The Globe-republican., 1896-02-20

Last Saturday there were three per.
sons convicted o. ncnslcughter in this
state.
All county warrants outstanding
! against Harvey county are now paid
on presentation.
The farmers of Wichita county have
| wheat to sell. and it brings fifty-eight
cents a bushel.
Marshal county poultry raisers sold
eggs and chickens to the amount of
$4,000 last year.
NJ ID. Proctor of Chetopa recently
sold his pacing mare '.WGnnita" to q
Sedalia man for 81 500.
The Ottawa school board has Just
closed contract for new $4,000
school building. The strength of Kan
sas lies in her school houses.
Tim Mccarthy entertained his ''gen-
tlemen friends at whist and boned
what sort of = hen does Timothy pro-
pose to set?
Lille Pritchctt, young colored
girl. is the Pleasanton Obser vers
Spring Valley correspondent, and her
copy" spelling, punctuation and
grammar are all right
Marriage in a number of cases does
not seem to have been a success in
Labette county. There are twenty
one cases for divorce on the docket for
the next term of court.
An Atchison girl gads aboat .'visit-
ing at Leavenworth. Topeka and 9TH
err places near by so much that Jerry
Black and Charley Styles give her re-
duccd rates on the trains.
Abe Stauffer. in addition to run
ming the Liberal News. speculates a
little on the side. and also is in part
nership with mascot in the cattle
business over in NO-Man's Land.
The artesian wells on J. c. Mart's
farm in Meade county are flowing
abundantiy. One of the expectatio rs
of the state irrigat ton board is to find
this water n ad iacent counties.
The hen is doing her share of the
worlds work in Wichita county. 4
single dealer shipped $50 eggs last
week. from one of the smallest towns
in the eastern part of the county.
c. c. Ross. who was given ten
years sentence to the penitentiary
from Cowley county in 1891, for rob
berry. applied for pardon at the JAN
nary meeting OF the board, and was
refused.
The Household Communion Mctho-
dists'' are having Il great run Of luck
among the negroes OF Leavenworth.
They believe in weekly baths, and the
white folks are giving them all the
encouragement possible.
prominent citizen of Lawrence.
Harry Butland. secretary of |. O. o. +.
there, died of a complaint so peculiar
that a post norton was held and the
discovery was made that a copper cent
in his stoEa ch had poisoned him to
death.
Mr.. and Mrs Critchfield settled in
Mitchell county more than twenty
years ago with only forty cents in
cash. While the husband has been
industrious with his crops and stock.
the wife has been raising chickens
and cows. the product from which has
amounted to over $1,000, which she
has saved for a rainy day.
Three months ago Edward Davis of
Wichit; county advertised for wife.
Alice Meyers of Dickinson county saw
in the advertisement the opportunity
of her life. and she nailed it to the
the cross. She opened correspond
cnce, photographs were exchanged,
:. bargain struck and last week they
met face to face for the first time,
when they were married.
A Hutlcr county school teacher
named Art Peffiey. has a bright school
of willing hands as well as earnest
hearts. The teacher and boys have
Laid nice stone walk from the school
house 20 the road. Now they are en-
gagged in cutting the high grown hedge
into fence posts and wood which are to
be sold and the proceeds to be applied
to the purchase of books for the dis
trict library.
Mrs. Eosebcrry of Linn county.
widow of Captain Thomas II. Rosebel-
~. was in Washington recently and
obtained permission from the War de-
partment to be buried beside her hus-
band in the national cemetery at Fort
Scott when she dies. Mrs. Roseberry
is s, wears old. Her father. Colonel
Reese Hill. served under General Har-
rison in the war of lS1::, and her hus-
band in Missouri infantry regiment.
When the ''social" season opened in
Marion Ed Hoch sprung a scheme to
invite the children. and it carried.
The expectation was that the young
people would acquire a stock of man.
ners from their elders. but the expert
ment has been 4 sore disappointment.
Mr.. Hoch says at one house they
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