Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-06
Some rain drops fell on Thursday.

Some rain drops fell on Thursday.
The use of fuel is becoming fashion
able.
e. F. Porter has gone to Sioux City
Iowa, on business.
-Ex-Sherif Baker was at Hays City
yesterday, attending the fair.
j. A. Sharp has been clerking al
Farmers drug store this week.
Judge Osborn came in Thursday
evening from Russell Springs.
&C. L. Cain, of the Tribune, was out
west along the railroad yesterday.
DR.. Upshaw intends to start to Ne.
braska next Monday on business trip.
Elmer Guy, who had been at work on
the Walker journal, is back in Wa-Kee-
ney.
-Watermelons and muskmelons are
yet brought to town in considerable num-
bers.
Capt. Matt. Williams, of the south part
of the county, was in town Thursday
night.
Geo. V. York, of Collyer township,
was in town yesterday, on his way home
from Ellis.
We are under obligations to Mr..
and Mrs. T. T. Armstrong for favors on
Wednesday last.
j. A. Bowles has traded his residence
building, in the northwest part of the city,
to II. M. Davidson.
Mrs. LeBron, of Wa-Keeney, is
visiting with Mrs. L. A. Fisher since Fri
day. Oakley Opinion, Sept. 20.
F. o. Ellsworth received word yes
terday that heavy snow storm prevailed
last Saturday at Hudson, Ohio.
Mrs. Mary Reed, of Ellis county, nee
Miss Mary Armstrong, is paying visit to
her parents at Gibson post-office.
Miss Ida Blackburn, of the post
Office, returned on Sunday from Mis-
souri,, where she had been visiting.
In the race last Saturday between the
David Curtis and Olson horses. the form
er came out ahead by half length.
The Saturdays of this fall find a
good many people in Wa-Keeney from
the different portions of the county.
-F.O. Ellsworth and Miss Williams are
back from Ohio. Mrs. Ellsworth and the
children are yet in the Buckeye state.
The tin roofing for the court house is
needed now. It is to come from Europe.
The period of its arrival is uncertain.
Mrs. Larry LeBron has leased the
Great Eastern Hotel at Oakley. She
expects to take charge of it on November
l.
The new part of MI. Verbecks store
now holds the goods which we're intended
for it. Miss Anna Wright is in charge,
and things are neat.
Commissioner Ridgway tells us that,
despite the dry weather, as much or more
fall grain is being sown in his neighbor-
hood than ever before.
County Treasurer Gibbs went to To-
peka Tuesday night to make his quarterly
settlement with the state treasurer. OF
course, he took look at the great SOL
diers' reunion.
An Evolutionary entertainment was
given in Opera Hall last evening by Miss
Brown, blind lady of Sheridan county.
Miss Brown is supporting herself and her
aged parents on her homestead.
David Curtis has stopped working at
Marshall & Ufford's. He is about to go
west to accept what is lucrative position
for so young a man. He is to get en-
ployment at sixty dollars month.
j. Newcomer, of the Hall & Willis
Hardware Co., Kansas City, has been in
town this week, canvassing with the COM
missioners for the sale of locks and door
trimmings for the new court house.
Fremont A. Davis, of Edmund, and
Mrs. Lizzie McCarroll. of Hill City, were
married by Justice Hutzel on Tuesday in
the Commercial House parlor. The cere-