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

New corn BRINGS twenty cents In the
Gridley market
Blind Tom is working the smaller
Kansas towns
4Broom corn is selling at $50 q ton in
the Big Seventh district.
What a time the wind must have
with Mr.. Beard of Seneca.
The summer girls have left Yelling
ton and the town is very quiet
Coronado has suspended its weekly
prayer meeting until after the election.
What star feature Mr.. Allhand of
Girard would make at a corn husking.
Thomas Cross of Topeka is negotiat-
ing for the Burlington electric light
plant.
Bethany college at Lindsborg, has 3
larger attendance this year than ev.
er before.
John Dane. an enfeebled old rsSu
in the Lincoln county poor house, has
fallen heir to So, 900.
Frost took nip at the sweet pota
Goes in the Solomon Valley last week
Nothing else was hurt.
4Atchison girls are not allowed to g
to Topeka unless cash bond is put
up for their safe return.
In order to put stop to the one CT
hand the school board of Sumner coun
ty hired Miss Fuss as teacher.
The name of q Cawker City man.
moth er-in-law is Awe, and she is saio
to be very good mother-in-law too.
There are SO many hickory nuts in
jefferson county this year that the
people use them to kindle fires with.
One of the institutions of Hartford
is blind horse doctor who gets drunk
and spends half his time in the Gala.
boose.
It is said of South Leavenworth
young man that he hangs around his
girl like General Grant hung around
George Elmer is the name of q As
year-old bridegroom at Midway who
took TO his bosom a blushing bride OF
Ga last Saturday.
The first thing an Atchison type
writer does after she lands her steady
is to fix it so that her best friend will
succeed to her job.
The Burlington Fair association il
able to pay all awards and after pay
ing expenses to put away a sum fol
next seasons show.
Grace Snyder has been the rounds o:
the sorghum mills in Mitchell county
and testifies that the Early Amber va
riety is the most toothsome.
The fall fishing in the Neosho is bet
ter this season than ever before, anC
mud cats are marketed by the wagon
load on the streets of Burlington.
The Osawatomie curfew ordinances
applies to all under IS years of agee
and the result is that NO less than five
Christmas brides are afraid to 60 out
on the street after hours.
o. L. Reed has bought the plant OF
the old Belleville Democrat, which
quit three years ago, and will take il
to Almena, where he will revive the
Mr.. Hiram Hill of Americas cleaned
his well recently. There might be
remarkable in that. Yet il
was remarkable in that it had not
been cleaned in fourteen years. He
found a can of butter which must
have laid in the bottom of the well for
twelve years. Stranger still, that
butter twelve years ago. was SO strong
that it broke the rope which suspend
ed it in the we'll Now it is as sweet
and fresh as new butter from the Will
sey creamery.
James Nation of Elwood, whose 4.
year-old daughter DISAPPEARED SO mys-
teriously in July, has heard that she
has been found in Minneapolis with
the snake -charmer who stole her, and
has gone north with her.
The stiff, steady winds which sweep
over the short grass country have
caused boom in fire guard blowing.
Eternal vigilance is the price of .
ranch out there.
Monday night when the rain came
L. P. Smith, of Jewell county, got up
to put down a window. Just then q
bolt of lightning struck beehive in
the yard and knocked it endways. 1t
cut the hive squarely in two in the
middle and killed every bee in one
half. In the other the bees were un-
injured.
The unusual floods this year have
let the fish get up into the pools of the
Smoky. and the people are not con-