Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-02
sympathlzing friends followed the re.
mains to their last resting place.

DIED.-On Sunday last at her homo
near State Center, Mrs. Steve Kelley.
She was woman of middle-age and
was in apparently fair health, and in
her sudden and untimely death the joy
and sunshine of happy home has been
SUDDENLY darkenej. She leaves hus-
band, six children, one of which is an
infant two months old, and scores of
friends to mourn her loss, to whom the
community tenders its spmpathies.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
and the remains were inferred in the
Bloomingdale cemetery.
HOISINGTON.
From the Blade.
Wheat stands two feet in it's stocking
feet.
6. F. Feaster left Sunday for visit
in old Missouri.
Kansas will be able to 60 to the res
cue of the starving farmers of the east
this year.
1t was rumored on the streets Tues
day that c. L. Branch died in the city
of Mexico of smallpox. He was form
erly conductor on the Missouri Pacific.
Mrs. Jolly. who lives near Red Wing,
was in town Wednesday. She reports
everything growing in good shape.
Wheat, she says, is beating all former
record of growth.
Representative Cobun was in town
on Monday and reports the wheat i'll
his neighborhood as doing splendidly
and prospects for bountiful harvest
never better at this time of year.
Great Bend has found enough energy
to organize base ball nine by seeking
the aid of the Larned boys. When
they practice a month or two come over
and try the matchless 'Monons."
At the election of officers at the 1. o.
o. F. lodge last night the following
was the result: Joe II. Borders, noble
grand; VIM. II. Hall, vice grand; J. G.
Lytle.. secretary; w. E. Durand,
treasurer.
''Smed" Wilkinson, the great fiddler
of Wheatland towns hip, was down to
Hoisington on Wednesday. "Smed"
plays on other instruments besides the
violin-such as plows, drills, harvesters
etc.
From the Dispatch.
A person that has not taken a drive
over the country las no idea of the
amount of prairie that is being broken
out this spring. Whole sections in
body are being broken out and will go
into wheat this fall.
VIM. Very. of Fairview township,
has been hauling wheat by the quanti-
ty this week. He has his neighbors
helping him and they have been bring
ing down 400 bushels to this market
every day this week. He gets 60 cents
bushel.
Col. Borders received very sad news
from Kentucky last week. On Thurs.
day, the 18th, brother-in-law, E. M.
Rice, passed from earth, and on Satur-
day. the 21st, the telegraph brought the
news of the death of his father, Mr..
Joseph Borders, both residents of
Paintsville. Kentucky. Mr.. Joseph
Borders had passed the age when life
could be counted on with any degree of
certainty, being in his SD year. Col.
Borders has our heartfelt sympathy in
his great bereavement.
Hon. c. F. Diffenbacher, of Great
Bend, was over TO our city Tuesday.
|''Diff" is Jacksonian democrat and
expressed himself in no uncertain
sound to our reporter upon the politicol
situation. diff" says. however, that
he is not in politics at present, having
struck something better in the shape O:
wheat farming. He has several hund-
red acres of wheat growing and looking
very promising. he owns the 'Hois-
ington section as it is called and is 60
ing to FIX it up into a first class farm
residence and perhaps spend the latter
days of his life in peace and quiet
among his fields and gardens and low
ing herds.
Several rigs loaded with young fel.
lows went out to German picnic
northeast of town about twelve miles
last Sunday. They enjoyed themselves
hugely dancing with the German girls
in the second story of the barn and
drinking beer in the house, but the
German laddies became jealous on ac
count of the attention their American
brethren were receiving from the rosy
checked maidens and concluded to vent
their spite in some way. So they went
out to where the .Hoisington team!
were hitched and tried the keen edg'
of their knives on leather. Several set
of harness were cut up pretty bad ant
the sides and ends of the carriages
received numerous slashes. An urgen
request was sent out to the boys t.
come in and pay for their sport AM
they WHISKY concluded to do so.
THE strongest argument in favor O
Senator Palmer's constitutional amend