Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-17
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
| Our city council has troubles of its B,
own. Ie
One assessment in the A. o. Q. w m
| for June
New potatoes-Bome product-are ha
on the market. ce
Is it warm (don't say hotl enough Il
for your whiskers? oo
Cool nights and hot days bring the On
corn along a poppln'. br
populist judicial convention at
Ellinwood next Saturday p,
| Allison Bros. are having their up of
town coal Office repainted. ch
Curtis Potter was up from Stafford ne
county the first of the week. ml
he
Not much attention Will be paid to so
politics until after the wheat is gather We
ed in.
Eddie Grover went to Kansas City !.
Wednesday morning on short bust. y,
ness trip. ~
Miss Bessie Connett will go this s.
week to Kansas City on a visit to -.
Grant Fordyce. ON
Jesse James made another large we
shipment of stock to Kansas City the tic
first of the week.
Mrs, Lizzie Brown, sister of Win T.
Honnen, returned last week from the Sa
State Normal at Emporia. to
A little daughter. of Mr.. and Mrs. col
Harry Brooker, of Hutchinson, aged an
about one year, died last week. 8
" OK
E. E. Swenson, of the Lindsborg mn
college,, was in the city several days n,
last weekin the interests of the col
lege.
'Smatter with having the weeds cut ou
along the most prominents treets? It u"
would make our city LOOK prosperous, lns
any how. az
Some of the condemned sidewalks - -
have been repaired, but there are many 50
places yet which are dangerous to Pc -,
destrians. 81,
G. G. Christainson, of Comanche WI
township. was in the city Monday.
He says harvest will commence
down there next week. las
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Mrs. D. J. Coughlin, who went to th
Colorado last week, was taken sick VIC
while out there. Dan:went after her, tel
returning Wednesday. Nj
Ed. Buess is developing into quite Gu
an electrician. He has been putting SCI
electric bells into a number of the an
residences of this city. en-
A complete report of the raising and
reducing of assessed valuations by the
board of equalization will be found lie
elsewhere in this paper. tir
June has certainly been month of ~
roses this year. Never before have -
the beautiful flowers been so plentiful po
as for the past two weeks. =,
Miss Lillian Caro-, who has been at CO
tending college at st. Louis, is spend We
ing the summer vacation with her a
sister Etka, at Minneapolis, MINI. 81
WANTED-Wolf skins, tanned or
cured; will pay the highest market ze
price-cash. ha
c. L. ZUTAvERN, Great Bend. ga
The man whose income is but one u
dollar day, but who spends $1.25 a ~
day has no right to complain about 8.
hard times-providing he has health.
Sewing Machines, warranted for five to
years, SO. Drop head Machine at S25. nr
Come and see them-no pot metal. or
THE GREAT BEND IMPLEMENT Co.
Nick Smith, of the Walnu. Greek -.
Mills, left On Saturday for visit of VI
couple of weeks at Port Washington, ~
Wis. Mr.. Smiths father, who lives at 'e
Port Washington. is very dangerously ie
ill.
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/ Mr.. Merritt has recently put in =,
large, improved cylindrical churn, at -
the Great Bend Creamery. How would -
the farmers boy like to work the dash -,
er in tit only holds about 800 gallons :.
of cream. -
Little Nellie Vest. daughter of Mr.. tn
and Mrs. A. Vest, of south Main
street, gave a party to number of her
little friends on Wednesday afternoon, a.
the I6th to celebrate her fourth BIRTH -