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Lyon County, Kansas

ALL OVER OUR STATE

Something must be out of kelter in Coffey county, with fourteen divorce caseson the docket.

Caldwell has a line out for the Mennonite college to be established for students from Kansas and Oklahoma.

Russell is inclined to think the new insane asylum would stack up in pretty fair shape if located an easy walk from that town.

Hutchinson expects to reap as much benefit as any town out of the extension of the Rock Island southwest from Liberal.

Atchison people are being asked to put up 50 cents per for an entertainment in which just one man will take part; and he is going to sing.

Belgian hare breeders need not worry over their business being affected by the proposed legislation against the "get-rich-quick" schemes.

With the coming of New Year's day the Ornery Boy begins speculating on the probability of a three ringed circus hitting his town during the next season.

A Burlington man who got mixed up with a live electric light wire the other day is as badly in need of reorganization as the Populist party in Kansas.

Seventeen years ago today the Kansas State Teachers' association, in session at Leavenworth, declared for prohibition and against resubmission, with only two nays.

Next Monday Lyon county will vote on a proposition to issue bonds to the amount of $50,000 for the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient road, and the same amount for the Kansas & Southern.

Members of Joe Hooker post of Hutchinson are against the scheme to appoint a pension agent to have an office at Washington for the purpose of looking after the claims of old soldiers from this state.

With the deliberate view of widening the breach between the two towns a Salina paper calls attention to the face that there are single-business buildings in New York city in which more letter carriers are employed than are required to handle the mail of Abilene.

For sometime past a young lady living in El Dorado has managed in a very successful manner a farm belonging to her mother; and Christmas day a gentleman who owns some of the finest farms in Butler county, and knows a good thing when it comes along, proceeded to make her his wife.
(The Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital ~ 28 Dec 1900)