Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-18

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rumors you hear on the streets about
our soldier boys. They are all pretty
near able to take care of themselves.
John Welch was in from near Dun
dee. Saturday. TO get coal and other
necessary essentials for threshing time.
Elrick Cole and wife returned last
Thursday from Wisconsin, where they
have been for the last three weeks or
more.
Call on this Office before you get your
sale bills printed. We guarantee you
quick work and prices that will knock
out all competition.
FOR SALE OR TRADE = a good res
taurant business in Great Bend. Other
business requires my attention. Call
on or address. CHAs. JOHNSON.
Tom Brewer has gone into the coal
business at Pawnee Rock. First thing
you know Tom will be one Of them
thar bloated aristocrats ''and go to buy.
ing wheat.
This has been good year for lumber
dealers, but according to the adver-
tising columns of the Great Bend
papers there are no lumber dealers In
Great Bend.
Have our silver people nominated
township officers yet? The DEMOCRAT
would like a list of all township officers
as they are nominated. Send in your
nominations.
Call at Hotel Greene on Saturday,
Aug. 9th and make an appointment
with DR.. w. a. Phillips, the eye and
ear specialist. He will be here three
days = 9th to 29th.
The Woman's Relief Corps will go to
Cincinnati via Santa Fe's special
through train, which will leave here
on September 5. Round trip ticket
from here costs only S21-50.
A "Wild West" show is said to be
headed this way, and has Great Bend
down as one of the places to stop. If
it comes within hundred miles of us
we hope it will stop there.
The Ladies of the G. A. r. have ar
ranged for through train to Cincinnati
via Santa Fe on September 5. The
round trip is $21 80. An excellent
opportunity to give your family an
outing.
Frank keenan, was in Saturday to
have some sale bills printed. His sale
will take place September 10th, at his
place II miles northeast of Seward.
See his bills for terms and enumeration
of stock.
Real estate men are said to be doing
a good business. The public, however,
would not think we had any such peo-
pie in Great Bend, after consulting the
advertising columns of the papers
published here.
Cards are out announcing the we'd
ding of Bliss Leila Clancy, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. 81. Clancy, to
Frank Leek, both Of Eureka township,
to take place next Wednesday, August
oath, at the home of Mr., Clancy.
Fred Evans, formerly of this city,
and for mum ber years printer in the
DEMOCRAT Office, came out from Kan-
sas City, Kans., last week for a few
days visit. Fred is now working on th g
Kansas City Gazette, Geo. Martins
paper.
A wagon load of men who had been
harvesting in this county passed
through town one day last week. on the
side of their covered wagon being the
following inscription: Thirteen hun
dred Spaniards down below; Praise
God from whom all blessings flow."
Love and lumber wagon are about
alike-trayel hard rough road. Some
times a smoth valley is passed over
with a jar or rut to mar the pleasure
but there is always hill ahead which
is often stony and rough, but with pa
thence and plenty of good axle grease,
the most undesirable obstacles may be