The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-16

Kansas Notes
Observation-Disclosures

$ standard.
d Now that the wheat crop has beer
: finally Saved" there is a disposition
9 to have all hands pull together and
J. prevent any random hot winds from
l blasting the corn.
: Another hard luck story comes
) from Sumner county, where the tax.
: payers have just finished paying for a
school house which was destroyed by
! a cyclone in 1889. ~
: Bids for new bridges in Marion
county were rejected by the commits
sioners because they were "too high"
But If they ere built higher they may
not be washed out next time
The Neodesha Registers change Of
editors would be noticeable, even If 1t
had not been announced. The new
editor insists on using plural verbs
with collective nouns,
Prisoners in the Hutchinson reform.
atory have been put on the state pay
roll and are drawing two cents day.
The plan will work nicely until the
men take a notion to strike,
Manhattan's -four mills are work.
ing day and night to fill an order for
one million pounds of -four, to be sent
to Rotterdam, Holland. The mills
have a normal capacity Of 400 barrels
a day.
Salina takes pride in the fact that
one Of Its citizens, Michael Murphy, is
a nephew Of the Minturn, COL, man
who was shot and killed by a girl who
Is a niece Of the late Mr.. Tracey, the
outlaw.
In Clay Center the knockers are
protesting that the proposed sewer
system Is a luxury" and an unneces.
sary expense. Clay Center has also
squandered considerable money on
sidewalks and other such frills.
Fredonia's Fourth of July celebra-
ton took on the nature, somewhat, Of
corn carnival. Oscar Coleman and
Mrs. Corn, both negroes, were public.
ly rl.iried.
A Phillipsburg paper meant to say
that wellknown farmer shipped a
carload Of hogs to Kansas City last
week, but 1t came out in print "a car.
load Of kegs"
The Salina Union finds fault with
the English of a contemporary which
used the headline Joined Together"
1t says they couldn't be Joined apart
and the Union ought to know,
A convict who escaped from the
penitentiary and was captured in JEFF
ferson county Saturday explained that
he ran away because he was hitched ,
to corn planter and made to do the
work of horse. s
Each new paid.in-advance .subscrib- I
er to the Salina Weekly Herald is
given the privilege of one free guess [
IN this problem: Twill a substance /
llt ating down a stream 60 faster than b
The current go8?" {
"You have doubtless heard me tell b
If the 64.pound catfish once landed t
with an ordinary hook and line" says Il
)odd CASTOR. Mother says the cat II
ish weighed only eight pounds and F
hat it was my brother who caught e
t." Il
he Minneapolis Better Way says the o
politicians promise each one Of them
janitorship at the the statehouse. n
IT'LL, a majority of them are not ap. G.
0inted. n
Kansas has 1896 negro voters, and N
Butler county has a sensation. A W
name David 7. Britain =
as been found who has voluntarily
ut all the weeds along the highway
assing his farm, and the lane leading
, his house. n
There was great anxiety arouno
Iankato lest John D. Rockefeller
light give $1,O0O,OOO or so to the food u
lief fund. The Advocate says the N'
rice of coal oil and gosallne Is al u
lady as high as the people can pos: a.
bly, endure. II
In Parsons a new club Is being or.
lnized, the members of which pledge
to give no wedding pres
its unless they are invited to both
e wedding and the reception. They
y there has been too much "of this
viting the crowd to the church and
select few to the house"
E. W. Hoch of Marion is billed for
Fourth of July speech in both Bur-
lgton and Eureka, a vocal achieve
snt which may be too much even for
+. Hoch.
The Parsons Herald Is making on
lughts against the fool serenaders.
case they will not deslst entirely
Q Herald wants them to practice
IRE and sing less.
A COW died In Wilson county a few rec
vs. ago from the effects OF eating ant
ne tobacco, and a local paper says hou
was because the unfortunate beast dell
never been educated to spit. Is
Governor Bailey and his bride will age
rt on their delayed wedding trip I'm
last Of this week. They will 90 ca
It to Mr.. Bailey's old home In
nois and then 60 further East. .
Iictor Murdoch has his first chance y
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