Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-22

Resolved-That appropriate emblems
of mourning be adopted as required by
our order and that these resolutions be
placed on the records of the lodge and
that copy be sent to our bereaved
brother and also copy to each of our
county papers for publication.
MISS EMMA ZIMMEHT,
Committee. : MRS. ANNA MILLER,
MRS. MARGUERITE EBY.
The new M. E. church in Eureka
township will be dedicated on next
Sunday, June 25th. DR.. M. E. Philips,
of Winfield, Kansas, will preach the
dedicatory sermon. Services will COM
mence at II q. m. A cordial invita-
ton is extended to all to attend the
services.
A Methodist campmeeting will be
held at Albert, beginning August 10Th
and continuing to the Oath. 1t will be
conducted by Rev. F. F. Bernstorf of
Bushton, assisted by neighboring
pastors. A limited number of tents
can be rented, at so for the season.
on application to Rev. Rubicam.
Remember the date-August Is to
oath.
A few of the fall, hnarted pioneers
of counties west of this are slowly
vending their way eastward to their
"wives' people" while the determined,
strongwilled and enterprising true
American citizen is driving his stakes
more firmly into the hard baked
ground, knowing full well that the
"stayer" is the man who will win in
western Kansas.
Every body who visited the World
Fair also visited the Kansas building,
and many are the words of praise of
our states fine exhibit made by the
papers of other states; and yet Pa.
Townsley has been in Chicago couple
of weeks and has not written q word
of praise of the Kansas exhibit.
| What's the matter with standing up
for Kansas. old man?
The Kansas City Times of Mon day
morning had an account of the sup
posed elopement of handsome young
married woman, Mrs. John E. Pear
son, of Joplin, Missouri, with Rev.
Leigh Vernon who last year con-
Quoted revival meetings in this city,
and in var GUS other towns in Kansas.
Letters were said to be found which
had passed between the couple that go
to prove their illegal intimacy.
The Select Knights of Great Bend
last week elected the following officers:
II. j. Smith, past commander; G. A.
Hooper, commander; L. NJ. Krause,
| vice commander; w. d. Gould,
lieutenant commander; r. A. Allison,
recorder; N. Smith, treasurer; Fred
Miller. standard bearer; A. H. Mayes,
recording treasurer; Charles Allison
senior warden; u. 81. Hulme, junior
warden; A. H. Connect, medical
examiner; VIM. Kelley, trustee.
Stokey went to a Sunday school
picnic last Saturday. We learn that it
was union Sunday school picnic, that
means that it belongs to no church
which fact accounts for Stokey's
going. Register.
The picnic above referred to-and
the dirty, contemtible sling is the only
reference made to it by the Register
was the one at Buttons grove. 1t was
not picnic that would permit Cara
way to get up and shoot off his mouth
which fact accounts for Caraway's NOT
going.
A young man named Oscar Har-
pole, about "a years old, was brake
man on the Santa Fe branch, and
when switching at or near Baziae, in
Ness county, Friday evening, fell
between the engine and freight car
and was run over by the engine and
tender. His head was cut off, and his
body horribly mangled and crushed.
His home was at Hutchinson, where
he leaves wife and two small chill
dren. He was a member of the A. 0.
u. w. at Hutchinson, and the remains
were buried there Sunday.
LOWER the r. r. fare for the fair to
the Fair, and it is fair to presume that
the affair will be attended by double
the numbers of the fair that now at
tend the Fair. Is not this fair prop
ositiOn?
The devil dances hornpipe every
time republican politician brags
about the beauties of prohibition in
Kansas.