Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-06-03
HOIslNGTON.

From the Dispatch.
G. w. Mitchell is erecting house for
Miss Carrie Stewards.
r. S. Harker returned from Buffalo
n. Y. Saturday night.
Frank Soderstrom graduates in the
Commercial course at Lindsborg this
spring.
John-Lam bright is nursing a broken
jaw, as a result of being kicked on the
Jaw by horse.
Harry Prindle and Zoe Amman return
ed last week from their trip through
south western Kansas
Tom Halnline has been Guaranteed
with light case of smallpox. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pickett have been. discharged.
Frank Coleman is able to walk down
town although one bone in his leg was
completely fractured and another one
partially.
Fireman Hall is still confined to his
bed with the injuries received last week
He is still unable to move his head.
A letter from G. R. Snyder to H. G.
Wilson says that Mrs. Snyder stood the
trip very we'll and she is feeling some
better.
Several parties came away from: the
show Tuesday poor in money but rich
in experience. People are bound to go
up. against the shell game no matter
how old it gets.
Frank Phillips has begun work on a
frame building 4Ox48 feet on his lots
north of the Y. M. G.. A. The building
will be one story iron clad It will be
used for business purposes.
Gerhard Smith and Susie Schultz,
both of Pawnee Rock, have been
granted marriage license.
Speaking of girls, what's the mat
ter with girls gymnasium or physi-
cal culture club for this. city,.
Abram Giddings has built black
smith shop at his home west of town.
This will be mighty handy for the
farmers of that neighborhood.
Mic Cossman dropped in from St.
Louis Friday evening, looking about
as he always did and seemingly hap
py and satisfied with himself.
r. Moeder was in from Cheyenne
township Saturday, and says that
some wheat in his locality needs rain,
but the most of it is doing all right.
And it is about time that the diff
ferent premiums and purses were
being agreed upon, and the Fair
got before the people, so
we would know what to prepare for.
The trouble with too many of the
young women in the cities is, that
hey know too much about bow
catchers and too little about husband
too much about spending
money and too little about saving it.
The average man has more admir-
alton for a natural colored cheek and
| strong warm hand-even though
he former be brown and the latter
for a cosmetic-tinted
1ough-face and cold ivory-claw.
On Friday Sheriff Bunting found
l ! ounce bottle of strychnine in one
IF the jail cells. All of the prisoners
1eny any knowledge of it, or how it
came there. AS there are no
desperate characters now in our
county Jail, this bottle of poison may
have been left there by some former
prisoner.
Tom McNeal, in giving Anthony
Of Leavenworth roast, hits that
town jolt. He says: Compared
with Leavenworth, hell is a sweet
elysium of blooming lilies and
oubbling rivulets, while the stencil
arising from ancient limburger cheese
in the last stages of decomposition is
sweetest ambrosial aroma compared
with the stink of that town on the
border where old Dan Anthony is the
boss"
A prominent Pawnee county far
mer, Erick Erickson, northwest of
Pawnee Rock, died on last Thursday
evenin from the result of peculiar ac-
He was pulling wagon in
to shed, having hold of the end of
the tongue while his son was pushing
from the back end, when one of. the
front front wheels struck an obstruc-
ton which jerked the tongue of the
wagon violently to one side, striking
Mr.. Erickson in the side. He did not
complain much at first, but was soon
taken violently ILL, grewrapidly worse
and died Thursday evening while
arrangements for performing an opepa-
ton was being made.