Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-05

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
FOR sALE.-A typewriter, in good |
repairs. Call at this office.
A. S. McCracken went up to Garden |
City Friday, after some cattle.
A bright little girl baby was born to |
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Haege last week.
Most OF the roasting ears were well |
roasted last Sunday and Monday.
Up abou. Verheck the wheat is
yielding from Is to so bushels to the /
acre.
I'll. E. Altman is doing local work on !
the Tribune during the editors alb |
sence.
Meeting of the democrat and popu-
list central committees Saturday of this
week.
To TRADE-A 8 year old mare for a
good family horse. single driver. Call
at this office.
Miss Amy Brown the milliner, left
last Friday on visit to Kinsley for a
few weeks.
Assistant Postmaster Cooke, of the
Ellinwood Leader, was doing business
in town Monday
Remember the Misses Brown. south
side of Forest Avenue, for the latest
millinery, at lowest prices.
0. j. Richards came up from Hutch
lnson last Friday, to look after busi-
ness matters In Great Bend.
Little George Miller, of Buffalo
township, has been visiting with
friends in the city the past week.
Miss Eliza Purviance came out from
Rosedale, Sunday to stay a few weeks
with her sister, Mrs. J. W. Haege.
DR.. FL. E. Lindas has bought the o.
j. Richards residence, in the third |
ward, and will move into it in the fall. |
j. Ill. Monaghan, who has been visit
ing Richard Jett, his brother in-law,
left Monday evening for his home in
Alton, Ill.
Andrew O'BIeniss, who now lives
about 10 miles south of Great Bend, in
Stafford county, was trading in town
last week. {
Mrs. B T. Cutler ard three children
stopped off to visit with her father.
E. Bennett, Sunday on her way home ,
to Ness county. :
Bert Schaeffer, Oldest son of Gus
Schaeffer. has accepted position with {
j. A. REIN and will learn the dry l
goods business
Farmers of this ty WHO are not t
busy threshing are putting in good t
ticks plowing and otherwise getting I
ready to put in the fall crop. {
Ed. M. Traylor, formerly a Cleveland ;
township farmer. but now dealing in .
grain and coal at Hollywood, was do 9
ing business in town "Wednesday of :
this week.
l.. }. Barker, of the First National (
Bank, returned last week from a two +
weeks outing in the mountains. Mrs.
Barker Will remain there for some
weeks yet.
A marriage license was issued /,
last week to John Shartz, of ElIinwood.
aged "a, and Miss Lizzie Keeper.
aged 2I, daughter of Nick Keeper also i.
of Lakin township.
Last Wednesday Will Bonner. brak-
man on the Santa Fe, got his hand a
caught while making a coupling and 1
bad one finger taken off, and the hand a
otherwise injured. L
Dr. Tuttle, the eye anc ear surgeon.
will be at the Hotel Greene Friday.
Aug. 9Th. He will make this point t
regularly. He fits spectacles accurate Z
y and scientifically. a
Wheat in the northeast townships is + +
proving TO be the best wheat in the :
county this year. The yield is greater :
IS a general thing. and the berry is
plump and grades high.
u. H. Ray, a grandson of VIM. Hood. :,
zane up from Harvey county the first "
II the week on short visit. Mr.. Ray Z
ays Harvey county corn has suffered Il
his year for lack of rain, same as in 7
Barton county.