Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-11
NEIGHBORHO0D NEWS.
Hoisiington.

Il uOiSlnStOu
From the Dispatch.
/ The oat and wheat crop is looking
i fine.
A very fine shower of rain fell on
Saturday night.
T.. L. Branch has returned from a
short visit with friends and relatives
IN Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Orr was the most popular man
on the ticket for councilman. He re-
ceiyed 121 votes.
| The Locomotive Firemen are making
arrangements to give grand ball in
HoisingtOn the latter part of the month
Dwellings are so scarce in Hoising-
ton that number of dugeuts are in
use. About fifty persons are living in
underground and sod houses.
| Every town in central and western
Kansas should have sugar mill, and
they will have them after while.
! Squire Carlander is now happy since
| the president has issued his prOclama-
ton opening the Oklahoma country to
settlement. He and several others
will in short time go to that country
| for land.
The town company has offered to
donate block of land for a city park
| if the citizens of Hoisington will plant
it to trees and take care of them. The
city certainly should have park, and
it should be planted to trees as soon as
possible.
At Washington, d. c., on Thursday,
March %, 1889, Anna Ceola Boxwell, an
8-months-old child of Mr.. r. W. Box
| well, Of this place. died. The little one
left here with it's mother last September
in good health. Brain trouble caused
her death.
Ellinwood.
From the Advocate.
Some people are already planting
corn.
And still, word comes all along down
the line, that wheat is looking splendid.
The X. of P. Lodge, of Ellinwood, is
making preparations for grand ball to
be given on the 22d of April.
| All kinds of business is 'slooking up''
| in this city, and the old time indepen-
dent smile adorns the faces of every age
and both sexes.
DIED:-On Wednesday morning,
April 3rd, 1889, little daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. j. F. Huitt, aged one year and
oIA iuOuluS, dlCcI oil lllucSS VI CuIoE
days.
Mrs. w. p. Leadbetter. of Millers-
burg. Ohio, who came here in company
with her mother to attend the funeral
of her brother, the late G. w. Ashton,
is now lying very sick at the residence
of Mrs. Ashton.
There seems to be revulsiOn of feel
| ing among the east Kansas towns this
spring. Too much republicanism
soured on the public, and many Kansas
towns are going it under democratic
rule for the next year.
Ellinwood already has the finest lot
of shade trees of any city in central
Kansas, and this spring every property
owner is hard at work planting trees,
in every nook and corner where space
can be found for one to take root. Our
people do not intend to sit in the sun
so long as trees thrive like they do.
G. Albro Dusenbury returned this
morning from his visit to New York &C
companied by Mr.. Louis Marvin, broth
er of Mrs. Dusenbury. They will be
followed the first of the week by Mr..
| VIM. M. Beach, brother-in-law of Mr..
Dusenbury, and wife, and Mr.. Beach,
grandfather of Mrs. Dusenbury, and
| later still, some time in May, by Mr..
and Mrs. w. F. Dusenbury, father and
mother of G. A., of this county. Mr..
Dusenbury, senior, will locate near his
son, in the vicinity Of Clafin, while the
Messrs. Beach and MI. Marvin will
make their home in Ellinwood.