The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-12-20
PERSONAL NOTES.

n hA6lbOE the CITY tuesday.
Mrs. G. E. MeCasIin left Monday
morning for visit in Wisconsin.
Mrs A @. Adams went to Denver
yesterday for visit with friends.
! DR.. W. II. Farrow went to Pueblo
yesterday. He will be absent a week
PhilVolke has returned from Denver
and Is again in the employ Of the Cul-
Inns cafe.
Mrs. A. G. Patrick, of Colorado
Springs, was a guest at the Depot hotel
Sunday.
J.C. Wilson and family, of Syracuse,
Neb., are here for visit with Smith
Artmsn.
Miss Rae Thorson has returned from
a visit in Pueblo with her sister, Mrs.
J. n. Cox.
On Wednesday, December 25-Christ-
mas-the post Office will close at nine
o'clock q. m.
Mrs. A. G. Kaulitz and Miss Gertie
! Doerfer have gone to Denver to spend
la few weeks.
Mrs. W. D. Oakford, of Roswell, is in
\ the city the guest Of her sister, Mrs.
I Frank Mixer.
Sam Johnson returned yesterday
from a trip TO Illinois. He says the
weather is bitter cold in that state
DR.. A. Q. Gulick was at Colby last
| Thursday to attend a meeting Of the
Northwest Kansas Medical association.
w. L. Arnold, of Labelle, Mo, was in
the city this week and may invest in
land in this county before be returns
| home.
Guy Norris, pharmacist in the Ennis
drug store, will leave early next month
for Ellis, Kan, where he will engage in
the drug business for himself.
Owing to the stormy weather the
stores have not been very busy with
the Christmas shoppers as yet. A big
rush is expected to- day and to- morrow,
however.
D. a. Long, of RuletOn, went to On
aha last week with a carload Of both
cattle and sheep where he sold them
on the market. He went from Omaha
to Iowa for visit to his old home.
Vernon Bower was in the city this
week the guest Of his brother, Ernest
Bower, manager of the Bower furni-
ture store. Vernon Bower is a travel
ing salesman for an Omaha furniture
house.
John Nye arrived in town yesterday
from the east. He reports the weather
E6tLlO0
has been favored in escaping the severe
storms which have prevailed both east
and west.
Pearl Hardy, Of LaBlanche, took the
train at Goodland Monday evening for
his former home in the state Of Maine.
Mr.. Hardy has spent four years in
Kansas, the last three in this county,
and be may return here next spring.
The turkey shoot Wednesday was
we'll attended considering the weather.
There were 10 contestants with the fol-
lowing winners: N. Q. Jones, two tur-
keys; Sam Beidelman, E J. Tippins,
Phil Wichael, John Reed and Wallace
Filler each one. Wichael took his back
to Iowa.
The cold weather Of the past few
days formed ice to such a thickness
that made skating possible wherever
enough water stood. The best place
near GOOdland is the railroad sewer,
and last Sunday the reservoir was the
scene Of large party of young people
who enjoyed themselves on the ice.
The Norton Champion says of Trsv-
elingman Riley, who is well-known in
Goodland: Courtney z. Riley, the
vermillion hued traveller famons i'm
Norton and the northwest, left last
week for the old home in Virginia
Endowed with every element of genius
for success, he left US on the hog
train. Success to Riley"
Elders Vaughn and Gerwen, of the
Latter Day Saints church, have been
holding meetings In the Rhine neigh |
bOrhOOd, northwest Of town, for some
time. Tuesday night they held ser
vices in the Christian church in Good |
land. The meetings will continue
every night throughout the week.
The Parkhurst-Davis wholesale gro
Gerry firm, of Topeka, has plGced an
order with an eastern factory for %
automobiles for its travelling statesmen. |
Dennis LyndeD, who represents the |
company In this section and makes !
Goodland his headquarters, will have |
charge Of one Of the autos.
John Cullins complains Of Door pat
rOnage for his hack that meets the /
trains. He says that many employ the |
hverymen to take them to and from
the trains when they could be served |
much cheaper and with less trouble by
patrOnizing him. The hack is an &C
commodatiOn TO the public and should
receive the support to which it is en-
titled
". II. Lowe, Of Atlantic, Ia, and O.P. |
Tyler, of Hamlin, Ia, dealers IN live
stock and real estate, were in Good
land this week on business Mr.. Lowe
was here some time ago and bought
several carloads Of cattle which be
shipped to Iowa He also has g large
ranch in Texas where he was going
when leaving here. Mr.. Tyler Is q
wealthy stockman, and both gentle
men have large property interests IN
Iowa and other states.
The Cullins hack was badly wrecked
in q runaway Wednesday morning at
three o'clock. The hack had gone to
the depot but was on its way up town
to get q passenger for the three o'clock
train when the team got beyond con-
troll OF the driver and cOllided with the
telephone pole near Whites carpenter
shop, swapping the pole OF at the bot
tom. Lewis Frydendall, the driver, and
John Culllns, who was IN the hack