The Globe-republican., 1897-11-04


KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Independence is to have q vitrifiei
brick plant
Ottawa is making initial efforts Il
secure packing house.
The Santa Fe has put in bath room
for its employees at Newton.
Neodesha will issue $50. 900 in bonds
and build city water works.
The machinery for a big vitrifed
brick yard is being laid down in Cher
ryvale.
The onion crop of Meade county is
threshing out three hundred bushels
to the acre.
On the Kansas prairie at night it is
possible to hear the clatter of . farm
wagon four miles
The registration at Newton 10 1899,
being ninety more than year ago.
Newton is growing.
A farmer living near Centralia has
on exhibition stock of corn on which
are six we'll developed ears.
When the registration books closed
in Topeka the records indicated that
1851 certificates had been issued.
The Nemaha county attorney re-
quires all merchants to keep their
places of business closed on Sundays.
The dancing element Of Galena are
kicking because there is not decent
place in the city to have their dances.
Authority has leen grs ,ted for the
organization of the Alma National
bank ut Alma, with a capital of $5,.-
OO0
The warmest thing in Kansas is the
fight between two creameries at Be-
lott Each wants the cream of the
business
A proof that the world is moving is
found in the announcement that the
Mennonite church At Newton has
bought an organ.
A Blue Rapids woman has a hen with
double joints in her knees and toes
pointed both ways, SO that she can
walk forward or backward with equal
case.
The regents of the University of
Kansas have appointed Prof E. Miller
to represent that institution at the
formal opening of the new observa-
tory of the University of Chicago.
The Fort Leavenworth football team
has disbanded. 1t was impossible to
get the men out of practice and several
of the team showed symptoms of intel
ligence by having their hair trimmed.
Judge Riggs has sustained the new
banking law in a case at Garrett in
which the creditors of defunct bank
ask that the receiver be directed to
bring action against the stockholders
for the benefit of all the creditors.
The present city council at Hutchin-
son is achieving some notoriety from
recent laws passed. A few days since
an ordinance was adopted requiring
the curfew bell to ring at the report of
a robbery and all citizens ordered to
turn ont and chase the thief And
now comes an ordinance putting a
charge on the salvation Army every
time they parade the street. Every
time they parade with the big drum
and the fiddle it will cost them a spec
flied amount per trip. This applies
only to Main street. The effect of this
ordinance and the future conduct of
the Army will be watched with inter-
est in Hutchinson.
Ole Olson Is one of the early bookings
at the Crawford Grand, Wichita. OF
the company the Chicago Inter-Ocean
of Sept 21st says: Entirely changed as
to its story and cast, 'Ole Olson" the
comedy which has withstood the storms
of eleven theatrical seasons, was pre-
scented at the Lincoln theater yester-
day to two audiences that overlooked
the house. The changes in the piece
make 1t more acceptable than it ever
was. Ben Hendricks has assumed the
title role formerly in the hands of Gus
Heege, and those who have seen his
rendition of it claim it suffers none in
comparison. Miss st. George Hussev
is the only one of the old cast left. 1t
would be hard to imagine any one else
in the role of Bridget O'Flannigan.
Pretty Jeanette Lewis is the soubrette
of the company. One of the features
shown is striking one. John Lawson,
known as 1.-The Terrible Swede," the
worlds record breaking bicyclist, is
shown in q competitive race with C.
A. Anderson, the winner of this years
Pullman road race, and Ivor Gustave-