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VULUAJK XXI VALENTINE. NEBRASKA. JANUARY 18 , 1906. NUMBER 1
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All Our Heavy Weights
are going : this month to make room for spring
goods. Lots of good things in our windows at
25 per cent discount 25
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CLOTHIER.
GEO. H. HORNBY ,
Wagons and Buggies
Lumber and Hardware
Pictures Framed to Order ,
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Established In Va'.entiue since 1885.
f ' Boys' Assortment of Tools 40c to $4.00.
; . . , , L9rge Asssortment of 5-lO-15c Goods.
" ' -Tinware , Oils , Etc , Lamps , Crockery , Lime , Coal Paper
FURNITURE and COFFINS ,
Licensed. Embalnicr
- Chartered as a State Bank Chartered as a National Bank
June 1 , 1884. August 12. 1902 ,
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Valentine , Nebraska.
( Successor to )
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C2APITAL.FAID IK A General BankiDg
Exchange and
Collootion Business.
0. E. CoBNEiiL , President. J. T. MAY , Vice-president.
M. V. NICHOLSON , Cashier.
PRINTING
YOUR OFFICE *
Goods being sold i off regular
price at STINARD'S
L. C. Sparks went down to
Omaha Sunday on business , re
turning Wednesday morning.
Levi Anderson returned Tues
day night from a visit to his fath
er in Iowa , who , he says , is grow
ing old and feeble. . yN
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Col. C. J. Holt has been nomi
nated for the legislature in his own
district , but this will not interfere
with his work in Nebraska in the
spring.
W. H. Hooper , of North Table ,
was a caller at this office while in
town last Saturday' , and " paid his
subscription in advance for. Tire
DEMOCRAT.
George and Miss Ella DeWyke
of Kandolph , JCan. , - nephew and
niece ofthe editor of this paper ,
are attending , the Grand Island
Business College.- - . - ' _
John MartySr. . , will be in VaK
entine next week with a view of
changing his main real estate office.
from Plainview , Neb. , to this-
place. The firm name 'will be
Marty Land Co. ?
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A. D. Pettycrew and wife de
parted Tuesday for Dubuque , Ia. >
where they will visit Mrs. Petty-
crew's people and expect to go
from there to Somerset , Pa. , on
an extended visit. - .
Mr. and Mrs. P. II. Young |
in f ronouSimeon last Friday
started to Mr. Young's former
borne in good old Missouri where
they will visit his parents until
about the 1st of March.
Herman Riege of Riege brought
in a load of hogs last Saturday
which he sold to a localdealer at
.25 per cwt. Mr. Riege called
at our office while in town to pay
H father's subscription in ad
vance for THE DEMOCRAT.
C. M. VanMeter was in town
last Saturday from North Table
and informed us that the telephone
company had taken a fresh boom
and they had just sent in an order
for 20 phones. This makes 52
phones for their North Table Tele
phone Co.
We read in the Chadron Journal
last week that Dr. F. M. Blake ,
the dentist , who a year ago opened
up parlors in that city , is reported
as being found dead in his bed in
a Minnesota town. Well , there
goes another six dollars. This is
the same man who came to Valen
tine .a couple of years ago , patron
ized everybody that would trust
him , spent his money atthe sa
loons and finally left town without
paying his room rent or his printer
bill. We tried to collect from him
after he went to Chadron and when
he was in Rushville but he was no
good. He'll probably go to a hot
ter place than Minnesota.
Henry Murphy 'and Barney Mc-
Nitt of Banner , 12 miles west of
Brownlee , . came up to Valentine
last Thursday on business and be
cause they generally visit here
once a year and they hadn't been
up for a long time. We enjoyed'
a pleasant visit with them. Mr.
Murphy is getting up in years but
still converses with the ambition of
a more youthful man and his
"years" do not seem to have stol
en fire from his mind , though his !
limbs may be less vigorous than |
they were 40 years ago. We are
always glad to meet the good old
men and hold conversation with
them. They are wises than most
of us if they have given a part of
their time to study and we always
learn from them.
Dr. A. J. Plumer , a prominent
stockman of Efyannis was in our
city Tuesday and discussed the
land and grazing situation to some
extent with prominent Valentine
citizens. He expressed himself as
being in favor of C. H. Cornell's
lease bill as the best thing he had
seen , and with some modifications
thought it would be a practical so
lution of the range question.
When shown an article in Mon
day's State Journal , by Wm. M.
Walters of Thedford , he replied
to some of the statements made
which we give to our readers and
invite a further discussion of this
question. These are Mr. Plumer's
remarks :
"Proposition 1. That the sand
hill land , such as is now available
for settlement , will pasture five
cows and a horse on twenty acres ,
must on the face of it be mislead
ing. It is not the experience of
the bulk : of ranchmen as evidenced
by = the fact that no where in the
sandhills are cattle so numerous
as1 to use less than twenty acres
per head , and this amount includes
not only the pasture ; land but the
hay land as well. These are facts
easily proven by the census divid
ed by the area. It is also a fact
that generally ranges are over
stocked because cattle nowadays
grow much smaller than they did
when there were less cattle and
more range. |
"Proposition 2. That the Kin-
kaid ! au is discredited by cattle- i
men , is fase { and this sorehead's
own statement proves it. He
shows that the bulk of the home
steads taken were fraudulent ,
which is a fact I admit. The ob
ject of which was not that the land
is worth the cost of proving up on
it , but in order to retain fences
and fence lines. Does not this
show , if anything at all , that the
640-acre homesteads are insuffi
cient to support a man or his fam
ily ? The fact that this man Walt
ers , who came here over 16 years
ago and secured a piece of land
which he could farm and has made
a living on , does not prove that
the same quality of land is
now available. If so , why has not
more bona fide settlers availed
themselves of these claims ? Four-
fifths or more of the public area is
still va'cant , aiid as free as water
to anyone who wishes it. "
SCHOOL NOTES.
By ) t'Marearete Qu'gley. '
I Clara D.unham.
This week ends the first half of
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the school year.
Stella Spratt Visited the high
school Monday morning.
Examination this Friday. A fair
warning ought to give good grades.
There has been 'no decreae in
tardies since the holidays , as had
been hoped.
AlvaTodd is again in school , hav
ing been absent a week on account
of a severe cold.
Bertha'Helzer was absent Monday
with a bad cold. Ifc was the first
time Bertha had been absent during
the school year.
The Euphonium Glee Club , the
feature of the lecture course ,
gave their entertainment Tuesday
evening to a larpe and attentive
audience. The members of this
club are young , but showed excel
lent training.
Catholic Church Announce
ment.
On Sunday next , mass will be
said here at 10:30 : a.m. Catechism
class at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
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REDUCED PRICES ON ALL
WINTER MERCHANDISE.
Call in and see what we have to offer
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Davenport & Co.
Have Just Completed
our last year's inventory and thank our many customers
for their patronage , and assure them that we shall try
our best to merit a continuance of the same in 1906
Ail WINTER GOODS will be sold now at Reduced Trices
Call us up over The North Table Telephone Line. (2 ( long rings )
MAX E. VIBRTBL CROOKSTCXN NEBRASKA
Dealer in Everything.
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QUICK DELIVERY
You don't have to wait for us to-flag
a delivery. We have our 'own - and
MAKE PROMPT DELIVERIES.
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FRED WHITTEMORE , Pres. CIIA-RLES SPARKS , CashieXi - . t-
J. W. STETTER , Vice Pres. ORAILL. BRITTON , Asst Cash.
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Persons seeking a place of safety for their money , will profit by
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NR CONFECTIONERY
Suited to your taste. . . ' .
Canned Goods Lunch. , .
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Are now at their best and , All you want to eat at our
we handle the best grade. Lunch Counter
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