Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-14

made for some of the college students |
seems to be towards bridge where
the branch railroad crosses Dry WAL
nut. There appears to be some attrac-
ton under that bridge for young men |
and women of warm blood and inves-
tigating tendencies Whether they
go there to study geometry, botany,
minerology or anatomy, I am not
prepared to say. But they ''get there
just the same" OBSERVER.
Judge Joshua Clayton came up
from New Mexico last week. He had
close call for his life on his way
home. He stepped off the cars at a
small station in Texas. to timber up
his limbs little; just at that moment
an Infatuated Texas cow, which was
being driven by couple of farmers,
spied Judge Clayton, and rushing
upon him knocked him down and
would undoubtedly have gored him
had it not been beaten off. As it was.
he was considerably bruised up.
The match game of ball between
the business blocks, last Thursday
afternoon. resulted in victory for the
south block-21 to 10. Not a very
great victory. we do not feel very sore
over it. What we kick about is, that
ever since the game we have laid
awake nights trying to figure out how
the thought ever entered our head
that we could play base ball like we
used to do twenty years ago.
Gus Fem, of near Heller, received
the sad intelligence, the first of the
this week, that his father had died
suddenly, in St. Louis. Gus left
on Monday morning TO attend the
funeral His father was a prominent
Odd Fellow and United Workman,
and the funeral services took place
under the auspices of those lodges.
If half the sweet smiles some of our
public men bestow upon their lady
friends were reserved for the wives of
said public men, the wives would feel
much more like this world was not
: vale of woe, and the husbands would
find that home comforts and pleasures
were worth much more than superficial
public notice.
GA reader" asks: 'What is social.
ist?" A socialist is fellow who has
nothing, who has not enough manhood
to accumulate something, but who
wants the other fellow who has some
r thing to divide up, and do it over
3 again as soon as the socialist has spent
his divvy. See?
? There are times of criminal incon-
e sistency. A convict recently said he
was sent to prison for being dishonest,
and yet he Is compelled every day to
die out pieces of pasteboard, which are
!. put between the inner and outer soles
of the shoes made there and sold as
solid leather.
q The last rise in the Arkansas river
r was disastrous one for Mr.. Clifford,
west of town few miles. The water
came up over and flooded his fish
ponds, destroying the work of several
, years and letting out his fine stock OF
fish. This will be quite loss to MIR.
Clifford.
The patent medicine show that was
to have taken IN the good people OF
Ellinwood last week probably found
there were not enough suckers in Ell
llnwood to make it pay for the show
1 to stay there-so it came to Great
Bend, opening up here last Thursday
night.
: Go to the ant thou voter, and be
wise. What would you think of an
+, ant hill where half of the ants were
j. starving and the other half had more
tupA thOJ OoI III q Auu0A GU
O years? Would there not be something
o wrong in the government of that ami
q hill?
Here Is our guess on what the
i ticket will be Saturday: Represent
e alive, Cole; Attorney, Nimocks; Pro-
g bate Judge, Ogle; Clerk of Court
f Charles; County Superintendent, Nc.
Kinney; Commissioner, James. w.
got the ''tip" from one on the inside.
e Dave Gray came down from Hois-
it ipgton, Friday, to make it rain ht
Y said. Dave is not like tie the othel
rainmakers, he does Dot charge any
thing for his work, votes as he pleases
and does not care whether schoo
keeps or not.