The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-09-07
KANSAS MATTERS.

OCtOSCA 4Os
Steelsmith is. the appropriate name
of an Abilene surgeon.
The Lawrence school district has q
bonded indebtedness of S53, 600
Harness and molasses are used In
the plural in the Walnut valley.
The proposals for furnishing hay TO
Fort Riley call for 4, AIS, 600 pounds
a Lawrence undertaken has adopted
the unselfish motto, live and let
live
A pair of half-breed Hambletonian
horses sod in Ashland the other day
for Sl2.
\ Lawrence girl has married a
Baker professor. Blessed be the tie
that binds
a peach orchard near Corwin, Har-
per county, viii average five bushels
TO the tree.
The alleys of Kansas are taking on
the pink and yellow of the water
melon time
The man who has the biggest patch
of melons in Attica is called the
watermelon king.
a. DUNN of Clay Center, tied his
could Craze. Tho COW catcher did the
rest.
The elopement of a Hartford young
woman with a man of African descent
ought to make romance with lots of
local color.
Abilene people try to show that
they belong to the real conserva-
tive, exclusive set in literature by
taking the Atlantic.
There Is a suspicion among the resi-
dents near the catch basins in Wich-
tia that there are several hundred
Cronin mysteries on deck.
The Emporia canning factory has
put up $4,000 cans of apples with
which to wash down the roast pork of
Central Kansas next winter.
The housekeeper at the soldiers
orphans home in Atchison has put up
600 quarts of tomatoes which the in
mates will put down this winter.
Even Hicks who prophesied rains
for last week has fallen down. This
is a good year for weather prophets
to go into the hands of receivers.
There is a scarcity of good houses
for rent in Lawrence; nearly fifty
families desire to move to the town
this fall to educate their children.
An Atchison man has italxen 5000
pounds Of honey from his bees this
y
between a ''has bees man" and has
been man."
There have been ia arrests of wo-
men in Topeka during the last eleven
months, on charges ranging from
drunkenness to allowing chickens to
run al large.
A Wichita man has brought IL
foot alligator home from Florida with
him for story tester. When the story
Is SO big the alligator can't swallow it
it Wilde to tell.
There are forty-seven children
under II years old in one block in To-
peka. Eternal vigilance is the price
of second place on the Kansas munich
pal census report.
For the first time in many years
Mrs. Allerton's walls of Corn" has
! not been run in Kansas papers along
July and August.
A Newton woman who is preparing
her burial robe is having it cut Fem.
pre-" on the theory that as the en-
| pire gown is out of style, death will
be easier wearing it.
He is considered a first rate fellow
in Blue Mound who goes into melon
patch, eats all he wants and takes all
he wants home to the folks, If he
doesn't tear up the vines.
Five barrels of dressed spring
chickens leave FL Dorado every morn
ing for Chicago, and still there is
always one chicken left for picnics
when new young man visits town.
The costume of the woman who
took the prize at Clay Center pow
erty social cost II cents. Being mar
ried is the only thing that kept her
from having a dozen "offers" on the
spot.
FL Dorado society is reveling in the
possession of an engaged girl She
can't go to dry goods store without
every other girl in town knowing
what she got and how much she paid
for it.
Cabbage worms are threatening the
kraut crop of Northern Kansas. Wheat
bran, by the way. sprinkled on cab
bage leaves beats incubation or vac
cination or back firing to kill the
worms.
A Butler county goose bone and
squirrels nest weather prophet who
| hits it nine times out of ten has pro-
mulgated the prophecy that next year
will be the best year Kansas has had
since 1875.
The presence of four camping out"
| parties near Manhattan brought up
! the local price of soda crackers.
bakers bread, bologna sausage and
/ chow chow until they are on parity
with corn.
Ex-senator John J. Ingalls, received
an anvil from Haverhili, Mass, the
other day that has been in the Ingalls,
family for several generations IL
originally belonged to Mr. ingalls,
fathers grandfather.
The Lawrence woman who has made
a Vow not to dust again until there
is an inch of rainfall doesn't know
what she is going against The Kan
sas weather can be just as muiish as
| a woman when it tries
A graduate of the university of Ber-
lin IS giving lessons in the ancient
and modern languages in Carlyle for
fifty cents lesson The farmers.
BOYS can take bushel Of corn IN and
trade it for an Irregular verb
A mesmerist In Severance made his
/ subjects believe all sorts of things.
| but when he tried to pass q tin tag on
on them for money, he fell down
The state historical society has
been presented with a walking stick
<.s.& f-scsr,s traa near the