Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-06-02

II you had been in the two COM
mittee meetings last Saturday you
would not have thought the silver for
ces of Barton county were very much
dead.
Not near as large a crowd as usual
attended the memorial exercises In e
Great Bend, Tuesday. But few people g
knew there had been program pre-
pared. q
The thoughts-if not the bodies-of a
all Woodmen will be in Kansas City q
next week, at the national camp, where t
the saw.ogs OF the order will be floating
in great RATS. In
In the earlier history Of this country {
farmers drove their razor backed hogs 1
to market in the cool night. Now the q
hogs. too fat for the pilgrimage. are s
| hauled in wagons.
A Kentucky man made counterfeit
meney with which he paid his board 8
bill, and the judge said that mans en-. q
lterprise entitled him to seven years. I
boald at tho states expense. t
Home made rum can be bought In :
| the interior of Brazil for three cents g
! quart. Ii some OF our Jag" artists
would go over they could wreck them
| selves cheaper than at home. s
People on West Broadway thought / i
there was terrible dog fis ht on, the G
other night. But it was only a gang r
! of college boys marching up the street I
and practicing their college yell. II
A misplaced switch threw freight g
engine off the track, at Santa Fe depot,
Great Bend, Friday. which called for l
the wrecking crew, and which also will {
call somebody up on 1.-The carpet" d
D. r Aldrich and family left on the 1
30th for Oklahoma, to make their 1
future home. Their many old friends
and neighbors regret to have them
leave Barton county, and look for them c
back in good time.
The Scientific class in the Central
1
| ment exercises in the the college chapel
Friday night of next week. There {
will be one graduate in the Classic |
course also that evening. e
When you visited the cemetery
Tuesday you saw that 1t is In need of
attention. The weeds have grown
rank and obstreperous in the streets /.
and alleys. and much of the shrubbery =,
needs the pruning knife.
Young man, heed this suggestion:
Put your savings. even though they be !
small, into Great Bend property. You ,
cannot miss it, for the price of real es-
tate In this town is never going to be
any lower than it is now.
Will Legg has come back from I
Missouri, and is now blacksmith with S
Dick Manning. His family Will be L
moved out here as soon as he can Sc I
cure house-which is at present an 8
impossibility in this town. 6
Prof. Baker, of the city schools, &C
companied by his family. left on Mon 8
day for st. Louis. They will visit there
| most Of the summer, although Mr.. i
Baker will be back to conduct the {
Pawnee county normal in August. =
Diseases of the eye or ear treated,
and spectacles fitted. Call at Hotel
Greene, Great Bend, June 10th, I1th
and 18th. In case of surgical opera
tions be sure and call carly in order
that time for operation may be fixed
From the Leayen worth items in the t
Kansas City Times we learn that the I
young son of E. W. Waynant, former
ly agent for the Mo. z R. r. at this
place, was run over by q street car in =.
Leavenworth last week and badly in. ;
1ured. |.
Ira Troop. who has been with the I
Beacon of this city for the past few
months, left on Sunday for Russell. Z
Kansas, where he takes position as
foreman of the Russell Reformer. The e
DEMOCRAT wishes Mr.. Troop success /
| in his new position.
Our attention has been called to an :
error recently made in this paper, In {
stating that the new church at Odin.
would cost upwards of 81 ,9O0.'' 1t
should have been $50 600 and that we {
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