The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-09-02


It is said that every citizen Of New
ton owes $eA, as per capita debt
The steel range fakes are now busy
among the farmers of Smith county.
Anew s., 900 building for the insane
asylum at Topeka, will be erected 1T
| once.
The La Crosse bank stays open in tho
evening to receive deposits from the
farmers.
The state officers have been invited
to attend the Neosho Falls old soldiers
reunion.
The easiest way for farmer to get
rid of his surplus wheat is to run Tor
. county Office.
Out in Pratt county, it is said, the
rain came just fifteen minutes too late
to save the corn crop.
The county attorney has bluffed
every druggist and joint keeper OF EN-
porla into a promise to sell no more
liquor.
The first wheat to sell for 81. 90 a
bushel in the st. Louis market was
car load from Sedgwick county, Kan
saS
1t is said by an observing contem-
porary that the coming wave of pros
perity will increase the demand for
| marriage licenses.
On August 29th central and western
Kansas was visited by good soaking
rain which was blessing to the re-
Gently planted wheat.
Joe Helm of Wellir gton has brought
suit against his mother, now Mrs.
Stacy, for squandering his share of
estate, before she took out administra-
ton papers.
The season is approaching for coun'
try contemporaries to announce pleas
ant calls from candidates. The callers
generally leave a v. That's the pleas
ant feature of call.
The elevator belonging to Clark
Knox at Cicero, which was set up on
piles as high as a mans head, became
loaded with too much wheat last week
and crushed to the ground.
A man near Parsons has a melon
patch surrounded by barb wire fence.
Up to date he has collected 21O samples
of trousers, shirts and various other
articles of wearing apparel.
The Kcntuckians of Sumner county
have organized and will have big
reunion. Among the committees APP
pointed for the occasion is one on
water" This shows the degeneracy
of the race.
Emporia is talking about shutting
off its street lights for want of reven-
ne. Under the license system they
burned brightly. The way things look
now, the lights and the joints must
stand or fall together.
Some school teachers have bad hab-
it of flirting with positions-engage
one and then get better one. if posi-
BILE or get husband. A school board
in Brown county that had had expert
ence made the teacher hired this year
give bond for $500 that she would
fulfill the contract.
= A vicious bull, near Cheney, attack
ed Tom McCleary, a few days since,
and would have killed him had not
man came to the rescue on horseback.
The bull tossed the horse about and
the rescner slid off. While the bull
went for the horse the two men es-
capped. McCleary was painfully hurt.
A Hiawatha couple have just mar
ried, who have a child year old. The
man was ready for the ceremony in
good season, but the woman refused to
marry him. He has been faithful just
the same and has visited his love often
and rocked the baby and clothed it.
Finally the hari-hearted woman 70.
Tented and married him.
Four of Leavenworth's popular young
ladies will leave the city shortly for
Marysville, Mont, where they have
been rendered positions in the public
schools. They are Misses Anna Shire,
Edith Schott, Bertha Peaper and Fran
ces Ruttan. Miss Shire will be men,
her of the HIGH school faculty. having
charge of English literature, compost
ton and Latin. The other young la.
dies will be assigned to places in the
grades. All are graduates of the
Leavenworth high school and Miss
Shire of the state university
1t was said few years ago that
certain Atchison girl was throwing
herself away in her marriage. Time
has proven that she didn't throw her.
self away. He was worthless man,