Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-01
May WOODBURY. continues to be

i'll for some time, is much better.
The water works were sprinklEng
the streets last morning in the ,r-
cinity of the square.
ALT Gustln, of Fa:rview township,
sold a quarter section of land to a Mr.
Crismore for 800.
When girl gets to be twenty-five
or more it's just as well not to give
her any birthday presents.
DR.. VanPelt, who has been confn-
&c to the house for some time, does
not seem to improve much.
w. B. King, of this city, has leased
the Union hotel, which in the future
will run as dollar per day house.
Remember that the way to boom
town and country is for every man,
woman and child to consider it his or
her duty to do share.
The white-topped wagons which
are daily becoming more numerous,
passing through our city for western
Kansas, is an early indica ton of a
large influx of settlers the coming seas
on. Come early and avoid the rush.
"Well, WELL" remarked Mrs.
Brown, GIVE noticed this about men.
When we are girls they don't 60 away
until after midnight, and when we are
wives they don't come in until after
midnight. I suppose it is the law of
compensation and I don't complain"
Our city schools Monday obsered
Washington and Longfellow day, with
appropriate exercises. Some hundred
or more citizens visited the schools.
In each department was held exer-
cises commemorative of the two great
men. All who attended were greatly
entertained, and the children beauti-
fed.
w. j. Jenny, superintendent of the
collecting system Of the Santa Fe,
was in the city Tuesday looking after
the putting of collectors on the branch.
The Santa Fe people claim that the
collecting system now in use is a
saving of some $500 week to the
company.
Mrs. M. E. Prescott. we'll known
by all our oldest settlers, died at $50
Monday morning, Feb. Goth, al the
home of her son,in-law, G. l.. Brink
man, in Kansas City, at mature
age We are not able to learn the
character of her last illness, but ex-
tend to the bereaved ones the SYM
pathy of the community.
A New York paper asks: "Why
do we not have billiards. like Kansas
and other western states ?" But you
do, when one of those ''lake northers'
come down on you aud knock the top
rail from the fence and drift the snow
twenty feet high, you call it severe
snow storm. In Kansas, however,
when storm, not one half so severe,
blows over the level prairies, some
misguided people will call it blizzard.
On Thursday evening, the 23d of
Feb. an enjoyable time was had at
district 4, in Liberty. The South
Bend band, comprising thirteen
pieces, was present, and program
of declarations, essays dialogues and
music, was carried out by the school.
The occasion was the closing of the
school in this district for the winter
term, Mr.. j. B. Prose being the
teacher.
The question is often asked, how
did the strip known as 'No>Man's-
Land" come to exist The explana-
ton given is, that after the Mexican
war congress fixed the northern
boundary of Texas on line on the
Seth degree and 80 seconds of latitude,
and when the Kansas-Nebraska act
passed, the southern boundary of
Kansas was fixed on the 37th degree
of latitude. This leaves between
the two:lines strip of half degree or
about thirty-fve miles wide and
210 miles long, and this is No-Man's-
Land.
Quite a number of young gentle