The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-04
La Blanche.

While Joseph Title was tending q
thres-Tear- old bull on q picket rope
last Thursday. he was butted down and
likely would been killed had it not
been for some boys stOning the animal
away and taking the man home M
Title was unconscious, and while ne Is
able to be around again, does not re-
member being rescued BY the boys
Jake DOerfeF has his wheat in stack
and alfalfa in the shock
Wallace Mckenzie and Charley Nc
Coy have gone to look for work
Herman Hengstler is down here help
ing his father pillow up the Smoky bot
tom for q trial Of alfalfa on George
Hess farm Mr.. Hengstler will soon
move his shedding down here from
Ismborn and put It up on the Hess
farm and permanently TX for winter
ing the herd Of Is head Of cattle.
Mr.. Peucia Of Beaver City, Neb-,
wheeled through LaBlanche from
Sharon Springs where be had been
looking up a location TO stock up with
cattle. He being 3 former acquRlnt-
ance Of .. Q. Wileman, he gave him a
pleasant call and then wheeled on TO
Colorado Springs.
Word was received last week that 5
Is. SpraQue's father in Illinois was dead.
tt was expected, as Mr.. SpTague has
been there for several weeks.
The rain on Saturday cheated Us out
Of a chance to make either the trip to
Goodland or to RuletOn. Hence, Sun
day We went to RuietOn to see If We
could get the neighbOrhOOd's mail and
stamp some letters and get some very
important articles, such as tobacco,
yeast, chewing gum, etc. We we're ap-
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s a. d. Sundays, only, and that the
postmaster was a Sunday cOwpuncher,
and had the keys with him and would
not be back until p. N. We hated TO
make an extra trip, 50 waited until
nearly shutdown, and still the man and
keys did not show up. But somehow
the pOstOffice door came open about
then, and before three mail bags were
slipped out for the train We had slip
ped in; and before we got away others
had taken our place, and when We LETT
the pOstmistress was telling Gus Car
ter that this is the first time she ever
counted out Sunday eggs over the
counter. Guess Mrs. D. A. Long begins
to think the LaBlanche cyclone Is
blowing more bad than good their way.
But Mrs. D. A. must remember when 1t
does rain in Kansas, its people are put
to the greatest disadvantage OF any on
earth, and she should read anew the OK
and the gutter parable, and apply 1t TO
US.
We wonder if Edwin Strand has an
sWered that fair ones letter yet?
Thomas Mccoy received q telegram
last week from Iowa saying his father
was very i'll He took the train imme-
diately for Iowa
Alb Walters and wife are worth $1,000
10 the shape Of a boy since last week
The other two we're girls, you know.
The few words We said in our items
a few weeks ago regarding Fred Year
ick's lost umbrella was as "bread cast
upon the water to be gathered many
days hence" 1t was found In the HOus-
ton tree claim Sunday by Will Hengs-
tier, q reader Of this paper, and prompt
~ returned, and Fred made quite a
TODD over his good luck, although the
rainy spell was barely of, when il
would have been very serviceable.
1t viii be remembered about a year
ago We thought we had found Russian
thistle bug that was going TO destroy
the obnoxious weed, as they we're so
thick among them, and We wrote up
lengthy article showing that everything
had an enemy In time to hold it in
check, etc. Well, that bug left for
good and never seemed to do real bust
ness at all with the pricky weed that
has become the survival Of the fit
test" among all weeds and grain crops
here this year But now We can posi-
lively report a genuine destroyer in
the shape OF an army worm, and they
have suddenly harvested every thistle
In large scopes Of territory in these
parts. The first we noticed was some
wheat fields with all the thistles coal
black and dead to the ground. We
thought an electric storm might have
done IT, and wondered over it. But on
investigation found little measuring
worm was doing the fatal work, and as /
they 60 through corn fel1s, etc, they
never touch leaf, but the thistIes are |
no more They seem to be travelling /
south and east. Nov since We are on
to the worm, 1t daWns upon Us few !
weeks ago near these DESTROYED fields
We saw great sWarms of very small /
miller species flying from the thistles /
as our horse passed. A sigh of relief /
goes up among all eye witnesses while /
our prophecy Of a year ago is being I
fulfilled.
A gentle, general rain fell here Sat /
Urdsy night and Sunday Of about ~ /
inches This is a potato rain and in 1
sures rs that crop. Also corn and hay. /
For what We lost IN wheat, We viii make /
up IN spuds, corn, hay and cattle.
William MeMillen had a runaway at /
R1letOn Thursday noon and nearly +
lost his vote at our school meeting.
J b Moore had that carpetsack Of I
school books ont again last Thursday. 4
We know the public is interested as
70 the outcome OF our annual school i
nesting keener interest vas mani 4
tested this year than usual, and more 4
patrons turned out as test nose count I
vas expected Of simon pure patrons. /
An unscrupulOus howl was made last i
year, and a county case made because
the school bouse was voted and moved I
70 central location for the children in 1