The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-07-30

u. w. Gilbert returned Monday
from IN eastern trip.
Henry Mullendore is in the city this
week on . visit to his parents.
Hon. Jake Stotier, Of the Wellington
Press, was a caller at the GLOBE Office
yesterday.
Judge S. w. Vandivert. CT Kinsley,
is among the prominent politicians in
town to-day.
-Washburn college, Topeka, Kansas,
gives most thorough instruction in mod
ern languages.
w. W. Munsell and family returned
home Saturday from an extended pleas
ure trip in the East.
MARRIED.-In this city on Thursday
evening, July 24th. by Rev. W. H. Rose.
Mr.. Gus. A. Guthrie and Miss Luella A.
Henry Leidigh. aged eighty years.
father of j. NJ. Leidigh, of Speareville.
died at his home in MELVILLE. Pa. on
the 10Th inst.
The moon celebrated the 18th of July
by getting full. and has taken notion to
celebrate the congressional convention
by getting full again tomorrow.
Sergeant Todd, of the L. S. Signal
office. has gone and done it. What.
you noticed it? Well, just watch
for him and take good look at his coun-
tenance.
Work in the Workman degree next
evening at the A. o. U. W. lodge.
Let every Workman be present and as
sist the new crew to man the boats that
the voyage may be successful one.
A very pleasant little lawn party was
given at the residence of Mr.. J. f. Nc
on Bridge street, last Friday
evening. Ice cream and cake were
served and jolly good time enjoyed.
DIR. A. H. Hard is able to be out
again after two months illness. He
expects to leave early in August for the
Black Hills country, where he will take
charge of Geo. B. Cox's railroad bust
ness.
We are indebted to the experiment
station of the Kansas State Agricultural
College for the second annual report of
that institution. The report contains
nearly four hundred pages and is replete
with valuable information.
-''Engine 3S7, the one in the wreck
at Dodge, was taken to Topeka, and just
as they were coupling on to her to take
her into the house. as she was backing
up. a brakeman standing in the gangway
was caught and crushed to death. 3S7
will be regarded by railroad men as
'-Coolidge Citizen.
The Arkansas river is full of water
again, likewise the irrigating bitches.
The water reached this point at o'clock
p. m. Sunday. and was witnessed by a
large number of our citizens. For the
past three or four weeks the river bed
has been dry, and it was novel sight
to see the flood of water rolling down the
dry channel. The rise was occasioned by
heavy rains in Colorado.
&C. S. Templeton and A. c. Jastatt
have returned from Topeka, where they
have been settling grievances with the
A. L. & S. F. railroad company. The
boys are we'll satisfied with the work as
they gained about Is per cent. increase
on salary all over the system. This is the
first time the trainmen's grievance COM
mittee derived any benefit by going be-
fore the company, and they naturally feel
elated at their success.
Those who went down to the Santa
Fe depot at 4 80 o'clock Monday after
noon saw novel sight. The show was
a free one, no admission tickets were
necessary. A beautifully decorated train
of fifteen cars, loaded to the roof with
Quaker Oats, enrOute from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, to San Francis 80, was at the depot
at that time and stopped for ten or fifteen
minutes. Those who were there receiv-
ed sample packages of Quaker Rolled Oats
and souvenir fans.
"A large number of Presbyterian ladies
and gentlemen drove out to the College
dormitory Saturday evening. and gave
Rev. Powelson and wife happy sur
prise in the way of substantial donations.
The occasion was the twentieth anniver-
sary of Mr.. and Mrs. Powelson's we'd
ding. The party having provided