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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1898)
I W IK m M h l V Vn Kr 3 JMwIot y VI K JSJ is i - r if n at TijriTJtrv I I WATCHMAKER - AED - JEWESS ft i me line of plain and fancy jew elry -constantly on hand T- y 2epairme promptly executed nd done In the best manner j 1 Full lino of sporting goods i f THIS AND THAT Comina Events Teachers Association Jau 8 Jackson Day January S Frank Thorn spent New Years at home I6is LinccJn visited in town last Monday j Fred Robinson of Merriman was in town Monday George Rhodes of Stuart was in y I town Tuesday The county commissioners are in ses slou this week Davenport Thaeher are takiDg an nvoice of stock this week D M Underwood of Cody jwn on business Monday Judge Walcott E McDonald is making a special I sale of all blankets ana woelen under 4 wear Ilercis a chance to get bar- yjaius Smrvevor tfos Estabrook of Lavaca Jamc down Tuesday remained in Ptown until today to take his oath of k office The heating apparatus is being placed in the new school house this week J F Wyvel of Ainsworth do ling the work The misquerade ball nt Fort Nio brara last Friday night was a grand success fifty three couples taking part in the grand march IfcCwre A Cola utOnelfay lets All Druggists refund the money if it fails to Cure 25c 46 The state press association meets in Lincoln next week but owing to a Tush -of business ye editor will not be able to attend the meeting Katie Noble left Monday morning -for-a three weeus visit with relatives and friends at Kearney this state and in Smith county Kansas Attorney Clarke Platte Friday on - v - THE VALENTINE VOL XII was in went to Merriman sterday on legal business The tower of the new school house ill he completed this week Mrs J A Adamson ofj Niobrara alls is visiting in town this week A G Shaw took a lot of snap pho Itos of the ice gang at work Sunday Chas Strickland is laying a new idewalk in front of his Cherry street wyrutv Anlia Murphy returned from ONeill Tuesday to resnme her school near XJrookston j Mrs It T Cook is spending a week at Fort Niobrara visiting with Seargt lole and wife Lee Layporte says he twelve poundsin weight three months Mrs F L Maloney went Snrinffs Monday morning to has gained in the last Ye editor has had a great hump on himself all week meeting bills Now is the time to subscribe 1 to Hay sec her father who is dangerously ill A new sidewalk is being laid from the corner of Main and Virginia streets to the Valentine House E Sparks and family have moved into the house on Cherry street vaca ted by Johnny Guth last week Mrs Frank Fisher has been in 3 ligh during tn e last week at the bed W sideofher father who is dangerously ill went to North busiuess From Fullertou aud thatplace he will goto JJ Omaha before returning home Everybody seemed to be out collect ing bills Monday and straightening up for the new year Even ye editor was engaged in that pleasant pastime The G A R will hold a meeting Aicnur Gore is at the dep t or a fov ds this week takiug th pi ce of E L iViahoney who went to Hay Springs Monday night on account of his father-in-laws illness t Ventine has a number of married bachelors on hand -ax bis writing and d hree ot tkxsui have requested us to publish a notice to the effect tkat they are geiutcg pretty louesuuie Edna McDonald aud Mae Daven port returned to Lincoln Monday morning to resume their studies Both the girls are doing finely in their work aud areirogres4iug rapidly D W Fletcher is an expert when it comes to manipulating a jig saw We havu on -ex U3 billon m mis oiiice a specimen of his hadiwoik iu the shape of a puzzle made from a block of woud Born Monday night January 3 188 to Mr and Mrs John Uuiiington a ten and a halt pound girl John is all swelled up over the event aud will hardly talk ot anything else just now F J Keislaud agent for the Minn eapolis JLioture Frame Co makes his headquarters at this place and any or ders left for him at the Valentine House will receive prompt attention Tht of cattle at the South Uinaha slock yards curing the last year were 224371 more than iu 18U6V lhe increase in the number of hogs handled was 3016X1 ot sheep 2bl 155 The State Journal of last Friday says that Chaplain Naves great book the Topical iiibie is expected to net the Wesley an university 1UUUUU0 in royalties Irotn us sale in me United Stales For the benefit of those who are in doubt about the mailer we announce mat there will be Sunday fechooi in the Episcopal churcn each ounday morn ing at 10 oclock A good attendance is desired All kinds of rumors are afloat re garding the mail routes the latest be ing that an eastern star route mail has the contract for the Kennedy Chesterfield route daily mail lor 925 a y ear The Minnechaduza Mill pays a higer price for grain than any ther institu tion or firm iu the northwest Farm ers come all the way from east of Nor den in Key a county to take advantage of this lact The Donoher presented its patrons with an excellent dinner New Years day and the possum which failed to arrive in time for Christmas was serv ed on this occasion They were hue too with sweet potatoes The Republican of Newport chron icles four weddings in its town Christ mas week three of ihem being held on Christmas day Ye editor was ac quainted with three of the contracting parties and extends best wishes Rev Bates held sei vices in the Epis copal church Sunday morning aud evening This church has made nu merous additions to its membership in the past year and Rev Bates feels verv much encouraged for the coming year Le Roy Leach has at last decided to issue his Woodlake Oracle every week aud the first issue under the new plan reached us Tuesday It Is a real new sy little sheet a two column quarto in size and starts out with a uice lot of advertiiing The Y P S C E will -give an In traduction social at the 3sidence of Mrs L O SparKs Thursday evening January 13 Light refreshments will be served and the introductions and refreshments will cost but 10 ceiits Dont miss this Among the many who were given the title of Professor this week were Take Laxative liromoQuinine Tab- Jack Hnoton E Hreuklander F rr J J Guth O W Morev John Dale H It Edgar L Sparks I Stinard T C Hornby J H Quigley and a dozen or so others To Clerk Daniels Treasurer Thack rey Coroner Dwyer and Surveyor Estabrook The Democrat extends a cordial greeting and hopes that ihey -may prove honest honorable and effi cient public officials even as they have been good citizens Anna Lane a stenographer and typewriter of Lincoln arrived in town Tuesday night to accept a posiion with W E Haley Miss Lane is a very agreeable young ladv and will be a welcome addition to the circle of young people in Valentine Grand Chief of Honor Delia Hard ing of Hebron will be in Valentine tomorrow Friday and in the evening Saturday afternoon at 2 oclock for the 3rtvuiuj - a fn at Cornell Hall will address the De rvnrnnsK oi iiimuuiili uunru -WWW - J attendance of members is desired The Valentine House has been hav it -could attend ing more buiness than tend to the last few weeks This speaks worlds for Landlord fiqoton The holiday vacation at the -post -ex piped Monday aud the boys mre once - i inert on duty A practice arch was i - m the imase pomn -or rcri mvt MTinsiHv tiHt - rZ VEf O a l cree of Honor and Wot k men Ail Workmen and their wives are request ed to be present at 8 o clock sharp W E Waite of Chesterfield was tn town on business Monday Mr Waite is feeding 1200 head of cat tie at his ranch for Contractor Humphrey aud is putting 20 tons of hay into the stock every day Chesterfield is ex pprrted to boom nctf summer ivhoo i the daily mail begins to run vt y gjjw Published for Fonr Years as CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT WORK OF 1897 A PARTIAL RhCQRD OFTHE IMPROVEMENTS MADE Ad Business Done in Valentine tfn tlwj Ycar Jast ttcn Hhowms t3ie Iiupnrtanet olur Town GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS When people build houses it isan in disputable feign of prosperity Iia Vali entitle during the paBt year the have been built Curt Callcii 10x22 on nsrih Hall street A il Kerguonon nortSi Hall street Z V Vach n on north Jiall street Geargo Horciby W Y Thompson four rooms J W Whillasis five rooms J O Northrp five room George Hornby Dr Evaits five rooms Pete Petersen house on Macomb street George Horuy Robert Good five rooms Elmore street U Boyer four rooms north Cherry street A II Sherman three rooms Waller Meltendorf five rooms Jas Galloway four rooms J J Girth seven rooms two stories J Jf Yeast seven rooms one story and a half F l lsoler fitoe rooms aoath Cherry street U G Dunndnylirion Alalcomb street During the same time the following improvements have been made in the business part of town The Dfiiiohcr two story nine rooms and base ment annex W E I L Efner combined millinery store and dwellii r house Hitt Kneeland twenty stall addition to North werturn livery barn Davenport Thaeher two story annex SixiJn Tillson St Peters ten stalls and carriage house added to livery barn E Sparks Cherry Co Bank two story and basement btoue aud biick bank othce building Fischer Ludwig Mx bin coal house D S Ludwig lumber shed and mipement warehouse Cntbb Vincent warehouse W A Pettycrew warehouse J W Yeast warehouse C II Cornell laboratory two rooms C E Sherman twenty stall livery stable In addition to all these new build ings might be mentioned the follov lng additions and improvements to pa tabhshed property D S Ludwig addition to west Catharine street dwelling J GStettt r kitchen on Cherry street dwel ling John Smyscr 16x50 foot granary to livery stable E BieulOander covered blacksmith shop with corrugated fftin In addition to the improvements noted nbove our people have been very active in building fence porches barns and other outhouses Witness the improvements made in this line by Dan Ludwig D fetors Lee Lay porte Walter Meltendorf Johnny Guth A Morev W E Haley Dr Dwyer aud a host of others Two telephone lines have been put up during the year one connecting the depot The Donoher the mill and city pump station lhe other from El liotts drug store to Dwyers sanitor ium The pity water mains have als been extended several hundred feet and the work is still going on The greatest work of the year how ever is the new school house a hand some two story and basement brick aud stone structure now being com pletei The total cost of the building heating plant furnishings and site will be nearly 15000 This is one of the handsomest and most compete structures of the kind in the northwest TAXES PAID The county treasurer has been doing considerable business during 1897 as will be seen by the following table of t ixes paid during the year These amoivits are exclusive of school hind and other state monies Jaimarv 3359 40 February 2415 48 M arch ZoUo oil A mil 2978 48 Mav 2531 05 June 2920 77 Julv 2885 87 August 1 113 n f September 3411 10 October 273 33 November 2443 22 Total 29 22102 MAKKIGES Unlike the flock of the minister told about by Prof Howlua the people of Cherrv countv lve each other Dur ing the twelve average of over four per month al- mosl one eaclL week and the Judges onlv rejiret more of em is that ttiere were not SIDEWALKS AND CItOSSINOS While individuals have been im proving their property the village council has not been idle During the vear tnis body caused 3500 feet of sidewalk to be laid and StrePt Com missioner Lay pone used the prA tax offerings principally in laying 350 feet or stone street and aiiev crossings - i rmMe4 spurg J i GuUi las moved into hs nei residence on Cherry ttreet and it now queot the proudest mortils in town Johnny has ieaton to leel proud too when you come to thiulc of it We dont know ot another house in town thai is as comj lete or convenient as his lhe dwelling has seven rooms in autumn to lhe oatn room and neces Sctry closets aud is healed by hot air A letter to ye editor from C A Da at Chiuo Caiiloraia saya We have had a very pleasant fail and winter so tar with scarcei ain ram but hiill it has beeu quile couj aud we liave had some haio irst Fruit is hurt some but cauiut ted how muetiet We are m a vaile where lois of sugar beets are raieu and we are near the sugar lacior There is a lot of bailey giowti here loo lhe use it tor hay We like li Ubrt very much The best way to make a bad law odious is to enforce it There are many laws in the blatutes of Nebras ka which if properh eniorctd would create such indignation amoug the people as lo causae more care lo be ex elciSed 111 selecting members of the legislature possessed of suirckut edu catimi as noMo depend upon sharped employed to shape legislation or to draw up bills as lull of loop holes as a Hour sieve Too many lguoraojuses are ben i to the legislature lor the good ot the state Alliance Urip V lse Wordw A successful editor is ahvavs glad to get a ue suuscilber is always nee to uiKe a name lrom his list and does not bate hib friendship upon the fact ol youi being or uoi being a subset iber Wnen you stop your subsciiption ouch an ediiur cannot feel himself your enemy nor will he look upon you is any less a lrieud though you may hive walked into his otliee on your ear The correct understanding of these principles may save you the trouble of nikmg yourself ridiculous when you dont Jtke something that the paper uuulaius Urd Quiz Oracnlar Utterances Ilev Smith conducted a wateh meet ing Friday evening Willis Barnard is ejecting sheds and fed yards preparatory to feeding a bunch oi cattle C O Murphy our genial agent ex pects to leave tor Oklahoma in a few days for a few weeks visit with his relatives there A party was given to the friends iud neighbors oi J E Devor at his home suuthvvest of town Wednesday eveniug Dec 29th All who were preseut repurc an enjoyable eveniug W V Johnson has declared war on the ever howling coyote and has been conducting active operations against the prowlers ot the plaius Thus far he has captured two of the aforesaid aud one broad shouldered badger The Grade Long EHntauce Itace A few of the leading local sports and hoisemen have alter due considera tion decided to advertise another long distance horse race similar to that which started from Chadron to lhe Worlds Fair at Chicago The proposed race is to be run from Craw ford to the Trans Mississippi Exposi tion grounds at Omaha a distance of 500 miles the start to be madcu May 1 1898 A relief expedition to the Klondike country started from here Sunday night It consisted of two cars con taiuing 21 mules 6 horses and pro visions James Sweeney who has charge of the outfit aud five men ac company the two cars They go from here to Vancouver KarracksWah via Hillings and N P railroad Craw ford Gazette Prof Boivluti lieefare Prof J W liowlus of the Nebraska Wesleyan University lectured at the Metlmdist church Saturday evening on The Greeny at College to a fair sized audience He started his subject with this paraphase of a well k now u quotation It is as hard to find a man without a green 6pot in him as it i to find a man without a i Tri7v hone crrHen meanmsr Rome- months just passed thi lmt is undeveloped He criti juoge i owns grauieomarnaue licenses j vrv seveie terms the school to 49 young men- and they are all hap- j svstem wMch dld ot bring out thfc H tiv now or ouctit to tie i nis is an ii j J ThurP is still Fr imnrnwrnpn in - miii pmwL rtii uCwrt i i a ii n n u the sidewalk line but this wiU rrnh I UM1 MllS M rt ic ablv he taken care of in the dividualitv of the pupil and likened the system to a brick machine where all bricks came out alike 2x4x8 He said that arithmetic was the most use less and unpractical of all studies and remarked that he had rather his hoy should have one teaspoon ul of litera hire than a quart of mathematics- He took exception strongly to the old saying of Bacon that Knowledge Is power paying that it is not knowl edge but the application of knowledge that constitutes power He was very severe on a certain class of people who manage to get on school boards a a aaara B nnrt S- U t 1 - i Wain Ct Vf Ijf yUOa WHO 1IU1 DU1Y1HO delivered an addnss in the church jSiuidav JvpoTTjg in place of the I coirnTuE on L AS page lar serviutss Jv lecture v f 4 v VALENTINE CHERRY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY JANUARY 6 1898 THE EV fy I Jt m DEMOCRAT II YEARS GREETING H cr 1 Pi NO 50 To a business man or a man of family is generally just a lot of bills bills bills It is positively discouraging to a man to be met on New Years day with a great big bill for groceries bought or drygoods or shoes There are two ways of getting rid of this big bill unisance one is to pay cash for everything and so head off the bills the easier way is to trade with us and your bills will never be big our prices prevent that The best way to do though is to combine the two plans given above Try it once T Thacher GENEPxAL MERCHANTS FOR THIRTY DAYS We will make special prices on our entire line of BLANKETS AND WOOL UNDERWEAR In order to close out stock and make room for spring goods We have just received an entire new hne of Shoes Mens Boys Misses and Ladies which is complete in every particular Minis suits cheap Boys suits 50c to 200 each E McDonald Come to Clarence Sageser spent a few day in Newport last week with friends in this place Clarence is located in Val entine where he has a barber sop Donald McLean proposes to con tinue the construction of the Pacific Short line in the spring It takes more than one man to build a railroad Newport Republican The policy of arresting Indians every time one of them manages to get a drink of whisky serves two purposes It allows deputy United States mar shals to earn nig fees and affords the Indians an opportunity to live a little better than usual at the expense of the taxpayers If the policy serves any other purposes they are not apparent at this distance World Herald The cares of business and married life are telling on Editor Good of The Valentine Temocrat judging from the way he bemoans not having sons old enough to run hi3 shop for him while he took a vacation as did Lyon of the Gordon Journal Have pa tience me bye Komi was not bnilt in a dav Ainsworth Star Journal Mrs Frank Yanish of Merriman is spending the holidays with her Gor don friends C V Thorn the editor of the Val entine Independent spent Monday vis iiing friends in our city J E Thackrey formerly storekeep er and postmaster at Cooper but now residing at Valentine was transacting business In Gordon Monday - Gordon Journal Marcus A Ilauna is having a hard time of it in Ohio trying to be elected senator A number of republicans have bolted from his support and in conjunction with the democrat suc ceeded in organizing the legislature Monday Every means known to modern politics is being used to whip the recalcitrant republicans into line but the pr ibnbilities are that the effort will fail and a democrat will be elected nest Wednesd iiy 5to c il -- rsa -- - ip i Ki WHEN IN TOWN the Valentine House We will give you a good clean bed and tlie BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS to eat 100 per day or 35o per week dAHOOTON PROPRIETOR 1 tff x x x A if EE STABLING THE ELKHORN RAILROAD North Western Line is to beat to and from the SUGAR BEET FIELD OF- NORTH NEBRASKA C M SAGESEE TONSORIAL ARTIST Hair cutting and shaving Shop in the W H Moses building HOT AND GOLD BATHS Pacific Short Line TIME TABLE AT ONEILL NEBRASKA PASSENGER LEAVES 10 50AM AKBIVES 9 J0P5I D ULY EXCEPr BUNDAY Through connections both ways with Black Hills trains by teklnc this line vou can eo to Sioux City and return raesamedav connection V made withall trains for the East and Soatu Dakota Buv local tickets to ONeill C A WELLS DENTIST Office over V i 1 yf A- 5 3 Vi I Tfc I t i a H jr 11 l il
