Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10

Prof. Z. B. Smith is conducting the
Stafford county nor nal. For half the
term the institute will be held at Stat.
ford and the other half at St. John.
Word reaches here that ID. r. Jones,
who was pardoned out of the peniten-
tiary by Gov. Morril to go home to die.
is now at Galveston, Texas, hustling
for livelihood.
Mr.. and Mrs. DIR. p. ]. Bartle desire
to express their sincere thanks to
the kind neighbors and friends for
assistance rendered during the illness
of Mrs. Bartle and the death of their
little one.
The Mother Goose" picnic on the
lawn of the Congregational church last
Friday evening was we'll attended, and
financial success, although the even
ing was rather raw" to be good ice
cream weather.
Mrs. DR.. T. F. Blanke is making a
flying visit to friends In the east. She
visits sister at Emporia. her parents
at Bay, Mo-, and relatives and friends
at Herman and st. Louis, Mo-, intBur-
lington. Iowa, and Alton Ills.
A populist delegate convention, to
elect IL delegates to the judicial con,
vention at Ellinwood, will be held in
Great Bend on Saturday June H. Each
township haz the same representation
as in the last county convention.
Mrs. j. W. Tuliis, of Cheyenne
Wells, Colo, has been in the city the
past week, on a visit with Mrs. Ellen
Lowrey and daughter. Mrs. Tullis
formerly lived in Great Bend, her hus-
band being in the drug, business on
South Main street.
j. S. Winget, of Albert, left on Fri
trip in the east. He will visit the old
home In Iowa and then go on to New
York. He goes 10 look after some
property interests, and will probably
be gone couple of weeks.
w. B. Atkinson came in from his
Oklahoma farm last Friday, to remain
until after harvest. Will left the fam
lily on the ranch to look after the live
stock. He says all crops are good down
there. and spring crops are at least
month ahead of Barton county.
Only III more live local items in the
DEMOCRAT last week than in the Bea-
con of the same week, DDMOCRAT 324
Beacon 207- And still Bro know-it-
all wonders why an appreciatiye pop
ulace does not rush in and pay for his
plate matter and patent medicine ads.
Rev. A. P. Heimann, of Odin, was in
the city Saturday and favored the
DEMOCRAT with call. Father Hell
mann's work in that part of the county
has been very satisfactory to himself
and his charge, and he reioices that
his friends are in D fair way to reap an
abundant harvest this year.
'-Uncle Dick" last week lectured
some boys who were playing ball near
the Fair block. because they were, as
he said. "making too much noise" If
Uncle Dick' will come down in the
third ward any night after dark he
will find lot Of measly ours who keep
thewhole neighborhood awake with
their incessant barking. A shotgun
lecture would be about the proper
caper for them.
Down at Parsons tall girl named
Short long loved certain Mr.. Little,
while Little, little thinking of Short,
loved lass named Long. To make
long story short, Little proposed to
Long, and Short longed to be even
with Little's shortcomings. So Short
meeting Long threatened to marry
Little before long, which caused Lit
tie ih short time to marry Long. Did
tall Short love big Little less beca use
Little loved Long?-Mail and Breeze
August Weide, one of the most
prosperous farmers south of Ellinwood,
was caller on the DEMOCRAT last
Saturday. Mr.. Weide greatly appre
ciates the friends, about IS in number.
who helped him celebrate his SD
birthday anniversary on May 2Sj. He
has an excellent farm down in the
north edge of Stafford county. which
he has acQuired and huilt nm iDstho last