The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-09-09
KANSAS NOTES.
Short items of Interest From All
Parts of the State.

A so, 900 church will be built at the
soldieFs' home, Leayenworth.
The Stockton creamery has shut
down owing to lack Of patronage.
Rice county has raised broom corn
this season to the value of$3, 000
There is hay famine In Saline.
Loose hay is selling for S. 80 per ton,
Arkansas City has formed Il law and
order league to enforce the prohibitOry
law.
The population Of Thomas county
has increased % per cent during the
past year.
The Oklahoma territorial fair at Ok
lahoma City attracted a large attend
ance from Kansas.
OF the eighty-dve teachers enrolled
In the Thomas county normal, eight
are male teachers.
Ellinwood has but one cOlored resi-
dent and he performs the double duty
OF barber and minister.
The Emporia canning factory has
shipped thus far 1000 cans Of toma-
toes and %, 600 cans Of corn.
Charles Bush OF Rockford township
Sedgwick county, threshed / l8j bush
els Of oats from seventeen acres, or
about seventy bushels to the acre.
Plaster is being shipped from the
new gypsum plant just completed near
Blue Rapids Before another year five
plaster mills will be in successful oper-
alton In that town.
Hen Peck Valley il the name OF a
settlement in Marshall county. Some
uneasiness is felt by strangers whether
this takes its name from the hen pecked
husbands or wives.
The Garden City Imprint will make
n display # Finney county products Mt
the Interstate fair at Kansas City in
October and calls on all farmers to
bring in their prize grain and garden
stuff.
An Emporia lady gave sunlower
reception tie other day. A good many
corn fields looks as though they would
be benefited il every woman in the
ncighborhood would give u sunlower
reception, ,e3Ts
A whole carload Of watermelons was
stolen in Topeka few nights ago.
The door was opened and all of them
carried away before morning. The
Santa Fe paid 5000 damages on account
OF it.
have IrstCluss newspaper plant,
and desire to establish II paper in q
good live town Persons Interested
will please address, Publisher, Box
1903, Lincoln Mob,
There has been coal famine on the
M. p. system west Of Atcnison for the
past day or so and the railroad com
pany has been unloading and using
cars belonging to the coal companies
along the line in order to keep the en-
gines running,
Amad hog in Wichita made things
in that burg lively for few minutes
last Saturday. One woman lost five
yards of her brand new henrietta
gown and another was nearly scarce
out of her wits. The hog is still Il
large. ,,--,.
The superintendent OF the Topek,
insane asylum has issued circular il
which he states that the proportion o
insane In Kansas is only ono.third I,
onehalr as large as in Older states
yet the asylums are all over crowde,
and m SO room is necessary.
James Henry OF Ford county, nea
the Gray county line, takes the cak
on wheat raising. From four acres h.
threshed 2l3 bushels of wheat or SO
bushels to the acre. He planted on
and one half bushels Of seed to tn
acre on corn stubble December |.
Prof. Henry Warrall, who decorat
cd the Kansas building Mt Philadelphi
in 1876 furnishes the following infor
nation regarding some corn that wen
to the Centennial exhibition: lin tn
fall Of 1875, there was received in TC
dekr 500 stalks Of corn from field o
the farm Of Mr. Sherman near Quh
daro, WyNndotle county, each slal
containing two ears Of matured goo
corn. and the stalks were none les
than sixteen feet high and many bC
tween sixteen and seventeen feet, 81
inches high. This corn was plaute
by Mr.. Sherman on the 9TH of Jul,
being the third planting, the gras,
hoppers having destroyed the tw
paintings made before. They we're a
cured in the thon unfinished Bapti
church, carefully packed and taken I
Philadelphia Tor exhibition in 1876
and placed tn the Kansas building
the centcnia', whore they spoke loud
OF the productiyeness Of Kansas to u
close OF the exhibition
The Ancient Order of Thresher
Uniform Rank, has made its appea
anoe in Kansas,
A Newton weather prophet has ari
en- who says that no winter OF the pa
eighteen years will exceed the ne