The Globe-republican., 1902-05-22
,he Carnecie librarv at Hutchinson


bought the Harvey hotel at Florence
The city of Pratt is to have new
directory of the city and of the county
A big old walnut tree near Pleasan-
ton was sold on the stump the other day
for $3.50
Dirt drifts were formed in Jewell
county by the wind, three feet deep in
the roads
Jewell and Mitchell county farmers
are losing cattle by turning them on
green alfalfa
The music teachers of Kansas held
IL cir annual convention at Topeka
tn last days of April.
The Cottage hotel at Burton was
burned on the night of May 8 The
loss is more than So, ooo-
An excursion train took $50 people
from Junction City to Manhattan to
attend revival meeting
A prairie fire swept over the south
western townships of Rocks county
last week, doing much damage.
Canler worms are said to be strip
ping the leaves from the orchards near
Lawrence and are attacking the forest
trees.
Leavenvorth and Nebraska City
packers are cutting the trusts prices
for beef and are making large sales n
Topeka.
Prof. G. w. Kendricl1 does not go to
Chicago. Newton offered him accept
able terms and he has accepted the
perintendency of the Newton schools.
A reception to all the ministers of
Wichita was given by Mrs Robert
Guthrie in honor of Rev Henry Thayer
fT,aa IF hi 70
During the sixteen years that Judge
Stillwen has held district courts he
never has sentenced woman to the
penitentiary until his last term of court
at Erie.
Archdeacon Watkins, of Ellsworth,
goes to Kenilworth, a suburb of Chi
cago. He has been archdeacon for his
district of the Episcopal church for
number of years
DR. S. w. Williston, professor of his
torical geology and vertebrate anatomy
at the university of Kansas, has decid-
ed to accept similar chair at the uni
versity of Chicago, at salary of So. 500
a year.
Thirty-seven years ago Sid Clarke
was Kansas sole representative in con-
gress.z When Clarke was in Washing
ton last he found but two men in con-
gress who were there when he was
Senator Allison and Senator Hale.
The body of a man was found beside
the Santa Fe railway tracks at Morris,
Kan, so badly mangled that the feat
ures could not be recognized Paper
found gave clue by which it dis
covered that the man was a Robert
Corkins, of Arkansas City, Kas-
The Methodist church of Hutchinson
has surrendered. The church was dis
pleased with the p aston appointed over
them and talked out loud about it.
Dr. Wood has captured their approba-
ton and the church gave him a recep-
ton, at the close of his first month, to
tell him about it.
Major E. A. Osborne died in Chicago
May z. Major Osborne was the
town lot agent of what is now the
Santa Fe railroad, in the laying out
and disposal of the town lots of Coffey-
Vile He also laid out Osborne's adai-
ton to that town He 1iven and died
a bachelor and was considered quite
wealthy
The Miller Grain Drill comp any, of
Newton. Kansas, is incorporated
with a capita1 stock of 500, 900. The
purpose of the company is to put on the
market recently patented grain drill
The Wichita association of building
contractors, with two opposing votes
decided to employ no member of the
Carpenters Union. This effects nearly
200 carpenters There are about 30
members of the association of contract
ors. The contractors object to pay
ing some men more than they earn and
other men less than they earn
Elsood real estate is worth some
thing since the Rock Island railroad
has acquired 20 acres of it. The work
of constr ucting the Rock Island bridge
viii begin June l.
The Wichita Chassis. which includes
| all the Reformed churches in Western
Kansas. held a session at Whitewater.
| 1t elects delegates to the general synod
| to convene in Washington the latter
| part of May. President Roosevelt
| who is a member of the Reformed
| church, viii address the National
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