Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-26

| A serene GOODNESS has sprung up
like three aces at a jack pot matinee,
between certain Park avenue blonde
and Main street brunette. Cause:
the ice cream season is here.
Jacob Cofer was brought up from
Newton yesterday morning, and at 2 p.
min the afternoon his preliminary trial
was begun before Justice Brown. At
the time of going to press we have not
learned the result.
Mr.. Henry James had large bay
horse stolen Friday night or Saturday,
from Seely's pasture near the Pawnee
river. He offers s15 for the recov-
cry of the horse and $25 for the cap
ture of the thief.-Larned Chrome
scope.
At the meeting of the gun club on
Tuesday afternoon w. w. Carney
turned loose two heavily loaded bar
rels of his gun at one shot, and as
consequence he now carries his face in
mourning, and tells his wife it was all
an accident.
Charles Lynn, of Birmingham,
Alabama, has been in town several
days on business. He seemed SO
favorably impressed with Great Bend
that he bought several fine pieces of
property while here. He left for
Denver, Colorado, last night.
Will Rush is cutting stone for the
cross walk that will be laid across
Main street, from Aliens corner to the
court yard gate. The walk will be
five feet wide. 1t pays to put in
these stone walks, which, when once
laid, will last for years without need
of repairs.
The waterworks company will sup
ply the Santa Fe railroad at this point
with water for the engines. The
work of laying the pipe from the wa
ter works main has already commenced
and will soon be finished. The engine
and house used by the railroad will be
shipped to some other point.
Chas. Brahm, of Lexington, Ken
lucky, is in the city, contemplating
the purchase of tract of land south
of the river, on which he will start
stock farm with the intention of rails
ing fine horses. Mr. Brahm has
number of the best blooded horses in
the country he will bring here as soon
as possible.
When long. white onions, as big as
lead pencil and strong as musk
OK, ride in from the rural districts be-
side the whitish or vellowish, but
ticklish radish, you may know that
summer time approacheth and in the
dizzy distance looms the days when
watermelons are plugable and every
day III be Sunday, bye and bye"
Ed. Tyler says some one has started
the report that Mr.. Keeney had made
an agreement with him-Tyler-not
to engage in the grocery business in
Great Bend again. Mr.. Tyler furth-
er says that he made no such an agree
ment, nor did he ask such "a thing of
Mr.. Keeney when he bought him out.
He makes this statement in justice to
Mr.. Keeney.
w. w. P. Clement, Of the Great
Bend Mills, returned last Tuesday
from an extended trip through the
western part of this state and Colo
RADIO. he says that in the extreme
western part of the state and eastern
Colorado the people are badly need
ing rain, but along the Arkansas and
Walnut Valleys crops are looking
splendidly.
We would like good smoked ham,
or side meat; or potatoes; or chickens;
or ducks; or anything which you
have to dispose of in exchange for sub
scrption to the DEMOCRAT. No home
is complete without good, democratic
paper in it, and no household can be
carried on successfully without some
thing to cook-therefore we ought to
make a ''dicker."
On Thursday, April 26th, at 2. p