The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-12-24

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Larned to free Cuba. * 5
, Newton is to have o home talent
show coached by Bill Haskell
The Modern Woodman will not have
to pay an assessment for November.
} The college of Emporia has selected
; homemade song for their own especial
use.
The business men of H;awatha have
organized a mutual fire insurance com
pany.
| Forty-one Cuban patriots were re
cruired at Fort Scott last month-all
mules.
By some accident $50. Is in cash was
left in the vault when the Baxter
Springs bank failed.
An Emporia hunter rested his gun,
muzzle down on his foot. The doctors
hope to save his foot.
Usage City teachers who dance will
be discharged. How is that for inva-
sion of personal property?
The government put 1s, 600 fish into
Kansas streams last gear not counting
the suckers made by politics
Lawrence girls have given two leap
year parties, and are prepared to take
extreme measures if necessary.
!; The women of Ottawa have organ
lied lodge which does not even allow
men to ''sit in the lodge ROOM"
1t is said that Kansas has level.
headed preacher who refuses to be the
beneficiary of donation parties"
There is fat women's club at Har.
per. Members must weigh not less
than $50 pounds or more than a ton.
Pneumatic gates are being put in by
the Santa Fe at the street crossings in
Newton to keep the jam of people of
the tracks.
The freshman class of the state uni.
versity expects to eclipse all of its
predecessors in the splendor of its So
cial operations.
A Wichita lawyer was fined $40 fol
calling a witness a liar He should
understand that such a title can only
be applied to another lawyer.
The Lord is taking care of Billy Ed
wards. Hehas given him gold mine.
aud the dividends will begin to come
on or about January 18th.
The Northwestern Kansas conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
meets at Beloit March "a. Chaplain
McCabe will be the presiding bishop.
A Greedy county literary society is
debating the question: Resolved.
That a dishwashing machine would be
worth more to a man than q woman
would be.
A young man of Jackson county re-
Gently husked and cribbed 16O bushels
of corn in one day and then walked a
mile or two to see his sweetheart in
III the evening.
A Kansas man has invented flying
machine which seems to have been
phenomenally successful At the first
trial it smashed itself into flinders
without killing anyone.
Eliinwood has dozen maids whose
campaigns hayc been a failure this
year, and, to give item one more
chance, a leap year party will be Civ
en- for their benefit this month.
A western Kansas newspaper proud 4
~ remarks that the prairies of western
Kansas are sight better than the
rock bound coasts of New England
where the Pilgrim fathers staked their
claims.
The school boarn of northern Kan.
sas town has by formal resolution
served notice on the teachers that il
they dance they will lose their jobs.
This is an encrouchment upon the bill
of rights, but a job is a job these times
and the pretty teachers must foregc
the pleasures of the two-step.
A Beloit man reports fou. dead hor-
ses, as the result of the new disease
among them. A neighbor If his lost
five and a Jewell man lost fourteen.
Several have been examined after
death and the brain was fouLd conges-
ted. The veterinarians say it is caus-
ed by substance which grows on differ
ent kinds of grain and is eaten by the
horses. 1t may be found on one farm
and on no other in the neighborhood.
1t is poisonous to man as well as beast.
but does not find its way into our food
in sufficient quantities to injure us.
A story is going the rounos to the
effect that q married lady in an adjoin-
ing county had a birthday anniversary
few days since, upon which her hus-
band presented her a parlor lamn. He