Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-20
Last Saturday there were three per-
sons convicted OF manslaughter in this

state.
ALI county warrants outstanding
against Harvey county are now paid
on presentation.
The farmers of Wichita county have
wheat to sell, and it brings fifty eight
cents bushel.
Marshal county poultry raisers sold
eggs and chickens to the amount of
So, 600 last year.
NJ d. Proctor of Chetopa recently
sold his pacing mare .'Wannita'' to
Sedalia man for 81 800.
The Ottawa school board has just
closed contract for new $4,000
school building. The strength of Kan
sas lies in her school houses.
Tim Mccarthy entertained his ''gen-
tlemen friends" at whist and boned
turkey one evening last week. Now,
what sort of hen does Timothy pro-
pose to set?
Lille Pritchett, a young colored
girl, is the Pleasanton Obser ver's
Spring Valley correspondent, and her
copy" spelling, punctuation and
Z
Marriage in a number of cases does
not seem to have been a success in
Labette county. There are twenty
! one cases for divorce on the docket for
the next term of court.
An Atchison girl gads about visit
ing at Leavenworth, Topeka and 9TH
er places near by so much that Jerry
Black and Charley Styles give her re-
duced Ia ties on the trains
Abe Stauffer, in addition to run
! ming the Liberal News, speculates
little on the side. and also is in part
nership with a mascot in the cattle
: business over in No-Man Stand
The artesian wells on j. c.. Mart's
farm in Meade county are flowing
. abundantly. One of the eXpecta ito rs
of the state irriga ton board is to find
this water in ad iacent counties.
The hen is doing her share of the
! worlds work in Wichita county. A
single dealer shipped $3.50 eggs last
week. from one of the smallest towns
in the eastern part of the county.
C. c. Ross. who was given a ten
! years sentence to the penitentiary
F, from Cowley county in 1891, for rob
berry, applied for pardon at the Jan
uary meeting of the board, and was
| refused.
The Household Communion Metho-
| distS' are having a great run Of luck
| among the negroes, of Leavenworth.
! They believe in weekly baths, and the
white folks are giving them all the
encouragement possible.
A prominent citizen of Lawrence,
| Harry Butland, secretary of /. o. o. f.
! there, died of a complaint so peculiar
! that a post norton was held and the
| discovery was made that copper cant
| in his stomach had poisoned him to
death.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Critchield settled in
Mitchell county more than twenty
years ago with only forty cents in
cash. While the husband has been
/ industrious with his crops and stock,
| the wife has been raising chickens
| and cows, the product from which has
amounted to over $1,000, which she
! has saved for rainy day.
L nfeo nOl1UnS ago EDWARD Davis OF
Wichita county advertised for wife
! Alice Meyers of Dickinson county saw
| in the advertisement the opportunity
! of her life, and she nailed it to the
! the cross. She opened a correspond
! ence. photographs were exchanged,
a bargain struck ard last week they
met face to face for the first time.
| when they were married.
+: A Butler county school teacher
named Art Peffiey. has a bright school
| of willing hands as well as earnest
| hearts. The teacher and boys have
! laid a nice stone walk from the school
| house to the road. Now they are en-
| gagged in cutting the high grown hedge
! into fence posts and wood which are to
| be sold and the proceeds to be applied
! to the purchase of books for the dis
] trict library.
Mrs. Roseberry of Linn county
| widow Of Captain Thomas III. Rosebel
ry, was in Washington recently and
| obtained permission from the War de-
partment to be buried beside her hus-
! band in the national cemetery at Fort
| Scottswhen she dies. Mrs. Roseberry
| is So years eold. Her father, Colonel
! Reese Hill, served under General Har-
rison in the war of 1872, and her hus-
| Band in a Missouri infantry regime n t.