Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-05-18

Better get on the DEMOCRAT list
and keep abreast Of the times.
Never trouble touble till trouble
troubles you-but keep out of the cy~
clone path.
just s.4sO dozen OF eggs were ship
ped from the little station OF Otis one
day last week.
If you are needing anything In Side
Combs, Pompadour combs. Shirt
Waist t>sets, or Belt Buckles, be sure
to see Patterson.
Springs balmy breath with fragrance
fills the meadow as she passes, the
time is here for liver pills and sulphur
and molasses.
MULEs-Several span Of good work
mules for sale. All well broke and in
good flesh. Good harvest teams.
WALTER B. CORNELL.
You can't drive ten miles In any
direction from Great Bsud without
seeing new houses barns. granaries or
other new farm improvements.
Frank Dickson came home last week.
He says he came home for something
good to eat, but he looks like he had
not been In the famine country while
away.
James Kepple has a commodious
addition built to his third ward resi-
dence property, aud is making other
substantial improvements about the
premises.
In the justice court, Monday, Editor
Cooke waived preliminary trial and
the case will be taken to the district
court, unless compromised in the
meantime.
What makes the people who come
up out of the basement north of
Aliens all wear such pleased smiles?
That's easy. They have just eaten at
McCullough's.
Big Jim Jeffries is still the champion
of the world. He knocked Jim Corr
bett out in the 23d round at Coney
Island last Friday night. Now is the
time to subscribe.
If you want 20 engage harvest hands
from outside the county leave your
name and address with the DEMOCRAT
and We will try and open correspond
-ence for you, free Of cost.
Great Bend is known as 1.-The best
town in Kansas west cf Hutchinson"
When the great inland lake is com
pleted it will be known the world over
as the ''best city in Kansas" Mark
the guess.
A Washington dispatch stated that
fully 100 new recruits per week are re-.
qulred to fill vacancies in the ranks of
our forces in the Philippines. The
question again recurs: docs it pay
to hold the islands?"
Robert Wolf, who some years ago
conducted a tailoring establishment in
Great Bend, died at his home in Rush
Center on the 9Th inst. He was q
member of the A. O. U. W., and
leaves a wife and one child.
The census enumerators will soon be
abroad in the land, asking you more
apparently impertinent questions than
does the township assessor. Treat the
enumerators courteously. and give
them all the Information you can.
There are half dozen young tough
nuts of boys, between the ages of IL
and Is, who pay no attention to the
curfew bell. and can be seen on the
streets at all hours Of the night. They
are fitting themselves for striped suits.
Word came over Monday morning
that Dell Gillian. a prominent citizen
of Hoisineton, died Sunday night, af>
ter long suffering with cancer of the
stomach. Deceased was aged about
AZ years, and was a member of the M.
W. A. The funeral took place We'd
uesday, the 18th at p. M, the Wood
men lodge having the ceremonies in
charge.
| "The Proof
OF the pudding is the eating" YOr
may have eaten some Of the ename
too, if the pudding was baked in &
cheap pan The enamel is always
crumbling off on poor Enambled Ware
It's pretty we'll known now that tn,