Barton County democrat., 1914-10-30
One Lot ChildFen's
Shoes TO close at Csc
apair
KRAUSE'S

4 fine baby boy born the first of
he week. Mrs. Lytle was for
merly Miss Lucille Baker, of this
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Spaniel and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Damn were
in from south Buffalo township
Saturday on a shopping trip and
visit.
DR.. Frank Leighty was down
from Kinsley to spend Sunday
here with relatives and friends.
Mrs. ]. E. McMullen and daugh-
ter, Elva, and Miss Jennie Nc
Mullen were visiting with friends
in Hutchinson Saturday and Sun
day.
Arthur Capper is steering clear
of the localities where there is a
considerable German vote. We
don't blame him. He hopes that
the Billiard movement will help
him in such localities. He will
not be in Barton county at all.
August Fem, of Heizer, was in
the city on business yesterday and
made a pleasant social call at this
office and ordered the Democrat
sent to his address the coming
year. Mr.. Fem and son returned
Saturday from a visit with Leon
Baldwin andfamilyinButler coun-
ty. The Baldwin family were ear
ly day residents of the Heizer com
munity but moved to Oklahoma
about fifteen years ago. Later
they moved to Medicine Lodge,
and still later to Benton county,
Arkansas, but about two years
ago made up their minds that
Kansas was about the best place
in the world to live and they pur-
chased a farm and moved to But
Ter county and are now getting
along nicely. Mr.. Fem says that
hey have been having an abun-
dance of rain down in that part of
the state and that wheat sowing
has been delayed to some extent
on this account. Formerly Butler
county was simply a cattle coun-
try, but the people there are find
ing out that they can raise wheat
and other crops successfully and
they are farming more than in
former years.
Into the homes of the voters
has recently come a little circular,
neatly printed, and containing a
half dozen pictures of some hand
some citizens, all exhibiting an
alluring smile and a wiShful de-
meanor. The circular is fathered
by no one, and is also motherlesS
-an appeal for the poor orphans,
as it were. The only thing on the
source is the imprint of the Great
Bend Tribune. The signature ia
the Introduction is COMMITTEE
and the inference naturally is thai
Ithe Tribune is the Committee"
Without known authorization il
is being treated by the people as
an anonymous wad of taffy
drawn out for the amusement of a
few of our good looking citizens
and incidentally the public in gen.
eral, who easily spot the Subter-
fuge. 1t gives out the impression,
for instance, that Barton county
voters elect a law firm and not an
individual for county attorney.
And that the good, kind legiSla-
ture allowed that firm to collect
$1,000 a year from the taxpayers
to make up for what the firm
would lose by attending to its
sworn duty. 1t did not suggest
that the firm might be permitted
to resign and attend to its pri.
vate business. 1t also kindly in.
forms the schools that they have
not been visited at least once 9
year for the last four years by the
county superintendent by reason
of physical disability. 1t discIos
es the carefully guarded secret
that the District Clerk talks
writes, eats and sleeps German
and is the public interpreter O
the land. 1t does an injustice t
a virtuOuS citizen when is juggIet
the name of "Sam" Wilkinson
We only wish that some party
some person, sect or creed, had as
sumed responsibility for its pro
ductiOn and distribution, so tha
we might jump onto him, her, he
she, or it, with both our big Dem
ocratic feet. But say, was it nc
an expensive bit of folly for a
ANONYMOUS prOduction9