Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-04-22

Mrs. Hart IS repalnting her Main
street residence.
]. B., Miller has been on the sick
list for several days.
Andy Hicky, of near olmitz, is laid
up with the rheuma tism.
Lee Dodge has gone to Hutchin-
son to take a course in a business
college.
B. F. Ogle returned from Ohio last
Friday. Contrary to reports he is
still single.
Theo. Griffith and daughter, Mrs.
Beardsley, went to Kansas City Sun
day evening.
Leon Miller and wife came in from
St. Joe Sunday evening for visit with
home folks.
Mrs Wilbur Aber came in from
Dodge City Saturday night for visit
with friends here.
Miss Nettie Jones of Hoisington,
visited with the family of D. c. I.use
Saturday and Sunday.
Programs for the county normal,
which begins in May and closes June
18th, are being mailed this week.
Wendall Barrett and Clarence FL
more were over from Hoisington Sun
day, visiting their young friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Wollman return
ed from New York and stopped off
here over Sunday, on their way to La
Crosse.
E. S. Brodie and wife were up Fl ON
Ellinwood Sunday to attend the Man
ming funeral. c. Book and son,
Siegel were also up.
Mrs. George S. Bentley and Mrs.
R. l. Campbell, of Hutchinson, are
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. George
Green this week.
The town of Hoisington is going to
make residents keep their chickens in
enclosures. A sensible move, worthy
of emulation at Great Bend.
Let the boy make a chum of that
cur dog if he wants to. 1t may inocu-
late him with heas, but it will not
teach him to swear or to smoke cigar
cites.
Rev. and Mrs. Mccartney of Kins-
ley, are the happy parents of a bounc-
ing girl baby born Saturday. Mrs.
Mccartney is at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Meek. All doing nicely.
Down in Harper county. the other
day the probate judge married a
couple whose. ages were given as
seventeen and fourteen. That pro-
bate judge and the parents of the kids
need fixing" badly.
The PEOPLE at Hutchinson do not
seem to be contented with drilling
for gas and oil, but have began a
search for some whiskey said to have
been buried there about % years ago.
Strange what efforts some people will
put forth when they get dry.
Mrs. Neal, aged about SO, died at
Hoisington at p. M. Friday the 10,
and was buried there Sunday. She
had been ill with measles, setting into
pneumonia. She left little baby "a
hours old. Deceased was daughter
of the late w. w. Stewards.
Queer fellows, those Russians.
They claim that the battlesbip Pet
ropavlovsk was sunk by accidentally
running onto their own mines, then
threaten to hang Admiral Togo of
the Japanese feet for causing the dis
aster. Wonder if it would not be a
good plan for them to catch Togo be-
fore they hang him?
Andrew Blair and wife, who lived
here about 16 years ago. on the Henry
Tyler farm south of the river, came
in lrst Friday from Dakota, and will
likely remain here permanently.
They went out with c. P. Ayers, Sun
day, and will visit around with their
old neighbors for a while.
The federation of commercial inter
ests of Kansas are going to be pow
err in the 1904 campaign. This
organization of business men will
work principally for the election OF
men who will not be dominated by
the railroads. or under their CONTROL
TO the exclusion of the interests of the
rest of the people of the state.