The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-11-15

Wichita has an old soldiers club
with ,oo1 members
Thirteen insurance companies have
state agents in Topeka
The Wichita city library has 1,sos
members holding cards
There are 1905 children OF school
age in Shawnee county.
There are 1e.7o7 negro children at
tending school in the state
The attendance at Paramount college
is the largest yet recorded
Tt is said that Downs, with a popula-
ton of 900, is without a lawyer
The Reading state bank, of Reading
Eas commenced business with capital
of SIP. 900.
The Reno county court house is ready
for the roof and Eve vaults have been
contracted for.
The Rock Island has put on new
daily passenger train between Newton
and Chielzasha~
Chancellor Snow has had his leave Of
absence from Kansas university ex-
tended to one year.
Maxwell Phillips, OF Fairmount,
Kas., has been appointed assistant
clerk at the Santa Fe, \. NJ, Indian
school
a cooperative charitable association
Of church societies. lodges and chart
table societies, is being formed in
Wichita
Corn running eigl1ty-fve bushels to
the acre and selling on the street at So
cents is the report made by one Wood
son county farmer
Kansas communities are already
talking about the celebration of the
First Fourth of July of the twentieth
century in grand style.
S. ]. Hunter, of the department OF
entomology at Kansas University has
been invited to address the Colorado
State horticultural society at Denver
On November 2I.
A smile of chagrin appears now when
it is remembered that Kansas did not
appreciate young Dick Yates as d rc,s-
trun orator while now he is governor
elect of his own state.
The last payment was made at Ctta-
wa to the Chippewas and Muncies on
November o, each Indian receiving
nearly $500. About s.. 200 was paid to
Indians in Franklin county.
A neat booklet containing n page for
every church in Wichita, which is a
complete church directory, is to be
placed in the rooms of the hotels of the
city. 1t is named Travelling Mems
Guide
Half of the town of Stafford was de-
stroyed by fire on November 10. The
loss is estimated at $50. 900 partially
covered by insurance. The Stafford
County Leader is in the list of property
burned.
Arguments have been submitted in
the supreme court on issuing q writ of
to Of OBJ r.
compel them to condemn the Parsons
site for the new asylum. The decision
is expected in the course of a month.
Robert Campbell and George Pari1in-
son are both graduates of the Wichita
high school. They are both gaining
high rank in the Northwestern Univer-
sity of Chicago. Last year a Winfield
student carried off the honors at the
orthwestcrn-
The annual session of the Seventh
District Federation of Women's Clubs
| elected Mrs. Al Weatherly, of Harper,
president; Mrs William Mansfield. OF
| Larncd, first vice president; Mrs Fred
| D1mont Smith, of Kinsley. second vice
| rresldent, Mrs s E. Cole, OF Harper,
| secretary; Miss Grace Grove, of La
| Crosse, treasurer
o. E. McElfresh of Usage City will
| stand a trial in the federal court upon
the charge of misapplying pension
money of his insane brother for whom
he was guardian
George Barker, of Douglas county. is
| picked out by his friends as candi-
date for speaker of the 10 err house of
the Kansas Legislature His long ex-
| perience in the senate makes him avail
able
Tt is remembered that in 1885 ~, the
| night of the 9th of Novem Der a foot and
a half of snow fell in Southern Kansas
Paul Palmer, of Topeka was FL yearE
| old Ia hours after the polls closed.
Frank Gilbert, near Gaylord. raised
four crops of alfalfa that averaged 4
tons per acre for each crop. The four
| crops brought him S33 per acre. or al
| most twice what he could sell his land
for.
| 1t is told of a Dickinson county man
that his children cast him off after Sc