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| Belle Plaine ID without vacant house
Ell Dorado has another case of small
pox.
The city tax of Mulvane is IS mills o.
! the dollar.
The opera house at Harper was sold las
| week for $50, 900.
| Many Kansan burnt the enamel of hi
teeth last Sunday trying to eat appl
dumplings,
Alex Butts comes out with the state.
| ment that all the Marion girls play on TIT
cabinet organ,
A Kansas tramp always insists on "hon
orable employment and 1t usually con.
slsts In eating.
The giddiest atsEl Dorado are now en-.
gagged IN eating grapes and blowing the
skins at one another.
The intellectual portion Of Ashland arr
puzzled over the discovery OF ChInamau
who eats saur-kraut.
Three thousand dollars in premiums arr
offered by the Belle Plains Fair, Stock anC
Agricultural association.
A paper in Kansas sizes up q wedding
this way: No cigars, no cake. no notice
no congratulations. Births, ditto"
1t is only a certain class of people a.
Wellington who call the amateur perform
ances ''doings," but all classes who 60 are
done"
A western Kansas editor thinks that
some of his farmer readers are laboring
under the delusion that he don't like wa
termelons.
Coffey county has s4S, 900 in her treasury.
AS the county treasurer is not known as
Honest John Blank" the people suffer no
uneasiness.
All Kansas farmer has to do to stimu-
late his laborers is to give the whistle rope
yank. and the threshers fall to with re-
doubled vigor.
The number of hunting parties going
out OF Emporia make some people think
there is something in the wind, but it may
only be the smell of ducks.
The Hugo Herald: "Those who have
land to sell will do we'll to leave it with
this office" 1t don't say, however, whether
it wants it brought in a lineup or not
A Butler county man saw school of
fifty yards long. 1t is thought if the
whisky had not given out they would have
been holding primers in their fins.
Good morning, little orphan" said the
corn to the oats: why do you call me
orphan9" replied the oats Because you
have no fodder" chuckled the corn. The
oats was shocked.-Emporia Republican.
The popular evening entertainment
in Harper county at present
is to 20 out on the porch
in the evening and see who can count the
most strings of smoke from threshing
machine engines.
Emporia News: Atchison citizens anx-
ious to get up a boom subscribed SIS to
send the local base ball club ON a tour of
advertising over the state. Nothing but
the fear of becoming extravgant prevented
their making the bonus $780,
Hugo Herald: Since the recent dry
weather it can be plainly seen where the
the soil has been well cultivated the crops
are not damaged, but where it was just
merely skinned corn is not so good.
One Of the attractions of the Sumner
county fair will be the bicycle races on
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. The
race Wednesday will be for bicycilists of
Sumner county only, the race Thursday
will be open to the world and Oklahoma.
K. G. Star: The Chase county farmer
who recently fell heir to $685. 900, after
studying all one day what to do with his
money, got up the next morning, went to
town, and bought a big red threshing
machine, which he brought home aud
placed under tree
Crowell Bros, grain dealers, have the
distinction of buying and shipping the first
car load of flax seed ever shipped from At
tica. The flax was raised on George
Gould's farm north Of town upon thirty
five acres of ground, which produced $50
bushels, The price paid WAS 81 per bushel.
-Attica Advocate.
The burglars again got in their work
Monday night, making pretty good haul.
c. NJ. Burdette, boarder at the Grand
Central. was relieved of S4S. 50 and forty
dollar gold watch; they also effected an
at Mrs. Phillips boarding house,
securing $40 of Mr.. Scott. and two watches
one belonging to Captain Ferris and the
other to Mr.. Hotchkiss.-Geuda Herald.
Joseph A. Fisher, one mile west of Dan
Vile, planted thirty or forty acres of corn
medium early in the spring. 1t came up
nicely and was partially worked when
those hard blowing winds came and blew
it out. He planted it over the second
time, getting a splendid stand Of corn,
and being we'll worked there is no doubt
of his having the best piece of corn in all
this country.
The public library at Peabody is a great
credit to that city. The building, as is
known, was erected by Mr. Pea
body, of Boston, after whom the town is
named, and he also made Il donation to
the city of 500 volumes to start the library
Since then many more books have been
added by the citizens, and the fiourishing
condition of the institution shows that the
people fully appreciate its Importance as
IN element of culture in the community.
Neodesha Register: Rupert, the four
Yesr-old son of K. c. Ralstop, Frisco con-
luctor, started to accompany his father on
his run west last Saturday evening. He
was placed by his father in the center Of
The caboose SO that he might enjoy che
-apidly shifting scenery. In an unguarded
moment between here and Eredonia the
little fellow tumbled out of the car, chair
and all, while the train was running at a
very swift rate. AS soon as possible the
rain slowed up and the agonized father
back over half mile, expecting
20 find his darling dead. He was lying
With his head against stone culvert, I'M
conscious but alive and with long bruise
IN his right breast. He WAS carried on TO
fredonia where a doctor soon restored
him TO consciousness and pronounced him
lot seriously I'M ured. 1t is needless to say
hat the father did not continue his trip /
,ut returned home at once. 1t seems
miracle that the little fellow was not |
killed.
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