Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-06-24
THERElL BE SOMETHING DOING
Our Olmitz Correspondent Tells What
You May Expect at Great Bend on
The Fourth.

Olmitz, Kans.,. June 22.-Don't
forget to go to Great Bend the 4th.
Billy FEEDER guarantees US the time of
our lives if we viii but be on hand
According to his story we will surely
hear the old eagle scream, as he never
has before. One hundred guns at
sunrise, 100 big IL inch guns, warrant
ed to jar the very foundations of
Bunting's Jail and cause it to tremble
like a goats tail, while. the easement
in the DEMOCRAT Office will rattle like
"a dudes brain in a fish bladder.
$50 a. m.-Grand parade, partici-
pated in by horsemen riding fierce
and fiery steeds, prancing sideways
with a creaking sound that resembles
the noise made by the Heller Brass
Band. The Great Bend Firemen's
Band in gaudy uniform and filling the
air with pizzacato notes without inter
est if paid when due. The M. w. A.
Goat custodians dressed in pea green
with red. stripes and revers on the
sside; decorated carriages, the finest
decoration will get cash prize of 35
cents; Great Bend Fire Dept. with
paper helmets and brown leghorn
leggins. The Eagles preceded by
their captain with drawn corks-no,
we mean swords. City officers with
drawn salaries, and the Ellinwood or
Hoisington band playing "Bedelia, )"
citizens on foot, in autos, in buggies,
on horseback and on a tear. DR..
Mcpherson and other physicians with
arnica and court plaster to use on the
small boy who is not afraid to look
the cannon cracker in the eye when
it scattereth itself spontaneously.
About 11:30 the crowd will make a
general advance toward the city park
where the red ant lieth in wait for the
picnic and the chigger whetteth his
bill on his boot leg the more readily
a to penetrate the alabaster cuticle of
the girl with the wire screen waist and
the peek-a-boo stockings.
Intermission given over to the won
derful things to be found in the study
of the spring henlet and cold trim
mings.
AT about $50 p. m. if he hasfnish-
ed his dinner Jimmie Clarke will ad-
dress the assemblage in a rich red
tone of voice. This will be the feat
ure of the day, as Jimmie has been to
Kentucky to have his voice sand
papered for this especial occasion.
3p. m.-Sports Of ali kinds, mems
foot race-feet must be in healthy
condition and not over IA inches long,
{this bars Art Taylor.) Boys foot
race, no, time allowed for brushing
sand burs from your heels. In fact
all sort of sport will be on the bill.
9 p m.-Grand pyrotechnic dis
play; the heavens will be Illuminated
like sixty, sky rockets will shrek,
Roman candles will shoot athw art,
pizzerinctums will pizzerlnctum; brand
, new comets with tails on the ground
will sail around and about you, flying
meteors will meet as never before.
The days celebration will terminate
with grand ball close by where the
elite and the Amalekite may mingle
in the misty may movements of the
waltz or hop from one lady's train to
another in the glad ensemble, of grand
all around in the quadrille.
To make long matter short Judge
FEEDER says there will be something
doing at his home town on the glori
Gus Fourth.
London, June ga Toxic dis
patch says that it is unoficially
,anorta1 +hot +v,o puee;on toroaJ-