The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-07-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Sons of the Revolution have ,
lodge At Topeka.
Twenty convicts at the state peni
Tertiary were pardoned last week.
''Drop the handkerchief is still ,
fsvorite thing in Atchison society.
A Topeka woman whose pet ca
died ON Tuesday, donned mourning
"Wednesday.
The jail at Hugoton is used as Z
boarding house for teachers attending
the county institute.
A Cimarron girl says she consider
the manageable age anywhere be
tween seminary and cemetery.
Mr.. Raney, since taking up the Fort
Scott Monitor has fallen into the habit
of writing column editorials.
An Abilene boy found ten dollars OK
tho side walk and followed up the man
who dropped it and gave it back to him.
Lane county has population of
1000 souls and yet there is neither a
negro nor man by the name of Smith
within her boundaries.
Lawrence calls her latest musical or
ganization the "Maurine band" pro-
badly as q very much delayed testi-
monial to Dolly Graebers feet.
The White Cloud Globe complains
that they arc getting SO ''hifalutin'
over At Horton that instead of calling
. ball ball, they call it sphere.
J. Il. Jeffries of Fort Scott has just
received notification that he has been
allowed pension of SIG per month.
and that he will receive 81, 9so 80 back
pension.
At the Garden City Fourth of July
celebration the prize for the hungriest
looking man in the procession went to
to E. NJ. Hatcher, cashier of the West
ern Kansas bank.
An interesting Kansas exchange
rises to the question of personal priv
tlege and wants to know whether a
man who is all full half the time is
better than Q man who is half full all
the time.
Mrs. William Newly, of Atchison,
left home about 100 last Monday
morning and has not been seen since
As she was mentally unbalanced Mr..
Newly fears she has jumped into the
Missouri.
Miss Ethel Ellinwood, very tiny
girl took the prize at Garden City on
the Fourth, for being the smallest BIZ
ker. She rode a mans wheel and kept
the machine going by touching the
pedals when they came up.
Albert Horton, Son of Judge A. H.
Horton Of Topeka, is in Colorado for
the benefit of his health, but it is re-
ported that he is worse. He is one of
the Topeka boys who fell sick at Law
renee university last winter.
Mrs. L. A. B. Steele, wife of Judge
L. s. Steele, died at her home in Law
renee Wednesday. She has been an
invalid for number of years. Mrs.
Steele was a literary woman of some
note, having written several books.
William Crutchfeld has brought
suit in the district court asking for a
receiver for the Lawrence planning
mill, operated by ]. n. Mcfarland.
The mill is an extensive one and has
been in successful operation for num-
Der of years.
Colonel Eden Rarker, aged so, of
Jewell City died recently. He was
one of the early settlers of Jewell
county, assisting in its organization
in 1870. He was elected state senator
In 1872 and sergeant-at-arms of the
senate in 1876.
john Moshisky of Ma-ysville sold
$500 worth of cherries off of a four
acre patch.
One Of the buxom widows of Manka-
to got SO tired of doing withouta man
that she maj ried blind one the other
day. and the people say that if the
couple have nothing else to remember
the occasion by they will never forget
the awful ''shireree" which the bows
gave them.
Either the people of Scranton do not
regard a breach of the prohibition law
as very serious offense or else thew
are chivalrously lenient with the fair
sex Mrs. OMeara was found guilty
of running a joint down there the 9th.
cr day and the justice let her off with
q fine of only ten dollars.
Semaha county has just voted down
the proposition to issue $40. 900 in
bonds to replace the court house de-
stroyed by the recent cyclone. The
citizens of Seneca built the house
which was DESTROYED and the county