Dodge City times., 1888-11-29
STATE NEWS

Smith Center is to have g. public L.
brary.
The high echool at Hiswatha, hes q
$500 piano.
Rsv.J. W. Brown, Of Axtell, died q
few days ago.
Mcpherson Daily Republican: The
stakes are set for the street car line to
the college.
A twsIve-year-old boy, named Shock,
living nesr Atchison, shot and killed
himself while playing with gup.
Edmond Times: More corn ID mar
ke.sd in Edmond than in any other point
on the Central Branch in Norton coun-
ty.
Kansas, in five years will make her
own sugar end in ten years will have
millions of pounds to sell, SO says the
Newton Republican.
Kansas has a college attendance of
one in 955, being exceeded in this ratio
by only Connecticut, Massachusetts,,
1OWd duu S1iutIulb.
Manksto Monitor: DR.. G. S. Bsttey,
representative elect for the 103r ddistrict,
contributed 1850 pound steer for a
barbecue at Jewel City.
Atchinson Champion: Three recep-
tious will be rendered Senator Ingalls in
Kansas before he returns to Washing
ton IN Dscsnber, in this city, Leaven-
and Wichita.
The Kansas City News says: "Kan-
sas has more good country papers, more
sweet, patient wives, more lovely daugh-
tiers, and more corn than any other state
in the union."
The post reliable statistics Of tho
wheat crop make it eight per cent less
than last year. Kansas is one Of the two
or three states showing an increase this
year over last.
The CentralKansas Teachers associ-
alton will meet at Hutchinson on
Thank giving day. The railroads will
give low rates, and big crowd and q
good tins is anticipated.
Morton County Monitor: The arrival
of Miss Eva Courtney from West Va,
and her marriage en- route to Charles L.
Richardson, lest week, created cheer
full episode in our social life.
Cherokee Sentinel: The foundation
for t'y new depot is being rapidly
pushed and soon will be completed.
We understa, that work will be con-
timed until the wicle building is com
pletsd.
Horton Register: A large force of
men are at work on the Chicago Kan
sas & Nebraska elevator, who are push
ing it as fast as possible, 30 that it may
be completed before very cold weather.
Lane university, at Lecompton, has
an enrolment of lis Students; Baker
university, at Baldwin city, SIT, and
the state university, at Lawrence, 51S.
All Of these institutions are in Douglas
county.
The Winfield Courier relates that
John r. Phillips. the Missouri Pacific
brakeman, who lost leg by being run
over at Larned, was to have been mar
ried within few days Of the date OF
his death.
TIE sheriff and marshal of Norton are
ferreting out bootlesgers and notifying
them to leave the town. The Courier
calls for the prosecution of some Of them
in order that others may be warned by
the punishment msted out to them.
Burlipgams d mocrat: David Tweed
q former resident of this county was
smong the miners killed at the mine ex-
plosion near Pi.tsburg, Kan., last Fri
day night. George Wilson, another
Usage county man at work there, escaped
unirjured.
A Frisco epgine that was employed in
butting trough a snow hank. ne r Win
field, madA by the storm last week, took
a snmersault, while is mate jumped the
track. There were a number OF similar
On the Frisco, tue week of
the storm.
Ness City News: Our county is not
so oepopulated as come people appear
to imagine. The total vote this year is
only ITO less than it was one year ago,
when the boom was on and cur county
was full o: transient artisans in every
line of the building trade.
Wellington Standard: Mrs. Jenness-
Miller, the celebrated dress refornsr, in
her lectures in Kansas, shows Geveral
entire sets of dresses and under gar
ments. She does good deal Of dress
ing and appears in house, street and
rainy day costumes, snd wears one par
ty dress costing $1,000. As spesksr
Mira. Miller is very entertaining. She
has strong but not unwomanly pres
ence. Since shs has adopted the style
Of dress she asks other women to wear
she has no. been i'll an hour. Her au-
iiences ere almost exclusively feminine.
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