The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-08-20

OQc year 0XO AAusASOOAS yOA6 WV
man had a needle enter her waist.
Recently it worked out of the arm OF
Young man. What will science say to
that?e
c. F. Biddle, who forsook the irsur-
ance business for a Comanche county
cattle ranch, last week sold thirty
head of 3-year-old steers for thirty-fve
dollars per head.
A man living in Rice county, by the
name of Hanna, has the only black
thorn tree in Kansas His sister
brought it from Ireland years ago
Mr.. Hanna has made cane from one
of the branches and will send it to Mr..
Bryan.
A most shocking accident is reported
from Butler county, where the Agar
old daughter of Merritt Whitfield had
both Of her legs cut off at the ankles
by a moving machine. She was
playing in the grass when her 13-year
old sister who WIS driving the ma
chine drove upon her.
Kansas has had FIVE Augusts within
the last twenty-eight years that were
hotter than the present month.
Abilene has taken an economical
streak and is trying to get along with
out electric lights. Ten thousand
dollars honestly expended would build
a plant. A town that has the best
water in the state ought to get its
legs and start after the other good
things.
An Atchison lady made her washer
woman a present of a shirt waist and
was surprised the next day to see the
woman's husband wearing it as he
marched in the Salvation Army parade.
The woman was busy washing to sup
port the family and hadn't time to
wear the waist.
Out in Stockton when they wish to
convey the knowledge that a man is
awful sick they say he is too sick to
attend the meetings of his secret socie-
ty. Frank Borin has been forbidden
to 60 out at night to his society for
three weeks and the people look upon
him as one already dead.
Ed Howe says that a woman whose
stocking doesn't wrinkle is good
housekeeper. That may be SO. Will
Ed now explain how in creation
young man in sear,h of good house
keeper is going to find out about that
wrinkle business. 1t strikes us that
pointer don't amount to much.
The 7-year-old daughter of Farmer
Axley of Clay county weighs exactly
200 pounds. At four years of age she
weighed 100 pounds. She is active
and healthy and bright in school, but
the fat continues to lay on with pro-
digious rapidity. Unles there is a
cessation in her growth pretty soon
Kansas will be boasting of the great
est giantess in the world.
Charles NJ. Smith of Osborne county
married his stepmother the other day.
At the first dash this sounds almost
horrible, when in fact the union was
not an extraordinary one at all.
Smiths father married a young woman
about the age of his son and then died.
leaving disconsolate young widow
in the same house with the son. They
grieved together, then loved and f.
nally married.
her son were driving along the public
highway when they came to bridge.
A couple of boards had been nailed
across each end of the structure be-
cause it was considered unsafe. but
the son tore the boards off and they
started across. When they got to the
middle of the bridge, high above the
water, the braces gave way. the span
creeled and bridge, travellers and al
went to the bottom of the river.
Secretary Coburn has received the
reports of the county clerks of Kansas
relating to the increase and decrease
of population during the past year.
Forty-five counties have gained g.
221; the smallest gain is 4 in Stevens,
and the largest 1921, in Cherokee.
Sixty counties lost &c, o65, the smallest
loss being /, in Phillips. and the
greatest, 1894, in Cowley. Shawnee
has the largest population of any
county in the state, 47,46l. Morton
county is the smallest, having . pop
ulation of only SEQ.
The date for the eleventh annual re-
union and encampment of the South
western Soldiers Association at Arkan-
sas City, is September Is, 16, Il and
is. The president, w. H. Pottle, and
the secretary, B. F. Childs. IRE put