Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-06
Lost,

Lost,
Between the Congregational church
Great Bend, and Ellinwood, lady
dark gray blanket shawl, on Sat
urday afternoon, Dec. 1888. vii
pay liberal reward for the return
of the shawl. Address: Mrs. l.. CoNK
RIGHT, EIlinwood; or this office.
Our city marshal is having some
fun enforcing the ordinance regulating
the location and actions of buses and
hacks and their drivers, at the SAINTS
Fe depot. The ordinances require ali
hackmen and solicitors for hotels to
stay off the depot platforms, and We
believe the interests and welfare OF
the pnplic viii be subserved if such
ordinance Is enforced.
See our offer to club with the Kan.
gas Former. In addition to the club
bing rate we will send the Kansas Far.
naer one year free to all subscribers te
the DEMoCoAT who pay up one OF
more years arrearages and year in
advance. Readers of the DEMOCRAT
who want to keep well posted never
had a better opportunity to do so than
at the present time.
IF you want cheap eastern paper
read our proposition to club with the
New York Weekly World. With the
World and the DEMOCRAT almost any
one ought to be satisfied. The ladies
mav also like Demoreas Monthly. which
We can furnish at reduced rates by
clubbing with this paper.
A.neighbor's "kid" of some eight
summers, when told that "the serpent,
as a punishment for tempting Eve,
was made 10 crawl all the days of his
life, put in poser when he asked:
"Well. how did the blamed thing
travel before that timer"
A rare treat is promised BY the
college people at their entertainment
Saturday night, and as the proceeds
will be for the benefit of the city and
college Y. NJ. and Y. w. G. A., a
good house should greet them.
A. S. Allen and Judge Ogle were
in Hutchinson this week. examining
the salt wvrks there. Inside of the
next year we predict there will be
several companies manufacturing salt
at Great Bend
j. d. WEIGH has suspended the
Pawnee Rock Leader, and will go to
Wichita to work for the winter. He
says a newspaper man cannot live on
wind and good prospects.
The place for boring for the new
salt plant has been located on block
five, Ireland's addition, and the ma
chinery for boring is being hauled on
the ground.
6. III. Hume expects to get into
his new store room next week. The
balance of the opera building is being
rapidly finished up.
Mr.. Prentiss, formerly of the First
National bank. returned this week
from Ohio. He reports lots of damp
ness back there.
Tom Ely and Mr.. Young have
formed partnership and will move
into the. room vacated by G. A.
Hooper.
We would like few tons of good
hay. Will not some of our delinquent
subscribers help us out?
Mrs. Elva Brooker returned this
week from a visit to Topeka, and
other points east of here.
The city council on Monday evening
adjourned to meet Monday evening,
the 10th inst.
Members of the fire company should
remember the meeting next Tuesday
evening.
indispensable to the Toilet.
Darbv's Prophylactic Fluid cures
chatting: erupti,ns and inflammation Of
all kinds; cures infamed or sore eyes;
relieves pains from bites or stings of
insects, and sore feet; destroys all faint
of persperation or offensive smell from
the feet or any part Of the body;
clenses and whitens the skin. Used
as dentifrice it purifies the breath;
preserves the teeth and cures toothache,
sore gums and canker.
The celebrated "W. l.. Douglas So
Shoe also a full line of other adver.