The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-26
FRBH bIL OYER TIE COUNTY


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Ia Blanch8 Ifems.
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We we're reminded that Thankisgig-
ing vas at hand By seeing two men
coming out OF q neighbor's chicken
coop with q Robler. last Saturday night
Boys, don't carry 3 lantern next time.
Mr.. Gideon Rocket and wife are en-
ioying visit With their daughter and
children from Denver.
Joe and Jake Doerfer plastered mp
the postOf8ce room last week. The
postmaster takes pride in calling at
tention to their good workmanship,
while the public generally remark
athey are engaged IN q good cause. /"
sYou bet.n
-MoRdsy morning" says }. B. Moore.
"A skunk went in my hen house door.
For Thanksgiving stew.
Il put two bullets in its head;
And, end for end il lay quite dead,
All but, ker WheWT
Fred Barnett closed our school on
Thursday and is attending teachers
institute st Norton, Kan, this week.
Esquire Carter win hold his Office on
the second door Of the city hall one
door south Of the postofHce. His fam
lily viii remain on the farm at present.
But We are not certain whether Cons
tables Fred z. Yeariek and John E.
Bretz viii move 20 the city or purchase
wheels.
what is one mans cure is anather's
poison" when taken with violent pains,
especially acam-pains." One is killed,
the other healed, votes being the only
medicine taken.
The cold weather of late serves to
remind one Of a necessary outlay for
winter fuel supplies. I want to buy,
on tick if I can, one ton Of coal to mix
with my compressed grassOline."
Within the last month there has
been two additional subscribers to this
paper from our prosperous community.
The same being Mrs. Doerfer and Mr..
Lsmboley, which has given US new
courage to give you more and better
reading, in hopes Of getting others that
we're blest with prosperity, and fear if
We don't get them pretty soon I viii go
dead with disappointment.
Speaking of. freaks, second crop fruit
bloom, tailess kittens, our-legged
chickens, ETC., one Of our shrewd neigh
Dor women, Mrs. George Hamlin, raised
a bevy Of early chickens last spring,
one Of which grew to henhoOd, stole q
nest out in the weeds and raised an
other covey " hich are, large enough to
fry. How is that for high?
Fred Barnett, the LaBlanche school
teacher, says he could not see that our
last weeks poetry was good at all.
Others say it is the best, and httest of
any Of our productions.
B. J. Horton was one of the special
jurors in the recent whisky case where
in a verdict was rendered agreed TO
disagree and send the case to Ksnks-
kee. Ed Strand was a witness in the
case and slowed" his memory was at
any rate as long as his finger, perhaps,
as he did not have a mind measuring
guage to tell exactly.
A prairie fire got out near Ruleton
last week and burned down to J. D.
Stones place, and the consequences
are he will have to move his pasture
fence if he wishes grass before it grows
within.
Postmaster Wileman had his seven
loads Of cane made up this week, and
got seven gallons of fine sorghum Of
you don't care what you say) He is
thinking Of hsving it made up into
rope as it is strong enough to hold up
an egg, double egg at that, without
twisting.