The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-01-10
KANSAS ITEns OF IsrEnEsr.s.


construction or contracted for at Her
ington.
One firm at Ell Dorado paid out 81. 900
to farmers for poultry the two weeks
before Christmas.
Frank A Root and w. E. Connolly.
of Topeka, are writing history of the
overland stage line.
There are now los travelling libraries
from the Kansas state library, in actual
use out over the state
Judge A. w. Dennison. of Butler
county, has just marketed 221 full fed
8-year-olds for 50, 764.17,
James P. Webster, the Mitchell
county farmer who recently died, was
a nephew of Daniel Webster.
The Rock Island ice house at Herring
ton has been doubled in crpacity. Tt
now has room for 2, 900 tons of ice.
W. G. Barnett, formerly chief opera
tor in the Wichita Santa Fe freight
Office, is going into the grocery trade
Otis L. Benton shipped from his
Sheridan county ranch 5000 cattle to
Central Iowa, where he is feeding
them
During December more than 500, 900
in life insurance was written by agents
in Ottawa Most of it was of the en-
dovment kind, with heavy premiums,
the sort that is taken as an invest
ment.
L. E. Duggan, manager of the Wich-
tia station of the Missouri and Kansas
Telephone company, has been made
district manager for all the lines south
and west of Usage City, with headquar-
tiers in Wichita.
A force of men are building a
Rock Island depot at Enterprise in
place of the one that was destroyed by
fire last month The new depot will
be frame structure, larger and better
finished than the old one
farmer near Argonia has so acres
of sandy soil which was considered al
most worthless, having failed to raise
either wheat, corn or oats He then
tried fruit and has better profits than
others have on good grain land
Ernest T.. Huffman, formerly of COM
pany d, Twentieth Kansas, later of
troop F, Eleventh cavalry, has returned
to Girard from Manila He numbers
among his battles the engagement
where General Lawton was killed.
At the home of o. n. Gray in Jewell
City, little boy sat down to his Christ
mas dinner in company with his father
and mother, his two grandfathers and
his two grandmothers, and his great
grandfather and great-grandmother.
Almeda is a small station on the
Missouri Pacific in Kingman county at
which one man serves as postmaster
railroad agent and merchant There
has been shipped during the season OF
1900 GO carloads of hogs from A1meda-
The mother of Dr. Mitchell, at At.
Gibson, is "a years old. She was mar
ried at IA and now has ten living chill
1drhi
grandchildren and z great-great-grand
children. She still rides horseback tc
church.
d. Tennyson, farmer of Marshal
county, put twenty tons of clover hay
In his barn loft 20 years ago. Thi.
winter he is feeding that hay. 1t i.
bright, but has settled down to com
pact mass and requires cutting t.
handle it.
Wichita teachers won the specia
prize at the state teachers association
for the largest attendance from a cit,
IN proportion to number employed in
city. The prize was S32. p worth o
books
The Hutchinson Salt company CAV
as a Christmas gift to each of it's SO
workers, a turkey and small casl
present.
District court at Columbus adjourne
and the schools close on account O
smallpox 1t is estimated that ther
are 200 cases in Cheralxee county.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Beck in tn
Neosho county Jail on thirty day
sentence for marrying. as they are fir:
cousins They are well to do peopl
and they say that when they get OF
of Jail they viii go where they can /
legally married
Wash Pearson and his bride WI
live near Edna-went to the barn han
in hand, where he reached to tai
down his shotgun. when a young be
tossed monkey wrench so that it fe
on the hammer of the gun and NJ
Pearson was killed.
The johnson county teachers ass
citation presented Miss Edith Barnei
the county superintendent, handsou
silver tea set.