Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-18
oLMITz NOTES

INV WOuio you uACslO NC tlS (cdi
man, with lots of coal?
Mrs. Fred Schenk. ST., went to the
Wichita hospital for treatment last
week.
H. F. Schenk of our drug en-
porium made hurried trip to Sylvan
Grove, Kan, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Eberwein of Pueblo
are in the city visiting Mrs. Eber-
veins parents, Judge Mayer and wife.
The city schools will give an
appropriate program Xmas eve in the
Brack Hall. every one is cordially
invited to attend.
Mrs. w. c. Kaiser has been in
disposed the past few, days, we are
glad to be able to note her GONZALES
cence at this writing.
Miss Julia Speck is attending our
! High School, and incidentally taking
! a post graduate course in the German
language, and music.
WI ]. Whitchurch, Local Chair
man of the Order Railroad Telegra-
pliers spent a few minutes between
trains with Agent McInnes Wednes-
| day.
Geo. Lindsey is back in the em-
ploy of Schugart hosiery as First
Vice Pres. and general manager.
Geo. says there is nothing like be-
ing nearer to the "folks."
Our friend Henry Nordnlan Sr.,
the Sage of our city, has SO far re-
covered his usual good health as to
be able to make an extended trip
over his ranch holdings in Lane coun-
ty this week.
Chas Kaufman the genial coun-
ter jumper of the Olmitz Mere. Co.,
and Chas Schugart president of the
Depot Carriage and Transfer Co. of
this city returned from Wichita last
week whittier they had gone to have
rubber heels put on their shoes; the
boys are evidently preparing for the
new sidewalks.
Art Taylor, our genial greenback
shower was out of town last Sunday,
where he went is an unknown quaint
ty but by using a little of Sherlock
Holmes deductions we volunteer the
information that he was at Wichita,
two times two is four, young lady
from Great Bend at Wichita, Art out
of his usual haunts at the same time
trains run just right, SO there you are.
Wolf hunting is all the rage, every
day troop of rough riders" traverse
the prairies wild adjoining town max
ing life miserable for the sly Reynard.
The boys have succeeded in soaring
to death two of the coyote tribe, we
might also mention that as some OF
the huntsmen rode their fiery steeds
without saddle that they, the boys
have been taking their meals from
the shelf, in other words eating stand
ing up, not from a desire to do so but
through necessity.
=, Our friend Colbert has resigned as
chief architect on the Nordman Ex
cavation Improvement Co. and has
taken the contract to train the Keenan,
string of horses for the turf next sea
son. "Cully" expects to enter these
horses in the Worlds Fair handicap
at St. Louis next year and do few
record breaking stunts for the benefi
of sight seers from across the pond
Well bet he will deliver the goods
too if he starts in to do so, here's tc
him and his'n.
; A teacher in the Albert schools
asked a young hopeful who attend:
her school, where the Declaration o
Independence was signed, the kic
promptly answered cat the bottom.
Now in our way of figuring thing:
that kid has the timber in his maxi
= up for a president of this T. S. o
5 ours, that is provided he don't &c
| lost in the weeds which abound around
Walnut Creek, or provided he don
: move to Ohnitz and fall on those new
, sidewalks and break his vertebrae.
A number of our citizens hav
, been complaining that the town i
r infested with an over production o
stray telines and CANNES, and tn
racket they make causes any one wit
: a nervous temperament to have tn
, jim JAMS. We accidentally mad
: the discovery that these uneartnl
a noises that make the nights khideou
do not issu, from the larynx of tn
aforesaid CANNES and felines, but tina
it is Chas Kaufman, the Olmitz prun
weigher tying to play "Hiawatha" o
8 his violin.
). In view of the fact that we ar
! jewellers in the very center of tn
! great Kansas wheat belt, few st;
: IL. AGnATon1