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This is the time of the year when the schoolboy divides his leisure moments yielding to that "tired feeling" and nursing the pet boil that has located on the handiest part of his anatomy. We have a purchaser with ready cash for a whole section of Sherman county land in one body. Must be cheap and clear of incumbrance if possible.Robinson & Stewart. Frank Robinson was laid up with an attack of la grippus bacillus the first of the week. We are happy to chronicle, however, that he has since scored a touchdown on his troublesome opponent. The Topeka State Journal is authority for the statement that the Goodland State bank has notified the state bank commissioner that it will pay off its creditors and go into voluntary liquidation. J. J. Brady, an ex-railroad brakeman, who had the misfortune to loose a limb in the service, was in the city this week selling keyrings and engraving names on them. Mr. Brady used to brake for Conductor Prichard of this city, on an eastern road. Monday morning a stiff breeze sprang up from the northwest which was followed by sleet, snow and rain later in the day. No great amount of moisture fell, but every little helps on the growing crop of wheat which is destined to be the largest ever grown in the county. A Hiawatha hotel always has severa* bottles of wine on the table and yet it is said they are rarely uncorked. Environment has everything to do with human natures. If such a condition existed at any of the Goodland hostleries, the borders would pull those corks if they had to use a porous plaster. Although starvation wages are not unknown in Germany there are some things that they arrange better there than here. One of these is a recent law sentencing wife beaters to hard labor during the week, with a provision that all their wages shall be given to their wives, while they spend Saturday night and Sunday in jail. The plan is said to work admirably. The Goodland man and woman demand that the wants of their inner selves shall be catered to by the highest of cusine art at all times, and on special occasions, like Easter Sunday, nothing short of a masterpiece of a spread will be acceptable. Last Sunday a great many took dinner at the private boarding house of Mrs. K. C. Herron, where a feast was spread that would tickle the palate of an epicure. It was a criterion of high art in cusine production and reflects great credit upon the catering ability of Mrs. Herron. Easter-the joy of every Christian heart-was commemorated by a union service at the opera house, the Knights Templar conducting the service. They marched from the lodge room to the opera house, the band accompaining and playing the Masonic dead march. The house was well filled and reminded one of an early flower garden. Mr. H. M. Haller, prelate, read the service, the Knights responding. Rev. Willis de livered an address upon the resurrec-