The Washington Republican Washington County Friday June 15, 1900 Dr. ANDREWS and daughter, Mabel, left for Ohio Monday and will remain there about a month. Mr. ANDREWS will visit his old home and also in Oberlin where he daughter Faith is attending school. Mrs. ANDREWS and the youngest daughter will visit in Topeka during the doctor's visit in Ohio. The rain of Saturday night came at the right time and there was plenty of it here. We understand it was not a general rain, but covered this county in sufficient quantity to insure wheat and oats. It will not be long now until we begin to count the rains it will take to save the corn crop. J.M. GARDNER came up from Palmer Wednesday where he visited relatives, the L.A. TATE family, for about four weeks. He also visited the J.R. BEESON family of this city. He started for his home in Bellefourche, So. Dak., Wednesday noon. Mr. GARDNER was delighted with his visit to this place and thinks Kansas is a wonderful state. Rev. M.B. McHARG and wife, of Blue Rapids, spent several days visiting Dr. HAGEMAN and family the first of the week. The reverend is a retired Presbyterian minister and is 83 years of age. He and his wife celebrated their 54th wedding anninversary while visiting here. Blee JOHNSON was in town yesterday and was telling of his experience with the collector for the range stove peddlers. Blee admits the peddlers were a sharp class of fellows, and much easier to deal with than the collector. It seems Mr. JOHNSON got caught by the swindle with some of his neighbors, regardless of the warning all the newspapers here gave the people about the range peddlers. Last week J.R. HYLAND, who has been one of Washington county's best school teachers for some time, applied for admission to the bar in this court. He passed the examination with credit to himself and T.P. RONEY who has had the young man in his office for some time. Fire broke out in John SHECKLER's repair shop yesterday afternoon and came very near burning the shop down. Dick MEYERS had made a new brazing machine and the thing exploded. "Shorty Crawford" and MEYERS were quite badly burned about the feet and legs. R. VINCENT reports that Worth WOODY, who has been employed as an attendant in the Topeka asylum has been promoted. He had charge of a gang of people on the outside, and now he has charge of a ward. The promotion also calls for an increase in salary.