Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-05-23
TREe0 COUNTY TRACINeS.

C0uYER CARVINGS.
COLLIER, May 20.
CacG in bud.
A foggy week.
Some malaria.
Crops doing nicely, but backward.
Business not quite as lively as last
week.
Gophers have commenced their corn
uprooting.
Green flies are making lengthy stay
this spring.
Gus. Mcfarland is having few acres
Of millet put in on his claim, adjoining
town.
Tramps have been unusually plentiful
the past week, and the "cheek" they dis
play in begging their meals is really
astonishing.
A number of the church goers gathered
at L. A. Fishers Sunday noon, and en-
joyed half hour in singing. MI. Han
chett at the organ.
Henry Scholz will on Saturday move
his family to Ellis, where he has for some
time been section foreman. They have
the best wishes of many friends here. @
B. o. Richards has been very busy this
week in improving the hotel, and the
whitened walls will now permit of other
comforts being added, which have been
waiting their turn.
o. T. Birkeland arrived home Friday
evening and spent the Sabbath with his
family. Mr.. Birkeland is engaged with a
party surveying railroad land, about fifty
miles west of here.
|. Still the rains come. The one on Mon
day night fell without much wind, and the
day following was so foggy and cloudy
that the earth had good opportunity to
absorb the needed moisture
Chas. Peterson left this week for Ne
braska, to look after his interests there.
Ee will be gone some weeks, and during
his absence L. F. Jones will take entire
charge of the firms business.
The fireguard blowers passed through
here on Tuesday. Their five plows, each
drawn by a span of horses, besides an
emigrant wagon and an extra horse for
riding, formed quite procession.
Work on the school we'll has COM
menced, the contract having been given
to Lawrence O'Toole, of this place. The
school-ya fence will be put up as soon
as the directors purchase the necessary
lumber, which will probably be within a
week.
The usual monthly services at the
Catholic church were held last Sabbath
morn, and there was full attendance.
No business was done in regard to church
improvements, but it is understood that
the work of plastering will be commenced
at once, and between now and fall the
building will be painted and otherwise
improved
Before this appears in print the next
party of the Woman's Relief Corps will
be q pleasure only in memory. The
ladies who have given so many successful
entertainments of the kind are now busy
preparing for one to be given at the
Occidental Hotel Friday evening. It is
hoped that full attendance will be had,
Notwithstanding the notice has been
short, owing to the fact that until last
Saturday it was not certain the hotel
could be had for the purpose.
The following strangers registered at
the Occidental the past week: Chas. A.
and Eva G. Bryant, LaPage, Neb.; L. E.
Williams, Indianola, Ia; T. T. Davey,
Medora, Iowa; M. F. Anderson, Columbia
City, Ind; L. M. Knox, Princeton, I'LL; A.
c. Lore, Neponset, III. Geo. II. McElvane,
J. A. Conner and E. B. Lewis, Platts-
mouth, Neb.; r. E. Meek, Pittsburg, Pa;
VIM. and Chas. Fuller, Memphis, Tenn;
G.. Sapernan, Kansas City, Mo-; F. s.
Silverton, Chicago, and G. Outer, Brown
ington, Mo.
A usual number gathered at the school
house Sunday morning and listened to an
interesting discourse by Rev. Weller, from
Rev. Weller announced that the organ,
which our citizens subscribed for, would
undoubtedly be here before the next
service, as the bill of lading had already
been received; that he had ordered new
singing books of Nos !, 2, 8, and 4 Cos
pei Hymns, and he would suggest to the
friends here that Sunday school be at
once organized. No action, however, was
taken as to Sunday school
Last Friday was an exceedingly sultry
day, and toward the close of the after
noon both the western and southern sky
was covered with very dark and angry
looking clouds. Above the dark clouds
in the west the sky appeared bronze
color, yet there was no particular sign of
heavy wind storm, and when, at $50
O'Clock, the wind came with rush from
the southwest, scarcely any one was pre-
naro1 for IL Duaf from roads and Moved
ground was driven before it with great
force, and in town it few through the
main street in great clouds. To the
south and west of town but little damage
was done, but with it's journey to the
northeast the storm gathered force until
between here and Wa-Keeney it took the
form of hailstorm, and report says our
county seat suffered severely. Besides q
few thoroughly frightened persons, and
colds caught in consequence of the cool
chanoa Of EhA atm0enhere some small