The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-29
NUMBER "A
KANSAS MATTERS.
Abilene has Kindergarten associ-

Abilene has kindergarten associ-
alton.
A law and order league has been or
ganizcd in Jamestown.
Concordia's population according to
the assessors returns is 3,O43.
The city marshal of Ottawa is Crap
ping with the bean shooting ques-
ton.
Wichita Chris tian scientists have
opened dispensary and residing
room.
Judge Kin-aaa, the first chief JUS
tice of Kansas, is living quietly in
Topeka.
The Kansas Australian ballot law
does not apply to voting bonds in
school districts.
Mr. Collins of Sallna has 400 acres
of wheat which will ''go" eighteen
bushels to the acre.
Seventy car loads of ''truck' flour,
barbed wire, nails and paper go out
OF Lawrence every week.
There are nearly 300 students en-
rolled in the summer school at the
state normal in Emporia.
jury in Newton thinks about
Sc, 727 the right thing to tax man
for flirting and running away.
There is a Lawrence man who has
not been in Kansas City since the
Kansas Pacific railroad was built.
The city council of Topeka has
fixed the age of consent in boys who
want to buy cigarettes at 16 years.
Reports from all over Kansas indi-
cate that Professor Shows chinch bug
poison is getting in its deadly work.
Mr.. James Topher was recently
married in western Rocks county.
Probably the first born will be twins
Two hundred packages day is the
output of Chancellor SHOWS chinch
bug infection plant, running on full
time.
Cuba, Republic county, will have a
new bank soon. 1t will be established
by S. L. Powell, of the bank of Water
vile.
Misfortunes never come singly:
after the flood in EIDorado, comes
the organization of an amateur brass
Oand.
An attempt will be made to hold a
fair at Bismark grove, Lawrence, next
fall. The dates suggested are Sept.
1920.
When the street cars do start again
in AtchisOn people will have to be-
come tanned again so they won't shy
at them.
No teacher in the Manhattan public
schools receives a salary less than
$45 month, Manhattan is crowding
paradise.
A twenty-five acre onion field near
Lawrence will be able to furnish sea-
soning for the turkey stufing of half
the world.
Bion Hutchins, who is publishing
paper at Ponca City, has come up to
Kansas about every other week for
breath of fresh air.
When visitor to Topeka wears a
black and white hat and yellow shoes
umn and dumped in the society col
umn.
just as the Topeka and Tonganoxie
swells were getting rugged out in
their long tailed frocl1 coats, along
comes the edict that they are going
out of style.
No reference was made to Cesar by
the Clay Center graduating class,
which is composed of girls, and
strange enough neither was anything
said of Calpurnia.
The Eudora creamery has started
up again after temporary shut down
for the strawberry short cake season
when cream can't be bought in Doug
las county for love nor money.
The friends of a Douglas county
woman who has been granted di-
vorcc and restored to her t'former
NAME after six consecutive mar
riages. are in doubt as TO how to adj
dress her.
A petition is in circulation in Harper
county asking the commissioners to es-
tablish county high school. The city
of Harper has agreed to provide a
building for school purposes free of
cost to the county.
Governor Lewelling has pardoned
j. NJ. Austin, who was convicted of
burglary in Labette county year ago
penitentiary. He is not yet 81 years
old and is in poor health.
The Eastern Star women of Well
lngtOn have taken to serving unex-
pected midnight lunches for the
meeting of the Masons. They pro
pose to see if the important lodge
meeting" yarn is whole cloth.
Two Ell Dorado young people who
have been going together since 1879
have at last determined to get mar
ried. Will the authorities at Baldwin
City kindly ship the state champion
ship cup to Ell Observation-Disclosures City
Star.
Santa Fe shopmen in Topeka have
been notified of an additional reduc-
ton in their working time to thirty
hours week. The order will give
the employees work only four days
each week, while the present railroad
depression continues.
Concerning the3 enrollment in Kan
sas schools, State superintendent
Gaines writes TO the bureau of educa-
ton that there has been no falling off
of school attendance In Kansas. The
school population in 1892 was 49S. 90l:
enrolment, $50. 597, an increase of
1872 IN enrolment and 6,O96 in school
population.
An excursion will be run from Cen
trial and Eastern Kansas points to
Garden City some time next month
for the purpose of giving a large
number Of Interested farmers an OPP
porbunity to see the workings of
irrigation In the Arkansas valley.
Captain Nathan G. Kirk of Wichita
has received bronze medal of honor
for bravery and meritOrioas conduct
on the field of battle. There are less
than 30O Of these medals IN the conn
try Two weeks ago congress voted
Captain Kirk this honor and sent it on
to him with a letter of praise, and a
~se 4I,e. E,,-,rvo 1et