The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-20
NUMBER AZ
KANSAS MATTERS.
Sterling has a home culture club.
Pittsbnrg has two lady ministers.

badly in Atchison.
A big colorsl camp-meeting and re-
vival is on in Kansas City, Kan.
The State weather bureau station in
Sterling has been discontinued.
Mr.. Ingalls, has only made one
speech in Atchison in fifteen years.
The town clock at Emporia is about
the only thing now on strike there.
Manufactured ice costs 81 month
for ten pounds daily in Leavenworth.
An equal suffrage club with mem
bership of 200 has been organized in
Hoxie.
There are sol pianos, 82s gold
watches and one goat on the Topeka
tax list.
4 telephone line is to be built from
Arkansas City to Kildare and Black
well. Ok.
Threshers in Cowley county say the
wheat is turning out much better than
was expected.
The Little Blue is navigable for
"Ships that Pass in the Night as far
as Blue Rapids.
OF 112 persons attending the Saline
county teachers institute fifty-one
have never taught.
A single firm in Garden City sold
forty-three wind mills this season,
mostly for use in irrigating.
During the recent small pox scare
at Atchison there were sixty three
cases and twenty-siX deaths.
The railroad tax assessment in
Douglas county is completed and is
nearly $50, 600 less than in 1898.
There are 1s5 persons enrolled in
the Dickinson County normal insti-
fufa at A bi1ana aorainSf
General Nelson A. Miles was a lieu
tenant during the war on the staff of
General John G. Caldwell, of Topeka.
Marshall county starts the game, by
playing an eight foot corn stalk, with
two ears in the silk. It's Sedgewiclr's
play.
Hog cholera is prevalent among the
herds of Chase county. 1t is reported
that one man has lost S., 600 worth of
swine.
Wichita has Chinaman who makes
his own fire crackers. The wheels of
industry are turning right along in
Wichita.
A number of young Emporia ladies
have organized an outing club and
will go out on camping expedition
in August
The American normal musical insti-
tute will be held in Holton this year,
commencing August 10. 1t will last
three weeks.
Albert Berry of Chase county, has
5000 head of cattle in his pastures on
School creek, and expects as many
more in few days.
They tell about the light crop of
wheat in Western Kansas, but all the
same a La Crosse firm has sold twelve
headers this season.
A Brown county man who has led
seven brides to the altar during a
long and useful life believes there is
bad luck in odd numbers
The Neosho river is again within it's
banks. The flood destroyed about
half the corn and wheat on the bot
tom lands along the river.
The tie-up in the Bald win matri-
monial market remains unbroken.
Both parties are determined not to
give in.-Kansas City Star.
a Skiddy boy was bitten by water
snake while in swimming lately.
snakes can't bite in water.
The Eastern Kansas medical society
held meeting in Leavenworth the
other evening. Papers were read by
Drs. McNary, Cordier and Lane.
There have already been fifty APP
plications for admission to st. Johns
military school in Salina-more than
in any previous year at this time.
The old-fashioned boy who has a
trapeze and pair of rings and a turn
ing pole in the barn has turned up
with the usual broken summer arm in
lola.
A Mankato couple celebrated their
golden wedding recently. When they
were married the first free school in
Kansas had been established but one
week
A 12-year-old Hutchinson boy, who
was climb ing fire escape in search
of birds nests fell TO the ground and
broke both arms and wrists in several
places
''Mush melons" have come into the
market in Pratt county. Western
Kansas can dig down a few feet to
salt and laugh in the grinning face of
famine.
Treadwe1I, the Emporia burglar,
remained in the dark cell of the peni-
Tertiary three weeks on bread and
water before he could be Induced to
go to work.
The commissioners of Osborne
county have established "a chinch bug
infection station in Osborne. 1t is to
De main CdiHeu Two ilOuCuS oS an ca
pense of $40.
At progressive hammock party in
Arkansas City Young man had four
shades of hair and one deep dark pow
der spot on his coat to tell the tale
the other night
Chelsea park in Kansas City, Kan,
has gone into the hands of a receiver.
It has rained nearly every picnic day
this season and the management
couldn't stand the racket.
A novel agreement has been entered
into and filed for record in Abilene.
Thomas Goodwin has given the NJ E.
church $1,000 in cash and in return is
to receive SIS quarterly during his
life.
Rev. Frank L.. Ferguson, at present
field secretary of the American ednca-
ton society of the Congregational
church, has been called to the princi-
palship of Fairmount institute In
Wichita.
The fifty-second volume of the Kan
sas supreme court reports has been
completed. It contains I55 cases. in
which opinions were written as fol-
lows: Horton, forty-seven; Johnstons
fifty; Allen. forty-nine.
an t.4lssfa 4 lad was saved from pre-