Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-18

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| Probate Judge Dodge, of Loga
county, was in town yesterday.
! Hay hauled in from the country sell
for from $500 to $3.50 per ton.
| The delightful weather suggests th
question whether spring has opened.
| Hon. James Justus, of Graham coun
ty, was welcome Wednesday caller.
| H. F. Moorse started to Illinois, o.
Wednesday, to be absent week or two.
"A. s. Booton, of the Winona Nessen
ger, was in Wa eeney Thursday night.
Jos. Corette, of the Grinnell Golde,
Belt, stopped in the city Thursday night
We understand that Ed. WEIGH il
over at Hill City, working in the ReueiR
Office.
Attorney Blair, of Wa-Keeney, cam,
in over the M. P. yesterday morning
Soott City Herald, m.
DR.. Jones, of Wa-Keeney, has pur.
chased the remnants of Ehler's bankrupt
stock.-[Gove City Gazette.
-Marcellus s. Croker has been ap
pointed postmaster at Happy, just beyond
hesouth line of Trego county.
st. Valentines day was cold and raw
but the pictorial, crudely-worded docu.
ments were given quite atcirculation.
Frank Danford, Esq, started to Gar.
den City last Wednesday, where he had
been called as counsel in an important
murder case.
We are in receipt of several letters
this week from people in the East, stating
their intention to come to Kansas this
spring in search of homes.
Mrs. B. J. F. Hanna accompanied her
daughter, Mrs. B. F. Morgan, as far as
Salina last week. Mrs. Hanna stopped
in that city to visit friends and relatives.
Monroe & Henkel are having a good
deal of commercial printing done, in an
ticipation of lively times in real estate and
other business matters in the nearing
early spring.
The Stewart Concert company were
greeted Thursday evening with crowded
house. We hear their musical perform
ances given the highest degree of credit
on all sides.
&C. NJ. McClaren, commander of Cap
tain Trego Post, goes to Winfield, as
delegate to the annual department en-
campment, which meets in that city on
Tuesday next.
Don't forget the meeting at Grain
field on Thursday next, to organize an
immigration association. We suggest
that our business men hold a meeting,
and elect delegates to that convention.
Tomorrow (Sabbath,) at IL o'clock
A. M, Rev. Mr.. Brown will deliver CEN
tennial discourse on the History of the
Presbyterian church. He is an able man,
and his discourse will doubtless draw
large audience.
w. r. Hill, of Hill City, was ar
raigned before U. S. Commissioner Hen
KEEL, in this city, on Wednesday, on the
charge of conspiracy to defraud the gov
eminent out of some land. The case was
dismissed for want of evidence.
"A hopeful sign of the times is the
fact that the Kelly Hardware Company
has recently sold a number of breaking
plows to residents of Trego county. The
general breaking up of the sod is the re-
suit to be devoutly wished for.
We have received a copy of the
Western Kansas World, published at
Wa-Keeney. It is six-column quarto,
devoted to the interests of the farmer, and
contains vast amount of local news.
The World is gladly placed on our ex-
change list Garden City Democrat.
Mrs. b. f. Morgan started last week
to Riley Center, in this state, to take up
her residence there, her husband having
been there for some time in the practice
of medicine In the case of this removal,
Wa-Keeney's loss is Riley Center's gain.
Mrs. Morgan is lady of culture, and
leaves many warm friends in Wa-Keeney.
g. F. Roberts, editor of the Oakley
REPUBLICAN and the Hastings(K Kan. Gazette,
gave us call on Wednesday. He in
forms us that Hastings is to be the
future great" at the halfway point be-
tween Colby and Eustis. Work was COM
last Monday at Colby on the
railroad which is to connect the three
places.
Some of our readers will remember