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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1904)
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT L M RICE EDITOR Thursday , Jimnary 14 , 1904. Entered at the PostrOfflce at Valentine. Cherrj county. Nebraska , as Second-class matter. TERMS Subscription SI.OO per year in advance : $ l.CO f- . When not paid in advance. Single copies 5c. DNpLiy adver1 ' < ! . : l Inch single column I5c [ > er Issue or * > . * a year. I cil ; Notices , binaries , lx > dge Kosolution- ind Socials lor i-veune 5c per line per Issue. P-ranils. l\i i 'ies $4.00 per year In advance additional space ? x-on per inch peryearjenRraved blocks extra : § 1.00 each. Parties living outeide Cherry county not per ( tonally known are requested to pay In advance 10 per cent additional to above rates If over 0 months In Arrears. Notices of losses of stock free to brand adver tisers. Will Russia and Japan fight ? The National Democratic Con vention will be held in St. Louis July 6 , 1904. W. J. Bryan will be given a re ception next Monday evening at the Lindell hotel in Lincoln. A large number of persons will be present to greet Nebraska's chief tain upon his return from foreign lands. The trial of Senator Dietrich last week ended as if by mutual consent of all parties engaged in the trial. The prosecution gave way and made but a feeble attempt after harrowing the earth to shake up testimony. Judges Munger and Van DeVanter , General Cow- in , the attorney for the defense , and district attorney Summers all seemed to go through the case as if planned out before hand and were only making a display of what would appear to have been a rehearsal of the case. Dietrich was dismissed by Judge Van De- vanter instructing the jury that they must acquit him , because he was not senator when he recom mended the appointments of post- SjBaster for a consideration and 'l leased his building at Hastings to 'the government and that he was not senator until accepted by the senate. It seems that this con struction is wrong and that their decision of the law will be reversed by every citizen who takes any interest in the matter. Dietrich was senator from the time he was elected. He drew his pay as sena tor and his recommendations were received , accepted and acted upon as coming from a senator with no question arising as to whether he had the right or authority to ad vise. He was senator by all the customs ever practiced by the United States at any former time and drew the salary of senator , even if the senate had rejected him in December of 1901 , up to the time of the senate's rejection. To all intents and purposes he was senator at that time , though not permitted to act in conjunction with other senators as a law mak er until that body had passed upon r his election as being legal , regular and that he was not disqualified P from holding the office. No mat ter about the decision of Judges Munger and VanDevanter which h n legally made Dietrich a free man : a In the eyes of the people he will be branded as they think of him and the impression made will be that of guilt. Dietrich escaped * the clutches of the law by a technicality - * - nicality so called but he will not c escape the condemnation of all tc : righteous , honest , law abiding citi- zens. Their verdict has been rendered - dered and the man who carried pi around a coat pocket full of but01 ton pictures of himself , pinning w , them on people's coats in his camtl . paign for governor in 1900 will be heralded as a great man only by his warm republican supporters. D More Local. W sh Tom Hudson is in town. Richard Osborn was in town Si trading , Tuesday. CO E. D. Spencer was down from aj. Crookston yesterday. fa Corn Shelters , both hand and wl power. cr Lwroifi LI&BSS CQ. NEW STORE Just opened up a stock of Dry Goods , Notions , Cloth ing , Furnishing Goods , Shoes and Flour. door to Democrat office. A. JOHN & ABDALLAH. W. A. Bonser is up to Rosebud this'week on business. J. A. Sparks is now able to walk around with more ease. Earl Riggle is building a house in the west part of town. Try our Fiber Wall Plaster. 47 LUDWIG IiTDIBER Co. J. L. Ashburn has gone up the road to work on county bridges. Wm. Kelly , Billy Smith and Mr. Donovan were in town yesterday. The county commissioners ad journed yesterday and went home. Repair that wall before winter. 47 LIJDWIG LUMBER Co. Grand masquerade ball tomor row nignt , January 15 , 1904 , at Sears' hall. J. T. Kief , of Arabia , was in town several days last week hav ing some denta7 work done. 3 3Mrs. . Geo. Veach went up to Chadron the first of the week to visit her sister Mrs. Ennis. Mrs. J. T. Kief is in town this week with her daughter Miss Bernice - nice who is attending school. The most complete line of lum ber in the Northwest. 47 LUDWIG LUMBER Co. Gordon is agitating a town hall and expects to build one at cost of six or seven thousand dollars. Archie Pettycrew has purchased the Tillson property on Hall street , and is clerking in his father's store. A man from Long Pine was in the city the first of the week look ing for a location for a bowling alley. Moline and Fuller & Johnson Wagons at rock bottom prices. 47 LUDWIG LUJIBER Co. A head on collision of a passen ger and freight near Topeka , Kan. latt week killed 17 and injured 20 persons. Jas. Collins and wife are in town yet but are going to Fremont il they fail to find a location here that suits them. Mrs. David Brown has roturnocl from Illinois accompanied by her mother who expects to make her future home in Nebraska. Henry Brown was in town trad ing this week. He says he hasn't been enjoying very good health the past -couple of months. Hammond & Bullis' black team ran away Monday , going dov/n Catherine street but ran into a tele a phone pole and came to a stop. t Jake and Aetna Brechbill were g in town during the past week , v hauling wheat to the mill. They v ire good industrious farmers liv ing near Sparks. tl Lawrence Rice lost one of his kidjinittens a couple of weeks ago. Eas fur top and is light brown in olor. Will finder < please return tie o DEMOCRAT office. A steamer wrecked in a storm n n Puget Sound last Friday and 52 persons were drowned by putting n ut in life boats. Those staying n vith the ship were found before .he ship sank. hi si Now is the time to decide the natter of having a town hall or ipera house. Let those who are , > nterested in this matter come forv ard and help to decide what hould be done. A volcano has broken out on jugar Loaf mountain in Rowan > ounty , Ky. . and is assuming di larming proportions. There are th ive fissures iu the mauntain from PC rhich pours out smoke in consid- th rable volume and is accompanied if a ee raocs oose. i. ass * . Why don't Valentine have an opera house so that we can have some place to go , some place to hold public meetings and let's help to build it. Who'll subscribe 8500 . ; tock and how many , a hundred ? ; Married at the home of Judge j Cowne Tuesday evening at 7 p. m. Mrs. Fanny Calkius , formerly Miss Fanny Swartz and widow of Ed Calkins , deceased , to Wm. M. Calkins of Cody. Win. is one of Cherry county's finest young men , industrious , well liked , respected by all who know him and worthy of the good wife he has secured. THE DEMOCRAT joins with the many friends of this young couple in extending congratulations. May they live long and prosper. The boxing contest that is to take place here Saturday night is undoubtedly the best thing that ever happened in the biffing line. The participants are all men of ability and reputation and every thing is ready for a great enter tainment for all who may attend. The following program has been arranged : Preliminary Billy Smith against Kid Donnivan , of Hot Springs , S. D. , 4 rounds. A high jumping exhibition by the champion of the U. S. army. A battle royal will be the next event 5 men going into the ring at the same time. Then comes the main event of the evening , a ten round bout between Hamp Ireland and John Brown. Both men have ex cellent reputations as scientific boxers , and those failing to see this bout will , miss a chance 6f a life time to see some beautiful and scientific sparring. Doors will be open at 7 p. m. First bout at 8:30. : Come and see this , boys , and see what physicial culture can do to develop man's physique. Reserv ed seats on sale at Elliott's drug store. Price 81-50. General ad mission 81.00. Wedding. The marriage of Miss Clara M. Ayers , of Valentine , ISTebr. , and Mr. J. A. Yeast , of this city , was solemnized last evening at 8 o'clock at 104 Ivy street. Rev. Nisbet , of the Westminister Presbyterian church , performed the ceremony. Mrs. Yeast , as Miss Ayers , was one of Nebraska's most beautiful and charming young women. Mr. Yeast is one of Atlanta's most prominent young men , being business manager of the J. A. Hesse Electric Company. i The young couple have a host of friends who wish them much hap f piness. Atlanta News. I THE DEMOCRAT has been sending , ing out some statements since thei first of the year to many persons' ' who are delinquent on our subscription - > scription list. Sending so many it is intere sting to note how the different ones receive the state ments. Some pay up with a smile and pleasant a word , wishing us well and from that all the way down the line to the close , tight fisted , grasping , squeezing , wrenching , , writhing , twisting , miserly person si who would accept free favors for t years and never pay a cent. If d they got into trouble they'd exk pcct you to say Lothin' about it in y the paper , but pat them on the. it back when they come to town or went away from town on a vaca tion and look crossways at the edi tor for a month if he forgot to notice it and throw down the pa per in disgust when his name islet lot mentioned , saying , "There's lothin' in the paper anymore. " Some of 'em get mad when you ' land them a statement , and others fcci smile. Some write you a letter , ci ihat would do for a curio to put j ta , t ip at the next World's Fair , while' ' thers say kind words and actually ihow that they are sorry that it las been a case of englect or for- fetfulness upon their part. But he meanest of all are those who M ay no attention at all to a dozen iffercnt statements and finally Si hrow the paper back at their lostmaster and say , " 1 don't want su hat paper enny longer , " and mark wl f4 vrefoosed. ' ' That's the kind of ho fellow w $ ijijs to atfet , TVe ! i want to size him up and tell him what we think of him. He's two mean to associate with humanity. Such fellows sooner or later get into trouble and think the world has turned agin them. Yes , we'd like to size'up such a man. Anyone - j one can earn the editor's liV ! ng' gratitude by taking a poke -u , 'tis ' proboscis and smearing it all oer his physiognomy. Right here comes to mind the familiar air of the Old Oaken Bucket as we think of its treasures as written in song. "How dear to my heart is the steady subscriber , Who pays in advance at the birth of each year ; Who lays down his dollar and smiles at me gladly , And casts 'round the ofiice a halo of cheer. He never says "stop it" I cannot af ford it" , Nor "I'm netting more papers now than I can read ; But always says "send it , the family likes it , In fact we all think it's a real house hold need. " How welcome he is when he steps in our sanctum , How he mates our hearts throb , how he makes our eyes dance ; We outwardly thanK him. we inward ly bless him , The steady subscriber who pays in advance. The homes of such men are like gard ens of eden ; We know that his household by him doth enhance ; Tne little ones cheer him and every one loves him The cheerful subscriber who pays in advance " The honest subscriber who never re foosed it , The cheerful subscriber who pays in advance. They know it takes money to get out a paper And willing to pay up their share in advance. Below we give the substance of what some generous persons say in respect to our statements and others who pay up without wait ing for a statement. Compare them : * * " , Jan. ,190- . The Editor of THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT. Dear Sir : I received your statement for subscription to your paper. I didn't know I owed anything. I thought it was all paid up. I know I paid Bob Good a dollar once when I was in town but I guess he forgot to mark it down. You look up my account and see if you can't find that I have paid you. Well , will send you the money any way and please. stop the paper as I UON'T WANT TO PAY FOR IT. You ought to send it a year FREE now. If you want to send it free for a ; year I think maybe I'll subscribe next year. Yours truly , - , Jan. , 190- . I. M. RICE , Valentine , Nebr. Dear Sir : 1 send you the money for sub scription to your paper. I've been baken' ; the paper a long time but ilidn't never pay nothln. I didn't know you CHARGED for it. I gess you kin stop it. My nabor takes and I kin BORRY his. Yours truly , - , Dec.- MR. I. M. RICE , Valentine , Nebr. Dear Friend : I enclose herewith P. O. order 'or § 1.00 to pay for THE DEMO CRAT for the ensuing year. I will ake the paper as long as you are the helm. Your faithful friend- , Dec. IK. I. M. RICE , Valentine , Nebr. You will find enclosed 81.00 for , = ubscription to THE DEMOCRAT rhich is a welcome visitor at our m ome. Very truly yours , Jas. E. Pepper W. U. McBrayer Canadian Club All the standard brands of Whiskies , domestic and imported Wines , Gordon's Dry Gin , and Cigars of the choicest brands. Blue Ribbon Bottled Beer a specialty. : : : ' ' Oakland Hunters Rve Blue Grass Dewars Scotch Whiskey JAMES B- HULL rpHE OWL SALOON Proprietor. " * _ I V W Sole Agents for HERALD PURE RYE WHISKEY Ale and Porter , And FRED KRUG'S BEER Choicest Wines and Cigars , VALENTINE X NEBRASKA W. T. Bishop , LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLE The Wilber Barn Your Patronage Solicited. i/oo HEADQUARTERS FOR WINES , LIQUORS AND CIGARS OF THE CHOICEST BRANDS Valentine - - Nebraska 4 Minimum of Friction Gives the axlmiim of Life . . . . TO THE . Smith Premier Type wr iter .Ball Bearing Carriage , Conical Bearing Type Bars. Rocking Shaft to Convey jj Power from Key Stem to Type. Friction Minimized as in no other Machine. 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