Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-05

Liberal is becoming noted as health
resort.
Dell Valentine sounds a warning to
men against the typewriter girl
The Hiawatha academy and High
school seniors viii edit the World on
December 81
Two full moons will come in Decem-
Der. That means 81 days of cold
weather for Kansas.
Fourteen extra fine spring pigs,
raised in Chautauqua county this year
weighed $3.50 pounds.
A Leavenworth firm furnished 400
turkeys for the old vetarans at the
Soldiers home for Thanksgiving.
Some counties complain of typhoid
fever and diphtheria, but think of Re-
public county with its newspaper
quarrel.
General Columbus Borin delivered a
lecture at Lacrosse on "Lines and
Spaces" and as usual ''drew a full
house"
The postoffice at Austin will be dis
continued after December 80. This
| will be an Inconvenience to grea {;
many people.
A Telephone company with lines
running from Ellsworth to Annapolis,
has been chartered with a capital
stock of $4,000.
On the day Carl, son of Treasurer OF
State Anterior, died, his cousin and
| mill in Pennsylvania.
Dock Tennal of the Atchison Globe
has joined foot ball club. Tennal is
the Office fighting man and foot ball
will keep him in trim.
A mad dog bit all the other dogs in
Alta Vista last week, and the people
have set a price on the heads of all
CANNES in that vicinity.
Editor Mulvane timidly ventures
this observation in the capital: ''There
will be plenty of Turkey in Europe
this year, but no Thanksgiving"
The Rock Island is putting in a dam
at Phillipsburg and next will put one
in at Smith Center. The latter will
cause an extensive lake to form.
A Stafford county man recently lost
600 gallons of sorghum molasses by
fire. But George Burr is still alive and
sweet enough for the whole county.
The Usage Carbon companys pay roll
on Saturday was $40, 453 90. They al
so paid 1860 to the Scandinavian com
pany. At Scranton their pay roll was
Sc, 8S9.73.
Bessie Hayes and Gracia Hart, in ad-
dition to being active workers in the
Topeka Suffrage club, find time to do
special reporting for the newspapers
occasionally.
The ladies who went on the North
west editorial excursion to Hot Springs
testify that Charley Styles is a good
nurse. There is always something of
this kind coming out on Styles.
The two school teachers who do bus
mess at Grainfie1d, unable to conquer
the big boys, have been elected con-
stobles and now things will run along
smoothly in educational circles there.
AS fast as a Kansas man scrapes to-
gether money enough to take the la
test lodge degrees, high grands come
along with something still higher and
then the pinching and saving begins
again.
A New York man has notified the
| people of Leavenworth that the grave
| of Col. Henry Leavenworth at Delhi,
| N. Y, is in a neglected condition.
| The city, county and fort were named
| for the colonel.
Ida Clark, the Leavenworth girl
who went on the stage, has advanced
rapidly and is now the leading woman
| in the Princess Bonnie Willard opera.
A Kansas man who saw her in New
York recently speaks very highly of
her ability.
| J. M. Idol, who died at his home
| near White Cloud last week, was one
of the oldest residents of that part of
| Kansas. He had lived in the neigh
| borhood most of the time since 1856,
and continuously on one farm since
1868. He was in Washington terrific
! ry from 1861 to 1866.
The brewery sidewa TX just outside
of the town limits of Atchison is to be
repaired by the city council before
winter sets in. Ordinarily when a
| hole comes in an Atchison sidewalk it
! comes to stay, but the brewery walk
ranks up with the walks in the vicini-
of the homes of the town aldermen.
W. FL. Orvis, a well known citizen
! near Eureka, was found in his room
| Wednesday in a moribund condition