The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-05-16


The ". c. 7. U. reading room has
been established in the Foster building
north of the Hartman restaurant.
And what makes you ten times mad
der is that { he beef gets tougher IN the
same proportion that the price does.
The first annual commencement of
the Sherman county high school will
be held at the opera house Friday, May
.. There are five graduates.
7. P. Leonard is in Topeka to at
tend a meeting Of the grand com
mandery Of knights Templar. He was
/ accompanied by Mrs Leonard
The twenty first annual encampment
/ Of the Kansas @. A. r. will be held at
Fort Scott, May 20 to D J. II. Stewart
Will represent the local @. A. R post
at the encampment.
According TO Secretary COburn the
/ aver age cost Of raising wheat in Kan
sas is Sc cents per bushel, aud the av-
! erage yield per acre is l6.2 bushels.
Perhaps the increasing sale of cheap
pianos IN agricultural districts has
/ something to do with the growing Gag
/ eFness of men to leave the farms
] Saturday Evening Post
Mrs. William Walker, Jr., depart
]
| Corps, and Mrs. John Bray, depart
meut secretary, Will leave tonight for
/ Fort Scott to attend the annual en-
! camPment.
This from the State Journal: "A
/ Jayhawker statesman named Burton,
1 thought he was the whole thing for
certain; but the Prince of the Kaw hit
| reddy's buzz saw, and the place where
! it struck Is still huT!iu'"
James Walker captured six young
coyotes Tuesday By digging them out
Of hole. Three old ones watched the
| proceedings aud barked at jimmie As
| be dug. He says If he had had a Win
chester be would have got them, too.
| B z. Brown Is in Kansas City at
tending a meeting of the bankers as
ISOLATION. Mrs. Brown accOmpan-
led him TO Kansas City to attend
the grand lodge OF the Eastern Star
As a delegate from the local lodge in
GOOdland.
A Wisconsin woman who wanted
$4,000 for ''three stolen kisses has
been defeated in court, the jury de-
Gliding against her because she Is taller
aud heavier than the man whom she
accused. Still she might have stopped
= little
About ten o'clock Tuesday night q
bolt Of electricity, while the big storm
! was raging, affected the telephone
| wires, knocking down . numbers in
| the central Office. Fourteen cOCnec-
| tiOns to phones we're burned out dur
ing the storm
A rug peddler of Wichita called sew
eraI times at A house and found the
| people away from home. At last he
wrote and pinned this note on the
door: Madam-Kindly remain at
home tomorrow forenoon. want to
sell you a rug"
A Kansas editor wrote a nice little
puff for a milliner in which he said he
| was glad to see her stocking up"
| soaked him with her parasol and
| threatened to tell his wife. The IN
| sophisticated editor has never been
able to find out what was wrong with
his item.
One of the big government contracts
| for the transportation Of the naval
| forces of the United States and their
! equipment has just been let. and the
| Rock Island gets its part OF it, The
| roads included in the contract let are
/ the Chesapeake & Ohio, Big Four, Rock
/ Island, Denver & Rio Grande and
Southern Pacific.
Some facetious tramPs robbed Tough
| Bros shoe store in Altamont. Labette
| county, a few nights ago They left the
I following note for the proprietor: ave
| see your sines all over the country that
Sells shOOes makes you're fete glad, rock
| ballest on the track make our fete sore,
We will try them, will pa you in the
swete By and By"
John Mace, a liveryman from St.
| Francis, arrived In GOOdland Thurs
/ day morning at 4 a. m He brought
over a Mr.. Ford, a real estate agent
Who WAS on mis- way to Iowa He
| started at 10 p. NJ. the night before
/ The roads were in very bad condition
/ and from midnight on il rained all
\ the way. He reports the recent rains
! the biggest dOwnpOuF ever knoED at
| st. Francis. that all cellars In town
were flooded aud at one time water
would come into the bed Of a buggy
driven along the main street Of the
town.
The largest locomotive ever built ia
/ Paterson IS rapidly nearing compile
/ ton at the Rogers locomotive works
| 1t is being built for the Illinois Cen
/ trail, but before going into regular ser
/ vice II will be exhibited At the Charles
/ ton exposition It Is OF the prairie
/ type, and from the nose Of the pilot to
/ the overriding Of the cab Is fOrty-six
i feet. four inches. The wheel base Of
/ the engine is thirty feet, nine inches.
/ The weight on driving Ehesls is 100,
/ 600 pounds and on trucks, 91-j00
pounds; on trainers, $500 pounds,
making total weight Of $4,000 pounds.
/ Nine more engines are to be built on
/ the same pisn.-Railway World.
spring Ailments
There is an aching and tired feelings
the liver, bowels and kidneys become
sluggish and inactive, the digestion i'm