The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-10
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KANSAS MATTERS.


The state university library will be
moved into its new building in Sep
TENDER.
A Mcpherson gun club has leased
nine quarter sections for shooting
preserve.
Hazelnuts will soon be ripe and the
small hoy will work hard all day to
get I.c.cl's worth of them.
A few peaches were grown near At
tica this year, and are bringing 90
cents bushel right at home
An Erie man who has fifteen bug
gies and thirty-one horses drew BIZ
cycle in a rattle short time ago.
Kansas farmers are just now selling
thirty-five cent wheat to buy 81
potatoes to feed the threshing hands.
The Y. T. C. club of Emporia is or
ganized for moonlight picnics in the
summer and skating parties in the
winter
Slater White is the civilian name of
the melon king of Mitchell county,
who has fifteen acres lin" melons
near Beloit
New wheat is worth 80 cents
bushel in Hoisington, about enough
to pay the rent Of the land on which
it was raised.
the streets of Wichita. A few days
ago wolf was shot inside the city
limits.-Topeka Capital.
An examination of applicants for
state teachers certificates will be
held in Abilene this month, conducted
by Superintendent Shirk.
Colonel s'Jee1ns'' r. Hallowell is said
to be at the head of a company which
is going into the lead smelling bust
ness near Dodd City, Ark.
A basket picnic in Coolidge was
postponed on account of the hot
weather. One hundred and eight siz-
cling degrees in the shade did the
work.
In 1892 there were 1O4 lawyers in
Wichita; since that time twenty-five
of them have turned their gall to
plowshares and their pens to pruning
hooks
There is a complaint that there are
not enough picnics in Lawrence to
keep gossIps babbling. The girlss hould
trade their hammocks for single
buggies.
Ellis county may not produce the
best crops in the state, but it is re-
ducing its debt right along. The de-
crease for the past fiscal year has been
nearly $4,000.
Corn may be short in Kansas but
fried apples make a mighty good sub
stitute for bacon once in while for a
change; and there will be world of
apples this year.
Three thousand barrels of apples
were shipped out of Wichita last week
and enough were left to fill the Ar
kansas with apple sauce from Sterling
to Arkansas City.
signs Santa Fe passes, spent a week
in Colorado recently trying to get an
other snake curve in his signature
without going mad.
Lawrence bicycle girls carry UNI
brellas. Drug store complexion is ex-
pensive in Lawrence and besides it
can't stand the wear and tear of West
Lawrence social usages.
An Ottawa firm, whose business is
loaning money on real estate and who
holds mortgages in almost every
county in Kansas has returned $4,000
to Eastern investors since July 1.
Joe McNally, noted Southern
Kansas killer, gambler and deputy
marshal, was killed at Fort Smith in
a fight with another deputy. Joe had
bad man record as long as your arm.
A Topeka man has invented water
power for cent an hour. 1t will be
used in running the wooden mill and
in building the new bridge across the
Kaw.
After taking a trip on the little
steam launch that runs up the Smoky
Hill Salina school teacher remarked
as he came ashore that it seemed
good to be on the terra Gotta once
more.
A Sunday school lesson leaf was
found in the upper left hand corner
of boys vest lying on the street in
FL Dorado and a deck of cards nestled
quietly in the lower right hand
pocket.
The baseball nine of the Mcpherson
normal college defeated the team of
the state university the other day, and
the players could hardly keep their
hats on, their heads were so swclled
by the result.
VIII and Frank Snow, Professor
Kahl, z. C. Case and H. A. Menke ac-
companied Chancellor Snow to New
Mexico, where they will make a col
lection of bugs and fossils for the state
university museum.
The men who hold the collegiate
high jumping records all over the
East could make good wages coming
| to Kansas this month ana helplng
harvest the corn crop. Their pres
ence will save step ladders.
An unusual incident, the taking up
| of a collection for an American in
stitution in a foreign country, is to
occur when contributions are to be
taken mp in the churches of Sweden
for bethany college, in Mcpherson.
! A Topeka minister who recently of
| ficiated at a double wedding got things
| slightly mixed when he made the
! legal return to the probate court. Ac.
cording to his certificate he had mar
ried both of the grooms to one woman
The theory of moral heredity has
! received a shock at Atchison, where.
according to the Globe, the biggest
! liar in town claims to be a relative of
George Washington. But then. his
I claim may help to sustain his rePuta-
ton.
Kansas says Jack Deou, who
| moved from FL Dorado TO the Ozark
country, sis the blamedest best next
year country almost ever saw
Riley Medium, Kansas great PAGER
owned in Ottawa, is still stepping too