The Globe-republican., 1898-09-08

An lola firm has placed damaged ice
on the bargain counter.
Three papers are published at Le-
banon a town in Smith county.
The Kansas university at Lawrence,
expects large attendance this year.
A black rat, covered with white
spots, has been caught in Cowley coun-
|ty.
Two hundred men are wanted in the
broom corn fields of western Kansas ct
once.
A number of Kansas City. Kansas.
ministers have left for China as nfs-
sionaries.
1t is announced that the Santa Fe
California flyer will be restored by
October 1.
st. Mary's college ut Topeka opeas
early in this month. A large attend
ance is expected.
Smith Center ministers exchange
pulpits; an evidence of the existence OF
the proper spirit.
A patriotic farmer in Logan county
has had the fans of his wind nil
painted red, white and blue.
A big band contest is on at Emporia.
It will last several days. Bands are
there from all over the state.
A fiddler is working in western Kan
sas. He doubles teams with sorAe home
talent aggregation end fiddles for C.
whack up.
A man at Abilene is spending his va
cation at home. He goes home in the
morning at ten and remains until four
in the afternoon.
Earnest P. Rochester was the only
recruit to enlist from Scott county and
citizens of that county Clipped in and
presented him with a gold medal. He
is third sergeant of company A. 21st
resiment.
The College of the Sisters OF Beteany
will open its school year in September,
with greatly increased attendance.
Prospects now are the most fattering
in the history of the institution.
Bethany college is as old as Kansas it
self, and has the reputation as girls
school throughout the west. It's faculty
has always been the strongest and its
influences the best. Bethany is under
the auspices of the Protestant Epis-
copal church, and the personal care of
the bishop of the diocese. Miss Annie
j. Hooley is principal.
It is said that the scrip injunctions
are causing no inconvenience to the
companies in the coal mining districts.
They continue to issue scrip as far as
heard from, and they do it in this
manner. The employee comes along and
wants five or ten dollars in scrip. The
company. hands him five or ten dollars
in cash, for which he in turn purchases
from the company it's scrip or coupon
credit books, and thus they have paid
the employ in cash and continue to is
sue the scrip as before the injunction
writs were served.
When They Write the President
The State Department has given over
to the Ladies Home journal for publi-
cation its "Royal letters" addressed to
the President of the United States by
Napoleon I, Queen Victoria, the Prince
of Wales, Napoleon III, and Emperor
William of Germany. Napoleon an
nounces such things as his marriage to
Marie Louise; the birth of his son, the
King of Rome: his return to the throne
of France from Eliza; Victoria an
nounces her accession to the throne of
England in 1886: her marriage to Prince
Albert; the birth of the Prince of
Wales; the death of the Prince Con-
sort; and the famous letter thanking
President McKinley'for his congratu-
lations on her Diamond Jubilee will
also be given. The whole collection,
in fac-simile. will be presented in the
October number of the magazine.
Along the boom days of Kansas,
about eight or ten years ago, there
lived in Hutchinson a family named
Stevicl1. The father of the family kept
a grocery store. There were three
girls in the family-Farie, Isabel and
Marie. They were plain, common cit
liens, with nothing particular to dis
tinguish them from the common herd
of Kansans. The girls had great
habit of singing. They sang morning.
noon and night, and the neighbors
who heard them were wont to remark
that those girls would be heard from
some day. Well, in the course of time
the family left Hutchinson, and
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