Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-02


around Hoisington, was In Great
Bend Tuesday.
We have got an extension on the
clubbing rate Of the Cincinnati Week
" Enquirer. 80 cents will get It year
for any reader of the DEMOCRAT.
b. r. Lorrimor returned Saturday
from having spent the winter in Cols
orado. He has enjoyed good health,
and says his visit did him great
deal OF good.
Mrs. ". T. Bell, of west Of town, in
Buffalo township. died last Saturday
morning. of cancer, after long illness.
The funeral occurred Sunday. Feb. 25th
the interment being the Great Bend
cemetery. Deceased was we'll and
popularity known in this county, and
leaves large family Of grown child>
rem.
Great Bend is rapidly coming to the
front as milling center. The pro.
ducts of the mills Of this city are going
to all parts Of the world, and the out
; put Of -four is q large item Of COM
merce. In a short time there will be
!, In operation three large miils-two are
now running, and the third will soon
be ready again.
A SOLICITORS mother wrote to Mis-
souri, editor to know what her Is year
} old boy was to do nights, saying: IF
he goes around with the other boys be
gets tough, and IL he calls on the girls
he gets tender, both Of which are obs
jectionable.'' To which the philo>
sophical editor replied: whats the
matter with the boy going to bed?''
A fourth ward man went home the
other night and found his house locked
up. After infinite trouble, he managed
} to gain entrance through back win.
} dow, and then discovered on the par
, lor table note from his wife reading.
ST have gone over to mothers; you
will find the key on the side of the
steps" What thoughtful womanI
We regret to notice that the girls are
} piling their hair Up SO loosely on the
top of their heads, going to bed and
sleeping with 1t in that way, and wear
it uncombed to party the next even~
! ing. The present style Of wearing
hair takes eight hours tossing on q
pillow to get Ii rough enough.-Norton
} Champion.
! When we were young the girls used
to go out buggy riding to get their
hair properly mussed up. But, a1ssl
styles will change.
A magnificent bed of snow this
week covers this entire county to the
average of about ten inches. Snow
began falling early Tuesday morning,
and for the next ten hours fell at the
rate of about an inch an hour. Il was
a wet, packing snow. from the north~
east most Of the time, and will
distribute an immense amount Of mois-
ture over the Barton county wheat
. fields.
Il The following may have some weight
with certain young couple in this
city. at any rate the youth and hia
best girl we're out driving one after.
noon. They had come upon fine
stretch Of road, "Do you believe in
palmistry," said he, ''the reading OF
ones hand?" II believe" she replied,
that If could see the lines in only
= one of your hands could foretell that
r we would have very pleasant drive"
He grasped the lines In one hand and
the-situation In the other.
= Bad colds are the order of the day
and the man who does not sniff1e and
spit or talk in bass voice is out OF
fashion. A group OF half dozen men
the other day. One remarked he had
such bad cold he couldn't chew
battleax without the handles running
out Of his nose; another said he wheel
ed so much at night 1t stopped the
clock; the third complained that the
rheumatism hurt him SO he walked
like one-legged stepladder; number
four had chunk of asthma crosswise
in his thorax; the next INVALID COM
planned that his old army wound had
broken out like surrounded Boer
lager. while the sixth man complained
OF having the ear>ache 50 bad he
J couldn't hear the mill whistles any
J more. Geo. Peck, the seventh man,
remarked. in his peculiar nasal twaDg:
J swell, amt been feelin' so dorned
we'll myself, since I had the hog
cholera
II Gard of Thanks.