6 * SaEBBB32I5 C2T7 v. THAT NEV/ RECORD WHICH PLAYS MORE THAN FOUR MIN ' UTES. If your Phonograph is not equipped with the attach ment for playing these rec ords bring it in and we will attach one. The price is § 5 00 for the Standard and and $7 50 for the Home. You will then have your Phonograph so you can play both the old style records and the new. Don't put it off. You're missing a good I thing. VALENTINE. NED GQD0 A Safe , Simple System The system of paying | by check was devised by ail men for any man for you. It is I \ suited to the need of any business , either large or small. It makes no difference whether we pay out $10 or $10000 a month. A checking account will serve your needs. Pay by check , the method puts 'system in to your business and gives you a record of every transaction. I VALENTINE STATE-BANK VALENTINE. NEBS. r VALENTINE BARBER SHOP All kindjj of. SHAMPOOS , MASSAGES , AND LADIES HAIR DRESSING Shampooing a specialty. HOT and COLD BATHS in connection § I Forest Shepard , Prop. Valentine State Bank Building T. J. Christopher , AUCTIONEER. "Will meet all calls phone or mail. Verged on pedigreed block. Valentine Nebraska , 0 , S , WEATHER BUREAU REPORT WEEK ENDING APRIL 6 , 1909. Daily mean temperature 33 ° . " Normal temperature 40s. Highest temperature CO3 on 1-3. Lowest temperature 10s on 1st. Range of temperature 41 ° . Precipitation for week .27 of an inch. Average for 21 years .36 of an inch. Precipitation March 1st to date l.il inches. Average for 21 years 1.51 of an inches. JOHN J. MCLEAN , Observer. Preparation of Seed Bed ( Concluded from page 4. ) surface after rain , or kill t < weeds before planting. Ifc is i splendid help in firming a seed bed to take a four-horse team , and a heavy roller and roll the field be fore planting. Newly germinatec weeds have few roots and arc easily torn loose by harrowing ; therefore use the harrow freely. t Prof. Bowman says that weeds.and grass allowed to grow in corn stalk land in the spring , before plowing are injurious to the physical con dition of the soil because they com pact and harden the surfacewhich in turn allows the rapid evapora tion of moisture. When this green mat is turned under later it acts as a partition between the furrow slice and the bottom of the furrow. A light coating of manure from a spreader over your corn land is very beneficial , but refrain from spn a-Jing green manure too thick ly , as rotti n green manure requires a greatdeal of moisture which must necessarily be drawn from jthe sur face soil , and oftsn causesthe fur row slice to become very dry with in a few days. * , In parts of Nebraska where there is ample rainfall , we would recommend that the check-rower be used in planting. Some farm ers prefer listing , claiming that it stands the drouth better , is easier to kill the weeds and the corn stands up better under a high wind. Take a little pride in try ing to get the rows pefectly straight , as the satisfaction you will experience all through the season will amply repay you for the trouble. Use a rigid neckyoke on your planter. . Do not fail to know that the planter or lister is working properly. In fall plowing or on stubble ground , when it is considered de sirable to list , do not plant with your lister but use the corn plant er with check rower in lister fur row. The satisfaction experienced by after results will amply repay. PREPARATION FOR. OATS. Next to corn , one of the most valuable crops to the Nebraska farmer , is oats. The yield of oats for Nebraska for the year 190S was reported at an average of 23.86 bushels per acre which should easily be increased from 25 to 50 per cent under intelligent methods. The oats which under observation , have produced the best yield in Nebraska , are Kher son for ea'rly , and for later , Swe dish , Select and Silver Mine. Owing to the fact that these va rieties are quite extensively grown , we think the seed more easily ob tained than some of the varieties We wish to announce to our friends that we have the exclusive sale of the John Deere Plow Go's goods in this vicinity. We now have the largest and most complete stock ever- shown here , including John Deere Plows , walking sulky and gang. Listers , walking , single and double row. Disk Harrows , with or without tongue trucks , Lever Harrows , Riding and Walking Culti = vators , Corn Planters , Hoosier End Gate Seeders and Press Drills , Success Manure Spreaders , Economy Pitless Scales , Sharpies Tubular Cream Separators , Samson Wind = mills , Fort Smith and New Moline Wagons. The celebrated Velie Wrought Iron Buggies and Spring Wagons. All of this is bright , new stock. No car ried over or out of date goods' Prices and terms reasonable. Come and see us. Valentine Lumber Co. E. 3IOKBIS , W. W. 3FOUKISSEY , J. T. JJEELEY , DR. O. W. NOTES Located in buildings former-l.v occupied by W. T. Bishop as a feed and sale barn litttl.y introduced , which may bt fully equal in yield. When you have secured your seed , run i ( through your fanning mill to thor oughly clean it of small and chaffy grains , retaining only the plump , heavy seed. If you have no fan ning mill buy or borrow one , or load your seed up and take to an elevator and have it cleaned there. In the greater part of the state it is not necessary to treat for smut , but if you are a resident of riorth- 'eastern Nebraska , our advice would be that you adhere to the following : When your seed is cleaned , and two or three days before you de sire to sow , get a rain barrel , and to forty gallons of water add one pound of formalin , and stir it well ; clean a place on the barn or gran ary floor , and cover same with oats to the depth of two inches ; take a sprinkling can and sprinkle with the mixture ; rake over well so that each grain is moistened ; add another layer of oats and re peat the sprinkling and raking until all your seed is treated. Then spread out over the floor about two inches deep , and by the following day the oats will be suf ficiently dry to sow through your drill. By this method you will get rid of 95 per cent of the smut which costs some of our farmers fully , ten per cent of their crop each year. To prepare the gronnd , get a corn stalk cutter and cut the stalks , and in order to leave the surface of your field as nearjy level as pos sible , disc your field diagonally , lapping one-half or more ; then sow with a drill from two or three bushels per acre. HOW TO KILL GOPHERS IX ALFALFA FIELDS. Numerous complaints having been bent to the state board of agriculture relative to the destruc tion of alfalfa fields by gophers , and from reports of various ex periments we are pleased to suL- rait the following method for the extermination of gopher colonies. Select potatoes about the size of English walnuts ; insert an open ended quill about two-thirds of the way through the potato , half fill the cavity in the potato ( made by the quiil ) with strychnine ; plug the balance of the hole with potato , place the medicated potatoes in basket or pail allowing them four or five hours to saturate before using. Take a sharp end wagon rod and spade and these potatoes out to the field to be treated. By probing , with the end-gate rod into the ground between the gopher hills , the runways are easily lo cated. When located carefully uncover the runway , drop in a couple of the potatoes , cover with litter and soil so that the dirt does not fill the original runway and that no light penetrates. Treat each colony in the same manner and the field will be effectually cleared of the pests. EdSatterlee _ , the Nenzel merch ant , was in our city today. There is a force of men working out of Valentine , starting the rail road work. For Sale Full blood Partridge Cochin and Buff Cochin eggs. § 1 per setting of 15. Mus. JA.MES SHEPARD , Valentine , Nebr. 13 Monthly Meteorological Summary. - Valentine. March , 1907. Mean 41.C ia.7 1.14 JOHN Observen Under fclie < Supervision Whiskeys. . We also handle the Budweiser Beer. T JOHN G. STETTER , Propr. Rev. Beale and family departec last week for Spalding. Mrs. Olson is enjoying a visi from her sister of Kilgore. The " 500'3 club enjoyed a meet ing at the home of Mrs. I. M.Ricc last Thursday. L K. Travis of St. Mary's Mis sion had business in our city i couple of days this week. Mrs. A. N. Complon returnee last week from a visit with her brother , Dr. Will Donoher , at Sail Lake City. Geo. Borders was brought uf here last week from Pullman and will be given a hearing before th e insanity board. M. Christensen and his men. Ed Taylor and Geo. Cutler , spent several days at home the pasl week , from Crawford. Dan Handy , Milt Dunl am and Matt Woodson were home to vote Tuesday. They are working on the Rosebud reservation. Wash Honey of Wood lake call ed on us the first of the week and we learned that he has traded his hall to N. J. Uck for the latter's coal business. Next Monday Valentine be comes a freight division , and crews nut of Longpine will run to Valen tine and return , and crews will run from here to Chadron. The Norfolk News says that the governor has vetoed the bill ap propriating § 15,000 for an agri cultural experimental station in bhe Fourteenth senatorial district. Mrs. S. E. Doty and two boys ivere brought down from Cody Tuesday , upon complaint of Har- ' .y Ware ( colored ) that they had jet fire to J. H. Quhrley's barn. This , Mrs. Doty denies and -says ; he was in the house with her bo.s . vhen they discovered the barn to > e on fire. She complains of ill of herself and her 17 rear old daughter at the hands of 3arry Ware , who is Quigley's oreman. The Dotys have been iving on the Quigley ranch since ast fall and have a claim near. Dhe case will be heard in Justice Jaxwell's court Saturday. Gov. Shallenbcrger signed the 'daylight saloon bill" Tuesday , > roviding for the opening of sa- eons at 7 a. m. , and closing at S i , m. , throughout the state. The lews was received here by dis- > atch and-seems to be , generally , atisfactory to all concerned. We iave talked with our saloon men nd they announce that they will heerfully comply with the meas- re which becomes a law in ninety ays or J/uly 6. Mr. Meltendorif ays that much of the year a sa wn is kept open at an expense fter S o'clock and that it will re- uce running expenses and that he heerfully acquiesces. Liquor Notice. - - Notice is hereby given that we ave filed with the clerk 'of the oard of trustees of the Village of ralentine , Nebraska , a petition , ccompanied by a bond duly at- jsted , said petition praying that re be granted a license to sell malt , pirituous and vinious liquors in lock 5 , lot 22 , in said Village of ralentine. Cherry county , Ne- raska- , for the year ending May , 1910. GEOHGE N. HEUSIIEY. ED PARKY. i > ated April 8' , 1909. j New Hotel. Electric Lights. Good Rooms. Hot and Cold Water. NEAR DEPOT MRS. S. A. SEARS , Propr. , Valentine , Nebr. Rates $1 per day , Calls for all trains , The high school baseball team will play the Thacher team on the jhome grounds next Friday after- j noon. On Saturday afternoon the i boys will play Britt. For the past two weeks the hi"h school students have been prei ar- ing a play entitled , "The Last Loaf , " which they expect to pre sent to the public next week. St. Nicholas Church. Services will be held in the Catholic church as follows : i On Good Friday at 3 p. ra. , | Rosary and Stations of the Cross. On Holy Saturday at S a. m. , Blessing of the Paschal Candle ; Blessing of the Baptismal and Easter Water ; High Mass. On Easter Sunday , April llth , low mass and sermon at 10 a. m. Benediction with the blessed sac rament after mass. In Arabia on Sunday , April IS , at 10 a. m. LEO M. BLAEUE. Rector. Arabia Scream ings. * * B. Tinkliam was on our streets Tuesday. A. Benson went to Wood lake Saturday. Mr. Woche and family went to Valentine Thursday. Fred Ackerts of Ainsworth was in our town last week. J. P. Kreycik was in Woodlake on business Saturday. A very enjoyable evening was spent at Wm. Teterow's Wednes day evening. Wm. Helland , Schalgel precinct assessor , and wife , went to Valen tine Tuesday. J. T. O'Kief has been quite ill with rheumatism the past week but is recovering. Jas. Kreycik was a pleasant call er at the home of O Turnquist Thursday evening. - Chas. Velter has returned from Fremont , where he had been work ing all winter in a theatre. Chas. Kreycik went to Valen- Jne Friday to bring out the regis- : ered stock purchased by his fath er at the sale. J. P. Kreycik , the Woodlake precinct assessor , and wife , went ; o Valentine Tuesday , staving for ; he registered stock sales. Bert McNamee 'has returned From Kansas City where he had jeen finishing a course in veteri nary work. We hope him a prosperous r' perous future. * The home talent have postponed iheir entertainment tillfthVSOth of .his month. A basket social. . will ie given after the play for the jcnefit of the schoo.l. Everybody nvited. * SHRIMPS. ' ( LUMBER Lath , Shingles , Doors , Windows , Paper , Pat ent Roofing Tar Paper , Paints , Oil , Varnish , Brushes , Glass , Putty , Lime , Cement , Plaster , Brick , POSTS , Poles. We Sell Hudson Coal BISHOP & YOUNG , R. I he Loup Valley Hereford Eanch. Brownlee.Nebr , Koldiei Creelr Col- ummis 17th 1G005U , a son of Columbus I7tli , a half brother of tlie § 10.000 Cham pion Ortle , a u ( I .Prince Boabdel 131- 603 at head of herd. I now have about 30 head of 1907 bull calves tor j > ule. C.H. FAULJIABKK. Nebraska Land and Feeding Co. Urtlett Richards Pres Will G Comstock , V. P. Chas C Jamison Sec&Treas Cattle branded on any part of animal ; also the following brands : horsca branded the. same P.ange between Jordon on the F.K. &M. V..B.K. and Ilyannis on M. 11. i : in Northwestern Nebr. IJARTl ETT K1CHAKDS. Ellsworth , A'ebr. MILL PRICES FOR FEED , PerCwt. Per Ton. Bran , sacked _ $ L 10 § 21 00 Shorts , sacked 1 2r 2i 00 " Corn , sacked 1 20 23 00 Oats , sacked 1 50 29 00 Chop Corn , sacked 1 25 2 ± 00 Chop Feed , sacked 1 40 27 00 H. BAILEJ , * * Dentist. Office over the grocery deparment of T. C. Hornby's store. JOHN F. PORATH ISnrge , Kebr. Tubular wells and windmills. i me up by Telephone. J. W. McDANIEL , fiQaJXTY USiVEY K Valentine - JTebr. All \vork will be { riven prompt and careful attention. W Stratton Dealer in J FLOUE & FEED General Merchandise PFIONE 125 3or. Hall & Cath. Valentine , Nehr. Second hand phrtonj in godd condition , for sale clnip. . Call afc .his office. " " 6