The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-01-20

| 6Atto-ney General McKenna favors
dividing Kansas into two federal judi
cial districts. -
| Sc far this season the ice men have
have been Disappointed, but they en-
terrain hopes Of yet reapang their har-
vest
The Lawrence girls who have re-
solved not to 60 with young men who
drink beer are preparing for q lone
some time.
Most of the banks IN Kansas have
large deposits of money on hand and
there is no call to borrow money this
year, and the Spectator has little
business at present
| A Lincoln county young man who
warrants his constitution to withstand
all kinds of hardships and exposure is
advertising for some one co furnish the
financia, backing for Klondike expe-
dition.
Many eastern people are coming to
Kansas to buy real estate and locate,
but us the average Kansan is satisfied
with his lot. the easterner learns that
Kansas real estate commands fancy
price.
The next improvement lola is to get
IS glass factory. The Commercial
club has been assured that the plant
that will be established will pay out
not less that s35, 900 year in wages to
employees.
Considerable snow is reported in the
western and northern part of the state.
Drifts are interfering and blocking the
railways in many places Wheat is
looking at its best and the enow is just
what was needed.
| A minister up in Dickinson county
last week is said to have electrified his
congregation by saying that some peo
pie think they have religion when they
have only the dyspepsia. Was the
congregation surprised at his rcnk
plagiarism?
| The Kansas teachers can't be so Sc
we're on the children hereafter when
they fail at examinations. The teach
ers are not the whole thing, them
selves. Over one half of the applicants
for certificates to teach in county nor
NAL schools failed at the teachers
state convention in Topeka last week.
Out of 125 who tried to get certificates
as instructors of institutes, IS failed
entirely.
The electric car system in Fl. Scott,
which for a number of years had been
operated by the Fort Scott Railway
company, has been transferred to the
Citizens Railway company, and they
have assumed control The new COM
pany is composed of local people. New
steam and electric machinery will be
put in, and large electric generator
will be purchased in order to take adj
vantage of the light and power fran
ehise recently granted the old com.
pany.
A bitter fight between the school
board of Caploma, small village south
Of Sabetha, and the teacher, Miss Irene
Fenton, has been carried on for the
past three weeks, ending in vic
tory for Miss Fenton. The trouble
arose over the refusal of the teacher to
clean out the room after magic Ian
ttrn show had left it in dilapidated
condition. The show was allowed to
enter the school room against the
wishes of Miss Fenton, at the request
of the board. Upon refusal of the
teacher to clean the building, the
board arbitrarily discharged her. Miss
Fenton hired an attorney and the fight
has been raging bitterly in the COM
munity and press. Last week Miss
Fenton defended herself in a two col
umu article in a local paper and the
board reinstated her. Miss Fenton is
a handsome orphan girl, 22 years old.
A disappointed lover was the origin of
the trouble i, is said.
A school war is in progress in dis
trict No. Q, in Kearney county, on &C.
count of a threatened change of the
school. There are four families living
in the district. The families living on
the south side of the district have tho
most votes, while those on the north
side have the most children. The
school house is located in the center of
the district. The south side, having
the most votes, also has the district of
ficers- At recent meeting they de-
cided to abandon the school house and
hold school at one of the directors
James Cowler-on the south side The
families living on the north side OBJ
ject, holding that as they are not only