The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-07-06


The farmers are getting ready for
the harvest in this vicinity.
Charley Mccoy returned home last
week from Colorado Springs where he
has been working the past summer.
There was a small fishing party went
to Goose creek last Sunday to fish.
J. B. Moore and family took dinner
with Ed Strand last Sunday.
John E. Bretz, Of LeaYenworth, Kan,
is here visiting friends.
Charley Olson and two little boys
we're down to the Smoky fishing Sun
day.
George Hess was on his Smoky
ranch last Sunday.
Erlan HuIstrom has purchased a
new mover.
There was a small attendance at Sun
day school last Sunday.
A nice rain fell here Tuesday.
Herman DOerfer took two loads Of
wool to RuletOn Tuesday which will
bring lots of money.
Ed Strand was repairing his header
boxes ready for harvest last Tuesday.
Mrs. J. B. Moore was on the sick list
last week.
E. HulstrOm and family visited with
Wallace county people Sunday.
Most Of the farmers are through cul-
tivatIng their corn in this vicinity.
The LaBlanche ball team has now
broke up and viii not play ball any
more, although they are good ball
players
L +. Cooper and son were down fish
ing Friday afternoon, the flies being
too bad to pillow corn.
Some Of the adjusters have been
around reckoning up the hail damage,
but the Farmers Mutual, Of Topeka,
has not showed up and harvest is on
Later; The adjuster has arrived at
the 18th hour
Gilbert Olson has quit herding for
Swan Strand and Pearl Hardy takes
his place.
Fred Wileman had horse that took
the lock jaw last Friday night in the
livery barn at GOOdland, and has since
died
The festive potato bugs have got in
their ravenOus work on the potatoes
the last week, and it seems that pOta-
toes that we're not made viii be mix
The best joke of the season is on a
family from Denver moving east. As
they we're driving past George McCIel-
lan's lagoon full of water they IN
bitched and got out their fish poles
and thinking they had struck Goods
country" asked George If he had any
objection to their fishing in his lake.
George gave willing consent. They re-
turned thanks and went 70 work as one
fellow was sure he saw q five-pOunder
jump above the water. As the distance
Widened between George aud the fish
ers, so did a broad grin, and. he allowed
they would get the most bites from the
mosquitoes.
Swan Strand has purchased a steam
engine for that new threshiDg separator
and viii now revise his song that it is
cheaper to thresh with horses than buy
coal.
A bug, almost resembling the Colo
radO beetle potato bug, but smaller in
size, has appeared in great number
and have attacked the great fields Of
sunHOWers and are eating the leaves as
fast IS they appear, and they are the
aggedeSt-lOOking weed We ever saw.
Hope the day has come that this OBJ
nOIious weed has found an enemy
that viii follow it to extinction.
Yes, summer Is here, and so is the
bare-fOOted boy posing on one foot and
receiving pains from thistles with
the other.
Is It not rather early for the cruel
flies appearance, or is it something new
got after the cattle causing them TO
make Jug handles out Of their tails and
run and jump and below like they
had gone mad.
Wheat harvest will commence next
week aud viii be the heaviest We ever
had in Sherman county.
We are sorry to report that Theo-
dors Cations wife has so suddenly left
what seems 70 rs TO be q good and
prosperous home and husband, to live
Eith her people back IN Iowa instead,
especially after rearing up a family OF
Children. It appears she demanded a
share Of the property which was legally
divided up By the husband, and bound
the bargain near as possible that what
Has hers belonged TO her eastern rela-
ton whom he thinks cOsXed her of, I
aud the balance all his Own. which I
seems to be a considerable. In his be- [
nalf and with no intention Of reflection {
on the separating wife We wiz here add I
che old proTsrbial. "a gem IS not pol /
shed without rubbing, nor is human
~ perfected without trials Mr. /
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