re r w I - r AC - w X V VOL XII SOCIETIES Masonic Al K A M Minnecliaduza Lodge No t92 Ancient Free and Accepted ilasans meet in regular communication Saturday evening on or before the full moon in each month Members of the order in good and reg ular standing are cordially and fraternally in vited to attend W T Kincaid W Ji W W TuoanSOh Seey Eastern Star 8 Northern Star Chapter- No 59 OK Order of the Eastern Star meots on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each mouth at Hornbys hall AY W TiiostPaox Tfrmv J Ykast Secretary Worthy Matron Odd Fellows TOOF Valentine Lodae No 505 Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows meets every ThMRiday evening Visiting brothers cordial ly invited to attend our meetings 1 T Kkkley E Lj DAVEXPOIIT Secretary Nobio Grand Workmen AOU W Valentine Lodge No 70 Ancient Order of United Workmen meets on the first and third Mondays of each month J C PKTTLJonN O W Ha uv Kecorder Master Workman V Degree of Honor Dot H Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor holds regular meetings Urst and third Wednesday evenings of each mwuth J C Pkttjtohx Lillian- U Stonek Recorder Chief of Honor Protection S D of P Valentine Lodge No C Sons and Daughters of Protection meets first and third Friday evenings of ach mouth in hall M ahy Glo vicr President Lovik VAciiONi Secretary Red Men Imj0 It M Sitting Bull Tribe No 22 im proved Order ot Red Men meet every second and fourth Friday evening ot each month at Davenports Hall Visiting brethren are fraternally invited to be present at tiie council of the rribo ti A Sears A H Fjbkgusox Chief of Records Sachem Grand Army GA 31 Col Wood To6t No 203 Department of Nebraska regular meeting second and fourth Saturday of each month at a p m sharp Comrades from other posts are cordially invited to attend John Dujot Coramauder J W Tuoker Adjutant Woodmen MW A Valentine Camp No nn Modern Woodman of Americauijet second and fourth Wednesday eveninus of each month at Davenports Hall Visiting neighbors cordially -Invited to attend W 3 Jacksox W E Haiky Clerk Venerable Counsel Knights of Pythias K of P Cherry Lodge No 1C9 Knights of Pythias meets every Tuesday evening at IDavenports Hall M Chkiltensen K of It and S E P Roberts Chancellor Commander THIS AND THAT Coinina Events 5 Senator Allen October 22 Harridgton October 23 Presbyterian Supper October 23 Election Day November 2 Teachers Association November 13 Thanksgiving November 21 Mrs G A Gee of Kennedy visited in town Saturdav Prof P DeCory of Rosebud -called at these headquarters yesterday Dr WellBhas moved his dental out fit into his old room over Hornbys WANT ED Girl for general work Good wages M S Welch Alex Altschuler of Omaha is attor ney for the defense in the Xeeley case E J Davenport is attending the I O O F Grand Lodge in Lincoln this week Hiram Cornell of Lodi California is visiting his son C H week Cornell this J G Stetter is having a neat veran dah built on the south side of his resi dence L P Lesler of Bascobei Wisconsin was in town yesterday on his way to Gordon G P Crabb falls into his position in the store like the old hand at the busi that he is TV W PaTsons and Nate Blue of Ainsworth are in town as witnesses in the INeeley -case Anna Connolly went to Chadron Sunday night where she will work for 3Irs Woodward Curt Callen moved into his own res idence property north of Carpenters during the pass week Mrs Zeilian and Anna Bivens spent and Sunday with the family of George Trace well in Kewanee Miss Ora Shepard came up from Ainsworth Saturday night and will make this her home in the future Work on the -school house has been almost at a standstill for the past week mowing to the nonarrival of joist for the f iret floor The subject -of Miss Childes address at the Episcopal church Sunday night will be A Clear Conscience Serv ices hcgln at roJ p m VAI Judge Towne is meeting with prac tically no opposition in his race for county judge TJ G Stevenson was up from Wood lake Saturday and attended the meet ing of the republican -county central committee A E Thacher made a trip to Foit Robinson last week to look after his firms contract with the government returning Saturday morning A C Toliver of Ainsworth was in town Monday on business Art is one of ye scribes old churns and is now assistant postmaster at Ainsworth Senator Allen has been billed to speak in Valentine on the 22nd of J W Spirk of Pierce stopped in town Tuesday and visited old friends while on his way to the Ilills in the in the interests of the Pierce and Min nechaduza Mills J J Guth is having his dwelling house remodeled Johnny has always had a neat place and when the contem plated improvements are finished it will be one of the finest in town Bob McQuade made this office a pleasant call Monday and showed us a copy of an Irish paper containing a reproduction of his marriage announce ment which appeared in this paper a short time ago Burt Hammond returned home to Valentine Saturday night well pleased with his three weeks trip to Omaha and Kansas City He stopped at Ar lington one day on his way home and visited the Glover boys S Xeble editor of the Dane Pioneer at Omaha L Yager an insurance man at the same place and M Chnstensen of Valentine under thejrilotage of A T White enjoyed a few days hunting amoung the lakes this week D Steele age about 70 years died yesterday ac his home on strt 1 after an illness of several weeks The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 oclock the Masonic lodge of th s place conducting the services The ladies of the Prpsbyterian church and Y P G C E will give an old fashioned supper at Cornell Hall Friday evening October 29 com mencing at 530 p m A short pro gram will be rendered after supper One of the most pleasant visitors we hive had this week was EE Crane of Eli precinct who is in town on jury duty Mr Crane is one of our countys best men and though he does not get to Valentine very often is well known here by reputation Someone who has a great big heart yesterday left a peck of the tinest po tatoes we have seen this year in our sanctum Someone did the same thing two weeks ago Thanks gentle men You are forgiven for swiping our melon last summer The subject for Christian Endeavor ers to study this week is Confessing Christ and the topic for the meeting at the Presbyterian church Sunday ev ening is Confessing Christ Before Men Why and Hoav Lesson found in John 1235 43 and Eom 108 11 The preliminary trial of Frauk Sed tecek charged with killing his sister was held before Judge Towne Satur day and the boy was discharged It was only the boys resolute denial of any knowledge of the affair that caused his arrest Nobody believed he did the deed purposely H B Sears and Jas Childers of Cody Jos Fairhead of Lavaca Geo Higgins of Brownlee J W Curry of Mernman S W Chestnut W L Eulow W E Jones John Masena Bruce Hewitt Jas Saults and S G DeFrance of Gordou G W Burge of Pass J H Haeber of Kennedy W L Cohee of Simeon are a few or the people attending court here this week Prof Pt G Easley of Valentine latley from New Albamy Ind will lec ture in the school house at Crookston 2STebr Saturday evening Xov 6 1896 On a subject interesting to old and young A short program will also be given by the school Price of admis sion adults 15c children under 12 years of age 10c The proceeds will be used in increasing the school libra ry Corse every body it will interest you i - m 1 m 2fl aJL - ill At -V I It M JIA 3 Js Oct at two p m We hope all parties tnseSj whereby defendant swindled G ir fll iAin in mobinrr tho mnnhnff n onr cess Court 3cw District court convened here Mon J day with Judge Vv H Westoer on the bench and Victor Seymour of Lincoln reporting testimony As is usual the first day of court was given over to the hearing of cases ofrhinor importanco and of these a number were settled In addition to tiie fifty civil cases on the docket there were nine criminal cases brought by the state Of these six have been dis posed of State against Snurrfor horsestealing was dismissed by the prosecuting at torney ou the eround that hkbud riot euiiicient evidence to comiiot State against Morgan for obi aiding endorsements on draft under false pre- R Watson and J W Yeast resulted in a verdict of guilty the jury being out about half an hour State against Frank Tate larceny j continued on account of the principal I witness Sidney Irwin having left the country State against F A Meltendorf fyr selling liquor to Indians resulted in a verdict of not guilty State against George W Monnier dismissed m Sfate against John Carter defend ant pleaded guilty to the charge of burglarizing George Hornbys store As we go to press the burglary case against John Neeley is on trial Court will probably last all week J T Keeley left Tuesday morning for the Fort Belknap Indian Agency Montana to accept the position of is sue clerk a promotion from his place in the Indian warehouse hero Jack has been a resident of Valentine for over nine years coming here from ONeill in 1888 to accept the position of deputy county treasurer under E McDonald From the treasurers of fice he entered the Indian warehouse when Tucker was first appointed re ceiving and shipping clprk With the exception of a short timepassed in the em ploy df the railroad and later J M Thacher post trader at Fort Niobrara he has been in the vvarehouse ever since 89 serving under the successive administrations of Tucker Oglesby Carroll and Tucker up to the time he v as promoted C R Watson takes the place formerly occupied by Mr Keeley aud this fact insures capable management of the office While we aie sorry to lose Mr Keeley as a citi zen we congratulate him upon his pro motion Mrs Keeley and the children will remain here for the present Wherever postal saving banks are in operation women are among the most appreciative patrons of the system As a rule women are more careful of small sums than men and seem to have a more practical realization of the value of such accumlations In many families it is only the foresight of the wife that leads to provision be ing made against a day of adversity The desire of women more generally than of men is for a place of absolute safety for their small savings rather than high rates of interest Conse quently they are especially apprecia tive of the stabibtv which the postal savings bank affords Probably congress could do no other one thing that would so commend it to the country as would the establish ment of apostal savings bank system Chicago Record Send us the names and addresses of three or more performers on the piano or organ together with ten cents in sil veer or postage and we will mail you ten pieces full sheet music consisting of popular songs waltzes marches etc arranged for the piano and organ Address PopaLAK Music Pub co Indianapolis Ind A quite serious wreck occurred on the F E at Geurgia last Friday night An eastbound stock train ran into a westbound special of empties as the latter was pulliug into the siding and smashed up the engine of the stock train and three empty cars It took about twelve hours to clear the track Among those registered at the Val entine house this week are J T Kief of Arabia O D Carey of Crookston C C Parker -of Gordon H E Dewey of Woddlake Chas Carver of Pullman and J Estabrook of Lavaca 3 - - - y tf3 - - - Pnfolislaetl for Four Years as OHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT If you want officials who are not the creatines of any ring clique or faction vote for the democrtic nomi nees If you want officials who are capa bfeVlionest and reliable vote for the democratic nominees if yon want to rebuke ring methods vote for the deniocraic nominees ThemerchaRfc who patronizes for eign job offices for his stationery or uses a rubber stamp to save a printing bill robs the newspaper office of his own town of the patronage rightly due it and has no Legitimate kick coming if his customers choose to purchase their goods in a foreign market to save money by so doing Longplne Ecjntb Jican Journal S Among the many lies sprung last week was one by a certain member of the populist ring at this place whose name we will for the present withhold was one to the effect that he had re ceived a letter from W A Metzger cajiHidute for county clerk on the dem ocratic ticket and that Metzger said ne wouia not accept trie nomination or make a run fpr the office That this was made up out of whole cloth is proven by the following extract from a letter from Mr Metzger It has been rumored that I would not accept the nomination If this is true iiijyour vicinity please inform the people to the contrary as 1 will accept the nomination estfiueawtaje7mzjxAKn Sehcol Kojtorfs Harmony School district Ko X 12 M L Herring teacher lo enrolled 21 Average attend ance 10 Those neither tardy nor absent during the month Willie Clyde and Leone Pettycrew llena Fowler Lizzie Eliza Mary and Grace Ilobson Vannie Melvin Ora Hooper Stella Mabel and Ina Spratt John Cogswell Ernest Palmer and Cleo Stowers Those absent but one day and not tardy Hazel Pettvcrew Kose Foygler and Flocie Jaycox 24 - r WHFri JNfi ToacJicva Association The following program will be given at the high school buildihg at 130 p in Saturday November- 13 All friends of education are cordially in vited to be present Lesson in Literature Chapters IH to VI K l I Watson Hints and Helps Etta Brown Discussion Mrs S E A Fowler Simple Experiments in Physics that May be Used in any School U G Stevenson School Government Chas Reece Discussion Mrs Hornback Ideals Jean Edwards -Discussion Amy Burleigh Program Com3iittj d decision of Interest TJ S Land Office Valentine Neb October 19 1S97 To The Democrat A recent decision of the Hon Secre tary of the Interior grants all who have made homestead entry or who may hereafter make entry of less than 160 acres the right to make additional en tries until they get 160 acres They are required to live upon said addition al entries same as in the original entry This decision will be of interest to many who have made entry of less than 160 acres thinking that by so do ing they had exhausted their full right Very respectfully C 11 Glover llemster Until 18 fur sie Doilav For a dollar bill The emi weekly State Journal will oe sent from now until January 1 1899 A good long time to get two big papers every week with all the news of the whole world all the news aDd in fact more news aud general reading matter than you get in any other state paper The Journal is spending money and effort in writing up the interests of Nebraska and setting our states advanages be fore the peple of the wdole cuntry Nedraskas prospersty will bring thousanbs of farm buyers to our state You should read The State Journal which is not an Omaha paper or a Lincoln paper but a state paper in its truest senes What will be for the best interest of Nebraskans is the first question aeked by The Journal when called upon to becide Every NJabraskan should do his best to keep The State Journal before the peopl and that bpst means by sending in One Dollar which will pay for the paper to January 1899 After you read it send it oo your friends in the east and lee them see what grate things we are doing in Nebraska Send in your dol lar to The State Journal Lincoln Neb The sooner you seud the mere you will get for uotir moner tre 5JfH P JS5 it OavA JU VALENTINE CHERRY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY OCTOBER 21 1897 NO 9 v- BY DAY AND NICE WARM fflc s 1st I JJ M vJ C tf v - SsSSKvT eyaftir 7 Mm I wr - YA ft riHPBilShi B ttftlffgA36Me feS m P S E3 5 g53 Ess 9 H S5 My cattle brand on left side and hip Eange Bull Lake and Vumudiiei tSSSSSSiisSihRk diaries JBeimrd Ioscbud S I Hange Hii White and 7ad ltivers Joseph W Bownet 3 O address Mernman Nebr Right ear cropped Hole in center of left ear Hange Lake creek S D some cattle sfeib XSViC3 Nf Tv wrtsnai Left ears tagged William M Dunbar Lessee from Heine Kroeger J Cody Neb DUfi Either side GSggSS55ffyja reeK AlsrSgjsaon fhwsl right Left ear oi cattle it ange head of Hay w in Sam n udson Simeon Neb Left hip on cattle Left shoulder on horses Some horses Lazy on left snoulder ilange between Gordon and Snake River and Niobrara 5lUver All cattle dehorned Henry Pratt Eosebud S D Left side norses same on left shoulder i Dfrhnrn olin on 5r5252 William Shanren Cody Neb 7 m I in iii Mnnwnnn Dulap underside of nccli Spa I Y NIGHT ARE JUST NOW THE r KXZ7Psax We have line of each O nilMvjio MOST COMFORTABLE a good See them Thaphfs GENERAL MERCHANTS Our Fall Goods Are now arriving and to make room for them all goods wiiioli have been in Stock this summer must go To hurry them along we hEve put prices down to bedrock Everything for the home Call and see our Dry Goods E McDonald Indian goods trinkets and curios a specialty Store a t rookston ab The Vitascope prize fight given in Stetters saloon List night was in stead of Cornell Hall on account of court being in session It was a tame attalr J - - t - Steadman Eros Fuss Neb Hrand on cither right or left sua Horses and some TXWMOREY WATOHMAZEK - AND - JEWELL Fine line of plain and fancy je dry constantly on hand Repairing promptly executed and done in the best manner Full line of sporting goods Wanlsd fin Idea Protect your ideas thor mnv brlBjr yoa v Write JOHN WEDDER30PN CO Patent neye Washington D C for their 31SG0 prizo oCu and new list of one thousand Inventions wanted D AR Who can thr ot ronw slnr thlngtopatix O A WELLS ENTIST Office over T C Hornhy8 Store C M SAGESEB TONSORIAl TI8T Hair cutting and shaving Shop in the W II Moses building HOT MO GOLD BATHS THE ELKHQRN RAILROAD jSorth Western Line7 is to besf to and from the SUGAR BEET FIELD OF R WRTH NEBRASKA acifig Short Line TIME TABLE AT OKEILL NEBRASKA PASSENGER LEAVES 1030 A 31 AR BIVES 3 0 P U D 4JLY SXCEr SUNDA Y Turnup1 onisectTocs both ways with Blao Hills trains ly taking this line you cau go t Sioux City nd return tliesxiredav eoHnectiou inade with nil trains for the East avd 5ouir Dakota Bay loeal tickets tqQJNciil