Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-28

principles, illustrate and compare
methods, and devise ways and means
to make our school instruction practi-
cal and in harmony with the demands
of the times. Although our teachers are
receiving less compensation and have
to work with more limited facilities
than teachers doing similar service in
other cities and in the country around
them, yet they are determined to
render their best service. Their earn
est efforts should be encouraged by oil
Who desire good schools
At the closing exercise of the county
normal institute, last Thursday fore
noon, the teachers in attendance at the
institute, and a number of the former
students of the central Normal College,
presented Prof. III. n. Gaines, one of
the instructors in the institute, With
an elegant toilet set as a small token
of their esteem and gratitude for his
earnest work in the normal. The
incident was great surprise to Prof.
Gaines, and we believe he is eminently
deserving of the compliments thus paid
him. He left Friday morning for his
home in Dickinson county.
Too bad, isn't it, to see the trees in
the north side of the park in the con-
dition they are now? But then, it
would cost few dollars to take them
safely through the balance of the
summer, and to pay those few dollars
the wealthiest men in the city would
have his taxes increased few cents;
therefore the city can't afford to water
and cultivate the park. 1t is true
some poor fellow who has a large
family to support and no employment
to earn such support might do the work
on the. park. But ''look at the
taxes!"
District school clerks should hurry
up their reports of levies for taxes of
1890, and send in reports to the county
clerk who says he positively cannot
wait longer on them. Read the
school laws, and there learn that dis
trict clerks are subject to fine of $50
for not making return of tax levy in
proper time. This is matter that
does not concern the editor of the
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concern the people of every district
where the levy is not properly made
and returned. Attend to it.
i A number of boxes are yet vacant at
. the postoffice, and are for rent at 25
cents quarter. Persons living in the
country will do well to secure one of
these as it will prove great cOnven
fence to them as well as to the Office in
, keeping their mail in its proper place,
and will avoid delays in many cases
where mails are liable to get misplaced
in the general delivery. With the best
OF care this sometimes happens. The
rent of these boxes is fixed by the post
office department and the revenues 60
to it. 1t is really great convenience
to both the postmaster and the patrons
to have mail go to a box.
One day last week, as w. M. Hay
den, young gentleman who attended
the Central Normal college and made
many friends here, was riding on q
cart with his father near their home
north OF Larned, the horse they were
driving began kicking viciously- Young
Hayden was struck in the face and
his jaw bone broken, one eye also
being knocked out and he being other.
wise injured. He lay unconscious for
two days, but may eventually recover.
The Great Bend Implement Com
pany has an office now in the Leland
hotel, opposite their new building.
= Call and get price, and give orders
} for Steel frame Drills, Sod Cutters;
3 Buckeye and Mccormick Movers
Wagons; Pumps and fixtures; Chal-
E lenge, Adams and Star Wind Mills;
Water Tanks; Flows. and all other
;, farm implements. They will make
+ you prices to suit the times.
4 Monday the probate judge empan.
E eled jury and tried the case of Mrs.
l Jindrak, of this city, for insanity.
The woman has been suffering from
mental and physical disease for some
!, months and at last became so violent
the family could no longer take care
!, OF her, and the jury pronounced hel
= insane. Sheriff Wilson took her down
e to Topeka Wednesday evening.
| On Thursday evening last, August
Dist, the ladies of the German Luth-
= 'eran church of this city, gave Rev.
Gyr and lady very pleasant surprise
party. Many valuable and useful
! articles were donated, the ladies max.
g ing as special remem brance present
to Mrs. Gyr pair of handsome lace
curtains.
The democratic state convention al
Wichita on September 9th. Barton
county will send full delegation, and
: a number of visitors. are arranging te
! go along. The republican resubmis-
. sion convention is to be held at the
same time and place, while the repub
K Misrepresentation for-policy-only con
r vention IS to be Eeld at Topeka on tb,
Sd of September.
MARKEDLY Justice John F
;. Lewis. on Monday, August 25, 1890
at the home of the brides mother, Mrs
A. E. Mccall, in this city, Norman
e S. Ream, of Bazine, Ness county, t,
s Miss Mollie Mccall. Only the famil,