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services ct the First Presbyterian Church.

Regular services Will be held at Grace
Street by Dr.RJera Witherspoon, and at
the Church o. tho Covenant by pr. y.
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DAV1s, FOR. PHOTOS AND PORTRAITS

PHoToGR4- Is. or RICHMOND FOLK
DLITE STUDIO. "a No. .2o7 East Broad
Street, for the new display Of Photo
graphs this week. Richmond people are
now sitting. s lj,$ @ "a
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
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= and Neighborhoods
Newsy Notes from

A fine baby girl was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. Helm last Sunday
morning, and no arrival at that home
was ever more welcome.
Will Kienzle, of the Leader Office,
is enjoying a two weeks vacation,
which he has richly earned. Will has
been with this office for seven years
and we have always found him faith
full and reliable.
Mrs. Sophie Tieperman, former
resident of this community, accompa-
MED by her daughter, returned to their
home at Edmund, Ok, Wednesday,
after visit with friends and relatives
on the south side.
The Bell telephone people now
have their poles up to the city and
will push on to Great Bend as soon as
possible. It will not be long before
Ellinwood can talk with Kansas City,
Chicago and other ''seaport" towns.
All good citizens should take pride
in making the home paper bright and
newsy. Don't hesitate to hand US
any news that will be of interest to
the public. 1t may be wedding, an
accident, a friend or neighbor has
gone away on visit, friends are Wis
iting you or your lodge has elected
I officers. There are hundreds of little
items that tend to make a newspaper
of interest to the community. Never
lose sight of the fact that hundreds of
papers go to residents outside of your
own town. An attractive newspaper
gives stranger favorable impress
sion of a place.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
Hoisington
From The Dispatch.

Edgar Disney had the misfortune
to almost cut the end of his finger off
Friday while working at the mill.
Tom Pearson was brought in from
the country Tuesday, sick with ty-
phoid fever. He is staying with his
sister, Mrs. Warren.
Mike Jacobs, of near Verbeck, was
hurt in a runaway Monday morning.
His hand was badly cut and his wrist
broken.
Mrs. Parratt, who has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Sam Shattuck. for
the past six months, left for her home
in Custer City, Ok, Monday morn
ing.
D. ]. Lewis came in from Kansas
City Tuesday night, where he went to
meet his 15-year old nephew, John
Lewis, who came direct from London,
England. John started from England
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

per pound; other kinds of steak, II to
Is cents per pound; -four, per sack of
SO pounds, S1.10 to S1.15; creamery
butter, 80 cents per pound.
Wood is used instead of coal and
sells for s. per cord, delivered to
ones house. The most of the timber
is fir and cedar. There is some oak,
but it is not~so extensive.
There are many places to enjoy
yourself on Sunday. There is a fine
park here where they have a large
dance hall and base ball ground.
They have a dance every Saturday
night and Sunday afternoon and
night; also a base ball game on Sun
day. I was up to the park Sunday to
see the games and dancing. They
had ladies' band from Portland,
which gave nice music all the after
noon.
Board and lodging is from $3.50 to
81 per week in this country. We
have got job of hop-picking and will
begin September 1st. Hop-pickers
are paid by the box and receive from
40 to SO cents per box. One person
can pick from four to six boxes per
day.
think that | will bring my letter
to close. After l get back from
hop picking l will write one that will
probably be more interesting.
Yours truly,
FRED BECKER.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

on August 18th, and made the trip
alone until he met D. ]. at Kansas
City.
c. D. Jenkins is here from Illinois
and will do the wire work for the
electric light plant for ]. E. Sponsel-
ler. The work of putting up wires
began Thursday.
Boilermaker NJ. c. Butcher. met
with very bad accident Tuesday
night. A piece of steel struck him in
the eye, badly cutting the eyeball.
He was sent to Pueblo to an eye
specialist.
The Barton County State Bank
moved into their new and permanent
quarters Monday night and opened
for business Tuesday morning. The
furnishing of the building was not
completed, but the work will not in
terfere with the transaction of bust
ness.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
Clahin.
From The Clarion.

You'd better get one of those dog
tags, or the goblins will get your
"purp."
J. R. Jordan is reported to be
among those who are on the sick list
this week.
The Clafin Grain, Fuel and Stock
Company are improving their elevator
by putting in new hopper scale.
The people in the vicinity of Odin
took layoff Tuesday and picnicked
in the grove south of that place.
Charlie Wickert, who has been on
the sick list the past two weeks, is
again able to be out, but is still feel
ing little under the weather.
Mr.. Praeger is preparing to buy
less farm machinery in the future, by
erecting large new implement house
on his farm east of town, and his ex-
ample should be followed by more of
the farmers.
Owing to the late harvest and the
wet weather since harvest, the farm
ers are late with their fall blowing.
Many of them are not vet more than
half through, and will not be ready
for seeding before the latter part of
September. From the Goth to the
10Th is early enough to begin to SOW,
but the earlier ground is plowed the
better chance there is for crop next
year.
While out blowing Friday last, Joe
Koett, young man living about two
miles east of St. Peter and PauPs
church, accidentally shot himself.
From what we can learn, he was car
rying the gun on his plow and the
wheel, in striking a hole, discharged
the gun. The whole charge entered
his bowels just below the navel, and
passed entirely through the body,
ranging upward and coming out at
the back. His brother, who was
blowing in the same field, carried him
home, but the unfortunate young man
died shortly after reaching there. The
funeral services were held from St.
Peter and Paul's church Sunday and
the remains were inferred in the
church cemetery. This is the second
fatal accident for this neighborhood
during last week.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
A Letter From Ore gon.

Oregon City, Ore, Aug. 25th, 1908.
EDITOR OF THE DEMOCRAT:
AS L have had many friends ask
me to- write them concerning this
country, will, with your permission,
endeavoreto answer them through the
columns of your paper.
We started from Great Bend at
. 7:30 p. m, Saturday, August 18th,
and arrived in Pueblo at a. m. Sun
day. There we laid over from a. m.
until A p. m. During our stay in
Pueblo we went about the town taking
in the sights. Pueblo is we'll built
and nice looking place.
e We we're delayed in Pueblo for
some time. on account of there being
so many travellers that we could not
. get on the train. There is lots of
travel towards the west; at least you
will think so when you start in that
direction.
Thetrain we left Pueblo on was an
extra with ten passenger coaches and
two baggage cars, drawn by two large
engines. We saw some nice scenery
while going through the Grand canon
in Colorado. Our next stop was at
Ogden, Utah, where we stopped over
from about 9 p. m. Monday until $40
a. m.sTuesday. Ogden is a nice look
ing town, situated on top of a large
plateau. We had no more stop-overs
after leaving Ogden.
We arrived in Portland at 1920
Wednesday morning. AT Portland l
saw sevearl large ocean steamers and
several river steamers also. Most of
the business streets in Portland are
paved. From Portland we took the
street ear to Oregon City, a distance
of II miles south of Portland, situat-
ed Oh the Willamette river. The
Willamette falls are at Oregon City.
We rented a house in Oregon CITY
with five rooms in it, for 81 per month.
1t is good house, and has one prune
tree that is so full that it has to be
propped. There are also few plum
and peach trees on the place. The
street car line runs in front of our
house, and on the first street back OF
: it runs the Southern Pacific railroad
and the steamers run on the river
which is within 100 yards of the
house.
All the fruit trees are overloaded
and make fine sight to look upon
Garden truck is very plentiful. Cab
bage sells by the head You can buy
all sizes of cabbage for 5 cents pei
head. Potatoes sell for 80 cents pei
hundred at present. AT times they
are higher and sometimes cheaper
Potatoes are not sold by measure but
by weight. Meat can be bought a,
reasonable prices. Fresh pork, 1(
cents per pound; best bacon, II cents
per pound; shoulder steak, 10 cents
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

The John Robinson show exhibited
in Du Quoin, last Saturday. giving
two performances to fun canvas.
The street parade was one of the best
that was ever presented here, and
was witnessed by large crowd 1t
would seem needless to speak of the
performances, as almost everybody
was in attendance Suffice it to say
many attractions were presented that
were new in these parts, of which
circling the loop, the educated seals,
trained elephants, and wire rope pers
formances were exceptionally fine,
and gave general satisfaction. The
management understands the art OF
pleasing, and they exercise it in full
measure.-Du Quoiu, Ills, Tribune.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

1t has been said that the meanest
man is the one who steals from an
editor. Such a man IS in this
neighborhood, but he has not yet
been found. Some time MONDAY
afternoon some fellow deliberately
took the Junior editors bicycle away
from its usual place in front of the
DEMOCRAT Office. 1t was not an
elegant wheel, or much of a sprinters
wheel, but something of an. old
Studebaker, still it served our purpose
very well.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
Another Bad Leak.

The old Jail walls again cracked
open, last Thursday night, and four
prisoners took a sneak. We don't
know whether the voice of that
silver @ spoon fakir ratified the
stones loose, or some of the prisoners
accidentally butted their heads
against the wall and caused the
break. At any rate hole was made
through the wall next to where the
chimney goes up, and Frank Greene
way, in for gambling, Ed Miller in fol
carrying concealed weapons, Walter
Frey common thief and Jim Brown
charged with bribing a witness
crawled out and disappeared in the
Fair crowds. None of them have as
yet been re-captured.
One thing is certain, the new
county Jail cannot be completed toe
soon for the peace and good of this
community.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

The second story to the county
jail and sheriffs residence is now go
ing up, and the building begins 70.
assume proportions that show what 1t
will be when completed.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
Ellinwood.
From The Leader

Last week Otto Schwerdtfeger pur-
chased the restaurant of Wagner &
Komarck, four doors north of the
postofice.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

The Rice county fair. at Sterling
and the Ness county fair at Mes
City, are both on this week.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

John Dawson came down from ST.
Joe, Mo-, the first of the week, to
visit with friends here a while.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

F. c. Kaths, who for a number of
years has been the efficient cashier
at the Clahin State Bank, last week
removed to Belpre, Edwards county,
where he is interested in the bank
and will make his home.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

r. B. Gardner, of the 4th ward
was quite dangerously i'll with a feve
last week, but is now on the improve
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

John J. Schmidt, of west of town
called Friday last to have his DEMO
Graf directed to r. F. D. No. l,
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

The Dundee Rural Delivery Route
(R. D. No. 1 was opened September
1st, with P. R. Corey as messenger.
Persons getting their mail on that
route should notify us SO that we
can properly address their DEMOCRAT.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

On August 21st fine baby boy
was born to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
Grossardt, Jr., of Clahin.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

VIM. L. Mauler and w. A. Pritch-
ard, of near Larned, were down to
the Fair last Friday, and called on
the DEMOCRAT while in town.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

Coal-All you want, and at price:
as low as any place, at A. H
SCHAEFFER S.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

Ed Grail was down from Pueblo to
attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs.
F. Flint.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

Chas. Lampe came in last Sunday
from Lamar, Colorado, for a few
days visit. He will return to
Colorado the first of the week.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

The big. Lundblade & Bolinger
department store has swung a new
electric sign to the breeze that is UP
to date and quite metropolitan.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

The insurance papers, of the value
of 500, 600, that were stolen from the
Moses Bros. Mill and Elevator office
were found by E. P. Dewalt, car
inspector at the Santa Fe yards, at
Newton, last week, and returned to
the owners.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
Interest in the DEMOCRAT Piar

Interest IN the DEMOCRAT Piano
Contest is growing each week. The
contestants are now fairly started,
and some of them are making
phenomenal gains. The race is now
fairly on, and scattering" votes are
not numerous, the people generally
making selection from among the
flve or six who are in the lead.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

Dick Johnson writes from Colorado
that he is much better.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04

The band concert last Thursday
evening by the Epperson Military
Band, in the park, would have
commenced an hour earlier had the
light plant possessed an electrician
who could be put to work 10 minutes
to make some repairs. AS it was,
one of the band boys finally made
the repairs and turned on the lights.
The concert was enjoyed by large
number of people.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
Henry Miller's fy.

Henry Miller's five months old
colt, from the Jake Alefs draft horse
"Colonel, took first premium offered
by the Fair Association and also the
first premium offered by Mr.. Alefs.
The colt is indeed beauty, 5
months old August Goth, and weighs
800 pounds.
Barton County democrat., 1903-09-04
Grand Free
100000
Street Parade

Five Bands of Music. Fife
and Drum Corps, Chime of
Bells, so Cars and Gilded
Dens, % Tableau Cars, II
Traps, 800 Thoroughbred
Horses, 60 Miniature Ponies,
Steam Caliope drawn by 40
Ponies driven by one man.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-22
Green Food In Winter.

If you doubt the Importance of green
feed for fowls in winter. hand them a
sample and see the voraeity with
which it is devoured. When in doubt
Is to chicken feed, ask the hens about
1t. They know what they want and
what they need. Everybody who raises
fowls should make provision for some
green stuff for the winter. a little
patch of winter grain, alfalfa. rescue
grass. turnips bcets, cabbage or any
root or vegetable that fowls will eat
is good for them and will encourage
hens to lay. Hens have no alma
nae, and the only way they have for
distinguishing the seasons is by the
sort of stuff they have to eat. Feed
spring vietuals and give physical COM
fort, and you will have eggs to eat if
not to sell-Farm and Poultry.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-22

l feed a mash as early in the morn
ing as possible made of cornmeal, two
and half pounds; shorts, two and a
half pounds; swine and poultry meal,
eight ounces; tablespoonful salt and
boiling water sufficient to mix it, says
L. D. Denneth. Maine fancier To
this l occasionally add tablespoonful
powdered charcoal and during cold
weather a teaspoonful red or cayenne
pepper daily. This is for sixty-three
hens and cockerel. At noon they have
the house waste or corn, oats or wheat
| feed some green bone during the
winter give them some hay or green
feed every day. keep shells, grit and
water constantly before them At night
give them as much corn as they will
eat.
My feed trough is made of galva-
nized iron. shaped, supported by
board ends and top. so they can get lit
tie or no dirt into it or tip it over. The
daily cost of feeding sixty three hens
and one cockerel. allowing the value Of
waste from house equivalent to two
quarts of corn. is % cents. with the
following prices per bushel: Corn, So
cents; oats. SO cents: wheat, $1.25;
cornmeal. 30 cents; shorts. $1.10 per
hundred pounds: green bone. 3 cents
per pound: grit. cent. and shells.
cent
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-22

boarded up with two inch hemlock.
cypress or other durable kind of lum-
Der or a single course of brick if pre-
ferred. Nine or ten inches is deep
enough for this soil The beds may be
filled up to that point with cinders,
coarse gravel or brickbats, to afford
free drainage and discourage the in
roads of moles, earthworms, etc. In
this case the steam or water heating
pipes must of necessity be carried
about the walls of the house above
the plant levels.
With proper air temperature, rang
ing from 40 to 40 degrees at night to
55 or 65 degrees in the shade during
the day, the soil will remain in a cool
needs of lettuce, for considerable time
with the minimum of attention. The
addition of a layer of fresh manure,
four inches or more deep, under the
soil would be of very doubtful advan-
tage in the case of lettuce. Radishes
find a somewhat higher soil temporal
ture congenia1, but quickly become
drawn and weak if the average atmos-
pheric temperature is raised much high
er than the figures above given.
A house IS by 100 feet can be safely
heated to the required temperature with
hot water circulation by conveying the
flow through three inch pipe near the
top of the house to the rear end, then
forking and dividing it into seven one
and a half inch returns, three on the
south and four ON the north wall, or, if
steam is used, the respective diameters
may be two and half and one and
quarter inches for the flow and returns.
The three-quarter span house running
east and west is by far the best plan.
Whether the short span is the best
placed south or north is still matter
of opinion. Nine out of ten houses are
built with the long slope to the south.
The only special advantage claimed for
the other arrangement is that the
houses are cooler in summer.
When raised benches are used, the
distance of the pipes from the benches
is matter of little Importance. As
slope must be maintained the pipes are
much nearer the benches at one end of
the house than the other in any case.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-22
CARE OF CANARlEs.
How to Select a Good Singer and
Protect Its Health.

Protect Its Health.
In selecting bird choose one of the
cross breeds, a pure canary with a
strain of goldfnch or bullfiEch stock,
says a writer in the Ledger Monthly.
These are characterized by the deep
yellow of the plumage and black mark
ings for the goldfnch or greenish tints
for the bullfinch cross. These birds in
variably possess splendid voices and
robust constitutions, this last being
great consideration, as the unmixed ca
nary has remarkable aptitude for de-
veloping diseases.
Owing to the birds strong suscepti-
bility to cold the cage should never be
hung in a draft or a stiff breeze; nei-
Their should it be allowed to remain I'M
covered in a lighted room at night, for
canary is nervous and excitable, like
all musical temperaments, and his song
will be permanently impaired if not
destroyed. by such artificial exhilara-
ton.
With regard to his habits, he must be
taught to control his appetite and to
take his bath the first thing in the
morning so as to give his mistress a
chance to tidy up before the day is adj
vanced. Never insist on his taking a
BATH Instinct is stronger than opinion.
and he can always be relied on to do
what is best for his health. After he
has finished his clubbing" remove his
bath; otherwise he will bedraggle his
feathers until he resembles the famous
jaczdaw of Reims after his excommu-
nication.
Then clean the cage for the day,
sprinkling the floor with a generous
supply of gravel and sand mixed. New
er mind what the bird fanciers tell you
about the advantages of those little
packages of gravel he will sell you for
5 cents apiece. The mixture of sand
and gravel agrees with the bird and
prevents sore feet. That can also be
avoided by careful attention to the
perches. Never use the sand gathered
by the seashore, as the presence of salt
will kill your pet.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-22
RIGHT AND WRONG WAYS.
Mistakes That Account For the FaiI-

Mistakes That Account For the Fall
ures of Some Poultry Farmers.
In looking over the average poultry
fects are damp floors, upon which the
fowls stand and nope and sometimes
contract rheumatism; broken windows,
letting cold in upon the fowls in day
time. which check laying and are COM
mon causes of roup; droppings left for
weeks to heap up under the roosts, lack
Of a supply of water, obliging the hens
to eat snow; lack of plenty Of good
sharp grit, which alone is sufficient
cause of failure; lack Of fresh meat
and cut bone, which should be fed
twice week; overlooking, overcrowd-
ing and furnishing no inducement to
scratch for a living. These are the
most common and important mistakes,
and those who wonder why their hens
do not lay will do well to go over the
list. See that your poultry house is
tight, so that on cold. wintry nights the
fowls will not suffer any more than
cannot be helped. Do not crowd the
fowls During the long winter months.
when they cannot exercise out of doors,
fowls will need at least seven or eight
feet square per fowl. Scatter some hay
about and throw the grain into it. This
will cause the hens to exercise and will
be what they need, and the eggs will
hatch better in the spring. Avoid feed
ing stimuIants to fowls which you are
going to breed from and do not give
them any more food than they will eat
up clean That which is left will be-
come filthy Furnish pure, fresh water.
You may think snow will answer, but
it is not good for poultry. Warm the
water little on cold days and put a
teaspoonful of red pepper in i. Fowls
are always thirsty, and greNt deal Of
roup is brought on by allowing them to
drink impure water. Kindness to poul-
try is never thrown away. Show us
person who studies and cares for his
birds. and we will warrant he will be
successful We consider galvanized iron
dishes for drinking vessels the best.
They do not break nor rust, can be
cleaned with hot water and will last
for years. They should be kept in a
shady, dry place, rinsed every day and
scalded every week.-Epitomist.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-22
A GOOD ONE.

view. The results of this practice are
too painfully evident in every stock
center to make comment necessary. The
financial losses already suffered as a
result of this policy are appalling, but
undoubtedly the worst thing attempted
along this line is the effort to produce
a dual purpose cow by crossing high
class beef or dairy sire on native cows.
Nothing but loss and disappointment
can follow such methods. The dual pur
pose COW is both useful and valuable in
her place. If she is desired, however,
she must come from some of the well
established breeds of that type and not
from the absurd and purposeless cross
ing of beef and milk breeds.-Bulletin
Department of Agriculture.