The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-11-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
1 'NGrandma" Palmer died at Oberlin
last week, aged sc.
The Kansas coal mine is now living
in weight for us.
Harvey county's corn crop foots up
1000 900 bushels.
Twenty Hill City invalids were
treated by Schlatter.
Three awful crimes were the record
for Kansas on Monday.
Leavenworth is in darkness On &C.
count of scarcity of coal for gas.
Goodland will subs titute wind for
steam at the city water works plant.
Jewell county raises million BUSH
els of corn, and calls it a crop failure
The demand for wool or mutton has
stimulated the sheep industry in Kan
sas.
John ]. Ingalls, witnessed his first
game of foot ball last Saturday after
noon.
The smallest wheat patch seeded in
Rush county this fall contains 200
acres.
The best man elected in Dickinson
county at the recent election was a
woman.
The Smith Center Pioneer continues
to call Alton by its old original name,
Bull City.
Lawrence has an organization
known as the Fig Leaf Club" That
couldn't be one of those Adamless
Edens.
A single firm is in the market for
$4,000 bushels of Harper county corn,
and has put up cribs to receive that
amount.
There is not much consolation in
signing petition for a pardon. The
last man pardoned in Douglass county
is in Jail again.
The market price of corn in No rton
county is 12 to Is cents a bushel.
That's what it was in 1873, when peo-
pie used it for fuel.
1t is said the city prison at Atchison
needs charging. Now, if Atchison
only had saloons there wouldn't be
need of any city prison.
"A handsome young woman cashier
is to be a new feature of La Crosse
store but whether for utility or adver-
tisement deponent saith not.
Some one in Atchison has it in for
kin. He says kin are like flies, the
better the food on the table is the
more of them swarm around it.
It is given out that the men are go
ing to manage a church social at Atch-
ison. which leads to the query: Who
will be left to spend the money at it?
1t is said that J. r. Burton's first
name is Joseph. This is probably a
mistake. Mr.. Burton may be great
many other things but he is no Joseph.
Carnivals are becoming as common
as corn in a Kansas crib. But the
onion carnival-that is a new kind but
. good one and Hiawatha is going to
have one.
Two old friends in Atchison have
quarreled because one of them failed
to respond to the others trump signal
IN game of whist. They belong to
the Rathburn private car set, too,
which makes it very embarra ssing for
others.
Hector Cowan, the K. U. preacher
coach who broke an engagement to
preach in order to see Missouri play |
foot ball, probably thought eternity
was a great way off and there was |
plenty Of time to save souls after the |
Thanksgiving game.
A Farmer living at Sunnydale. Will
liam McCracken, has decided to Cooper !!
college one hundred acres of of valua-
bic land. upon which is thirty acres of |
fruit trees and other valuable improve
mentS
The town of Bison, in Rush county.
W VIC t0uIOdu COMMISSIONS |
ers that the railroad does not furnish |
gain cars fast enough. Bison is in a
land that it was said raised nothing |
this year.
Potters clay has been found near
Dresden in Western Kansas. Atchison
matrons will now have to make the
proper explanation when they display
their "Dresden china at fashionable
functions.
A COTS man was led to the discovery
OF gold mine in Arizona BY dream.
He has not struck it yet, but he is so
sure of it that he has sold off all his
property in Kansas. and will put the
money in the ground.
Since the removal of the Western
Union clocks one may get all kinds of
time in the state house. At high noon
the Seth Thomas substitutes start off
together. it being the duty of a clerk
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