Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-24

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Our citizens viii remember Mr.. s.
r. Hill, father Of Mrs. j. G. Gwinn,
who visited here some weeks last year.
Mr.. Hill died at hi6 home in Alder
son, w. Va, on Saturday, the 10th
inst.
An exchange says s'an attack Of
biccoughs may be stopped by holding
the head under water. An attack Of
smallpox can be stopped in the same
way, If the head be held under long
enough.
T. F. Craig has opened a grocery
store in the second room east of A. j.
Buckland's Office. on Forest avenue, he
having bought the w. E. Coates stock
and added thereto. T. T. Smith can
be found with him.
The oyster supper at Odd Fellows
hall, last Friday evening, was a
pleasant affair, though not as well
attended as it should have been con.
sidering the efforts .thei ladies made to
prepare the entertainment.
A young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. d. Weiner has been very low with
membranous Group for some days, and
still lies very near deaths door. It is
the hope of the entire community that
the threatened affection may not come
to our friend and neighbour.
One of the Great Bend papers dis
played at its head in q conspicuous
manner, last week the words ''ofiicial
county paper" but did not contain a
hundred words of official county news.
What's the matter with taking down
the sign?
DIED-At her home near Hoising-
ton, on January the 10Th, 1889, Mrs.
Baker, wife of A. H. Baker. Mrs.
Baker had suffered long and trying
illness, but death at last claimed her
as his own. The breaved family have
the sympathy of the entire community.
The show at the opera house, on
Tuesday night, was we'll attended, and
apparently enjoyed by the audience.
While it was laughable, and full OF
oddities, the parts occasionally seemed
to approach the vulgar too closely to
meet with the appreciation Of the most
refined intellects.
A drunken row occurred in the old
Central hotel Tuesday afternoon, and
some four or five young men have
found themselves before the police and
justices courts. A charge of robbery
was preferred by one Of the crowd
against another one and the trial was
on in Justice Browns court yesterday.
J. B. Morris, of Jefferson county
Pa. an old friend of A. L. Miller,
whome be had not seen for SO years,
arrived in Great Bend Wednesday
morning, the 23d, inst. He has been
travelling through Illinois, Nebraska,
Iowa and Kansas for the last ten
weeks. He is favorabH impressed
with this part of Kansas.
A republican senate by a vote of
% to Is refused to admit bibles free
of duty. Bibles, it should be remem-
bered are used by the poor as well as
the rich, and the policy of the repub-
lican party seems to be to not only
tax the poor from the cradle to the
grave, but also to levy duty on their
hopes of salvation.
The gentlemanly college graduates
and rich mems sons, who have been
assisting the Santa Fe railroad to take
care Of the money Of the travelling
public are now ::shre enough" retired,
and the conductors are masters Of the
situation. The question now is, which
will declare dividend first, the con.
ductors or the railroad.
In this land of free thought and
uptrameled action, even the dogs viii
not brook confinement. Thursday
last farmer came to town and brought
his canine friend with him. After he
was through trading at one of the
groceries he went ont. but neglected
to take the dog with him. This the
dog objected to, and making a bold
dash for free Kansas air he knocked
into smithereens q $40 plate glass
door.
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