The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-09-12
Kansas Notes

An Edwars county farmer lost two
calves from sunstTOke-
Down at Parsons a good shower is
styled a 'nubbin BUSTER
The NeOsho county Jail is empty for
the second time this year.
Florence is quite English, you
know" with her criket club.
It is no slam on Downs girls band
to state that they sing as well as they
play.
A mOtherIy Russell woman is raising
nine little orphans in addition to her
own flock
The Toronto ". R. c. thus early an
nounces an election day dinner Of pork
and beans.
Angora goats are the most attractive
feature to the youngsters at the Brown
county fair.
The erection Of windmilles and sink
ing Of wells is Hamilton cOUnty's pre-
sent industry.
Up from Smith county comes a plain
tive appeal for more sunshine and few
er eloudbUrsts
Between thieying gypsies and horse
thieves Ellis county citizens are leading
strenuous life.
Wathena man has a bearing pear
orchard Of 400 trees with each tree
loaded to the brim-
An aunt and her niece at Hiawatha
are 80 and 81 years Of age, CHEEKY and
gay as so years ago.
A Little River farmer has raised
5000 worth Of alfalfa from 40 acres
Of land this season.
An Osborne county man came with
in Is days Of guessing how long an
eight day clock would run
In a rural neighborhood south Of OF
tawa a mountain lion is devOuring
the farmers pigs and poultry
Wellington has a human mole Lie
Polly dug a % barrel cisteTn in a day
and threw out the dirt besides
A Sterling mans watermelon crop
paid him $3.50 per acre, not counting
what the small boys teted on
A LOuisburg man caTted a potato to
town that weighed two pounds after
the dirt was carefully shaken Of
Instead Of running drunken Indian
en-" AtchisOn officers run him out.
which was vastly more to the purpose
Chanute parties think they got even
with the proprietor Of a rickety
Underground by hlching his watch
and purse.
The fued between towns representing
the Missouri Valley Ball league is
growing equally as bitter as the SEN
atOrial fight
The Jewel county man who placed
a stick of dynamite in the stove to see
if it was alive will view life hereafter
through one eye.
What brand of whisky could the Ly-
ons man have been using when he Kill
ed so snakes at one blOw-one mother
and 40 little ones
The republicans of Cowley county
have nominated Miss Eta Race Tor
county superintendent, and she has
promised to run.
The little Hoxie girl who used the
chicken house roof for tObOggan slde
rather than the cellar door got on with
one unbroken arm.
Down is Chase county they hitch
their automobiles. At least the Elm
dale Reporter tells Of one that was tied
up there for over a week
A bunch Of thieving and begging
Turks are making themselves so OBJ
noxious in Franklin equity that the
local papers refer to them as hurds-
"A woman's scream is her greatest
weapon Of defense" says Ben Muir
dock Of EldOradO, and there Is some
curiosity to know how he found out
The Lawrence World protests against
the 'swanton slaughter" OF prairie
chickens Evidently somebody IN
Lawrence has succeeded in shooting
one
"a card Of appreciation" may sound
more impressive than a card OF
thanks. "but the Arkansas City Traveller
insists that one is just as silly as the
other.
An Ottawa woman was unable to Sc
cure a pair Of number nine shoes IN
the town One store had Fights but
they were too small even without
stockings
One nominee for county office in
Anderson county has held one Office
OF another so long that the memory
OF the oldest settler runneth not to
the contrary.
In Hutchinson the ebOotleggers" are
fined 500 and costs If you have never
had traf1c with a Hutchinson boot
logger" this may impress you as ex-
cessive, but it isn't
In a Preston home recently a Bap-
list and Methodist minister were en-
tertalned. says the WlcnlCa Eagle
The meats at dinner consisted OF
chicken and ham The Methodist
minister took ham only and as the
dinner progressed and the Baptist
minister took his third helping OF
chicken, the hired girl in the kitchen
fell with a trayful Of dishes What
on earth was that?" exclaimed the
host Il don't know said his wife,
unless it is another tradition break
ing
In a moment Of abstraction Hal
stead citizens carried OF several hun
dred pounds Of grapes from a neigh
boring vineyard thinking he was IN
der his own vine and fg tree
Jewell county man has discovered
perpetual motion. Three weeks ago
BE started IN moving his alfalfa crop
and With the finish found the point
81 beginning ripe Tor the reaper again
TIE 15-vear-old Arkansas City boy
Who followed his sweetheart to Ftlch-
itz ana fhsn tried suicide because she
uzarry him. has too indGlsent
sshzr shtngIe ard the bread ana
cane 26aid seem ABOUT right