The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-11-28
Kansas Notes

A Clay county farmer is planting
a $50 acre wheat field.
For the first time in years McPher-
son has q few empty houses.
Freight cars on the Orient reaching
Anthony are a flaming scarlet
The giddiest social organization in
Fort Scott is the Merry Wives"
The lucky man to draw a horse at an
Atwood rattle had the number 13.
The first frosts at Kingman have
cause CLOSING OUT sales on hammocks.
The Garden City schools have start
ed, but q number of boy lOafers have
not
Learn something Of the Jockeys
character before betting on the IA
Forite.
The joke seems to be on the Emporia
policeman who had a dozen prize fowls
stolen.
A Logan woman advertises for a lost
pOcketbOOk containing 81 and two
knives.
A measIy little old sand bur is re-
spOnsible for blood poisoning in a Pres
ton mans case.
Owing to the condition Of the soil, it
was styled the midway" at the Well
ington carnival.
What an uneasy bed the cratic old
Republican river must have. It's con-
tinually changing.
A Hutchinson man received a court
fine for decorating the front yard with
his COW and horse.
MoUndridge is having an electric
boom. Two suburban lines are being
organized-On paper.
Out in Happy Hollow, Phillips coun-
ty, the young folks are still enjoying"
watermelon parties
A LindsbOrg hunter really and seri-
Ously claims to have killed twenty
eight ducks at one shot
Parsons women show a lack of early
education by fainting when Jack the
.Hugger" gets in action.
An Augusta woman has sold $50
worth of cabbage this season from a
plot Of ground 75x125 feet
Considering that they had no books,
Pleasant Prairie school has held a
profitable two weeks session.
The football season seems to have
opened with the usual eclat. A Wichita
player has a broken cOllarbOne.
It took two colored men to whip one
white man at Wellington But they
did the Job successfully and escaped.
A Baldwin landlord advertises fur
nished rooms for girls with the priv
ilege of the bath room and piano when
necessary.
The farmers along the Solomon pro-
pose to vote for the congressman that
will pledge himself to work for tariff
on high water.
The Greensburg Signal was a day
late last week A citizen rushed in the
office to have a SO bill changed. The
editor tainted.
A Parsons Jail bird disliked his quar-
tiers so much that he caught the ma
larial fever and was taken to the home
for the friendless-
A Salina horse dropped dead the 9TH
er evening in front of a house where
a young woman was trying a new
one on the piano.
A girls band was organized in Phil
hpsburg three weeks ago, but kind
friends managed to keep the fact a
secret until this week
An Armenian has great success sell
ing resurrection plants at Emporia, not
withstanding he gives no written guar
antee Of their landing powers"
The country roads in COffey county
are in the worst condition in their his
tory. In many instaces it takes four
horses to dray along an empty wagon.
A wise old Ringman county mother
Poland China, knowing that pigs were
appreciated this year, has eighteen
lively little youngsters tagging at her
heels.
The Parsons beer slot machines
which do away with bartender and pOr-
ter are becoming popular Ten orders
were received by the manufacturing
firm in one day.
A Cofeyville man was smooth
enough to slip up behind a black eagle
and safely grab it before it flew. The
bird viii probably turn out TO be a
crow or buzZard later on.
A Junction City father took the law
in his own hands and righteously
chased a tramp, who insulted his
daughter, from the town with horse
whip.
A pet, coon got a box of pills the 9th
er day, says the Chanute Tribune,
while the family were gone, which
contained Opiates, and he never woke
up, but died On the sideboard.
An old Kansas preacher once told the
boys TO read the Bible every morning
The boys, finding the place, glued to-
gether the connecting pages The next
morning he read to the bottom Of the
page: when Noah was 12O years old
he took unto himself wife who vas
then turning the page-s140 cubits
long. forty cubits wide, built Of gopher
wood and covered with pitch inside and
out. He then said Ny friends, this
is the first tine I ever saw this in a
Bible, but accept it as an evidence
Of the assertion that We are fearfuily
and wonderfully made
with F. S. Preston as county attor-
ney. the Pleasanton Herold promises
that criminals VIII give Linn county
vide BIRTH
A u eIexen-year-0Id Lebo boy planted
and attended twenty-1ine acres OF corn
ana i've acres Of cane Clear Of ex-
penses the crop VIII pay him $3.50.
which beats raising cain around the
streets al summer long
Three ballot boxes VIII be used IN the
c0uatry precincts at the November
electEo5 Che VIII be for ballots On the
state and county tickets the second
Scr t8HnsniD ballots and the third for
the cchztltutLcEsi amendments