The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-06-01

evening, June 5, at o'clock. It has
been given out that this social event
/ is to be very private, and only mem
bers Of the families and very close
friends OF the contracting parties have
| been invited.
J. P. Adams, treasurer and general
manager Of the Western Live Stock
Commission company Of Denver, was
IN GOOdland Thursday He says that
Denver is coming to the front as q
cattle market, and that the prices
paid there, when freight and shrink
age is compared with shipment to
Kansas City, are better than Kansas
/ City prices. The advertisement for his
company viii appear in this paper
next week
Asher Wilson, in company with his
sister Miss Maude Wilson Of Topeka,
and Miss Ruby Moore, stenOgrapher
for Mr.. Venrick, the St Francis real
estate man, came overland in the VIII
son automobile Friday from St Fran
els The trip OF IS miles was made in
an hour and 81 minutes. Mr.. Wilson
and Miss Moore returned to St. Fran
els Monday morning Miss Maude
Wilson left Sunday evening on No. 10
for her home in Topeka
Next Sunday, which is Whitsun-
day, there will be a late celebration
at II o'clock at St Paul's church.
Mr. Morgan viii sing one Of his beau
tIIul solos as an OnertOry- The sub
ject Of the sermon will be Thoughts
and "Reminiscences in Connection
| With the Birthday Of the Christian
Church" At the 7:45 p m service
the subject will be Works and In
spiratiOn-' At 6-3u a. m there will be
an early celebration
Mrs. c. ". Smith, court stenograph-
er, has taken a postgraduate course
in the state university Of Lawrence
graduation She completed the course
thirty years ago, but never took her
degree Later, several branches were
added and in order to get the degree
OF master OF arts IT became necessary
TO tax the new branches which she
has taken in a home course OF study.
She decided to beat her three children
who are attending the university, to
the degree--Hil City Republican.
John Kerr, the real estate man, who
came from Smith Center and went in
to business in GOOdland, returned sat
urday from a trip east He stopped
OF at Smith Center, where he traded
his old blackboard automobile for a
nSw one OF the same kind, and drove
the new machine from Smith Center
TO GOOdland. Mr.. Kerr started a day
or two before the heavy rains, and
got mud bound at Selden, where he
waited for the condition Of the roads
10 improve He came in from Brew
ster, eighteen miles, in an hour and a
half
DR.. L c. Higgins, formerly OF
Naples, Ill, but now OF HOXie, Kan,
is spending his vacation in GOodland-
For several years Dr. Higgins has been
spending his yearly vacation in Good
land, and thinks that the climate is
the best in the world Three years
ago he purchased a half section Of
land i've miles north Of town, pay
ing something like $3.50 for the $40
acres The condition Of real estate
has changed remarkably in the last
three years, and Dr.. Higgins has been
offered $500 for this same tract Of
land He bought when the prospect
was not encouraging, and said that he
would have lost outright If his wife
and son had not hung so hard onto
his coat tails, eXclaiming that he was
throwing his money away. but IN spite
OF il all, he went in for a half section
Of land Dr. Higgins is associated with
his son in the practice Of medicine at
HOXie, Kan