The Globe-republican., 1895-10-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS,

Lawrence is having siege of tina
dread disease diphtheria.
Fiftv-four postoffices were discon
tinued in Kansas last year.
The new telephones at Hiawaths
are to cost S1.5O per month.
Painted on a window of NORTH
Topeka confectionery is clay ant
Feed"
The alfalfa acreage has increased IL
Kansas little over forty per cen
within the past year.
Geo. w. Martin says kiss unuttered
is like bread unbuttere& Tut, tn,
George, that wont do.
The grasshoppers noticed in South
ern Kansas are like every thing Use in
this state this clarifying high.
There was one thing in favor of the
Atchison Corn Carnival-they hadn't
Kansas City's fool way. of spelling 1t.
Ed Greer says that Lord Durraven
simply proves by his talk that ''there
is many slip 'twixt the cup and the
lip"
A contract has been awarded Phelps
Bros, to fornish The Soldiers Home at
Leavenworth with 10000 bushels OF
potatoes.
Some of the farmers in Elk county
are complaining that the mosquitoes
are sucking all the juice out of their
late fruit.
As an evidence of returning pros
perity in the west "a Fatted Calf
company has taken chances on its
brisket and will play Kansas this year.
The Howard Current has found an
other fellow we can spar; the fellow
who starts to telling something by
saying, las there are no ladies pres
emit"
Guffey & Galley nave drilled log wells
for gas or oil in Kansas, and they
think they ought to have the lightning
franchises in the towns in their terri
tory.
John Seaton will open his new thea
ter at Atchison September 3oth, and
has taken half the house for his friends.
If you have not been invited there is
some mistake.
A young man in Holton who was
waiting for something to turn up was
astonished the other day when he pro-
posed to a girl and she
turned up her nose.
DR.. Hubbard Linlcy of Atchison, who
can 60 into the human bowels with a
knife and yanlx off the vermiform ap-
pendix, has been summoned to South
ern Illinois to try his skill.
Sol Miller has started tracer after
Albert Griffin. The last heard of Mr..
Griffin he had gone to Texas to hold
the funds of the North and South"
road, of which he is treasurer.
Notwithstanding dry belt and two
dry spots, Kansas will this year ex-
coed by fifty million bushels any pre-
vious corn crop, says Secretary Co
burn, and he generally talks by the
card.
d. A. Stahl, ex-county treasurer,
was badly hurt Saturday at his place
near Americas. He took his mules to
water and short time thereafter was
found in an unconscious condition. It
is presumed he was kicked by one of
the mules.
A Kansas young lady has written
song entitled, Hug Me to Death,
Darling" If she is young and good
looking and not burdened with con-
tracts, we don't mind making stag
ger at it, ourself.
Fred Funston has been in lola all
week in the intesest of his Mexican
coffee enterprise. He has been busy
this summer organizing a company
with a capital of 500, 600 to take hold
of the business, and the stock is nearly
all taken.
. OCCIVldIS NoUuIh ~ 0O"A A.
this statement: Surveying the debil-
ity and oppression common in late
years to all sister states and countries,
Kansas now seems agriculturally and
financially convalescent, and in her
old time form is again headed for
prosperity and the stars.
Edward r. Morton has brought suit
against Thomas Wright and Jacob
Ward of Robinson for $40, 900 damages
for selling his sixteen-year-Old son
liquor. Ward is jointist at Robinson
and Wright is the owner of the build
ing in which Ward did business; and
is made party to the suit.
There is demand from all parts of
Western Kansas for laborers to har-
vest the immense crop of broomcorn.
In Morton county the schools have
been dismissed and the children sent
to the fields to assist in saving the
crop. At least so young ladies, daught-
ers of farmers, have donned old gloves
and sun bonnets and gone into the
fields with their fathers and brothers
and are working 10 hours a day, It Is