Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-08-24

county seat visitor Monday.
Jacnb Cell was u county seat visitor
Saturday from west Clarence.
A u S p. o. inspector overhauled
the Great Bend p. o. Monday.
Did you go to Topek. Yesterday
If not, you missed q big thing.
Senator John Armstrong made Q
trip down into Oklahoma, this week.
The shortage of tho corn crop is
having its effect on the price OF stock
hogs
Lots of cattle will be taken to Okla>
homa to feed, the coming fall and
winter.
M. l.. Crow leaves this week on an
extended visit to his old home In
Michigan.
g. G. Morrison made business trip
up west over the Mo. P. the first of
the week.
Common prairie hay S. q ton.
Wheat straw makes pretty good
''roughness-"
For SALE-4O head of pigs. Geo.
II. Taylor, 10 miles southwest of
Great Bend.
PLovER WANTED 90 Q dozen
for all the choice PIover you bring
US. MCNowN & HAYS.
J. G. Geiger was down from Larned
to spend Sunday. He is working on
the Chronoscope, of that town.
Notice the new advertisements OF
Lindas s. Go. of Pawnee Rock. and
August Garling of Great Bend.
Mrs. A. l.. Miller and daughter,
Miss Lucy. will leave this week on .
visit to relatives in Denver. Colos
Commissioner Jake thinner is hav-
some new porches and other improv-
ments added to his farm residence.
Miss Carrie Castle. who has been
visiting in the east part of the state.
returned home the first of the week.
Just mark it down that Barton
county Will have fair this fall, and
one that will be we'll worth attending,
| An advertisement in the DEMOCRAT
is read by more people than in any
other paper in Barton county. So
there now
| Rev. j. &. Roe, nephew of b. f.
Lorrimor. stopped off last week on his
way from Colorado, to his home in
| Kenton, Ohio.
Young Kenneth Bailey. son of Bob
Bailey, fell from donky, Monday,
| and had an arm broken between the
| wrist and elbow.
FoR SALE-I5O to 200 tons Of good
hay; want to sell in bulk: may have
more. ALBERT SPENCER,
| Hoisington, Kans.
Hutchinson brags about cracker.
jack base ball team. The "Sham-
rocks" of Great Bend can take the
''stiffenin" out of them.
b Some campaign bets are already be-
ing made here. None OF them are at
. odds. so that the betting does not
show either party preference.
LOsT-Aug. Goth, sum Of money,
some place between the T. @. and
Santa Fe depot. A liberal reward to
/ the finder. F. NJ BURsoH
One of these nights fire will be
started and not enough water in the
: standpipe to drown q mouse. Quit
using water odt of hours. 1t is dan
: gerous.
LADIES This will interest you: L
am selling all my summer hats now
, at, and below cost. Call early and
BENZ Unrnh and neighbor, west ol
Itown, lost Is stacks of wheat by Gre
Thursday evenidg. We did not learn
how the fire started. The fire could
be seen from town.
vi C. E. White. who has quite a con-
& siderable lot of farm interests in Bar
ton county, arrived Sunday evening
from Dowagiac, Mich, to look aftel
u getting another wheat crop put in
Harris Brothers will sell, at publ,
Il auction, at the brick house on Ellin'
e wood road, miles east Of Great Bend
on Saturday Sept. 8. one hundred and
~ fifty head of cattle. forty head o
Is hogs, thirty head of horses. farm
.