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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1901
Page
4
About 3,000 residents met last Saturday to threaten Monday noon as the deadline for jointists to close up and Friday noon to remove goods. Reported one saloon still operating as goods go to cold storage awaiting the storm’s outcome. A Republican legislature discusses harsh penalties for train and horse thieves and seducers of young women.
Rev Rankin induced Mars Nation to lecture in Chicago and Iowa to raise funds. He expected substantial profits but money did not come, prompting his abandonment of Nation in Iowa. Mrs Nation returns to Topeka.
Hon. N. J. Bowman sponsors the initial measure in both houses seeking governor approval. The legislation targets bridges in Anderson County. The remark about Bowman's politics suggests it might have influenced a governor’s stance on leadership.
A Portland Oregonian reprint quotes A A Schenck arguing rail cheapness versus water transport. It asserts freight costs fall to about two dollars per twenty ton car for ten miles, and coal delivered to Kansas City could be under fifteen cents a ton, with public ownership lowering passenger and freight rates dramatically.
JO McDILL argues prohibition advances civilization by ending liquor crime and waste. He condemns law-breaking liquor sellers and applauds moral resolve, praising Mrs Nation’s activism while insisting coercive enforcement and public will must back prohibition to curb saloons and protect society.
Anser T. Suaw of New York formerly commander of the G A R died of apoplexy in Washington on the tenth. He had served in veterans groups and held leadership roles within the G A R. His death marks a notable loss to former Union soldiers and civic veterans in the capital.
Horton, Wellington and Winfield have coordinated their tax bonds, with other towns preparing to follow. Tax boers resist British rule as sentiment grows in favor of African Dutch autonomy.
Representatives Bowman and Senator Crum push through a bill enabling Anderson County to build a courthouse. The county may sell county farm lands in this and Allen counties and the current court building for $9,000. Court house cost set at $40,000 with $25,000 to $30,000 raised now and a small levy to cover the rest. construction to take about two years in the park. The notice ends with a stated gladness for the courthouse.
The county Sunday school convention will be held in Garnett on Thursday and Friday the 21st and 22nd of March at the M E church. Programs will be ready soon and sent to all schools. All Sunday school workers are invited to attend. The state convention will be in Topeka May 16 16 with Marion Lawrence Ohio general secretary and other workers. Low rates lodging and breakfast free for delegates. Kansas City commercial club visited Garnett last Saturday with a special train of four coaches.
The Garnett Lecture Course presents General John B Gordon with a talk titled Last Days of the Confederacy. The fourth lecture is scheduled for Monday night February 18, with reserved seating at Glass' book store starting February 14. Gordon, a lone surviving high ranking Confederate figure at Appomattox, promises a vivid depiction of those events.
Mrs Nellie Berger of Missouri lectured on Temperance at the Methodist church last Wednesday and spoke at Gledlock Thursday evening and Friday. Attendance was light due to a storm but the talk was praised as forceful and earnest with a gentle, well modulated voice. Mrs Margerit T Milligan mother of Dr Mulligen died Wednesday at her son's home aged 74 years 10 months and 15 days. Funeral at the Methodist church and burial in Greensburg Indiana. Mrs Mary Lathrop of Ottawa and Mrs Sarah Bagbee of Oklahoma visited Poster Murdock and wife in Ottawa on Tuesday.
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