The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-10-03
KANSAS NOTES

DC q success. Inc meFry-gO-TOunQ has
arrived.
Six rows Of Jewell county corn make
a wagon load, with the sideboards on,
this fall.
DR.. H. P Candy is a physician in
GOOdland, who works while many Of
his patients sleep
Four heifer calves in eleven months
is the record of Farmer Aker's Jersey
COW, near WellsvilIe.
A Lyons citizen has a cherry tree in
full blossom and a pear tree with ripe
fruit and blooms also.
Now that Lebanon has a we'll
equipped fire department they are won
dering why they don't have a call
Emporia continues to bury its dead
past. The last Of the old street cars
have just been sent to the scrap pile
The sky around Ottawa has been
tinged with scarlet all week It has
had the Red Band Of Italy and a $50, 900
fire.
Poisoned dried beef was responsible
for the serious illness of a score OF
Rice county people for twenty-foUr
hours.
Two Dexter boys gave the punsters
good chance by being in a railroad
wreck but nimbIy escaping without
scratch.
Some persons have no appreciation Of
the eternal fitness Of things. Mr. Saint
is leaving Paradise Jewell county, for
Oklahoma
The first automobile has made its ap-
pearance in Ottawa The people out in
Franklin county refer TO it as the OF
tawamobile.
A white pelican that measured eight
feet from tip to tip wandered inland as
far as Colby where a rife ball closed
the chapter
An Abilene preacher, according to
the Reflector, chose for his text last
Sunday She only touched the helm Of
His garment
The canvass for senator has pro-
crossed so far that the first straw
vote" taken on a railroad train, has
made its appearance.
John Haughey, the state fish warden,
is engaged in denouncing those persons
who use dynamite to kill fish They
deserve a blowing up
Florence is one Of the most aristo-
cratic towns in the state. 1t has
Cricket club, besides a GALAXY Of Har-
Yey Eating House girls.
A Rice county citizen in court faint
ed three times before the judge could
pass sentence upon him. And it was
only for seven years after all.
Without wishing to be hasty, or to
take snap judgment in the matter, the
Dodge City Republican believes the
island of Martinique is ell fated."
There are families at Waverly that
g. Oh II
for their children, but manage to find
food for three or four worthless dogs
daily.
There is a man in Olathe so meek
that he has paid $50 to buy his wife an
electric seal jacket, and has had her
last winters raglan cut down to fit
himself.
A Greensburg man has sold S115
worth of watermeIOns so far this sea-
son. And this in the face of the fact
that coyotes have destroyed some of
his best specimens
Out in Pawnee county Farmer Cham
pion has a big apple tree full Of fruit
and filed with snow white blossoms as
well. A neighbor near has a Siberian
crab tree in full bloom.
A public sale held in Abilene last
week will have to be held over again
a man bid on nearly everything and
when it was over he owed 1880. He
would have paid cash, but he had only
cents in cash and no collateral
A feature of the Atchison corn car
uival will be ten decorated baby bug
gies, containing ten pretty babies,
pushed by ten young and pretty girls
dressed as nurses. 1t viii be a very
attractive feature-as long as the
babies behave.
LeavenwOrth county is disgruntled
to discover that DOniphan county has
the more apple trees. The latter has
454, 01S, while LeavenwOrth has 451. 6S7.
The two are among the thirty greatest
apple producing counties in the United
States.
John Macdonald, of the Western
School Journal, is advocating the old
fashioned spelling match" as a means
OF stimulating education The move
may be inspired by the fact that nine
printers in every ten spell his name
Mcdonald.
Fault is being found with the school
Biographies because OF the spelling OF
Kearny county. The Biographies as
well as the Official maps spell it 'Kear-
ney," but the statutes spell it without
the chronic open letter" writers =
glorious chance.
W. H. L Pepperell, Of ConcOrdia, is
getting even with those democrats
who defeated him for secretary Of the
democratic state committee after ten
years Of faithful service, by increas-
ing the amount Of his advertising in
the ConeOrdia papers On January
be viii be a good many hundred dollars
ahead Of the game
In the town OF CARRIER, On the Okla
bona border, the town marshal VIII be
paid hereafter BY the record he makes,
not BY the number Of hours he puts
IN. No arrests, no pork chops.
A new paper, the Clay Center Demo
crat, created a sensation last week
By ringing the tOcsin-" It vas the
first time It has been rung this year,
and caught everybody unaWares-
Judge Hook has appointed Lucien
Baker. John Il. atwood and / E Lam
bert to defend the mutinous eonVicts
81 the LesTenWoTth federal ne1iten-
siary, Who escaped last November, and
are a0V accused OF purdeF.