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THIS AND THATVaiu inaJSvents

Scandinavian riistcrs Aug isLawn Hocial Hfvuy 17Republican Convention Aus 20

Cloimlist Omiventifiii Aug J7

Democratic Convention- - AueustJlOld Sell lets --Sparlcs Sept 2 3

D L Underwood has returned fromhis trip west

Henry Stetter spent Saturday andSunday in Cody

F M Baumgartel was down fromCrookston Tuesday

The Scandinavian Sisters tomorrownight at Cornell Ilall

--Oohn Simpson was ic from the ranch1 ear Crookston Tuesday

W C Shattuck of Gordon was tnown Tuesday on business

Work on the new school building isjr1 expected to commence next week

M Y Nicholson and Mae OSullrcautspent Sunday at St Fiancis Mission

For Bent Xice large ofrice roomin stone building 18 T C Hornbt

Mrs Phillips of Xeligh is visitinghere with her sister Mrs J G Gibson

Talentine is the best town for busi-ness

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and thebesl town for sport in the

Dick Cook went up to Cody Mondaynight to resume his duties on theranch

The annual field day and fair atNorden will be held this year on Sept15 anT 16

tarvis Richards was in town yeste-rday

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paying taxes and lookin g afterschool lantt leases

The Nebraska State Sunday SchoolConvention will be held at Norfolk on

ept 7 8 and 5 1897

Charley Cook went up to the westpart of the county Monday on thelookout for a school

Y II Holmes and J A Douglaswere up from Bassett Tuesday as at¬

torneys in a contest case

Saturday is press day at the Chau¬

tauqua and each of the local paperswill send down a delegate

rIrfie ITest Point XJeadwooci and

stj Fort Meade ball teams are expected topmy uiiii licic ucivic ivu

Will Anderson of the Andersonstock ranch south of Cody was doingbusiness in town Saturday

Our Rosebud correspondence evi ¬

dently missed connections this weekXakpa Tanka is all right

Wonder how long it will be beforeanother long sport attempts to lieeceYalentine with a job foot race

For Sale or Rent ranchin best portion of Cherrydress this paper for particulars

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Dr Reichf4 will be at Wood Lake

August 23 and 24 piepared to do allkinds of dental work See large bills

Miss Lillian Stoner and Miss IvaEfner went toLongpine Tuesday morn-ing

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to attend Chautauqua EducationDay

Dr Reicliard will make a full set ofteeth for 500 Extracting tree ofcharge from 8 to 9 oclock the firt twodays 29

A very interesting communicationwas received this morning from A DGallop which will be published nextweek

A restaurant laundry and grocerystore has been established in the oldCornell building on Main street neavdepot

It X Rainsford and Michael Boltztwo well known Cherry county citizens

yfrom Xenzel were in town on businessMondav

If the people of Valentine will onlyget out and hustle they can have a

-- ourt house iu process of constructionby spring

Geo Hershey and family havejsnoved into the Mrs Jones now MrsMcQuado property south of thetlndianfreight depot

A new sidewalk ou Mam street tothe Episcopal church is one of thepossibilities and even probabilities oftaie near future

A gamn of ball is to be played atFort 2siobrara todas between theofficers of the Twelfth audness men of Yilentiue

Largecounty

the busi- -

Snks lloiubv are having neatframe nwnius put up in front ol theirstore today U G Dunn and HarryHilsinger doing the work

The populist county convention toelect delegates is called to meet in Yalentireou Aug 27 dominating con ¬

vention will be called later

Dr Reichard wiii be at the YalentineHouse August 25 and remain 4 day33aiuless filling and extracting by theimous application to the gums 29

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T II T Geddis who sojourned herea few weeks about a year ago is nowengaged in lecturing on Telepathyin Rock couutv

The rF E M Y has arranged toranother popular excursion to HotSprings which will take place next Friday Aug 20 Tickets good for 30days

W E Efner spent Saturday andSunday at Lougpine He had thepleasure Sunday of hearing JohnnieDemeritt the Monderful 15 year oldboy preacher

Battleax Jack OConnor left lastnight for Hot Springs From there beexpects to go to San Franciscothence to the gold fields of Alaskain the spring

Joe Potmesil returned Saturdayfrom an overland trip through theBlack Hills and has resumed his position with theCliadron llecordei

Windsor Drugstore

J W Evans and family of Fremontthe piano tuners who were here lastyear spent a couple of days in townthe past week They are making thetrip west in a carriage

Jackson Brayton and J W Yeastare putth j an exceptionally line orna-mental

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awning in front of their placesof business The whole thing is madeof iron

The Andrews team won the last twogames of ball with aSTehgh Thursdaysgame lasted 11 innings and was wonon a score of 7 to 6 Fridays gamewas a beauty Score 2 to 3

W R Towne and family havemoved into the Ferguson property re-

cently¬

vacated by Dick Ziehan andJas Hull and family moved into theStrickland property thus vacated

Mrs A T White entertained anumber of her ladv friends Mondayafternoon from 3 to 7 Luncheon wasserved and Mrs White once moredemonstrated her ability as a hostess

We publish a number of stockbrands this week and more will follownext Dont be disappointed if yourbrand does not appear It willcome in due time NoSept 1

charge

W R Smith will sell 12horses top buggy wagons

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head ofharness

shot gun and numerous other articlesAug 21 Sale will take place in frontof Smysers livery barn at 1 p m ofday named

Watermelons are now pretrj-- com ¬

mon George Schwalm has sold abouta carload it snras By the way didyou ever notice that you can alwaysget the first of everything atSchwalms

Upon deliberation the Old Settlersreunion at Sparks was postponed untilSept 2 and 3 and will be held on thosedates instead of Aug 19 and 20 as ad ¬

vertised A complete program will bepublished soon

Martin Christensen finished his jobof painting at St Francis last weekand returned to town Monday Whilethere he covered the cross on the mis-sion

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church 100 feet above the groundwith xmre gold leaf

Fred Smith was awarded the con-tract

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for furnishing the Fort Niobraracommissary with 300 bushels of pota-toes

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50 cents is the contract price perbushel J A Hornback will supply150 bushels of the tubers

The ladies of the Episcopal churchwill give a lawn social at the residencaof J J G nth Tuesday evening Aug17 This is the first lawn social evergiven here and should be well patron-ized

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Begins at 6 oclock

Sim Reinert brother of Georgestopped in Yalentine Monday while onhis way home to Ainsworth Sim isan old school mate of the editor andbears evidence of being fairly prosper-ous

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even in these hard times

Poor old Jim Keene has onlymade a couple of millions out of sugartrust stock in the nast fortnight Andif Jim who is on the outside and wassupposed to be broke anyway cando that what will the insiders do

Robert Harrison brought dovn asmall limb cut from one of his appletrees Monday which had on it a finecluster of five apples Bob says hehas about forty trees in fine shapetwenty live of which are bearing somehaving as much as two bushels onHe also has some cherry trees fromwhich he took cherries this year Thisproves that by a little care fruit can begrown in the canyons surrounding us

danford Tribune

Tho F E M V is making a rateof one fare for the round trip to Longpine during Chautauqua One anda third fare to Rushville aud returnduring the races One fare 720 toHot Springs and return every Saturdayand Sunday good returning untilTuesday 4910 to Xashville good re ¬

turning until Nov 7 30 85 to Buffa-lo

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account of G A It ou Aug 21 22Good returniug until Aug 31 with extension privilege until Sept 20

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CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT

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IN THE COUNTRY

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In company with Mr and Mrs J AFike The Dkmocuat and wiie hadthe pleasure of visiting J A Adam- -

son anci ramiiy bunuay at their place- -

about 12 miles southwest of townWalter Meltendorf and family pilotedthe pilgrims first named to their des-

tination¬

We had frequently heard ofplce on the Isiobrara and thought hepaid but little attention to tanning soit was a surprise to us when wclearned that the numerouscam passed en the roadJohns housi is located onbottom backed by bluffs on

Azores

Johns

fields ofwere histhe riverthe north

and shaded by gigantic elms that havestood for ages His garden or gardens for lie has four ot them are mar-vels

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of neatness and the amount ofgarden sass -- contained therein is

wonderful Cabbages tomatoes sweetcorn and beans peas beets cauli-flower

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and celery melons squashescarrots and potatoes anything andeverything in fact can be found inthose gardens and in large quantitiesWild currants plums grapes andchwkecherries are found in immensequantities almost in the door yard andquail squirrels and rabbits play hide-and-see- k

in the brush Besides allthese good things John has a nicebunch of cattle about 90 head plentyof chickens and pigs 4i miles of iaudfronting on the river jibout a dozengood horses a splendid wife goodcook and estimable lady all in oneand three little girls

Speaking of cooking reminds us ofthe dinner we ate We ought to apol-ogize

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for eating so much but cant doit Those spring chickens about 7 ofem all crisp and brown and heaped on

one big platter proved tooo much forour manners and we gorged Super ¬

latives cannot describe what Fike didHe savs the dinner converted him tothe 16 to 1 theory 16 pieces of chick-en

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to one man and he gave ocularproof of his conversion Space forbidsa further description of this visit andlanguage is too weak to express ourappreciation ol the outing butmemory will always treasure the nameof Adam son

For spme thing over a fortnightTiif DtokjCUat has mud a representa ¬

tive making a trip south and west iuCherry count and iroin what he ob-

served¬

and what was told him by thescores of ranchmen and farmers hemet in the course of his tour it is safeto say that this is a banner year lorthe citizens of this county especiallyttsuse who are fortunate enough to ownhuge bunches of cattle There isabundance ot hay in all the sectionsvisited with small prospects of anyonebeing obliged to begin early feedingso that Cherry county cattle have everychance to come out in good shape nextspring It is complained by a numberof paities however that the scarcityof good hands will impede theprogressof haying to some extent and makethe work rather late Cutting in thevicinity cf Simoon Kennedy andJirownlee began shortly after July 20and by the 28th much hay was aheadyin the stack West and southwesthowever work began later many per-sons

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not commencing until about thefourth of this month Among thosewho are putting up the largest quanti-ties

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of hay may be mentioned SamHudson of Simeon Marshall Wolfenden the Kimes boys and G WBurge of Kennedy Peter RouecheCharles and Henry Faulhaber JohuH Harnan W R Kissel Witt Brosthe Steadmans It M Faddis McNittBros and Enoch Andrews of Browniee Loomas Pittenger of MullenE IT Gillaspie Ira Richardson and WE Waite of Chesterfield AndersonBros Wheeler Bros H It Sears WinM Dunbar D C Nelson Wm Shangren W II Carson and William Hookof Cody the Richards boys and J WBownet of Merriman and Ridgeway

Simpson of Crookston Of coursethere are others but those mentioned

are the ones who came in the path ofTim Democrat man Everybody isso busy it is hard to tell who Is work-ing

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the hardest

fciroat Joo Hacexl foot race was pulled off here Mon-

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afternoon between two crackerjacks who had struck town and as aresult the Talentine boys are a coupleof hundred dollars ahead The racewas run by W H Copple of Bancroftthis state who is said to hold theworlds record for 200 yards andFrank E Wilson of Montana 100 aside was the original bet and proba-bly

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as much more was put up after-wards

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by the backers of the two menthe Yalentine contingent placing theirmoney on Copple or Gordon as hewas known here Wilson is travelingunder the name of Dan Grinrod Thedistance run was about 90 yards andwas made in about 8 3 5 Copjile win ¬

ning by a foot and a half Both thesemen were trying to get a race with thenegro sprinter Barnes of Fort Robin ¬

son Wilsou has a race matched totake place at Crawford on the 20thbut Copple couldnt get a race and has

i returned home

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VALENTINE CHERRY NEBRASKA THURSDAY AUGUSTThe Episcopal picnic was held in

Thachers grove west of town yesterdayand was jaile gemn aily attendedLots of fun and eatables were Uiefeatures of the outiHg

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Will someone kindly inform us ofthe present whereabouts uf ff J Caseof Johnstown L W ioddard ofSimeon ana E Bristol of CarlisleArk These gentlemen left the placesnamed and forgot to leave ad-dresses

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The Lynch Journal of Lynch BoydCo is the latest addition to our ex ¬

change table It is edited by A CJvicFarland and iscolumn quarto in

a very at fivesize Tvnoffraphic- -

ally it perhaps the best paper ever putout 13 jjovel counrv

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Y Northrop went to Irwin Tuesdaynight to open a station at that placefor the stock season Y is one ofthe swiltest operators on the line anuhis promotion from the nirht key atthis place is well deserved ArthurGore takes the night trick hero

Miss Pearl llav and her friend MisConnelly went to Valentine lat nightMiss Connelly returns to her homethel e and Miss Kay will visit friendsaooutsix weeks Miss Donoher ofYalentine came up yesterday andspent the day with Miss Ray return ¬

ing with her last night CliadronJournal

The Woodmen wlio went up to theHills to attend the logrolling last weekmisled it thp picnic being put off un-til

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Monday on account of bad weatherhut the boys had a picnic just theSivme aud are loud in their praises ofthe Woodmen of the Hills countryThey were shown everything ot inter-est

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from the plunge bath at HotSprings to the Homestake mine atLiead

Morions CJiaraeWalter Meltendorf was arrested last

Friday motning oi a complaint filedby the village marshal charged withselling liquor to Indians It wasclaimed that the liquor was sold toHenry Pretty Bird uii the night of July29 Francis Standing Horse was awitness for prosecution Defendantws bound over iuo00 bonds whichhe furnished

Telephone fineA telephone line is being construct ¬

ed from the depot to the Minneehaduza Mill and the village pump sta ¬

tion Beside these three phones onemore will be put in some place in townThe line is to be constructed of No 14wire is carried on iron poles about 20feet high and runs along the alley be-tween

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Main and Cherry streets Thisis an improvement which has longbeen needed and in addition to beingof gieat advantage to the mill will givetho whole town increased fire protec ¬

tion

Xtfeciioii 3ia iVM

The late lamented legislature re-pealed

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that part of the election lawsproviding for the election of judgesand clerks of election As the lawnow stands the county judge appointsthe election boards at least one weekprior to election The judges shall bemembers of the three political partiespolling the highest number of votesThe clerks will be selected the sameway

This year we will vote on what isaptly termed the blanket ballotEach party will have a column of itsown and a straight ticket may bevoted byraaking a cross at the head ofthe ticket just under the emblem ofthe party Each Darty will choosesome device to represent them as therooster for democracy eagle for repub-lican

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plow for populist rose for prohi-bition

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etc If a man can see to dis-tinguish

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pictures he can vote intelli-gently

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Chautauqua OolncsTuesday was Education Day at

Longpine and the opening address wasdelivered by Hon Jas Morris on theThree Rs Miss Austin of the

Lincoln Normal read a very interest-ing

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essay an Child Culture and thiswas followed by a very interesting dis-cussion

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by Rev Sisson Rev BatesMrs Glover and Miss Austin In theafternoon Miss Stoner read a strongand practical paper on now the peo-ple

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Look to the Superintendent andMrs Glover gave an address full oforiginal humor and pathos on nowthe Superintendent Looks to the Peo-ple

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Yesterday was W C T U Dayand the exercises were presided over byMrs Mollie Ilawes Glover Reportsfrom Yalentine Ainsworth and At-kinson

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were received and stirring re-marks

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were delivered by Revs Bur¬

leigh and Glassner The afternoonexercises were commenced with a soloby Mrs Walker followed by work ofdepartments An interesting discus-sion

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on Child Study by Mrs LizzieCrawford came next followed byScientilic Temperance by Mrs Mc

Dougal Mrs G H Hornby presentedthe L T L work

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have noticed

vertisements probably

have or wouldnt reading

noticed

never advertise

goods

things

sort

For the

though will make might prices goods

to get rid before its time to stock up for autumn You

know the kind of goods mean Dont forgot that carry gents

i furnishings addition to dry iroods shoes and groceries

heWith all glories is here and as the the bes

and wild plums peaches pears banana or- -

anre- - lemons etc

are not to beto i

be for

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prices for Butter Eggs and Farm Produce

We foundcomes selling oods

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followingbecause

remain there quantity quality and price ofmerchandise We are disposing of summer goods

rapidly and ruinously figures but always keephand a large line of good- - shoes and groceries

EIndiau goods trinkets and curios a specialty Store Croolwton stls

illu ar a sir--m m i ku s n a aieiff b A BaVI t3 K ii 1 6H ti itozB U S

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all other kinds of i mx

can be purchased more cheaply of I

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anyone else in town and

besides he carries the best qual ¬

ities The and most com-

plete

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line gents furnishings

Wanted An Idea Who can thinkof Eome simple

Protect ideas they may bring you wealthWrite JOHN WEDDERBURN CO Patent Attorneye Washington D C for their prize

new list of one thousand Inventions wanted

Hill JPricesor FeedBran bulk 40c per cwt 700ton

i bulk 50c per cwt 900Screenings 35cChop Feed 70cCorn 55cOats 90c

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Shorts600

the EastVia ONeill and the PaciGc ShortThe shortest and quickest toSioux South Dakota and eastera points three hours timeEqual rates local tickets toONeill returning takesame route connections dailyexcept Sunday

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AT ONEILL NEBRASKA

PASSENGER

LEAVES 10o A M AKIil VES 930 P ft

D VI L V EXCE1T SUNDA V

Through connections botli ways with Blackflilh trains by taking this line you can go toSioitK City and return thesaiue dav connectionsmade with all trains for the East and SoutaDakota Buy local tickets to ONeill

OWMOREYWATCHMAKER - AND - JEWELEE

I Fine line of plain and fancy jewelry constantly on hand

Repairing promptly executed anddone in the best manner

Full line of sporting goods

O M SAGESEBTQNSORIAL

ARTISTHair cutting and shavingShop in the TV n Moses building

HOT AND COLO BATHS

THE ELKHORN

RAILROAD

North Western Line77 is to be3t

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