The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-11-16
KANSAS MATTERS.


Topeka
osage City coal sells for So a ton ct
the mines
The average daily attendance OF
the EmpoFia public schools is 1913
The average daily attendance Of
the Fort Scott schools is more than
1900,
4 petrified snake seventeen feet
long has been found in quarry near
Glen Elder
The North Kansas poultry club viii
hold its annual exhibition in Atehison
January is.
Plsinville is to have a new town
pump with windmill and a A-mile
bicycle track.
Miss Macy Trip of Oak Valley is
supposed to have light fantastic toes
if anybody has.
Daniel Boone, s;2lA is the name of
a LiRcolR horse which makes sure he
Is right and then goes ahead
Wheat never was n better con-
dition throughout the central portion
of the state than it is just now.
II lisa Lawrence exquisite who has
psir of yellow ''rubbers" to wear
with his yellow shoes this winter.
One Of the state university football
team threatens to resign just because
football interfsres with his studies
Rev. w. n. Page has been pastor of
the First Presby terisn church of
Lesyenworth for twenty one years
A grandfather son and two grand.
daughters are part of the throng of
bicyclists on the streets of Topeka
The eagle that measures seven feet
from tip to tip is now being caught
in all the frontier towns Of Kansas
The Christian EndeaYOr societies OF
Wellington are soliciting funds to
establish free reading room in town.
DR.. A. NJ. Callahan has been APP
pointed grand recorder of the Kansas
Grand Commsndery of Knights Temp
lar.
1t is Pumored that there is to be an
other wedding in Eden but as the apple
crop is gathered no apprehensiOns are
felt
Thousands of tons of timothy hay
are shipped every year from Crawford
county to Macon, Ga, and Memphis.
Tenn.
An Atchison butcher who chopped
his finger off for a wiener wurst hiss
learned lesson. de will never do
so again,
Mr.. Death of Irving is buying
wheat but the bearded grain and
the flowers that grow between" are
safe enough.
At any rate, Manager Moody kicked
his goal at Iowa City. The Kansas
football boys came home with rocks
to throw at the birds.
An Abilene girl will Join A. ]. Ma
than's party of Gospel Union mis-
Sionaries who are TO 60 to Morocco,
Africa, soon to save the heather.
A 4O0-pound pressure gas we'll and
an old-fashioned quilting bee Is
about all that the town of Dun can
stand and preserve its equilibrium.
Histrionic art in Kansas has not
received such an impetus since jan
Ruschek went through in IS as under
the encouragement of Mr.. CoFbett
Fred W. Richter of Garden City
| had twenty-five acres of sweet pO-
tstoes this year and they averaged
l75 bushels to the acre. Irrigation.
An invitation has been received by
the wholesale merchants of Topeka to
attend a grain and transportation
congress at New Orleans, November 81,
The Peabody football team has dis
banded and great many mothers
now spend Saturday afternoon with
out their hearts being torn with fear
and anxiety.
The family of NJ. v, Ward, who was
killed in Valley Falls last July, have
become convinced he was murdered
and have offered reward of 81, 900
for the murdereTs
Charley Gleed, who used to sell pa
pers at the Lawrence depot, now
pulls into town on a special car. Mr,
Willis Gleed and wife have returned
from trip to England.
Bannister is the name Of recent
convert at the Methodist revival in
NiclEeTson, but the chances In this
case for backsliding are so great that
the church people are somewhat IN
easy.
crane six feet high and eight feet
across the wings was killed recently
near Garnett Both of its legs were
longer than they really ought to be
and there was no more pleasure in
life for it.
An Abilene girl is going to Morocco.
and when she comes back Ed. Little
will be of NO more consequence than
the big brother in family that has
just been visited with twins Kan
sas City Star.
"IolaDthe," the juvenile opera
which was put on in Lawrence by
hundred little Lawrence people under
the direction of Miss Georgia Brown,
will be produced Ia Kansas City by
the same company soon
Many hogs IN Miami county are
afflicted with a strange disease John
sheehan. who lives near Paola, has
lost ITO head since August /. The
flesh falls from the bones Of many of
the affected animals before death.
Just across the territory line from
Baxter Springs an oil cloth case cons
tanning photographs Of monuments
was found. When a man goes into
that country a selection Of tomb
stones is a mighty handy thing to
have along.
Atchison has q young woman who
recites RileY's poems aud translates
them into pure English as she goes.
No wonder Atchison is hater's town.
DR.. Henson, OF Chicago, Is going 70
deliver q number Of lectures in Kan
sss this fall on Fools There viii
be q great many who viii take ths
lecture as a personal affr0nt
More than $4,000 barrels Of apples
have been shipped from Lassrsnce
this season Ten thousand bushels
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