Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-12

NUMBER 21.
E. r. Moses spent couple of DAYS
last week at Clafiin, looking after the
firms branch store over there.
Remember the South Side Sunday
School picnic at the Hoge grove on
August 21st. A good time is guaran-
teed.
Mrs. Sam White. of the northwest
part of the county, who is in town
receiving medical treatment, is greatly
improving in health.
The Santa Fe is putting in another
side track between the two north ones
along by the elevators, so as to have
room to handle grain cars.
The Great Bend cemetery presents a
mighty weedy and seedy appearance.
Seems like there ought to be some way
by which 'the city of the deadp could
be kept in better repair.
R. Fixmer, of near Heizer, called ON
the DEMOCRAT last week. Mr.. Fix
mer says he has about thousand
dollars worth of wheat for the market
this year, and it comes in mighty
handy.
MISC Gray's school of physical cult
ure closes next Monday, the 18th.
Miss Gray has been very successful in
her efforts, and the children who were
under her training have shown much
benefit from her drills.
E. l.. Hotchkiss presented us with
rs fine peaches as ever grew i'm any
mans orchard, Monday. He would
have had big supply of the luscious
fruit this year if the hail had hot cut
the crop considerable.
Mr. Born, the ad. man of the New
York Store, says he is too busy this
week marking bedrock prices on a
large consignment of new goods which
they have just received to write an ad.
Will see you next week.
w. r. Putnam, who is buying grain
at McCracken for Chatten of Clafiin.
was down to spend Sunday with his
family in Great Bend. He saws he is
getting all the grain he can handle.
from early morning to 10 o'clock at
night.
We notice by the K. c. Times that
81. j. Sturgis, formerly of. this city,
last week captured the $500 prize
offered by that paper to the first person
finding the name of president of the
United States in the first Is words of
Sunday want ad.
Last week the Stafford ball club beat
the Larned Innocents two games.
Last year our second nine beat Stat
ford two games. Taking the above
facts into consideration, what would
happen to the Innocents if our first
nine caught sight of them?
a. Z. Schermerhorn, one of the the
old time residents of Great Bend, came
up from Hutchinson last Thursday to
round up his old friends here a couple
of days. Schim. says all the people
composing the Great Bend colony at
Hutchinson are doing reasonably well.
G. E. White, of Dowigiac, Michigan,
who has quite lot of Kansas lands in
this vicinity, came out last week to re-
main here month or so. Mr.. White
is well pleased with his investment in
Kansas wheat this year, and has many
thousands of bushels to testify to his
lands productiveness.
The freight rate on Colorado Goals
has been reduced so cents on the ton,
the new rate taking effect en- the 10th
inst. This will make saving of SO
cents ton to consumers here. If the
railroads would do the right thing they
would reduce the freight dollar more,
and then make good money on that
business.
Charlie Hobart, city editor of the
Newton Daily Kansan, spent few
days the first of the week visiting old
friends in this city. Mr.. Hobart re-
ports Newton in a fiourishing condi-
ton: says their water supply will soon
be an assured fact, and that new in
dustries are opening up in the city