Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-26

The BARTON COUNTY DEMOCRAT .
WILL L. STOKE Al
6dit0r, and PrOI0rietOr pc
(ofice in Opera Block) p
GREAT BEND, KANSAS
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LOCAL NEWS. MT
Trinidad coal at Allison Bros. ~. ~
Oh, dat watermillioni 'clar to good
ness it am here! -
Lee Soule returned Monday, from NJ
visit down the road ms
An extra street car was put on our co,
line Monday morning.
@. Mrs. S. B. Hale has been quite, 90,
sick for a number of days. tn,
j. w. Quail, Halstead mill man tn thu
was in Great Bend Monday. In
an
. Dalziel & Bailey have sold out their the
feed business to VIM. Jones.
AMr. G. N. johnson has gone east on Eg
"a visit of few weeks duration. Wis
See the important change in Mrs ="
Hale's ad. in another column. ore
Travel over the railroads has al wr
r,.ady began to pick up somewhat.
An elegant suite of billiard and club ing
.a,oon "a are beipo onana6 i'm tho Morr; ber
son hOuse. OF
for
w. u. H. Keeney and wife are ten
now at home to their many friends in Bn
Great Bend.
The Flint Concert Company are nm,
billing scho oil district so for concert in
, Saturday night. per
No weather could be betssr for W, wo
growing corn then that of the last n 4,
three or four days. VIII
j. A. Judy, a young attorney of
SSouth Beud, Ind, is in the city on Ihe
visit to F. NJ jackson. Ion
W. P. Bruce was in the city Satur. Der
day still talking of the good time we of t
e. had at the convention. gra
Henry Moore, now of Newton VIII
spent Friday and Saturday in Great
Bend, his former home. bel
anc
The prospecting company have de- ven
scided to go down another two hun, o.
dred feet with the present hole. Bal
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losing good time by not getting their -N-
announcements before the people. ]
The Great Bend band gave no open . D,ll
AIR concert Saturday evening, and INC
great many people were disappointed. d 6es
Our streets were well crowded with pap
Apeople Saturday. Harvest being over bro
Ipermitted the farmers to get to town ran
again.
Max Schafer returned Sunday W i1
from Ashland, Ohio, were he had this
been to attend the funeral of his 1
father. actl
Miss Bell Porter is now day opera da1
tor at the central telephone station. he
Fred Flanley will set up nights with he
the machine.
W. NJ Ireland is now interested in n1a
ahe Forest avenue drug store, having r., r.
u" uSn' Wis ~ - --"''i o'- day
TIA the same. CO.
Sunday NUMBER OF 0reaU DeHu- oit'
,ers visited the home of VIM. Doty, in ma
Clarence township, and enjoyed a bac
pleasant day. IN
Barton could get up good agri-
2cultural exhibit this year If she would. !
1t is understood an effort is being pen
made to have fair. q p
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S. Degen & Co., of the Hoisington the
New York Store, has one of the neat a b
est stores in the town, and says he is bus
>. doing good business. sus
Bert Watts, of the DEMOCRAT Ol
force, drove up to Hoisington Satur- W:
day in the interest of this paper. He 81: :.
reports matters quiet about our north '''
ern neighbor.
- old
There will be an ice cream supper was
at No. school house, Saturday even- min
ing, July 2Sth, for the benefit of ma
Rev. Pitkin. AL are invited to come bo1
I: and have a good time. can
As we 90 To nreSs no late word has wi