Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-04-14
BEND. KANSAS, THURSDAY April. a. 1sss

1URSDAY, APRIL IA, 1895
The council canvassed the votes Fri
day night. and swore IN the new Off.
GERS.
Judge j. E. Andrews, of Lacrosse,
stopped off in the city last Thursday
evening.
Leonard Krause has severed his con-
nection with the Great Bend Imple-
ment Co.
Chas. Aldrich was over from Clafiin
Saturday to attend the teachers asso-
citation meeting.
Mark Keynes is in charge of the
mechanical department of the DEMO
oCRAT this week.
Capt. j. F. Lewis and wife enter
tanned the high school graduating class,
Friday night of last week.
The German measIesn hsye been
going the rounds among the children
in Great Bend the past week.
The S. of v. cake walk last SATURDAY.
evening is reported to have been a sue
cess, financially and otherwise.
Will Great Bend play ball this sum-
mer? It does seem as if we have the
material with which to make a cracker
jack team.
Peter Brack. the merchant prince of
Olmitz, On the Rhine, was doing busl-
ness in Great Bend-on the Arkansaw
Thursday last.
The county commissioners have been
in session this week. Their full pro-
ceedings will be found in the DEMO
Graf of next week.
Charlie Zutavern commenced his
duties with the Great Bend Imple
ment Co.. as book-keeper and sales
man, the first of this week,
w. f. Putnam, who has been buying
wheat at McCracken for the past few
months, came home last week, and is
now working at Ferger's barber shop.
All the saloons in the city are in the
third ward-and the third ward went
''wetter." Bro. Armstrong ought to
be satisfied now, that is his ward-not
ours.
Why send away to have enlarglng of
photos and chemical oil painting done.
when you can get it done here? D. B.
Lamoreux, at Ferger''s barber shop,
Goes the work and teaches the art.
W. Fl. Zutavern and Mart keenan,
have leased the Blue Front livery barn
south side of the square. and now con-
duct first class livery business under
the firm name of Zutavern s. keenan,.
Was that Mayor Joe Sprinkler whose
photograph we see in the Leader, or
his ghost? Joe is handsome man.
and if the pressman had done his duty
Ellinwood would be proud of the pic
ture.
Dave Roberts came down from
Grand junction, Colo, Sunday, and
stopped off to say howdy to his friends.
Dave reports everything lovely in his
diggings, and rejoices with his many
Barton county friends over the ex-
cellent crop outlook here.
Miss Mary A. Buckland, aged 81
years, died at her home in Windsor.
Conn, on the 4th inst. Deceased was
sister of j. W., G.. w. and A. j..
Buckland Of this city, and was out
here few years ago on visit to the
brothers. and made many friends
while here.
The annual and quarterly financial
statements of the city clerk, showing
what money has been received and
what expended for during the past 8
and twelve months, was furnished the
Beacon last week for publication, but
was not published. Does the Beacon
desire to keep its readers in ignorance
of what the state of city finances isp
All the other papers in this city pub-
lished those statements.
f. Some merchants are in the habit of
getting bids from printers on a box of
envelopes or few pads of letter paper
which practice has caused a Michigan
country editor to publish the following:
The publisher of this paper is soon to
buy shirt. Strange and extrayagant
as this may seem, we are determined
to do SO, and with this end in view we