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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1912)
VALENTINE DEfHOGRj i GEORGE M. GASKILL , Editor ami Manager. A WeHtly Newspaper published every TJr.irt- < lay nt Valentine , N Subscription - § r.50 Per Year Local Notices , oc per line per issue Entered at. the I'ostomcft nt Vaiciitine , Neb. . for transmission through ilu ; mr.ils. as second class matter. Thursday , January IS. 1912. The meeting held lu&t night nt the court house to tilk : over the udvisibility of changing the form of municipal government of Val entine lo that of : i city ol the second end class did not biing out clearly enough the merits or demerits of changing from village government to that of a cify of the second class. Bv having more than one thous- v O and inhabitants Valentine auto matically becomes a city of the second class but \vilh : i right 10 retain the village form of govern ment if the people so desire. ' We are , according to , the statute ? , a city of the second class at present but still retain the village * .yovern- _ menr. It is now up to the voters to say which they bha.ll have. Other towns , .Aiiiswojtli and Gordon for instam-.e , have more than the required popnhition bu- no move has been made to co operate them as citie ? . With the population we now have , it is optional with thu voters whether we shall continue as a city or < * o back to village govern- / o o o ment. Village trustees do not icceivc a compei atit n for the w < rk they do for the village. Under tne city form d g < vernment the mayor , comscilmen , cleric , attorn- ev and other om'ccjs would receive ' a compensate n , ( the maximum is set by Jawj for their services. In a town the si/e of Valentino it would not be necessary to pay more than $5 ( ) < > per annum in sal aries , and with the \voik in sight to be done by the tfhVers of the town it would not be too much to allow certain oirircs the maximum pay established by law. Under this fcrm of government the city would have a rcspontibe head in the major. The meeting was adjourned and will a ain meet Jicxt Wednesday O ' night. This will give everyom * opportunity to look up the.iela- tive mer.ts of each form of govern- fc-j mcnt. A dispatch from \Vashin < rtoi\ dated January 15 , says that , "Pres ident Taft today Hjfnecl an ord-r reserving 1-1,000 acres of the Nio- brara reservation as bird pre serves. The balance of the reser vation , which has been abandoned for military purposes , is open for entry. The preserve may later bo used for bison and elk. Congress man Kinkaid at first opposed the proposition , but after submittihij the proposal to the people of Val entine , submitted to their wi he and supported the measure. " The li,500 set aside for a game preserve lies east of Ft. Niobrara , and comprises an area 5- } mile north and south and 3i miles east and west with Ft. .Niobrara about the center of the west line. The National Fish Commission is now lisjuring with the Interior D jpart- raent and are asking for 160 acres or2iO acres lying about the pres ent fort , taking in the creeks and springs adjacent , and using the same for a National Fish Hatchery. This hatchery land would join the game preserve on the west. It is all very nice to have a game preserve and Fish Hatchery close to Valentine but it would be ever so much better to have farmers on that 14,500 acres. Valentine can not draw trade from game pre serves ; what it needs is a large * * farming community. With 123- 000 acres in the Niobrara section of the Nebraska Forest Reserve ly ing soirth of the Snake river in Cherry county and used for graz ing purposes , it seems unvise to take this 14,000 acres from the military * reservation which to a large extent is tillable hind , and use ito'as ft preserve , The forest re- ? prvo would 'bo an ideal place for proportion of animal and bird life , ar d it would not so seriously inter fere with the welfare of Valentine ' and community. I The land nol included in this pre serve is not open to entry as was stated in the above dispatch and | will not be opened for entry until ' acted upon by congress. COUNTY FAIR. The Commercial Club of Valen tine having been requested to call a meeting of the farmers , stock men , and all others who are inter ested in orginizing a county fair and live stock association , the sme : is hereby called to meet in the court hoirse at one o'clock on Wednesday , January 21 , 1912. It is hoped that all citizens from every part of the country , who feel interested in orgiuizing an association for the aforesaid pur pose will attend this meeting. The hour Ins been fixed at one o' clock in order that the delibera tions may begin as promptly as possible after dinner and be con cluded early enough for persons driving from a distance to return home in time for the evening chores. It is very much hoped that this meeting will be attended by a large and representative number of ihs citizens of the coun ty. C. H. Cornell , President. R. 11. Ivoontx died suddenly at the home of Will White , jMerri- man. The body was shipped to Council IMufi'.i , where the funeral was held on Wednesday. For the past several years Mr. Koontx was aiHicted with locomolor ataxiannd was totally helpless the past year or t\vo. jMr.s. Kxmtz has been in an Omaha hospital for the past six weeks and \vas not able to at tend the funeral. .Mr. Koontz leaves besides his wife , a live year old son , v.hois with Mrs. Hardin in Omaha and an adopted daugh ter residing in Kansas City. Mr. Koontz was born at Wash ington , Pa. , Xov. IS , 1861 , and cime to Cherry county in March , IStO and located six miles west of Merriman and lived on the ranch until he sold out in JS9U. When | | the Northwestern road was going through he did contract work on that \\estofValentine. . S-l acre farm for sale. Good house ; ! fair barn ; 45 acres alfalfa : 25 acres fenced hog tight ; all un der fence : all tillable ; 1 mile from town. This is certainly a line farm , and cheap at1,800. . Address , S. K. Imes , Altoona , Food sale by the ladies of the Presbyterian church , at Iloeniji's store on Saturday , January 20 , at 10 o'clock. A big dance- Friday night iir Quigley's llall. Fisher's Orches tra. Everyone invited. J. W. Copeljuul , of Diyton , Ohio , pur chased a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for his boy who had i\ cold , < nul before the bottle ws nil used the boy's cold \vis gone. Is that not better lhau to pay ji five dollar doctor's bill ? For j sale by Chapman , the druggist. Dr. M. F. Meer has decided to vi > it Wood Lake' the first Monday and Tuesday of each month to do dental work. 19tf If in need of wind mills or wa tcr tanks call on Breuklander Kone better made. 42-tf Sick lieauMche is 'caused by a disor dered stomach. Take Chamberliiin's Tciblets and correct that and the head aches will disappear. Sold by Ghapman , the druggist. iDid you ever let a good thing slip ? Get busy then before this one. is gone and let S. K. Imes help you lo trade that 6-10 acres for a good home in southeastern Kansas. Have a 210 acre farm for sale at § 37.50 an acre , all till able. Other land for sale or trade. For particulars address , * S. K. Imes , Altoona , Kansas. Button Trimming for dresses etc. , is the latest. Save .your scraps of cioth and take them to the Red Front where they can show .you IS stj les including the j new oblong shape made to or- Vder. 46 Washington News JJy ( ' . II. T.V\XNKX special Washington President Taft has just taken an action that is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to the paper trust , by refusing to re move the tax from print paper and wood pulp. When the Reciprocity bill was passed a provision was tacked to it providing for the free admission of print paper and wood pulp flora Canada. This provision became law whether the reciprocity act was agreed to by Canada or not. Therefore , although reciprocity failed , print paper and wood pulp are now admitted Tree from Can ( ada. Five nations which ship paper to America Sweden , Xorway , Denmark , Germany and Austria- j i Hungary immediately demanded . of the United States the right to i also ship print paper and wood pulp to this country free of duty. "We have treaties with you , " de clared these countries to the United - ted States , kkin which you agree to extend to us the same concessions you extend to the most favored nations. Therefore we demand to ship paper and wood pulp into jour country free of duty the same as Canada. " Obviously this argument is unanswerable. How ever the president has announced , through the treasury department , that a tax will be collected as here tofore on all print paper imported from any other country than Can ada. The president advices the European nations to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals , which it is declaredyis only a subterfuge. President Taft has declared he is willing to concede the justice of demands for cheaper paper , but when tiie opportunity offers , his acts refrute his words , and show that he is willing to violate treaties with five friendly nations rather than to give even a slight conces sion to freer trade. The taritl oa print paper is to all practical ends a lax on intelli gence , because in this day and age tiie great mass of the people re ceive their education on public questions through the newspapers. With print paper practically con trolled by a trust , the price has systematically boosted , so as to work a hardship on the prosper ous publishers , and to make print paper nigh on to prohibitive to many of the small , country pub lishers whose earnings are not any too great at best. Meanwhile there is pending a bill introduced by Senator Hey- burn , which proposes to repeal the Canadian reciprocity act. Hav ing been rejected by Canada , the law is dead without being repeal ed. But if the act is repealed , the live added section providing for free print paper would also be repealed , and the old tax on Can adian paper would be restored. Since the tax on Cinadiau paper and pulp has been repealed , 81 in dependent paper companies , rep resenting a capitalization of eijih ty-three million dollars , have started up in opposition to the trust. Already there have been some reductions in prices , and this explains the reason of the jo ker in the "Heyburn repealer. " Why would it not be a good idea for all Democrats , everywhere , to hereafter taboo the use of the word "tariff , " and in its place use the word "tax , " which is what atari ! ! really is. If every Democratic writer and speaker would use tl e term "The Payne-Aid rich tax bill , " instead of "The Payne-Al- drich tariff bill , " from now until the polls close on November 5 , there need be little conjecture as to the outcome of the election. Who doubts but that if the Dingley taritf bill had been known and red'ered to generally as the Dingley tax bill , and the McKin- ! P.V tariff bill as the McKinley tax bill , and the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill as the Payne-Aldrich tax bill , the Republican party.could not be i in power today. The word "tariff" is too , indef inite. There are hundreds of thousands of men who may be brought to biiisve that it would be to-lheir advantage in some indi rect , mysterious wa.y to vet for a tarilf , but who could not ; be cajoled - joled or coerced into the convic tion that it is to their individual interest to vote to put an enor mous la : < on everything they oat ! I wear , and use. j If Democratic editors will make it a standing order in their oiiices . to substitute the word "tax' * for | i ' "tariff , " in every article having to do with protection , and if every' ' stump speaker will carry on a , similar crusade , and if the raovc- j ment will be made nation-wide , ; ' the problem of 'reverting liopub- lican victories at the polls will have been solved. Think this over ! One of the Chicago packers , in the trial now going on sit Chicago , complained that "S.vift infringed on our territory. " The disputed territory v.'iis in New York and Vermont , and the question natu rally arises : How did that ten- tory , or any other territory , come to bi the exclusive property of Swift or anybody else- ? The answer is simple. Because Swift and the oiher packers , after driving the butchers in the local communities in New York and Vermont out of business , by-'un derselling them , divided up the territory thu.-rseized and called it their own. Of course , as it was , theirs ! Hiving stifled all com- peihion , both from within and from without the district , they were leit free to advance prices of j meat to suit the amount of dividends - ! dends , and to cill the territory "their own. " ' " \Yhy talk about placing any of the necessaries of life on the free list ? " is the cry that goes up from the standpatters every now and then. "If this were done , " they ask , "how could the government raioe revenue to meet its ex peri - ? * ' set- This is how : By levying an in come tax aad an inheri&ance tax , as does every first cl.us nuion o n the face of the globe , save the United States of America. The 11 un ; n Catholic press in the United States is represented by newspapers and periodicals in En glish , German , French , Polish , Bohemian , Italian , Slavonic , Mag yar , Dutch , Croatian , Spanish and Indian ; of these 18 are dailies and 115 are weeklies. St. Nicholas' Church. Services will bo hold in the Catholic church as follows : In Valentine on Sunday , Jan. 21. 1st Mass at S a. m. , 2nd Mass at 10 a. m. Benediction of the Blessed sac rament after Mass. In Arabia on Sunday. Jan. 28. LEO M. BLAEP.E , Rector. THEEFFHSTI'UftXtf.Vc . Tastes Like and is E&ian Like Candy. In our experieuce in the handling of drugs and medicine , \\e believe \\e buve never Lac ! experience \\ith an j Remedy that gave such great satisfaction to our customers as do Rexall Orderlies. This Remedy is not like any other lax-iiive or cath artic. It contains ail ths good features of other lax tiives , bat none of their faults. Our own faith in Rexall Order lies is so slrongai'iS olfer them > to you with our own posi-iva perj j soual guarantee , that if ihoy do not i thoroughly satisfy yon , you only ' need tell us and we will hand back to you every penny you paid ui for ' i them. Therefore , in trying them ! upon our recommendation you take j : no i isk whoever. j j Rexall Orderlies taste like and ' ! are eaten like c-indy. They do not ! : I | gripe , cause nausea , excessive loose- i net-s , or any other annoyance , j They act so easily that they may be taken at any timed ty or night. They are particularly good for chil dren , aged or delicate persons. They are pat up in convenient tab lets in three sizes of v ckages. Prices , 10c. . 2oc , aud oOc. I Remember , Rexall Remedies can be obtained in ihis community only - ' < ly at our store The Rexall Score. ( ? , A , | ! fi ° i 61111 ut re that not closing > desire to announce we are ing out , but are still selling- the very best goods at reasonable prices. Our line of John Deere Fmplements , Yelie Buggies , Molinc and Davenport Roller Bearing Wagons and Samson Windmills is complete and priced right. We also have a large stock of lumber , lime , Wail Plaster , Cement , Brick , Pasli , Doors , etc. Is it not good policy to patronize a firm "who 'expects io continue in business and intends to handle the same line of goods for years to come. Yve never advertise so-called bargains because we have always had our goods priced riff lit. A. E. llorris. W W. Xorrissey. Dr. C. W. Noyes Go tcr the toc xchange'Saloon * C ' VALENTINE'S PURE L5QUOR CENTER alther F. A. Meltendorff , Propr.v HE VALENTINE HOUSE W. B. HOWE , Proprietor Successor to John D. Eaton. Electric Lights , Hot vruter Heat , Good Ko'/ir.s niul f3cd3 where you can feel at home and be comforts be while vou remain. * We invite old patrons and others to call and sec us. a r\ . . X . -AW s ? 3 ri : L. ' M. / n i S u L Headquarters at the cage House R sosebud a a a otel Leave Valentine at 8 o'clock every morning , Sundays excepted. Arrive at Rosebud at 2 o'clock p. m. Leave Rosebud at 8 o'clock every morning , v Sundays excepted. Arrive at Valentino at 2 o'clock p. rn. 5'a 5'r JBritt at 11 o'clock a. m. Special attention to passengers , baggage and express or packages. Leave orders at headquarters or at the Red Front store. D. A. Whioole. DAVIS and J V * MOHANA , Prop. 3 3j j GENERAL - 3J J A1ERC-HAND5 5' . g P- r. ff\ff Ti M7a A 5 er cent IM en ail IVm'cer We carry fie Best Use of Shoes of whick every pair Is backed by a guarantee from I te actory , ry us an you will be ccm- vace , We Pay Highest Market Price for Hides. _ e urove Restaurant Edmund Qerber , Prop. First Class Meals and Short Orders Board by the day or week. Ticket good for twenty- one meals $4.50 , Single rneals 35c. Come to the Cottage Grove Restaurant for a "square reeal , "