The Globe-republican., 1895-08-22

1 04co SAcuuAcu. why uOt:
A Barton county man not only lost
his crops by the food in the Arkansas,
but also three acres of land.
Jesse Mays, of Lawrence, dropped
dead on the street while laughing at a
funny story told by George Dodson.
A Junction City man advertises, 81
have wife and four children to sup
port, and will work at anything"
The Methodist of Lakin have reached
their first trouble. They are consid-
ering proposition to build a church.
The old style girl who used to make
''charm strings of buttons collected
from her friends is asked for at Cav
ker City.
| There are unsupported advantages
in the big corn crop. The ''oldest in
habitant" at Garrett can't remember
to beat it.
| There is a man at Baxter Springs
who is such poor manager that if he
run lumber yard he couldn't get his
| board out OF 1t.
Burlington people believe in the the
DRY of isolating evils, and have raised
S15O to put band stand in the middle
of the City park.
The recent heavy rains have caused
a serious break in the irrigation canal
in Kearney county, which will cost
$1,000 to repair.
All flesh is not grass or a Leroy
man who ships eight or ten carloads
of hay each week might be the pro-
prietor of a packing house.
Every town in Smith county report
ed one or more babies born last week,
which only goes to show that some
crops don't have to have rain.
In all the combinations that have
been thought of for 1896, George E.
Cole has been listed for auditor of
state. Even the Pops like him.
The editor of the Gridley Herald
has gone to teaching school. It is a
whole lot easier to teach children than
than to educate the masses"
A man on the Smoky river took ad-
vantage of the recent high water and
advertised sixteen hundred acres of
land for sale with running water.
The semi-annual division of the &C.
cumulated interest on the annual
school fund has been completed.
Cowley county will receive s4,76O.sO.
A pig was born in Barton county
with two tails, four ears and eight legs
but as it had only one nose to root out
living the terrible responsibility
killed it.
A Chicago girl who is up in all the
latest fashions is visiting in Muscotah
and the women and girls are so anx-
ious to get glimpse of her they let
the bread burn.
Whooping cough is epidemic at ODER
lin but it wasn't discovered before a
great many young men had been de-
ceived into believing the girls were
flirting with them.
The young women of Baldwin are
going to edit the Ledger next week.
The paper will come out at the usual
time if the adding of postscripts doesn't
take too much time.
The farmers in the western counties
keep "a cuttin' and a tryin"' on the
matter of crops with zeal worthy of
success. They will succeed, too. Such
energy, enterprise and grit always
win.
The prisoners in the United States
penitentiary at Leavenworth are be-
ing worked on the fort road. The
principal defect in the road seems to be
that it is too narrow when coming out
from town.
The monument being erected over
the remains of Geo. A. Eddy, at Leav-
enworth, is of dark granite and weighs
over eight tons. He was brother of
E. D. Eddy, leading druggist of Cow
ley county.
The fact that Reno county has set
ting gobbler would have less suggest
iveness in it were it not that the lady
who owns him is president of the
Equal Suffrage club. Oh, the new
woman is a-comin'.
The average value of an irrigated
acre in the arid region of the United
States is $50. II. v. Hinckley, a scien-
fist of Topeka, says million acres
may be successfully and profitably ir-
rigated in Western Kansas alone.
The annual Bible school of the Kan
sas Gospel union began it's sessions at
Bismark Grove, Lawrence, Tuesday.
There are number in attendance from
different parts of the state. Promi-
nent teachers are: Rev. T. C. Horton,
ST. Paul, Mimi; A. E. Bishop and
George S. Fisher of Kansas City, and
others. The school will last till Au-
gust %.
At one o'clock Friday morning the
big seven-story distillery at Leaven-
worth caught fire and within an hours