Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-06-21

j. w. Stauffer, of the east side of |
sown, was called to Illinois. Saturday. |
on telegram announcing the serious
Illness of his mother.
Os. Wood says he will give two bits |
70 know who that small, insigniicant
sooner was who stole his 10 cent buggy
whip the other night.
John Armstrong of Great Bend
and Dan Miller of Buffalo
township, commenced harvest with
Saturday the 18th.
The official statement of the Claflin
State Bank, published last week. shows
up good for that institution. The
item of individual deposits is $9S 1874 1S.
The band concert. Saturday even.
Ing, had q good audience Of pleased
listeners. There will probably be 10
more free. open air concerts until after
harvest.
We are offering to the trade this
year the best Header ever exhibited in
Barton county. 1t is the Kansas No.
2. Don't fail to see it, its peach.
Great Bend Implement Co.
Those evening badger fights" still
appear to be the center of attraction.
They say that old badger down at
Klein's livery stable gets away with
every dog that tackles it.
We have q large list Of farm lands
and stock ranches for sale in Ness
county. ranging in price from 50 90 to
SIS 90 per acre. Write to
j. G. LoHNEs s. Son. Ness City. Kans
A Larnsd preacher told his audience
they could sleep in his church every
Sunday morning, if they saw fit. but he
did hope they would not be mean
enough to dead-beat their lodging.
The reason chickens are the most
pious of fowls, remarks the Stockton
Journal, is probably because big per
cent of them enter the ministry and a
large portion Of them become lay mem.
bers.
If you want lister this spring. call
on the Great Bend Implt. Co. They
handle the John Deere, Canton, and
j L Case also the Deere common sense
suIky to which you can attach any
steel beam piow or lister.
r-
Street Commissioner Harvey is fix
ing up some of the east side streets in
good shape. When graded they should
ever, else the dirt will blow out as bad
as ever during the dry months of July
and August.
Funny. is it not. how y hot, windy
day will put people on nettIes and rile
their tempers. y man will say and do
many things On disagreeable day
that he feels ashamed OF when the
winds go down and the gentle rain
drops cool the atmosphere and settle
the dust.
Some Of the readers of the Beacon
are wondering why that paper totally
ignored The name OF ". 6. Merritt,
who successfully managed the Heizar
Creamery for number of years, in
that papers recent write up of the
creamery? Was it an oversight. or an
Intentional omission?
a W. Gray, an early settler in
Great Beud. and for four years treas
urer of Barton county, was in Great
Bend couple Of days last week on a
purely sociai visit. Mr.. Gray is now
in business at Kansas City, but says be
always is haunted by fond memories
of pleasant times in by gone days bs
spent in Great Bend.
| If you juggle with trust funds ant
secure a million clear, you will then b,
considered as an liable financier;" bu
| il you steal hod of coal when in neet
of some relief, you will then be con
sidered a poor, ordinary ''thief." So
if you would be respected by the lick
ing, servi!e horde. don't steal none
by the nickle-but just swipe it by th
cord.
A Missouri coroner's jury sitting i
the case where the dead mans hea
was found wrapped in his coat. an
100 yards from the body, brought j
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