The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-10-18
Scott VIII Trade Flour For
Your Wheat.

The Odd Fellows gave a banquet at
the hall Tuesday night The music
was furnished by the GoOdland Mill
tary band.
Gilkirk, half sister to Billy Walkers
greyhound, Sorrento, won the Waterloo
cup at Huron, S. D., last week. This
leads Billy to think that his chances TO
win the Altcar mug with Sorrento is
nothing less than cinch.
1t is reported upon pretty good au-
thOrity that the coming election will
decide whether or not some of the Re
publican candidates will continue to
reside in Sherman county. If that is
all they are waiting for the packing
might just as we'll commence.
There is no question but what the
hog is the most profitable animal that
can be reared upon a western Kansas
farm. They can be kept in pens the
year around, and are not subject to
cholera or other diseases common To
swine in the eastern attitudes.
Now that the fall work on the farm is
nearly completed, the agricultural
OOls should be gathered up and clean,
ed and stored away for next year. I'm.
less the weather prophets are mistaken
there will be lots of need for them in
1896, and it will pay to have them in
frstclass condition.
The Union Pacific and Central Paei
tic railroads owe to the governments
vast debts which they can never pay
and the only sensible way out is fol
the government to fOreclose and oper
ate the roads. The roads are operated
indirectly by the government through
the courts, and there is no question bat
! better service could be secured by
direct government operation.
On the Hannibal and st. Joseph rail
road, in Missouri, the other day, two
women we're travelling with babies very
much alike. They put them together
and the babies got mixed so the mother
could not tell them apart. There is nc
telling what they would have done had
not science come to their aid. They
produced a pack of cards and played
seven up for choice, and we're satisfied
! W. c. Meyer, the live salesman fol
Stark Bros. Nurseries and Orchards
company, was IN town and vicinity this
week taking orders and creating an in
! terest in tree planting. Mr.. Meyer car
tell you some good pointers on kind;
and varieties adapted for our climate
Young bearing sorts a speciality, which
begin at four years old. cherry, plum
nd pru ne at 3 years.
The depositors Of the broken bank
of Severance Kan probably realized
the beauties Of Republican partisan
ship the other day, when only SO wa:
/ found to pay off deposits amounting t.
sl2,G00. Last winter during the session
of the legislature Bank COMMISSIONS
Briedenthal sought to have a bill in
| trOduced and passed that would pro
tect depositors in just such cases, but
as the bill sprung from a POpulis
source it was killed, although it wa.
admitted that it was of high merit anS
would have corrected the abuses nov
put upon the depOsitors by defaUltin.
banks.
Judge Dexter is correct when ne say
/ that great cities, great manufactures
great railroads, great material achieve
ments Of any kind dc not make IA
ton truly great. It is the character o
the men and women which it develop
that determines it, greatness or weak
ness. 1t IS in the true home that ia
family viii thrive the best, that worth
ambitions are stirred the strongest
+ that morality finds its sHrest welcome
/ temperance its purest development
Make the great republic nation @
+ home owners and ITS future destinis
, I viii be safe in their hands