Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-09-26

Cone, photographer, is now located
at Dodge City.
Miss Ada Eppstein is hack from her
EmpOria visit.
&C. Edwards of EmpOria was in
our city Saturday.
Henry Tyler came in Sunday from
the eastern part of the state.
Pete Connolly of Beaver township
came in from the strip Monday.
Section Foreman Kitchen has been
assigned to the Rush Center division.
Look up the reduced rates offered by
the Santa Fe to points east and west.
Dr.. Shaw Sundayed in Hutchinson,
where his daughter, Vida, was visiting.
Ira Brougher came in Tuesday night
from the Louisville eneampment and 2
tour in the south.
j. J. Winterburg attended Sunday
school picnic at EImdale last Saturday
and reports fine time.
". NJ. Gage and wife and y. S. Hays
and wife ara attending the Grand
Army encampment at SaIina.
The hot weather has had very de-
pressing effect on Judge McCorkle. He
is almost out of practice in kissing q
bride.
E. r. Moses of this city has been
elected chairman of the executive COM
mittee OF the national irrigation con-
gress.
Owing to the cold wave the colored
Methodists did not hold divine services
in the park Sunday, as they contem-
plated.
The weather previous to Saturday
was oppressive and debilitating. Since
that tine it has been frigid and exhIl-
Grating.
The cold wave Sunday morning was
highly appreciated. The hot spell had
made people believe we were not far
from sheol.
Mrs. Ed Grail visited Mrs. T. J.
Flint few days last week while en-
route to her home in Pueblo from a
visit at Emporia.
A Il. Lupfer of Larned, who has re-
presented Pawnee county in the legis
lature for several terms, wants to sue
ceed MiIt Brown as senator.
W. A. BrOdie was down from Beaver
township Saturday and made US a
pleasant call. He says corn is not SO
good in his locality as in other parts of
the county.
Improved farm machinery is forging
to the front. 1t is CLAIMED that two
men, with the latest improved corn
harvester, can cut about 500 shocks of
corn per day.
independence (Mo.) Blade: Ed
Marx, a prominent business man of
Great Bend, Kansas, en- route to st.
Louis, spent Sunday with W. E. Carr,
OF the Blade.
Last week, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday the thermometer registered
over 100 degrees above zero, and the
heat was almost unbearabIe if d person
was in the sun.
It might not be out of place to call
the attention of the various township
trustees to the fire guard law which was
enacted last winter and which should
be rigidIy enforced.
Larned Eagle-Optic: Attorney E.
B. Smith of Great Bend was in this
city Wednesday taking dispositions in
the Larned Great Bend National banks
cases before Notary a. a. Sharp.
If there is anything in the saying
that ''the devil is the only gamer when
a hypocrite joins the church, his
satanic majesty must feel very much
elated over the returns from Great
Bend.
Marshal EwaIt arrested Alice Slower
last Friday on a charge of keeping a
house of i'll fame and she had hearing
on Monday before Police Judge Gun
nell. The case was continued until to-
morrow friday.
The report of the Wells Fargo com-
pany shows that company last year
paid the Santa Fe railroad company
81 $50 600 for the use of express cars
and the privilege of doing business on
that line of road.
J. a. Johnston, south of the river,