Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-04
HERE AND THERE.

! A GreenSburg man says he Will not
raise the price of coal. Many others
: cannot.
! The Kingman Journal let live
stock item get into its society notes
last week, in which it mentions that
''Mrs. Buck is visiting her sister, Mrs
Bullock"
The farmers out west are adopting
railroad tactics, i. e., confiscating a
car load of coal, weighing it out, leav-
ing or offering to leave, the pay there
for, with the station agent This is
the way the railroads did last year.
A North Missouri paper asks:
"Who is the happier, the man who
possesses 100000 or the man who
has seven daughters?" To which
another exchange replies: "The man
with the surplus girls of course The
man with the money is not satisfied,
and wants more. The man with the
seven daughters is satisfed-he has
enough.
Right now the laying hen is a bird
that comes pretty nearly being the
one that lays the golden egg. Local
buyers are paying Is cents dozen
for eggs, and the supply does not
equal the demand at that. Some of
| the ''big cattle men, even are getting
the idea into their heads that the
barnyard fowl is no small affair count
ed by the 'chink" she brings in every
year.
Persons about to commit matrimony
and victims invited to be present at
affairs of the kind will be delighted to
learn that a solution of the what-to-
give problem has been invented in St.
Paul, MINI. AT recent wedding in
that city friends of the bridal pair
contented themselves with handing
out checks for sums ranging from 81
up-mostly up. This scheme saves
the bride the worry and peril of ex-
changing duplicate gifts and relieves
the givers of any amount of hard
thinking.
Rustics have the happiest lot
They work hard, but they have
enough, and they are without fear as
to the future. They are mutually
helpful, their needs are simple, their
virtues firm, and the life of the farm
gives not only endurance and long
life, but sound brains, which in time
regulate the affairs of the nation.
The city man is never in control of
our destinies. The farmer lives
above statistics. Ellsworth Mes
senger.
Grain fag," the complaint that is
causing serious discussion nowadays,
places its victims in ga physical con-
dition SO languid and lifeless that
only alcoholic stimulants can restore
the body temporarily to its normal
habits" There are a number of men
in Iarned using the remedy who are
merely suffering from the same old
fag, there being no evidence adduced
that brains cut any figure in their
cases.-Tiller and Toiler.
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Miss Lille Gallup and Miss Alice
derne, of Great Bend, are visiting
with friends here.
Miss Mary Jones and Miss Edith
Rush, of Great Bend, spent the day
shopping in this city.
Miss Minnie Huffman will enter
tain at Sunday dinner. The guests
will be: Miss Alice Hern and Lille
Gallup, of Great Bend, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ted Allen, Mr.. E. H. Mueller of
Newton, Mr.. Chas. Johnson and Mr..
and Mrs. Kelley yf Great Bend
Hutchinson Daily Bee, 2Sth.
There is quite lesson conveyed
in the story of the old darkey barber
who was telling one of his customers
why be was no longer a church mem
Der. When asked his reason for
dropping out he said: "Well sab, it
wuz dis way: I jined dat church en-
good faith and de fust yeah I give
ten dollahs to heah de stated gospel,
en- all de church people call me
'Brudder Dickson De second ma
business fell off and 1 give five
dollahs; en- all de church people call
me 'Mistah Dickson Well, de third
Iyeah I feel so polly dat dom give
nothin' t all fur preachin', en- all de
church people dey pass me by and
say dat old niggah Dickson After