately relieved from duty Beady fer Business iThe local advisory board of the Ne braska Childrens Home Society in Valentine is now thoroughly organized and is ready to assist in securing good Christian homes for homeless or desti tute children who may come under its supervision also to assist responsible families in securing such children Anyone knowing of children without homes or Christian families desiring such children will please communicate with the local board Pres Rev S W Holsclaw VicePres M S Hopkins Secy Mrs C B Sherman Treas Mrs J M Callen W E Efner E Breuklahder Mrs ft H Watson - NO HI SHOE SALE V v II b jj L WEATHER CLOTHING TO MAKE ROOM For our now good3 all of ouf odds and ends of LADIES MISSES AND CHILDRENS SHOES AND SLIPPERS Will be clo3ed out it- REGARDLESS OF COST Xook at the price3 250 500 850 AND 100 PER PAIR These shoes have been selling at from 100 to 400 Come first and get the mo3t desirable bargains Davenport Thacher The Fruit Season With all its glories is here and as in the past the bes of tame and wild fruits plums peaches pears bananas or anges lemons etc will be found for sale by NORTH OF POSTOFFICE W A PETTYCREW Highest prices for Butter Eggs and Farm Produce Right in Front We are not to be found following the precession when it comes to selling goods because we are in front and pro pose to remain there both in quantity quality and price of 5 our merchandise We are disposing of oiir summer goods rapidly and at ruinously lojjrfigures but we always keep on hand a large line of dry goodsy boots shoes and groceries E McDonald Indian goods trinkets and curios a specialty Store at Crookston also HOT And all other kinds of clothing can be purchased more cheaply of D Stinard Than anyone else in town and besides he carries the best qual ities The best and most com plete line of gents f urniBhings Wanted An Idea IS Protect toot I deu thsyanj brlag 70 wealth Writ JOBH WZDDERBURir ft CO Patent Attor neys Washington D a for their IU00 prtie offer and sew UK or ose tfcoaiead invaufeuiratea Mill Prices or JFeed Bran bulk 40c per cwt 700ton Shorts bulk 50c per cwt 900 ton Screenings 35c - 600 Chop Feed 70c 1300 Corn 55c Oats 90c To the East Via ONeill and the Pacific Short Line The shortest and quickest route to Sioux City South Dakota and all east ern points Save three hours time Equal rates Buy local tickets to OKeiU When returning take the same route Sure connections daily except Sunday Pacific Short Line TIME TADLE AT ONEILL NEBRASKA PASSEXGER TJ A V ES W fO A IV1 ARRIVES 9 30 P M D AILY EXCEPT SUXDA V Through connections boUi ways witli Black Hills trains by taking this line you cm go to Sioux City ann return the same dav connection made with all trains for the East and Soutn Djikota Buy local tickets to ONeill OW MOREY WATOHMAKEE - A2H - JEWELES Fine line of plain and fancy-jewelry constantly on hand Eepairing promptly executed and done in the best manner Full line of sporting goods C M SAGESER TONSORIAL ARTIST Hair cuttingand shaving Shop in the W H Moses building HOT AND COLD BATHS THE ELKHORN RAILROAD tKorth Western Line is to besfc to and from the SUGAR BEET FIELff NORTH NEBRASKA