Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02

one evening recently, and succeeded
! in clearing So.
| The merchants of Jewell City take
an hour off twice a eyeek to attend af-
ternoon prayer meeting. George Case
lives in that town.
/, A Glen Elder man caught 800 fish
| ont of the Solomon last week. They
presumably passed Lawrence before
! the dam was built.
Toliver Bird, the Hon" who re-
Gently was given his old position of
| janitor of the supreme court rooms,
belongs to Topeka's negro swelldom.
| DIR. Mabel Spencer, a Kansas City
woman has beenO appointed county
physician of Riley county. the first
woman in Kansas to receive such an
appointment.
| According to the Star and Kansan,
Montgomery's corn crop was not suf-
| ficient for home consumption, and
| dealers are shipping in from Harper
and Kingman counties.
sMonty' Montgomery, the rainma-
ker, has gone to the gold mines of Col
| orado, where the Goodland Republic
says he has enough stuff in sight to
| make him comforta BILE the rest of his
life.
A Harper county paper has put up a
crib to accommodate farmers who
want to pay their subscriptions, back
and front, in corn. It allows twenty
five cents bushel, and collections are
good.
Twenty Thousands bushels of corn
are in crib at Jewell City, and the fell
lows who have money are in the mar
ket for more. The Kansas farmers
and dealers are dealers in cad earn
est, and no corn will move at present
prices.
President Weller of Central college,
Abilene, has accepted the pastorate of
the United Brethren church of Spring;
field, and left Monday for his new field
of labor. Mrs. Weller remained in
Abilene and will6be the nominal head
of the school.
A man in Topeka found piece of
horse collar in railroad sandwich he
was eating and made an awful roar
about it. But he ought to have known
that even the generosity ef Fred Har3
vey would not allow whole horse to-
90 with ten cent sandwich.
Down at Erie a minister delivered
two lectures entitled ''That old maid
and ''The Plague of Old Bachelors"
which would no doubt would haye in
many instances suited the bachelors
better by the delivery Of one lecture
with Com bination of the titles.
L Galena and it's tributary mining
camps are to have an electric railway.
There is fear that the Joplin system
may hook on it and give cheap traEs-
portation to another trade center, but
Weldy says in the Republican that
Galena is big enough to hold its own
against Joplin or any other town.
Mr.. A. Rosaker of Stafford county
believes in Kansas. He is the proud
possessor of 300 acres of land, 335
cattle, 200 hogs, good buildings and
every convenience and money-making
and saving device. He has a large
windmill, used for several different
purposes, pumping water, grinding
feed, etc. Irrigation of a garden and
fruit trees IS another one of his fail
ings. He has about sixty acres of
alfalfa
In the fourteen counties lying west
of the east lines of Jewell and Mitch
ell counties, Frank Kiser, missionary
of the American Sunday School union,
has, since 1885, organized 34S schools
for IL, Isl children and 1,264 teacherst
travelled &c, 3OS miles; made 1893 house
visitat tons; distributed 1875 Bibles;
collected or otherwise received So, OH
in aid of 562 schools; organized 1877
churches out of schools, and estab-
lished $50 mission points.
The Garnett Eagle is opposed to the
proposed curfew bell in that town. alt
thinks the o4ss fashioned way of keep
ing boys at home cannot be improved
upon. 1t says: .'When we were kids
our mothers used piece of barrel
stave for curfew, which brought US
in quicker than any bell would have
done, and if mothers would use these
same persuaders now there would be
no need to ring BELLS" The Eagle
man presumably never sneaked out
over the kitchen roof after he had
gone to bed. It is for such kids that
the curfew is intended.
An Atchison mortgage bid in a tract