Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-02-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Hall took posses.
sion of the Donnher hotel on Tues
! day evening of last week for sup.
/, per and from that time their house
has been much the same as a f. "
years ago when everybody met
there to visit and enjoy good
meal or to rest from the cares Of
the world Mr.. Hall has made
50 ne changes in the office of the
hotel which seems to have been
overlooked in the past but now
MAKE more rom and the moving
about the room is greatly facilitate
ed so that those who wish to sit
down and rest or talk will not be
continually moved or Jared by
those coming and going. Call on
Mr.. Hall and make his hotel your
headquarters while in town.
The U. S. weather report for
the week ending Feb. sth shows
the highest and lowest temperature
to have been go on the Sth and
500 on the End, a range of so
and a mean for this period of 70.
Students of weather phenomena
are claiming that the winter so far
is The most severe in II years.
he snowfall has also been un-
usually great but locally it does
not make over .OS of an inch melt
Ell. The snowstorm beginning in
the evening of the Sth was very
heavy and thick for short time,
accompanied by northwest wind
that attained an average of SO to
40 miles per hour. A cold wave
order was received from Wash
i:'glon LAST night which has already
b:en verified, showing a fall of
~ IN II hours.
Judge Walcntt and his sister
in law, Miss Mamie Noble, were
oll driving in a sleigh yesterday
and the Judge wanting to make a
cal! left Miss Mamie holding the
team which became frightened or
anxious to he going and started to
go without the Judge. Miss
Mamie couldn't hold them and
they came down Catherine street
from the west part of town on the
run, keeping tue road pretty we'll
until they SHE'D at Mark Cyphers'
milk wagon near Howard Lay
ports, and in turning out to miss
the milk wagon ran onto that cake
OF ice laying in the middle of the
street which overturned the sleigh,
dumped Miss Mamie out and
smashed two of the runners of the
sleigh, which was a buggy with
the top on and runners supplied
instead OF wheels. The horses we're
caught near the Red Front as they
went up Main street by Charl. s
Green. No one was hurt and it
may have been fortunate for Miss
Mamie that she was dumped out
SO nicely. Someone ought to re-
move that block ct ice from the
street before someone runs against
il in the dark.
Mrs. Hedvig Arnnt, of near
Merri,nan, was taken suddenly in
sane Monday of last week while
her husband was down here on
real estate business. On Tuesday
when Mr.. Arnnt arrived home he
found her wild and uncomfortable.
She had killed their dog with the
coffee mill but had done no other
apparent mann Eight children
a.r i'll the family AMI the oldest
but Ii. Mr.. ArnuL sent for her
brother, Peter Peterson who lives
south of the Snake near the T. Bar
ranch, and later when it became
evident that they could do nothing
with her they sent for Sheriff Lay.
port who went up Friday night
aud brought her to Merriman Sat
urday with considerable difficulty,
as she would scratch, bite and slap
at persons who came near her.
She had to be held all the time.
After reaching Valentine Sunday