The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-08-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lawrence people are shocked be-
cause a University boy came back and
married the girl he went with while
student.
The corn crop up in Smith county
was saved again last week by an inch
of rain. If it can be saved just once
more that will settle it.
Nortonville claims to have a ''shop-
litter" and doesn't propose to have any
of the big towns turn up their noses
and call it rural town any more.
If some of the enterprising youths of
Fairview don't get stuck on Miss Tar
man this hot weather they are not the
kind of fellows we take them to be.
A Kansas City girl has ordered the
wedding trousseau from Chicago to
save herself the trouble of trying on
her gowns. Nobody bl t woman who
is very much in love will have dresses
fitted in August.
John L. Waller late consul to Mad
agascar, has a scheme to establish
college for colored people in Coffey
county. James II. Guy, A. NJ. Thorn
as and other colored men of Topeka are
interested in the enterprise.
The Lawrence World says there is
farmer living near Lawrence who
makes money by calling swimming
hole on his farm "natatorium. 1t is
constantly filed with boys and men
who pay for the privilege of swimming
there
Abilene had a carnival of pleasure
the other night which threw into in
sipidity Mardi Gras or the Priests of
Pallas- There was a dog fight, the
opening of a new Joint, church social
a band concert and a paper balloon
ascension.
Two Leavenworth men had fight
and were taken to police court In
examining the wounds of one of them
it was discovered that he had on his
wife's shirt waist. The examination
came to an abrupt conclusion and the
Judge assessed the fines.
The street commissioner at Law
renee is having hard time of it. The
city council passed rule that no sub
stitutes would be allowed. That rule
aade the people mad and the street
commissioner is forced to pick the poll
tax out them at about a penny a pick.
c. II. Kellogg, a farmer in Russell
county, has an artesian well on his
farm and a two acre reservoir, two
thirds of which is covered with sea-
wood. He accounts for the presence
of the sea-weed by saying the land
was formerly an ocean bed and the
germs of sea-weed are still in the
soil.
The trustees of the Hesper academy
at Lawrence have secured the SER
vices of DR.. Henry H. Townsend, of
Carroll, la. to head their faculty. Dr.
Townsend is one Of the coming edu-
Gators of this country. He is a grad
uate of Earlham college, Richmond,
Indiana.
Men are so scarce or SO popular in
Atchison that a mother had to ask
the police to corral her son, whom the
girls had kept up SO late nights to
take them to parties and got him out
so early in the morning TO go bicycling
that he had found it not worth while
to go home at all.
A. J. Myers of Harper county was
painfully toiling along behind his
summer fallow pillow the other day
when a messenger handed him a tele-
gram from Secretary of the Navy Her
Der advising him of his appointment
as bookkeeper at Mare Island navy
yard, Cal. Mr.. Myers had taken the
civil service examination months ago.
A couple to be married in the Ell
fingham neighborhood on Wednesday
will attend the camp meeting at Atch-
ison as their honeymoon trip.
A young man should never marry a
girl older than himself because her
youthful bloom is bound to fade while
he is yet in his prime and he is almost
certain then to 60 browsing around
after another pair of boomers But
this didn't seem to ecter into the cal
culations of Edward Tracy of Phillips
county, aged IS, who took to his bo-
som Miss Phoebe Dom, aged 63, the
other day.
That historic old city, Lecomption,
is figuring in the courts. A portion of
the sidewalks there had become
worthless and the city contracted
to have the old wornout walks torn
out and replaced with vitri6ed brick.
Then comes along a street corner pa
triot and sues the city, the mayor. the
clerk, street commissioner and every