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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1903)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT I" . M. RICE EDITOR Thursday , August 6 , 1903 TERMS Subscription $1.00 per year in advance ; $1.50 When not paid in advance , Single copies Cc. Display advertising 1 inch single column I5c per issue or $6.00 a year. Local Notices , Obituaries , Lodge Kesolutlon- nnd Socials lor Revenue 5c per line per issue. Brands , 1W inches ? 4.00 per year in advance additional space ? 3-00 per inch per year jengraved blocks extra ; $1.00 each. Parties living outside Cherry county not per aonally known are. requested to pay in advance 10 per cent additional to above rates II over C months iu arrears. Notices of losses ol stock free to brand adver tisers. Democratic Judicial Conven tion for the Fifteenth Judicial District. The electors of the Democratic party of the fifteenth judicial dis trict of Nebraska , are hereby noti fied that on Tuesday the ISth day of August , A. D. 1903 , at 10 o'clock a. m. a nominating convention of said party will be held in the city of Valentine , "Nebraska for the purpose of nominating candidates for the following offices to be voted for at the general election of 1903 : Two candidates for judges of the fifteenth judicial district. Said convention is also called for the purpose of selecting a com mittee of said party for the fif teenth judicial district and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before it. The basis of representation is as follows : One delegate for each one hundred votes or major fract ion cast for the Hon. W. H. Thomp son for governor at the general election of 1902. The representa tion of the various counties is as follows : Box Butte 4 Boyd Brown 3 Cherry G Dawes 4 Holt 16E T03k 2 Keya I'aha E Shcrid in 5 Sioux 1 Total 50. It is recommended that no prox ies be allowed. That the delegates present cast the full vote of the county. WILLIAM FALLOW , Chairman of the Democratic party of the fifteenth judicial district-of Nebraska. M. M. SULLIVAN , Secretary. People's Independent Judicial Convention for the Fifteenth Judicial Distsict. The People's Independent ju dicial call is an exact copy of the above and signed by Sam. B. How ard , Chairman , and TV. K. Butler , secretary. ADDITIONAL LOCAL Ice Cream by the quart at Quigley - ley and Chapman's. 2i 10 Dress trimmings , notions and millinery at Mrs. Elmore's. Thomas Fitzhenry , of Chester field is in town. Nels Rowley was in town Tues day from his ranch near Kennedy. The Valentine Bottling Works puts up eleven different kinds of drinks. IT John Cordier was down from the Reservation the first of the week. Perry Walker and family de parted last night for Hot Springs , South Dakota. Miss Orah Britton returned last Thursday night from a pleasant visit at York and Anselmo. Herman Schaeffer and his father Joseph Schaeffer were down from Nenzel Tuesday on business. Levi Handy has resigned his position with the Red Front to ac cept a position with Frank Fischer. Sol Ellis , the Simeon merchant , was in town after another load of goods for his customers Tuesday. We hear that Rasmus Anderson aiid wife will take charge of the Rosebud hotel soon. Success to them. L. C. Beal and A. F. Raffenburg of Anita , la. , are on their claims this week near Kennedy. Mr. Kaffenburg will take a couple of j car loads of horses back with him. ' The J. C. C. Corset , the best cheap corset made , at the Ladies' store. Mrs. Elmores. Henry Carter has returned from his visit to his sister in Iowa and is staying with his daughter Mrs. Shore. Judge Walcott started last Thursday morning for Selma , Cal. to see his brother Clarence who is reported quite ill. I. M. Rice and mother and his son Lawrence returned from Hot Springs , S. D. , Monday mor ning , glad to get home. Mrs. L. L. Anderson returned last Thurday night from a visit of several weeks with her relatives and friends in "West Va. Geo. Rowley and J. D. Spall , of Simeon , were in town doing some trading Tuesday while waiting for the meadows to dry up some. Will and Bertha Bohle , of Johns town , a nephew and niece of our townsman E. H. Bohle , were up visiting him Saturday and Sunday. Agent McChesney and the Ind ian Police came down yesterday to get another payment for the Indians and government employees at Rosebud. The deposit boxes arrived Tues day for the 1st National Bank and were placed in the big vault and will be rented to those wishing a safe place for valuable papers. The building occupied by Perry Walker for watch repairing and Indian relics , was sold by C. H. Cornell to George Beers. The building was moved to ene of Mr. Beer's lots west of the R. R. run ning to the flour mill , this week. Mrs. E. D. Mason and son Way- land , of St. Joe , Mo. , came up Sunday night , or a visit of sever al weeks with her father and moth er , Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cramer , and her brothers , T. W. living near town and H. M. of our town. Jas. B. Hull has bought the in terest of his partner , T. A. Yearn- shaw , in the Owl Saloon and has sold his interest in the saloon at Woodlake to Mr. Yearnshaw. Both of these men are well known to people in Valentine and are pleasant men to be with or do business with. Mrs , Mabel Towne-Caton and sister , Mrs. Williams , drove up to the former's home at Stearns , S. D. , Tuesday taking the Judge's team and carriage. This leaves the Judge a foot for awhile buthe's feeling pretty well and enjoys a little recreation in walking to and from his office. S. F. Estes , Adam Smith and John Burnett shipped out two train loads of cattle Monday eve ning from this place. There were 17 cars in the two train loads. The cattle were raised on the res ervation and were a good grade of cattle. John Burnett , young Steve Estes and Adam Smith went down with them to Omaha. Rasmus Anderson , a resident of our city observed a notice in the Danish Pioneer of Omaha , Nebr. signed by Mrs. K. K. Bech of Cheltenham Pa. and wanting to know the whereabouts of Hans Niels Ulrich , a man about 57 years of age and stating that about 30 years ago he was a lumberman in Wisconsin. Since then she has lost trace of him and claims she is his only sister and would be glad to receive any information regard ing his present location. This must be our townsman , Hans Ulrich who answers the description and is at present working in the hayfields on the reservation. Geo. Tracewell and W. A. Bonser have purchased the Bow ers livery stable east of Main St. on Catherine St. and will conduct a livery feed and sale stable. Notice their ad in this paper. They will fit up with new rigs and and George is a first class horse man and * knows the country as well as anyone. People can depend upon good treatment and good rigs. Mr. Bonser is a stockman from the reservation and is well known to the old timers. / Wm. Shelbourn , from about 30 , miles up the Snake river , was in | town the first of the week trading I with our merchants between rains in the hay flats. He says it's aw ful wet in the valleys now. Lieuts. Wiegenstein and Dodge departed this morning for Fort Leavenworth , taking with them 9 soldiers to compete at the Dept. rifle contest , one man being select- from each company. Eleven of the best of these go to Ft. Sheri dan for army competition and four best of these go to the internation al rifle contest at Seagirt N. J. In this issue of the DEMOCRAT ap pears the card of Robt. G. Easley attorney at law. Mr. Easley is a studius , industrious lawyer , a graduate of a law school and is thoroughly competent. The DEM OCRAT commends him to the public and wishes him success. We think our friends will find him courteous and attentive to dnsiness left in his charge. J. H. Sears has compromised his case against the Farmers and Merchants Insurance Co. , of Lin coln and accepted § 1,900 in pay ment of his loss which was § 2,100 and he had at the last term of court obtained judgment for § 2,098.65 but the Insurance Co. had appealed to the supreme court. This is the Insurance Co. which was represented by a traveling agent and his wife a couple of years ago that the DEMOCRAT cau tioned its readers about. Robt. Quisenbery came to town yesterday to get a couple of Mc- Cormik mowers. He says he's had enough experience with the Deering mowers to do him and can't afford to waste time withthem. Mr. Quisenbery is a practical stock and ranchman and knows a good thing when he sees it , but says that some time ago some fellows talked him into buying Deering mowers and he's been to more trouble with them than they were worth and resolved not to waste any more time with them. S. F. Estes , a prosperous ranch man of the reservation called on us Tuesday to get acquainted having read THE DEMOCRAT for the past IT years and helped to establish the first Democratic Blade in the early days he felt some interest , naturally , in the present paper which had gone through the stages of change in name and editors un til all that remains of the old paper is the name DEMOCRAT and has the same class of good , whole souled , thrifty , enterprising and intelli gent readers as those who helped with their subscriptions in the early history of the paper , only the list has increased until we are now using 40 quires of paper for each issue of THE DEMOCRAT. We enjoyed the visit of Mr. Estes and appreciate his kind words of en couragement and his honest friend ship. Many of our people remem ber him when he was in charge of the Indian freight depot here , for Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian reservations. Needed in Every Home THE NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION OF WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY A Dictionary of ENGLISH. Biography , Geography , Fiction , etc. New Plates Throughout 25,000 New Words Phrases and Definitions Prepared under I he direct supervision - vision of w. T. HARRIS , PH.D. , LL.D. , United States Commissioner of Edu cation , assisted by a large corps of com petent specialists and editors. Rich Bindings 2364 Quarto Pages 5000 Illustrations 3jf 'The Internationalwas first issued in 1890 , succeeding tJie "Unabridged. " The New and Enlarged- Edition of the International was issued in October , 1900. Get the latest and lest. \Vc itlso publish Webster's Collegiate Dictionary vith Glossary of Scottish AVordg r.nd Phrases 11CO Pages. 1100 Illustrations. Size 7r.lOx2 0-8 Inches. 'First-class in quality , sccond-clnss In size. " Specimen pages , etc. of both books sent on application. S. & C. MERRIAM CO. Publishers , \ DicnoNAnry Springfield , Mass. Notice To Delinquent Subscribers. If there is anyone getting THE DEMOCRAT who does not want it , you have only to pay up what you owe and request us to discontinue. If everything does not suit you , it may be that it suit somebody. If nothing suits you , your liver may be out of order and you may need a doctor. If your subscription is not paid up , you will feel better when you have paid. . We will also feel better to know that you think of us occasionally. There are some who may think that we are sending the paper to keep up a big subscription list , and that they are doing us a favor by accepting it. We are willing to cut clown our list if you don't want to pay your subscription. We want all the subscribers we can get , but want them to pay. It costs money for postage and paper besides the work of printing , folding and mailing you these papers * - pers and you should bear your part of the expense if you want the news. During the next month we hope to mail notices" to many of you who have not paid recently and to all those outside Cherry county whose subscription is not paid in advance. Please respond with the cash or tell us when you can pay. Kemember , subscription is § 1.00 per year when paid in advance but § 1.50 per year for subscriptions past due. We realize that most of our sub. scribers who have neglected to pay have done so as an oversight , and will appreciate a reminder. Institute A.-imou it cement for 1003. A Union Institute for the teach ers of Brown and Cherry counties will be held at Valentine , Nebras ka , during the closing week of the Junior Normal School , Aug. 17-22. Examinations for certificates will be held on the Friday and Satur day proceeding the institute. The new law making agriculture a re quired branch fora second grade certificate is now in force. Quest ions will be based upon Bailey's Principles of Agriculture. This book may be secured direct from the county superintendent for Soc , or by mail for 95c. All teachers intending to teach in Cherry county this year are ex pected to attended institute. ETTA BROWN , Co. Supt. Notes How fast time flies ! Just two weeks more of Normal. Miss Bullock is spending this week at the normal in the interest of the State Library Association. There was music in the air a few evenings ago , and very sweet music it was. There is musical talent in Prof. Gregory's chorus class. Miss Bennett , a county superin tendent from the hills , while re turning from spending her vaca tion in the east , stopped off and spent a day visiting the Normal. The Supt. of Brown County , Miss Daniels , spent last Friday visiting the Junior Normal. She is delighted with the work done and says that more of her teachers will attend next summer. The debate last Friday night was well attended and enjoyed. The general verdict seems to be that it was almost a one sided de bate , Miss Gregg having the argu ment from beginiug to end. Mrs. Garnet , a colored lady who is a sister-in-law of Chaplain Stewart of Fort Niobrara , visited at the Normal last Wednesday. Mrs. Garnet has been principal of a school in New York but at present is retired on a pension of § 1,000 a year. A full line of There's Tablets , Writing Paper and En velopes ; Memorandums , Pencils and Ink. The prices are popular and you get the best value that money will buy. A big full stock of it to select from. E. H. BOHLE , The Confectioner. XCCXS = SXXXXX = = = ! Cj FKED WIIITTEMORK , President CHARLES SPARKS , Cashier M J. W. STKTTKK , Vice President CLARA WATSON , Assistant Cashier Interest paid on time deposits , VALENTINE STATE BANK Capital , S2. , OOO Surplus , 81,000 Persons seeking a place of safety for their I Offlco Hours money , will profit by investigating the 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JM methods employed in our business. S. The Valentine Democrat 1 INVITES YOU 1 To use its columns . | to advance your business interests , Here's a paper that will get business. You pay the printer and he tells the people what you want them to know. If you have the best thing in the world , why not tell somebody ? If you want anything in the line of : Letter Heads Bill Heads Notes Receipts Envelopes Wedding Stationery Calling Cards Business Cards Tickets Posters Sale Bills Etc , Etc , Give THE DEMOCRAT the job. Kem ember we guarantee our work and the prices are right. Any quanity goes , job is too small. Bung it in. Jas. E. Pepper W. H. McBrayer Canadian Club CS-eo. 350" . All the standard brands of Whiskies , domestic and imported Wines , Gordon's Dry Gin , and Cigars of the choicest brands. Blue Eibbon Bottled-JBeer a speciality. : : : : : : Oakland Hunters Rye Blue Grass Dewars Scotch Whiskey W. T. Bishop , f\ % . & D B * . " A ft p * DALE oTABLE The Wilber Barn Your Patronage Solicited. HEADQUARTERS FOR WINES , LIQUORS AND CIGARS OF THE CHOICEST BRANDS jf Valentine - - Nebraska G. E. TRACEWELL . . W. A. BONSER We have purchased the Bowers barn and will conduct a Livery , Feed and Sale Stable We have 150 head of good horses , broke and unbroke , for sale. Gome and sea us
