Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-11-25
VOL. XVI
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell:
lERS IN THE SUNFlOWER.
The Weeks Review of Personal and Gen.
eral News Condensed to Paragraphs.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dodge Clty Is 10 nave chrySanthe-
mum show.
A. NJ. Harvey the lieutenant-gov-
ernor elect, is to be married next
month.
One of the state house clerks is so
pretty that his friends are in constant
fear that he will be stolen.
The latest eastern papers to roast
Kansas arc the New York Mail and
Express and the Boston Herald.
The editor of the FL Dorado Republi.
can announces that the breed of Ches-
ter white pigs is increasing in Butler
county.
The prettiest election table publish
ed in Kansas up TO date is that of Har-
per county, published in the Anthony
Bulletin.
The day after the official count in
Cowley, county, cloud of crows fif-
teen miles long and three wide few
over Arkansas City.
The Arkansas City foot ball club
downed the Wellington eleven and the
relation between those two cities are
considerably strained.
A Topeka man is living on short ra-
tions to try to save money enough to
buy presents for several of his friends
who will be married soon.
The man who had charge of the Pal
mer and Buckner boom at Chetopa
failed to register at the polls and all
the papers are guying him
The new bridge at Nickerson has
been opened to the public and is now
in use The bridge was rebuilt by or
der of the county commissioners.
The present enrolment of the Tope-
ka city schools is now over 5,70O. This
is said to be the largest enrolment for
this time of year in the history of the
Topeka schools.
One Kansas boy in Chicago who is
making success of it is George Ade.
He writes 'Stories of the Street and of
the Town" in the Chicago Record.
They appear daily.
Burglars broke into n drug and jew
elry store the other night and got
away with $500 in cash and about one
thousand dollars worth of jewellery
and valuable papers at Florence.
The best thing that has been said
was that remark of the Salina Repub-
lican's that the Republicans were so
overwhelmingly beaten in Kansas that
they couldn't pick out any one to
blame.
Probably the most marvellous thing
on Kansas at present is the way the
Republican papers in the state are lin
ing up for their party. Can the sub
tie influence of the postoffice bring
unanimity?
A man who wants to be labor COM
missioner opens his campaign by send
ing his photograph to Breidenthai. He
is too pretty for labor commissioner.
He would fit better as the militia ma
jor general.
The death of young Serf, who was
killed in football game at Lawrence
Saturday will do more to stop the
favorite college sport than all the re-
strictions and rules yet put forth by
the college faculties.
Malinda Clark was elected county
90
by plurality of 2,711. 1t would be
interesting to know what Mary Hiatt
and Bridget Groves, who were her COM
petitors. think of her.
The Topeka district conference of the
NJ. Z. church will be held in the Kan
sas Avenue NJ. Z church in North To-
peka, beginning Monday evening, De-
cember 81, and closing Wednesday af-
ternoon. December %.
Up at Newton the girls generally
celebrated the election of Mckinley on
the principle that times would have
been so hard had Bryan been elected
that their chances for marriage would
have been greatly reduced.
Great Bend is a great dog town.
This may result from the greyhound
contests yearly held there. One Great
Bend man recently said to another
kansas has gone to the dogs" "Span
iel or Newfoundland" rapidly asked
the other.
The foot ball game between the Leav'
enworth and Atchison High schools
which had been arranged for next Sat
urday, has been declared off because
of the objection of the parents of the
players in view of the death of young
Serf as result of the game at Law
rercc last Saturday. The Atchisor
high school team will play no more.
Several of the Topeka women who
gave reports at the suffrage conven
tion said that owing to the care of theil
homes, and of taking care of babies
their reports were not as full as they
would have desired to give. Thes,
were model suffragists.
II know" remarked the Kansal
voter in confusion. ''Of course you put
the X in that little square. But where
Is the Ray hear SO much about?r
There are eight candidates for post
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