Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
WANTED-THE EARTH.
An Irresistible Mirth-PrOyOkIng Satire
On Social tendencies of the
Present OaY.

On Social tendencies of the
Present Day.
This is the striking title of one OF
the plays John Dillon will give at the
Crawford Grand on his appearance in
Wichita during the State Fair week
commencing Monday September 21st.
The play itself is a good one. The
curtain goes up on Jay d. Smiths farm
in New Jersey. AS the keeper of a
summer boarding house, MIR. Smith is
only moderate success; as soil agi-
tator he is dead failure and concludes
to sell the farm, remove to New York
and enter "sassiety." The sale of the
farm is made to great advantage. Mr..
Smith removes to the metropolis,
charges his name to Jason DeSmythe
and becomes a genuine dude. AS a
speculator the imam from Jersey" is a
bowling success, and rapidly acquires
a vast fortune, together with a fair
knowledge of French. His courtship
of the Widow Van Doodle is replete
with humor and demonstrates what
can be accomplished by a man of gen.
uine nerve. After being arrested as a
celebrated sharp, threatened with a
breach of promise suit, and meeting
with other minor mishaps, he finally
succeeds in securing the afternoon
morning glory" and is happy Through
out the entire play Mr.. Dillon keeps
the house in roar of laughter. 1t is
truly "a hot day when the flies roost
on Dillon's frame" During three
nights Mr.. Dillon's great success ga
Model Husband" will be given.
1t is said that when any of the peo-
pie leave Stanton county they are
dead sure to come back again, even if
they return in worse shape than they
left, which is often the case.
This is the time of year when the
good, old fashioned people carefully
save the seeds of good melons, dry
them on the window sill and then wrap
them up in paper and lay them on top
of the kitchen cupboard for the mice
to eat.
Ed Anderson, Halifax man, took a
short cut between two freight cars the
other day, and left his heel sticxin
between the bumpers. 1t is all RICH
to climb nnder, over or between cars if
one is willing to shed blood for it.
There was fine illustration of ad-
ding insult to injury at Abilene last
week. A burglar entered c. C. Mosh-
er's house and stole two pairs of pants
and some other knicknacks and then
in leaving took along the $50 mastiff
which Mr.. Mosher had purchased be-
cause-ho was such fine watch dog.
An odd election wager has been made
Mt Nortonville. Two business men do
ing business in the same building, but
being of different politics, have agreed
to vote the same ticket. To settle
which ticket this shall be they are to
run foot race on election morning.
1t is said both will go into training
and do his best to win vote.
Harvey county has the champ ion
mean man. His young son was es-
sorting his juvenile inamorata home
one night last week when the old mstn
bounced on him and carried him home
by the ear, leaving the girl to get
home the best way she could. When
that boy grows up he will be entirely
excusable if he wades into the old man
and lays him up for few months
Lieutenant Alge Berry, the Ellis.
worth county young man who is charg.
ed with ravishlng a 15-year-old farm.
er girl at a recent Ellsworth county
picnic, lad his preliminary examina.
ton Monday. The girl could not pos
itively identify Berry as her assailant
but other witnesses swore they saw
the two together and on this testimo
ny he was bound over to the district
court Berry had Just been assigned
to regiment of cavalry and was visit
ing his old home before reporting fol
duty.
The Kansas State Board of Agricul
ture has just issued its August Bulle
tin, and giving the probable yield O
corn before husking begins. The re
port is given on IS counties, and give.
the total of the yield of marketa bl,
corn 224, s45, 900 bushels, or II.6 ne
cent more than the total crop of 1895
The average number of bushels pe1
acre on the area planted in the IS coun
ties is 2s15. The quantity of old corr
on hand in March as found by assess
ors was 57,627, 421 bushels. In portion:
of the state fall blowing is being re
s=rded because of insufficient moisture
while in others it is being pushed, and
seeding to wheat and rye will be done
early.
A Lyons county man paid ten dol
lars to the state school fund for shoot
ing Chase county fish.
The Misses Holler of Topeka, are
theatrical people, but they are not, a.
might be supposed, members of an
operate company.
At Abilene where they give tho
children box of matches and send
them to the barn to play, a lot of prop
erty was destroyed.
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