The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-08-17
KANSAS COMMENT

Another Glass PIant.--Yates Cente
is likely to have a glass plant. Al
\ lola firm will drill three test wells a
Yates Center.
Send a Gift Of $1,000. -- Michael {.
y O'Mera, pioneer citizen Of Winfield
now a resident Of Salt Lake City, hal
made gift Of $1,000 to the st. Mary''
hospital, Of his former Kansas homc.'
Brought 1900 Visitors. IN Actua
count, according to the conductors re
ports, shows that Wichita Sunday wa'
hostess to 1900 visitors from southern
Kansas, southwest Missouri an(
northern Oklahoma points.
Kansas Masonic Home. - James
Snedden, superintendent Of the Kan
sas Masonic Home. announces thai
the contracts will be let for an add
tion Of a dining room and eleven 9th
err rooms which would be built this
fall. as well as the new chapel given
by the Order Of the Eastern Star.
Gas From Pipe Line.--Wellsville Is
the first town near Ottawa which will
be served with gas from the big pipe
line and all is in readiness for the
turning on Of the gas there. Prince
ton, too, will obtain gas from the pipe
line at once. Gas from the pipe line
has been turned into the mains in
Armourdale and all Kansas City
Kan, will be served.
Hutchinson Census. - D. G. Pres.
grave, who is in charge Of the new
directory being compiled by the R.
l.. Polk company of Detroit. says that
his figures will prove that Hutchinson
has nearly If not quite $1,000 people
at this time. There is chance that
Hutchinson has enough people. II all
of them are counted. to make this a
city Of the first class,
Voting Orient Bonds.-At Emporia
the city council has ordered an cleo
ton for $4,000 bonds for the Kansas
City. Mexico and Orient railroad to
take place September 5, on the same
day elections for township bonds will
be held in Jackson, Emporia and Pike
townships. So far as can be ascer-
tanned there will be no opposition to
the bond proposition.
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Becomes Warden Sept. I. - W. H.
Haskell, of Smith. resigned as d.
rector of the penitentiary. He will
go In as warden on September /. He
will be succeeded as director by Cap
tain John Seaton, of Atchison. Has
kell's commission as warden and
Seaton's as director have been made
out and will be signed by Governor
Hoch upon his return from the East.
A Leakage Gtopped.-For the first
time in a good many years the mem
bers OF the Newton city council have
had bills for their water rent pre-
scented to them. 1t has been a Gus
tom for no one knows just how long
to charge the city fathers nothing for
their water, nor the water works
superintendent. Mayor Boyd prompt
ly directed the city clerk to make out
bills for $3.50 against each Of the
councilmen for water rent during the
quarter closing July 31st.
Good Roads Session.-At the annual
meeting in Topeka of the Good Roads
Association Judge Rightmire and H.
w. McAfee talked on the possibilities
of making good country roads out of
oil. President Nichols of the agricul-
tural college has $4,000 appropriated
by the legislature at his disposal to
make an experiment along that line.
The programme of the convention is
made up Of Kansas men. The officers
thought they would try home talent
one time and see what would hap
pen.
Gave Her Ring. - The Cowley
county normal closed after the pass
ing Of the proper resolutions. The
number in attendance was the largest
of any normal that has been held In
the state of Kansas in the past three
years. Miss Race, county superin-
tendent, takes great interest in all
educational work. Her best efforts
were put forth in this normal and as
q result its success was phenomenal.
That Miss Race stands as high with
the teachers as with the people Of the
county is shown by the fact that the
institute raised purse and purchased
diamond ring and presented 1t to
her, Prof. Nowln making the presen-
tation speech.
Getting Acquainted. - The new
president Of the Southwest Kansas
College is introducing himself to the
neople Of Winfield and the adjacent
territory through the pulpit.
A Wichita Boy. - Chas. A. Rug
giles, son Of Judge Ruggles Of Wichita,
erected the building at Portsmouth,