Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-07-14
1REe0 COUNTY TRAcINes.
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ADAIR ADv1CEs.

AOA1R AOv4CES.
ADAIR, TREao Co., July 9.
VIM. w. Webster will play for tn
dance at Tregola.
A number of people in this vicinit
took in Ellis on the Fourth.
T. l., Howe was home over Sunday
He had taste of harvesting.
W.D. Lombard took in the sights a
the county capital on Saturday.
G. II. Douglass met with break dow
coming from town the other day.
We understand that the Ogallah PEG
pie had splendid time at their picnic thu
Fourth.
Preaching every other Sunday in the
school house in District II, just over the
line, in Ellis county.
Myrtle Douglass is helping Mrs. G. C.
Ridgway in her culinary work during the
rush of wheat cutting.
Sam Ridgway, from near Ogallah, was
seen in this neighborhood one day Last
week, looking for girl.
Ed. Fulmer, who has been resident OF
Adair for a while back, is helping Mar
quand and McCollun with their header.
Harvesting is about over as far as
wheat and rye are concerned. Quite
bit OF the grain this year was put up
with headers.
There is to be grand ball at Tregola
tomorrow evening, and as Messrs. Adair
and Barnes have the affair in charge, we
predict a good time to those that enjoy
this amusement.
District 1875 school house is being
plastered, and will soon receive its finish
ing coat of paint. We hope the board
will show sense in employing good
looking young lady for teacher.
When fellows best girl wants to 60
to Ellis to dance the Adair youth will
rustic around, overcome all obstacles, and
90 through fire and water, regardless OF
horsehesh but what he gets there Bobby.
Will Webster is to run a foot race of
one hundred yards with Mr.. Sullivan in
a couple of weeks. Each of these gentle
ran last Wednesday, Mr.. Webster being
second and Mr.. Sullivan third. The race
will take place at Ellis.
Adair furnished one of the attractions
at the Ellis Fourth Of July celebration,
which. in our opinion, did more toward
drawing the crowd than any other single
thing on the program. We refer to the
race in which the famous trotting horse
Black Douglas trotted against the Shet-
land ponies on the run. The ponies were
driven by, and are the property of, Mr..
Barnes, of Tregola; and although the
judges declared them beaten by ten
inches, he,majority of the crowd thought
they were entitled to the race, as the
horse broke into a run three times. With
a pack of hounds to scare the ponies of
the crack, and 2:27 trotter on the run,
we do not think Mr.. Barnes need consider
it very much of defeat.
Your reporter, in passing the residence
of S. T. H. Baird last Saturday, noticed
that gentleman on topof a wheat stack.
gesticulating wildly, and to put it mildly,
acting very peculiarly. AS we rode up
closer, he appeared as though lie intended
to join circus, and was preparing for
the work, for just then he slid off and did
q double somersault backwards. We
never heard such a thing intimatsd as
that Sam was this kind of a man, but
came to the conclusion that he had been
to town and got too big dose OF bitters.
We naturally inquired if it was "red eye"
or if not, what was the matter? "No,"
said Sam, squirting out half a gallon of
tobacco juice: "It's got black eyes and
weighs ten pounds" We hunted up a
sane man, and found that Sam was the
paternal relative of son. At last &C
counts, mother and child were doing we'll,
but it will take long time for Sam to
get used to it; for even now he says, when
asked about it, eyes I have a son, and it's
a boy"
"LooNYTIcKE."
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