The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-07-30
WOOD LAKE DEPARTMENT
LEROY LEACH. Editor.

State Superintendent Corbett passed
through Woodlake Monday morning
on his way to attend the teachers IN
situate at Valentine.
Our citizens are literally responding
to a request for aid for the family Of
Joseph Miller whose home Oh the Dun
bar ranch was recently Totally destroy
ed by lightning.
The phonograph man visited our
city last Friday, and his talking ma
chine proved, as it always does, a
great attraction for the numerous and
terrible small boy.
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The A. o. U. W. supper held at the
hall Saturday evening vas well attend
ed despite the threatening storm, and
those present report an enjoyable time.
Woodlake's festivities are always up
to date, and if a visitor ever leaves one
of our entertainments dissatisfied he is
a man who can't be pleased.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Bailey, Mrs.
Lewis and daughter and son, Mrs. Will
lis Barnard, Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Johnson, all of
Woodlake, helped to swell the crowd
at the Longtime Chautauqua last week,
and those who remained seemed to be
enjoying themselves to the utmost
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During the thunder storm on the
evening of July 25th, Karl Lutz and
two sons who reside a few miles west
of this place, being out after hay.
were struck by lightning which in
stantly killed the younger son, Otto.
and severely shocked the other men.
The young al was buried in Wood.
lake cemetery Monday.
In response to an invitation extend
ed us by Editor Berkeley of the Aims
worth Star-Journal, we went down to
Longtime Saturday and remained I'M
til Monday morning. We will here re-
mark that we think Mr.. Berkeley and
our other friends of Ainsworth and
Longtime very able entertainers; they
certainly treated us very nicely. We
suppose it is but proper to give an ac-
count of our Chautauqua experiences
for the benefit of the uninitiated pill
grim who IS secretly planning 70 some
day visit the vale of the Longtime.
There were some very nice people
on the grounds among whom we OBJ
served our oldtime friends the tired
looking German, the inquisitive cross
eyed man and the old maid with the
cork screw ringlets; we we're glad to
see them.
Being of a h%aturalistic, botanistic,
scientific and philosophical turn Of
mind, and possessed OF a longing to
thoroughly ferret out the intricate
mysteries surrounding the study of
bugology, we strolled ffty-seven miles
for the purpose of finding seven bugs
which we didn't pick up. We, how
ever, picked three boquets, seven sand
cherries, eight choke cherries and four
sand burrs out of our heel, after which
we had dinner.
After dinner, imagining that we
were near the north pole and needed
exercise to warm our blood, We seized
a bicycle and started forth at break
neck speed, regardless of the numer-
Gus rising generation, the tailormade
man with his hand-me-down girl,
nineteen dear little pugs, four dear
big Newfoundland dogs, the tall learn
ed looking gentlemen in specs, who
couldn't see us coming, and in spite of
all these things, we had a fair ride.
We then enjoyed the life of Christ in
art for two hours.
About eleven p. m. we boarded the
w%estbound passenger for Ainsworth
knowing that We had had a good time,
and knowing that we had Chautau-
pulsed the Chautauqua and now had
a sunburned nose, very pleasant
memories and a tired feeling.
Grand Army Benefit.