The Globe-republican., 1900-02-01
Kansas ITEMS OF INTEREST


Mankato's watervorlzs plant is COM
Pleted and accepted by the city council
Four boys of the Twentieth Kansas
are enrolled as students at the state
agricultural college
About twenty members of the Tween
tieth Kansas are employed at the Tope-
ka shops and Offices.
The contempt case of John P. Reese
an Jail at Ft- Scott, will be taken to the
Federal supreme court.
Tt is reported that the plan is to hold
all the Kansas conventions, state and
congressional, in April.
w. H. Biddle, state treasurer under
the Lewe1ling administration, is now a
resident of WeIlston, O. T.
A Barton county man has sold a
quarter section of land for 5000 more
than ne paid for it month ago
Be1oit Catholics expect to commence
work on a church this year which will
cost in the neighborhood of $40 900.
Mrs. Bertha Picket is treasurer of
of Lane county, and Miss Kate E. John
son holds the same Office in Norton
Reno county is to have new court
house to cost about $50, 900. More than
$50, 900 is now in hand for the purpose.
''Ice will be ice next summer in Kan
sas,' said one ice factory magnate to
another-and then they took something
A bill is before Congress to build a
civil federal reformatory at Leaven-
worth, for the confinement of young
prisoners
So far this month the Kansas City
station has secured seventy-six recruits
for the regular army, largely from
Kansas
Flora E. Pool in the Mail and Breeze
says that Hiawatha is the prettiest
small town in the state, with Sterling
a close second
The secretary of war transmitted to
the house an estimate of 1925, 900 for
rebuilding officers quarters at Fort
Leavenworth, Kas-
Bert Cole was driving in a buggy
near COTS, and collided with Central
Branch train at crossing. He is in a
critical condition.
Christian Scientists of Howard have
established a reading room, open to all
who wish to take advantage of it from
1 to P. m every day
Farmers were busy blowing during
the first three weeks of January Grass
started. Winter wheat is looking as
well as it could look.
The j. s. Smythe bank at Stockton is
closed and settling up. 1t is hoped
that it Will be able to pay out in full,
at a sacrifice of its capital.
A Neneha county farmer hauled
sixty-nine hogs into Wetmore few
days ago and sold them for nine hundred
and ninety-seven dollars and nickel
In the southwestern part of McPher-
son county some sand hills and
sand lands Foryears they We're avoid
ed Germans came in and took them
and have made them blossom like a
garden
Mrs. Sarah Morley, of Wellington,
aged 81 committed suicide by hanging
herself in :, small outbuilding on the
premises of her sister, Mrs Robert
Earle, with whom she had been making
her home.
d. a. Guilds, of Fort Scott, through
Major Martin. of the Twentieth Kan
sas, has received from the adjutant
general the gun carried in the Philip
pine war by his son. Halle Guilds, who
was killed on the firing line
DR.. Charley Howe, of Atchison urges
the residents of towns threatened with
smallpox to remember the vinegar
treatment. DR. Howe cleaned the
smallpox out of Lenora with the vine
gar treatment and says that it is doing
SooU "ortA al ZEN iS>Aif'- FAehe eHe us
ease has been confined to n single case
The superintendent of free delivery.
both in cities and country, reports that
the work done by the carrier from
Station B of the Topeka Office exceeds
the record of any other carrier in the
United States
The Kansas State Editorial associa-
ton held a pleasant session at Fort
Scott Jan. 1928. The next meeting
will be held in Topeka The following
officers were chosen: President, L.
Randolph. Nortonville: Secretary. G..
Davis, Concordia; treasurer, w G Ran
ey, Fort Scott
4 fine brick hotel viii be put up at
Troy on the site Of the old Highly House
which was destroyed by fire some weeks
ago.
Calena has closed a Contact for a