Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-03-23

| House cleaning proceeds.
-Repainting houses and parts thereo
Ii in progress.
considerable rain fell during the frs
half of Thursday night.
w b. Cook arrived home Wednes
Gay forenoon from Rock Island, III.
Girl wanted to do general house
work. Apply to Mrs. George Baker.
r. c. Swiggett is proetrated Will
rheumatism at his home, near Collyer.
WIN. Mcfarland has been at hom
this week, having come up from Ellis t.
remain for time.
l
Charles Bamberg, jr., who was clerk
ing In Lou A. Fishers Winona store, ha!
gone to California.
Mrs Con. Snyder, of Ellis, is visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. o. Richards
In Collyer township.
The two boys of Captain WEIGH, Wit
live at home, have been quite sick for ,
portion of the week.
The city has built a sidewalk be
tween the west side Of the courthouse
square and DR.. Farmers drug store.
Mrs. Shuler and child started
Wednesday morning to Stanton, Va.
where they expect to remain until fall.
Rev. Walker, minister Of the First
Baptist church of Wa-Keeney, is engaged
in the construction of the new Baptis,
church at this place. Hill City Eagle
20.
i Last Saturday one of Geo. Pinkham's
little girls came near losing thumb by a
door being closed upon it. The nail was
torn from the thumb, and the member
was bruised seriously.
Joseph Weekley has purchased OF
Monroe & Henkel lot on the west side
of Cakes street and a short distance
south of the railroad track. He is dig.
ging a cellar over which to build resi-
dence.
Joseph Runyon, of Adair precinct,
stated to us yesterday that the vegetation
is further advanced than he ever before
saw it here as early as the middle OF
April. He is one OF the Trego county
old timers.
w. E. Tilton, of the Saline valley,
arrived home the latter part of last week
from Kansas City, where he had been for
some little time. He reports real-estate
sales, with big advances in prices, the
rage down there.
Thomas Caddick reached home the
latter part of last week from his some
what-extended stay at st. Joseph, Mo.
We understand that he does not consider
his physical condition materially improv-
ed since going there.
Mrs. Kessler, the wife of the county
commissioner of the third district, took
sick while in this city last Saturday. She
stopped at the Union House until
Wednesday, when her condition had 80
improved as to enable her to return
home.
"A petition has been circulated this
week for the doing away with the city
and having night Waterman,
the latter officer to make necessary ar
rests and do the dog killing. The petit
ton has received large number of sig
John Macdiarmid, Of the Lire Stock
Indicator staff, Kansas City, arrived in
town Thursday forenoon, to attend the
farmers institute, and remained until
Friday evening. Yesterday afternoon,
be took ride into the country with d.
H. Henkel. Mr.. Macdiarmid is an intel
ligent and sociable gentleman. The In
dicatov is one of the best stock papers in
the country, and should be taken by
western Kansas farmers and stock men.
F. Danford, Esq, is having sundry
made on his timber claim,
which lies against the south half of the
town site, on the west He is enclosing
fifteen acres Of plowed ground with
post-and-wire fence. On the inside of
this fence six rows of hedge fence are to
be planted on the north, west and south
sides, and one row on be east side. An