The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-07

| The Harper county fruit crop looks
like ringer
| Clafiin has been getting an oyer
supply of traEps.
| Wellington is happy. The leader Of
the brass band has come back.
Billy Edwards Kansas book will be
issued about the middle of July.
. The cruel county printing war is
still being waged in Barber county.
j. L. Bristow has bought a home in
Ottawa. Another evidence that he
has ''come to stay
1t is said that Editor Mcdonald il
already firing of his life in Paris snc
may return soon.
The old soldiers are planning for a
reunion at Malvern, in Usage county.
The date will be fixed in a few days.
An ordinance has been passed in
Lawrence, prohibiting the pasting OF
pictures of high kickers an the bill
boards.
The Atchison Globe says the ordin-
ary girl wears four pairs of stockings
in order to fill out her bicycle leg
gings.
A. A. Brown, of Olathe, has conch
shell that has been in the Brown fam
lily for 800 yeara 1t is perpetual
roarer'.
Preparations for the ''fall festivities
at Topeka are being pushed. Three
new social clubs were chartered
there last week.
NJ. J. Kirk has just published geo.
logical salt survey of the central and
western portions of Kansas for the
state university.
The first estimate for the Kansas
wheat crop, this year. is out and IS a
paralyzer The number of bushels is
placed at 100, OOO,O
1t is said that the time will come
when western Kansas will be as IA
nous for it's alfalfa as Kentucky is
! now for its blue grass.
The fruit destroying bugs are very
numerous in Kansas this year. Farm.
ers are spending more time in their
orchards than in their fields. The
wheat grows without watching.
The Kansas editors who got up toe
late in the morning the day the Santa
Fe railroad was sold, may now have a
| chance to buy the Northern Pacific
! under foreclosure mortgage of $la,.
SOC, OOO
A Wellington jointist was arrested
recently on state warrant and the
goods" seized. A constable was left
in charge while the jOintist went to
fix his bond. Some acquaintance
came along and ''entertained" the con-
stable in brilliant conversation, while
the entire ''plant" was stolen.
An Atchison mother has ordered
that her third and fourth daughters
shall wear their hair hanging down
their backs until the first and second
daughters are married. These girls
are now % and 20, and the neighbors
are beginning to protest against dres-
sing grown women like babies.
An Ottawa woman his discovered
that beer and bit of cheese off in a
side room always bring the men to her
parties. She first introduces stupid
high five, and the men play like man,
knowing what their reward will be.
At 1890 she springs the refreshments.
The men nibble at the angel food and
ice cream a moment, and then sneak
off to the smoking ROOM"
Herman Mitsch of Woodbine is test
ing the efficiency of sub-irrigation by
thing. Finding his young orchard
about to perish he purchased $50 worth
of three inch tile, planted them two
feet under ground in rows twenty
feet apart, between rows of trees.
The pipes are filed with water lifted
100 feet and from the same well that
waters his stock. The effect upon the |
trees was visible in less than ten days. |
He is delighted with the result of his
experiment, has saved his young or
chard and, if the work had been done |
a few months earlies, would have
been double the value.
Carl Hoffman's Chickering hall and
his wholesale and retail music house, !
of Leavenworth. the largest in Kansas
was damaged by fire early Friday
morning. The building was valued at
about So. 900 and the stock and fix. |
lures at $4,000. The loss on the stock
and fixtures is $4,000 and on the
building $1,000. The building is in.
sured for ST., 200 and the stock and fix.
lures for $4,000. Many pianos and
other musical instruments were either
Consumed or ruined by heat, smoke