The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-03-04

Garden City.
There are fifty-four girls in Great
Bend fust Is years old.
Muddy roads are considered gooi
items of news by Western Kansas pa
pe1k
The Anthony Methodist church ha,
made . net gain of sixty-one this con
ference year.
A young lady is doing much good in
the Lords cause At the revival meet
| ings in Kiowa-
| A postmaster was elected 1t Chap
man, but the candidates who were moi
chosen will appeal.
| A Hiawatha woman has discovered 9
cure for fairness. 1t is to stoop repeat
edly throughout the day.
The late wet spell has brought new
word to Kansas. A paper speaks of the
streets again ''being mudless.
Hogs run at large in the streets Of
| Leoti An ordinance cannot be en-
forced against public sentiment.
United States geologist, willard d.
johnson, is at work in Meade county
examining the rock and earth forma-
tons
The dentists at ST. Mary's are both
such handsome young men that the
young girls are all having their teeth
pulled.
A Fort Scott man witnesses the in
auguration at Washington with big
petition for postmaster in his insidc
pocket.
A Pratt boy found cylinder with q
fuse attached. He lit the fuse to see
what would happen and the doctor
cannot yet tell whether he will re-
cover.
A large grey fox was captured about
FIVE miles east of Ottawa last week.
The party of boys who captured it had
three hounds and grye the animal a
a two hours chase.
An Emporia bride gives her girl
friends the tip that young man who
insists on putting on his sweetheart's
overshoes before marriage won't wipe
the dishes afterward.
Colonel H. F. Hatch of Arkansas.
City has secured the superintendency
of the shirt department in the Mich.
gan penitentiary. Shirts are made I'M
der contract and Hatch is in the en-
ploy of the contractors.
At Emporia repairer named Ander-
son discovered a break in a locomotive.
He crept under it to examine. The en-.
CINE started up and Anderson got hold
of bar and remained there until the
engine stopped.
E. w. Jordhn, aged GO. farmer, and
for twenty-five years a resident of Reno
county, died on Feb. 25th of gangrene
of the bowels. caused from injuries re-
ceived while hunting few days ago.
He was wealthy and highly respected.
DO Kansas people enjoy reading the
travels of editors? Several editors are
now RECALLING their readers with &C
counts of trips. Do the readers care
for them? If they do not the editors
wouldn't take the trouble to write
them.
The game markets are said to be al
most glutted with wild ducks, mall
lards, teal and pitfalls. Old hunters
and men who handle game say they
never saw such fight of ducks in
February, and they are fat, plump and
pretty.
While dressing in his room at New
ton the other night Professor Dyche
heard q pistol shot A second later
some plaster and bullet struck him
in the neck. A travelling man in the
room above had dropped his revolver,
it. The North Pole had
narrow escape from remaining forever
undiscovered.
The Atchison Ministerial union re-
Gently declared against base ball Sun
day mornings on the ground that it
kept the boys away from Sunday school
and young men away from church.
A city league of base ball clubs has
been organized to play at Forest park
Sunday mornings, but the project has
now been given up.
A man at Sabetha has made the dis
covery that grasshoppers are Matching
ont at a lively rate. He noticed the
chickens apparently having a picnic,
and upon examination found they were
filing up ON young grasshoppers. He
scooped up a handful and put them in
q glass for exhibition. They are lit
tie larger than mosquitoes, and as live