Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-26

is loser, but whenever a man COM
mits suicide the world is one man
better off than it was before.
Miss Scott, sister of Postmaster
Scott, is here on visit from Troy, 0.
Miss Scott came in on the postmaster
by surprise.
Nine times out of ten a man whose
last days are spent in decentralization
started out in life without definite
plan before him.
Rumor has it that two of the young
people of this city. in the persons OF
Charlie Archer and Mrs. Wooley were
married one day last week. :
V. S. Musil has been travelling in
Colorado, New Mexico. Arizona, Old
Mexico and Texas for the past two
weeks in the interest of the Ellinwood
mills. Mr.. Musil says that in all the
states he visited he found it very dry.
and in some of them stock is dying
from thirst.
We are indebted to Jacob Klein, OF
Cheyenne township for the following
statistics for his township: Inhabit-
ants $50, number of farms 120 horses
651, cattle 1852. mules 80, sheep Is
hogs 403 Wheat $3.50 acres, oats
$50 acres, rye 430 acres, corn 3,13l
acres and potatoes so acres. Mr.. Klein
says he found the farmers of his town.
ship in a prosperous and well satisfied
condition, with crop prospects better
then ever before.
HoIsINGToN
| From the Dispatch.
Someone has limited that the back
bone of the drouth is broken.
An opening bali and wine supper 5;
a couple-is on the bills, to be given as
soon as the opera house is completed
| AS much as 100000 acres will be sowr
to wheat in this county the coming fall
and the probabilities are that the
county will then rank first as wheat
producing county. At present it ranks
second in the state.
The. Olivet M. E. church of Barton
county has been chartered with the fol
lowing trustees: L. W. Johnson, J. c.
Lowry, J. N. Watson, Charles Linde1
and VIM. Logan. They expect to erect
La building a short distance north OF
Boyd station.
Barton county has 100000 acres OF
growing wheat that is looking its very
best at the present time and promises
to yield an abundant harvest. If the
crop averages as high as it did three
year ago in this county-a little over q
bushels to the acre-the total yield will
be something like 4,4OO,0OO bushels
but if we get aone-third of this amount
and a fair price the farmers will make
money off of the crop. Barton is fast
becoming one of the richest counties
of the state and we anticspate a big
rise in the price of farm lands.
| From the Blade
A move is on foot for county fail
to be held at the county seat this fall
Why not?
The old saying that we cannot get toe
much rain has located further west
with general headquarters.
We understand the north part of the
county has received greater amount
of rainfall than any other section.
The handsome two-story residence OF
VIM. Niblo on West Broadway is re-
ceiving the finishing touches this week
Our ''old settler" friends at Great
Bend are high blooded crowed. They
went to Claflin in special via the hui
on the bobtail.
/ Great Bend has bicycle factory. I!
she has a score or more dudes anG
''masheens" the founders will make {
shit" ''Do you tumble?"
A. Hampel, of Olmutz, was in the
city last week on business. Mr.. Hampe
shipped car load of wheat to Kansa!
City a fewadays ago and while here re
ceived returns which were very salts
factory.
A trip from Hoisington to Grea
Bend by wagon is sufficient to impress
upon ones mind the necessity for i'm
provements in the roads. 1t is shame
that this much Travelled public highwa,
is in such an abandoned condition.
Engineer Scott distributed the cigar
with reckless generosity last week ovel
the advent of the two young engineers
However, they are handsome pair o
boys and Mr.. Scott ought to be helt
blameless for any seemingly quixoti
! actions.
WHEN peoples party men assert tina
there is no difference between the poll
cies of the democratic and republican
parties, they insult the manhood o
every democrat in the land, and onl,
illustrate the fearful lameness of thei
own perceptibility and feebleness o
their minds.