Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-17

VlSltlnS IN tnlS city Win MISS beula
Slentz.
Miss Winifred Feder entertained a
few friends at birthday dinner
Sunday.
Harvest home picnic at Hoising-
ton week from today-the Oath.
Are you going.
Members of the Presbyterian Sun
day School enjoyed picnic on the
Walnut, Tuesday.
Miss Maggie Johnson, of Contra
telephone Office, is taking a four
weeks vacation.
Elmer Brodie of Ellinwood, and J.
r. of Hoisington, were Great Bend
visitors Monday.
For Fire Insurance go to Ogle.
Grain in stack or granary a speciality;
lowest rates on short or long time.
Radium, the new metal, is said to be
worth three million dollars pound.
Don't throw your scraps of radium in
the slop bucket.
Captain Amos Johnson made trip
to Canon City, Colorado, the first of
this week, to look after his mining
interest out there.
o. w. Dawson and F. V. Russell
were at Belpre Tuesday on business
connected with the Windhorst
bankruptcy case.
Most of the Barton county wheat
will be cut by the last of this week.
But up in Rush they will be at it at
least five days longer.
C. B. Wells, late of Hutchinson,
has taken a position as bookkeeper
at the central Office of the Rock
Grain Co., in this city.
Myron Gilmore was in a railroad
wreck, at Nevada, Mo-, last Thurs
day. He was shaken up cor siderably,
but happily not injuredvery seriously.
A Pratt county young man took
his sweetheart to a picnic and sat and
famed her for two hours while she
slept. A Barton county girl would
never go to sleep-at picnic.
This is the time of year when you
hear the mother say to her daughter
who is going out for the evening:
For goodness sakel Go put some
more on you'll can see clear through
YOU"
I. S. Hunter, of West Moreland,
Pennsylvania, was in the city Tues
day. Mr.. Hunter has some farm
property adjoining the town of
Albert, and is we'll pleased with the
outlook for Kansas.
On last Friday afternoon a small
stable in the rear of K. Noes resi-
dence just across the street from
Geo. Thatcher,s, was burned down.
presumably set on fire by some boys
who were seen playing about the
stable just before the fire.
Edward Crocker, of the Great
Bend Furniture Co., has returned
from attending a meeting of the
Kansas Funeral Directors Associa-
ton, at Leavenworth. He took the
final examination and passed success
fully as licensed funeral director.
Charley Armstrong of Anthony,
spent few days in this city visiting
old friends and,-friends. He atten-
ded the national editorial association
meeting at Omaha last week. His
cousin, Miss Hazel Marsh, will ac-
company him to Anthony this week.
Two-and-a-half and three dollars
day are pretty stiff prices for the
farmers to pay for harvest help. But
when so many men from outside the
county were required, and most of
these men had to come from adjoin-
ing states, paying their way out here,
and back when the work is over, the
$3.50 to $500 a day for ten to
fifteen days was not SO much of a
snap after all. Our hope is that the
price of wheat will come up to the
increased price of harvesting.
A new kind of cruelty has been
found in Nebraska. A farmer
hitched his wife to a plow and when
she Jagged behind the horses, fiogged
her with rope. She escaped to a
neighbor's with her six-months old
baby. She was persuaded to return
when her husband promised not to