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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
A HOT time IN SIGHT.
Local Celebrities viii Cross Bats for
Benefit Of The Library.

The event of the season is ap.
preaching. 1t will be better than
a street fair, equal To circus, and
will be money maker. 1t will
make money for various profes.
slons. 1t will be an event which
we should all arrange to see. 1t
is to be pulled of for the benefit
of the library fund. 1t will be
game of base ball between the
doctors, dentists. and druggists.
on one side, ard the lawyers,
bankers, and county officers on
the other side. The first, to be
known as exhibit "A. will Je
managed by DR.. X. II. Meade,
whose successful management of
the W. y. o W. team has been
the talk Of the town, and the
Others to be known as exhibit
B." vii be managed by a young
man who won his spurs as a man.
ager of athletic tournaments
while attending the State Univer-
sity, K. Coe Russell. The Hon.
+. W. Moses, will be Empire,
and no appeals from his decision
will be allowed. A committee
will inspect all vehicles entering
the grounds, to be sure that h,
nothing stronger than water or
base ball bats is concealed under
the seats, and another committee
| will search all persons attending
the game. to be sure there will be
10 danger to the mayor from
sawed of shot guns, aged vegeta.
bles, discarded eggs, or brick
bats. No player is allowed to
talk back to the audience or to ex..
pectorate on his hands after an
attempt to stop a hot one. The
game will be played on Wednes-
day. the 10Th. aud the price of
admission will be % cents. Save,
enough of your street fair appro.
priatio1 to attend this game, as it
will be the sporting event of the
season.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
ondon Journal Condemns Suggestion
of Slaughter.

We remember the saying attributed
10 Huxley that the single ladies of old
england are to be thanked for the
superiority of our beef, because they
Keep cats 10 destroy the mice that
would otherwise exterminate the hum
Die bees that fertilize the red clover
on. which our cattle are fed. Now
some one is writing the Spectator to
propose the slaughter of game in the
ZamDesi valley in order to prevent the
spread of sleeping sickness. The pro-
posal hinges on what we consider to
petite mistaken statement by Mr.. Aus.
tetn OF the British museum, that the
tsetse ny cannot exist long without
mammalian blood. The other step in
tne argument is no more sure-name.
~, tnat the tsetse fly is indispensable
to the spread of sleeping sickness.
The evidence is not sufficient to
condemn the game of even a portion
OF the Zambesi valley. The animal
tnat demands mammalian blood is, we
fancy, far greater than the tsetse fly
and the fact that, unlike the deer, he
Is capable of writing to the papers
must not be allowed to prevail.-Lon
don News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
surprise Partr

= = 49, - r.
When II: s. Converse returned
home from his work Saturday evening
he wa. greatly surprised to find about
fifty of his friends aud neighbors there
the occasion being his birthday.
Various games, and much music was
enjoyed by all, are delicious refresh
ments swere served. He received
severalinice presents, and at a late
hour the happy guests departed hav
ing hada very fine time.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
Mrs. 0. D. Palmer Dead.

Mrs. GInnell received a tele.
gram Friday afternoon, announce.
ING the death of her mother. Mrs.
D. b. Palmer, at Portland. Oregon
Thursday night. Deceased had
been in that city for abont a
month, visiting her son. She was
a little past 10 years of age, and
had been a resident of Great
Bend for a humber of years. Her
husband preceded her 10 death
some two years ago. At this time
no arrangements have been made;
for the funeral but it will prOba-
bly, occur Thursday at st. Joe,'
that is where Mr.. Palmer was
buried. The many friends of the
family extend their symoathy to
the bereaved children in their
bereavement.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
Ball Game

A good game of ball was witnessed
at the fair grounds Friday afternoon
between the home team aud the
CIaAin boys. OFT and Harrison fol
Great Bend, and Casey and Thorsten
berg for the visitors, were the bat
teries, the score stood Great Bend 3
Clafin 8, Hits, Great, Bend, I, Olaf
lin. 5errors, 4, each teams Z Umpire
CalEwalt.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
Louis Zuta,ern returned Fri

Louis Zutalern returned Fri
day MOI ming from Wichita where
he has been attending school.
G. S. Allison left Thursday
evening on a business trip Of
several days duration in the east.
A we'll known man about town
when being chided because of per-
hitting his gaze to follow a hand
some woman up the street re-
marked, When | see a beauti-
full picture passing by | can
not restrain my orbs from fol-
lowing 1t as long as it is in
sight"
Johl. I. Kell, one of the sub
stantial business men of Pawnee
Rock, and at one time for a few
months a resident of this city,
| was in town Monday for the first
time in five wears. John former.
ly was long and slim, but Pawnee
Rock seems to agree with hin
and he now weighs over 200
pounds, and looks well.
Wanted:-Five carloads of SCRAP
iroL within the next two weeks
Parties having old iron will do vel
to see me.
A. Polzer,
Albert Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
DeQ:ee Of HOOOr Election.

The Degree of Honor lodge
held its regular semi-anhual elec-
ton of officers Friday evening.
with the following result. .
G. of H., Mrs. W. H. Dodge.
L. of H., Mrs. H. I. Allison.
G. OF G, Mrs. J. II. Triplett.
Recorder. Miss Flora Smith.
Financier, Miss Bessie Hooper.
Receiver. James Slim.
Usher, Mrs. E. P. Smith.
!. g.. n. j. Berscheidt.
o. g.. g. W. Owens.
Trustee, W. P. FEEDER.
Med. Ex., Drs. Morrison and
Mcpherson.
The meeting was well attended.
] Ice cream and cake were served.
and those present enjoyed a de,
ligbtful evening.
Bert Bowman was down from
Pawnee Rock Monday.
Several members Of the A. D.
U. W. lodge who have been on
the suspension list for Eve or six
years, have come back 'into' the
fold. and the lodge is graduallyb
increasing its membership: :.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
Farm Loans.

We are prepared to make farm
loans at a low rate Of interest. Privi'
lege given to pay off part or all OIL
loan at any interest payment, interest
payable annually if desired, and mon
ey furnished promptly. See or write
Dawson & Zutavern, Great Bend
Kansas 49,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14

y. &. Luse ha received another
consignment Of labor for the beet
fields.
Will Kitchener is down from
Hamilton county visiting with his
old friends out on route six.
Mrs. F. I. Belt and daughter of
Topeka are oui OIL a visit to Mrs.
P. E. Murphy and daughters.
Harry Di6enbacher left Satur-
day evening for Kansas City ard
other points for a few days visit.
Martin Wickert. one of tie
substantial farmers of the east
side. was in the city Friday after.
noon on business.
j. K. Gwinn and wife returned
Friday evening from a pleasant
visit with friends and relatives in
Missouri and Illinois.
Natural gas has been installed
for fuel by the Halstead Mills.
Wonder when we will be in ssposi-
ton 70 put natural gas in herel
Joe Tynuall and wife were out
from Kansas CITY visiting Joe
McMullen and other friends and
relatives in this section of the
country.
Jack Hainline left last Saturday
evening for La Junta, Colo.
He is seeking a new location. and
may decide to try La Junta, or
else some place else.
Theo. Otto on route one was in
Friday morning and says,the wheat
IN his locality that was not nipped
ny the frost, is looking as if it
would make IA half a crop.
A card received from Sid
Breeze, at COfeyville, conveys
the glad tidings of the birth of a
son a few days ago. The boys
are smoking ten cent cigars, the
bill for which will be sent to Sid.
Fred Dumkow of Clarence
township left Friday morning for
Mendoza, Ills. where he goes as a
delegate to the Evangelical
Lutheran meeting Of the Iowa
synod. From there he will 90 to
Chicago to visit a brother and
other relatives.
The first load of new wheat for
this season struck town Saturday.
1t was not sacked or in bulk in the
wagon box and was not bought by
the bushel, but was brought in in a
hay rack and sold by the ton. Nc
premium was paid for buying
the FIRST load.
". L. Townsley left Thursday
evening for Norfolk, to attend the
National Editorial Association, tC
which he is a delegate, and to
take in the sights at the James
town exposition. We envy him
4 the trip because We know what &
good time he is going to have.
Representative Miller of Has
, keIl county was on No. Six Fri
day. He said his county hat
an acreage of about $1,000 acres
in wheat this year, and that tn
present indications we're that ian
average of12 bushels would bC
their yield if Seasonable weathel
: prevailed.
The game between the Hoising
ton and Great Bend kid nine!
: Friday afternoon resulted in {
5 draw. or something. We wer,
! unable to learn whether the row
!, was in the HOisington team alto
gether. or between the teams. A
E any rate cur boys say the Hois
!. ington team quit.
Miss Bina Deighton left o.
e Monday for EmDoria. to take VI
: the library course. After com
;, pleting it she will visit a humble
n of libraries in the state for tn
S purpose of familiarizlng hersel
e with the work that she might b
e we'll fitted to assume her duties a
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14
Kansas's Growing Crop Of wheat.
June 10. 1907.

ING especially on the States win.
ter wheat situation. which reflects
conditions as found June 4.
While all portions of the State
have been covered by the investI.
cations, the canvass of chose
counties having the greatest wheat
acreages was particularly exhaus-
tive and thorough. The report
says:
1t now seems evident that of
the States total area soWn to win
ter wheat last fall aboct q per
cent, or l,4l0,000 acres. has been
plowed I'd or is worthless. as
against the t or 5 percent reported
by the same correspondents April
a. The condition, June 4. on
the 5,9O5,0O0 acres which now
seems likely to be harvested, aver.
ages for the State 56.7, or 27.3
points less than the general aver
age of the growing winter wheat
(about 100000 acres, nett six
weeks ago. The case of the. in.
creased areas pIowed up and de.
creased in condition are through
out chiefly ascribed to the fre.
quently recurring if not contin.
uOus low temperatures, and gener-
al lack of timely and sufficient
May rainfall. The most notable
damage of all, however. appears
to have been done by the wide.
spread freeze occurring in the
last week of May, and this was
nowhere more severe than in Bar.
ton and the similar great wheat
counties in that portion of the
State, where the grain was head.
ing or beaded, and where prior to
this freeze there had been fair
promise Of a satisfactory crop.
With the exception of six or seven
in the ca tern part of the State
prospects have diminished il
every county, and markedly in
the majority of the foremost
wheat producers. The lowest
condition for any one county, 81.
is reported for Sumner, the
county of largest wheat acr cage.
and the highest. 90. for Atchison.
In many counties the grain ba,
not attained a normal growth. and
considerable is likely to be too
short for the binder. Harvest
will he ten to fifteen days later
than usual.
One pleasing feature of the
present investigation is brought
out by the question Are green
lice or other insects doing con.
siderable damage at this time. =
to which responses are quite IN
animously MOI The informa
ton was often volunteered that
the green bugs; had entirely
disappeared. While more or les
damage was done by green lice n
the southern central counties -anC
10 some of them it was serious
the green bug scare" of 1907
one of q type annually exploited
with Kansas as it stage, is
closed incident.
Nearly every portion OF tn,
State has been visited by recen
rains, and the weather at thi
date is more favorable for plan
growth thar at any previous tim
in the year.
The 1907 assessors returns re
ceiye6 for 80 counties. which in
clldes several Of the more prOmi
nent in wheat production, shov
an area sOwn aggregating 164, 09l
e acres more than the correspond
: ents' estimate of last fall. Thi
0 would seem to Indicate that tn
: States actual wheat acreage wa
d larger even than the increase
I area earlier reported.
J The report for Barton is as 70
b lows. Probable acreage 274.S3:
e Flowed up 36 per cent. Cond
= ton June 4th. AZ per cent, Apr
p lOAfh 90 mar aank
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14

her uncle, Mr.. Brown.
G. C. Townsend came up from
Pratt Saturday evening to spend
Sunday with his wife.
Lynn DeGarmo Of Dartmouth at
tended the Knights of Columbus mi.
tiation at Wichita, Sunday.
Walter Amend started for home
Sunday morning By the auto route.
His brother went with him.
This community was visited by
fine rain Sunday which will help the
wheat and start the corn,
Henry Wildgen, IT,, and the Misses
Florence and Lizzie Wildgen visited
with the Hooper family Sunday.
On Tuesday the Sanadgo ball team
crossed bats with the Olmitz team
and on Thursday with Garfield.
The ball teams from Cheyenne and
Comanche will try to beat,,one another
at the fair grounds next Saturday.
Max Moore of the Moses Mill:
went to Dodge City Sunday evening
He reported good rain as !far wes'
as Wright.
Sam Irving. who for the..,,past five
weeks has been employed in thi'
establishment, left for Kansas City
Saturday evening.
Chas. Lescheskey and wife went tc
Ellinwood Sunday morning for
visit. Charlie left this morning fol
another trip on the road.
Lee Davis has resigned his position
with the Moses Bro. Mill & Elevator
Co., and will leave Shortly for an ex
tended visit in the east.
Miss Matilda O'Sullivan and Pat
rick O'Sullivan, Of Hutchinson, wer
in the city Sunday visiting; thei
brother, Father O'Sullivan. and sistel
DR., Johnston Of this city is fror
that section OF Illinois struck by th
tornado Friday night, and is well &C
quainted with the persons who los
their lives.
Some Of the boys who went out t
look at the wheat Sunday think 'tnel
has been a wonderful improvement i
the last few days, and prospects al
looking up some.
Mrs. &. E. Dodge went to Hutch
inson Sunday morning for visit I
her sister, Mrs. Harry BrOoker. Sh
was accompanied by her uncle Fee
nlndo Brown, Of Springfield Mo.
H. B. Sherman, who visited 9Th
city in the interest Of the the Amer
can Society Of Equity. last winter, ha
resigned his position and is now wit
the Tobacco Growers organization
Various citizen are preparing to ii
stalrmemorials Of some kind in til
library building, in memory Of depar
ed ones. We are told that the BrinI
man family except to install a freplac
i J.H. Decide, for some time for
man Of the Russell Record ofic
arrived Monday to take a positic
in this flee as job printer. He COM
highly recommended, and will CIV
our patrons the best job work TO
turned out.
About ten days ago when the maj
ct was going up,we we're always a,
vised about this or that fellows ma
ing a haul. Since the market b
|, gone down and some Of the boys ha
|; doubtless been donating, Eve do y
' hear so much.
y Heller won the third game t
} series from the Santiago team SAT-
1 day by a score Of 5 to L. 1t wa.
; well played game and well attend
2 The batteries we're for Heller {
y and Johnson, for Sandago, Carr a
} Rose. Struck out, by.ou.l4, by C
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-06-14

Ed. Tower was down from
Heller Sunday afternoon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13

nation to flower and bear fruit at all
events; 4, fruit resembling a stork' S
bill; ), peduncleS, or main Hover stems,
with from two to six flowers and fruits
on as many smaller flower stems, or
pedicels; 6, stems bristly with short,
horizontal hairs; Z, Towering stems
arising from leaf axis or from root; s,
flower five-parted, five sepais, five sep
arate petals, five stamens with anthers,
five without, these being abOrtiVe and
sterile, five styles united into the
stOrksbill, fruit five parted; Q, root icng
"a taproot, which escapes destruction
though cut off: 10. leaflets five to fif-
teen, some opposite and some alter
nate; IL, a set of papery and calyx-
like bracts inclosing the pediCelled
flower clusters; II, the seed carpets
uncoil in a spiral or corkscrew form
when ripe; Is, the seed carpets have
long hairs and the seeds are Covered
with fine short hair; IA, each petal is
three-veined. obovate. pink-purple; Is,
flowers open only in sunshine; 16, plant
useful as a fodder (ulferillera) for
sheep and cattle. as a covering or car
pet over bare ground, and as supply
of bird food; II, a type Of perseverance.
beauty and striking mechanism.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13

eye she is agreeable. being a blonde
without bleach or smear. / suppose
her weekly salary is nearer to a thou
sand than it is to five hundred. Two
seasons ago she came to us with
Waiting at the Church. and the hu-
NOR of the bride left in the lurch by
the man who couldn't come because
his wife wouldn't let him. helped her
right up to the top of vaudeville popu-
larity. Last season she did as well
with Poor john" in which she told
of an engaged girl whom John took to
see his disappearing mother. This sea-
son she offers new ditties to pick
favcrite from, and each presents
comic impersOnation. A babyish girl
in white frock begs her eight times
welded mamma not to marry any
more, but please give her "a perna-
nent papa" a young widow in neat
mourning is willing to be wooed again
and invites any man present who'd
like to kiss her to say Goo" an
English girl as the captive queen of
royal robe of leaves, much to her en-
barrassment, for when the winds be-
gin to blow, you know, the leaves be-
gin to fall, that's ALL" Now, these and
other of Vesta VictOria's ballads, char
acterized cleverly in the acting and
The costuming. please the people much
yet after them there is always so OBJ
stinate a6emand for Poor John" that
with a smile that is a. pout also, and
a shrug that is angry as well as COM
pleasant. she gives last years favorite
song because there isn't as good a one
in this years lot.
Marie Lloyd is the other vaudeville
trusts antagonist to VeSta Victoria
They ride sociably together in Central
park. but professionally they are fight
ing foes. Marie is a wholesome. jolly
creature, looking like a blend of the
blonde Lillian Russell and the brunette
Rose Coghlan. So many years have
passed since Marie was here before
that she faces audiences to whom she
is a new disclosure of London music
hall talent. International copyright
enables a foreign balladist to keep her
songs to herself, If only she refrains
from publishing them. These four
English women have taken care to
hold their verses and tunes in hand, to
be sold here not until the owners have
personally introduced them, when the
traffic may be extremely profitable.
Marie begins her twenty minutes IN
an outburst evening gown and a flare
of a hat: but her best ballads are in
coster characterizations, and for those
she costumes herself in the styles of
Cockayne In one of them she mar
rates and depicts a coster wedding.
and that is the triumph OF her roper
tory. But Marie doesn't let an au-
dience go away with that picture of
her in mind. The finishes as a Cas-
titan beauty in a Spanish song and
dance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13
Method for the Oahlia.

first grade plan by Helen Davis.
with answers given by the childrnn
. Preparation-All go into the garden
| and pick dahlias, of many different
colors
! Recitation-Here is flower that
| looks like what?
| Answer-It looks like a rose. Tt is
not rose; its name is dahlia Let US
| all say dahlia.
| What colors have you seen In roses
Answer-Red, yellow, pink and white
| Do we have a red dahlia?
Mary, John and Harry may take a
red dahlia If they can find one. Henry,
Julia and Bertha may see IL they can
find yellow one. VIII, Ruth and Ma
bel may find a pink dahlia, and Joseph,
Nettie and Kate may each take a white
one.
Have we red, yellow, a pink and
white dahlia, Just as we have roses
Yes.
Who can find a leaf on their dahiia
stem? How many leaves does Il take
to make one large leaf? Five. three.
seven. Then the leaves are not all
alike.
Who can find something about the
leaf stem that we have not seen before ?
Answer-A little ditch, trough.
How many have a little ditch in their
lear stem, and now many a trough ?
How do the leaves grow on this little
ditch?
Answer-One right across from the
other. They stand up the stem Just
as we stand when we march.
Let us all look at our hands Can
you see anything on the back of the
leaves that looks like something on
your hand? What are those little lines
in your hands called?
Yes, Nettie, that is right: these little
lines on the leaves are called veins.
Let us all pull off a little flower leaf
or petal from our dahIias.
What does it look like?
Answers-A candy horn-horn of
plenty: the scoop the store man has for
sugar. candy and nuts; a Christmas
horn to blow on; and an Indian sGuaw
carriage for the pappoose.
The second grade may observe The
four o'clock OF the gardens for shape
color. opening and closing of the flow
err shape and size of leaves and stems
The first grade may take the golden
glow or the marigoid for similar les
sons in form. color. size and number
or flowers and leaves.
University of Utah, Oct. 10, 1907
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13

symptoms begin to disappear, the entire body IS
strengthened and soon perfect cure is made.
SIS. S. can be used in the privacy of ones own
home and perfect of this disease effected
without the knowledge Of others. We have g
specially written "Home Treatment" book which
we will be glad to furnish to all who are curing
themselves with S. S. S. 1t treats of every stage
and symptom of Contagious Blood Poison, telling
the sufferer lust what he wishes to know In any
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13
BEAUTY OF THE
COMMONPLACE
Continued from Page IL.

for late fall work is the cranesbill. Fro
dunn cicutarium. This elegant and
common species blooms from earliest
spring till latest autumn, often cover
ing entire hillsides with its pink
blooms, which are open only in sun
shine. and infesting lawns to the end
less annoyance of 2 gardeners. 1t is
probably native, but as a weed X seems
to accompany civilized man in temper
ate regions wherever he takes UP his
abode.
Let fifth grade pupils report some
thing new about it every day for a
week Thus: 1. oblong, numerously
divided and fern-like leaves: 2. succu-
lent, jointed, colored stems: 8, stemless
and matlike in many instances, owing
to ta) age of plant. OBJ sterility of sell.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13

One act is at last springs Actors
Fund fair. with Daniel Frohman figur-
ing in it. There is one spell of bur-
lesque grand opera and one of our
lesque melodrama along timeworn
lines. Ludwig Englander provides the
music, and De Angels makes up so
like him as a comic conductor. that
when both respond to a recall the re-
semblance stands the test of COMPARE
son. One of the limitations is that of
Henry Miller by his son, Heron Miller
whose inherited face and voice make
the mimicry easy; and the younsster
endangers himself to a spanking, l