Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-05-02
OLMUTZ BRIEFLETS.
By like The Hiker.'

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By ike The Hiker."
Very nice weather past few weeks
thank you.
Arthur Taylor spent Sunday at
Hoisington.
G. 81. Ochs, w. Beschka and VIM.
Schugart spent Sunday at Odin.
Ell. 81. Boyle and wife spent Satur-
day ard Sunday with relatives in
Great Bend.
Another drove of Russians embark
ed from this part for Sugar City and
the beet sugar country, last week.
A few more days like Monday and
Thursday of last week will almost
shake our belief in the 1902 wheat
crop.
Joe Miller, the popular grain deal,
er, spent Sunday, Sunday night and
part of Monday with relatives at
Clafiin.
Pharmacist Walter Atkin and
grain buyer Krause spent Sunday in
the county capitol, renewing old ac-
quaintances likely.
Harry Brown returned home from
Hutchinson whore he has been within
the lines of the yellow flag, otherwise
a scarlet fever quarantine.
Peter Brsck is building two new
residence houses in the east ward, q
thing that ia badly needed; several
families are without place to live.
An old fashioned Bohemian play
attracted a number of our younger
set out in the country last Sunday
evening, they all report good time.
Miss Mary Brack isin K. C. this
week on business. This accounts for
that far anywhere anil at-look
that roosts on Constantine's usually
bright and smiling face.
"Curly" the Filipino. has started a
general store in the old Nord man
building on South Main, if you have
the cash he might save you a few
cents, but if you don's stick to your
old stand bys, who have stood you
off 80 often before.
If We raise no wheat the ground
will be in fine condition for corn; if
We raise no corn it will be in fine
shape for wheat this fall; thus the
sunshine and shadows chase each
other up and down the burrows of
life like those Albert fellows after a
drink on Sunday.
Charles a. Mauler has again shaken
the dust of Kansas from off his
Trilby's and sojourDed to the land of
mines, cactus and Rocky mountain
scenery, viz Colorado, where he in
tends to cast his lot with fortune,
that tickle dame who In any place but
Kansas is often times myth. We
trust Charley will strike pay dirt
however.
Socrates called beauty short lived
tyranny, Plato termed it a privilege,
Theophrates considered it divine
gift of nature, while Ovid styled it
gift of the Gods. Now we won't dis
pute with any of these ancients, ex.
cept Socrates. he had the appendicitis
and was crank anyway, but really
this weather is a veritable thing of
beauty, tho you can hardly dub it
joy forever.
If our long suit was penning rural
items for such moral sheets as the
Hoisington Dispatch, we would get
out our one bladed carver and sharpen
our No. Faber and proceed tto take
in that alluring prize of % cents
which the aforesaid sheet offers for
the best lot of items from its numer.
Gus country correspondents; but we
must pass it up; our humble vocation,
that of clod hopping, won't permit of
it.
A home talent play will soon be
put on by some of our local talent,
the date OF their appearance has not
yet been announced, but we under
stand it Ia to be one successive night
show. Everyone turn out and give
them lift financially, there is not
enough of the old false alarm cast in
it to amount to anything, else we
would lay low, for fear that the
Editor as well as our own sweet self
might find ourselves lingering within
the confines of Your Uncle Samuels
real estate holdings at Lansing, Ks,
Il. s.. A.
Handzana nnafara and ofher ad.z