The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-04-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Peanut sandwiches are nibbled with
coffee BY the swell set at Ellis.
The Lyons Republican intimates that
that irrigation is not always success
Emporia has joined Wichita and Sa-
ina in the race for the Masonic home.
Tom Potter has planted a slip of his
gubernational boom in Sumner county.
The Belle PLANE bank has resumed.
All dispositions under $25 were paid In
full.
The 'Ten Bbl Club" made it easy to
observe Lent in the orthodox town OF
Ellis.
Sol Tuttle of Caldwell, had dream
that he would look fine in the hall OF
representatives at Topeka.
Wellington is an old fashioned town
that turns out in numbers to calico
parties and spelling matches.
The registration of Abilene is 633, 9s
of which are women. In previous years
it has been as high as high as GASP.
There is no movement on among the
ex-pOstmasters of Kansas to chip in
and buy Harrison a wedding present.
The name of Newton drink is
''mule." 1t is made up of water and al
cohol, two parts of alcohol to one of
water.
Out in the Garden City district they
make a bigger fight for the state sena-
tor than the United States do for pres
dent.
In order to strengthen their editorials
all the southern Kansas editors are
now starting off their articles with
1--WE are not a candidate for Office"
The railroad ticket offices have got
more nickels and pennies this week for
tickets purchased than they have in
cling.
In a school district in Meade county,
Kansas, there is but one child, a boy
of school age. His teacher is his sister,
who is paid $50 month for teaching
the youngster.
Charles Moreau Harger of Abilene,
should be watched. Anthany Hope
Hawkins will soon publish a sequal
to the prisoner of Zenda" and Harger
may commit suicide.
Wild Bill lives at Lakin. The other
day the sheriff found him sleeping in a
room which a jury was using and or
H. L. u,
with a brick and is now in Jail.
The FL Dorado Republican says a
contemporary is as stupid as a piece of
fried liver. This is important. The
world will no longer grapple for the
intellectual status of fried liver.
Abilene Reflector: This last public
monument above-ground (thc gas wells
are under ground) to the late lamented
boom succumbed to the south wind to-
day and fell to earth. 1t was the flag
pole which used to support huge
banner over Second street telling of
the greatness, present and prospective.
of the Abilene Land Co. NJ. NJ. Shipe.
J. S. Kelly and c. G.. Hawk were the
trinity in charge of the company and
the sign, the pole and the circulars
sent out were about the only tangible
evidence of the concerns existence
when the end came The sign was
taken down and finally two years ago
the pole itself was removed to an open
space north of the Pacific track on
Broadway. Here it bore the signal
service flags until even that luxury
petered ont and since then it has been
a kind of a whited sepulcher to make
the Old-timer's feel bad. This morning
one guy-wire broke. and the wind did
mp into canes and same presented to
the ex-members of the board of trade.
for there won't be another pole like
that, nor another boom. Peace he to
the ashes of both.
At Hiawatha Saturday night about
O'Clock, two men. a tall and short
one, attacked Grocer Conser as he was
about to enter his yard through the
alley gate. They threw him down
and took from him Sis in money and
$3.50 in checks and notes. 1t is posi-
bic that the checks cannot be cashed
They did not attempt to search his
pockets or they might have found
some silver. The men are believed to
be persons who watched Mr.. Conser
count his money before leaving the
store.
A Norton bride has fairly dubbed
over with conceit since her marriage
not oyer a dozen months ago. When
the assessor called a few days ago she
got out all of the wedding presents.
showed him the expensive furniture up
stairs, told him the fabulous price
that her hubby had been offered for
his driving horse and in pricing the
piano doubled the original value of
$500. She felt certain that all she had
told the assessor under penalty of the
law would now become public and
would give her pride boost When
she told her husband what she had
done. however. the first family Jar