Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-05-26
NUMBER IL.

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rule and not the exception in the coun.
ty, it is hard to reconcile such reports
with the statements of implement
men, who say that they are selling
about IS much this year in the way of
farm machinery as they have done at
| this season in former years; with the
exception that the sale OF harvesting
machinery has not commenced yet. on
account OF the backward season.
In a quarter mile bicycle race, last
Friday afternoon. on the roadway
north of the college, between Ed.
Griffith and Emmett Putnam, result
ed in victory for Griffith, he win-
ming by about % feet. After the bicycle
race foot race, 100 yards, was run by
Art Dick, q local sprinter, and a
mighty swift man from abroad-at
least the stranger showed Dick his
heels with ease and won the squirt.
A Mrs. Huen, aged about 81, of Gar
field, Kansas. died at the home of A.
West in this city. Monday the I'D.
Her husband was with her. She leaves
8 small children. Deceased has been a
sufferer with consumption, and was
brought here Friday of last week to be
treated by magnetic healers. The re-
mains were taken to Garfield overland,
for interment, the railroad refusing to
carry the body without Doctors cer-'
tifcate of death as prescribed by law.
The Tribune enormously tries to
give Chester L. Long credit for secur-
ing weather reports for Great Bend.
Don't see how Chester is to get credit
for doing even that little The facts
are that when a sufficient number of
| citizens petition for these reports, the
Law provides that they shall be fuInish-
ed. Rev. Schnacke, we are informed,
circulated and sent in such a petition
with the required number of names,
and thus secured the reports.
1t our city administration will stay
with the policy it has started out On
concerning street improvements, give
Street Commissioner Roberts proper.
show, our streets will have different
connection with the improvements on
streets and alleys, we would suggest
| that more attention should be gwen the
alleys by the property owners. They
should not be filed up with manure
piles and all sorts of refuse to be
| y d Ill
|
y delegation OF Modern Woodmen
came down from Lsrned, Monday eve
ming. to visit with the Great Bend
camp. Following were the visiting
neighbors: e. W. Salmans, Chas.
Knight, johnnie Kroth, Dan Jordan,
E. G. Eckert, VIM. d. Duff, Wiii E.
Schwier, Len Townsend, Roy Shady
Frank Wells and Jimmie Banks. The
last named two come down as citizens
but went home as Woodmen, having
been given the work by the Great
Bend team. After lodge work, Tefresh>
ments were served and a general soA
cial time enjoyed.
There were twenty applicants for
teachers certificates at the April
examination in this county, and of this
number but TIVE passed; w. T. Clark,
who was granted first grade certii~
cate, and Leta Anderson, of McCrackep,
who received q third grade. The Jan
uary examination was said to be an
unusually easy one, the Nelson ad
ministration having procllmed that the
''catch" questions of Prof. Stryker
would hereaf ter be eliminated, but
in the late "exam" "the old time density
seems to have been again injected.
And Stryker isn't to blame for it,
eitber.-La Crosse Chieftain. ..
| The telegraph dispatches did not say
anything about il, but there was a
strike" on the Keon ditch last Thurs
day. Some difficulty arose over the
price the men were to get per day; they
claiming that they were to have 81 so
per day, and the boss on the works