Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-06-02

! Big time in town to-day.
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! Can Sand draw be bridged too soon
| The dog slaughter has commenced
q little.
Don't forget the Presbyterian ladiel
festival to-day.
The frame work of Charley Gibbs
new residence looms up.
DIR. Upshaw is having his residence
painted in delicate green.
Yesterday was the coolest first day o
June we ever saw in Kansas.
The crowd is headed for Wa-Keene.
to-day. Fail not to come along.
Al. Hinshaw, of the Baker restaurant
has been suffering with tonsilitis the mos
of the week.
The new residence which is going w
just to the east of j. B. Hogan's place il
to belong to J. A. Sharp.
Another partner has deserted the
Republican in this place. We refer to 8
party by the name of James.
Misses Matte and Docia Baker, OF
Quinter, are in the city, the guests OF
their brother, Geo. T. Baker.
Rev. Father Fitzpatrick will be here
tomorrow Sunday at 1870 A. NJ. to
conduct exercises at the Catholic church.
Miss Ella Lahman, of Quinter, is in
the city, visiting friends and witnessing
the laying of the court house corner stone.
The ladies' society of the Presbyterian
church will meet at the residence of Mrs.
S. r. Cowick next Thursday afternoon, at
2:3O.
David Bradshaw, former Wa-Kee-
ney gambler and soak, died in the hos
pital in Denver of delirium tremens one
day last week.
Nathaniel Crank, of Graham county,
is raising large lots of vegetables this
season. He will remember the Wa-Kee-
ney market with portion of them.
Judge Osborn opened court at Ness
City last Monday. The News of the Sat
urday before said there were on the
docket twelve criminal and eighty eight
civil cases.
Generally speaking, people are not
suffering from superabundance of gold
dust: but G. NJ. McClaren is. He got it
from wall paper when he was papering
his house early in the week. 1t has made
very sore eye for him.
Mrs. Lewis Hacker, living south of
Wa-Keeney, received dispatch announc-
ing the sudden death of her father, in H.
inois. Owing to the lateness of the tele-
gram, she did not have time to reach the
place to attend the funeral.
Joseph Hit, an old World SUBJ
scriber at Carlton, Neb., made us re-
Neutrality-suspicious. call Monday fore
noon. He has nice piece of land one
mile this side of Collyer. He expects to
move there next spring to reside.
The Catholic church have purchased
two lots, facing east, in the block just
south of the school house. The church
building, south of the railroad track, will
be moved to this new location, and &C.
cupied until a better building can be
constructed.
Ed. Chalk has greatly improved the
appearance of his place by painting his
residence and barn. Ed. is, one Of those
enterprising and stick-to-a-tive farmers
that Trego county is seeking. We have
heard some remark that he has the hand
soonest and generally best improved farm
in the county.
j. V. L. Irwin, of the Smoky valley,
has had his wool clip for 1888 hauled to
town this week, and stored. He has
about 1000 pounds, and says it is the
cleanest crop of wool he has ever raised
in Trego county. 10. looks for Mr.. Hal
thusen, of Colorado, to be here to buy
wool this season.
Geo. T. Baker has sold his hotel prop
erty, on Franklin street. to F. 81. Durham
for 49, 800. Mr.. Baker takes in part pay
ment half interest in Mr.. Burnham's
feed store. The two will hereafter run the