Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-12-16
The immense. STOCK new YORK STORE!
IS BEING
CLOSED OUT AT COST!
REAL ESTATE eoaa NOTES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR GOODS
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--Courad frankie is iii.
ID. N. Heiser is in Topeka this
Joseph Wiidgen andh his force are
drilling wells in Rush county.
MIR. Denman, one of our real En-.
tate rustlers, visited Larned Wsdnes-
day.
--Rumor says that Ell Tyler sold
q lot east OF the square this week ior
81. 600.
REV. Disselcamp viii soon erect q
fine residence on the Broadway church
property.
The Missouri Pacific depot will
be located in block 43, three blocks
north Of the square.
The north and east sides of the
square have awakene d from the sleep
ofyears and are bound to boom.
The Great Bend Street Railway
company has bought the johnson
property on Main street and will use
it for car stables.
Both Fred and Charley Dumont
have been seriously i'll for some time.
but are reported better. Their many
friends wish them q speedy recovery.
The silver discovery at Caldwell
hos been figured down BY experts
until the whole thing has been pro-
nounced q fraud. So much for one
bonn.
-Twoexcursion trains consisting of
eleven and thirteen coaches respective
ly. all crowded with California cut
rate tourists, passed through here last
Saturday.
j. G. Gurnar, collector for the
Mccormick Machine Company, who
has been here for the last six weeks
looking after the interests Of that firm,
left for kinsley Monday.
The G. X. & W. will run through
trains from Great Bend to the west
line of Ness county, commencing about
January 1st. Mail service will be es.
tablished on this line in q short time
There has been q wonderful in
crease in the value of real estate on
North Main street since it has become
d finitely known that the Missouri
Pacific will locate their depot in that
part of town. Prices have advanced
fully one hundred per cent in the
last week, and still the boom con-
times.
The Santa Fe Company is hayin
twelve locomotives bult expressly
passenger trains. They are very lar
and also very handsome aud q. e We
ranted to pull thirieen caches tn
rate Of Sky Iii es IN h,ur. TH.s
surely ii Il l,D- IL want"
present rate. IL speed &c d III e. &
twenty miles an hour.
1.-The planning mill Of the Morrison
Brothers will soon he in operation.
This will be an addition to our indus
tries Of great importance to the town
and a great accommodation to the
builders of Western Kansas. The
motive power will be the beautiful
PAYNE automatic cutoff engine now
used by the electric light works.
The following are the marriage
licenses issued by the probate judge
since December 1st: Thomas Marsh,
Of Ann Arbor. Mich, and Florence
Hamilton, Of Barton county; Frank
Buchanan, of Ellinwood, and Lulie
Wonders, of Ellinwood; Chas. j.
Baldwin, of Dorrance, and Ella G.
Queen, of Dorrance; Edward Nj. Cole
man, of Dorrance. anu Addie l.. Bird
sail, of Great Bend.
Sam J. Day showed us this week
q curiosity in the shape Of an oyster,
with shell and every outline complete,
which was found embedded in the
solid rock twelve feet below the sur
face in the rock quarry of Harrison
HORNE, eight miles northwest of town.
There is no doubt asto its identity and
it goes 70 show that at some period the
.Great American Desert" vas covered
with salt watee and that this shell is O
relic Of rhe Hamilton period ct the
Devonian ege.
Everybody See &c ana Try Il.
II IN - aoll.1r tho Nau- Fra,