The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-09-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

InL6E CITY, aNoAi
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Typhoid and malaria fevers are at
lacking people in Kansas.
Fort Scott ladies take great interes
in the cooking school at that place.
1t is said that both quail and prairie
chichen are quite plentiful in western
Kansas
The First Presbyterian church o
Hutchinson has celebrated its twenty
fifth anniversary.
Cherry trees at Goodland which were
stripped by the big hail storm some
weeks ago, are in bloom again.
The late rains have put the ground
in splendid condition for seeding and
a vast amount of wheat will be sown
this fall.
The Santa Fee House, one of the first
buildings put up in Nickerson, and at
one time the most popular hostelry in
the city, is being torn down this week
and moved into the country.
From four to six car loads of water
melons are shipped from Turou, in
Pratt county, daily. Two cars were
shipped TO Deadwood, Dakota. Each
car contains about 1,eOO melons.
The election in Kansas this fall will
be of more importance than perhaps is
generally known. There are twenty
nine judicial districts in the state, and
thirteen of them must elect judges this
year
Lust year was considered bad crop
year in Dickinson county, still the to-
tai farm products amounted to s., O73,-
.33, or more than 500 per capita
for each mar, woman and child I'm the
county.
Port Arthur has just been knocked
gailey-west by a cyclone. Last spring
Kansas was flooded with advertising
circulars for Port Arthur reading: sNo
more cyclones, no more droughts, no
more crop failures"
Hundreds of agents representing
Chicago grocery stores are soliciting
orders from farmers of Kansas. Now
that the farmers are prosperous, they
should, and no doubt will, stand by
the local home stores that stood by
them when they needed friends.
The Nottingham Review of Noting.
ham. England. contains long editor
ial article on the wonderful wheat crop
Of Kansas 1t says: ''The Kansas
farmer is in rare luck as all the world
Is compelled to pay him tribute. Kan
sas is the greatest wheat and cattle re-
gion in America and the farmers there
are coming money on both wheat and
cattle"
A church in Kansas City, Kans. has
arranged a nursery for babies during
service. Last Sunday the nurse was
there wearing her sweetest baby smile,
with bottles of milk and jumping jacks
for food and amuscments for the dear
little things, and not single baby
came to church. Hence the thunder of
the bug organ sOured all the milk of
human kindness in the bottles.
For several reasons the chinch bug
has done but little damage in the
State this season although parts of
rome fields have been destroyed. This
is no indication that there will be but
few next season. There are plenty in
the fields COW to do great deal of
damage next season il but few of
them pass the winter. As measure
for preventing the bugs wintering
over, it would Ike we'll to gather up
and destroy all the old rubbish Or the
farm in which the bugs may find lodg-
ment
Two brothers named Bunker are sue
ccssful farmers in Sumner county,
Kansas They are the sons of the
sisters near Mt Airy, N. C. ut the foot
of the Blue Ridge seven miles south of
The Virginia line. and reared two large
families Of bright and entcrprising
children. When they were first mar
ried the twins and their wives occupied
the same house, but after period of
daul felicity the wives got jealous of
each other and the twins separated
them into different dOmiciles.
Louis Lindsay Dychc, professor of
zoology in the University of Kansas,
returned from \ three months vaca-
.ian. He spent these three monts at
the Konkins seaside labratory, on
Monterey bay. in California. The pro-
fessor says he gave mammals rest
this lime and devoted himself to the
lower forms of animal life, which
abound in the warm waters of the Pa.