The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-09-19
KANSAS NOTES

CimarrOn watermelOns weigh forty
pounds without the plugs
An Atchison man will give S25 to
learn who poisoned his dog
Trego county Germans recently held
a camp meeting on Swede creek
The AHMED Presbyterian church is
putting in a trio Of Ginning bells.
A religious wave has struck Alma
amounting almost TO clOudburst
Candidates will not begin kissing
babies in Gray county until October !.
Between TON the PEPPER and a
revival Council Grove has something
doing
The Kingman county poor farm
raises and sells enough produce to care
for its OWL
A not overly particular swarm Of
bees selected a Highland hen house for
their honey hive.
Sylvan Grove hasn't any ping pOnE
sets, but crOquet by moonlight seems
a good substitute.
WestmoreIand fowls we're rip'. for
the first church chicken pie social Sep
TENDER 1.
Hiawatha is one Of the few towns in
Kansas that is able to claim ten trees
to each inhabita1t.
Grasshoppers are plentiful enough in
Rice county to put turkeys in splendid
Thanksgiving condition
A peck or 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 ive-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 a 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 limbuTgeT in q legitimate
manner.
Lightning struck a Smith county
thresher twice within five minutes,
shattering the machine as we'll as an
old prOverb.
A Beatti~ woman is still trying to
account for a bolt OF lightning knock
ing her over and not even jarring 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 Cherryvale jointist who drank
too much Of his own whisky did all
sorts of dOUble-headed serpentine
dances for a 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 a laundry?
One of the CraddOck boomers from
Kansas City, Kan, was robbed Of S1OO
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 xT-o71;,,e-tcr, connie Who v-aD+ m
the woods for a 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
touching their driver, whose life was
uninsured.
A Concordia man found drunk in a
wagon with his team wandering
around was taken and locked up. The
officers made the mistais II 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 it's full name-'4The
Red Band Of Italy"
As an onset to 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 Paola negro knocked a woman Of
his own race down with 4 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 win be a cake-baking
contest between girls Of sixteen OF
course the pastry will not be offered
for sale among the spectators
The young girls social set at PaOla
IS known as 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 VeTdigris
river one dark night and broke an
ARK, and three ribs. wants the town
shin to pay him 5000 solaee fees
Al vel blast AZ Zion threw a 50 pound
rock hieh IN the air and down through
80 -ssofufnr- house. roof No one was