Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-02-06
OLMITZ NOTELETS.
From sIke nae Hiker. >:

large crowd in town.
Conrad Steitz and lady, of 0 is,
spent Sunday with relatives in our
city.
Mra r Taylor of Great Bend spent
Saturday in the city with her son,
our banker.
Misc Cecilia Baier has closed her
school work here and is working in
Great Bend at the millinery profes
sion.
We understand that Tommy Har-
per is talking of buying the telephone
line through here He wants cen
trail and all.
Victor Schneider, of Peter Bracki 3
mercantile ests blishment, spent Sun
day al Bison with friends and pros
peciive relatives
The church officers are having a
well drilled, at the handsome new
parsonage. Olmitz can boast of hav-
ing the SWEETEST church parsonage in
the county
Ignatz Vorda, who has been seri
ousiy i'll with pneumonia at the home
OF Fioran Hlavaty. north of town,
was moved to hospital at Wichita
Monday morning.
Dr. Akin has bis we'll completed
and will install gasoline engine to
pump the water. The Dr.. intends
irrigating on a small scale, and will
certainly have a beautiful home
within few years.
Invitations are out for masque
ball at He Ger, Valentine night,
They expect TO havea good time. and
ii they would only get our orchestra
to furnish the music they would get
a large crowd from here.
The Kansas Day" exercises in the
school house Thursday evening the
10Th were we'll attended, and nice
program was rendered. The violin
solo work of Miss Baier and the talks
by Lawyer McGill and Prof. Baty
are worthy of special mention.
The Registers item chaser from
Pawnee Rock takes a shot at us with
MS air gun, and lmparts the informa-
ton to the readers of that moral
sheet that like the Hiker>sw maEhe-
NAUTICAL calculations are very lame
Granted. We must acknowledge the
fact that we have never won any gold
medals or ribbons of blue in any
mathematical contests, yet We are
quite ecerta:n that our qualifications
along that line are on par with the
Registers lair gun" from that little
antlquated bamlet Known on the
postal guide as Pawnee Rock. He
also inquiries where we live. thus
showing a lack of knowledge along
geographical lines as applies to the
location of Barton county's principal
towns Well, to enlighten him, we
live at Olmi!z, Kans., little town
that has better school boys, better
marksmen, and no hoodlums; that
mas better railroad facilities, better
people, speaking in general way.
than has Pawnee Rock. And we are
impertinent enough to say that we
> can give that little bunch of huts
aces and spades and beat them st
anything they desire to start.
Ii you desire our school boys to
arrange match with you it will be
necessary for you to wait until after
shcool term is over aid our festive
Kid is at large. then we have no
doubt but what you will be &C
commodated to your hearts content.
You further say that when we say
school boy at Oimi;z we say it all.
Be that as it may, our school boys
and any other class of residents her
have never been dubbed with the
name of hoodlum, which If our
memory does not deceive US is the
name that described gang of your
own residents not many months ago,
when you treated a delegation of
visiting church officers to vollev of
rocks, clubs and other things sug.
gestive of your village; aud then you
go ahead and say that if you asked
our gun club over there that you
would be afraid of their having .'ail
mitts" with them Who wouldn't have
his mitts along when going to place
where such royal treatment (???) is
accorded the visitor? No, BROTHER,
we wouldn't think of meeting you at
81 oisington, for the reason that we
wouldn't wish our friends at tina,
place to see such al infatuated lot
of fossils we are going up against
You need have no fesrs about the
No. Pac. not stopping their trains at
our town; they all stop here. The
Santa Fe may use your town for q
h4ind-sidiDg, but you must remem Der
YOU are on little one horse branch