The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-09-05
KANSAS NOTES

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putting in a trio Of Ginning bells.
A religious wave has struck Alma
amounting almost to a cloudburst-
Candidates viii not begin kissing
babies in Gray county until October I.
Between Tom the Pepper and a
revival Council Grove has something
doing.
The Kingman county poor farm
raises and sells enough produce to care
for its own.
A not overly particular swarm Of
bees selected a Highland hen house for
their honey hive
Sylvan Grove hasn't any ping pong
sets. but erOqUet by moonlight seems
a good substitute
WestmoreIand fowls were ripe for
the first church chicken pie social Sep
TENDER l.
Hiawatha is one Of the few towns in
Kansas that is able TO claim ten trees
to each inhabitant
GrasshOppers are plentiful enough in
Rice county TO put turkeys in splendid
Thanksgiving condition
A peck OF so of counterfeit half dol
lars is in circulation around Cedar
Bluffs, Decatur county
How quiet and peaceful life will
seem to that Dodge City pastor who
has accepted a call to Newton.
Mr. Weed is the editor Of a short
grass paper It is the Long Island
Leader, out in Phillips county.
A TregO county man in the heart OF
the shaIe belt grinds out his gold by
raising fve-pOund beets foot long
At least a dozen Kansas towns are
shaking their fists at the Buckskin Bill
aggregation and daring it to come
back.
A train OF ninety-six cars, three
quarters of q mile long. left AtchisOn
over the Missouri Pacific one day this
week.
The WamegO man who sold his sa-
loon to start a grocery evidently pre-
fers to handle limJUrger in legitimate
manner
Lightning struck a Smith county
thresher twice within five minutes,
shattering the machine Is well as an
old proverb.
A Beattie woman is still trying to
account Tor a bolt Of lightning knock
ing her over and not even jaTTing a
man at her. side.
After weighing his so and 54-pOund
watermelOns, a bright Jewell county
man kodaked them so that none could
dispute their size
Any resident who ever saw a wild
Indian or a wild buffalo Is expected to
help push the Lyon county old set
tiers picnic along.
Kirwin is worrying over the school
book fight They have the date set
for school and the teachers hired, but
are shy on primers.
A brave little Kirwin woman had
eighteen teeth extracted in one day
without gas. and The advertisement
read without pain"
The CherryvaIe jointist who drank
too much Of his own whisky did all
sorts of dOubIe-headed serpeEune
dances for . day and night
A private citizen of POttawatOmie
county has contracted for two million
gallons OF water from WamegO- Is he
going to open a brewery or laundry?
One Of the CraddOck boomers from
Kansas City. Kan, was robbed Of 500
at the Topeka Rock Island depot and
Buckskin Bills show wasn't in town
either.
A Hiawatha doctor was seen on the
streets last week with a shotgun in
his hand. instead Of his medicine bag
A friend asked him if the case was
serious"
A Wellington couple who went to
the woods for & picnic swung their
hammock over a humble bee nest The
remainder Of the outing was in the
hospital
Lightning drew a fine distinction in
Miami county by killing a pair OF
heavily insured mules and never
whose life
uninsured
A COncOrdia man found drunk in
wagon with mis- team wandering
around was taken and locked up The
officers made the mistake in not put
ting the horses up.
Atchison has contracted with the
Banda Rosa for the Corn carnival and
is so pleased about it that the band
is referred to by its full name The
Red Band Of Italy"
AS an OFFSET 10 the Wellington Banda
Rosa carnival attraction, Wichita is
to have three trained bears that grind
out the latest popular airs from i'm
ported hand-Organs.
A PaoIa negro knocked a woman Of
his own race down with a fist blow
because he said she was so ugly she
made him tired. The judge gave him
several days to rest up in
one Of the features Of the Leonards-
vile carnival will be a cake-baking
contest between girls of sixteen OF
course the pastry viii not be offered
for sale among the spectators.
The young girls social set at PaOla
is known IS The Quails." but they
never get shot nor even half shot, pos
sibly because they take their picnics
and outings at the waterwOrks-
A Cofeyville man who fell thirty
feet over the bank into the Verdigris
river one dark night and broke an
arm and three ribs. wants the town
ship to pay him s., GOO solace fees.
A well blast at Zion threw a so pound
rock high in the air and down through
the adjoining house roof No one was
injured, but q looking glass was
broken, which everyone knows is IN
lucky.
The dispute as to whether the over
rure from "sTannhaueser" is really ele-
CANT music or only a tumble Of loud
noises has reached Howard The
r-,--,~t r-urnSepz the belief that ftauV