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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Leo Chapman Of the First National
bank is spending Thanksgiving with
his mother at Larned.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Mrs. Nettie Dever has been appoint
ed administrative of the estate of d..
o. Dever, and also clerk of school dis
trict 35, made vacant by the death of
Mr.. Deyer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Willis Bolinger says quarter of a
mile east from Hoisington is as long as
fifteen miles anywhere around Great
Bend. If you want to know the rea-
son why, just pump him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

District court will probably adjourn
Saturday until the next regular term.
The full proceedings OF the present
term will be published next week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The Republican Editorial association
of the Seventh congressional district
meets at Hutchinson on December II.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

OF patients, DR.. Phillips Of Salina, the
celebrated ocnlist, will remain here
three days, Saturday. Monday and
Tuesday, December 4, 9 and 10, at the
Hotel Greene.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Joe TroIllet has been out on the road
selling cigars this week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Mrs. Max Shafer was up from E lin
wood Tuesday. She is much pleased
with her new home.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The second session of the appellate
court will commence on December 8,
at Garden City. Judge Cole is a busy
man at present.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The land in the Cherokee strip is
changing hands. Fully half of those
who went in on the rush have drifted
back to their wife's people for protec-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

We are in receipt of the Amusement
Bulletin, neat periodical devoted to
the stage, platform and sports, pub
lished at Kansas City by Edgar Evans,
who learned his trade in this Office.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Charles Crary, who was formerly a
contractor here in partnership with
Andy Powelson, has moved from Mich
igan to a farm near Winfield.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

There are $50 prisoners in the Kan
sas penitentiary; 638 white males, 4
white females, 204 black males. black
females, 5 Indians and 2 Mexicans.
For life there are 20 males and 1 fe-
male, Al under sentence to hang, 2
United States military and civil pris-
Oners.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Miss frankie Meek acted as sales
lady at the st. Louis store Saturday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The ffty-nInth birthday anniversary
of Mrs. B. Dotson was celebrated last
Wednesday evening by a number of
her friends in a delightful surprise.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Miss Jessie Carpenter, Of Ness City,
enroute home from Texas, where she
spent the summer, visited friends here
on Monday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Appropriate Thanksgiving services
were given in all the rooms of the city
schools yesterday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Many farmers are not through SOW
ing wheat yet.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

This has been the dullest week ever
experienced by the newspaper men in
Great Bend, and it has been almost an
to capture news OF Importance.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Who is the better Christian, the man
who sprinkles ashes on his slippery
sidewalk OF he who prays long and
loudly for the salvation of your soul
and lets it go at that?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The placidity of expression worn by
a man who is next" in a barber shop
cannot be counterfeited.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Social and musical entertainment at
the Congregational church tomorrow
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Barton county has more inmates of
the insane asylum than any county in
Kansas, in proportion to its popula-
ton. And yet there's room for more.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Ferger the barber has a new barber
pole. Besides being headquarters for
the very best in the tonsorial line, Will
is strictly up to date in his general
M q lro1,r,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Will Bunting was home the first of
the week from a ''spiel'' in the interest
of the Collier Publishing company.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

1t requires the sale of twenty-five
first class tickets from Chicago to the
coast each day TO pay the operating ex-
penses of the Santa Fe's new flyer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Mrs. D. G. Luse's mother died at her
home at Durham, Marion county, last
Friday and was inferred on Sunday at
Galva, Kan. Mrs. Luse has the SYM
pathy Of all her friends here in her
bereavement.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

j. B. McCauley. fireman on the Mis-
souri, Pacific branch, now occpies the
Schermerhorn property.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Here you are. ladiesl Limberger
cheese laid away in cupboards will
drive away ants, 1t viii also driye a
hog from its feed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

S.J. Shaw, Charley Morrison, Charley
Allison. Will Kelly, Mart keenan, and
Will E. Stoke went over to the Stanley
Siddorn shooting benefit at Hoisington
Tuesday afternoon. They went after
turkeys-and got 'em-a wagon load.
Shaw and Kelly were the crack shots
of the gang, but out Of sympathy for
the two Charles let them win most of
the fowls. The turkey shoot, under
the management of the railroad boys,
was success, and netted the fund
quite 2 neat sum.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

We learn that Mrs. Anna Chapman
and family will soon move from Larned
to this place and occupy their east side
home
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

w. e. Carr was given the fraternaI
degree in the Woodmen Monday night
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Miss Florence Townsley is home
from Washburne college, Topeka, for
Thanksgiving.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

j. r. Baker and wife of PaWnee
Rock were in the city last Thursday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

G. L. Chapman and wife returned
Monday from their visit to Kansas
City.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Parties wishing their letters to go
through in hurry should write ''in
haste'' on the lower left hand corner of
us that when these magic words appear
on the envelope everybody connected
with the postal service jumps around
lively. Charley Vancil whips his horse
into trot, the postmaster dances a jig
and the route agent rushes forward
and tells the engineer to pull the
throttle wide open and let 'er go.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

G. w. Goss of Colorado, an old army
friend of Bob Bailey, visited here Sat-
urdaY
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The st. Louis store has new ad to-
day. They are making things hum.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

j. F. Hess went to Kansas City las!
Thursday on professional business.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Misses Seward and Compton of AL.
den were guests of Mrs. EIbert Seward
last week
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

opera house Wednesday evening, De-
cember IL.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

George Greene, Jr, thinks Prof. An
dress has the cutest monkey he ever
saw.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The jury in the case of Francis VS..
Griffith returned verdict in favor of
Mr.. Griffith, after being out forty-eight
hours. This suit was brought by Miss
Ella Francis to recover possession of a
piano taken by Theo Guiffith to satisfy
a claim for groceries. The former
trials of the case resulted in one hung
jury and the granting of a new trial
The costs have run up to considerable
sum, and MIR. Griffith is receiving the
congratulations of his friends.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Remember the date and save your
money for musical treat. The chorus
of twenty of Great Bends finest ladies
given in costume is worth the admis-
sion alone. Prof. Carr's orchestra will
discourse sweet strains. There will be
banjo, guitar, mandolin and either
solos, all for the small sum of zoe. For
the benefit of the Episcopal and Pres
byterian churches. At the opera house
December IL.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

A notable event at Clafiin on Monday
of last week was the birth of son to
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. A. Cooke of the
Leader. From rumors that reached
us from the north side last week we
judge that the earth was thrown off its
balance, the north pole twisted and
Cow creek running due west. Any
way, here's congratulations to the
happy parents and hoping the young
ster will grow to be even a greater man
than his pa
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Axell Wemmergren painted the Oh
mitZ church last week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The revival at the Methodist church
is still in progress.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The goose bone and the corn husk
both predict cold and prolonged win
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

w. Torrey left Tuesday for Wichita
20 assume his duties as agent for the
Santa Fe at that place.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Fine skating ON the river and ponds
che first of the week, bnt the warm
sunshine of Tuesday spelled the sport.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Maud Griffith, Ella Klein, Frank
Wilson, Frank Patterson, r. P. Typer,
Charles Brinkman. Ira Brougher, Mrs
Bayer, Joe Bayer, Mart keenan,, Geo.
Turner, Willis Bolinger and Charley
Zutavern were among the number who
attended the Stanley Siddorn benefit
ball at Hoisington Tuesday evening.
About fifty couples were present and a
general good time was had by all.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The county treasurer's Office
been newly papered.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

A gir, baby was born to Mr- and
Mrs. Sol Degen at Clinton, Mo-, last
~vook
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

The Hoisington Dispatch has found
. jewel in 'Sam Wick" its Albion
correspondent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

No school today nor tomorrow.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
A TREAT Is COMING!
The Oriole Club Books at Attrac-
ton of a High Order.
The Famous 6faytOn Jubilee Singers
10 Come TO Great Bend-They
Are the Finest ON Earth.


LII lovers Of good
music will be de
lighted to find that
the Oriole Club has
succeeded in clos
ing a contract with
the famous Slayton
jubilee singers, the
finest organization
of the kind in ex-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Look at the New York stores new
sd. These people are offering great
bargains.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Reno county stands first in cattle
and corn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

viii Rankin was down from Utic
the first of the week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

D.N. Heizer came in Saturday from
Iowa.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
DR.. Philips December 7, 9 and 10.

DIR. Philips December 7. 9 and 10.
!
Many farmers are not through SOW
ing wheat yet.
Joe Trolllet has been out on the road
selling cigars this week.
Miss frankie Meek acted as sales
lady at the ST. Louis store Saturday.
W. e. Carr was given the fraternaI
degree in the Woodmen' Monday night.
Social and musical entertainment at
the Congregational church tomorrow
night.
Don't fail to hear the concert at the
opera house Wednesday evening, De-
cember IL.
Miss Florence Townsley is home
from Washburne college, Topeka, for
Thanksgiving.
Appropriate Thanksgiving services
were given in all the rooms of the city
schools yesterday.
wood Tuesday. She is much pleased |
with her new home.
Leo Chapman Of the First National |
bank is spending nksgiving with
his mother at Larned.
DR.. Phillips of Salina at the Hotel |
Greene on Saturday, Monday and Tues
day, December 2, 9 and 10.
Union Thanksgiving services at the
Congregational church to-day at II a.
m. Rev. Davis will preach.
The Republican Editorial association
of the Seventh congressional district !
meets at Hutchinson on December II. |
We learn that Mrs. Anna Chapman |
and family will soon move from Larned |
to this place and occupy their east side |
home.
Miss Jessie Carpenter, Of Ness City, |
enroute home from Texas, where she
spent the summer, visited friends here
on Monday.
This has been the dullest week ever
experienced by the newspaper men in
Great Bend, and it has been almost an
to capture news Of Importance.
District court will probably adjourn
Saturday until the next regular term.
The full proceedings OF the present
term will be published next week.
Barton county has more inmates of
the insane asylum than any county in
Kansas, in proportion to its popula-
tion. And yet there's room for more
The land in the Cherokee strip is
changing hands. Fully half of those
who went in on the rush have drifted
back to their wife's people for protec-
tion.
Ferger the barber has a new barber
pole. Besides being Headquarters for
the very best in the tonsorial line, Will
is strictly up to date in his general
makeup.
Who is the better Christian, the man
who sprinkles ashes on his slippery
sidewalk or he who prayS long and
loudly for the salvation of your soul
and lets it go at that?
Willis Bolinger says a quarter of a
mile east from Hoisington is as long as
fifteen miles anywhere around Great
Bend. If you want to know the rea-
son why, just pump him.
We are in receipt of the Amusement
Bulletin, neat periodical devoted to
the stage, platform and sports, pub
lished at Kansas City by Edgar Evans,
who learned his trade in this Office.
Mrs. D. g. Luse's mother died at her |
home at Durham, Marion county, last |
Friday and was inferred on Sunday at |
Galva, Kan. Mrs. Luse has the SYM
pathy Of all her friends here in her |
bereavement.
On account of his increased number |
of patients, DR.. Phillips Of Salina, the |
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28
Mrs. D. Page is i'll.

Mrs. D. Page is i'll.
F. V. Russell visited Wichita last
week.
Hicks says we are to have a hard
winter.
w. M. Chatten of Claflln was here
Saturday.
Sheriff Brown of Rush county was
here Saturday.
Charley Morrison Saturdayed in the
city Of Hutchinson.
VIII Rankin was down from Utica
the first of the week.
The county treasurer's Office has
been newly papered.
Axell Wemmergren painted the Oh
mitZ church last week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Charley Morrison Saturdayed in the
city Of Hutchinson.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

No school today nor tomorrow.
D.N. Heizer came in Saturday from
Iowa.
Reno county stands first in cattle
and corn.
The revival at the Methodist church
is still in progress.
The St. Louis store has new ad to-
day. They are making things hum.
The goose bone and the corn husk
both predict cold and prolonged win
ter.
A CIR, baby was born to Mr. and
Mrs Sol Degen at Clinton. Mo-, last
week.
Look at the New York stores new
I'D. These people are offering great
bargains.
The Hoisington Dispatch has found
q Jewel in "Sam Wick" its Albion
correspondent.
w. Torrey left Tuesday for Wichita
90 assume his duties as agent for the
Santa F.. At that place.
Fine skating ON the river and ponds
the first of the week, bnt the warm
sunshine of Tuesday spelled the sport.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

F. v. Russell visited Wichita last
week
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

| Hicks says we are to have a hard
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Z are once more assigned the
cNS4IE5Ie painful task of chroniclinp
I0NI9 an awful misfortune that be-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

Sheriff Brown of Rush county was
here Saturday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-11-28

city or Hutchinson.
Will Rankin was down from Utica
the first of the week.
The county treasurer's Office has
been newly papered.
Axell Wemmergren painted the Oh
mitz church last week.
j. F. Hess went to Kansas City last
Thursday on professional business.
J. R. Baker and wife of Pawnee
Rock were in the city last Thursday.
George Greene, Jr.. thinks Prof. An
dress has the cutest monkey he ever
saw.
G. L. Chapman and wife returned
Monday from their visit to Kansas
City.
G. w. Goss of Colorado, an old army
friend of Bob Bailey, visited here Sat-
urday.
Misses Seward and Compton of AL
den were guests of Mrs. EIbert Seward
last week.
J. B. McCauley. fireman on the Mis-
souri, Pacific branch, now occpies the
Schermerhorn property.
Will Bunting was home the first of
the week from ''spiel'' in the interest
of the Collier Publishing company.
The second session of the appellate
court will commence on December 8,
at Garden City. Judge Cole is a busy
man at present.
Here you are, ladiesI Limberger
cheese laid away in cupboards will
drive away ants, 1t will also driye a
hog from its feed.
Charles Crary, who was formerly a
contractor here in partnership with
Andy Powelson, has moved from Mich
igan to farm near Winfield.
1t requires the sale of twenty-five
first class tickets from Chicago to the
coast each day to pay the operating ex-
penses of the Santa Fe's new flyer.
The fifty-nInth birthday anniversary
of Mrs. B. Dotson was celebrated last
Wednesday evening by number of
her friends in delightful surprise.
Mrs. Nettie Dever has been appoint
ed administrative of the estate of D..
o. Dever, and also clerk of school dis
trict 35, made vacant by the death of
Mr. Dever.
We understand that a lodge of the
Mystic Brotherhood, an organization
in behalf of the resubmission of the
prohibitory amendment, is TO be organ
lied in this city.
We were show letter from southern
Ohio yesterday in which the statement
was made that water was selling there
at 40c. barrel. Where, oh where, is
drOutby Kansas?
Prof. Charles Address arrived in the
city Monday. He has been with the
Ringing circus the past season. He
has with him his collection of trained
birds and a monkey.
We learn from the county treasurer
that more taxes have been paid at this
time this year than there was at the
same time last year, and a greater
number are paying in full.
Hardware dealers are having a boom
in locks for coalhouse doors. Great
Bend has people who are never known
to buy coal, but whose ash pile is as
big as anyone's in the spring.
A. i. Hager. who formerly conduct
ed the Grand Central hotel (now Hotel
Greene) in this city, and later a hotel
at Cherryvale, is now manager Of the
Hotel Greenwood, at Eureka, Kan.
Corn sells on the streets by the load
at 20c busheI, but there are q good
many horses t0 be seen around whose
conditions would indicate that it was
selling 1T fivs,or SIX times this sum.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-11-16

Persian coloring Of gorgeous hues
and in most intricate designs will be
seen in new taffetas for autumn. In.
deed, there are many novel suggestions
for taffeta. 1t is to take on a sheen
and ~softness not hitherto seen in It,
which will recall the famous Venetian
silks of old times. The blending OF
two colors only is to be superseded by
three or four colors shot together In
chameleon fashion, then dotted with
satin or striped or plaided with still
another color. The Louis XVI. stripes
Of flowers Of natural hues will be very
attractive brocaded on taffeta grounds
Of light pink, mauve, yellowish green,
or gray, closely dotted or striped with
black in exceedingly small specks and
lines. Most elegant of all is the velvet.
figured taffeta for Louis XVI. coats
that are to form . part Of the most Gle.
CANT gowns of next winter. In these
the background Of taffeta IL illumi,
mated in colors like those of stained.
glass windows, and sometimes o MORE
effect is added. Then over the whole
Is a design of velvet Of close pile, ris.
Ing from the surface in curves and
arabesques in coloring of great beauty.
That 1t may not be too gorgeous the
figures are darker rsually than the
notified background.-Harper's Bazaar.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-11-16

INNOVATIONS.

TIE first colored man to work on .
street chr in Detroit was appointed
motorman on one OF the trolley cars
running on the principal route In the
city q few days ago.
SOME people In White Pigeon, Mich,
assert that their horses are frightened
by the appearance Of women in bloom
ers. and the city council has been po-
titioned to prevent women from going
on tho streets in those garments.
TIE south maintains its reputation
for conservatism. 1t is noted as an In
teresting piece of news In several Vir
ginia newspapers that recently . young
woman bicyclist has appeared In New
port News wearing boomers.
, SAN FnANcIsco's fire department
committee has declared against tall
buildings and recommended the pas
sage of on ordinance prohibiting the
erection Of freproof buildings OF
a greater height than 100 feet, and
providing that buildings that are not
f,reproof shall not exceed eighty feet
In height.
TIE first penny postto be established
in this country was In 1853 In Philadel.
phia, and two years later was extended
into New England by Benjamin Frank
lin. 1t was not until 1868 that the car
rier system was inaugurated by tho
post Office department.