VALENTINE DEMOCRAT
VOL XII
Wood chickens potatoes and pig
nerd arc legal tender for subscription
t this great moral and religious fam
iv weeklv Trot em along
Manv good Christian men and worn
t ii will stay away from church because
tjercistwo inches of snow on the
ground but will wade through drifts
i lure feet deep to attend a chinch
supper-
Anyone knowing the present address
oft1 p Livelv formerlv of Norden
Neb later of Florrissaut Colo will
router a favor by notifying this ollce
He seems to be rather lively in
rjangmg his residence
Judge Vralcott delivered a temper
ance address at the Methodist church
Mridavevening which is said to have
been a good one We are not advised
of the remedy the Judge proposed for
t e evils of intemperance
Rassett has no saloon where intoxi
cating liquors can be procured and
our druggist will not sell liquor to any
person whom be fears will use it as a
beverage vet there has been more
drunkenness in Bassett during past six
months than during the same length
of time for several years when we had
a saloon Bassett Eafle
The residents of the lower portion
of East Crawford are complaining
about too much water in their wells
which has been causing a number to
cave Several of the cellars which
have never been known to be wet
contain from -eight inches to a foot of
water and the residents have been
compelled to remove their winter store
of vegetables therefrom The extra
amount of water is supposed to be
caused by thevirrigation system of the
Crawford Company Crawford Bulle
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SUPPLEMENT-
VALENTINE NEBRASKA DECEMBER 9 1897
Monday morning we received a let
ter from L 1 Lincoln who recently
went to Southern Illinois to visit his
daughter who has been very ill He
leports that Mrs Anderson was uncon
scious for 21 days but is now on the
road to recovery her first words on re
gaining consciousness being Oh
Pap 1 want to t Nebraska
Speaking of the country Mr Lincoln
sas
You can buy the finest farms with
big orchards on them for 15 to 20
per acre The soil is the color of red
clay from 4 to 1G inches deep sup
ported by a subsoil of hardpan tvo
feet deep then limestone Stick to
your health and If1 acivs of sand
the people here would like to have it
Jo as Judge Waleott said two years
ago Mick to your homes you might
make it worse
At a delegate meeting held at Long
pine on Dec 4 the Longpine District
Epworth League was organized with
the following officers
President Pccv P H Kifihmj
1st Vice President Mrs W A Sawyer- of
Ainswortli
ud Vice President Mrs V C Daniels of
Ioimjiine
ad Vice Nice President Lillian V Stofier of
Valentine
4ih Vice Presileet Miss CaHalicr of Smart
Secretary Mrs E L Myers of Newport
Treasurer Miss Agues Scolt of Atkinson
The time of the annual meeting was
fixed for October and the next session
will be held in Ains worth The severe
storm greatly intertered with the
program provided
The Republican last week sarcasti
cally remarked Strange isnt it
that no one has urged or even inti
mated to the Republican that it should
roast the school board in regard to the
construction of the new school house
Well no there are several reasons
whv no one would ask Rro Barker to
do such a thing but the principle one
is the fact that when people want any
roasting done they usually want
an influential paper to do it
NO 40
In answer to the invitation publish
ed last week ye editor went down to
YVnodiake Saturday evening Thn
evening was stormy but a number of
sleds had been rigged up and all who
wished were furnished transportation
to and from the school house where
the supper was being given Y A
Parker took us under his wing and we
did not lack for any of the good things
to eat though it did seem to us thai
Parker helped himself to the eatables
more often than we did however he
explained that he was feeding the ba
bv so we couldnt kick verv hard
Alter supper a short program but a
good one was rendered one of the
features being a n original poem by Le
Roy Leach and t number of pieces of
fancy work were sold at auction We
noticed that Pat Murphy bought a
silk sofa cusioii but Pat being a sin
gle man we know not what he intends
doing with it Jesse West was the
auctioneer and he made a very good
one too Parkers graphaphone was
pressed into service to add to the en
tertainment but the best number we
thought was the solo by Mrs IT G
Stevenson Among the attractions
was a fishpond and it received a
good patronage Owing to the
weather the Masons did not have the
initiations they expected and the
crowd dispersed at 10 oclock The
proceeds of the evening amounted to
something over 3000 and will be ap
plied on the salary of Rev J M
Rates Episcopal minister
The republican newspapers are again
using the ready made editorials fur
nished by the Ilanna syndicate A
casual comparison of the Ainsworth
Star Journal and the Newport Repub
lican last week disclosed the fact each
paper publishing as original three ed
itorials which appeared in the other
The pains taking man is not always
the man who suffers most pain