Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-12
GREAT BEND KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1soo

RIDAY, JANUARY IL, 1900
VIM. F. Schiller was over from Odin |
Wednesday. He says his son is no
better.
+ Walt Curnell made busines trip to
the Bunker Hill country, the first of
the week.
A grand, Masquerade bail is being
arranged for, to be held at the a. o.
q. W. hall Saturday evening. Jan.
goth.
II you don't see the kind of domestic
fowl you like, at the poultry show
next week. you have a hard taste to
please.
Say. son, that new leaf" you turned
over on New Years day is beginning
to get smeared up. and smells of
cigarette smoke.
For sALE-Partridge Cochin cock
| eral; also. two dozen pullets, mixed,
just beginning to day. Call at RESI-
idenee of Mrs. Ella 81. Stoke.
You have not star ted 1900 right until
you are paid up reader of the DEMO-
CRAr. Don't borrow the paper any
more, but read one of your own,
| The Musical Rumance" given by
Mrs. Poole and daughter. Miss
Florence, Wednesday night, was great
iy enjoyed by the young pupils press
ent.
THE Hoisingtun Dispatch has Gu
smalled-changtd from five TO a
four column quarto. That coal find
ought to have different effect from
| that.
j. B. McCauley has sold his mercan-
tile and land interest s in Barton cOun>
| ty, and this week removes to Emporla.
The good wishes of the DEMOCRAT go
! with him.
Mems Mass Meeting on Sunday Jan.
II at $3.50 Presbyterian church. A stir
| ing address on The Life OF a Fast
Young Man-aIl men, young and old
invited.
a large numoor of readers of tue
DEMOCRAT get their papers at AL
bert and O.Is. WiIi not some one
send in the local happenings on the
| west line?
| Dr.. Toomey, OF Holslngton, who
has been down in Texas in the hope
of improving his health, arrived in
Great Bend last week and is stopping
| with friends.
Larned's telephone exchange is a
thing of the past. It winked out,
sighed its last "hello," on Jan 1st, and
tia poles and wires are taken down
and SHIPPED away.
Let me give you pointer, brother:
At McCuliOugh's eat your meal; after
the first you'll want another-and
don t forget it nuther-for so very
good you will feel
The city must "vamouse" the court
house, says the commissioners. The
sheriff needs both Jail rooms at various
times during the year. and the city
using one of them seeems to make
trouble.
Finals will be delivered, by the
Special Science and Scientific Glasses
in the Chapel of the Central Normal
College, Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, JaE. 18th and 18th. 1900.
Every body cordially invited.
Doctors Shaw q Morrison haye ex
pended considerable money to prepare
themselves for fitting spectacles 1oI
8 those of our people who prefer tC
j pAtronize men doing business right al
e home, and men more ably qualified fol
the work than travelling specialists.
When asked (which end of the day,
are growing longer the fastest?' q
father who lives over in the first ware
and has two grown daughters, re
II marked that from the amount o
e sitting up that's been going on sbou
1t here lately, think it's ths last end.
The EllinwoOd Leader has tired o
't the "all home print" fad, and return
II ed to the ready print" thus givin
: its readers better variety of genera
news. The paper has also enlarged
u from to column Quarto-sam
8. siZs as the DEMOCRAT. We coEerat
foe