The Globe-republican., 1895-08-22
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
items OF INTEREST TO Dwell
lERS ~ THE SUNFlOWER.

The Weeks Review Of Personal and Gen
eral News Condensed to Short Para.
graphs for the Convenience Of Hurried
Readers.
It cost Ottawa 81, 100 to have the
smallpox.
, A school district in Coftey county il
called '"Possum trot.
Lawrence anticipates trouble with
it's non-alcoholic beer.
Jacob Stotler has written to say that
his heart is still in Kansas.
A man out in Comanche county has
1000 acres planted to onions.
Vermillion has factory for the
making of leather suspenders.
A charivari goes by the mild name OF
a "cowbell fantasia" in Holton
The Kingan Packing Company at
Kansas City has decided to disband-
An Atchison farmers wife came into
town the other day wearing a sweater.
The value of the mineral output OF
Cherokee county, last week, was $67,
241.
The second summer harvest of weeds
in the Lawrence streets is now In
progress.
Mr.. Daylong of Strawn is q great
deal better husband than if he were
Nightlong.
A Sumner county man calls his
wheel ''lie'' because it is so often
punctured.
An up to date Holton girl now says:
''My Trilby is Svengalied," when her
foot is asleep.
The assessed valuation of property
in Butler county is 100000 higher
this year than last.
The Hutchinson reformatory board
has elected Ora Morse of Sumner coun-
ty, superintendent.
A merrygoround is going to Lacrosse
Just as soon as the revival meetings
leave and give it show.
The Santa Fe has issued orders to
destroy Russian thistles wherever
found on the right of way.
At Russell man who is whipped by
his wife and daughter for disobedience
is being tried for insanity.
A Halstead washerwoman said the
other day she never took in washing
until after she was married.
The electric lights at Council Grove
which were acquired in boom times
are about to be discontinued.
]. Fred Whiting, who knows enough
to keep out of the wet, has started q
paper called the "Umbrella."
An Atchison man imagines himself
so attractive that he thinks all the
| women are running after him.
i Phillips county will prosecute DR.. A.
Golden for failure to comply with his
contract for furnishing seed corn.
According to a Mandate of the city
council of Hiawatha dogs and draymen
will have to have tags after this.
When an Atchison man wants to
dress up SO as to astonish people with
his style he puts on white vest.
The United States fish commissioner
will supply the streams of Franklin
county with 1000 rainbow trout and
rock bass.
Pitsburg capitalists have taken out a
charter for a new mining and smelt-
ing company with a capital stock of
100000.
Next week twenty-five of the prison
ers now confined in the Kansrs state
penitentiary will be transferred to the
Hutchinse reformatory. Among the
number is the somewhat renowned
Willie Sells.
Fort Scott now threatens to tax the
churches to make up for the deficiency
in the city revenue, caused by closing
her saloons.
Baldwin girls sit on the bank of
Lake Parmenter, let their feet hang
over, shut their eyes and imagine they
are at the seashore.
The campmeeting has moved away
from Burlington and people who lived
in its vicinity are now enjoying their
first full nights rest.
It is complained in Clay Center that
dozens of people who won't pay their
bills can get enough money together
to 60 on Kansas City excursion.
After all the reformatory board
should have piano. Almost any girl
could have made of it one of the best
punitive instruments in the world.
Topeka can have her fortune told
now and find out whether the capital
is to be removed and her dam row set
tied. There is a band of fortune