The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-03-24
\. b. KLAINE, Publisher.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST
Pratt sports held cooking main the
other day.
Newton is after better parks and q
better sewer system.
Stalk cutting and oats sowing has
commenced in Jewell county.
Cimarron has woman for Mayor, a
woman for postmistress, and a woman
for superintendent of public instruc-
ton.
If Kansan feels his sympathy for
the Cubans weakening, let him take
up good history and read about Val
ley Forge.
The Fl. Riley troops which were sent
to southern points took all their be-
iongings and their families. The move
Is permanent.
City politics is the question which is
now shaking most of the Kansas towns
from rim to center. 1t almost keeps
up with the Cuban trouble.
The Kansans who expect to play
poker on the coat tails of the Spanish
in the first battle, will be disappoint-
ed. The Spanish coat mas no tail.
A Parsons man poked lighted
match along a gas pipe to locate a leak.
He found it all right but it took prompt
action in shutting off the supply to
keep the house from burning.
In the case of long war Uncle Sam
will find that while Kansas is not very
thirsty for war, Kansas will be one
state where he will not be under the
necessity of drafting his own nephews
One Republic county farmer was
worked by the lightning rod swindlers
to the tune of S95 and another for Sos.
And yet the average of intelligence is
probably as high there as any place in
Kansas.
The only safe way for woman to
kill chicken is to wiring its neck. In
trying to decapitate a chicken with a
Ratchet Harvey county woman miss
Cd the bird and cut off the thumb of
her left hand.
Solomon Smith, hale old gentleman
of Burr Oak, who served his time in
the Mexican and Civil wars, is ready to
enlist to fight Spain, despite his u
years. All he asks is that the govern
ment have the hard tack soaked so he
can chew it.
The Kansas editors who went on the
southern excursion appeared to be
more tickled by the sight of the i'm
mense quantities of Kansas flour lying
at Port Arthur for foreign shipment
than by anything else that was seen
on the trip.
Charley Gable, the boss butter MAX
er of the Jensen creamery at Osborne,
made an exceptionally good record on
butter exhibited at the recent butter
show in Topeka, and as a result the
creamery is now in daily receipt of
letters from eastern firms who wish to
handle its output
The Grain Dealers association will
hold its next annual meeting at Salina
early in April. The meeting will
last one day and one night, and it is
estimated that $50 grain men will be
in attendance. Considerable impor-
tant business. in the form of new meas
ures to benefit the grain trade, will be
brought before the meeting.
Recently a Smith Center merchant
sent to Kansas city wholesale house
his check for $50. 1t was presented at
one of the large banks there. went
though the clearing house, and was
returned to one Of the national banks
of Smith Center, at the end of the
month, along with other checks. Yet
It was absolutely worthless, as it was
unsigned. 1t bore the merchants
card in one corner.
j. H. Glathart, one of the best
known business men of Lawrence, who
is widely known Throughout the county
as an auctioneer. was thrown from his
horse while out riding on March 10th,
and had six ribs broken and sustained
such other severe injuries that his con-
dition is quite serious. Mr.. Glathart is
about so years of age. and a tolerably
large man, so that it is impossible to
tell just how serious his injuries may
be.
''We don't want to boast" remarks
the bashful editor of the Burr Oak
Herald, but we would like to call at
tention to the fact that Jewell county
produces more corn. sells more hogs,
feeds more cattle and ships more eggs
and poultry to a greater value than
any other county in the great state of
Kansas" This is a pretty strong claim,
but then it is will known fact that