The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-12-12
KANSAS NOTES

Methodist church is in debt.
An lola couple, married last August,
have Just sent in the returns.
Ten hills to a busheI are the kind
OF potatoes they have in Smith county.
Now that the election is over Ottawa
win maeadamize the road to the Gene
terry.
Soon two banks viii be doing bust
ness IN Latham where now there are
none.
Pleasant Hill, Dickinson county. is
being made unpleasant by chicken
thieves
4 Hutchinson man is the proud pos
SCISSOR Of a silver dollar of the vintage
OF 1926.
Two Humboldt beets weigh twenty
nine pounds with the tops and loose
dirt OF.
A hardy Fl Dorado tomato plant is
still blooming and bearing, regardless
Of Jack Frost
An Abilene man who has a S25 Pana-
ma hat is contemplating trading it of
for ton Of coal
Floods so injured Cawker City that
the Ledger required a supplement to
tell Of the damage.
Smith Center band girls will give a
shadow social 1t should be no trouble
to drum up crowd
Winfield had a lively little blaze al
the gas plant But come to think Of it
gas is intended to burn.
An absent minded Pratt woman after
hunting for an hour or so for her shoe
discovered it on her foot
A Leavenworth man visiting Spo-
kane has contracted the appendicitis,
pleurisy and typhoid fever
There are too many "hot things
happening at FL Dorado. The town
wants a cold storage plant.
A superstitiOus Topeka woman does
not object to "13" when one of the
dozen eggs is double yOIk.
A strange child was found on the
Rushes' porch at FL Dorado. The babe
viii probably be called Moses
Out of 153 guesses on a prize loaf or
bread at FL Dorado two women figured
the exact weight-111z pounds.
Just after Farmer Shuey Of Dickinson
refused s225 for his big bay team one
of the horses laid down and died
The whisky at AiiceviIle must be
very confusing when it caused q hun
ted to kill a steer for jack rabbit.
A Columbus coIored man returning
home from church stopped at a beer
party and had his neck cracked.
It's strange, but salt exists in large
quantities around the town of Gypsum,
and gypsum abOUnds in Same county.
The reporter who is fond Of using the
expression suffice il to say is work
ing on the COncordia Blade and En-
pire.
oGrson Emerson has accepted a call
60 Lincoln, Neb., the call to the gov
ernorship having proved to be a false
alarm.
The biggest pumpkin at an Abilene
prize show weighed 1861 pounds and
the smallest 6915. Could this happen
Il any other state?
Elections are good for some pur-
poses The Episcopal women OF Win
field cleared S45 for coal for the pastor
by peddling sandwiches during the
The meanest man in Kansas lives
near Olpe. Mad at a neighbor he
slashed the tails from a dozen Of said
neighbor's COWS with view Of getting
even.
The marriage of Mabel Matthews and
Anthony Jennings, deaf mutes, in Hia-
watha recently was satisfactory, al
though neither Of them had a voice in
it
For seven years a certain Parsons
woman has been compelled to sit at
the table, silent as q mouse, while her
husband devOured the morning or
evening paper, as the case may have
been, and grumbled occasionally at the
cooking
A charitable citizen climbed to the
pinnacle Of the Emporia fountain the
other night and placed a mother hub
bard" on the naked, bronze cupid It's
a pity that people who worry over little
things haven't something big to trouble
them.
An editor in central Kansas. has
started a movement" whereby the edi-
tors viii not give more than three
line obituary notice to any man who
does not subscribe to at least one local
paper The rule, it is explained, IS not
enforced against pauperss 1unatics, OF
Indians.
Speaking the the trials OF early set
tiers. q correspondent Of the DelphOs
Republican tells this one: I am
sfraid Of IRE" said a settlers wife to
me the other day. "Once when We
we're burning on the corn stubble in
autumn there came up whirlwind and
carried the flames to our neighbOr's
farm. It took his barn and most Of his
wheat and hay. Ny husband and 1
scrimped and saved for four years to
nav for that loss, but We did it Dur
Ing All that time only spent s. for
new clothes. Do you wonder that am
afraid Of FREE"
4 rich Anthony citizen Of fifty sum-
ners advsrtlsss for & middle aged WI
dow or maiden lady as a hOusekeeper,
With view to matrimOny-
An Ottawa man bet his children's
hurro= on election and lost When the
winner went 70 collect he was puzzled
fox time which TO lead away
some COW beets were brought to the
smith County Journal this week on
substitution. Of course they VIII be
turned over 70 the agricultural editor.
Salins WOMAN VAS badly bitten by
ferier she vas ministering a poi
son asots TO- Bulldogs, ike FepuD-
lies zrt C prove ungrateful