The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-10-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Clay Center, with . population Of
3,4S3, has a total school enrolment Of
SO.
Il is said that Butler county will
average about half q crop Of corn this
season.
In Willis home talent club is be-
ing organized to furnish amusement
for the town this winter.
A man can start out With a gun and
dog In Kansas now without being com.
PEELED to resort to the ''stubble duck
lie.
Ten car loads of Holstein cattle were
recently shipped from Sunny Slope
stock farm near Emporia to the City
Of Mexico.
lingo cemetery is located in Miami
county. Isn't that just about the fun
niest name you ever heard applied to
a cemetery?
The wheat fields in the northern part
of the state present beautiful sight,
and the ground is said to be in the
best of condition.
An insect which busies itself in cut
ting off the limbs of trees has appeared
in Butler county. 1t is an industrious
creature, and might accomplish con-
siderable good in the world if it would
direct its energies in some other chan
mel.
From town after town in Kansas
come complaints of the scarcity of
houses for rent. This is the time of
year when the prosperous farmer
moves into town for the purpose of
giving his children better school facil-
tiles.
w. II. Fulweller, the well known
Kansas travelling man whose home is
at Clay Center, is an inventor of a COM
bine fiue stop and ventilator which is
said to be mighty good thing, and
which will probably make him some
money.
In Atchison the city council fails to
hold q session if theater is billed for
The regular meeting night; and yet a
great many grown people grumble be-
cause children express a reluctance to
remain at home when there is circas
in town.
A few weeks ago George Parks, Hv-
ing in Solomon, was hit on the head
by band from a bursted threshing
machine cylinder, the blow splitting
open his head and causing the loss of
portion of his brains. He is now able
TO be up and around the streets of his
town.
Two Reno county ladies the other
day hired a livery team and drove so
hard that one of the horses dropped
dead. They were not Intentionally
cruel, but were just simply too ignor-
ant about horses to realize when they
were being urged beyond their power
of endurance.
As eggs are now usually sold there
Is little or no inducement to secure
eggs large in size. The market price
is generally SO much a dozen without
regard to the size. Some prudent and
thoughtful housewives carefully sort
the eggs before taking them to market
and keep the largest ones at home for
use IN their own kitchens. No one
can possibly blame them for doing
this, for in the market a dozen is a
dozen, large or small, but at home
eight large eggs are as good or better
chan q dozen small ones.
While workmen were raising the
old Reeves house, at Greneda, they
unearthed some clues that may solve a
mysterious disappearance that occur
ed there some years ago. Covered by
thin layer of earth were found the
bones of human body, also pair of
brass knuckles, dirk, several pairs of
boots and shoes that had never been
worn, and numerous other articles. A
few years ago stranger came to the
house, remained some time and then
disappeared. A relative traced him to
the house and there the trail ended.
The connection between the two Incl
dents seems very strange.
Critics on both sides of the Atlantic
nave nothing but the highest praise
for Hoyt's plays because there is Ger.
tain originality and simplicity about
them that pleases all and offends none
none of his satires are personal.
Hoyt's "A Bunch of Keys" hits us all
In q comieal vein and its vitality is
catching. It is a magnet of attracting