The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-27
NUMBER 48
KANSAS MATTERs.
The schools of Wallace county cost
nearly $22, 600 last year.

nearly $22, 600 last year.
A company wants to put in a new
telephone system in Salina,
There are ., 600 acres of alfalfa
growing in Sedgwiclz county.
Marshall co1ntv has a mutual fire
and lightning insurance company.
An Atchisen woman has been COM
PEELED to garnishee the wages of her
son.
Ottawa boasts of a man who caught
two fish on one hook at one strike
That sounds
Wa-Keeney levies a tax of half
mill each year for the maintenance of
a school library.
Ellsworth Ingalls, will take an over
land trip from Atehison to Nashville.
Tenn, on bicycle.
The largest Normal institute at
tendance so far reported is 2S6, the
number attending in Abilene.
Wheat on an upland farm near
Arkansas City threshed an average of
thirty-six bushels to the acre.
A Newton man has a plant in his
garden that seems to be a compromise
between cabbage and turnip.
The Globe says that Atchison has
more miles of paved streets than any
other city of its size in the world.
Garden City is so good a town that
1T has been found possible to dispense
with the services of day marshal
Mr.. E. C. Franklin, assistant in
chemistry at the state university, has
received Phi. ID. from Johns Hopkins.
A Cawker City man has an apple
tree that is blooming, although it Is
loaded with apples the size of wal
nut.
The school population in Kansas
City, Kan, is II, 7O2, an increase of 1877
over last year. OF this number 1910
are colored.
Will Thatcher, son of the late T.
Dwight Thacher, was married recent
~ to MISS Jennie Edwards of Long
Island. N. Y.
A Russell young man who began
with the bass drum is going from bad
to worse and is now playing on the
slide trombone.
The swell event in Leavenworth of
the colored society will be a cake
walk, August l, at which the prize
will be 105-pound cake.
The west wings of Ellis co 1ty
houses are covered with apples: the
apples will soon get off for peaches
and the peaches for walnuts.
There are 332 pianos in Sedgwick
county, and the ''Chop Sticks waltz
has been played on 331 by the accom-
plished young men of the city.
w. A. Calderhead, the Republican
candidate for congress in the Fifth
district, is billed for eighty three
speeches in the next ninety days.
A medium who can read the flu
ture, unfold the past, cure catarrh
and wish away warts is ingratiating
himself into Atchison's confidence.
From a catalogue of the Wichita
public library it is seen that Moliere's
dramatic works and VOltaire's s'Droll
Tales" are on the kindergarten shelf.
Mr.. Tenpenny nailed the lies that
were circulated about him in Law
renee the other day and was vindi-
Gated by acquittal in the police court.
A Marshall county man claims that
by actual measurement, and by sight
ing across the top rail of his fence, he
saw a stock of corn grow seven inches
in day.
The wolf that has been scratching
the varnish off the door in Western
Kansas has left Kingman county,
where forty loaves of bread are sold
for 81.
The new irrigation ditch in Rocks
county Is full of water and farmers
depending upon it for crop moisture
are as happy as though it rained
every night.
The Girard city council has appro-
priated money to pay for advertising
matter for distribution in Washing
ton, d. c., during the X. p. encamp-
ment at that place.
Chancellor James II. Garfield of
Nebraska university, formerly of
Kansas, has been elected president of
the Ohio state university, but it is not
known that he will accept.
A careful estimate places the bacon
that will knock the chiggers on
Newton camping out party at ten
pounds. This is giving one pound of
bacon to every 1892 chiggers.
The Columbian club of Abilene is
backing fire against the Lanier circle
by taking up Kansas poets. The Col
umbian club belongs to the Breaking
Homeless school of. art Kansas
City Star.
Farmer Livingston, living near
Harrison church in Neosho county,
estimates that he has this year of
low prices on wheat raised a crop on
twenty-seven acres that will net him
SO per acre profit.
A young man named Green per-
suaded the probate Judge of Oswego
to trust him for the price of mar
riage license and a minister to marry
him on tick He failed to pay up as
agreed and was arrested for obtaining
goods on false p-etenses.
The new roster of the G. A. r. of
Kansas, to be published in August,
will contain the names, rank, com
pany, regiment, state and arm of SER
vice of every member of the order on
August 1, and of every comrade
who was a member at the time of his
death, in the state. There is a great
interest taken in this important pub
LEGATION and it should be well known
that the names of only members of
the G. A. r. will appear In this great
roll of honor. Every old soldier not
a member, and all who from any
cause have permitted their member
ship to lapse, should at once seek
mem bership or restoration, and thus
have their military records placed IN
the hands of many thousands for fu-
ture reference
The county records of Kearhy
county have been transferred from
HartIand to Laikin, the newly selected
county seat. The next term OF the
district court will be held in Lakin.
Douglas county BROUGHT in a fifteen