The Globe-republican., 1895-12-19

A clothier at Leavenworfh, namet
Spring, advertises Autumn overcoat'
for sale in the winter time.
No less than 500 teachers visited Be
lott last week, leaving ST. 500 at thu
stores and boarding houses.
Two evangelists are working II
Western Kansas, assisted by thei1
wives-Mr Coe and Ora Smith.
Seventy-eight car loads of fruit
trees and vines have been shipped
from the Fort Scott nursery this sea
son.
1.-The two most prominent grangs
men of this state are burdened with
the names of Whitehead and Tooth
aker.
The marble works of Peru are doing
a rustling business. People down there
have money and they spend some OF
it on extras.
Herman Layton of Hewins was fool
ing with an empty revolver last week,
when it went off anc spotted him gor-
geously in the leg.
Plans are being laid to build q tele-
phone line connecting Abilene, Man
haitian, junction City and a number OF
Missouri river towns
A man is going through the North
west buying poultry by the car load.
In Mitchell county he struck SO many
turkeys that he neglected chickens,
ducks and geese.
The people of Chautauqua county
are not scratching" this winter.
Kaffir cornmeal has taken the place of
that nondescript mixture labeled
'buckwheat -four"
Last week the local corn markets $50
miles from Kansas City fixed the price
at about eighteen cents. This week
cattlemen are paying twenty-five. So
the country papers say.
A butterfly drill by sixteen young
ladies dressed in airy white wings will
be a feature of an Olathe entertain
ment which, alone, the Mirror says,
will be worth the price of admission.
The people of Monet do not miss
their preacher if they can sing. One
Sunday night recently he failed to
show up. but they held a meeting just
the same, singing gospel hymns until
1 o'clock
Leavenworth has been called upon
to mourn the death of a giant colored
boy, who weighed 325 pounds at the
age of Is years, but a man still lives
there who wrote 1000 love letters to
one women.
The Smith Center Journal says the
states seed grain loan of $50, 900 to the
farmers of that county is bad debt
and will never be collected. That is .
frank confession, but it probably u
about the situation.
Chautauqua county ships ont low
grade wheat, and in exchange ships in
No. 2 for grinding. That is following
the old Jewish law to give
unto the stranger the worst food and
keep for yourself the best.
The Thomas w. Fauntleroy who has
such firm mortgage, bond and tax
grip on the Eastern counties of Kan
sas is a son of old General Fauntleroy,
who recommended to the government
that military post be established
where Fort Riley now is.
That Stockton young lady who re-
ceived SO many fiattering press notices
recently as the result of having run
the city water works engine a week
while her father was sick, has Just
been married-another illustr alton of
iudiciOus advertising.
1t has become quite the fad for Con-
cordia young men to present their lady
loves with silk stockings andgarters to
match. That is nothing compared
with the young man of fashion and
etiquette whose lady love held him up
for two full suits of underwear during
the cold snap of last week, not to men
ton lot of flannel for the children.
A change has been made that will
cause thirty miles of the Wichita and
Western to lie idle. Operations aban-
doned between Culllson and Mullen
were only about ten per
cent of the expenditures and retrench
ment became necessary. The saving
made will be appropriated PARTLY to
better service over the remainder of
the road and a new passenger train
put on for daily runs.
A former Sedgwick county boomer,
who now lives in Kansas City, was
with a suit on a small &C
count by bill collector. ''That would
be foolish expense" said the boomer.
For less money you could go to Sedg
wick county and buy a bigger judg-
ment against me than you could get
ON this bill" A man who has been
through q Kansas boom has no more
fear of Judgment than of a circus
lion.
The $4,000 damage suit of Gatchell
against the Kansas City, Wyandotte &
Northwestern railway company at
Leavenworth has been disposed of.
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