The Globe-republican., 1899-11-30

houses1s getting WELL de Is still ID
London.
Four thousand chickens were Shipped
from Seneca last week, billed for San
Francisco.
The Topeka wooden mills enlarged
their capacity by so per cent during
November.
Burr Oak has new stone school
house which, with furnishings, has
cost $4,000.
Fourteen of the boys of company H
the Lawrence company-are yet in the
Philippines.
A Wilson county man claims to have
gathered $50 bushels of corn off "a
acres of ground.
The Kansas court of appeals will ex-
pire by limitation before the the next
legislature meets.
Some of the handsomest diamonds in
Topeka are worn by employees in the
Rock Island offices.
Lawrence is to have a new S25, COO
school house and an $50, 900 courthouse
in the near future.
Kansas farmers who come into town
nowadays tell very good stories con-
corning the wheat.
The Mccormick Harvester Company
has bought ground and will build a big
warehouse in Wichita.
Hiram Stevens, an old-time district
judge in this state, died at the age Of
% in Kansas City last week.
The space allotted in the capitol at
at Washington for the statues of two
Kansans is still unoccupied.
A Kirwin merchant offers premium
of $40 to the person who sells him the
most eggs before Christmas.
John A. Bright, grand master of the
1. o. o. F., of Kansas, has dedicated
new Odd Fellows hall at Delphos.
The towns of Jewell county are now
all connected by telephone and expect
to be soon connected with the outside
world.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
says that many persons are finding
work through the state employment
agency.
One year ago thirteen grandmothers
sat at table in Galena, and the other
day the same thirteen joined again
around the festal board.
Sims Ely, well known in western
and Oklahoma, is now connect
ed with an irrigation and reservoir
company at Phoenix, Arizona.
Galena city's council has decided to
ask all merchants except druggists,
meat market men and bakers, to close
their places of business Sunday noon.
The 2-year-old boy of James Hayes,
who was travelling in wagon from
Mo-, to Coal Gate, I. T., was
killed near Wichita, Kas., by the acct
dental discharge of a shotgun.
At the closing meeting of the Y. NJ.
c. A. convention at Ottawa, in about
an hours time, enough money was
to insure the organization
Of local association and to pay for
quarters for year.
Attorney Harry Wood of Wellington,
first lost his barn by fire, at which time
his buggy was taken out and cut to
pieces in front of his house. Now his
house and outbuildings have been
fred, but the house itself was saved.
Mrs. Clara ]. Elliott, widow of Cap
tain D. S. Elliott, late of Company G,
Kansas, has been allowed a
pension of $50 month, dating back to
the time the captain was killed at
Caloocan, last February. Two children
will draw 50 month each until they
are 16 years old.
Bethesda Hospital at Goessel, is re-
ported in thriving condition. There
are four nurses, one trainer, on duty
all the time. Volunteer contributions
from the Mennonite churches are made
with regularity.
Thirty farmers of north Dickinson
county gathered and cribbed widows
,orn crop, set up a machine and
threshed her kafir corn and put the
place in good shape generally. They
hen departed without a word to the
widow. Their own hearts will reward
hem.
Lieutenant j. H. Bell who is men.
Toned in the late dispatches from Ma.
lila for his bravery. is we'll known in
central Kansas. When General For.
,ythe was in command at Fort Riley,
Bell was his adjutant.
1t is said that the action of the Mis-