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

N u M BERS 20.
los to lis in the shade. And in the
sun-but nobody was reckless enough
to put their instrement in the sun.
Dave Robertson, who is running n
threshing engine up near Lacrosse.
will now have something else to thresh
besides wheat. His wife presented
him with fine girl baby on Friday
morning of last week.
a. l.. Miller fell from the roof of a
porch he was building John Frank
last Wednesday. and bruised himself
up quite severely. He lay unconscious
for quite while, before the neighbors
discovered his condition.
MARKEDLY Probate Judge Rrees
den at his home in Great Bend Sun
day, August 1, Frank Price aged
tWenty-three, of Great Bend, and Miss
Stella Hawk, aged twenty, of Galatia.
Both are we'll known young folks bay.
ing large circle of friends who wish
them much joy.
A Reno county minister was called
up into Rush county to marry two
couple recently. He had learned
through the DEMOCRAT, that Judge
Breeden was furnishing the finest
marriage certificates to be procured and,
stopped off here to get supply. 1t
pays to advertise in the DEMOCRAT.
Last Friday, while threshers were at
work for John Schneider, north of AL
bert, sparks from the engine set fire
to and burned up two large stacks of
wheat AS it will cost about $500 to
make good the loss, the thresher i'm.
mediately hustled into town to get a
new spark-arrester to takeothe place of
the efficient one.
Last Spring Mrs. M. B. Fits planted
some pond lilies in small pond on
their place in the west part of the
city. The plants grew all right but
the bugs and beetles came near taking
them. Mr.. Fits put some small fish in
the pond which got away with the
bug pests and Sunday morning Mr..
Fits was rewarded by discovering
an elegant pond lily in full bloom. .
Great Bend is having troubles of her
own with drunken tramps. Let her no
longer point the finger of scorn at
Eliinwood but look to the beam in her
own eye. Our city is a peaceful and
unusually orderly town, compared to
the county seat.-Ellinwood Leader.
Who has been pointing the finger
of scorn at Ellinwood?" We want TO
sloch i'm on der koop nit brickstein.
We are, proud of the record the second
city in Barton county has made in her
handling of the tramp nuisance.
with Superintendent Stryker's knot
ty idiosyncrasfez staring them in the
face, and 100 degree weather crawling
all over them; with cute little rivulets
OF common, salty sweat coursing down
their backbones and pesky flies buZZing
In their pink ears, is it not wonder
that the many handsome school teach
ers taking the examination this week
do not become disgusted with their
calling and-get married? Seems like
this would be an opportune time for
the young men to pop.
Elsewhere in this paper notice the
call for meeting of the National Ir-
rigation Congress, at Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, Sept. 2S, % and 80. Barton
county's local irrigation association
should send the delegates we are en-
titled to. This county was the birth
place of the irrigation movement in
Kansas; the president of the National
association, Mr.. E. r. Moses, is our
fellow townsman, and should the aims
and objects of the association dbe event
ually attained-and we NEST earnestly
hope and believe they will-no.persons
would receive a greater benefit than
those of this part of Kansas The
movement is greater than many i'm
agine, and one of these days it will be a
pleasure to anyone to know that they
helped the cause of irrigation and ALI
that 1t implies when it most needed
help and encouragement.
Grace Allen, former student of the
Central Normal College. who was on
trial at Chandler, Oklahoma, charged
with attempting to poison Miss Frona
Echs, also former student of the col
lege here, was found not guilty, on
July 9th. Miss Allen and Hiss Echss
were both in love with W. Gill Smith