The Globe-republican., 1897-07-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Great Bend Congregationalists
made a net gain of twelve last week.
A Hiawatha girl on the Fourth of
July said it was all right to praise the
men of &c. but as ''cr she preferred
them about Il.
Croauet is not in the regular course
Of study, hut all the teachers in the
Grant county institute are taking it.
The men of Abilene are organizing =
union, and will soon strike for the
right to wear Mother Hubbards and
nothing else.
More commercial baggage was ham
died at the Blue Rapids depots during
the month of June than in any previous
month for three years.
Western Kansas papers are kicking
on the government spending 3d.. 1000
for fast mail for Kansas City news
papers and sending mail to Western
Kansas by freight.
An Arkansas City merchant AYERS
that he has never seen travelling men
so thick in Kansas as they are now.
The report of the big wheat crop has
brought them out of the east
Three big Norman horses ran away
with binder on the streets of Mt.
Hope recently and an old soldier says
the sound reminded him exactly of the
battle of Gettysburg at it's height.
A tramp says it is an actual fact that
& farmers wife will hand him out
better piece of bread when he is
tramp than she will give him if he eats
at her house as one of her husbands
harvest hands.
The cost of keeping the Marshall
county paupers has been reduced from
$4,000 to about 5000, and it is be-
lieved that the products of the farm
and the maturing stock will in the flu
ture nearly maintain the institution.
The POttawatomie Indians on their
reservation in Jackson county began
their annual green corn dance and
will continue it for some time with
great enthusiasm. White people are
permitted to attend as visitors if they
remain quiet and orderly. The Indians
object to visitors using cameras during
the dance.
On July 18th the state board of equal
ization commenced its work for this
year. equalizing the property tax over
the state. The board is composed of
State Auditor Morris, State Treasurer
Heflebower and Secretary of State
Bush. The board will be in session
about two weeks, and during that time
many of the county clerks over the
state will appear before it.
DIR. c. A. Milton has made the first
wheat shipment from Ford county
this season. Threshe1s are busy on
his place. aud he is loading cars at
Wright station for shipment of 1000
bushels to Syracuse. at 81 cents bush
el. He will have about $500 bushels
wheat, averaging 20 bushels or more
to the acre The wheat will grade No.
2. and weighs 60 to 6019 pounds to the
bushel
Out at Garden City secondhand
baby buggy was shipped in from a
Missouri town. There was a legend
to the effect that it had carried twins.
A Garden City man kept it for . year.
He was presented with twins. With
superstitious fear he presented it to q
farmer who had longed in vain for
years for children. Last week the
farmer came running into town and
the first man he met he yelled: Two
b gosh and both girls! Hoorayr'
The examiners of applicants for
teachers certificates declare that the
questions sent out by State Superin-
tendent Stryker were the most puz-
cling ever known and if the papers are
vigorously marked less than half the
applicants will pass. In Geary county
only Il out of SIS were successful. The
raising of the standard for third grade
certificates to an average of so instead
of 20 per cent is looked on as an injus-
tice. as large number of certificates
were granted in April on the 20 per
cent average.
In Mama county the 1000 acres of
timothy, clover. blue grass, etc. will
turn out only moderate yield. Two
dry weeks in May cut most tame grass
es short Plenty of the timothy and
clover will go over two tons to the
acre. but much of it less Blue grass
is rather short this year, and the IS,
coo acres Of prairie meadow is not rs
GOOD as last wear. vet BIZ moving time