Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-14

Episcopal church next Sunday even
ing. Young men and boys especially
invited.
The steam bakery is making an
excellent lot of orange, cocoa nut and
gold cakes. Go and try them as they
are the finest ever made in Great
Bend.
Rev. Watson, of the M. E. church,
Wednesday married Mr.. Peter Deets
to Miss Lizzie Leeks at the home of the
brides parents nine miles northeast
of the city.
It's a lonesome street in Great Bend
which does not now have either tele'
graph, telephone or electric light poles
strung along it. Verify we do grow
metropolitan.
Behold the harvest time is near at
hand, when the golden grain will nod
to the south wind no more and the
chinch bug, cheated of his prey, will
HE him hence.
Hon. J. w. Rush, of Larned, was
in the city Tuesday morning on his way
up the G. K. & w. branch. He says
the new bank will soon be ready to
begin business here.
j. w. Radcliffe, the Pawnee Rock
banker, was in the city Tuesday evening
ON business. He thinks Barton coun-
ty will have full half crop of wheat,
and an immence yield of corn.
The markets are very quiet at the
present. Cattle went up in price in
Kansas City the first of the week; but
the indications are that the market
will break down again in few days.
Talk about our Saline Fountain
try its waters and if you want to in
vest in thing that will pay you well
and be great benefit to the COM
munity, orgaize company and start
baths.
Mr.. VIM. Keller Tuesday left a
sample bottle of his celebrated Sar-
saparilla Root Beer at this Office to be
sampled by the proprietor. 1t was
sampled and it certainly is delicious
summer drink.
Hacker Bros. have moved into the
new brick block one door north of
Tyler's grocery store on Main street.
The store room is large and hand
some one, and the firm are putting in
large stock of goods.
In Augusta, Georgia, recently a
tree was cut in the forest at & o'clock
in the morning, and by night it had
been turned into printed papers, and
the people of that village were reading
in them the news of the day.
When a farmer pays interest
drought long series of years until
payment has equaled principal and
| the debt is still undiminished, he must
conclude that he has been working for
somebody more fortunate than he.
Jacob Golfer, who has been con-
fined in Jail for some time, as an &C
cessory to the murder of G. w.
Brewer, has been released on $1,000
bonds, his bondsmen being John and
Joseph Dickson, of Homestead town.
ship.
[ Odell & Gunnell spent an hour of
their valuable time this morning try
ing to convince We editor that, in
view of the hot political campaign
likely to be carried on this fall, We
should take an accident insurance
policy.
''Did that man strike you with
malice aforethought?" asked the pros
ecutiug officer of a colored witness.
"Did he which," Z" Did he strike
you with malice aforethought?" "No,
sab, he didn't, sab. He done hit me
wufa cleavah.
One implement firm in this city
says that out of some thirty-five bind
ers ordered the first of the season.
only one order has been cancelled,
and that was because the farmer who
wanted the machine had traded off
his farm and growing grain.
The drill at the new prospecting