The Globe-republican., 1896-04-02

A. r. Riddle has been appointed .
regent of the State Agricultural
School
A company has been organized to
dig an irrigation ditch in Pawnee
county.
The coal business is so dull at Leba-
non that dealers are giving 1850 to
the ton.
1t cost Mama county young man
S14 for swearing at Franklin county
woman.
Corn planting is in order at Elgin
and whist and foot ball have been
suspended.
A farmer in Sumner county lost six
ty large, fat hogs one day last week
from cholera.
The annual meeting of Democratic
editors will he he held at LeavenwOrth
April 14th.
Straw hats are ripe in Erie. A local
dealer is getting rid of his old stock by
a five-cent bargain counter.
Wild Jim. travelling artist, is just
now extracting quarters from the pock-
cts of Sumner county people without
pain.
John Longmate, an old citizen OF
Scranton was run over by heavily
loaded wagon and killed one day last
week.
The revival meetings which began
at Canton on New Years eve have just
closed and the total saved" numbers
ia.
J. d. Anderson of Harvey county,
recently died leaving life insurance
policy of $1,000 to be divided among
eight heirs.
The postmaster at Lawrence has
been ordered to reorganize his force
and dropsone man from the free de-
livery force.
Professor Dyche's advertising agent
that people contemplating
making a trip to the North Pole should
hear Professor Dyche.
Tom Beckner. a farmer in Sumner
county, subsoils with dynamite. A
chunk as big as ones thumb 10 osens
dozen feet square.
Thayer's oil sand is loaded. Six new
wells have just been finished and
another large steel tank is in course
of construction.
When Kentucky comes to southern
Kansas for it's horses. it would seem
to be Kansas business to go into fine
horse business steep.
Martin MOhler (may his tribe de-
crease) is trying to break out of Oh
liviOn by writing letters on alfalfa to
the Ka.,sas newspapers.
Grandma Hedges of Monet. who is
.6 years old, walked four miles on an
errand last Monday. rather than have
her team taken from the pillow.
Governor Morrill, has issued procla-
nation for Arbor Day, April Il, on
which day many people in Kansas will
celebrate by setting out trees.
John Cummings, one of the early
settlers in Wolf River township, DOni-
phan county, died on the eth inst, of
His age was "a years.
A young woman of Stockton, who
takes a flyer after sun
Down i'm male attire. writes pieces
for the paper on the evil of dancing.
A lot of the colored brethren at OF
tawa drank lot of hard cider and
then went to church. There they got
into row and broke up several
chairs, a number of heads and the
The principal business of the Tope-
"A land office just now is to receive
applications for fragmentary parcels
IF land formed by bends of streams.
A Riley county man picked up two
acres of land of this kind one day last
week.
Miss Lenburg, a blind evangelist. is
Ottawa. An Uncle Toms
cabin company broke into the town
asst week, but she is trained vocal
st. and gave q better show. and the
INVADERS left after one nights per-
fOrmance.
The town of Topeka is talking of
an auditorium in order to
latch the state conventions 1t should |
also replace its marble heart with |
that can feel the warmth |
If hospitality. Then let them ask for
Judge ]. D. Guthrie, one of Cowley
successful farmers, says that
zach days blowing should be harrow
ID before leaving the field. BY this
means. he says, all of the |
ain will soak into the ground and in
,early every case Insure a good wheat !
:rOp.
A committee appointed by the Com
nercial club at Coffeyville has rented
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