The Globe-republican., 1897-02-18

1t Caldwell
The Salina Athletic club has elected
their officers for 1897.
Thirty creameries in central Kansas
pay the farmers SIC, 900 . month for
| cream.
Dickinson county raised eleven mill
lon eggs last year and is good place
for poor shows to avoid.
The Great Bend boy who went skat-
ing and got so cold he had to hug tbs
stove was no: onto his Job.
The new Claim brass band has six
teen instruments. and the people may
as we'll prepare for the worst.
Antelope appeared in Greedy county
last week and the change from jack
rabbit to venison was appreciated.
Atchison has changed a great deal in
late years. A prominent citizen got
drunk and the people are talking about
it.
| Professor Franklin of the state uni
versity has joined the travellers. He
will go to Costa Rica to look into some
mines.
| A two-year-old child was burned to
death on the eth at Eureka while play
ing with fire during the mothefs alb
sence
The Kansas newspapers are actively
engaged in the dairy business and are
showing how everybody will get rich
out of it.
The ministers of Emporia who have
been in the habit of holding monthly
meetings in the city library have been
ordered out
It is fact that in some Kansas
towns bowling alleys are looked upon
as vicious and subversive of the morals
of the people.
The BARRIERS of Newton have sighed
petition to the legislature praying
that the BARRIERS bill now before the
legislature, be passed.
A travelling comedy company which
is playing southern Kansas claims to
have a genuine Cremona. But have
they any one who can play it?
Forty-seven per cent of the state I'M
versity pupils are church members.
War and foot ball tend to make men
look to proper provision for the fu-
ture.
A Aashlight picture was taken of a
prayer meeting at Stafford and all the
men in it are figuring on using copies
as tickets for admission to the pearly
gates.
It is wonderful with what ananimity
the Kansas prophets are declaring that
this is to be wet year. 1t will be wet.
Wet years occur every ten years in
Kansas
A Chanute man who labors under
the impression that he is singer tried
his voice last week and the fire depart
ment turned out thinking it was an
alarm of fire.
There is a man in Harper county who
claims that there is something in the
atmosphere of southern Kansas which
makes coal burn more quickly than
any other place on the globe.
The chief of the secret service of the
Santa Fe railroad and his assistants
are all known to the newspaper men
in Kansas and they never make a move
that the papers do not duly chronicle
it.
The people of Englewood who recent
~ saw an air ship sail over the city are
reputable citizens. The jointists of
Englewood also advertise openly in the
papers and competition has brought |
the grade of whisky away above that
of other Kansas towns
Walter Thompson, an Usage county |
farmer, who went there twelve years !
ago, bought a farm ON time and agreed |
to pay s., 600 when he got able, drove
into Burlingame last week and paid off |
the last dollar of debt and has a couple
of thousand bushels of corn left over |
Chautauqua has a man by the name
of Cloyd, who makes practice of SOW
ing his wheat field with salt. He has
a new variety of wheat which he calls |
the Kentucky May, or our Little May,
but big grain and chaff, smooth head |
wheat that ripens in May, and which
he expects to yield close to forty BUSH
els an acre. He got the seed from his |
old home in Kentucky and raised |
enough of it last year SO that he has
fifty bushels of it sowed.
Read what Topeka tax assessor
writes about his business and then |
take it to heart: ''Take the ma jority of |
people, whom call in everything else
just about as honest as they can be,