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VOL XII
SOCIETIES
Masonic
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At Ancient
inset la regular
Minnechaduza LodreNo 1M
Free and Accepted llsont
j invited jto attend our mertinjs
J T Kjsblkv
Secretary
Workmen
communication Saturday
ereuiHtea or before the full moon In eack
caqnt Members of the order In good and reg
ular standing are cordially aud fraternally lii
Tited to attend W T KiNCiil W M
WW Thompsox Becy
Eastern Star
Q 18 Northern Star Chapter Ifo W
Order of the Eastern Star meets ou tLe
pMndand fourth Tuesday evenings of each
uaonth at Hornbys nail
W W Thomphok SxxaLYkast
Secretary Worthy Matron
Odd FeMmt
TTOOF Valentine Lodft No SOS
oTw Hhjt
NORTH NEBRASKA
j senaeot tiwer of uaa
ever
Allows meets
Thnr5day evmlnic Visiting brothers cordial
K JUAVKNrORT
Noble Grand
Master Workman
Decree of Honor
Df H Valentine Lodge No Degree
Honor holds regular meetings first
third Wednesday evenings of each mntth
J C Fjcttijohx
Bceoraer
of
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LHjUAH U 8TOXKR
Chief of lienor
Protection
SJk D of P Valentine Lodge No 6 Sobs and
Daughters of Protection meets first and
toird Friday evenings of each month in Horn
bys hall Maky Olovjcr President
LoriK Vacho dtseretary
Red Men
I O R M Sitting Bull Tribe No 32 Tm-
proved Order nt ed Men meet every
aeeaad andfourth Friday Of each month
at Davenports Hall vjsiilug brethren are
Iraterually Invited to be preeentattue council
of the tribe
rt A 8KA R8 a H Fjcbousox
Cfctef of Records Baehem
Grand Army
1 JL 1C Col Wood Post No 309 Department
regular
each
vj4 ox neorasKa meeting secona and
feurth Saturday or month at 2 p m sharp
Cemrades from other posts are cordially Invited
ite attend JoHyDuay Cemmaader
J W TtnxKR Adjutant
Woodmen
MW A Valentine Camp No 17U Modern
W oodraan of America nvjet second and
wurth Wednesday evenings of each month at
Daveaserts Hall VisiUnc nelcabore cordially
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Ivrturi te i atteni
W 3 Jacksok
3krk
W K HAXVT
Venerable Couneel
Knights of Pythias
K of Cherry Lodge No 169 Knights -
xythias meets every Tuesday evening
imrenpors nan
M C BR1LTCNSEK K P ROBERTS
K of aod 8 CnaaetUor Gommazkb
O WrMOEEY
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WJT0HXAEB - AND - JEWELEB
Jine line of plain and fancj jew
elry constantly on hand
Repairing promptly executed and
done in the beat manner
Full line of sporting goodi
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C A WELLS
DENTIST
Offic over
T C Hmrnhym Stmre
C M SAGESER
TONSORIAL
ARTIST
Hair cutting and shaving
Shop im the Yf II Moses building
HOT MID GOLD BATHS
THE ELKHORN
RAILROAD
North Western line 10 to beet
to and from the
SUGAR BEET FIELD
Pacific Short Line
TIMK TABLE
AT ONEILL NEBRASKA
PASSENGER-
LSAVSSfltO A M ARRIVlt f Jt T M
DAILY XCErT8UNDA
Through onneettona both ways wllb Blaak
BUtotrftUttTUkiagtbtsllne you earn gs
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VALENTIKE
THIS AND THAT
Cmmlnm Event
Stesthern Teachers Simeon Dec 4
S2copal Entertainment De 10
Teachers Association- Dec 11
Christmas Dec 25
Everybodys outou a wolf hunt
to day
Jack Jensen of Gordon was in
town Monday
Born Sunday Not 21 to Mr and
Mrs Chas Reed a girl
Boy De Woody of Ainswoarth is visit
ing his sister Minnie today
Methodist supper tonight at Cor
nell Hall Dont miss it
Aou w valentine Lodge No 70 Ancient The Sparks hank and office building
Orderof United Workmen meets on the j j r
first and third Mondays of
J C ntTTUOHN
ilecorder
A4AhrMnnfk
wtfl be completed by Jau 1
Sen Hobsons 11 year old daughter
Lizzie is ill with typhoid fever
Pi of Hobbs of Simeon made this
ffi ce a verv pleasant call yesterday
W T Kincaid is spending Thanks
giving with friends in Ainsworlh
Cora Gillette is spendiag Thanks
giving with her parents at Aiuswortb
Wm Enlow stopped in town Sun
day night while on his way home from
Omaha
A E Tlmcher went to Ft Robinson
Tuesday uight to look after his hay
contract
C H Weilford came bown from Co
dy last evening to spend Thanksgiving
at home
Jake Stetter spent a few days of the
past week in Missouri returning Tues
day night
Eli Sawyer of Ainsworth is in town
today looking after the iron work at the
school house
Wlrere is that wood you promised
to bring us We need it badly aud
wish yoa4 hurry up
Katie Noble has beec quite ill for
over two weeks but is rapidly regain
ing her usual ood health
One of the motfetoterant men in
this town is a man who prides himself
upon bis lUieral views on religion
The Bank of Valentine looks quite
neat with its new coat of paint new
sign aud other improvements
The K P lodge elects offcers at its
meeting Tuesday night and a full at
tendance of the members is desired
Waktkd Girl for general house
work Mrs W E Waite
M Chesterfield Neb
The Ainsworth Star Journal changes
hands this week J O Berkley retiring
to give place to W E Burleigh of
Iowa
Wanted -About half a dozen loads
of good manure aud ten loads ot black
tirt on subscription Now is the time
to pay up
Art Shermans new house begins to
assume definite shape But two more
rooms will be built at this time and an
addition made later
E J Davenport is building a tempor
ary fence around his lots at the corner
of Main and Elmore streets and will
plant trees this winter
Secret societies are on- the boom in
Valentine The Bed Men have seven
or eight applications for adoption at
their meeting tomorrow night
The kids gav Jo Yeast a chari
vari last Friday night aud Joe gave
them a stony stare or marble
keart or something of that sort
the Omaha Real Estate Exchane del
egates to the Texas deep water conven
tion and has accepted the position
Homer Smith of Iowa was sent here
last week by the civil service commis
sion to take the place at the Indian de
pot recently held by C R Watson
Christian Endeavor topic for Sun
day night is IIow can We Conse
crate Ourselves to the Temperance and
Similar Reforms - Luke 15 17
All parties who allow stock to roam
at large inside the corporation are
hereby warntd that the marshal will
after this week impound all stray an
inals
The Guild of St Sohns Episcopal
chureh will give an entertainment a
Cornell Hall on the evening of Friday
December 10 Licht refreshments
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jaade wiliall trains for t Kat art oiMll j --
kotft BuylWilttoketatftrtn Short progfMi
Fablisfced ftrftor Year m
CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
There are 259 different denomina
tions or religious bodies in the United
titates We have heard mtti sav that
there were less than that number of
Christians in the world
Dr W Q G Tucker of Modsta 111
iSvisiting his parents this week Dr
Tucker is one of the old boys here
who is always welcome
The push engine was sent to Etfng
pine Tuesday morning the stock run
being over and the merry toot of its
whistle and clang of bell will be heard
no more until next fall sij
J J luths new two story residence
is now undctrffouf and work on the in-
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Bine is progressing nie uuuuing win
be heated with hot air aud will con
tain all modern improvements
De Witt Clifton an old time hand
with the stick and rule late of the
Black Hills is holding down a case on
The Democrat this wek and will
probably stay with us all winter
C R Glover is appointed as one of general merchandise business on the
corner named We are confident that
these historical articles will prove in
teresting to the reader judging from
the comment provoked by the first of
the series
If the United States annexes the
Hawaiian islands it will add to its
possessions a country that in one re
spect at least is more civilized than it
self Hawaii has insuccessful opera
tion a postal savings bank system
There is on deposit with the postal
bank about 1000000 which is a
pretty good showing for dv country of
100000 population mostly illiterate
natives aud foreign laborers
If annexation of the islands were to
carry with it the extension to this
country of the postal savings bank
system in operation there would be a
strong argument for annexation
h Qhioago Micord
DEMOCRAT
VALENTINE CHERRY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25 1897
THE OLDcST BANK
Cherry County Bank Ik the Oldest In
0rthwc81frn Nebraska
One of the best institutions a com
munity can have and one of which it
should always be proud is a good
sound well conducted bank Valen
tine has two of these products of civil
ization and of both many words of
praise can be said The older of the
two was organized almost with the
town and its proprietor has always
been one of the aggressive business
men of the place and in a business
way has grown up with the country
The Cherry County Bank was- es
tablished in Valentine in July 1883
as a private banking institution with
a capital stock of 25000 E Sparks
and J A Sparks composing the firm of
Sparks Bros under whose manage
ment the bank was run Prior to lo
cating in Valentine the firm had been
in the general merchandise business
Arthur 4ore went to Crawford Sun- at Thatcher which was then supposed
day night and V Northrop is now to D6 tne Chicago of Nebraska and
cu pying his old position This change inev ais0 ran a general siore nere in
will be the result of adding mater
ially to Uncle Sams postal revenues
W added several fonts of new type
to our outfit this week and have an
extra mau at work in the bargain
We are now prepared to execnte the
beBt of job work in a neat manner
Try us ouce v
Dad Ilershey has n tired trom the
management of the billiard and pool
rown across the hall frorh this office
and in the future that institution will
be in charge of Tom Yeamshaw and
Jim Hull
When tne push engine was sent
away Will Merritt lost his job as
night watchman and returned home
to Long Pine This in itself is not a
serious matter but when we think of
the hearts he took with him we are in
clined to weep a few briny weeps
It hashut recentty come to our ears
that we attended the goldnug dem
ocrat conveutln and this ropuri
circulated originally by one Gko H
Reinert who knows it was false
Mr Reinert is a liar We doii like to
use the word but no other expresses
the facts
People may sneer and laugh at the
weather bureau forecasts all they wish
but thfebureau is pretty reliable just
the same Did you feel the cold wave
Saturday aud Sunday after the cold
wave flag was hoisted The wise will
watch the flag and govern themselves
accordingly
Prof P E Wants was in from
Johnstown Saturday onland omVe bus
mess and madetHis office a pleasant
call Mr Wautz is a prominent stock
man in the east end of the county
and to his credit be it said he has
been and is a friend of the court
house- bonds
Among the many things sent out
from the Indian warehouse this week
for the use of poor Lo were wash
boards hundreds of them bureaus
nice ones too blankets and about
a car and a half of hardtack or bis
cuits Some of the Indiaus had toads
tight or nine feet high ou their wag
ons
In our history of McDonalds store
last week we were ia error when we
said that he commenced business at
the corner of Catharine and Cherry
streets His hardware store was lo
cated where Moreys building is on
Maiu street and he commenced in the
connection with the bank in a build
ing located on the lot south of th e
brick bank block Here the bank was
run until the -big tire of April 1888
which burned all tlujf buildings but one
oh tfie west side of Miin street in th it
block and after hcoi flngration bus
iness was resumed in a building lo
cated where Robinsons Krjcery store
now is Being not saritfi il with the
location a new brick structure the
one recently vacated was begun that
same summer Uefoie it was finished
in October 1888 the bank was again
burned out this being the fire which
destroyed McDonalds general mer
chandise store The bank dT1 notdi
ConTinue hti irses hv vT niifi jrioii
movt ri into he tuick Imiiilmg In
loyu Dim unn escaousnea a bang in
Leonardville Kan and the two were
run jointly until 1893 when the busi
ness was divided J A Sparks taking
IWjKsysas bank and E Sparks re
nvriuing here In eptpjnber of this
year the hank hniluinfi was Sltl to O
V Moie j vler and possession
tfiven the first of November Mean
while a handsome stone and brick f
structure is being erected on the cor
ner of Main and Catharine streets for
the institutions future home and the
bank holds forth in the old jewelry
store building
When established the Cherry Coun
ty Bank was the only bank west of
Long Pine C R Glover running the
Brown County Bank at that place and
it is now the oldest banking institu
tion west of ONeill It enjoys a
large patronage fromthematljfancli
inen in the surrounding country
officeps at the post and officials at
Rosebud and has a wide spread repu
tation for stability honesty and fair
dealing E Sparks is president of the
bank as now organized and Charles
Sparks cashier
Srhool Bonne News
Whlie driving a two foot bolt out of
a block of wood on the second floor of
the school house yerterday Claude
Fletcher let It fall through a knot hole
and it sttuvk John House a hod car
rier on the head inflicting an ugly
scalp wound The blow was a bard
one and had the bolt struck perpend ic
ularlyJohn would never have known
what hit him v
The joist for the ceiling of the
second1 floor rooms is being laid to day
and if this good weather continues the
j roof will be put on next week
Contractor Fletchers gasoline en
gine is kept busy turning the saw
which cuts the ornamental wood work
of the building
School Report
Number of days taught 19 Num
ber of scholars enrolled 21 Those
neither tardy nor abseut during the
month Willie and Clyde PeUycrew
Mable Iuaaud Estella Spratt John
CogswelL Those absent but one day
Renaand Rose Fowler FissieJaycox
Eliza Hoison Vannie Ora and Melvih
Hooper
Above Ms -for Harmony district
month ending Oct 29
Margarete Herring
TheBartley case still drags along
with no prospect of immediate settle
ment Republicans are trying hard to
implicate Gov Hoicombin th6 mess
bat it wont stick
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TOYS TOYS I
Largest stock in town
Prices the lowest
Everything to please the girls
and boysDolls and Drums Guns
and Doll carriages
x a a
Davenport Thacher
GENERAL MERCHANTS
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Winters Coming
Aud now the careful housewife begins to look around for
FUNNELS - AND - ARCTIGS
aud jther warm and heavy goods
The best place to get them is at the Btoro of
K McDonald
Indian goods trinkets and curios a specialty Store at Crookston also
Sam Hudson
Simeon Neb
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Ieft hip on cattle
IIt shoulder on
horses
Some horses Lazy
S on left shoulder
Kance between
Gordon and Snake
River and Niobiara
River
Lelt ears tagged All cattle dehorned
Henry Pratt
Rosebud S D
Left side
Horses same on
left shoulder
Deerhorn clip on
some cattle
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William Shangren
Cody Neb
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Joseph W Bownet
P O address
Merrnnan Nebr
Right ear cropped
Hole in center of left
ear
Range Lake creek
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Earl Comstock Manager
Valentine Neb
Cattle branded on
left side or hip Also
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Horses same as on
steer left hip- Also
C on left shoulder
You can have your eyes examined
FREE OF CHARGE By
WILSON -OPTICIAN
AT
QUIGLEYS DRUG STORE
Tuesday and Wednesday
NOV 30 and DEC I
Dont Forget the Dates
William M Dunbar
leasee from Heine Kroeger
7 HI
Cody Neb
DUfl Either side
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Left ear oi cattle
plit
Kanie head of Hay
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Steadman Bros
Pass Neb
Brand on either
right or left side
Horses and some
cattle brand
on left side
and hip
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Charlea Benard
Rosebud S D
Dnlap under side of Bsaso Bit Wtute1
turn uau jpvwt
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Range Bull Lake
and Wamadoce
creek
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