The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-09-10
Miss Bigfoot lives at Abilene. His-
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Potato famines are not uncommon
In Kansas towns At this time of year.
ALyons county man paid ten dol
lars to the state school fund for shoot
ing q Chase county fish.
] Grant Shaw calls old maids ''spare
ribs" Grant ought to be ashamed OF
himself. Wait until he sees ''us."
The Misses Holler of Topeka, are
theatrical people, but they are not. as
might be supposed, members OF an
operate company.
Harry Toney, who was ''called' by
the Lord to preach the gospel, is so
! journing in the Beloit Jail. He stole a
campmeeting outfit at Delphos.
The preacher who takes the hide of
and lays bare the very soul in Usage
county is the Rev. C. /. Gall, and he is
stationed at the village of Red Pepper.
A ladies' furnisher in Washington
is advertising ''corsets at so cents a
yard" From this we would Judge
they have some big girls over on the
| Little Blue.
1t is said that men are so cheap in
Atchison that it is likely that Eve
| tempted Adam with Ben Dawes ap-
! pie instead of Bellefower, as is pop
ularly supposed.
Some new kind of person is al
| ways bObbing up at Atchison. The
latest is woman who had her name
;; and address carved on the plate of her
new false teeth.
The Western Editorial Federation
will hold its meeting at Denver, Sep
TENDER IA to II. Quite a number of
the Kansas boys will be there, and
they will get in the push.
A Holton girl was recently married.
She graduated the same evening and
wore the same dress for both occasions.
The modern girl does not worry after
marriage. She does that before.
An Atchison man sits on his front
porch clothed only in a night shirt
claiming that the neighbor women
might as we'll get used to seeing him
in a night shirt for he will wear moth
ing else when he gets Up Yonder
Mr.. Rodenburg, Leavenworth
county apple grower, has picked l., 900
barrels this year, and,expects to pick
$4,000 more. He will ship his apples
to western markets-Denver and He
lena.
Wellington has ''Silent Ten club
composed of engaged couples, who sit
around, hold each others hands, look
spoony and never say word. But
you bet your life they have more fun
than most debating societies.
Ed Anderson, Halifax man, took
short cut between two freight cars the
other day, and left his heel stickin
between the bumpers. 1t is all RICH
to climb nnder, over or between cars if
one is willing to shed blood for it.
The Bachelors, of Atchison, has
outlived all other social Organizatio ms
and has just leased the quarters occu-
pied by its last rival in the club line.
And the fact that the Bachelors club
is such powerful institution leads
naturally and easily up to the question
''what's the matter with the Atchison
girls?
In another column we run this week
the cards of the leading merchants of
Wichita, who invite you to call and
see them while attending the Great
Kansas State Fair. The Fair promises
to be tAe best ever held so far, rich in
attractions of all kinds to suit everv
class, but these merchants can show
you goods at prices equally attractive.
Call and see them.
Ft Scott springs to the front with
the story of a 3O-foot snake which was
seen in that city the other day. About
a month ago Eft. Scott gave out story
concerning cottonwood tree there
which grew sixty-eight inches in six
days. All of which leads us to believe
that the quality of tamarack dispensed
in the Fort Scott joints is something
perfectly awful.
A Lawrence man came out in a card
in the World, in which he kicks against
tn progress of science. What seems to
have particularly stirred up his ire is
the fact that recently, by means of a
cathode rays. cat which was suppos-
ed to be dead. was restored to life. and
he fears that the same thing will be
done with the human race; that the
dead will be restored to life. and that
death will become thing of the past.
His kick is made on the grounds that