The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-05-25

asaeseo Is crying loudly for cream
cry and . Touring mill
Nine business houses are being erect
ed ON one street in Galena.
Page ads Of the Santa Fe road arc
becoming as common a. public sale
bills in the fall.
This is commencement season."
great time for the dress makers and
photographers
A Hanover firm paid ont close TO ten
thousand dollars for eggs during the
month of April
According to the assessors returns
I. B. Wilcox, farmer politician, il the
richest man in Atchison county.
Oliver Ewell of Kiowa county, has
one thousand acres of upland planted
to sorghum and kafiiir corn, and the
crop looks well.
A northern Kansas man who is vis-
liting down in Arkansas says in a let
ter to a newspaper that all that state
lacks to place it in the front rank Is
some Kansas push.
Phillip Kelly of the Soldiers Home
at Leavenworth is putting the finish
ing touches on statute of Dewey
which is said to be faithful repre-
sentation of the Admiral
The Post says that there has oeen
a large increase in the Indian trade of
Powhattan within the last few months.
Perhaps the name of the town has
something to do with drawing the In
dams there.
A sad accident is reported by the
Powhattan Post: A farmer living few
miles from that town shot off his
mouth SO hard the other day THAI the
recoil put him back week with his
corn planting.
With sledge hammers the mayor OF
Eskridge. assisted by the sheriff OF
Wabaunsee county, demolished the
bar fixtures of couple of jointists
who had recently been brought to the
end of their string by the district
court
The continued dry, windy weather
is not favorable to growing crops and
the improvement in wheat, oats, barley
and grass this week is generally con-
fined to portions of counties in which
good local showers occurred Rye is
beginning to head in Trego county.
Encouraging reports come in from
all sections of the state concerning the
crops Sedgwick county was visited
by good rain on the night of May
10, over two inches of water falling.
Good rains are reported throughout
the state and the young corn is doing
we'll.
Business men of Soldier, over in jack
, son county, have adopted novel adj
vertising scheme. They offer cash
wrize of $40 to the farmer who drives
the greatest distance to trade at that
point between May 20 and May 81
The only conditions to be complied
with are that the farmers purchase
$3.50 worth of goods, and register al
one of the stores. The business mer
of Soldier believe that in this way
they will succeed in impressing it upor
lot of people that it will be to theil
advantage to do their trading at that
point.
: Occasionally a report comes in t.
the effect that chinch bug is bobbine
up here and there, in spite of the rig
: orous weather which it was hopet
would lay them low; but the condi
tions are against them, and it is no
likely that they will be able to d,
y great damage this season. 1t SEEM
5 that about the only thing that will
make chinch bug give up his teuaci
, GUS hold on life is q dose of Prof
Shows celebrated knock em-stiff; ant
4 that will do it, if the directions which
r accompany the infected bugs are fol
lowed.
: In a Pratt county town the othe
d day q man, recently from Missouri
q entered . restaurant and sat down
r Presently a colored man entered IN,
n sat down. The Missourian arose
" threw the colored man out and wa
arrested.
e John Bechtel, boy of Is years
d while wolf hunting on the prairles o
II western Kansas, alighted from hi
It horse, tying the halter strap to hi
It wrist The horse ran away, draggin
J. him over the rocks, and when foun
he was dead.
y What Kansas wants to know il
d eastern dollars will follow on tn
- heels of eastern commitments