Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21
OUR NEIGHBORS.
OLMITZ.
DON'T RUBBER

From 'CitizeD''
DON'T rubber"
Here readers, q romance, written in rhyme,
OF al accident TO the lofty and fine:
Two lovers started, from near:.this town.
Perhaps the loveHest pair to be found.
He, with waxen mustache and curly hair;
She, with dimpled cheeks and o. so fair.
They were beat on having pleasant ride
Gaily mounted, and rode away side by side
The steeds they rode were the swiftest found =
Fairly hop, skip-and- jumped over the ground
So zaily they rode, with their heads up high, 2
Scoring the earth, .'Tubbering" the sky,
Urging their steeds 10 the swiftest gait =
As though afraid they would get there late.
Where they were going none could tel.
Except they were "going'' to cut swell.
They may have been daily court,
Not suspecting this writer would them report.
But "Alas, woe is me, the young man said
AS his steed kerfopped. and he lit on his head
Quickly the lady jumped to the ground,
And CHANGING to see that no one was around,
And deciding the coast was entirely clear,
Raised his head, saying ''are you hurt, dear?"
sNo, my honey" he said, 'Pm all right yet.
And don't feel the worse for this upset,
But if I'd not lit my hard old head
believe on my soul 1 would now be dead"
The mora, dear reader, you'll see and know:
Don't carry your heads too high,
Don't try to rubber" the sky,
Or like this couple down y6a win go
a warm rain needed.
Grass is growing and stock can now
get bite of green food.o
Planting corn is now the go; spring
wheat. barley and oats is up.
Merchant Och's has q Gramophone
in his store. Now for more music.
Rob Boyle is farming On blood creek,
and has vacated bachelors hall in
Grant.
Frank and Herbert Swartz will
soon finish planting their corp; early
birds catch the worms.
Joe Mantz is as jolly as ever, and
can laugh as hearty as usual. Joe
could hardly stop laughing long
enough to die.
Mr.. Whiteman of Fairvlew town.
ship, VINO has been i'll for long time,
Is now improving under the treatment
of magnetic healer.
Sam Harper is road master in N.
w. Eureka township; he says there Is
one dollar AID half day In it and
that helps buy his boy an occasional
dress suit.
For the last two weeks the wheat
has been improving, and some fields
are greening up nicely, but that
wheat that was winter killed don't
show up wotth q cent, and we still
say thirty-three per cent of wheat in
these parts is goner.
The business men of this town are
kept busy handling their many diff
ierent kinds Of merchandise ard tend
ing to the needs of their many Gus
toners, also the clerks, mechanics and
day laborers are kept moving, in fact
there are but few idle men here at
the present time who belong to town.
AN ACCIDENT-Rev. Rogers met
With a severe accid@t last Monday,
over In Albion township somewhere
near the residence of Smed Wilkin-
son. He was travelling in two horse
carriage, when from some cause I'm
known TO writer, his team ran away,
throwing the ReY. out and breaking
one leg above the knee. He was
taken to bis home by friends, and a
doctor called to reduce the fracture.
Many, or nearly all farmers and
buyers have certain places or stores,
where they sell their produce and buy
the goods needed in their families and
all may have theirareasons for trading
at certain business houses, but most
times their custom is drawn by the
best goods at the lowest figures. But
when anyone trades with firm for
months and years mostly on the credit
system and then goes to some other
store without paying first merchant
up, it is worse than q breach of prom
ise. Yet this is sometimes done.