Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Ulysses Register describes an
$500 school house to be eretced there
Immediately.
Cheney Blade: The creamery is now
handling 5000 pounds of milk daily,
having out $40 for the same.
Burlington Independent: There will
be seventeen in the graduating class Of
our city high school this term. As the
years roll by the graduating class be-
comes larger.
The Associated press dispatches and
exchanges tell of due observance of the
Centennial Anniversary Of tie iipaugl1-
ration Of George Washiht t6h Id 17n0
at most of the cities of Kansas.
o. K. Swayze, who has been manager
of the advertising department of the C..
K. & N. for several months. has retired
from that position, the department hav-
ing been transferred to Chicago.
Bucklin Journal: Although not
quite two years old, our city has out
grown many of her older sister towns
and now contains population of about
800 contented and happy citizens.
Atchison Champion: On the appli-
cation of c. G. Burnes, Judge G. g.
Foster of the United States District
Court has appointed Maj. w. h. Has
keIl as receiver of the Patriot. The
newspaper is to be sold.
Liberal Leader: Mr.. NJ. A. Low, pres
ident of the G. Z. & N. Ry., and also
president of our town company, has
presented our city with the well, tank
and windmill on the corner of Fifth
street and Kansas avenue.
Wellington Monitor: Traffic on the
Panhandle line of the Santa Fe is rather
light at present and number of train
crews and all the locomotives and rolling
stock that could be spared, have been
transferred to the Gulf division.
Burlington Independent: Not mar
rage nor death again to report this
week. Last year thirteen deaths were
reported by Undertaken Gibbon from the
LIST to the 25th of April, and this year
not single one during the entire month.
Plainville Times: VIM. Adams, OF
Zurich, is in receipt OF large photo
graph, enclosed in neat frame, of his
old regiment, the Sd Iowa cavalry. The
picture is the gift of Secretary of the in
terror General Noble, who commanded
Mr.. Adams regiment during the war,
and is very highly priced by the recip-
lent.
Wellington Standard: Lum Griffith,
a married man, who resides near Belle
PLANE, left for Oklahoma. He was
found on the Red Fork, stark mad, by
some returning boomers, who. after con-
siderable difficulty captured him. Dock
VIM, and party of other Belle Plaine
people, happening along shortly after,
recognized him and took him in charge.
Coffeyville Journal: L. s. Miles has
been appointed agent for the Usage In
dams, for which position there were a
of applicants. Mr.. Miles for
merly held the agency, and is well
known in this city. He has lately been
proprietor of a large store at Arkansas
City, but his appointment is credited to
Iowa, and his residence is given as West
Branch, in that state.
Hiawatha World: Mr.. Ham says the
canning factory at Willis expects
a very profitable season. The begin
ming was made last year and the enter
prise was successful. This year much
more will be done, and handsome profits
realized. Willis leads Hiawatha in this
business. We are glad for Willis and
proud of her, but we ought to have
large canning factory here.
Cottonwood Falls Courant: Rettiper
Bros. SEQ. have Just been awarded a con-
tract to furnish 1900 car loads of cut
stone in the next seven months, for
large bridge that is to be built across
The Missouri river, at Kansas City and
David Rettiger has patented, and put in
a cutting machine at their quarries, east
of town, that will do the work of forty
men.
Cedarville Globe: Our new Touring
mill is to be one of the institutions of
which Cedarville may justly be proud
Men are putting on the ioof, while 9TH
ers are placing TIE line shafting in po-
sition. This mill, when completed, will
be second to none on the Solomon river.
The building is four stories and one
half high, and will be one of the most |
convenient mills in the country.
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