Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-24
NUMBER Ii.

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o. Seward, the Salt Marsh cattle
king, was transacting business in the
county seat Friday.
Aboat the only things that have been
| "golng up" of late have been sugar
trust stocks and the mercury in the
thermometers.
Seward s. Barnett are now running
three chairs in the barber shop. Mr..
Wolf late of Salina commenced work
there this week.
Mrs. Geo. Sells and Mrs. Fred
Trickey, of Larned, were visiting with
Mrs. G. l.. Zutavern in Great Bend
last Friday and Saturday.
Jack Johnson and Jim Porter, color
ed, came up from the Strip country
Friday, to sweat with the rest of the
boys in the wheat harvest.
After the first of July it is said the
branch trains between Great Bend anC
Scott City will run during the day time
instead of at night, as now.
The men who advertise in the Dem.
oCRAT wear no long faces. Call on
them and verify this statement to
your own personal satisfaction.
Last Friday was hot day for pic
mic, but the M. Z. Sunday School
children had good time on the banks
of the Walnut, in spite of the heat.
VIM. Eikmeier and a south side mule
had little difficulty last week. and as
result VIM. is carrying one arm in
sling and uttering general imprecations
egainst all long cared gentry.
The awning in front of the old
MINIS store building, north of the
square, was blown down last Thursday;
a number of trees in the park and
about town were broken off or up.
rooted.
D. r. Ward and wife, who left here
about year ago for Oklahoma, came
in from Oakland, near Topeka, last
Friday. They lave been making their
home near Oakland, as close neighbors
to Mr.. G. E. Sowle's, since last fall.
When healthy young tramp asks
for feed these days, tell him to take a
trip into the country-in most any d.
rection-and he will find farmers who
will give him feed-with a job pitching
wheat and driving header-box on the
side.
S.P. A ber and wife came up from
the Strip last Wednesday, where they
have been for the past few months.
Mr.. Aber says the Oklahoma people
are right in the swim, so far as crops
are concerned; everything in the crop
line is doing splendidly.
Charlie Howard, the new deputy
revenue collector Tor this district, was
in the city last Thursday and Friday.
Mr.. Howard is very affable gentle
man, speaking German, French and
English with fluency, and is otherwise
well adapted to his work.
If you want to know why the DEMO
Graf Is so much better this week than
usual, it is because the editor is out of
town and the paper is in the hands of
"the boys" and the ''better half"
We feel safe in trusting the issue to
Charlie Zutayern, Tom Shaughnessy,
Leon Miller and Johnnie McMullen.
while we make visit to the old home
in Iowa.-ED.
A number of farmers are talking
about cutting some of their wheat with
binders this year, especially that whlck
is excessively weedy, as they fear the
weeds will cause the wheat to burn in
the stack if headed with the weeds.
They can also commence earlier with
the binder than with the hea der, as
wheat does not have to be so ripe.
For an hour last Thursday evening
straight, south west wind swept over
this part of the state in a way that
portended evil to things loose or nova
BILE. So far, however, we have heard of
no extensive damages done in the vi
cinity of Great Bend, outside of a few
windmins being wrecked. At Bison,
Rush county, the skimming station of