The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-10-08

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''seige" of grasshoppers.
There will be forty barrels Of Ice
water at the Topeka reunion.
The Mitchell county farmers are i'm
/ porting seed wheat at 81 . bushel
Prof. Charles Swim of Highland got
| into it deep enough to have his salary
raised.
1t will take 1000 bushels of wheat
to seed the big Chalfant ranch in Paw
nee county this fall
Frank Burleson, 40 years old. very
| popular man of Pawnee county, died
of dropsy of the heart last week
A Butler county women broke her
husband from drinking BY getting full
every time he did. Once was enough.
John and George Merillat, brothers,
last week married at Detroit, Dickin-
son county. Lucy and Fannie Lamb,
sisters.
George Higgins of the secretary Of
states Office possesses a gun and dog,
and keeps three families supplied with
game.
A Burlington girl went into drug
store and asked clerk to weigh her
with nothing on but her hat He
says he didn't do it.
When the bottle of champagne was
broken over the ship model at Topeka,
it nearly drove some of the high roll
crs to strong drink.
The farmers of jefferson county
have 100000 deposited in the local
banks and are something of a money
power themselves.
Some farmers of the short grass
region will import their seed wheat
this season. They think the native
seed has run out"
Anyone who has read Edwin Arnold's
Light of Asia" will be struck with
the name of one of Wellington's brides
last week, which was Wirrir Suddarth.
The Salvation army has established
a recruiting station at Fairview, in
Brown county. 1t is a small town, but
the boys are tough and need CONVEX
sion.
At the Atchison corn carnival every
body kissed a girl who had a red ear
of corn. One girl was kissed 1,576
times one day, with a few to carry in
the evening.
The farmers of Pawnee county have
begun to SOW their fall wheat. They
are little late Oh account of the
grasshoppers, which are still numer-
Gus. The acreage will be small this
fall
Captain j. r. Basiger of Garfield,
Pawnee county, raises potatoes by ir-
rigation successfully. That is black
eye for Colorado, which is now furnish
ing Western Kansas with most of the
potatoes consumed.
The Bi-Metallic Union of Arkansas
City are to indulge in a two-days bar
becue in that city, Occober 20 and 21st.
Among the prominent speakers to be
present are ''Coin" Harvey, Senator
Teller and Eugene V. Debs. A grand
time is expected.
The Hiawatha Fair association will
assess the directors to make good the
losses By this seasons fair. The re-
ceipts were enough to pay labor bills,
but the treasurer lacks 1854 of enough
to pay other expenses and the prem
iums awarded.
Joe Craney of Downs, stole Joe Nc
Chesney's bed at Atchison, corn carni-
val night. jug had given half the bed
to a friend, there being no other chance
in town. He stayed up to ''hear the
boosters crow" but his friend went to
bed early. AS the latter was ascend
ing the stairway Craney, who was shy
a bed, said: ''Ill go with you and
sleep on the floor; it's better than
walking the streets" OF course he
occupied Jugs half of the bed, and
when the latter came in, after the
chandeliers crow, his two friends
were sleeping SO innocently that, good
man as he is, he turned noiselessly
away and made a bed on the parlor
floor.
The Kansas State Fair at Wichita
last week was the most successful ever
held in the state. Too much credit
cannot be given to the efficient secre-
tarv and the other gentlemen who
had the Fair in charge. The attract
ions were never SO good before and
everything moved along with that
smoothness and despatch, which new
er occurs except in well managed af-
fairs. The exhibits were large and
better than ever. The speed program
was the best, and every race brought