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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1898)
rw J w rc Y A t THE VALENTIN VOL XIII 0WM0BEY WATOEIAXER - AND - JEWELER Fine line of plain and fancy jew elry constantly on hand Repairing promptly executed and done in the best manner Full line of sporting goods G M SAGESER TONSDRIAL ARTIST Hair cutting and shaving Shop in the W H Moses builng KOI AND GOLD BATHS J S ESTABROOK COUNTY SURVEYOR All work executed with promptness and accuracy XAVACA - NEBR THIS AND THAT Comina Events Farmers Institute April 2 Side Tracked April 4 Village Election April 5 Easter Sunday April 10 GeneralTeaclicre Association April 80 John Maxwell is driving the dray for Fred Miller The Y P S C E will give a social at Hornbys hall April 7 C A Johnson of Woodlake was in town yesterday on business W S Garcelon of Longpinej was in town Tuesday on business W W Thompson ha3 had a kitchen Imilt on the west end of his house A millinery store will be opened in the old Morey building in a few days J A Hooton has almost completed his job of painting on the court house C E Thompson of Papillion this state registered at the Donoher Mon day Ghas Iteece filed his bond yesterday and was sworn in as deputy county clerk Another new business house will be built on Main street this spring Wait lor it We neglected mentioning last week that the lied Front had bought a tine large new fireproof sale J M Jones and family of La Grand Iowa have returned to Cherry county arriving here Monday afternoon A J Hale of Cooper was m town the first of the week on his way to Omaha where he goes for surgical treatment John Oens of Sparks called on us yesterday He has been ill most all wiuter but is rapidly recovering his good health Xo matter what is the trouble with the throat or lungs Dr Daniels Com pound JSyiup Sanguiuaria will relieve it At Elliotts -50 The Cherry County Bank building received a couple of coats of paint this week which greatly improves the build ings appearance Claude Jones will run a town herd this year charging 75 cents per month for each cow Herd will be started as soon as owners wish 10 To Cur JL Cia in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets All Druggists refund the money if it fails to Cure 25c 46 W H PenneU government inspect or of electric light and steam plants returned from Rosebud Tuesday on his way to Washington The road overseers books are now ready and overseers are requested to call at the county clerks office and get books for their district The county clerks office was clean ed up in tine style Tuesday and no body seemed to know where nothing was for some time after Mrs J II Quigley went to Gordon Monday afternoon for a few days vis it in the interest of the Presbyterian ladies stock brand banner E J DoBell is building a new house and an addition to his store at Rose bud Freighters have beeu hauling a carload of lumber from here thjs week fur the improvements ri SvitWtj t y 3 - r Number of pupils enrolled 14 aver age attendance 12 Those not absent were Wm Piercy Marion Gee Cora Linnie Archie and Frankie Ayers C A Gee Teacher C A Barnes has rented the prop erty vacated by liev Smith and his good mother will come up from Wood laktt and keep house for him Charley will be at home to his friends in that charming little cottage after next week Ainsicoxth Star Journal Published for Four Years as CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT I U S land office terminates with the south of City Hotel and will onen her dose of business today I desire to snrinff stock of hats on Saturday April DEMOCRAT VALENTINE CHERRY 00 NEBRASKA THURSDAY MARCH 31 1898 J H Sears the Sparks mail driver has traded his team of grays for a stallion and will quit the stage bus iness July 1 Wm Steadman and R M Faddis were in town from Pass Saturday Mr Steadman purchased about 2500 feet of lumber for his sheds while in town Elliotts drug store presents a very neat appearance since M Christensen and his able assistant G A Cutler finished papering and painting the in terior DoRt if orget the city election next Tuesday Two tickets are in the field one by petition the other by regular nomination The citizens ticket is the present board Wes Holsclaws neat and commo dious residence in the northeast part of town is rapidly approaching com pletion Wes has done most all the work himself and has everything just as he wishes City Marshal Layporte requests everybody to clean the alleys in the rear of their residence and business lots immediately or 3ame will be done and cost charged to property owners Better heed this warning Wm Smith of Crookston was ar rested Saturday night after much trouble and Monday morning was treated to a fine of 25 and costs for being drunk and disorderly and strik ing an officer of the law Geo Ham mond The 1893 Club was organized at Judge Townes office Tuesday night All committees are to report and officers will be elected at a meeting in the same place Friday night at 8 oclock All young men are invited to attend The supreme court has decided that Bartley shall have a rehearing in the matter of his application for a new trial Thats right what in h 1 is the supreme court for if it isnt to keep such men as Bartley and Moore out ol the pcnSpringview Call Dr A Lewis has a fine electric bat tery now for use in his practice Electricity is especially good for re moving or reducing tumors He also has a hot air apparatus that is a fine thiug With it he can apply from 300 to 400 degrees of heat to flesh without injury Prof J L Lyons of the state uni versity under the management of the Farmers Institute will address the people on soil culture sugar beet etc Mr C H Elmendoif on cattle raising Saturday April 2 in Cornell Hall Val entine Neb Everybody invited to come Lillian Stoner Secy A L Towle arrived from Niobrara Tuesday night and tomorrow he and J C Pettijohn will succeed J A Fike and C R Glover as receiver and reg ister of the U S land office respective ly A full report of the transfer will appear next week We understand that the present efficient clerk Lew Brownell will be retained The Valentine Steam Laundry has put in a collar band machine and in the future their work will resemble that of the best city laundries This institution has been receiving a very liberal patronge since it started and we predict that this addition to its machinery will be the cause of still further increasing its patronage C R Watson M V Nicholson J M Christensen and Harry Hilsinger made a trip to the lakes near Ballards Saturday and Sunday on a duck hunt They were not very successful on ac count of the cold snap Saturday night which froze over the lakes Several ducks were bagged though and ye ed itor feasted on two of them The school entertainment Friday night netted over 7 for the library fund Here is a good opportunity to help a worthy object If you have one or two good books that you can spare donate them to the school library They will be appreciated and will help many a boy or girl become ac quainted with good literature Works of biography history and travel and fiction by standard authors are espec ially good for the school Bishop Graves preached two later esting sermons at the Episcopal church Sunday talking in the morning on Vicarious Sacrifices His evening sermon was devoted to classifying Christians into three groups the dillettante the amateur and the pro fessional and describing them In the morning he administered confirmation to Mrs and Maggie Robinson Cora Gillett Chas Ward Ella Stillwell and Mr and Mrs Robert Good On last Friday night when Rev and Mrs Moore returned from the enter tainment at the school house they found the furniture in the house very much deranged and beariug evidence of some one having been in their honse while they were gone A search fail ed to reveal that anything was missing but did reveal the kitchen table heap ed to overflowing with groceries and provisions amounting in value to over 10 Such occasions make bright spots in the lives of our ministers To the Public - Mrs B E Harmon has moved her My term of office asEeirister of the millinery store into the Morev buildim V 1 A W thank all for the kind and courteous treatment during the past four years While I have not decided to remain permanently in Valentine yet where ever 1 locate I shall give active atten tion to the government land practice and I feel that my seventeen years experience enables me to give the proper information and -advice To all wanting information as to their rights to government land to make second entries where the orst nas proven worthless to amend entries to contest existing -entries oi in anyway protect their interests I will be pleased to act as counselor and attorney Write or call upon me for the present at Val entine Nebr and state your case plainly and I will prepare the necessary papers mailing same to you with proper instructions Yours respectfully C R Glover Good foi Teas In its account of a home talent A Correction Editor Valentine Democrat I have been asked to submit the fol lowing correction to your article of last week on The First Church The 61 members reported at tne close of Rev Dawsons work should have Pedn reported as the number at the -close of Rev Holsclaws work and included a number of members on what is now the Crookston charge also that the average attendance of the Sunday school for February of this year was 149 instead of 97 as reported to you O T Moore Pastor Keturnert from Alaska R H Harrell returned Sunday morning from his trip to Alaska He was in a party of four and the party had the misfortune to have their out fit burned on the freight boat which carried them Harrell and one of his companions theretore returned from Skaguay while the other two went on Harrell reports a tremendous rush to the gold country and announces his intention to return some day He says that about 300 a day are going in and 100 coming out of the Klondike country Owing to the resignation of E L Maloney day operator for the West ern Union things have been changed around a little at the depot V A Northrop surrenders the night trick to Arthur Gore and V takes the day job This gives excellent satisfaction to both boys Arthur has had a long ing to become permanently establish ed here ever since last fall and since V was uiarried the night job has not been so pleasant to him as before al pro duction of -Called Back in ONeill last week the Frontier has this to say of a well known and admired iady in Valentine The leading lady was our own Tess whose faultless production of the part of Pauline drew forth unbounded admiration Though Miss OSuilivans histrionic talent is well known to the people of ONeill yet her perfect im personation of the demented Pauline shows her to possess a high order of dramatic genius Should she see fit to cultivate her unquestioned talent we pause not to predict for her a career as famous if not so tragic as that of her namesake of the DUrbervilles ONeill Frontier Son ofa Cherry Connty Citizen Mr Ira J Ayers and Miss Ada M Hagenbuck of Lincoln were united in marriage at the home of the groom 1028 K street Lincoln on Wednes day evening March 23 Mr Ayers is the son of J II Ayers of Crookston He is employed by the state of Neb raska as military secretary to Gov Holeomb and chief clerk of the mili tary department of the state He is well known in Cherry county and is considered the most trustworthy and efficient employee of the state Miss Hagenbuck is one of Lincolns most esteemed young ladies ATotire To our patrons and public in We the undersigned hereby give -2 10 Dauglas old son of John Shangrean and wife of Cody died at Taylors restaurant in this city Saturday morning of congestion of the lungs and was taken to Pine Ridge for ourial The bar docket for the coming term of district court contains five criminal and filty four civil case will be dis missed and is not docketed The robbery cases against Lane and Eavens will be dismissed also leaving three criminal cases to be heard Jos Kennedy and Lulu Danks came up from Brownlee Tuesday afternoon and were immediately mar ried The groom is well known in the south part of the county and the new ly married couple will hold down a homestead near Brownlee A L Towle will occupy the Fischer property on south Cherry street for a residence Webb Hilsinger contem plates moving to the mill and J V Burleigh will then come from the country and occupy his house Jno Borman will move into the country soon There is a new song going the rounds of the newspapers and it run eth this wise We dont want to buy at your place we wont buy there any more youll be sorry when you see us going to some other store You cant sell us any stale goods we have opened wide our eyes we dont want to trade at your store cause you dont adver tise All signs indicate that spring has come to stay The small boy is play ing marbles the larger boy is playing ball the still larger boy the one with whiskers is going fishing women are laying out flower beds and talking of planting gardens and the little birds are building their nests on the build house However all signs fail at some time or other Tuesday afternoon about 3 oclock fire broke out in a set of did quarters at Fort Robinson used at the time for residences by the families of some six or seven enlisted men and non-commissioned officers of the 9th cavalry The entire quarters were destroyed with the contents and two little child ren were burned to death They were the daughters of Sergt Wallace of C troop 9th cavalry - Crawford Tri bune Fire broke out in the rear of JLoe weuthal Brothers Palace Clothing Emporium Wednesday afternoon about 525 No one was in the store at the time but smoke was discovered issu ing from the building and an alarm of fire was speedily answered by the fire department and the ilames were extinguished in short order Benja min Loewenthal estimates the damage by file smoke and water at 10000 with an insurance of 11250 CJiad ron Journal One would think by reading Tom Watsons paper that he and Wharton Baker of Maine were about the only two men in the United States They have both got more mouth than brains About all you can read in Mr Wat sons paper from week to week is the abuse of senator Marion Butler Chas A Towne senator William V Allen and a few other men who forget more in one minute than those men ever knew or ever will know Harrison Journal Pop As has been said the newspaper field is wide and full of thorns and roses If you roast the ungodly tha preacher smiles If you roast the saloon man the teetotaler smiles and when you roast the teetotaler the saloonkeeper smiles and sets em up If you swear you are a very wicked man and if you pray you are a hypo crite if you have an opinion you get cussed if you dont you are a noneni ty The preacher knows one thing the sinner knows another but the notice that we will close our barber i journalist is supposed to shops at 1030 oclock a m on the Sabbath This to take effect on the second Sabbath in April 1898 C M Sageser 5- P W C Lawson School JBcporr Following is the report for the fourth month of school in district 31 know every thing He is the best man and the worst in the community The following letter to Mrs Eva Kazey explains itself Chicago March 19th 1898 We expected to send your outfit of The Beautiful Life of Frances E Willard several days ago but the preparation of this volume is a larger task than we planued upon We are able to say now that outfits will be ready in a few days Be sure to tell your friends that YOU will have the authentic book written by Anna A Gordon and endorsed officially by the W C T TJ Retail price in cloth 2 half morocco 275 fullmorocco 375 Dont be alarmed by rerorts of other agents having outfits We state positively there has not been a single outfit of the official book sent to any one Monarch Book Compsy ISSBii Come and See Our Line of o r o VALENTINE NEB V- NO 10 if All sizes and styles of these shoes kept constantly in our stock WomeDs Childrens Mens We also have new lot of Mens Furnishing Soft Shirts o Some very neat Shirt Waists for for the Ladies just Arrived Davenport Ihacher Full line Undertakers Supplies Are You goingi The Largest ANYSPBING CLEANING and Finest Selected Stock of WALL PAPER Hffraffftffif JJMO J In Kbrthwcst Xebraska WHITE LEAD OIL COLORS and VAttNISH at - - Elliotts Drug Store w3J0A000f3 jl -a j - jl a a a m A m 5 We Have a Number ox pairs oi bhoes g 4 49 4 4 4 49 4 49 49 ft 49 49 49 Ladies and Gents also a limited amount of Winter Goods Which we will Close Out at CJot to make Iloom For our New Spring Goods which will arrive this week Our New Goods will all he Up-to-Date In Style as well as prices Fresh Groceries and Flour just received and will he sold Cheaper than by any Competitor Come and see our bargains before you send your money out of the country Look over our- Dry Goods Gents Furnishing Goods Trunks and Valises and get our prices before purchasing elsewhere E McDonald Valentine Neb ANYTHING YOU WANT 0 0 o o 0 G o o 5 ft Shirt Waists Neckwear Dress Skirts Wrappers Underwear ILEFNER VALENTINE ME AT MARKET HAY MAMt 53 ATO Tl v ri Ml MUY wm mmmm PLOW LAYS--- 3 C A WELiii m W D CLARKSON PROPR 02 I will put a 14r inch lay on your plow for 3300 if you will bring iii your plows at once I make this price because I want to keep busy during the dull season Come early and get the benefit of this low price it wont last always In addition to doing general blacksinithing I carry in stock HEAVY HARDWARE BOLTS ETC Wagon and buggy repairs asleSj wheels tongues and tnills E BREUKLANDER mith A M MORRISSEY o kr o ATTORNEY AT LAW J B Wells WELLS BRQS DENTISTS I Office over Cherry County Jfianjc V
