The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-03-31

KANsAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

A brand new organ will help swell
the joyful chorus in the Congregation
al church at Fredonia.
In Lawrence the Commercial club
has taken up the good roads problem.
The idea ough to spread.
1t took a short time one afternoon
for couple of Downs men to collect
$50 for the Cuban relief fund.
Cimarron has a woman for Mayor, a
woman for postmistress, and woman
for superintendent of public instruc-
ton.
One Lincoln county man who owns a
quarter section of land has sold since
the first of January $9ss worth of live
stock.
If Kansan feels his sympathy for
the Cubans weakening, let him take
up good history and read about Val
ley Forge.
The Independence ice factory started
up last week working day and night.
Five men are employed and the capac-
fly is eleven tons 2 day.
At Gaylord the Christian Endeavor
society got stuck about s25 worth on
Tank KEGS Chinese lectures. Old Tank
is overworking that graft of his.
Near Neodesha prospector had bad
luck. He drilled HOO feet looking for
gas or oil, and struck nothing but wa
ter. The hole has been plugged up.
The salary of the city marshal 1t
Seneca has been reduced to SIS per
month, but there has been no reduc-
ton in the number of applicants for
the job.
Every day gives more assurance that
the header barge viii be the popular
ship of state in Kansas again this year.
They may not be very pretty but they
will do to tie to.
Baker university was forty years old
March 10. Age is becoming evident on
its gray walls, but the first young
woman graduate is living near Law
renee and still gives her age at twenty
three.
Humboldt is getting to the front. A
big brick factory has just been put in
which will soon be turning out brick,
both ordinary and vitrified, tile and
sewer pipe. Natural gas it used. The
town has furniture factory in opera
alton.
Atchison lodges complain because
the Salvation Army and the American
Volunteers disturb their sessions with
the beating of their tom toms and hal
lelujah shouts. Their racket does not
jibe with the mournful, solemn cadence
of the voice of the Grand Hooker-in as
he leads the victim around the ring.
The farmers In western Kansas should
put out grove of some kind. Besides
affording shade and shelter for stock,
it adds much enhancement and beauty
to farm. Maple groves are the pref
test, but the cottonwood have the
most rapid growth. Any kind of trees
will answer for grove, but it is al
ways advisable to put out the ones
that make the best shade and the most
rapid growth.
An Atchison preacher who is some
what new to the ways of the west
Jared his congregation from stem to
gudgeon recently by expressing the
belief that the church ought to buy
two or three hundred silver cups for
communion purposes. The idea of
common cup for this purpose is distaste-
full to him, but a great many of the
congregation are disposed to regard
this as finicky idea.
Nine of the most staid and respect
able families in Burton, have thrown
away their stove lids and packed their
dishes in the useless stoves. Whether
restless something new" spirit of their
material commonwealth or not, they
have shocked the ordinary ideas of
economic propriety, and have formed a
cooperative living association, where
in the food question is settled upon O
cooperative basis.
Most farmers understand that the
use of broad wagon tires gives an ad-
vantage in the matter of lighter draft.
AID. as they are usually mounted on
low frames, an advantage is gained in
loading and unloading. The broad
tires pull much lighter on paved
streets. gravel roads and dirt roads in
all conditions excep. when soft and
muddy; in such cases The narrow tires
are to be preferred. For use on the
farm in meadow lands. corn lands, and