The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-24
NUMBER ~
KANSAS MATTERS.

Wichita
Kansas is threatened with slump
n husking gloves.
A Wichita man made So, 900 on corn
this year in Chicago.
There is n nitro-glycerine factory in
Kansas near Neodesha.
Lawrence is reveling IN tube roses,
mete0-- n watermelOns-
Three Topeka young men have rid
den their wheels to Denver.
A merry-go-round that left Hiawa-
tina lately took 5000 out of town
The total tax levy in Seneca is As
mills and the total valuation S301, 46s.
The Mennonites support an orphan
asylum near Hillsboro, Marion county.
The Fort Scott sugar mill has COM
menced operations on sorghum cane
Every district but two, in Douglas
county, has hired its teacher for next
year.
Washburn college. Topeka, is rails
ing an additional endowment of
$50. 700.
At Wichita tea party the other
day the angel food was cut dead by the
corn pone.
A woman who runs in to help put
out a fire is called a ''neighbor lady
in Topeka.
Rice county has surplus of eight
licensed school teachers. Her schools
require 100.
The Tenth district convention of the
Y. P. S. C. E. will be held in Marion,
August % to 30.
The Salina cement mills have start
ed again. The dry weather never
phases" the gypsum crop.
A new bowling alley in Lawrence
is doing a big business. 1t is the first
one the city has had for years.
The horrors of the drouth in the
Walnut valley are to be supplemented
by school of eIocution in Ell Do
RADIO.
Miss Bessie Turner of FL Dorado has
gone to Colorado to sing in quartette
during the political campaign in that
state.
An Atchison county sewing society
ence. That is hemstitching that
pays.
Mr. Harper of Newton is going on
one foot owing to difference of
opinion existing between him and
mule.
a Topeka man has been living on
milk for year and half, and is said
to have gained in weight during the
period.
Thespius in Topeka is to be re-
freshed for the winter season by a
cake walk at Crawford's opera house
next month.
The commissioners of Lincoln coun.
ty have decided to buy all the land
offered for sale in September for the
taxes of 1893.
A Newton man, who asks bonus of
| 20, 900 bushels of wheat, agrees to put
in fouI ing mill with a capacity of
125 barrels day.
Columbus has a steam cider mill
which does custom work for the apple
raisers. 1t converts apples into cider
for two cents a gallon.
An apple grown near Hutchinson
this year measures fourteen and one
half inches in circumference and
weighs seventeen ounces
Despite the partial corn failure in
Western Kansas, the prospects of an
increased acreage of turnips this fall
were never more Hattering.
A thrifty German lives in a boat
house on the bank of the Kaw at To-
peka and rents bathing suits to peo-
pie who enjoy rolling around in the
| sand.
Joseph Lewis, a Harper county
farmer, Will have 5000 bushels of
apples this fall in spite of the fact
that no considerable rain has fallen
since May 9.
A five-year-oId girl of Kansas City,
Kan, has sued the Armour packing
company for $50, 900 for injuries re-
ceived from hot steam escaping from
a waste pipe
Topeka sybarites combat the insom-
MIA incident to dog days by wetting
themselves all over with cold water
and permitting it to evaporate after
they go to bed.
A car load of corn was shipped to
Marvin, on the Central branch last
night. This is the first time corn has
been shipped west for several years
-Atehison Globe.
A Seneca woman has offered $50
acres of land to any man who will
marry her. There must be something
wrong with the woman or the land
Kansas City Star.
Not satisfied with the white light of
fame that came to the family when
her husband won the cake walk a
Leavenworth woman took morphine
with suicidal intent.
Colonel Henry Watterson of the
Louisville COurier-JOurnaI will de-
liver one of che addresses IN a lecture
course that has been arranged for in
Newton for next winter.
An Abilene man is getting out a
book about THE Present MiIenniaf
| Kingdom" The book was suggested
by the fact that no one in town had
| written a rOndeI or triOlet for six
weeks.
A Wichita girl named Leila Hardin
Buqg has written a novel which sails
/ under the title of Orchids More, it
has been published Still more, it is
/ strictly IN the literary swim because
sociology IS the underlying theme
The Ottawa girl who can't cut bread
In thin picnic sandwich slices, make
deyiled eggs, sit on her feet and reach
across the table cloth for the fried
/ chicken without getting her sleeves
| in the custard pie, can't move IN the
best set
Kansas City, Kan, killed $4,000
more hogs in July. 1894, than in the
corresponding month last year.
A Jewell county farmer who pre-
/ dfcted the corn failure OF 1894 and
E ,,-aaa-a6 for II nv aeer1r141lafiupr 4 800