Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04

were broken into and the safes blowr
open and robbed.
Notning pleases man better than 6
well cooked, we'll served lunch OF
meal. That is what you will find al
McCulIough's.
Walt Cornell says there is but one
thing nicer than about 40 young girls
enjoying party, and that one thing
is-more girls.
Our groceries are fresh and clean.
Careful attention to orders, and
delivery. Telephone No. 10.
WOODWARD & RUSSELL.
The rainfall Friday night, Saturday.
and Saturday night was near two
inches. It's good for corn, hut hard on
wheat in the stack
When you start out to paint the
town red. my son, be careful that dur.
ing the operation your face is not
painted black and blue.
The editor and photographer are alike
in one respect. They are expected to
make people appear a mighty sight
better than they really are.
The beef steer and his sister are
getting plenty of good grazing now,
and the indications are there will be
plenty of corn for winter fattening.
When Walter Mathewson, our COLI
lector, calls on you, give him the glad
hand and some money in it to pay up
those arrearages. He will receipt
you.
Some of the farmers have COM
menced chawing up those weed piles
nth threshIhg machine, just to see
If by chance any wheat can be shaken
out.
Charley Miller had urgent business
at Ellinwood, Saturday He being a
Freeman, however, there is no obisc.
tion to his anxiety to Carrie out his
plans.
Judge Cole has taken hold OF the
Cheyenne bottom lake and proposes to
push it to completion. Now what does
the Judge know about water?- Lyons
Republican.
A Great Bend girl says that base
ball is an awful good game for young
men. She says lit makes the boys so
strong in the arms that-you can
hardly breathe"
July 4th, Great Bend l6, Larned 4.
July 22nd, Larned 10 Great Bend i
Larned papers will please make note
of this, and watch the score when the
rubber" is played.
Dave and Frazier Baldridge, who
have been in the machine shop of the
+. r. Moses Mercantile Co., left last
week for Franklin county, Kans.,
their former home.
Hal Negbaur, oldest son of B.
Negbaur who was one of the early day
in Great Bend, came out
from Kansas City last week to visit
with his old schoolmates here.
Cut the weeds is an item that
appears in every paper one picks up.
There has never been a year when
weeds grew more rankly than they
have this year in Kansas. Cut the
weeds.
Walter Mathewson is the authorized
agent for the DEMOCRAT. Give him
your subscriptions aud renewals, and
if in arrears he Will write you a receipt
that will be as good as if we gave it
Every wife wants 10 please her
husband or ought to have that desire
Try serving him with our Dutch Java
brand of coffee-it is one of the finest
package coffees out.
WOODWARD & RUSSELL.
Jim Clayton, of Topeka, came out
to Great Bend again Friday
evening last, presumably to be on
bands at the republican committee
meeting Saturday and instruct the
boys how TO do.
Fifty cents will pay for the DEMO
Graf for six months to any address
in the United States, Mexico or Cana
da. What will please your out-of-
Kansas friends more than the weekly
visits of this paper.
Notice the Great Bend Furniture
Co.'S anniversary announcement in this
issue of the DEMOCRAT. The firm has