Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-12
NEIGHBORH0OD HAPPENINGS.
CLAFLIN.

NEIGHBORH00D HAPPENINGS.
CLAFLIN
From the Banner
"A ball is given out for this place OF
the evening of May 18th, to which al
are invited.
Our sports are now the proud pos
SCISSORS of foot ball, and very lively
time is had by them every evening.
Miss Morrison who taught the win
ter school at State Center, returned to
college at Great Bend Sunday evening.
She was very successful with her first
efforts as teacher and she will now
try to fit herself to do still better in
the future.
There is stock law in Kansas which
like the prohibition law, doesn't pro-
hibit. So long as stock is allowed to
run at large, our streets can never be
beautifed by trees. 1t should be the
duty of every citizen to plant trees and
then see to it that their stock does not
destroy them.
Some people are in the habit of tax
ing everything that appears in the col
umns of a newspaper, as being especi-
ally printed for themselves, when the
truth of the matter is, the editor has
not even dreamed of their eXistance.
There is an old adage that "a guilty
conscience needs no accuser," and we
| i'm 20 i,ly fu
Whan an item of a somewhat personal
character appears in paper, and your
name is not personally mentioned, it is
better for you to declare to yourself
that it was intended for the other fell
low, but if you feel so utterly guilty
that it pinches one foot. you had far
better change it to the other foot than
to come around and ask the editor to
apologise: who will in all probability
do so. and make his apology worse than
his criticism.
ELLINWOOD.
From the Advocate.
This must be another wet moon.
Geo. M. Moss, one of Great Bends s
| handsome young men, was in the city
Sunday.
Miss Mollie Craig, of Great Bend,
was in this city short time Sunday
evening.
G.. Toepke has moved his Office into
tn Quasi building on Topeka avenue,
opposite John Denker's blacksmith
shop.
DR.. F. P. Dunn has gone to Chicago
to take course of scientific medical
and surgical lectures. He expects to
be gone about a month.
III. W. Huffman one of the brilliant
writer's for the Wichita Eagle, and one
of the rising young men of the state
was in this city few day this week
visiting friends.
Farmers are very busy planting corn
now days. Corn is generally all in the
ground by this time, but owing to the
| backwardness of this spring, core plant
ing is only about half done at present.
Some one of Ellinwood's famed burg
lars attempted to break into Jake Thul, s.
smoke house Thursday night. Suppose
| ye employ few of Pinkerton's detect
ives to run these fellows down who
have been doing so much devilment
lately.
Aug Thanscheidt, one of our close
observing and influential farmers, says
that the report that chinch bugs and
Hessian flies are working on the wheat
is unfounded. He says that all fields
are looking well and that he has dis
covered nothing detrimental to proper
growth.
A very fine stallion belonging to FL.
E. Bunte, of northwest of Ellinwood,
got loose one day last week and ran in
to wire fence and broke its leg. Mr..
Bunte at once sent east for a famous
veterinary surgeon and will try to save
the horse, but what success he will have
is hard to conjecture. The animal is
valued at a thousand dollars and
should he loose him, it will be quite
misfortune to Mr.. Bunte.
HOISTNGTON.
From the Dispatch.
Wheat is very backward for this time
of year but it has good stand and is
a good color.
A prairie fire on the bottoms Friday
evening Illuminated the sky and made
pretty scene to look upon.
By an oversight we neglected to men
tion the arrival of that fine large boy at
the residence of III. G.. Hull last week.
The primary department of the public
schools gave an excaIlenf entertain