Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28

Nice rain Sunday night
Threshing coal So ton Allison Bros.
A. B. Shofner, formerly of Missouri,
has been in the city some days on bus
mess.
Cabinets $3.50 to s2-duplicates 81
per dozen at Mrs. Hale's for the next
two weeks.
Prof. Address tent show will be in
Great Bend Tuesday and Wednesday,
July Sd and 4th. See the big bills.
For the next two weeks Mrs. Hale
will make duplicates from Mrs. Gains
ford's or her own negatives for 81 per
dozen.
Everybody come to town on the
4th and see the wonderful Andres
show. See advertisement in another
column.
G. G. RAIDER and 7. G. Weeks have
bought the Seward Independent The
many enitialed L. r. II. P. Durham
still holds editorial prominence.
Clayton Moses came in contact with
a rake tooth or some otherindistruc eta
BILE pointed affair, and has ever since
had stoppage in his walk.
AS long as God reigns and gives us
rain the average Kansas farmer is
content to let almost anybody reign
at Washington.-Abilene Gazette.
DIR. J. G. Royce cane in from To
peka Friday evening and has spent
few days here talking up the coming
coursing club meeting and our miner
al we'll.
w. NJ. Morgan, of Boston, Mass,
has been in the county some days
visiting with his uncle, A. II. Stew,
ems. He is very favorably impressed
with Barton county.
More good rains like those of last
week are of greater importance to
Kansas than all the republican presi-
Dental candidates that could be trot-
ted out, and there were lots of them.
Mr.. Henry Feldkamp, of Spring
field, Illinois, brother of Heiko Field
kamp. who has been visiting here
since last week, is very favorably i'm
pressed with our city and surrounding
territory.
The Great Bend Telephone compa'
ny is rapidly getting wires strung and
things put in shape to open up bust
ness. Mr.. Allison thinks they will be
in operation by the 10th of July.
There are fifty Instruments already
taken, to open up with.
j. B. Prose, who has been visiting
relatives in the east for some months,
returned. to Barton county Friday
evening of last week. He spent two
days in Chicago during the conven-
ton, and says he never saw such a
crowd as was in the city.
The Daily Graphic suspended pub
LEGATION on last Wednesday. The pro-
prietor will still continue the DEMO
Graf, He gives as his reason for
closing the Graphic, a lack of interest
and patronage from the business men,
necessary for the publication of daily.
Tribune.
If you like the DEMOCRAT tell your
neighbors so, and thus assist us in put
ting it into every household in Bar
ton county. Our entire attention will
now be given to this paper, and we
hope, by another year 10 have
doubled its already fairly large SUBJ
scription list.
Among the names of the persons
composing the graduating class at
Emporia State Normal school this
year, we notice that of Miss Elizabeth
Gertrude Kelly, of Great Bend, she
graduating in the elementary course.
Miss Kelly will be remembered as one
of Barton county's estimable teachers.
DIR. NJ. c.. Connect, of Bedford,
Iowa, brother OF A. H. Connect, of
Great Bend, Is here ON a visit to his
brother and o. B. Wilson. The
Doctor is accompanied by his wife,
and says Great Bend and Barton
county have wonderfully improved
since his LAST visit here three years
ago.