Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-05-15

The bowling alleys have been ''cut
out" at Stafford.
fIoisington kids will now be ..rung
in" by Curfew bell-for while.
Miss George Lynn, of Pennsylvania
IS visiting her mother, near Stafford.
Hon. D. A. Banta will deliver the
Memorial Day address at Kinsley
this year.
w. S. Hill, out on the Walnut. pre-
diets that the wheat will be short straw
this season.
A. Aitken was up from St. John
last week to look after his business
interests here.
Now watch the vegetation growl
Get after those weeds before they
get the start of you.
J. L. Jolly, the Seward pump and
windmill man, was caller Friday to
order some stationery printed.
The sporting inclined of Great
Bends population now go to the
surrounding towns to spend Sundays.
A boy born to Alois Birtzer and
wife, of Odin last week, keeps up the
record of that locality for <rue Kansas
enterprise.
The family of J. ]. Harter arrived
from Topeka last Monday, and now
at home on the Allen Curry farm, in
Buffalo township. Mr.. .Harter will
| join them later on in the season.
Miss Lipphardt closed very sue
cessful term of school at Dundee
Dist. 34,-May I'd. Her work has
been very satisfactory and highly APP
preciated by the patrons of the dis
trict.
Vandals visited o. A. Martins tulip
bed, Thursday night last and destroy
ed some choice flowers. One of these
nights a load of bird shot will be
carried home in the anatomy of some
night prowler.
Later developments indicate that
the Unruh boy, an account of whose
disappearance appeared last week,
had laid his plans to run away, having
put on his best clothes under overalls,
and taking his watch and some change
with him.
/. D. M. Lazarus, in the early days a
business man in Great Bend, died
last week at his home in Pennsylvania.
He was charter member of the
Great Bend Workman lodge, and kept
up his membership here, and his heirs
will receive the insurance benefits.
i A: M. Traylor, of Washburn,
Missouri, accompanied by his son,
Ed, of Clahin, were callers at the
DEMOCRAT Office last Friday. Mr..
Traylor, ST., was resident of Barton
county in the seventies, and has been
out visiting his son and old friends.
candy" has been joshing Dan
Miller about his sowing timothy, and
last week Dan brought in some
samples from his field that stand 16
incher high, and was frozen down at
two different times Yes, Andy, tim
othy will grow here successfully, and
don't you forget it.
A polite young lady, weighing
plump 10 pounds, came to the home
of dock" Morgan and wife, of the
third ward recently, and Dock now
owns controlling interest in the Rock
Island-or at least he has the air of
a magnate since the arrival of the;
daughter. j
On last Thursday night the w. G.
Merritt skimming station at Rush
Center burned down. The station
was at the rear of an unused store
building, and the fire is supposed to
have been set by tramps in the front
building, as no fire had been built in
the skimming station the day before.
The r. r. pump man discovered the
fire but too late to save the buildings
The loss is said to be pretty we'll
covered by insurance.
sThis fable is from the Enid Daily
Eagle: A chinch bug. sat shivering
with her family under the imperfect
shelter of bunch of grass while the
late April snow fell down upon her
uncomfortable abiding place. Cali
this talk of prosperity makes me
tired,' said the chinch bug. "Here