The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1904-07-08
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Ms. - ". Iupe ana DaDY nave gone
PhilHpsburg for a visit with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Hogeboom re
turned last week from an extended
visit east.
SaIina still has weddings Sin high
life" How about GoOdland, where
the altitude is much higher?-State
Journal.
". S. Field, Of Albion, n. Y, was in
GOOdland Tuesday He IS a loan and
investment agent.
Ernest Bower left Saturday night for
a two weeks vacation IN Norton. Hugh
Elliott IS attending to the store.
Court is in session, but at the time of
going to press no important cases have
been disposed Of Bandy IS on trial for
assault.
A prominent and able speaker viii
possibly be here about July IS TO ex-
plain the Colorado mining trouble An
nouncement later.
Owing to irregular freighr-service by
reason of a flooded condition IN the
east, our regular shipment of paper did
not arrive, and an old edition IS sub
stituted.
Jim Bainbridge, the manager of the
Walker Implement store, is turning out
to be a good implement man, and is
conducting the business IN good shape.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clement L. Wilson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Smith, Miss
Hattie Smith, Jim Fike and daughter,
Luther Carlson and Henry Thiel, all of
Colby, were in GoOdland, July 4
Lightning has struck the urban tele-
phone line several times lately and has
damaged IS poles. The putting down
of ground wires had been neglected,
and ence the damage to the poles
VA. Higdon, of s anita Rosa, n. M,
arrived IN GOOdland the fore part of
the week. He is employed in Santa
Rosa, on one Of the Rock Island lines,
but thinks GOOdland is about the incest
place on earth.
Two Salina professors are debating
the question whether John Ericsson,
the inventor of the Monitor, was a
Swede or an Englisbman. The one
who holds that he is a Swede is named
Swenson.-Ottawa Herald.
NJ. H. Beau, of Horton, has beer
transferred from the S tOTekeeper's Of
fee at that point to the mastermechan-
les Office at GOOdland, where he will
act as material and labor clerk, under
the new organization
Presiding Elder W. ]. Meredith, of
the Norton district, preached at the
Methodist church Sunday evening on
the text BUY the Truth and Sell 1t
Not II was his initial effort before
the people of GOOdland, and was listened
to attentively-
Ira and Porter Russell, younger
brothers Of D. A. R ussell, foreman Of
the round house, are here on a visit.
They have been attending school at
North Platte, Neb., and are sp ending
their vacation here. They are resp &C.
lively and u years Of age
A twO-year-Old bull owned by Peter
Emig, living near La Blanche, was
found dead in an old well on the Hardy
place last Friday. It was supposed
that the big bull belonging to Town
send pushed the Emig bull into the
well during a fight.
Albert H. King, vice-president and
dean of the normal department of the
Kansas Wesleyan university, and W.
F. HOyt, A. B., B. s., of the science
department of the same school, passed
through GOOdland last Thursday from
St. Francis, where they had been in
structing in the Cheyenne county nor
nal.
One of Swan Nelson's daughters
was IN town the Fourth, and received
through the POstO flee a photograph of
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson that was taken
recently in Sweden, where they are
visiting. The photo showed a good
class Of work, and our Sherman county
friends looked swell
POstOfice Inspector F. r. Hammond
Of Indiana, was In GOOdland Monday.
He has been assigned to Ka nsas, with
headquarters at Topeka. He was
much pleased with this country, and
will interest Indiana investors in the
purchase of Sherman county lands,
and will Try to bring quite a colony of
Indiana people here to settle soon
Thirty-seven school districts in Saline
county have contracted with teachers
for the coming school year, and from
this the average pay has been computed
to be S43 per month. Most all of the
teachers are 20 have a monthly salary
somewhat above $40, and IN only few
instances does the contract price run
as low as $3.50.
H. H. AueT & Son have made ex-
tensive improvements to their bakery
and short order house. Besides q new
porch on two sides of the building, and
the putting in Of large double glass
doors, they have painted the entire
building and put things in aPPle-pie
order generally. The property has
been largely enhanced in value by
these Improvements and repairs
Asher Wilson left for Bonesteel, S.
D., Thursday night by way of Lincoln
and Omaha, Neb., to register for the
drawing Of the lands IN the Rosebud
Indian reservation, which have been
thrown open to settlement by the fedeT-
al government. Those who are success
ful in the draw" will have TO pay 81
an acre for the land. The Rosebud
reservation IS IN Gregory county South
Dakota, and IN the extreme southern
part Of the state.
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