The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-02-10

ma and southern Kansas, and on the
Fort Worth & Denver City R. R.. in
Texas. Take receipt from agent
where you purchase ticket, which
when signed by secretary at Wood.
ward, will enable you to return for
one-third fare.
Members and guests attending the
convention will please register with
the Secretary of the Association and
receive badges, Immediately upon ar
rival at Woodward.
| Seven stores and houses were moved
in one week from Brakeman to At
wood.
The Usher guards. officially known
rs Company H, of the K. n. G.. will
give their fourth annual ball on Feb
%. In connection with the ball the
prize drill contest between members of
the company will take place. It is ex-
| pected quite a number of the officers
of the state militia will be in Lawrence
| for the event.
Ellis county is populated principally
by people who came from Russia and
brought with them the fashions of the
time of Peter the Great Last week
| the county commissioners let the con-
tract for a new court house with Chin
! neys all over it and stovepipe hole in
every room-just as was the fashion in
the time of Peter the Great.
Tim Long, the news boy at the Santa
Fe depot in Topeka, is deserving of
the western title of being ''onto his
job" A few days ago he sold paper
to a man on No. 5. That afternoon the
man came back on No. and returned
the paper. Tim resold it to q man on
No 6 who carried it east and next day
it came back on 113. Tim then sold it
to a man in the depot and when he
left the paper in his seat Tim took it
home and read it himself.
At the registers office in Saline coun-
ty have been filed two old and inter-
esting papers. The older of the two
was given in May, 1861, to the widow
! of Jonas Trexler, veteran of the war
! of 1912, and conveys the title of 16O
acres of land in the present township
of Liberty, in Saline county. It was
assigned to Joseph Ridley. The Sec
ond was issued in June. 1864, to Alfred
S. Soper, a United States marine, for
services in the battle of Shanghai, and
also conveys 16O acres in the same
township
The Kansas railroads are now wrest-
ling with the proposition concerning
the issuance of passes to sheriffs
Under the old law sheriffs were allow
ed mileage no matter whether they
had passes or not. The roads always
furnished them passes then. The new
fee law only allows them actual expen.
ses paid while conveying prisoners to
the penitentiary or in making other
trips on official business. They can.
not therefore now charge mileage If
they have passes and would not be
benefited by carrying passes. The
roads are figuring on giving them
transportation for personal business
| bat not for official business.
One of the teachers in the Pleasan-
ton school has found cure for the
gum chewing habit. She supplied her.
self with quinine one morning recent
II and when the pupils assembled sew
eral of them were working their jaws
At good gait. The teacher compelled
each one to disgorge their quid and
liberal coating of quinine was spriuk-
led over the same, and the chewer was
required to resume the process d
''chawin'," but the gum had lost all it,
flavor and in its place was bitter dose
of quinine. We do not know whether
the pupils abstain while out of school,
but it is . fact that the practice al
chewing in school has been completely
broken.
The Abilene Poultry association has
started . movement to have county
commissioners empowered to aPpeo
pirate aid for poultry exhibitA Ths
members will gather signers to petit
tons during the year asking tho sans
privileges - are now enjoyed b fsin
| and normal Institutes
The past month has been the most
favorable January for wheat in thu
memory of the oldest Ellis county resi-
dentA The crop condition il fully 10
per cent better thAn that of 1897 1t tb
corresponding time.