The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-08-13

Even the members Of tho Salvation
Army are listless these n,ght&
| Galena is still able to produce more
lead ore than all Missouri
A Mcpherson county cow can clear
about q per month of the creamery.
| Seventy-five recruits were sworn in
to the ranks of the Salvation army at
Atchison Sunday night.
The johnson City Journal thinks
johnson City has an over-production
of politicians per capita.
The dog tax collector Is abroad in
Atchison and nailed forty of the best
citizens there in one fell swoop the
other day.
Kansas has $1,000 members of the
Grand Army of the Republic. One
hundred and fifty members have died
since January LIST.
A Leavenworth boy smuses himself
stealing horses he finds hitched on the
streets, riding them out on the prairies
and turning them loose.
Mr.. Booze is the name of a Jewell
county farmer who says he never took
q drink of anything stronger than al
berry wine in all his life.
! You have noticed how superior"
some girls are to their male relatives:
there is lovely creature in Atchison,
10 years old, who will not speak to her
own father, he is so common. II
A farmer over in Greenwood county
is preparing to build q roof over his
cornfield. He says if he hnsks his
corn he cannot get it back into the
same space and has concluded to let
it stand.
John jackson who deliberately MUIR
dered John Smith at Yale, Kans about
year ago, was caught last week at
! Warrior, Ala, and Sheriff Deets, of
Crawford county. left for that place to
get him.
A Chicago young man who is stop
ping at Kansas town is making him
self unpopular at his boarding house
by continually roasting Kansas. Kan
sas is also roasting him ct q temper
AZURE of 80.
If $4,000 people visit Topeka, Fall
Festival week, they will spend no less
than S. apiece or $3.50, 900. This is put
ting the festival in a sordid light, but
that is one way in which it must be
looked at.
A cultivated sunhower in north
Atchson bore such immense blossoms
that one recently dropped onto the
roof of a wood shed near by and its
weight was such that it crushed the
roof in.
The editor of the Atchison Globe
has discovered that Lydia Pinkhan.
of Vegetable Compound fame, is
man. As Lydia has been dead some
years, this discovery is startling and
important
Governor Morrill, is asked by q wo-
man in Kentucky to pardon her hus-
band out of the penitentiary, with the
following strange prayer: "Now, dear
governor, please let my husband come
home to his wife and children. We
need him. He has one little child 4
years old and another years old, and
he has never seen either of them"
The second crop of alfalfa in the vi
cinity of Oberlin is coming on finely.
One field of fifty-five acres near town
has alfalfa measuring fifty-one inches
in height The owner estimates that
he will secure not less than one thou,
rand bushels of seed from 1t, and as
the average price of seed is IS per bu
shell, the farmer will DO sure of fair
wages for his seasons work.
The federal detectives arrested Henry
Wells, a young attorney of Girard, and
Tom Hobson, also of the same place,
charged with using the mails to de-
fraud. They were charged with having
been connected with q big swindle, and
with having necessarily used the mails
to accomplish it in different towns IN
Missouri and Kansas and the Indian
territory.
The members of the Anan,as club in
q certain Kansas town are becoming
noted for their prevaricating qualities.
They also have rather loud voices.
Some of them seem to have become
conscious-stricken as the following
conversation, which was heard while
passing their club rooms, will show:
''Say. Blank, said one OF the most pro-
minent members, do you suppose that
St Peter will let us into heaven when
he learns what sort of fellows we are?'
Needn't let that WORRY You this wear,