Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-19

The Heizerton Creamery have ar
ranged to place their full cream chees
on sale at Theo. Grifiths. Try It
and you will pronounce it the fines
| you ever ate.
The Christian Sunday school viii
give . Concert and Christmas Tree, a
the Grand Army hall, on Monday
night, Dec. %, 1889. Admission 10
! cents, at the door.
How about that mountain lion
who is reported to be creating go much
disturbance in the jungles of the Chey
enne plains? Is it not possible that
the animal may be a large, Whitehall
jack, which is mistaken for q more
ferocious animal.
Miss Lon Porter, sister of Mrs. O.
j. Richards, who has made her home
in Great Bend for the last two years
or more, returned to her former home
in Ripley, Ohio, Thursday of last
week. Miss Porter made many warm
friends during her stay here who
regret he departure.
Have you observed that the Register
and Tribune have at last noticed the
fact that there is such an organization
in Barton county as the Farmers Al
lance? Our two contemporaries are
little slow to catch on, especially
where the interests of the people out
side of Great Bend are concerned.
This county ought to be pretty well
stocked with lecturers. Every
township alliance has lecturer. I"
Some of the people too, who don't ap-
pear to take to the idea of farmers or
ganizing for mutual benefit, have
turned lecturers and are giving the al
lance the benefit of their criticisms.
Charley Herter. of Commancbe
township, south of Ellinwood, was a
caller at this Office last Thursday. He
is one of the oldest settlers, and says
Barton county is growing better all
the time. His appetite is steadily
improving, but his thirst for Kansas
water is not good-he has to go down
to Kansas City occasionally to whet it
up.
Invitations are out for the twelfth
annual masque ball to occur at the
opera house on Wednesday evening,
December 18th. The gentlemen hav-
ing the matter in charge promise a
satisfactory entertainment. The w.
K. Sweet Costume Co., of Kansas
City, will be at the Morrison in ample
time with a fine selection of suits for
rent. !,
Prof. Stryker reports the Central
Normal college as gaining in attend
ance every week. Several students
now in attendance at the State Normal
college, at Emporia, viii attend the
G. N. G. on and after the next term.
The college is one of the best, and will
prove one of the most beneficial enter.
prises Great Bend people have fostered
and assisted. The good it does lives
after it.
A local branch of the National
Building and Loan Association, of
New York, was organized this week
in Great Bend. The officers are: o.
B. Wilson, President; v. L. Chester,
first vice president; A. Y. Mccormick,
second vice president; James w. Brown
secretary; g. 81. Hulme, treasurer;
Sturgiss & Swartz, attorneys; and j.
G. Gwinn. R. F. Pleger and Thos.'
L. Owings examining board. The
association is said to be one of the best
in the land.
D1ED-At her home in South Bend
township, on Saturday, Dec, IA, 1889.
at a. M, Mrs. John Roberts. Fpner-
al services occurred Monday, the re-
mains being inferred in the Ellinwood
cemetery. MIR. Roberts has been very
low for long time, and is not expected
to long survive his wife. He is suf-
fering from an old army wound, and
it is said that Mrs. Roberts brought on
her last illness in caring for her sick
husband. Mrs. Roberts was
daughter of A. w. Strong, of Lakin
township.
r. b. Briggs, secretary of the Heiz-
erton creamery company. was in the
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