The Globe-republican., 1896-10-22
The vermilion Owl has quit hooting

u. L. CpO0SIon "a 4OpS0ss - $500
ing horse races in Texas
Nearly all the babies born in Topeka
this year have been boys.
Every other man you meet ut Alton
is either doctor or professor.
The barber of Thayer works in .
blacksmith shop five days in tho week.
Lawrence is the old fashioned town
which hangs to the roller skating rink.
An uncle of Ex-Governor Leweiling
is running a blacksmith shop in To-
pe.a-
Wellington is to have a creamery.
Give Wellington time and it will get
there.
Four genuine irrigation plants were
in operation at Great Bend during the
meeting of the irrigation congress.
1t is estimated that 10000 head of
cattle will be fattened in Jewell county
this winter. Jewell led in corn this
year.
! One hundred and fifty men are en-
ployed on the new bridge across the
Raw at Topeka, and the job will last
a year.
| The Salvation Army at Topeka had
this sign out the other night: 'Notc
| for Jesus. Grand rally tonight at
! 7:3O."
Webb McNall is all kinds of good
fellow. but he never fails to get on
the losing side, says the Hutchinson
News.
The Stafford Republican says anna:
teurs of that town will soon present
the play - Crown of Thorns, q Cross
of Gold"
The government could not get any
one to take charge of the post-office at
Calista, Kingman county, and it was
abolished.
The Rev. j. E. Brant of Fort Scott
climbed into fame after the manner of
man hosting himself by pulling his
own boot straps.
A Lacrosse lady booklkeeper was
kept from posting her books for two
weeks by a mouse who made its home
in her desk drawer.
Frank Taylor, the cornetist, who in.
troduced those Wagnerian band calls
to Marshall's band, has left Topeka
and gone to Kansas City.
A Topeka woman says she knows of
a half dozen Topeka couples who have
abandoned getting married this fall be-
cause of lack of funds
A little daughter of W. E. Bush, the
fusion candidate for secretary of state
was kicked by vicious horse last
week, breaking her jaw in two places.
In Atchison if a woman refuses three
invitations to parties she is sighted
when the fourth is given. A woman
has to be in it up to her neck or not at
all.
Col. Sam Radges, who attended the
Kansas City flower parade says that
the biggest float in the parade was that
of a Kansas City brewery. 1t was a
pyramid of bottled beer 40 feet high.
E. G. Pearson of Ellis, who took his
cornet and went to the Denver fall fes-
tival, won the first prize, a gold med
al At the last jack rabbit chase in
that county the same man got the
most scalps.
Over at Leavenworth, now that the
lieutenants are at Fort Riley, armed
guards are put on all electric cars to-
keep the Leavenworth girls from steal
ing the motorman. Anything in uni
form goes at LeavenwOrth.
The old soldiers of the Seventh Judi
cial district, comprising Wilson, Wood
son, Allen and Ncosha counties, held
reunion at Chanute last week. In adj
ditlon to many other interesting fea.
lures, there was a trades display also
Mrs Margaret Carleton of Atchison
will shortly come into possession of q
fortune of $4,000, left by her great !
great grandfather, who died in En-
gland in IsS2 She has a daughter
but smart enough to keep |
her head.
Humane Agent Grcenman, of Kan
sas City, is hunting for two runaway
girls. They are Lcota Loring and
Hannah Barker. both aged Il years. OF
and Shawnee counties. Two
young men from the same places are
also missing, and it is thought that af.
ter attending the carnival festivities at
Kansas City. they forgot their pleasant
and respective homes.
c. W. Higginbotham :;and a rare
coin On his far::a near Rossville few
days ago. 1t was silver cent piece.
coined in 1887. 1t bears on its face the
customary insignia of Liberty" sur.
rounded by ID stars, and on the re-
verse the American eacle and tho fol. |