The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-02-23
ExcHANaE sHoIs.


ard Democrats of Goodland, has re-
ceived the appointment of postmaster
of that city.-Atwood Democrat
G. L. Calvert, district attorney for
the district of northwestern Kansas,
was over from GoodIand Friday on
business.-BurIington (Colo.) Banner.
A revival is reported to have swept
the town of Colby exceedingly clean.
Now Goodland will have to give up or
go and do ikewise.-Atwood Demo
crat.
Goodland has undoubtedly felt the
moist spume fecks of a Eeviving com
MERGE. THE REPUBLIC says bran new
crap game has started.-Hays City Sen
tinel
Goodland claims to have put up !, 900
tons of ice, and yet here is town that
boasts about her shot stuff and puts
pepper in her beer.-Hays City Sen
tinel
Goodland papers are still agitating
the question of sinking a well to search
for anything they may find, the chief
object being artesian water Atwood
Democrat.
THE GooDLAND REPUBLIC calls for a
load OF straw on subscription. We had
formed the general idea that editor
men west of Oakley ate hay.-Hays
City Sentinel.
Conductor Collins, of the rotary, had
a little taste Of real duty Monday. He
has been aching for a job all winter,
and at last he got what he wanted.
Phillipsburg Dispatch.
So far this winter eight Goodland
families have applied to the city for aid
and the expense of assisting all Of
them has not at any time exceeded $40
a week-Topeka Capital.
Goodland is banking heavily on the
correctness of the rumor that the B. &
M intends to extend its line to Pueblo,
running through Sherman's capital on
the way-Topeka Capital.
William Walker has received the ap-
pointment as postmaster at GOodland.
It was the best possible selection, and
his many friends in this city send con
Colby Tribune.
Evangelist Decker, who has been
holding a series of very successful
meetings at Goodland, will begin a
series of revival meetings at the Chris
tian church next Sunday evening-At-
wood Democrat.
A man nearly killed himself down at
.Scandia by drinking bedbug poison for
whisky. This couldn't happen in Good
land. The difference up there is so
trifing that the man wouldn't have
noticed it.-Hays City Sentinel.
Up in GoodIand the act of calling a
man liar doesn't count for anything
unless it is accompanied by the proper
descriptive adjective establishing one
of the three degrees-common particu
lar or d-n.-Hays City Sentinel.
A Goodland rainmaker came near
throwing up his job for good the other
day. He was experimenting with some
chemicals and they exploded. Some
say this was warming the rainmaker
will do we'll to heed.-Topeka Capital.
The man who ran the rainmaking
car on the Rock Island last summer
nearly blew himself and the whole de-
pot into kingdom come over at Good
land last week. A just retribution is
bound to come sooner or leter-At-
wood Citizen. ,. =
G. Goodland papers are continually
boasting about the size of that city be-
cause there are enough Rock Island
employees in it to make it a city OF the
second class. But Sherman county has
a smaller population than Rawlins.
After all, it is the country and not the
towns that count.-Atwood Citizen.
We learn that Conductor Collins had
pretty narrow escape while out with
his rotary Monday. The rotary was
running hot and Mr. Collins started to
oil up when he came very near getting
tangled up in the cogs. Engineer
Brown saw him just in time to ''throw
'er.over," otherwise Mr.. Collins might
have been seriously injured.
az want the people of Kansas to
know" said the governor to an inter
viewer, shat the cause Of Populism is
growing veryrapidly in California. The
railroads have as much to do with this
growth there as here. That big South
ern Pacific nearly controls the freight
rates on fruit to the east, and the peo-
pie are getting tired of it. They are
leaving the two old parties, and joining
the Peoples party, to which they look
for relief. Arrangements have just
been perfected to start new daily
Populist paper at Oakland, The Citizen
and all over the state the interest In