Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-04

Now doth the busy jigger jig, where
man dares not to go. He is privil> |
eyed character. because God made him |
so.
r. E. Crawford removes Corns,
Warts, and moles, without pain. Of
flee at Arcade Hotel, hours to IL a.
%. 2 to and to p. m.
Miss Blanche Gallup and Master |
Jesse left for Hutchinson and Newton |
Sunday morning, to visit with friends |
and relatives for few weeks.
1t is not particularly our business, |,
but We venture the question: How
about fire guards? Have you your
wheat stacks properly protectedp
Chas. Lechesky, late OF EIlinwood,
took up his duties at the New York |
store the first OF the month. The DEM
OCRAT welcomes Mfr. Lechesky to
Great Bend.
Frank Kern. of Liberty, finished
threshing last Friday. He got 1000
bushels of 81 pounds test off of his $50
acre farm. and is pretty we'll satisfied
with his 1898 crop.
Leonard Krause was down from
Otis Sunday to visit with his family.
Leonard is buying wheat at Otis, and
says he has already shipped over 1900
bushel of new wheat.
Mr.. Deleplane has a new street
sprinklIng wagon, one that does con-
siderable better work than the old con-
Germ. The general public as well as
the sprinkling man appreciate the
change.
Old Sol has come the Schley act ON
most Barton county corn 6elds-made
it so hot for them the corn all went TO
well. to place where it is no more
useful than CerYera's fieet after Schley
got through with it.
1t is reported that number of wells,
on the ridge between the Walnut and
the Cheyenne bottoms, have gone dry
during the past few weeks; something
that has not happened in stats locality
for number of years.
It is quiet day now when there is
not some sort of fake being worked
upon our streets. The council ought
tn raise the license and keep out that
class of travelling imposters who iafest
the land.
In reporting tho republican county
convention last week it was erroneous
ly stated thai Clarence" Harper got
the nomination for clerk of the court.
1t was Henry s. Harper, brother of
Clarence. who was nominated.
A little daughter Of Louis Damn,
of west of town, years and 2 months
old, died on Thursday of last week, of
typhoid fever. The funeral occurred
Friday at 10 a. rn., the remains being
Look over the announcements of our
advertisers and see if you cannot find
anything you want at your home stores.
The home merchant is with you al
ways; the trancient is only around
where money is plenty, in good crop
years.
Jake Miller, Sid Newcomb, D. D.
Page and Quincy Page returned last
Saturday from an overland trip down
into southeast Kansas. Jake says the
fruit outlook in that part of the state
is bad, and that the Kansas apple crop
will undoubtedly be short this year.
Several people who have been "offi-
Cially warned" to repair the sidewalks
along their premises have not done SO,
and the city has not, as it stated in
the official notices, torn up the danger
Gus walks. Providing some one breaks
limb now, who will be held RESPONSE
bleI
j. A. Bland came up Saturday from
near Cleo, Ok, where he has been Wis
iting for month or SO. He reports
the formerly OF Barton county people
down there doing reasonably we'll; says
late rain made whole lot of corn
that was mighty near on the ragged
edge.
Henry Born, manager of the New
York Store of this city, returned last
Friday from a months outing in the