Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-01

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OFFICIAL PAPE8aI I3He eeBlTY.
SATURDAY, a41892.
Farmers are complaing Of the dr.
weather.
Our city looked quite patriotic Of
Thursday.
Some of the excursionists stoppet
off at Wa-Keeney this week.
g. M. Uford returned from his trip t.
New York last Saturday evening.
Capt. Fouts, of Collyer, enjoyed him
self in the county capital last Thursday
Joseph Brown, of Collyer, attended
the harvest home festivities and gave III
q pheasant call.
Miss Mary Chalk went to Denver
last week for few weeks visit on &C
count of her health.
The pupils in our city schools had d
vacation last Saturday on account of the
harvest home and campfire.
We have it on good authority that
our grain dealers are more liberal in theil
prices than they are further east.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Doerschlag, OF
the south side, were in WaKeeney last
Saturday and remained over night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Monroe, now OF
Sigourney, Iowa, came back this week to
revisit old scenes. We were all glad to
see them.
The Russell band made many friends
in our city by their strict attention to
business, gentlemanly manners and ex-
cellent music.
More wheat will be sown in Trego
county this fall than ever before in its
history. We made this statement last
year. It was true then and it is true
now.
David Griffith, of Adair, called
Thursday and remarked that he had done
without his own county paper as long as
he could and then and there enrolled his
name.
james Jones, editor of the Russell
Record, and Judge Atherton, candidate
for the legislature from Russell county
were welcome callers at this Office last
Thursday.
The WORLD force all took holi-
day on Thursday and as consequence
we are little short on reading matter
this week. This will only occur about
once a year hereafter.
We are again painfully reminded of
the lack OF confidence in the editors of
our country, and it will surely
result disastrously. II the people would
only believe all that the editors told them,
particularly about politics. there would
be no trouble at all.
The following jury was impannelled
last Thursday to try the case of Eli Nc
Collum vs.. Union Pacific Railway Com
pany for damages caused by fire last
March: A. ). johnson, George D. Brown,
Samuel Riley, A. B. Beatty, G. c. Brady,
Chet. Gleason, John Colborg, j. G. Mar
tin, W. E. Brown, w. R. Holmes, W. L.
Olson, Edward Chalk.
ID. B. Fulton, of Ogallah. was in Wa
Keeney last Saturday. Mr.. Fulton, like
the rest of our farmers, was feeling very
much encouraged. He came to Trego
county in the fall Of 1885 with scarcely a
dollar. To-day he has 240 acres of the
best land IN the county, with more than
half of it under cultivation. and expects
TO SOW l25 acres of wheat this fall. Mr..
Fulton does not believe that he is ION the
verge of moral and material ruin"
Among other policies of life in
surence held by N. w. Shuler at the
time of his death was one in the A. o. q.
W. for $4,000. Last Thursday morning
draft was received for the amount in full. |
This is the best insurance and the cheap
est in the United States to-day. There
is never any quibbling or vexatious de.
lays on account of technicalities. Hav-
ing been member for twelve years gives
an opportunity to speak from personal
Col. James A. Shaffer, of Chicago,
is visiting with G. w. Staplin. Of
Glencoe. The colonel was an inmate of
Andersonville prison for over six months
and was there at the same time that
Joseph Fischer and g. w. Staplin was.