Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05

Let every democrat in Great Bend
attend to having his name on the reg
istration books. These books are
now open at :his Office and will be SC
up to within ten days of the Novem-
Der election.
Mr.. j. A. Bland has been making
a tour of several parts of the county
the last few days, and adding to our
subscription list. He finds farmers
very busy, either in the harvest fields
or tending corn.
A Great Bend bachelor said the
other day he was a firm believer in
"luck." When asked why he believed
that way, he said he had been refused
five times by as many different young
ladies, when young.
When you have read your DEMO
Graf send it to some friend who has
not seen it and ask him if it is not
worth $3.50 a year. The paper will
continue to be improved from time to
time, as its patronage will warrant.
Langham & Son went coon hunt
ing Friday and captured one half
grown, young fellow who now is I'M
dergoing the process of domestlcation.
There are two others still making
headquarters in the vicinity of their
store.
An advertisement in a good news
paper, such as the DEMOCRAT, is
worth more to a business man than
all the signs tackled to bridges and
fence posts. This is no new discov-
cry. and the knowledge is impaired
without charge.
Send in the news from your neigh
borhood. You will be pleased to see
it in print, we will be pleased to put
it in print; ana your entire nelghbor-
hood will be pleased to know that
some one has his or her eyes open to
the interesting local events.
Que bushel of corn makes one gal
lon of whisky, and the retail price is
$16. The farmer gets 40 cents; the
railroads 81; the revenue $3.50; the
distiller gets 81; the saloon gets ST;
and the man who drinks the whisky
gets-the delirium tremens, generally.
A certain clergyman says that
when he looks at his congregation his
involuntary question is, where are
the poor? But after the brothers
have been around with the basket
and he counts the nickels he changes
the question to, where are the rich !?
All in a quiet way we want to re-
mark that the corn in Barton county
is on a boom; the wheat in Barton
county is large, and plump for its size
and very numerous for the quantity
there is of if; oats are very short
when cut with a header; and the
sinking little chintz bugs are as
hungry as a tramp printer.
Farmers are blowing up their oat
and wheat fields as fast as the grain
is cut, and are putting them in corn.
We believe it is a good move. as our
seasons are SO long that corn planted
any time between now and the 10th
day of July will have ample time to
mature before the first killing frost of
the fal..-Nashvills, Kas. NeaUs.
On the 18th inst. there will be
over two hundred representative men
in Great Bend from the seventh con-
gressional district. It behooves us
to prepare to entertain them in
manner becoming to a city of this
size. To do this, every citizen should
lay by party feeling and all unite in
making a welcome for our guests.
Street Commissioner Cone has been
hauling a great deal of dirt onto
south Main street the last week. 1t
does look to us as though it would be
policy and saving of money to the
city to have that part of the street
sprinkled Immediately, as only a few
dry, windy days are needed to blow
out all the loose dirt now hauled in.
When money is eight" and the U.
S. treasury is ''fulr', how can We ex-
pect business to be III healthy con-
dition? Money stored away is like
much fat, disease to be removed by
correct habits and healthy exercise.
The money IN the treasury needs exer-
else, and millions of people are anx-
ious to give it employment.
lin your honest judgement it is a
good thing for the people of the United
States to have free whiskey and
free tobacco, the republican ticket will,