Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-03-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Oats are being sown in Southern
Kansas.
The junction City creamery makes
over ton of choice butter every week.
A Sumner county expression is that
s'prices are no higher than cats
back unhumped.
The Standard Oil company is put
ting up 200 dericl1s on their ''oily''
property in Wilson county.
A license to sell cigarettes in Pitt
burg costs $500 and but one dealer
there has had the courage 10 try it.
Out in Kingman county recently
girl fired a shotgun into the air in or
der to brighten a dog. She killed the
dog.
Ewing Herbert is still working on
that Florida trip, and at the same
time he insists that his circulation is
increasing.
Bishop Vincent will deliver the bac-
ca1aureate sermon at the commence
ment exercises of the State university
this year.
Bertha Hurst, poor girl who was
deserted by her parents when a baby
and who has since gone wrong. has
been arrested in Ness county and will
be sent to the Beloit school.
A Harper county paper on the last
day of February withdrew its propo-
sition TIC take corn on subscription at
twenty-five cents. This is bad sign
for the corn market in that section.
A Sumner county farmer drove into
town the other day with load of
corn before daylight. He probably
wanted to get it sold before the rail-
roads showed up the corn rate Ii title
higher.
E. E. Houghton, who recently went
from Cowley county to Cripple Creek,
writes back to friends that he rents
his lot which cost him 5000, for SIS
per month. That is fair interest on
the investment.
The recent visit of several hundred
editorial missionaries to Leavenworth
seems to have borne fruit already in
that sinful community. 1t is officially
announced that there is to be no more
Sunday theatricals.
Six young ladies contested at the
high school in Ottawa Tuesday night.
Miss Letto Cham berlain won first place
and will represent the Ottawa high
school in the state con test to be held
in that city April 4th.
Anderson Gray, the man who hyp-
Noticed another man into the commits
sion of murder in Sumner county, has
an easy job in the penitentiary. He
begins to show sign of age, but is
still hopeful Of release.
Mrs. Mabel Jenness Venter is teach
ing the Lawrence ladies how to be
beautiful. We understood from the
Journal that the ladies of Lawrence
could not possibly be more beautiful
and now let the journal explain -
A Coffeyville man, suspecting that
someone was peeping through the
keyhole of his Office door, investigated
with syringe full of pepper sauce
and went home to find that his wife
had been cutting wood and chip had
hit her in the eye.
The average number of bushels of
wheat per acre raised in Cowley coun-
one-half bushels. This puts Cowley
in the lead of wheat growing counties.
Sumner county raised more wheat but
she had in almost twice as many
acres.
Some Galena young men began a
prospect and they named 1T Mae
But, although they dug deep into the
ground and drifted in many directions,
their labor was a dead loA. Then
they took down Mae and put up
MARY" and the next day they cut
into a big run of ore.
The League of American Wheelman
in Kansas is preparing book, descrip-
tive of the roads in each county of the
state. Each county is taken up separ-
ate1y and the best road between the
prime pal towns in that county is
marked out and described It will be
great convenience to persons driving
or s'scorching" over the state
number of leading business men
of Abilene have organized a company
for the purpose of furnishing light,
and the city council will be asked to
pass an ordinance giving franchise
The company intends to use the new
1liuminant. acetylene gas The right