The Globe-republican., 1905-06-22
News From
THE STATE SOLDIERS HOME
AT Fort Dodge, KaS.

At the,present writing the Arkansas Is
falling-we are mighty dry. Seas are
calm and skies are clear.
Commandant Thomas goes to Ellis
worth to visit The Bickerdyke home and
indirectly bis wheat crop and fences
W. J. Spencer @ 2nd Col. Cav. and
Mrs, Spencer have gone on a 90 day fur
Tough. Mrs. Spencer will visit her mo-
ther In Missouri while gone.
Major Pond, Post Department Com
mander Kansas, with his estimable wife,
visited Jerry Shaw and Mrs. Shaw Sat-
urday aud Sunday, June 10Th and lllh.
George +. Minturn, Co. d 2nd Iowa
Inf, and wife left on 80 days furlough.
They 20 first to Ohio, then to Iowa and
some other place we hear.
Thomas Martin, A 72nd Ind. and wife
came in the 18th from Eldorado, Kansas
and are quartered at barracks No. 2,
Seward's barracks. The 72nd was 10
Wilder's old brigade Of mounted in
fantry.
Fort visitors: Mrs. Lora Hartley,
Trinidad, Colo, Miss McCaffrey, Dodge
City; Frank Wheeler, Dodge City; @. G.
Spragg, Trinidad, Colo; Mrs. V. G.
Ackley, Kansas City, Mo-; J. d. Wulf,
Des Moines, Iowa.
The ice cream and cake service of
Frances e. Willard Circle No. SO Ladies
of the G. A. X. was served at Amuse-
ment hall the evening Of June 18th as
per announcement, and in good taste.
Expenses $15, receipts $3l.
We have been absent from onr &C.
customed haunts Barracks one) for the
space of seven days and many changes
have occurred. We first missed the
smiling face Of the 10th Ind. Mrs.
Sponsler had come home from Oklahoma
so Charles takes his hash under his own
vine aud fg tree.
Later visitors: Luella Cumback,
Oberlin, Kas.; Mrs. L. Hurd, Kansas
City, Mo-; Clara E. Skillington, George
Cumback, Dodge City; Mrs. Fay Poston
aud little Irene, Dodge City; e. j..
Brown from Brown, Mayrath and Burrell
settlement where they raise much wheat.
MIR. Brown says wheat is good.
We understand that Comrade Smith,
one of tho numerous family of Smiths,
will take the portfolio Of the Quarter
master department on July lst next. We
suppose he is oomrade though 1t is not
certain that everyone by the cognomen Of
Smith Is y comrade. This one comes
from Marysville, Kansas but we are not
certain as to the name of the place.
George w. Barlow, G 73rd Pa. Inf.
goes to Milwaukee TO attend the wedding
Of some of his folks and incidentally to
partake of that which made Milwaukee
famous. We might spare George w this
hot weather but later when flues, stove
pipes and stoves need attention we could
not spare him under any consideration.
George Is also our undertaken and we
would advise that none die during his
absence. Georges place will be here for
him when he returns for no one else can
hll it-and that 10 no fabrication, as a
gentleman would say.
A Harvest picnic and cake was on the
boards at Mrs. Arnold's the evening Of
the l7th. About one hundred people,
old and young, were In attendance and
vast quantities ofsuch things were got
away with. One who was present says
that % clear from Ice cream alone was
the pecuniary result. We are all pleased
to sec Mrs. Arnolds undertakings sue
ceed. Mrs. Arnold is the merchant
princess Of this country and Is famed far
around as Q successful manipulation Of
Ice cream and cake. Many from the city
attended and the name Harvest Picnic
brought many from far down the Ar
kansas where wheat and alfalfa are con-
sldered q legal tender. And many happy
meetings OF this nature are looked for In
the future-from alfalfa to omega as one
old farmer stated IN an agricultural ad-
dress not many moons ago.
1t Is said those millers did not like the
looks Of the wheat out west. Did you
ever see any one from the east that dIds
The wheat does not grow tall here and
they judge by the straw. Our pari and
l once had 20 acre field Of wheat In
south Indiana that was said by travellers
to be the finest field Of wheat In twenty
miles. 1t had beed an old clover field
and was waist high, some Of 1t was neck
high to six.footer. That field only
turned out eighteen bushels per acre.
The wheat in California also grows low.
Cousin Josh Barker went out there about
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