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VOL XIII
THIS AND THAT
VominQ EvoutH
Democratic Convention July 23
Teachers Institute August 15
County Commissioners August 15
Itepublicun County Convention August Gj
Democratic Senatorial Convention Aug 20
Populist Senatorial Convention August 20
luibor Day September 5
Colts for sale at the mill
Remember the democratic conven
tion Saturday
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3Trank Hook is down from Cody
this morning
S Kewman of Cody was in
town Saturday
C A Johnson was up from Wood
lake yesterday
G W Iterge of Pass was in town
the last of the week
Everybody and his best girl was out
buggy riding Sunday
J R Wallingfcrd of Kennedy
spent Sunday in town
Treasurer Thackreya new house is
being pushed to completion
Lord Bennett have been ip town
from the ranch most all week
L X Layporte went to Brownlee
on business yesterday morning
F K Bivens was over from Rose
bud Sunday to visit his family
Y G- Stevenson and E H Lambie
of Woodlake are in town today
F J Murphy of near Brownlee
was in town on business Monday
P W Pruden of Merrimau regis
tered at the Valentine House Tuesday
Wm Hower took out the south mail
this morning in place of A T White
Arthur Gore is visiting with friends
in the eastern part of fhe state this
week 0
J B Sweeney of Pullman was in
Donoher
Ira T Richardson was iu town this
week looking for men to work in the
hay field
J G Gibson is moving into the
Vhite property ou Cherry street and
will rent rooms
Grand Secretary Gail of Fremont
is in town today and will attend the
Odd Fellows lodge tonight
John Hofman gave a blowout to hjLs
friends Saturday night in honor of his
marriage a few weeks ago
A M Morrissey returned Monday
morning from Chadron where he had
been attending district court
A Oakley of Ainsworth was in
town yesterday making final proof on
a timber claim near Brownlee
A T White and family will move
to Alliance this week and will take
charge of a hotel at that place
Ed Clarke went to Ainsworth yes
terday afternoon to meet an old friend
who was in that city on business
A traveling soap game done up
the town to the tune of about 35 or
40 this afternoon Stuart Ledger
C J Anderson wife and child of
jSTeligh were in town Sunday while on
the way to visit their ranch near Cody
Mr and Mrs L F Corbitt and
daughter Bessie were up from Ains
worth on some land business Tues
day
Mose Howard was in town this
week in the interest of Perrine Cook
Co the South Qmaha commission
firm
Miss Etta Myers returned to her
home in Seneca Mo- after a pleasant
visit with her brother John Brown at
Rosebud
Dr Will Donoher of St Louis is
visiting his mother and sisters in town
this week having arrived here Mon
day night
Arkansaw Bob was in from the
ranch the first of the week alter re
pairs for machinery and supplies for
his hay hands
Mr G G Davis one of the day
school teachers on the reservation lo
cated at Little Crows camp was in
town Tuesday
Sparks and the Sth cavalry will play
ball at Ft Xiobrara Sunday afternoon
A hot game is promised INbrden
lays the soldiers July 3L
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THE VALENTINE
D C where she had been attending
the meeting of the National Teachers
Association Miss Stoner says that
Washington 3s her ideal city
A dancing party was given at The
Donoher Tuesday evening iu honor of
Dr Donoher and it has frequently
been referred to since as the neatest
and most pleasant affair that has
taken place here for a long time
Married at Hyannis Nebraska
Monday July 11 Mrs Specklemire to
Mr J T Ilawley The bride is the
daughter of J H Yaryan Sr of Pull
man Nebr and the groom is a ranch
man living near Pullman Whitman
Sun
A W Miller the telegraph opera
tor who relieved Arthur Gore last
week became a little too gay to suit
the railroad officials and he was re
moved last Thursday morning and W
J Ness of Hot Springs sent to take
his place
J C Welles and wife left Wednes
day for the Armstrong ranch in
Turtle creek precinct with a bunch of
cattle Merle Rowland went along as
head cow puncher and Bert Pinker
ton as chief of the wagon train
Butte Gazette
The shipment of wool from this
place has already amounted to about
100000 pounds this season and fully
half as much more is yet to be mark
eted The revenue from this source
will be no small thing this year Kim
lull Observer
P S Roueche of Brownlee was in
town yesterday as a witness in the
Oakley final proof case Pete says
everything around Brownlee is in a
flourishing condition and thinks that
Cherry county is one of the best in the
whole country
W E Haley is making prepara
tions to place a stone foundation un
der his residence and raise the front
part of same another story These
contemplated improvements will give
him three new rooms a bath room and
a furnace room
Not since white man set foot in the
Black Hills has the water supply been
as low as it is now Creeks that have
for years been raging streams have
either withered to a miserable rivulets
or have gone outof business entirely
and stocK is showing the effect of the
J dryness Stu rgis Advertiser
so that it draws 7 per cent interest
hence it is deemed good business pol
icy to npt pay off the bonds at this
time as tlje county is making from one
to two per cent on the money it has
borrowed The county now has on
hand about 000 in cash the small
est amount for some time since the
sinking fund is being invested in war
rants and the various obligations of
the county are being paid The road
fund and the bridge fund of the coun
ty are cash funds and have several
thousand dollars to their credit Anv
warrants drawn on these funds will be
paid upon presentation to the treasur
er All general fund warrants will be
paid about a year from now In some
of our sister counties claims remain on
ile from two to three years before
they are even acted upon Then the
warrant remains unpaid for a year or
two Under these conditions bills are
generally made from 10 to 50 per cent
higher than they would be if the claim
ant did not have to wait so long for
money Cherry county is not bother
ed that way
Ferstls Fruit Farm
Ye editor and family and G II
Rienert and family ban the pleasure
Sunday of visiting John Ferstls place
about 6 miles south of town and
although the thermometer tried to
burst the glass on that day we felt
amply paid for the trouble Mr Ferstl
is located on the Niobrara and does a
general market gardening business
It is Ferstl that always has the ear
liest and freshest vegetables and
fruits and the biggest strawberries
He has in his orchard about IoOO
fruit trees 1000 of them being apple
trees and the rest cherries plums
pears prunes etc Most of the trees
are beginiug to bear his cherry trees
being especially forward in this re
spect In addition to these trees he
has hundreds of raspberry gooseberry
blackberry and currant bushes all yield
ing handsomely We gave ourselves
cholera morbus eating fruit but we
didnt mind it siuce it was of home
manufacture John is an old bache
lor and he keeps three men busy car
iug for his place besides a number of
boys during the fruit season Not
only has he ten acres of tame fruit
trees but the woods near him are fill
ed witli wild plums and grapes
A visit to Ferstls is good for the
soul -of a Nebraskan and speedily con
vinces the stranger that with only or
dinary care fruit trees and bushes can
not alone be raised in this drouth
stricken west but that they can be
made to yield handsomely One queer
thing learned by the visit is the fact
that the sandy soil raises the best fruit
A Pleasant Event
Mrs E J Davenport entertained a
number of her lady friends last Thurs
day afternoon from half past three un
til seven Those present were Mes
dames A T White May White C S
Gould A Lewis J W Yeast J G
Stetter Geo Scbwalm L C Sparks
H Hoenig and Robert Good Misses
Gertrude White and E Mae Davisson
and each of the ladies are loud in their
praises of Mrs Davenports tact and
ability as a hostess The afternoon
was devoted to conversation and
music and was followed by a very
dainty luncheon
One on Sageser
Sageser the barber is kept so busy
trimming hair and shaving whiskers
tnat neis unable to hud time fori
punching tickets during the week so
he has hit upon a novel scheme or at
least Webb Hilsinger says he has It
seems that Clarence has a habit of vis
iting the creek every Sunday and
Webb vows and declares that on these
visits he takes along all bis barber
tickets and a shot gun The tickets
are laid on the side of a hill and then
Clarence shoots them full of holes and
comes home reagy for another weeks
I work
Buffalo Lake 3
Cleveland 2
Dewey Lake 3
Eii 4
Enlow 4
Georgia 2
German 2
Giilaspie 2
Irwin 4
Kennedy 2
Kewanee 1
I Lavaca 4
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CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
DEMOCRAT
VALENTINE CHEERY CO NEBRASKA THURSDAY J ULY 21 189
J L Roseberry Henry Sherman
and Andy yaryan of Pullmau were
m tovu on laud oflice business Satur
day
J H Salzman of Brownlee was in
town yesterday and returned hoaie on
the afternoon freight by way of Wood
lake
Miss Herrick raised about 225
here for the -Omaha hospital Prom
here she visited Woodlake and then
went west to Gordon
T C Hornby improved the appear
anqe of the awning in front of his
store this week by the addition to it of
a Greek-Ionic-Corinthian frieze
Miss Lida M Herrick delivered a
lecture at the M E church Tuesday
evening on hospital work and solicited
subscriptions for the hospital at
Omaha
Xe editor is a widower again Mrs
Good and haby iu company with her
sister Miss Davisson went to LoDg
pine this morning to attend the Chaut
auqua assembly
Mrs Squire Jones and children re-
turned from their Valentine visit Sat
urday and per consequence Squire has
quit cooking his own meals A ins
worth Star Jonmal
Butch Benard one of the old
timers of this country and by reason
of the treaty of 68 a member of the
Sioux Indian nation died at Rosebud
last Friday morning
W D Morgareidge is in from Sim
eon to meet his daughter Mrs S E
Eliis of Harrison and family Mr
Ellis is on his way to Simeon overland
and will locate in Cherry county
People can talk all they please about
real estate being valueless but when
relinquishments of homestead entries
will bring 1000 each as two did here
this week we are forced to believe
that it is good property
town yesterday and registered at The
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More Facts and Fsg9JH
As stated last week the total bond
ed indetedness of Cherry county
19000 The total lastyar was 22
000 but the balance has been paid
Of this amount pl4000 is heid by- the
state and draws 5 per ceut interest
5000 is held by various individuals
and draws6 per -cent interest There
is now in the sinking fund of the
county about 400 hence the bond
ed indebtedness could be reduced to
15000 it the treasurer should so elect
However this sinkingiund is invested
Wanted Another Convention
Now if the republicans will call
their senatorial convention for Valen
tine we will be strictly in it as a con
vention city And why shouldnt we
be IvQthing is too good for Valen
tine and we have yet to talk with a
roan who would rather visit some
other piace than Valentino
ai rains a Kesitlnce
J O Pevtijohn has commenced
work on his new residence It will be
a two story structure the main part of
the building being 30x30 in size and
when completed it yill be an orna
ment to our town Jims old dwell
ing has been moved to the rear of his
lots and will be moved away as soon
as the new house is completed S W
Holsclaw did the moving and he and
Gus Carlson will do the work on he
new house
Acres ot Grain
According to the assessors reports
there is now under cultivation in Cher
ry county 7726 acres of wheat 7644
acres ot corn 1432 acres of oats 26
acres of barley 9G acres of millet
and 13S acres of rye These figures
are not accurate by any means sev
eral assessors failing to make returns
They are given for what they are
worth The total number of acres of
improved lands was returned as 7S
126 of unimproved 352140
Chautauqua Excursions
On July 21 23 29 and 30 the F E
will sell round trip tickets to Long
pine account of the Chautauqua for
185 from Valentine good returning
until August 5 On all other days of
the Chautauqua July 22 to August
2 round trip tickets good until Aug
ust 5 will be sold for one and one third
fare The Chautauqua promises to be
better this year tnan it has been since
its Inception Rev Houser the noted
evangelist will be present with Miss
Runk the Philadelphia soloist
Likes the Exposition
E J Davenport returned yesterday
morning for Omaha where he had
been attending the national conven
tion of republican clubs and incident
ally seeing the Exposition Of the
latter Dave cannot speak too highly
The electrical illumination at night he
ays is especially fine in fact it is the
fiuest thing he ever saw The vari
ous exhibits are superb and the
grounds and accommodations are all
that can be desired We hope that
every citizen of Cherry county will at
tend the Exposition this summer
Those who fail to see this great show
will have missedone of the greatest
opportunities of their lives to post up
on modern improvements methods
manufactures and inventions
last of the Wounded
A dispatch from Ft Monroe Va
Saturday said the following members
of the 12th Infantry were brought
there wounded by the steamer City
of Washington Lieut W E Dove
Privates Barker Gate McGahan Pal
mer Corporals Beals and Tiimmer
The steamer Breakwater brought in
the following privates on the same
day Burnham King Bryant Franks
Hunt Stevens Swan Wilmer and
Wharton Privates Wm P Moore
and John N Taylor both of Co E
were brought to Old Point Comfort
Saturday Privates Alexander James
Jeffreys NcNally Naper Smith and
Ward were brought to New York by
the transport Olivette Saturday W
A Allen was biought to Norfolk Va
Tuesday
Bepuhliean County Convention
The republican county convention
has been called to meet in Valentine
on Saturday August 6 1898 for the
purpose of electing delegates to the
state congressional senatorial and
representative conventions also to
nominate candidates for county at
torney and commissioner from the
third district The representation
from each precinct is as follows
Boiling Springs 4 Loup
3
Minnechaduza 3
Merriman 7
Mother Lake 3
Nenzei l
Pleasant Ilill 2
Schlagle 2
Sharps Branch 2
Sparks 4
Steen 2
Table 3
Valentine 12
Woodlalts 5
THE SPANISH
This is about all that is
left of it for the young King to
take home as a souvenir since
Sampson and Dewey are through
with it but if the people o Cher
ry county want
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more
Full line of sporting goods
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their goods from us as by so doing they will make a saving of from
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