The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-11-07
Kansas Notes


county is holding a fair.
A Conway mule has achieved some
nOtoriety by dying Of age
PaoIa's -four hundred made their
headquarters at the bowling alley
A Tonganoxie pear weighs eighteen
ounces and measures thirteen inches.
a runaway Wichita grocery horse
mixed up an eighteen dozen egg omelet-
Italians with hand organs and mon
keys are doing the south tier this
week.
At Wabaunsee county sale two deer
and two fawns were part Of the fur
niture.
Atchison church women advertise a
trip around the world for 80 cents with
out seasickness.
Meade is going to have waterwOrks.
A three days fair with prizes and
rallies viii be given in its aid
A Miami county man has $4,000 feet
Of timber to saw up. Remember Miami
county is in treeless Kansas
An antitrust barber at Smith Center
is responsible for the reduction OF
shaves from Is to 10 cents.
It has taken over one hundred loads
Of crushed rock to I'LL up the mud
holes on McPhersOn's streets.
An untutOred Ottawa hackman has
petitiOned the city council to "calci-
mine certain muddy streets.
In some portions Of Wabaunsee coun-
ty hired men" are so scarce that wO-
men are helping to garner the grain.
Cherokee county youngsters are
spending their odd hours gathering Pc
cans. The crop is unusually large
An ear Of corn raised near Burling-
ton bore /, 166 kernels. The family took
turn about counting them one evening
There were thirty-nine cases in the
Lawrence police court for September,
with a total Of SS75.T0 collected in
fines.
The Chanute Commercial club has
laid aside their oil craze long enough
to consider q proposition for 4 shirt
factory.
No ping-pong for Meade. They win
while away the dull winter hours lis
tening to efforts Of a local dramatic
company.
What sort Of girls have they at
Alma? A prominent citizen Of that
town is compelled to go to Germany
after a wife.
A Salina county rural carrier is laid
up with rheumatism and his wife, with
the regulation Kansas grit, has taken
up the work.
Ten years ago this week the terrible
Dalton raid happened at COfeyville.
How quickly we forget To outsiders
1t seems an age
Weary Of pounding out Happy
Day" etc, for the choir a Mcpherson
girl pianist has Joined a New York
theatrical company
An Inman man who went to LOuisi-
ana to raise rice was glad to raise
enough money to purchase a ticket
back to sunny Kansas.
High noon" weddings are to be held
hereafter at Ottawa with the DOnney-
brook fair features, rice and old shoe
throwing omitted.
The Brown County World accuses
Hiawatha girls of lacing too tight. Evil
IDENTIFY Editor Herbert doesn't know
they are dressed to kill.
1t is twelve miles by land from Glen
Elder to Beloit, but ffty-six miles by
the Solomon river. A man who tried
it by boat found this out.
A CoffeyvilIe citizen can't under
stand why the bite of an Insignificant
little spider should give him the pulled
up feeling for two weeks, but it has
Unknown parties are sinking holes in
the earth at Wellington and residents
are unable to determine whether they
are after fossils or gold shale.
The opening Of Baker university for
the fall term leads a paper in an ad-
joining county to use the headline:
Baldwin comes to life again"
Walter Mountain Of Cherryvale lost
an arm this week A switch engine
ran over it But he is grateful that
the engine did not tunnel through him.
Probate Judge Hooper OF Atchison
county estimates that only one person
in seven who dies leaves an estate Of
enough importance to get into his
court
Since the call was issued for a re-
union OF the surviving editors and pub
fishers OF the Atchison Champion, there
Is q demand that the survivors OF the
Atehison Patriot be included Covers
might Just as well be laid for q couple
OF hundred more
A venerable weather prophet in
Franklin county, whose memory runs
back to 1912, and whose bald spot runs
hack 70 the base Of the brain. has been
communing with the goose hone, and
forecasts that chiilblains VIII be much
worn this winter
A dispatch received BIZ Jas n. Davis
OF WahOo, from the war department,
announces the death OF his son, Alfred
Z. Davis, who was serving as a SOL
Cie- in the Philippine Islands, having
enlisted from this country over a year
ago He died from disease
The Hutchinson man who starts on q
voyage around the world this week viii
not endeavor to make the trip in ninety
days, but viii take from two 20 three
years
A MoGndridge boy left the farm last
spring to pick up gold nuggets in
Nome He reached home this week.
cheerfulIy willing to 90 back to picking
potatoes.
Pension Commissioner Ware recently
addressed letter To Nike. Garden
City, Kansas It vas delivered to the
man for whom Il was intended-the
Hon 1FchaeI sutton, ex-c0llectOr OF IN
ssTnaI revenue