Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-02-07

NUMBER 48.
Music OF the higher class, by Prof.
p. Bissing. assisted by Miss Anna
Hartz, vocalist. at the opera house
Thursday night.
Not single arrest Was made last
week. OF men or boys riding . bicycle
without light. Fact is. no one was
riding that way-with or without.
Regular monthly meeting of the
Commercial Club next Monday night,
the 10th. That committee on Audito.
rum should have something definite ts
report.
MIR. Starr, of the First National
Bank, will commence the erection OF .
neat cottage as soon as the weather
will permit. Frank Kramer has the
contract.
The Water Supply Co. has . LOT of
new water mains strung on Broadway,
and the entire system will be improved
as soon as the weather will permit out
door woork.
Hooper is ''The Best" in wall paper,
because he can sell you the paper for
less money than anyone in the county.
Be sure and see him for whatsyou want
in this line.
The way to make trade lively in
dull times is to make special induce
ments to the public. and then tell the
public what those Inducements are.
The DEMOCRAT is here for that pur-
pose.
While the snow covers the ground
the man who has hens which he expects
to produce eggs should see that they
have some artificial grit and lime. If
be don't the hens will join the egg trust
and cease to produce.
months past has been clerkipg in
Moses mercantile store, left Saturday
night for an extended visit with rela~
tIves and friends at his home In Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania.
D. s. Ballou returned last week from
a trip down into. the southern states
with bunch of horses. He said it re-.
ally seemed like winter when he got
back to Barton county and found the
air full of snow and sleigbbells.
For the meeting of the Grand Lodge
A. . U w. at Fort Scott, Kans. The
No Pac. Ry- will sell round trip tick.
cts on Feb 2ist to 25th. good return-
ing until Mar. 1st for 81 80. This is
only direct line. J. RAsoR, Agt.
More handsome cutters have been
seen on the streets of Great Bend the
, past week than were ever before in the
town. This winter and last would ins
dicate that a cutter is not at sll use :
less article in this land OF snow wsaBd
wheat.
F. D. Wilson, has Withdrawn from
membership in the Great Bend fire de-
partment, as he feels that bis duties as
city marshal requires his whole atten-
, tion during a fire. The members of the
department regret to lose 80 efficient q
member,
Peter Myers writes from Dubuque
that everything is D. z. up bis way.
except their north side rsilroad-ssys
it's showed under again and he has not
run a train for a coon sage. He says
even Bardeep station is covered CONS
pletely out of sight
The young lady editor of the Linds~
t borg News-who probably spesks from
: experience,-says. Marriages are
t said to be made in heaven, but engage
ments are generally made in the front
g parlor while the gas is burning so low
that the interested parties don't have q
q good chance to see which ope is getting
the best of the bargain"
r They say an old soldier out in Lot
e Angles. CAL, coughed piece of bay
oDet out of his lung. That's nothing
says the Cimsrron .Jscksonian. In
- Cimarron trey have several old soldiers
who sit around the grocery che wing
battle ak and combing canon balls Out
of their hair with the nail rake.
q There came near being another fire
h on Main street. Friday night. About
t3 a. 20. Night Police O-Connell dis.