Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-09-19

National Bank of Great Bend; On &C
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36s6-Emily Shugart vs.. Henry
Shugart, suit for divorce. alinony and
custody of children.
Mormops gather at St. John, Stafford
county, on Thursday from all parts of
the country to dedicate the only Nor
mon church east of the Rockies. When
polygamy became the feature of the
Mormon religion. a Virginian named
Bickert0H was commanded of the Lord
to scceGe and travel west. Coming to
the valley where st. john Is now locat-
ed in 1870, Bickerton was orde,ed in a
vision to plant the stake of Zion. In
obedience be drove wagon spoke into
hill, and Went east to organize his
colony. Returning he could not find
the stake of ZION, and built the church
Oh the wrong hill. After st. John was
founded the Mormon church went to
pieces and the building was turned in
to-a dance house. Last year while a
cellar Was being dug, the original stake
of Zion was found. The Mormons,
thinking the failure of the former col
ony was on account of its being located
on the wrong hill, bought the lot where
the stake was found and built church
there. Dedication festivities and
prayer of weeks duration are in pro-
gress.
Turned Eagle Optic: J[cs G.
Krouch and daughter, Lena, went to
Great Bend Tuesday evening on a visit
to the family of G. Samules.. Pawnee
Rock is the quietest town in Kansas
since the camp meeting closed. =. Ed
Wheeler will leave OF "r about the 2Sth
instant for Kansas City, where he will
become student at the Kansas City
Dental College. 49,. Ernest Smith has
come back to stay. Some time ago he
sold out his interest in the store at
Pawnee Rock and Wen. to north west
ern Missouri where he engaged in the
hardware business. Later he traded
the store for farm north of Emporia.
dent of Pawnee Rock. j. G. Strang,
formerly one of the Kansas supreme
court commissioners, is soon to marry
a wealthy widow of Guthrie, Oklaho-
ma. Judge Strang's second wife has
been dead about two years.
Salina Herald: George Bostic, the
boy who broke jail here on Fourth of
July with James Ramsey, has been
heard from again. Last Saturdays
Kansas City Star contained the news
of the arrest of boy there by the name
of Bostic, charged with being a fugi-
tive from the reform school. Sheriff
Anderson at once telegraphed the au-
thorities who made the arrest that
Bostic was wanted here for burglary
He received news that the boy had
been sent to the reform school from
Barton county, and had been recon
mitted to that institution until he be-
comes of age. 1t will be remembered
broke into farm house north of town
last spring, and whose trial was to
have taken place at this term of court.
Hoisington Dispatch: The DEMO
Graf has come out as a seven column
folio all home print. WEIGH Bros. are
getting out a newsy paper J. G.
Campbell and family expect to return
to their former home in south eastern
Ohio. ----.The many friends of j. C.
formerly of this city but
now located at Ottawa, Illinois, will be
panied to learn of his having lost an
arm. The editor of the DEMOCRAT
has again added a neat and newsy i'm
provement to his paper, making it a
seven column folio, and thus he is
chalking down more subscribers day
after day.
A lawyer of this city was reminde d
of the lung power he used in a speech
before a jury, in a Justices court.
While he was within two feet of the
jury, he was heard more than a block