The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-03-03

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Cove City citizens are raising . fund
for the erection o. substantial town
hall.
Three different parties have applied
for a telephone franchise 1T Column
bus.
!. A Barton county stock dealer ship
ped car load of hogs to market last
week.
There are SO many ex-residents of
Beloit in Chicago that they have formed
a club.
Delphos is talking telephone. The
idea seems to be spreading radidly this
year in Kansas.
A Dorcas Society social away ont in
kearney county cleaned up SIT in one
night last week.
The farmers of southern Kansas
have considerable blowing done and
many of them are pushing their spring
work along.
According to the Sentinel there is
more drunkenness on the streets of
Lincoln now than at any time for the
past three years.
The lists of cattle brands in the pa
pers of southwest Kansas are growing
in length, which means that they are
keeping step with the weasel skin of
the feeders
A Hiawatha man goes out to the
graveyard on the 4th of July and shoots
fire-crackers over his wife's grave in
order to prove his loyalty. He is look
ing for another wife to encourage him
in his declining years
A Kansas merchant advertises q
plentiful supply of home cured meat
for sale. The ad. mas a very refresh
ing sound. There should be more such
goods sold in the state. As it is now
Kansans raise the meat, ship it to the
killers where it is put in marketable
shape and then re-shipped to the pro-
Queer, who pays freight on it both
ways by the time he purchases it for
consumption.
A Chautauqua county man has the
manuscript and illustrations prepared
for book of poems on various topics,
all relating in a manner to Kansas, and
a Kansas journalist, after examining
the production, states with degree of
frankness that it is as unusual as it is
that the designs are far SUI
perior to the literary features of the
work, although the latter show ':con-
siderable ability"
Did you ever read or hear of cham
pion corn-husker? Well, as in every
thing else, Kansas leads in this pecu-
liar vocation or sport, as you choose to
put it Jake Joerg of Randall, Jewell
county, is the champion corn-husker of
the United States. His record is TWEEN
ty-seven bushels in one hour, and he
uses only his bare hands in husking.
When you consider that 4 wagon bed
with sideboards on will only hold about
twenty-five bushels, this is some husk
ing.
Since the destruction of the Carbon
dale school building by fire on the 4th
inst, the city has been without school.
A public meeting was held last week
to discuss the ACCESSIBILITY OF continu-
ing the schools to the end of the uneX-
pired term. After much discussion, a
vote was taken on motion authoriz-
ing the board of education to proceed
in the matter of renting and fitting up
rooms for schoo: purposes, but the
proposition was negativated by very
small ma jority. This action leaves the
city without schools until the compile
ton of the contemplated new structure
next fall.
A Kansas fruit-grower says: Orch
ards will in time exhaust, at least par
tally, the fertility of the soil, and this
exhaustion is especially noticeable on
soils which are not especially rich ut
the time the trees are planted. To
make young trees grow more rapidly.
a fertilizar shopld be used containing q
small per cent of nitrogen mixed with
potash and phosphates. For older
orchards the nitrogen is not SO neces-
essary, while phosphates and potash
should be increased, especially the
quantity of potash. 1t is frequently
good plan to stimulate top growth by
sowing the orchard to crimson clover
in late summer and turning it under
in spring.
: A company of forty tramps were
sheltered in the police station at Fort
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