Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

A young lady friend who wants TO
post up on the navy says she is going to
read ''Ships That Pass in the Night. :"
Firemen. remember the meeting of
the f. r. A, at the hose house tomor-
-Friday-evening. Every one OF
the sixteen members ought to be pres.
ent at this meeting. to discuss the
matter Of insurance.
With the immense crowd of peopls
in town last Friday it is remarkable
| that there were not more casualties.
All Of which goes to show that western
Kansas people are fully capable of tax.
| ing care OF themselves.
Shelly Winget was down from Albert
Friday. He did not come to the circus
no, his kids were none of them at
home and he could not borrow any
all the neighbor kids were in use that
day.
John Doe, Dink Bolts, Richard Roe,
and but gosh ding i'll they were ALL
in town to the show. They came from
half the counties in the seventh dis
trict, and gave Great Bend such a
crowd as she never saw before in her
history.
A letter was received Sunday from
Reg Russell, at Camp Thomas, Chick
amauga, stating that Earnest Epp-
stein was in the hospital with the
fever. Mrs. Eppstein left for Chicka-
mauga Tuesday morning, to look after
her boy.
DR.. Lightfoot has an operating room
In connection with bis Office and is
we'll supplied with surgical appliances
and instruments, he is prepared to do
anything in the line Of surgery that
can be done with safety outside of 3
hospital.
See half a dozen town dogs in a
bunch. and probably one out Of six has
tag on showing that the dog tax has
been paid. How is thisP Is the dog
tax compulsory, or is it like donations
to the preachers salary-pay it or not,
as you see fit.
Mrs. o. T. Cook and daughter, Miss
Winnie Wilcox. left this week for their
future home in Kansas City. These
ladies have many friends in Great Bend
who regret much to see them go, but
who all unite in wishing them a pleas
ant home in the metropolis.
a Missouri editor said that silver
buckets on garters are becoming fash
enable and that he hoped to see more
Of them. His wife sued for q divorce
and the only woman in town who had
silver buckets threatened to cowhide
the editor. The fellow wasn't onto
his job.
The Hutchinson News had quite
lengthy article last week concerning the
disappearance of Sam j. Day, from
Sioux City, La. Sam married q wealthy
widow there. and the papers hint that
the woman knows more than she will
tell about the disappearance of her
different husbands.
Two little boys were discussing God,
on Broadway, near the Brinkman
Bank, Saturday. One of them said:
why. God made the trees, an the
ground, an the fish-God he can do
ANYTHING" To which another boy
demurred By saying: "Well, guess
he couldn't lick Devevi"
Mrs. s. j. Saul writes from Nc.
Leansboro, ILL.,. that she is in good
health there; that they have an old
fashioned town ''down in Egypt, -
where not much is lively but crops are
good; apples and peaches not as plenti-
full as usual. but biackberries 30, myl''
Mrs. Saul wants to be remembered to
ali her south side friends.
From what the farmers with whom
We have talked say, there will be as
large an acreage of wheat sown in
Barton county this fall as was sown
last year. All farmers are anxious to
get their whest in early, too. as the
experience has been that-take it one
year after anOtaer-tbe earlier sown
wheat will prove the best.
How ofton. saysan exchange, do we
hear people say, Where in the world
do all the flies come fromP" It is
N.Sr ~ AZ