The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-10-03

business at Pawnee Rock
A cadet corps is being organized at
the Kansas Wesleyan at Salina.
Topeka packers are paying So IS for
hogs the highest price since 1885
The Unftarians of Wichita are
planning to build SO, 600 church
Sumner county expects to have an
increased acreage of wheat planted
this year
The grape crop in some places in
Kansas is reported to be I 1000 pounds
to the acre.
Students other than Swedes are en-
rolled this year in Bethany college,
at Lindsborg-
An ancestor of Carl D. Avignon. of
Newton, a Santa Ee brakeman, was
French nobleman.
G. A Blair, of Mulvane, won the
first prize for the finest peaches at the
Buffalo exposition.
Corn in Nemaha county is yielding
40 to As bushels to the acre. 1t is selling
at 40 cents bushel
The Old Soldiers reunion at River
side Park comes during the Wichita
fair and carnival week.
Chairman Henry L. Allen, of the
state board of charities, has bought a
farm in Franklin county
The board of railroad commissioners
has decided in favor of Concordia's be-
ing granted jobbing rates.
A collection for a special purpose was
taken in the Methodist church at Pratt
and the amount taken was 1925
The commercial club of Hutchinson
is agitating the purchase by the city of
the waterworl1s and light plant.
A Cloud county man who was in Kan
City with cattle said that the num-
Der of cattle in his county is so per cent
short.
Alfalfa growers near Cimarron are
getting a fourth crop of hay this year.
This is remarkable considering the
drouth.
The Jetmore College, a new Metho-
dist school, has been opened It's pres
ident is R. A Lee Master the resident
minister.
A Parsons bank offers to cash war
rants at par, drawn the general
fund for the amount needed to purchase
the site for the new asylum.
Miss Abby Huntington Ware, of To-
pel1a, daughter of Eugene Ware, is to
teach English and history in the Fort
Scott high school this year.
D.
Pherson politician, cleared $50, 900 in
one week, by investing in margins in
lard in the Kansas City market
The affianced bride of Lieutenant
Burton Mitchell, Miss Marley, of
Olathe, died recently. Lieutenant
Mitchell is aide to General Funston.
Associate Justice A. H. Ellis, of the
supreme court, is sick at the home of
his brother in Kansas City and Will
not be able to attend the October term
of the court.
The highest point in Kansas is Bird
City, in Cheyenne county-4, 900 feet
above the level of the sea. The lowest
point is Kansas City, Kan.-7OO feet
above the-sea level.
Business men of Emporia are plan
ming to buy lots adjoining the grounds
of the state normal for the library
building. There is but one vacant place
the grounds to put it and that is
out of sight from aIiy1v here; back of the
main building.
One entire outer wall of the Wareham
opera house at Manhattan fell, carrying
with it about ten feet of the front. The
telephone office is in the building and
the system is damaged so that service
was cut off for time. The building is
insured only against fire
St Paul-s Methodist church of Wich-
tia is planning to build SO, 900 adj
dition. 1t Will have pipe organ. The
church owns 115 feet on the corner
their old church occupies.
The Continental Creamery company.
has provided for a fund of 500, 900 to
enlarge its factory and stations in Kan
sas and Oklahoma 1t is expected that
SIS. 900 viii be used to build creamery
at Wichita A large amount will be
used to increase the number of its skim
ming stations They now have 800
slimning stations
Miss Maud Hunter represented Ceres
at the wheat jubilee in Wellington
Ernest Lewis, a 13-year-old colored
boy, is the latest victim of too much
boy jumping moving trains in
switching yards He did this in Wich-
tia and both his legs We're cut off. He
lived eight hours never losing CONSCIOUS
ness The boys father was informed
of the terrible occurrence by messenger