Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-13

| CllJs
| Bob Gates was in, from the south
side. Monday. and reports corn going
in over his way now by the hundreds
of acres day.
Mayor Bockemohle, of Ellinwood
''just dropped in" on the DEMOCRAT
force Monday afternoon. to see if we
were all healthy.
Miss Lizzie Stang and her father,
from the western edge of Rush county,
came down to Great Bend last Friday
to do some trading.
Have your poll tax worked out before
harvest; you can get it done now for
less money than when there is big
demand for harvest hands.
and broke an arm, one day last week.
Being little fellow of good constitu'
tion he is rapidly recovering.
News reaches us that the large barn
of Matt Webber, of Dubuque, was
| burned down last week. with quite a
| loss of corn and other contents.
| Mesdams Florence Abel and Mary
Kelley, of California, cousins of Mrs
G. l.. Zutavern, stopped off in Great
| Bend last week to visit Mrs. Zutavern.
Dad Deleplane, with his team of
magnificent black horses, makes our
street sprinkler have a really metro
poiitan appearance. This is no taffy
Dad.
Col. G. l.. Jones says he has some of
the finest rye this spring that ever
grew; and longs for an opportunity to
manufacture some of it into air-ship
| tonic.
| Alfalfa has made a wonderful growth
this spring. It is unfortunate that
more of Barton countY's farmers have
able crop.
Mamie COnnett and Grace Grimes
had ''such coming down stairs at
the Morrison the other day that they
were considerably bruised up and laid
by for repairs couple of days.
In attempting TO stop run away
team of mules last Friday about noon,
Willis Bo.inger was thrown against
the wagon and had one arm so baby
bruised that he is temporarily laid up.
| Iln thha the nnCl =,
| If so, hand in or send in dollar, or a
half, or quarter, and get on the
| DEMOCRAT list. Everybody finds
something interesting to them in the
DEMOCRAT.
One merchant said, last week, that
he knew it paid to advertise in the
DEMOCRAT, because of all the people
he asked what paper they saw his ad.
in, nine tenths of them replied The
DEMOCRAT
We desire To once more caution cor
respondents against writing up items
that will give offence to neighbors.
This Iaper cannot, with our knowledge,
be used by anyone to get even with
some one else.
The Ringing Bros. circus has taken
possession of the DEMOCRAT this week
so far as almost half a page of ad
vertising space. But on the 18th inst
our people will take possession of the
circus, and then We will play even.
| GantIpmpn size mn orOvvd a
will be in town Saturday-some of
them from 40 to 80 miles away-and
reflect that. if we go at 1t right to get
up the right kind Of 4th of July cele-
bration sheh crowd can be duplicated
on that date.
| Some sneak thief entered the bed
room OF W. w. Payne, clerk at
Lundblade's, last Thursday night, by
prying open q window, aud abstracted
dock 'sn pants, rified them OF change
s. or s6-and hung them On mulberry
bush in Tom Clayton's yard.
The marshal is this week serving
| notices on large number of property
owners, notifying that defective and
dangerous sidewalks along their prem
ises have been condemned and must be
repaired, or else the city will repair at
the expense of the property owner, OF
j tear up the walks entirely. This legal
precsutlon is timely