The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-11-14
KANSAS NOTES

MISS LAND IS one OF the SOclaI lions
at Parsons.
Yates Center keep on the grass"
signs fail to work
At Chanute the boys carry their
drinks in hollow, glass-lined canes.
Stockton is badly in need Of more
dwelling houses for rental purposes
Burton has a ping-pong cafe. Hot
ones" viii be served over the counter.
A Lyon county man is hObbling
around on crutches made from corn
stalks.
It was a GaIena operator that said
that coal strikes we're being run in the
ground
A feud at Lakin is the result Of the
poisoning Of a ffteen-year-Old cat, the
town pet
A CoffeyviIle youth who recently
Joined the navy has written home for
Testament
The editor Of the Canton pilot has
a fourteen pound beet laid up against
a rainy day.
The champion corn husker Of Butler
county average ninety-three bushels a
day without a peg
A Parsons man has just received a
carload Of lumber from California, or
dered last January.
The flaming red jackets worn by En-
pOria girls have temporarily drowned
out the Town Row.
Chanute is trying to get a shirt fac
tory. 1t would stop a lot OF, borrowing
now going on there.
An Arkansas City merchant is hon
est enough to sell the specked apples
from another barrel
A Bethany restaurant is advertising
efftermiddagskafferi. Is it to be eaten
with a spoon or fork?
The pawpaw crop is so heavy in
Cherokee county that old residents fear
it means a cold winter.
Having dgYoured all the novels
around the house a Hope invalid is now
reading the Bible through.
"a girl fell on the streets the other
day" says the VIiets Echo, "and broke
three ribs-Of her umbrella"
A eoIored man chased from Neodesha
by mob has sued the city for 81 600
On account Of mental anguish
With an eye for Thanksgiving profits
a Sharon Springs merchant has cor
nered all the turkeys in sight
Winfield boys who went to the terri
tory for a brief outing returned with
thiTty-two bushels Of pecans.
OF fourteen children born in one
small DOniphan county neighbOrhoOd
in the past six months eleven are girls.
Attica is fast assuming metropolitan
airs. A young man named COe was run
over by an automobile there the other
day.
Two Sheridan county farmers traded
sight and unseen One got eighteen
feet of gas pipe, and the other a broken
down horse.
Soil is being shipped from around
Cuba to Champaign 1t is to be hoped
that the latter is not so full Of water
as the former.
Several new flats for rent are being
erected in Topeka That the occupants
won't require lawn mowers will be one
big advantage
The editor Of the La Crosse Chieftain
will have sausage and buckwheat cakes
If one Of his subscribers brings the pig
along he hints for.
A Parsons colored barber drew a
brick on his baby love. He will prob
ably be bounced from the union for not
drawing his razor.
A bright Chanute railrOader has in
vented a device to hold trains. He viii
no doubt get requests from many wO-
men for sample copies.
A hungry Decatur county badger ate
fOrty-fOUr chickens for Farmer Gilki-
son, and the pastors dog chased his
bronze turkeys to death.
While hunting eggs in the haymow
the editor Of the Oberlin Herald found
a hole big enough to tumble through
and dislOcate his shoulder.
A Topeka woman who recently ap-
piled for a divorce has with her hus-
band kissed and made up Most mOweE
can make UP without kissing
And now water has spOuted up in the
old channel Of the Republican at Con-
cOrdia- But isn't it only natural that
there should be springs in the bed of a
river
Rev. F. n. Akin of Leavenworth
says that hell is a moral necessity"
According to this. man may say, Go
to a moral necessity" without fear OF
a reprimand.
E. B. Cowles, a prominent citizen
Of FaiFbury, was thrown from his
buggy during q runaway and had sew
eral ribs broken besides being other
wise injured
Salina Republican-JOurnal: Printers
viii be surprised to know that there is
a print shop in Kansas in which every
morning the days work is opened up
with prayer. It is the ONCE Of the
Church and Advocate Of the Holiness
Banner at Fort Scott
"And what does your son intend to
HTite-historicaI novels or literature?'
"As said before, he expects to get
rich from the work Of his pen"
The Solomon river is nearly as
crooked as a St Louis bOOdler. 1t is
but twelve miles across the country
from Glen Elder to BelOit, but by the
river it is ffty-six-
Baldwin is the home OF the only
Chinese baby ever born IN Kansas II
came last week The lovers Of the
game there as preparing to petition the
father to name the child Ping-Pong.
Miami county needs a vigiIant COM
mittee. with an eye for business Three
out Of every I've horse thieves who
have operated in the county since
January. 1900. got away with th'
stOlen property