Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-09-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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people of that little city have great
hopes of being manufacturing center.
Crisfeld item in Anthony Republic
IAN: The alliance met and made ar
engagements to SOW J. r. Crows wheat
Tor him. There have been five of his
family down at once with the typhoid
fever.
ULYSSES Tribune: The Kansas In
vestment company, OF Topeka, has
made arrangements to have large
acreage of wheat sown in Grant county
this fall. on lands in which it has an in
terest.
From Salina: The Knights Of the
Golden Eagle Of Kansas met here in
grand conclave The principal cities
Of the state were we'll represented.
The proceedings ended with grand
banquet.
Hazleton Express: The Barber
county fair at Kiowa, Oct. 9th, It'll,
and Sth, is the only one We have heard
Of going to be held IN southwestern
Kansas this fall, and ought to be very
literally patronized.
Washington Republican: The Friends
academy opened it's fall term with an
attendance of forty five students. 1t is,
however, regarded as encouraging, and
the number expected to enter the first
Of next week is expected to bring the
attendance up to about sixty.
Arkansas City Traveller: One of the
best evidences that Arkansas City is
still increasing in population is that
there are now, at the end Of the first
week of the public schools, 100 more
pupils enrolled than there were at the
end of the first month one year ago.
Hazelton Express: The Hazelton
Roller Mill company has already pur-
chased about 10000 bushels of wheat,
and it is all in the bins at the mill !;
but another bin, with capacity of
$4,000 bushels, is being made ready to
fill. The mill is running day and
night.
Atchison Champion: The county
commissioners have let contract for a
bridge across Independence creek at
the place where the rope ferry is now
operated. The contract price is 1920.
A contract was also let for another
bridge across Independence creek, few
miles further up.
Washington Republican: Notwith.
standing Mr.. Dolliver is totally blind.
be has the faculty OF travelling alone
and misses connections as seldom as
most men with two eyes. He has made
no less than thirteen round trips be-
tween Buffalo, N. Y, and this place
within the last ten or twelve years.
Atchison Champion: The crop fail
IRE in Atchison county was a myth.
The crop is an average one, and much
more money will be made by the farmer
than for years past, and business will
be good. The same can be said of
Deniphan and Brown counties and
many others throughout all northeast
ern Kansas.
Anthony Republican: E. NJ. Coon
brought to our Office as fine branch
of peaches as we have seen this year.
In a length of only sixteen inches ON
the branch, there were twenty EIGHT
peaches, not little ones either, but good
big red ones. They are Seeding and
certainly speak well for the tree that
bore them.
Pittsburg World: The. spelter out
put from Pittsburg last week was $780,
900 pounds. This includes but 10000
pounds by the CRANKY Mining and
Smelter company. which is rebuilding
two furnaces. j he estimate includes
l4,000 pounds from the first block
blown in by the Weir City, which this
week has blown in another block of two
furnaces, which will double last weeks
output.
Salina Republican: In the second
ward school the number of pupils in
room l has become SO large that it is
impossible to seat them. For the COM
fort OF the pupils, ana 70 give Miss
Wooster an opportunity to do moro
efficient work, the B class. of about
sixty, has been divided and are to come
only half day each, part before noon
and part after noon. The A class re-
mains all day.
Salina Republican: Word has been
received in Salina that DR.. E. L. Hutch
inson, the handsome-looking young
dentist, formerly of Salina, is soon to
we'd dusky maiden of the royal house.
hold at Honolulu. Dr.. Hutchinson
left Salina over year ago, with the
intention OF going around the world,
but stopped at Honolulu, and was SO
well pleased with the country that he
has remained there.
Wellington Mail: Stacy Douglass
had some fine peaches at his Office. yes
terday, that he picked from tree
twenty years old. The seed from which
the tree grew was planted score of
years ago this fall, ahd since the time
it was old enough to bear fruit has not
missed season. Mr.. Douglass says
the tree is still a fne-looAing one. It