The Goodland republic., 1894-06-01
KANSAS MATTERS.

JlOA&S LOT III siuAN CC1G@
! bration.
Newton has free public library
which is maintained through small
municipal tax.
Wellington is throwing on all the
dog that can be extracted from y
50. 600 new city hall.
Early apples are all right in kansas
So keep not cloths and ginger where
they will be handy.
The Abilene waterworl1s have gone
into the hands of u receiver for the
second time in FIVE years.
A pine. tree planted in Topeka
years ago in honor of Governor St.
John is still alive and well.
As a result of a sidewalk blowing
over and killing child, Horton has
bill of S3, 600 damages to pay.
Butler county and Jackson county
will each send men to Lawrence TO
learn how TO pulverize the ehinch
bugs.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Concordia is liza
BILE to be ''churched. 1t has turned
its croquet grounds into a tennis
court.
Musical culture in Wellington is at
such a low ebb that a man was en-
cored for singing ''Some Day Wan
der Back Again.
y man in Topeka with long beard
ties it in three strands and tucl5s it
under his vest. And the wind doesn't
do II thing to him.
The name of the Kansas poet, L.
Brewer Peacock, appears in the list
of incorporators of a new proprietary
medicine company.
The car of progress broke a side
spring with the jolt it took when a
Baker university girl appeared on the
street riding bicycle.
w. L. Parkinson, who a few years
ago was the head of the sorghum
sugar experiment, is now at the head
of II match factory in Chicago.
Cheyenne Camp, No. So, Sons of
Veterans, has been instituted * Hois-
ington, Barton county. The 9reat
Bend camp conducted the affair.
The Security bank of Eskridge has
bought out the Farmers and Traders
bank of the same place. The security
bank is the oldest in the county.
The mean thief who robs churches
turned up in Arkansas City, where he
carried off the communion service be-
longing to the Episcopal church.
A drummer told an Atchison re-
porter that the Atchison girls were
the best looking girls he had seen on
his trip considering the site of the
town.
A travelling show is playing
Natural Gas in Southern Kansas in
the hope that the people will stand
by home institutions and pack the
houses.
The Kingman cheese factory has
been moved to Norwich There was
not enough milk to be had in King
man to make the operation of the
factory profitable.
A Topeka undertaken has piano in
his shop and if the corpse doesn't re-
spond to -Silvery Waves" with varia-
tions, he deems life extinct and goes
on with the services.
The county commissioners of Dick
inson county have established chinch
bug infection station in Abilene. and
have hired Professor Hickey To run it
at salary of 500 a month.
\ man in Seneca, who was goose
enough to let his goose trespass on
his neighbor's garden, and then re-
fuse to keep ii out. had to pay fine
and costs. amounting to $3.50.
Fred Harvey's eating house in Flor
ence is IS years old. The twenty
fifth anniversary will be cele brated
by giving n clearance sale of sand
wiches and by getting fresh pot Of
coffee.
DIR. Bancroft of the Tabernacle in
Kansas City, Kan. has erected a tank
at the most central corner in the town
and will keep it filed with filtered
ice water for the free use of all
comers
The Santa Fe railroad gave an en-
ploye s.. 0O0 in cash for defending its
property from theft The employees
was performing his duty.-Kansas
City Star.
The university base ball team has
been beaten twice hand running by
a high school nine in Central Kansas.
Well, the university boys are no slouch
at playing drop the handkerchief
any way.
1t is said that Jack rabbits are SD
numerous in the western part of the
state that serious damage IS being
done by them to the wheat. a Jack
rabbit, it is said. will eat as much
wheat as sheep
The school board of Wellington has
decided TO economize by reducing the
number of teachers from twenty-eight
to seventeen and by cut OF 10 per
cent in salaries. There will be an
eight months term. as usual.
Society &C Florence is preparing for
summer of Sunday picnics. The
BARRIERS have agreed to close on that
day ana the young women at the
Harvey pie repository viii also join
the gayety.-Kansas City Star.
The trunks containing the young
women's wardrobes in the Sweet
Lavender show did not reach Law
renee in time for the performance, SO
the West Lawrence girls lent their
party dresses" for the occasion.
Young people in Topeka and Law
renee who will wonder where Mastin
Simpson got that tremolo voice in his
old man part in the Sweet Lavender
show. should remember that the goat
esses on the west bluffs of this city
are extremely tame.-Kansas City
Star.
When Miss Yaw exercised her voice
in Topeka. she started at the coal hole
and landed on the state house dome.
The Rock Island road has two rain
makers at work. one IN Phillipsburg
and the other at Cbann4ng. Texas
The company also has force of we'll
diggers in The field. and is determined
TO find moisture either above or below