Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-01-10

OF.
TOO Rich To Marry" at opera house
January 10Th, is the first play wherein
Dunkard life is portrayed that has ever
been on the stage.
Mrs. Oscar Auspaugh, formerly Of
this county. died at Garfield, Ark.
January 1st, after short illness with
lung and stomach trouble.
Probate Judge FEEDER went to Wichi-
ia, Tuesday. to attend a National
meeting of the Modern Tonties, as one
of the delegates from Kansas.
The editors family dined on baked
fish on. Sunday, by reason of the
thoughtfulness of Fred Witte who
brung US in fine 10 FOUNDER.
A dish of hot chile, hot coffee and
mince pie are just the things to take
off that chill when you come to town
day or night-at Wilson's 4-1I-44.
There is not line or wcrd in TOO
Rich To Marry" which could shock
even Dunkard and yet the comedy is
full of wit as nut is full of meat.
The Dodge families and Wood FAM
lilies. together with NJ. n. Jones and
wife of Denver, assembled at the Don
Dodge home Sunday the 5sh, and held
joyous reunion.
The students of the city high school
are arranging to give entertainments
to raise fund with which to purchase
piano. They should be encouraged
in the enterprise.
A Kansas editor says it is needless to
go to see football game. He says
Just try to slop bunch of pigs in q
trough that only two can get their
noses into at once.'s
The Great Bend Odd Fellows who
visited Elllnwood last Friday night to
see the new lodge installed report a
most elegant time. And why not?
They were at Elinwood.
The "church directory" does not
seem TO be more reliable in it's statis>
tics than any old plug directory Of the
non-reiigious kind. Who is responsi>
BILE for the worldly failing?
| Reading is not the only thing that
''maketh full man" There are those
things which Topeka, Hutchinson aud
few Other Kansas towns and villages
say they have not-the joints.
| Arthur Hays left Sunday for Man.
haitian to take q course in the State
Agricultural College. His brother,
Albert, commenced term in the Win
field college the first of the year.
In Illinois, where Too Rich To
| Marry" played for eight months re-
Gently. the box off ce records were
smashed. The comedy drew the larg-
est audiences known in the state.
David Lamb and Emma Bauer we're
recently married, in the west part of
this county. What filicitous unionI
The young Lamb seeks a pleasant
/ Bauer aud lies down to sweet sleep.
The BARTON COUNTY DEMOCRATS
Holiday Edition. issued last week, was
a hummer. Such e1itions are a good
thing for any county and big adver-
tisement for the paper.-St John News
i M. n. Jones. with his wife and two
little girls, came down from Denver
last Saturday for few days' visit with
old Great Bend friends, of whom Mr.
and Mrs. Jones have host in this neck
O. the woods.
The mail and Breeze says a httl.
girl was asking q blessing and wher
she got to the words: Give US thii
day our daily bread her younger
+ brother piped IN: Hit Him for pie
Daisy, Tit Him for pie"
A. Salina girl who attended swell
dance recently, had a dance with
youth who can't reverse. After sh
had been whirled around the hall hal
dozen times. she said breathIessly
: Nov. for heaven 8 sake unwind me.
When Larned man, who belongs t.
all the lodges going sold his wife
l when be came ia late one night. tha
: he had been attending "j1int install
e lation,'' be told the truth. He hat
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