The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-07-23


mercantile firm.
Mr.. Sicklebag lives in Marion county,
and It is great wheat county, too.
Thomas ]. Anderson is running Z
steam thresher down in Allen county.
Troy is to have q roof garden, and
the pitch game will be suspended un-
til cooler weather.
Rev. Reborn is converting great
droves of sinners down in the cattle
region in Sumner county.
A small Kansas town burned up 3d..
GOO feet of natural gass in her unique
Fourth of July celebration.
The members of the Pickwick club
of Troy have given an order to John
Wanamaker for crash towel suits
Rev. Scripter of Solomon City may
be imbued with the spirit of the Lord,
but he don't seem to know how to spell
Mr.. Silver. who recently graduated
from Washburn, has been engaged as
q teacher in the academy at Stockton.
| Speaking of the remarkable wet
season in Southern Kansas we observe
that John Rain. of Cowley county. has
sued his wife for divorce.
Cecil Spooner, the favorite of the
Crawford circuit, is dancing in a New
York variety this summer. She will
! star Kansas again this season.
"A Lacrosse farmer was congratulate
ed on his immense hay crop. He re-
piled: Eyes, but there amt a DANCED
thing to feed it to but bicycles"
The Topeka Woodmen have William
]. Bryan booked for an address soon.
The engagement, however, was made
before he was nominated for president.
The city marshal of a southern Kan.
sas town Destroyed 375 bottles of good
beer the other day by pouring it into
a gutter down by the Katy stock yards
and 375 good citizens and true stood
by and watched the proceedings with
q crackle in their threats.
The 17-year-old son of John Swan.
son, near Waterville, has left home
and cannot be found. Before leaving
he wrote with a lead pencil on the
barn door that a stranger with re-
volver had compelled him to hitch up
his pony and drive away.
An Ottowa county man took three
drinks of Fourth of July whiskey anc
then went around the picnic ground:
declaring that he had been invited by
Queen Victoria to deliver Fourth OF
of July grafton at Westminster Abbey
according to Marquis of Queensberry
Rnles.
Stockton has a Methodist minister
who can shoot rife SO well that he
hits objects thrown in the air.. Judge
Ham threw up his nice So straw hat
the other day with the remark that he
didn't believe the preacher lived who
could hit flock of barns with shot
gun. much less rifle. and the preach
er promptly tore the crown off with
his first fire.
A Southern Kansas paper was re-
Gently called down for spelling it
''jigger." The Standard dictionary
gives seven ways of spelling the word.
as follows: Chigoe, chegoe, chigger,
chigo, chigre. chigua and jigger. 1t
prefers chigoe. or jigger, but we are
convinced that the little devil with
hot heals can burn just as cruelty I'M
der one spelling as another.
The people of Atchison are talking
up a scheme to give a royal welcome
to every visitor to that city. They say
when distinguished stranger visits
the city, the mayor and all the city
officials meet him at the depot and
have regular celebration, with fire.
works, etc. and they have decided that
common people, arriving there
to visit friends. shall have a grand
welcome, too.
Those cyclone cellars are bound to
become the death of someone yet One
night last week Mr.. Dickey of Coffey
county took his family into his nice
new cyclone cellar in terror of a harm
less raincloud. BY and by the storm
passed over and the family returned
to the house. They had barely entered
when a jar and rumble warned them
that something had happened, and in
vestigation discov cred that the roof of
the cellar had fallen in, covering the
floor with tons of rock and dirt.
]. p. and Mrs johnson of Highland
have just returned from trip to Bos-
ton. The visit was made to attend a
reunion of the class of 1916, of Har-
vart: college, in which Mr.. johnson
was a graduate, The class as gradu-