Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-10

IL IL 1cpO1lcO GudG MISS w lille ttTdQy
will return home this week and remain.
We are sorry to lose this estimable
young lady from our village.
Odin Ozone.
From "Bile.''
The majority of the farmers finished
harvest by the 4th.
The rain of the 3rd was a 'sgreat
common leveler," so to speak.
The farmers are working by moon
light in order to get their grain har-
vested.
F. Fiker says he would rather vote
the prohibition ticket than cut fifty
acres of wheat Oh listed ground of last
year.
1t is not uncommon to see five OF six
headers at work on one section of land.
Binders are not used in this neighbOr-
hood.
When Frank Jenish harvests it
always rains. There is no danger of a
dry harvest as long as Frank has any
thing to harvest.
The young society ladies all took a
spell of harvesting, during which few
were son-struck, caused by the perval-
ence of the ''son."
Ed Steedefk kgot a bad hand during
harvest which forced him to leave the
field; his place was taken by the black
smith, Mr.. Tinkle.
The yield of wheat along Cow creek
will not stand behind last years very
much, but little out of the valley, and
it falls to One-third.
The photograph of the lille double
weddings was fai rly well taken by the
Ellinwood artist, considering the cir
cumstances uuder which it was done.
That the country folks are patriotic
can be inferred from the fact that guns
were fired, rockets sent up, and fire.
works exhibited till near midnight on
the 4th.
A suite of Odin lights had made
extensive preparations to attend the
celebration at Great Bend on the 4th;
the first valley stopped them as they
were unable to cross.
The people all wonder at the general
decline of prices of merchandise, since
the organization of the farmers alliance.
They would wonder still more if the
taxes were reduced from A per cent to
about II per cent.
Examining a fashion paper from
Germany lately, and comparing the
same with an American fashion plate
of about the same date, it was curious
to notice the close resemblance of :the
fashions of the two countries. The
conclusion is inevitable that the fash
ions are alike in all civilized countries
A cloud-burst occurred between
Odin and State Center on the 3rd
The same accompanied by hail and
wind. The two currents of wind joined
one southeast and one northwest met
northeast of Odin, where the water
poured down so dense that one could
not see ten feet through the storm.
Cellars were filled to overfiowing. The
water stood at least eight inches on the
level ground, and the hailstones were
carried to the creeks. Innumerable
losses among the poultry were sustained,
header-bOxes were upset, and many
small and light articles taken away.
Buildings of no sure foundation (such
as granaries) were invariably damaged.
What little wheat was still standing is
almost destroyed, and late corn, peas.
etc. were beat into the earth. A
garden of cabbages was noticed which
had been planted in valley. The
most of these cabbages went down the
valley for miles, while the force of the
current was such as to carry the loose
ground as far down as it had ever been
plowed entirely away. Plowed ground
is as smooth and nice..as if it had been
rolled. The larger corn is utterly
devoid of leaves, and every valley is a
raging river.
BRO. CARAwAY says that when he
was a boy his father taught him to ''pull
the reap hook. hold the plow. and
swing the cradle" If our neighbor
had continued i'm the way his father
| taught him he would probably be
happier than he is now. But alas. he
has fallen Instead of pulling the
reap hook" he has learned to pull