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THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 27 , 190S.
Democratic State
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The democratic state convention is
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hereby called to meet at Omaha on ,
Thursday , Ma'-ch o , at 2 o'clock p m , !
for the purpose of electing a nietnbt-r ,
ot the democratic national committee
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for Nebraska , four delegates at lar e !
and two delegates from eacli congressional - ,
sional district to attend the deino- '
cratic national convention to be held ]
at Denver on July 7 , 10US. The delegates - ]
gates from each congressional district
shall select the two delegates from
each of said districts and report same
to the state convention lor raiiiic i
tion. Delegates from the various
counties to the state convention snail
be selected from each county by a
convention duly called or by a nri
mary election , if petitioned for In 00
democratic voters of said county , pe
tition for same to be filed witn the
county committee on or before Feb.
14,190S.
The basis of representation shall be
one vote for every fifty votes or imj
or fraction thereof cast for the demo
cratic electoial ticket in 1904 Cher
ry county is entitled to 6 delegates
C. M. GRUENTHER , T. S. ALLEX.
Sec. Chir.
County Convention.
The democratic voters of ( ' erry
county are hereby called to meet in
the district court room in Valentine
on February 29 , DOS , at 2 o' lock p.
m. , for the purpose of electing MX
delegates to represent said county at
the state convention to be held in
Omaha , March 5 , 190S. Every demo
cratic voter is hereby invited to at
tend and no credentials shall be nec
essary to secure the right to vote in
this convention.
By order of democratic county
committee.
I. M. RICE , A. M. MORRISSEY ,
Sec. Chm.
Democratic Congressional
Convention.
A delegate convention of the
democrats of the Sixth eonjrp ss-
ional district of Nebraska is hereby
called to meet at Omaha , Nebr. ,
March 5 , 1908 , for the purpose of
nominating two delegates to the
National convention at Denver.
The various counties are entitled
to the same representation as pro
vided for by the state convention.
HORACE M. DAVIS , Sec.
ROBERT GRAHAM , Chm.
Bryan Will I5e Th * a-p.
The democratic state convention
will be held at the Omaha audi
torium on March 5th , and the
Populist state convention will be
held in Omaha on the same day.
Headquarters for the Bryan
Volunteers of Nebraska and the
State Central Committee will beat
the Paxton hotel.
Please arrange to call at head
quarters and bring your friends.
Sincerely ,
C. M. GRUKNTIIEK.
Secretary.
Notice.
We the undersigned are expect
ing to take care of the town herd
of cows this season. We will have
goorl herd bulls and will take good
care of your cows.
cows.J.
J. M. WILSON.
o 7 JS. . SIIAFKR.
All lovers of checkers are invil- '
ed and called to meet in Valentine
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Friday and Saturday , Feb. 28-29 ,
to play checkers and organize a
Chprry county checker players
tournament. Head quarters at the
Chicago House. 5 4
Cured skinned hai.it Baumann
& Bachelor's Meat Market. 5
FARMERS PHOB'J '
The Present District School.
Are our schools doing better
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work for the growing generation
than th'e ones you and I attended
anywhere from 25 to 50 years ago ?
There are many branches now
taught that we never heard of in
that long ago time when we at
tended during the winter at the
little white school house in our old
district ; the branches that we did
study are also taught at , spelling
being one of them. Now , spell
ing , to our notion , is one of the
mo-.t important of sa'l ' the studies ,
and spelling is where the rising
generation falls down. We are
in a position where WP. can see
much of the work being done by
scholars who have graduated in
side of the la-it ten years , and they
nearly all fall down woefully in
this branch. The typewriter is
now in common use and a word
mis-spoiled shows up every time ,
making a letter that is otherwise
correct in stationery , type work
and general appearance , look
cheap. So common is this that a
letter spelled correctly throughout
is very uncommon. The art of read
ing al < o seem' ; to be a lost one.
We heard a lawyer say the other
day that a graduate of the state
university he had engaged to do
some copying for him was such a
wretched reader that he could not
follow him Li copying plain mat
ter. In mathematics , too , there
is a distinct loss , when we com
pare the work done years ago with
that turned out by the present day
sc-holars. Their capacity is just
a great today , but they are
overburdened with whatto many
seem useless studies. This is a
problem that should not be turned
over to a pedagogue with a "fad , "
but all patrons of the district
school should try to help in the
solving of it.
Extortionate Court Fees.
The farmer may think lie has
been receiving high prices for his
produce during the past two years :
the merchant may think he has
b. en making money ; and so pei-
haps liey have. But even their
wildest dreams of wealth never
omprehended the making of mon-
t\V as have the receivers and other
court officers who have to do with
the winding up of affairs of cor
porations that have failed in busi
ness. We arc beginning to won
der what there is about such a
job that makes a plug politician's
time so valuable. It may be that
h > j has hung on the outside of some
court house or state capitol , doing
dirty work for his party and
thankful if the yearly round has
found him with enough to eat and
wear. But he no sooner lands a
receivership than his time becomes
of the greatest value ; perhaps he
goes on the theory lately brought
to light in some insurance matters ,
that the less an official has to do
the higher salary he should dra v.
The tangle in the Uncle Sarn Oil
J company is a case in point. The
I receiver and the various attorneys
' have filed their bills for services
I rendered during the last seven
months ( mark the time , seven
months ) and have had them sworn
to in court as being just and reas
onable. The receiver , who , be
fore getting his job , was holding
I down a position ,4 as manager of a
country telephone line at 81-25 per
month , has put in a bill for
| § 10,000. One of the lawyers , asks
§ 15,000 , and still another § 5,000.
This looks to an outsider as plain
and simple robbery. But all these
people had supposedly reputable
attorneys in court to swear that
these bills were reasonable , in fact ,
very reasonable. Another case
that comes to our mind was a land
partition suit. The property in
question was an 80-acre farm ,
rather poor and heavily mort
gaged. There were a number of
heirs and they could not agree so
the case was taken into court. The
j actual business took about half an
! hour and for this two lawyers were
allowed § .10 each by the court.
Tiie heirs got somewhere in the
neighborhood of § 20 each and were
probably lucky to get that. A
court is supposed to be established
for the purpose of dealing out
justice , but can you see any justice
in either of the above cases ? They
are duplicated every day in our
j courts. One lawyer will uphold
another in what seems to a f armor
a plain and simple case of rob
bery under the forms of law. Can
you wonder that the farmer has
little respect for a court that sanc
tions such proceedings ? The law
yers hold the whole power of the
court in their hands ; there are
do/ens of them where there should
be but two or thren : they must all
live ; so the consequences are that
those people unfortunate enough
to have anything to do with courts
have to foot the whole bill. A
single man fighting a corporation
in a court of law is like a lamb
among wolves ; a corporation be
ing divided up among a hungry
horde of court officials is in not
much better case. There is no
class tint would welcome a reform
in these court proceedings more
than the farmer , and no class that
needs it more. The average fann
er will .submit to a good deal of
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You are hereby invited to the
to bo given by Valentine Camp , No. 1751 ,
Modern Woodmen of America ,
in the opera house at Valentine , Nebr. ,
Friday Evening , March 6 , 1908.
The Farmers1 Institute will be in session
I during the day and we earnestly request our out of
i town Neighbors and their friends to take this op-
l portunity of combining business with pleasure and
j help by their presence in making the occasion both
pleasant and profitable.
A General Invitation is Extended to the Public.
Music by Fischer's Orchestra.
THE COMMITTEE.
I Frict-s are what
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we are talking
Now
Our stoek is complete.
BISHOP & YOUNG ,
injustice before going to law be
cause he knows , no matter how
the case may go , that he will come
out "skinned. " It is time for a
change. Farm Magazine.
SCHOOL NOTES.
f GEIITRUDE QUICJLEY.
By K MAGGIE STETTER.
( JOHN GOULD.
May and Alma Gunder-nn spent
Saturday and Sunday at Cody.
The high school boys practice
playing ball before school each
morning.
The students are again doing
extra studying as Friday is ex
amination.
Margaret Stetter was quite ill
the latter part of last wsek , but
now is as well as usual.
Any iittle folks wishing to start
to school this year must remember
they must start during the first two
weeks in March.
Miss Mary Easley entertained
the lith grade last Saturday eve
ning. It being ' Washington's
birthday the decorations were of
this occasion. Everyone enjoyed
a delightful time.
Miss Estelle Nicholson left Tues
day morning for Omaha together
eyes fitted for glasses. On her
way back she intends stepping at
O'Neill to see a play given by the
1 girls of the convent.
! While gathering school notes
| for this week one of the teachers
complained of the unnecessary
absence of some of her pupils and
wishes that parents see that their
children attend school as regularly
as possible.
Mr. Watson says that it may
not be generally known that the
' Valentine junior normal has won
first prize at the state fair on its
agricultural exhibit every since
the junior normal schools \\ere
eStablised. Mr. Watson says that ,
, when he was returning from thej
superintendents' and principals'
meeting at Lincoln last October ,
he fell in with J. W. Nation of
Fremont who had a package of
pictures of the Valentine junior
normal garden. Mr Nation said
that the agricultural authorities of
South Dakota had asked him to
get the pictures for them and that
t the plan was to have stereoscopic
I views made of those pictures to be
used in lectures in different parts
of Dakota to show what can be
done in the Nebraska sand hills in
the \\ay of beautifying school
grounds. It should be remember
ed that the patch of ground where
this school garden has been so suc
cessful was , only a few years ago ,
a sandy road bed. If the city
board of Valentine will sell or do
nate to the Valentine high school
five acres ea t of the school house
we can show in a few years as fine
a garden spot as can be found any
where. The school will need the
land in a few years to meet the
demand for agricultural work in
the school , and , if possible , it
should be secured now.
Dr. Meehan , osteopath , will be
at the Valentine House from
Monday morning until Saturday ,
eveniiig each week. Consultation ,
free. 50
We , the undersigned are con-
tern platiug herding the town cows
the coming season and solicit your
patronage. Prices for two or more
cows 75 cents each per month.
First two weeks free.
S. Q. SPAIN.
5 3 JOE MARSHALL.
ache lor. .
MEAT MARKET
Fresh Salt and Cured Meats , Fish , Oysters ,
Vegetables , Pickles , Lard. We buy poultry ,
butter and eggs and all kinds of live stock.
Call or Phone 88.
BAUMANN & BACHELOR ,
Valentine = Nebraska
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Nut 7 a per ton |
At last a Wyoming- coal has been f..jud which in all respects , for
1 domestic use , equals Kock Springs district coal and excels it in some.
Rock Spring : , has tor years been unbeatable , hut hundred1- custom
ers in the western part of the state now put BUDSO ahead of it
on account of puritv , cleanliness and lasting qualities. For cooking
and heating .stoves HUDSON cannot be excelled.
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FISCHER
Dealer in Hardware , Furniture and Coal.
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iiblic opinion is unerring , pullic confidence sel
dom misplaced. The true worth of every business
concern to the community in which it operates is
fixed by its clientele the
, value-giving power of ev
ery commercial institution may be determined by
the amount of patronage it receives. The people
have unmistakably proclaimed their confidence in
The Stock Exchange ,
and its methods , by bestowing upon it a far greater
patronage than that accorded any other place in
Valentine , Where the major portion of the fair ,
the impartial , discriminating public buys its Liquor
and Beer , must be a gpod place for You , the in
dividual , to trade. Visit The Stock Exchcmgewhen
you need anything in our line.
. R A. MELTENDORFF
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