The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-03-20

Parsons has appointed May 14-17 as
the time for a street fair
Atchison county farms are selling at
from s45 to STo an acre
The tree bugs appeared in Ottawa in
the last days of February
Five thousand people heard Nordica
in Lindsborg.s great auditorium
The Parsons bucket shop is dead a
disastrous deal caused the fatality
5Nordica gave Bethany college at
Lindsborg a present of $500 after the
concert
Wholesalers say that more snuff is
sold in Lindsborg than in any other
town in the state
The Lanyon Zinc Co 5 rolling mill at
La Harpe has commenced running.
The first in Kansas
Chas- Evans, of Sheridan county, has
succeed Cy- Anderson as register OF
the Colby land office
For the first time since July last
water is running over the dam in the
Neosho river at Emporia-
The Leading Manila paper says that
Aguina1do is to be sent to the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Robert Farrell, a Iaborer of North
Topeka, was knocked down near his
home and robbed of S32 and watch
A Topeka man ufacturer went to Chi
cago to see Prince Henry and on the
side sold to dealers in Chicago two
carloads of his catsup-
A farmers wife of Stafford county
saved the household from a lightning
rod graft of $500 by using her shot gun
to stampede the grafters-
There We're IA students at work in
the machine shops of the Kansas Uni
versity School of Engineering durin g
the FIRST term of the present session
People still guess who owns the Fort
Scott, lola & Western road, the track
of which is being laid through lola,
although Katy engine delivers the
materials.
The Kansas University school of
pharmacy has graduated 225 students,
male graduates are now proprietors of
drug stores
The library at Kansas university has
more than 81, 600 bound volumes; re
ceives 544 periodicals and learned So
ciety publications, and 1oo Kansas
newspapers
Separate schools for white and col
ored pupils have always been main
arisen and the question of the right of
separation is going into the courts
Little River township of Reno county
issued S23, 900 in bonds to get n rail
road. They were so year bonds draw
ing per cent interest. The TOWNSHIP p
learned that they could refund the
bonds at AZ per cent. The county
owns the bonds and will not let go; so
the township has sued the county for
the privilege of paying the bonds off
The case is now in the supreme court
Workers in Topeka laundries We're
forming a labor union. One of the
laundry firms has been dividing profits
above stated amount among its IS
employees. The past year this added
an erage of five weeks to the salaries
paid The firm notified these people
that as they We're about to enter an
organization in which they would take
greater interest than in the work of
the firm, the division of profits would
cease The people voted As to L to stay
at their work on the old plan. Other
laundry men do not object to the union
but say they will not discharge any
one for joining; if, however, they find
cause to discharge anyone they will
do so without asking the advice of the
union
1t is said that it is no use for Chau-
tauqua county druggist to apply for a
license to sell liquors
The Syndicate Ditch and Land COM
pany bought in the property of that
concern at Garden City, paying SO, 500
for the ditch and S125 per quarter for
the land. The agent of the company
expected TO buy at their first bid which
would have been very low, but the
| farmers of Kearney county made up a
! fund of go, 900 to buy the ditch and
sent a man to bid that amount His
was the first bid.
a. E. Case. of Marion, was the secre-
| tary of the first Sunday school in
Marion county when the county ex-
tended to the Colorado line and to In
dian Territory, comprising more than
| one-third of the state
1t is claimed that Medicine Lodge
| patronizes more mail order houses
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