Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
AND THAT IS

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
The boys are now laying up their
dimes and njckles. against circus day.
John Banner, of Pawnee Rock town
ship, was doing business in Great Bend
last Friday.
Coupling dogs and tin cans Is anoth-
er spring time sport (?) the town boys
are INDUCING in.
John Everett, of Heller, was down
to the county seat Monday. Had
big rain up there, he says.
at this time of the year the ladies
have the exclusive prerogative to ask
Where did you get that hat2"
It is something unusual to hear so
much complaint about bad roads as IS
heard in this county this spring.
w. M. Zieber, the Pawnee Rock
nursery man, was doing business in
Great Bend the first of the week.
Prices on horses are improving. A
good sized work animal can now lind
ready sale at reasonable price.
II is queer why some women will go
into the divorce courts and spend $50
to get divorce from % cent man.
The Greceo-Turkish war cloud has
burst. Now if the Greeks will bust
the bloody Turks some more whole
world will applaud.
The welcome and refreshing min.
istrations of the street sprinkler are
now numbered among the luxuries
Great Blenders enjoy.
Sewing Machines, warranted for five
years, $19. Drop head Machine at $25.
Come and see them-no pot metal.
THE GREAT BEND IMPLEMENT Co.
When the air ship passes oyer Great
Bend the man who manipulates the
changeable lights holds his nose when
he passes over some of the back alleys
Bicycles have been rather useless
vehicles so far this spring. The roads
just get dry enough for wheeling, when
another rain will soak them up again,
Have you noticed that some men are
like postage stamps: When they get
stuck on themselves they are not worth
two cents for any practical purposes.
The DEMOCRAT moves that a com
mittee of hustlers be appointed to get
under way arrangements for big 4th
of July celebration at Great Bend this
year.
The big Ringing show does not stop
between Hutchinson and Great Bend
and Dodge City, so the show here will
draw from a radius of forty miles in all
directions.
Anyone desiring to take a train at
Ellin wood, Hoisington, Pawnee Rock
or Clafiin, can find time cards for
trains leaving those towns, in the
DEMOCRAT.
Say, you man with an orchard full
of bloom, have yon sprayed those trees
yOV9 "A httiO AAObOy anu tlAO ca pCh0
ed in spraying the orchard may insure
you crop.
Ringing Bros. famouos and popular
circus represents cash Investment of
$1,000, 600. The cost of operating this
stupendous enterprise will be over
81 200, 900 this season.
Ringing Bros. Worlds Greatest
Shows has been fully doubled in size
since last season, and is undoubtedly
the largest combined circus, menagerie
and hippodrolne ever organized.
The high school kids fixed up ten.
mis- court on Broadway recently; but as
it was used more for "court'' than
tennis some of the mothers objected,
and it now lies in inocuous disuetude.
The Toledo Bee says: There is
something radically wrong when poor
man who steals a bucket of coal from
a railroad is sent to the workhouse,
and a rich man who steals railroad IS
sent to the Senate. Now isn't there?n
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