The Globe-republican., 1898-11-10

Kansas.
Much Of the big cora crop has been
gathered.
lola has attained the switch engine
stage of development.
A good paper, the Girard Press. has
! Just started in on its thirtieth year.
The wheat fields throughout the
state are said to be IN excellent ce0di-
ton.
Advertisers in Sumner county are
getting great move on themselves
! lately.
! Prairie hay is cheap in Kansas this
yes-. Lots of it will be shipped out OF
the state.
! Some fine potatoes have been raised
in Kansas this year. The yield is said
/ to be good.
| The last issue of the Kansas Farmer
contained a piece of poetry more than
yard long.
Corn is selling at 20 cents per bushel
! in central and northern Kansas at the
present time.
! Thousands of head of cattle will be
wintered in southern and western
Kansas this year.
There are lightweight young women
and forty-one young men teaching the
schools of johnson county.
It is said that more money will be
spent for Christmas presents in Kansas
this year than ewes before in the his
tory of the state.
Brass bands in the southwest appear
to have made more money out of the
campaign than those IN any other sec
| ton of the state.
The chances are thxt the Kansas
minister who paid $1,000 for 800 acres
of Mitchell county land did not earn
the money in the pulpit
| Within the past month Mitchell
county has sent three patients to the
insane asylum. They had hard luck
in being sent there at this particular
! time
The Delaware Indians are holding
a twelve day caucus, seven miles south
of Caney, Kansas. The purpose of the
! Indians is to discuss the immigration
| scheme.
One of Uncle Sans fish cars went
through Kansas on the Union Pacific a
few days ago, and at Oakley fifteen or
twenty applicants were each given 100
black bass which will be used to stock
the waters in Logan county.
The records show that in the last six
years and half the Journal, at Smith
Center, has drawn nearly nine thous-
for county printing. Here is one pa
per that has good thing and is work
ing it fiercely.
Well of all things! A Lincoln county
man showed up at the Industrial
School for girls at Beioit not long ago,
and asked the superintendent to let
him pick out wife. OF course he
went home without having his desire
grati6ed-
Mrs Augustus Wilson broke into the
Omaha exposition all right enough.
She got her name in the Bee as the
editress of the Wilsonton Journal, and
managed to have a reception held for
herself and her party. Kansas should
be proud of th:s lady. 1t is a cold day
when she don't manage to corral con-
siderable free advertising for the sta te
of Kansas
A Professor" who cures ''by the
laying on of hands is working down
in Butler county. he advertises that
he will teach this particular science
of healing to limited number, and
says, ''f you want to learn the grand
est and best paying profession on
earth, call or write at once" And the
chances are that it is a good paying
profession-for him.
Marion has washing machine fac
tory in operation which employs seven
men. The machine is the invention of
Marion man who for some time has
been having them made by an eastern
concern; but lately they have been UNI
able, on account of press of work to
turn them out rapidly enough to keep
up with orders. and the owner deter
mined to establish factory at Marion.
The Wellington fire department was
called out one day last week to check
a prairie fire, and stopped it without
much difficulty. as it was no great