Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-03-19

peaches are not dead but sleeping.
The farmers of Southern Kansas re-
joice over the prospect of the largest
yield of wheat in many years
When the Westmore1and Record is
shy of editorial matter, it explains
that it was done to economic time. }"
This month has five Sundays, five
Mondays and five Tuesdays Some
thing had to happen when it came In,
SO a big snow storm is with us.
The title to 800 acre farm in Atch-
ison county was quieted in court re-
Gently. The lawyers received $50 acres
of the land and 500 in cash as their
fees.
A Doniphan county man will plant
forty acres to sassafraS this spring
and make the leaves up into cigarettes
for the cure of the tobacco smoking
habit.
for the treatment of consumptives.
The altitude is said to be, just right,
and DIR. f. III. Smith has got the hang
on the Edison cure.
Sol Miller asks what has become of
the rid fashioned boy that used to
swap knives ''sight unseen" He is
still on deck, but he does business
ssside and unseen"
The average salary paid the minis
Methodist Episcopal church is 1925 a
year. The average salary in the
Atchison district, the best paid in the
conference, is 1897, or about $40 a
month.
Cornelius Driscoll, an old resident of
Cloud county, residing ten miles south
west of Concordia, was found dead
in an old cornfield near his home. He
had driven his cattle into the field and
was watching them feed, when it is
supposed he had sudden attack of
heart trouble
gang of street men were employed
to clean up and flush the cutters at
Leavenworth Monday. Water was
turned on from two-inch hose. A
large number of minnows, the kind
used by fisherman to lure croppie and
bass, passed through the nozzle, swan
along the cutters and finally dropped
into the sewers and out of sight.
j. T. Longs Kentucky emigrant car
has arrived in Lane Monday, bringing
seventy people from the blue grass
state. They will farm the lands of
Mr.. Long. For the past five years Mr..
Long has been inducing men in West
Virginia and Kentucky to invest in
Kansas soil, and each year he has in
creased the number of emigrants to
that place.
The council cham Der was crowded at
the last meeting of the commercial
club at Coffeyville The committee to
secure cash and grain subscriptions
for the new mill have been well re-
ceived and there is no question but
what the required amount will be
| raised. A charter has been applied
for and new members are being taken
in daily. The mill is sure go.
A Galena woman asked Colonel Vel
dy to write mice piece for her on
her birthday, and this is what he
wrote Whatever may be said of
Tennie's mental strength or moral
| standing, she is an Industrious woman
| having worked hard all her life. and
| by strict economy has secured little
| home in which she celebrates this
birthday and, we hope, may enjoy
many others"
| A middle aged woman giving the
name of Mrs. Mary Watson, was dis
covered in a sealed box car on the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
road at Fort Scott Friday morning.
| She had been locked in the car a day
and night and had lived without
| food and water. She said she got in
| the car at Ash Grove, Mo, intending
| to ride to Kansas City, not suspecting
| the car would be delayed. When
| found, she was faint for want of food
| Russell Smith met with a horrible &C
| cident at WelIsville, near Ottawa. Oh
/! Wednesday, resulting in the loss Of
several fingers. He was engaged in
operating corn crusher and in mo-
ment of inadvertence got one hand
too far into the jaws of the machine
! and it was caught by the rollers. Re-
alizing his danger, as the arm was
drawn in by the resistless gear he
braced himself and by a desperate eff
| fort wrenched his hand from the teeth
terribly lacerated. One finger wa:
torn off at the knuckle and part of an
other was left in the machine. TIL,
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