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THURSDAY , DECEMBER 10 , 1908.
Tuesday evening , Dec. JS , Mrs ,
Boyer and .Miss Jordan gave a si :
o'clock dinner in honor of Mis :
Kortz the bride to be.
The guests present were th <
Misses Driscoll , Gordon , Nelson ,
Collette , Sherman , Hoenig anc
Tennant. Miss McKercher anc
Miss Cyphers were unable to at-
attend because of illness.
An hour and a half was pleas
antly passed in the enjoyment of a
most elaborate and beautifully
served four-course dinner. Al
each place was an artistic little
guest book , carrying out the color
scheme of Red and white. The
table was tastefully decorated in
hearts and arrows. On the backs
of the arrows were found subjects
for toasts to the gest of honor.
For a moment the weighty sub
jects created consternation. How
ever , the toasts given were origi
nal and exceedingly interesting.
Miss Xelsou responded tc
"Looking Backward" in a pretty
tribute to the memories of friend
ships.
Miss Hoenig in her response to
"The Ideal Wife" said she could
best describe her by "pronouncing
the eame , Miss Kortz. "
"The Ideal Husband" was de
scribed by Miss Sherman in a
eulogy of the coming groom.
Miss Tennant gave "A Receipt
for Happiness in a Cottage Built
for Two. "
"In How to Hold the Heart of
the Husband , " Miss Gordon ad
vocated the theory that it can be
done by "keeping him always
guessing as to how much you real
ly care for him. "
In Miss Collette's response to
"How to Keep His House in Ord
er , " she said :
Alack ! alas ! his hou = e in order
Kept her busy , busy , busy ;
Kept her hurried ,
Kept her worried ;
Made her fllutter , mutter , sputter ,
Keeping all his house in order.
Miss Driscoll responded to the
toist "Looking Forward. "
The guests were asked to search
for bags of rice , which , upon being
opened , were found to contain
snail souvenirs indicating the oc
cupation of the future husband of
the finder. Without a doubt the
fates guided the search , for Miss
Kortz was directed towards the
sack containing the rancher's spur.
The delightful evening wa > - ,
brought to a close by Miss Jordan
readingEiley's "My Bride to Be. "
From Holt Co. Independent :
John Donovan of the Madibon
Star-Mail has been appointed dep
uty Oil inspector for his district.
Brother Donovan has been , ami is ,
one of the strong party workers
and is entitled to any good thing
that may come his way , and we
hope the good things may come
thick and fast.
The republican president-elect ,
in looking for men to help him
carry out the Roosevelt reforms
during his administration , has se
lected .J. Piorpmnt Morgan's son-
in-law. Herbert L. SriMorleo , to be
his avistant $ Secretary of N'ivy. : _
Tillouuht to ' ' " cot vincing that
the republican \t\r\\ \ \ \ is fighting
the trusts and c
j Dr. Mcoham , osteopath , has
1 moved into his new office rooms
over the lied Front store. Tele
phone Xo. 155. 10
j L. L. Stone r has recently been
nominated on the decocratic ticket
! for the ofiice of county treasurer
' of Morriil county , Neb. A special
election will be held December 22 ,
to fill a vacancy in that important
office. Mr. Stoner was for many
years a resident of Cherry county
and is remembered kindly by a
host of friends here who heartily
wish him success. He is a brother
of Miss Lillian Stoner , for many
years county superintendent of
! Cherry county and now matron at
' the state normal at Peru. Late
lived for a number of
years on the Jake Martin farm
north of Valentine and for a time
assisted G. P. Crabb in the county
treasurer's office. He H honest ,
capable and in every way a reliable
man for the office to which he
aspires , and THE DEMOCRAT joir s
with many citizens of this county
in wishing him success.
Rev. AVm. Williams , the minis
ter of the. German Settlement , had
the misfortune to let his team get
away while closing a gate on the
way into town. It was a young
black team that he had recently
bought from Henry Porath and
tho.v didn't seem to understand
that it took som3 tiim to close a
wire gite when it is cold and start
ed on" without their driver , ran
into a telephone wire which prob-
aM.v broke a bow in the top of the
buggy and broke the seat loose
from the box and otherwise bat
tered the top. The buggy didn't
up > et and there w.is little damage ,
considering the long run. The
teim came into town all right and
probibly much faster than they
would have been driven , but were
not going fast when stopped at the
Club Feed Stable. Louie. Buck
recognized the team as one chat
Henry Porath had owned and people
ple westward were notified. John
Porath cime in response to the
Rev. Williams' call by telephone
fiat he was afoot and took him in
and they came to town tog t'ler ,
after hunting several hours in the
hilU for the team which they sup-
possd had got lost , as the falling
siow covered up the tracks and
trail and they were unable to fol
low them.
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Stock Food Swindle.
Exeter Entorpise : A lot of
farmers in the neighboihood of
Exeter , who are too poor to take
a local newspaper , or too dishonest
to pay for one , got beautifully
taken in by a stock food swindle
very recently. This is the way it
is worked : Tho. agent approaches
Mr. Pumpkin Huske.r with this
proposition : "Can I leave you
100 pound.of my valuable stock
food free ? " Sure , says the non-
uews-reader. who is always on the
lookout for something free. Of
course he is willing to sign a little
agreement. And if the little
agreement turns up in the shape
of a promissory note , due at a
Hebron b-ink , why should an ex-
county clerk of Pillmore county
kick himself ? . And while nobody
m-iy perhaps sympithizi ; with the
victims of this particular swindle ,
it is a good oi jcct lesson to honest
people to be careful in the matter
of signing papers for strangers.
Street Auction.
A raarket sale will be held at
Valentine Saturday , Dec. 12th , it
one o'clock p. in. Household fur
niture , farming implements , o'o. ,
will be sold. Anyone desiring 10
place anything on sale at this time
list property with \Vm. Haley , jr.
T.V. . CHAMRK , Auctioneer.
Supper.
The Presbbterian ladies will
serve you next Tuesday , Dec. 15 ,
at Bethel hall. Booth opened at
2:80 : p. m. Supper at 5 o'clock.
Usual price , 35 cents.
M E N U
Chicken ljie
Mashed Potatoes Baked Beans
Celery Pickles
Cranberry Jelly
Cabbage Salad
Ice Cream Sherbet
Cake
Colfee Tea
Reward.
Siirayecl from my pasluie Aug 27
1908 , on soldier creek , 8 miles N.
W. of Piosebud , two Buckskin geld
ings with block strips on backs ,
black main and tails weight 800 to
900 Ibs each ; one branded box R on
left shoulder also a brand on left neck
under main other branded 0 M on
right hip. Notify owner.
47 2 Snow Fly.
Eosebud South Dakota.
MORE MAIL-ORDER BUSINESS.
Every local merchant in Nebraska
lias felt the unfair competition of the
eastern mail-order house. There is a
state association of merchants , the
object of which is to make sentiment
antagonizing the mail-order business.
The local merchant contends that it is
unjust to him , a local taxpayer , to per
mit a company paying nc taxes in the
state to ship into a Nebraska com
munity merchandise at prices less
than the local merchant can afford to
sell for , because of the insurance , tax
and rental rates he is compelled to
pay for the privilege of doing business.
He is casting about for some means
by which the mail-order business may
be stamped out.
In this connection , it is interesting
to cite one phase of the situation in
Butler county , bVouglit about by some
of the towns whose people voted not
to issue liquor licenses. A David City
banker writes that immediately upon
the adoption cf the dry policy , there
sprang up an active mail-order busi
ness in wet goods' . The same is true
of Beatrice. All such money , of
cotnse , leaves the county , and while
as much liquor as formerly may be
consumed , the volume of local money
io depleted.
It is said on good authority that
every Saturday night trains from Kan
sas City to Topeka carry mail-order
original packages of wet goods for the
individual consumer at Topeka.
A well known citizen of Cook. Neb. ,
writes of the mail-order business in
wet goods as applied to that town , as
follows : "In one month there has
been shipped into Cook seven and one-
half barrels of wine and whisky and
Iwentj * barrels and five cases of bear. "
The Chamber of Commerce of Sa
vannah , Ga. , has issued a circular
stating that the new prohibition law
of that state has created an immense
mail-order traffic in liquor amounting
to something like § 200,000 a month ,
which is leaving the state , and in re
turn for which liquor is received for
local consumption.
During the day when th policy of
prohibition Avas sought to be enforced
in Iowa , the mail-order business from
Omaha houses into the various towns
of western Iowa was enormous ; the
money , cf course , leaving the local
communities cf Iowa to enhance the
profits of Omaha dealers. The enact
ment of the lulct Tax law in 1894 put
a stop tc most of the traffic.
These instances are few compared
with the large number within the
knowledge of the people of Nebraska
towns which have gone dry. The fed
eral supreme court has , in three no
table cases , decided that no valid law
could be passed to prevent a citizen of
one state ordering liquor shipped from
another state for Ins own use ; there
fore the original package mail-order
traffic in wet goods is strictly legiti
mate from a legal point of view , or
at any rate , the right can not be
abridged by law.
It is a question for local merchants
and taxpayers to decide for them
selves whether or not they shall favcr
a local policy which would be certain
to build up an immense mail-ordei
business , thus creating a constant
drain upon the money of any town
adopting that policy.
THE SNYDER BANNER.
Manager Gus H. Weber of the
Snyder Banner , discussing the mail
order liquor trade , says :
"With prohibition every taxpayer
will have to cough up more money
proportionally but the "jug houses"
Jo business just the same depriving
Ihc towns of their annual income of
license , and at the same time increase
the mail-order trade "which has become
come a heavy drain on local merchants
ill over the country.
Uo notlKHcvie _ that people could
not exfsl"TVTCncJul 'liquor , nut
we are positive tnat some s
prohibitionists insist on its usii wo
are going to stand for license , to
which the community is more entitled
than those jug houses ever dared tc
be.
To give a plain illustration of how
liquor trade is going abroad we wish-
to relate the following story which
recently came to light : A well known
citizen in a country town called at
the depot asking the agent if "his
books had come. " The agent replied
that no books were received at the
time. Later the same party inquired
by telephone about the expected mer
chandise , when the agent replied ,
"Yes , your package is here , but there
are no books ; it is billed as liquor. "
Seeing that he was caught in a trap
our citizen refused to accept the pack
age. It is not necessary to state that
that man will vote for county option ,
but he must have the booze. "
CLAY CENTER SUN.
The editor of the Clay Center Sun
makes the following significant com
ment :
"It has been said in our hearing
many times that the business of Has
tings has fallen off greatly since the
saloons were closed. The extent of
that decline , as reported in some in
stances once-half did not to us seem
possible , but that there has been a
heavy decline we are forced to believe
What follows such a decline in busi
ness ? Discharge of help. We cannot
guess how many worthy ladies and
gentlemen arc thrown out of employ
ment. Does one hundred overstate
it ? We guess not. Half of these will
miss their salaries , though perhaps
small , exceedingly , and as much a ?
the ladies might abhor saloons
wouldn't they feel that the presence ;
of the saloon , so far as they are con
cerned , where the evil effects are not
seen in their families , can more easily
be endured than the want of the week
ly stipend that they receive when busi
ness is better and their services arc
needed in the stores ? We leai '
recollection , whenever it has come tea
a downright contest between the "puri
tans" and their more broad-minded
fellow men , it has generally been the
self-righteous that have done the emi
grating.
Better "let well enough alone. " It
is my firm belief that the present agi
tation has been started by self-seeking
politicians only to distract the atten
tion of the people from far more seri
ous evils.
It is universally conceded that com
mercial exigencies and educational in-
lluenccs are steadily advancing the
temperance cause. Let these good in
fluences continue , but from an acri-
"We won't ! " with its personal recrim-
moiiious campaign of "You will ! " and
inations and long-enduring animosities ,
Good Lord deliver us.
One who has been urough the "cru
sade' ' 01 the early seventies and the
hard-fought campaign 01 oo ought to
have formed decided opinions about
the futility of well-meant out impracti
cal legislation. Respectfully , John
Knight , Editor and Publisher.
GENEVA GAZE1 rE.
Syracuse , Nebraska , went dry and
the town board had to cut expenses
to meet the pocketbook they were to
carry for the year so they cut out the
street lighting service , reduced the
salary of the treasurer , did away with
the office of attorney and made the
water and light commissioner act as
town clerk.
The prohibitory law in Georgia ,
which went into effect -he first ot
January , stopped the manufacture
and open sale of liquor. The secretary
of the Commercial club at Savannah
says ; that the club has sent agents
over the state to ascertain the effect
of the law upon the business ot
Georgia. He writes that insofar n =
an estimate can be made at this time ,
he finds that merchants are losing
hundreds of thousands of dollars ot
trade a month , which is going to out
side dealers cf liquor who are ship
ping liquor into Georgia in original
packages. The commercial clubs of
Georgia have combined to see what
can be done to keep such money in
the state. They hold that there is
just as much liquor being consumed
as ever.
Be it remembered that local option
as defined by the Slocumb liquor law
affords the fullest measure of'home
rule. It is a vital quality of the law.
Destroy it , and the whole structure
must fall. So-called county option , as
defined by the Anti-Saloon league , is
intended to destroy this element of
home rule by putting the power in
the hands of rural voters to dictate
Lo the taxpayers of villages and towns
is to what they shall or shall net do.
Pretended county option means that
Lhe limits of villages and towns shall
Lie ignored , when the people of a
whole county may be permitted to
rote to prevent the issuing of liquor
licenses. With such a lavas that in
? ffect , the home rule of villages and
: owns would be destroyed , and their
policy with respect to the control of
: hc liquor traffic would be dictated by
.he farmers of the county , who pay
10 taxes in the towns.
The secretary of the Fort Scott
Commercial club says that owing to
he blight of prohibition in Kansas ,
mraigration into that state during the
ast twenty-four years has been less
nimerically than the birth nite. He
inys the policy has put a check upon
he material progress of the state as
icmpared with other states , whereas
Cansas is naturally one of tlic most
jroUuctive states in the union.
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CARPENTER & BUILDER.
All kinds of wood work done too-der. Stork tanks made in all sizes.
Residence and shop one bluck south of passenger depot.
Valentine. I > HO\E 72 Nebraska
References : My Many Customers.
Go to the
tock Exchange Saloon
VALENTINE'S PURE LIQUOR CENTER
Walther F. A. MeStendorff , Propr.
Ship your Live Stock
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SO. OMAHA OR CHICAGO
iSib shipment too large and none too small to receive the"
most careful attention.
Each consignment intrusted to our care will be handled
by members of the firm.
Each man's stock sold on their merits and a square deal
guarantee ! to all.
Write us for the market paper and our special market
letters , which we send you free of charge.
VMOS SXYDBR , Flog Salesman. MATT MALOKE ) Cattle
TEO. M.VOOD , Sheep Salesman. Tiros. J. DONAHUE f Salesman.
New Hotel. Electric Lights.
Good Rooms. Hot and Cold Water.
NEAR DEPOT
MRS. S. A. SEARS , Propr. , Valentine , Xebr.
Rates $1 per day , Calls for all trains.
" 5M
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ROBERTSON & CO , PROPRS.
Valentine , Xeb. , Xov. 23 , 1908.
Gentlemen.
We wish to call your atten
tion to the fact tint we are going to
manufacture all suits here in the fu
ture and all our help has had years of * fc
experience in cutting and fitting. You
need not hesitate in leaving your ord
ers for they will have our prompt at
tention and immediate service.
Our cutter has had 35 years ,
service cutting- and fitting.
Cleaning , Pressing and Repairing a Specialty.
'hone 122. : : Valentine , Nebr
E E R I N G
Done in the most satisfactory manner ! Largest prices for
the seller and honest deali g with the bidder ! On these
terms T. \ \ . Cramer solicits your patronage. Graduate
of Missouri Auction Schoo1 , August term. 45
W. C"AIV R - VALENTINE.
