Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-27

A general supply of Hardware.
Stoves, Implements, Machinery.
Dishes and Crockery, and Watches.
Clocks, Jewelry and Sllverware, ETC.,
can only be found at G. N. & E. r.
Moses.
Ed Dewey, whom uur older settlers
will remember as q formerly staunch
republican Of the Andy Hoisington
stripe, was secretary of the peoples
party convention at St John, last
week.
For few evenings past the electric
street lights have been turned on.
They are not yet running steadily. but
are being adjusted preparatory to be-
ginning steady run the first of the
month.
District court opened Monday
morning. Judge BailY being absent
in Arkansas, the bar elected James
Clayton as Judge pro tenn. The court
was in session two days; no jury cases
were tiled.
ATTRACTIONS AT THE GRAND: Clair
Pattee Comedy Co., Sept. %; to %.
Fred Mortimer and Jewel Darrell,
Sept 80 and Oct LIST, Turner'S English
Girls, Oct. IA. and other good attrac-
tions later on.
A young man named VIM. Melon
aid was Frustrated by stroke of light
ming, Friday, on a farm ~ miles
south, in Stafford county. It was
several hours before he was brought
to consciousness.
Seventy-eight teachers took the
examination last Friday and Satur-
day, and as many pairs of hands were
often clasped in perplexity over knotty
questions to be answered, and lmprob-
able problems to be solved.
We venture the prediction that no
gentlemen outside of the farmers ALI
ance, or the peoples party organization
known as the citizens alliance, will
seek a nomination at the peoples
party convention next Saturday.
D. &. Luse has had manufactured,
at cost of 500. handsome silver
urn which will be offered as one of
the prizes in the coming meeting of
the American coursing club. 1t can
be seen at G. N. & E. r. Moses.
E. N. Ford left a basket of fine,
free stone peaches at this Office Satur-
day. They were raised on his farm in
South Bend township and it would be
hard to find peaches anywhere that
will excel them in any particular.
If you want a good Wind
mill, Pump, piping and fix
lures don't forget that we are
In the business, Great Bend
Implement Co.
Simpson. M. c., was in the city
Saturday, and no great stir was made
over his visit either. By.the-wsy, it
was not Jerry, M, c., but M. G. of
Comanche township, and he reports a
good corn making rain Friday down in
his vicinity.
T. II. Butler came near having a
bad accident one day last week. He
got his loot caught in the stirrup of a
saddle he was riding and a singletree
of buggy, and was thrown and
dragged some distance, suffering sew
eral severe bruises.
The ladies of the M. E. church aid
society will give dinner in the Fair
building on Saturday, Sept. 9Th. They
will serve ice cream during the day
and evening. The ladies are also
making very extensive preparations
for their annual Thanksgiving fair and
dinner, which they hope to make the
best they have ever given.
That. man who ages more than fifty,
and swore that he got drunk on two
glasses Of crab cider, and that it set
him crazy, is talking of making ar
rangements to 60 to preaching again.
That is right. If you can't make il
any other way, better go to preaching
to heathens and drunkards, and az
you journey along treasure up por-
ton sOf your sermons at home. Get