Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-12-16


DIR. Miller, oof Pawnee RocA, Ses'
az caller Friday.
Don't forget the Grand Army
ball New Years eve
j. Winterburg has iusf recovered
from very eevefs at5aek sSieheMaeI
tory rheumatis@.
g. N. Helftisa. .assGaliawcsa. sas
a caller Monday. Npa 1T. aaeae eur
heart glad BY deeesis4g .faa che otiei-
al paper.
-fho&ife a sIg. >. Il. Brown. Of
Ross &aBrowas aisiAsity. arrived from
the east last geab % make CT Bend
her home
-Messrs. BiasSay aud Luttrell. of
Garfield were Ia a'swn lasS week. The
new ofrm pepsfss gathering success at
the new staads
se-Greas Bsad ladies will not keep
open house New Years. A grand re-
ceptioA Will be- given at the opera house
New Year'saight.
e-Genera5 Chapman went to Kan.
sas City Sunday, to take o position as
imail agent on the Santa Fe, running
from kansas City to Pueblo.
-Pafffes &ishing to find . location
sor hsoop factory should investigate
the Superior advantages which this
place w6alA afford that line of bust
ness.
A party OF twenty FIVE or thirty
Russians 3use from the old country ar
rived in Ggests Bend Sunday. They
will loc8te ia the north part Of the this
county, end go to farming and raising
STOCK.
Many citizens turned out Monday
eight vhen tie wreck occurred, under
the impression that Virgins was mis-
taken in She tucation of recently pre-
dicted earthquakes
-Joha Schauf. of Dubuque. was
caller one day lest week. Mr.. Schauf
lives near Tie proposed line of the B.
& NJ. railroad, and says that the peo-
pie of thes vicinity are enthusiastic
ally in favor OF the road being built
As an evidence of the continued
actititv of the building boom Of our
rapidly growing City, it is stated that
it is Impossible to find any class of
mechanics ous of employment here.
Carpenters, ssone-masons and brick
layers are in demand, and ind ready
'employmens at the very best Of wages.
Accompany has recently been for
med, composed ofa number of Great
Beads most prominent business men.
for the purpose Of building and Oper
ating a large cracker factory, which
will give work FOR numbers of employ
es. In addition TO supplying the city
trade, the company will: do a large
wholesale business throughout the west.
The information that the D., Nj.
& &. railroad had stopped work in
this county Il false. We know they
are still at work in the county and their
reason for Withdrawing their prop
osition was that they did not want 70
ask for more aid, and that they want
ed to be assured Of their iron supply
before askiNg for more bonds. they
are still at work--StqFord County
Herald.
1t is reported from arelia5le source
that silver has been struck somewhere
within three or four miles of Syracuse
A farmer was digging q veil and struck
something that looked very much like
silver ore. Operations we're discon-
tinued at once, and lie was to be kept
secret until after he Rad made the
anal proof. But some one who was
helping in the we'll told Of the circum-
stance, but would noe tell US where
it was located. -Ec.
Our old friend, Charley La Hue
met an old army comrade while at Gt.
Bend last week, in the person Of
Mr.. S. w. Bardwell, who ives in urls
ON with him, and starved with him for
three days and nights, with aothing to
eat and not very gooa water GO dFink.
This was at Chaba, Ala. from whence
they were sent to Selma. Ala. Mr..
Bardwelh has been in Great Bend for
some time, but did not Anpw shat che
"Tom Ca" was living at LArnea, there
fore the two men we're much SURPRISED
% meet one another. 1t is needless 20
say that this was one of the happiesi
meetings between army comrades that
has occurred for some time. They had
not met since 1865, at Vicksburg, Mis-
sissippi.-Larned Republican,
An ugly wreck occurred Monday
night about 10. o'clock in the Santa Fe
yards at this place. Engine No. 80
pulled in on the bsanch tack to make
xrau for O train from the aaSt Thrornh