Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-04-21
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
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8ebient HaIbnleiiter Otoi 8olple,
Gam tag ben 30ten Npril.
Widow McGinty," April %.
Five Gallons Oil OF Gasoline SIS cents.
Star Grocery. a. R. Moss.
John Howard moves into town from
Eureka township this week.
The last heard from Tom Shaugh-
messy was working in Strong City.
Miss Jessie Vosburg of Pawnee Rock,
is very seriously i'll with the measles.
See the Great Bend Implement Co.
for Canton Listers and Cultivators.
Fresh milch cows for sale by Flem
Harris, three miles east of Great Bend.
Seed Potatoes and bulk garden seeds
low prices. Star Grocery, A. r. Moss.
One can almost bear the wheat
cracking in the joints, since Sundays
big rain.
Thirty six oranges for 25 cents and
they are good ones too, at Star Grocery.
A. r. Moss.
The commissioners proceedings will
be found elsewhere in this issue OF the
DEMOCRAT.
The widow McG!nty will be given at
the opera house the 23rd for the bene-
fit of the Cuban sufferers.
On Wednesday, the 10th, little son
of Peter Krier, of near Dubuque, died,
and was buried Friday the 18th.
Remember the Schubert Concert at
the Opera House next Monday, the %.
Seats ON sale at Aliens Drug Store.
School in district No. 10, Mr.. Whar-
ton teacher, closed last Thursday
evening with very interesting exhi-
bition.
r. 81. French resigned as city clerk
of Hoisington, last week, and Miss
Annie J. Shaw was appointed to fill
the vacancy.
Before the hot season commences
there should not be useless dog 10
Great Bend or q Spanish cur in Cuba
On with the war;
Uncle Harry Vowel writes from Pal
mer City, Washington, that.he is get
ting along nicely, and enjoying reason
ably good health.
| s. A. Young was dow d from Timken
last Saturday, and called to renew on
| the DEMOCRAT. Mr.. Young is Santa
Fe agent at that point.
The Great Bend Marble Wo,ks are
ready to furnish you anything in the
line CT Monuments. Tombstones, etc.
See J. A. BLAND, Salesman.
Have you seen the Widow McGlnty?
BfcGinty went ''down to the bottom of
the sea" but you can see the Widow at
the opera house Saturday night, April
23d, benefit of the Cuban relief fund.
a fine baby girl was born to MIR. and
Mrs. r. A. Charles, on west Broadway,
last Saturday, and Rube was more
tickled over the event than are the
farmers over the'big rain of Sunday
night
The touching lines in memory Of
Myrtle Hoffmeister. by two of her girl
schoolmates, which reached this office
too late for publication last week, are
worth cutting out and preserving in
your scrap book.
Mayor Joe Sprinkler, of Ellinwood,
was up to the county seat last Monday.
shaking hands with his many friends
and distributing his neat little West
ern Kansas directory and railroad time
card Joe is hustler.
The Odd Fellows lodge of this city
has leased the second story of the J. A.
Rehn building and is having it fitted
up for lodge room. When completed
it will make one of the finest and
pleasantest lodge rooms in the west.
Halliday s. Lnse have on exhibition
photographs of the murderer, Becker,
which they secured at Hutchinson last
week. He is a mean looking devil,
and it is a shame :that he lived long
enough to have Photograph from life
taken.
Three young fellows of near Me-
Cracken, who have been terrorizing
the whole neighborhood there of late
last week murdered a Russian farmer
shooting him a number OF times, on
: his own premises. Two of the fellows
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