Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-10
Adair AdTicas.
MENDOZA, August 6, 1895.

Anu pOUttpocS I'LL Ou Cdit u resi-.
And roasting ears a yard long, more
Less" is put in to rhyme with
'rest" in the item before.
If you don't think it good poetry
then leave less" out.
Aaron Coc41rell expects to SOW 400
acres.of wheat this season.
George A. Brabb and family are liy-
ing in the q. W. Jeffers' house we are
told.
w. f. Barber, of Riverside, will
stand on the foot board of Joseph
Runyon's machine.
George Ross tells us that his wife
has fully recovered from her recent
illness.
G. w. Thayer will pump the water
into the tank wagon for Morton Bros.
again this fall
Warren ]. Williams was expecting
to attend the normal institute at Wa
keeney beginning this week. The
pupils of district ~ will call him
teacher this coming winter
e. Griffith has had bother with his
well caying in. The trouble was rem
edied last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Rippey, of Ellis,
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. +. T..
Eaton Wednesday and Thursday.
Frank Eaton has contracted for the
erection on his timber claim of 1Sx
81 tWo-story stone houses
H.'W. Griffith and George Ross are
the. feeders engaged BY Baird and
Cockrell. These people will board
their crew.
Miss May Winn. whom we still
claim as belonging in Adair, is in at
tendance at the Trego county insti-
tute. a.
From the number of items about
this week we don't want
you TO infer that the writer got
threshed.
We. might have said what the
men were charging, sbut that
would have sounded too much like an
advertisement.
Ernest Hamburg will haul thewater
and supply the watermetonSAf for an
Adair threshing machine crew again
this fall. 81
r. NJ. Jimeson. Of Almena, Kansas,
is visiting his sister. Mrs. James Sam
uels. and will pitch wheat in this
neighborhood for a few weeks.
Miss Ollie jenkins, OF Mcpherson
county, has applied for and will prob
ably secure one of the schools in dis
trict 81. She is graduate Of Bethany
college.
d. II. Horton .tareshed oats last
week that yielded 80 bushels to the
acre. This same party dug one hill of
nf- otC ol% n nd
two potatoes in it, twenty of them
Joseph Runyon expected to start his
new Huber threSher yesterday. Baird. |
and Cockrell threshed the same day
for Jas. Samuels, and Morton Bros.
are threshing for G. W. Thayer to-
day.
The dance at Murphy's barn. on the
9th for which Howe Bros. were tQI
play has been Indefinitely postponed |
as the building burnt to the ground |
last Tuesday.
Our chief is the most liberal man in
the "World' and gave us such "a
quantity Of paper which we thought |
we we're obliged To use that peThapS-t
he'll Kick on the space we take. u
4A1S. 4116QI IOOh d DuSlISI Vi Gu /
cumbers to Ellis last week and tried |
unsuccesSfullY to sell them for fifty |
cents. She then tried to give them |
away and couldn't do that. so having. |
such enormous quantities at home, she |
them out III the street. OH! |
the people have garden this year,
Married. at the residence of Il. S. Il
Howe, on Wednesday evening, July j
3lst 1895. by the Rev. G.. II. Wood |
ward, Of Ellis. Mr.. Richard II. David !
son, of La-Prairie Center, Illinois. /
and Miss Kate e. Howe, of Adair. |
Mr.. Davidson has bought place near
Clarion, Iowa, in the north central I
portion of the state, Of which he takes |
possession March 1St. Until then or I
at least till cold weather. the couple !
will remain here. BY those who have /
known the groom from boyhood we
are told he has afeputatiOn for hon /
asty, industry, sobriety and steadiness /
and has enough of a start in life to |.
give his bride a comfortable home. /
The bride has resided in TregO county |
for over fifteen Years, except Tor a
winter passed in Illinois where she
made the acquaintance OF the victim
she has now landed. She has had
Tom. Dick and Harry and other ''fel-
will lie noticed. We tried to warn
Dick. Tried to make him fully real
re what lie was about to undertake.
Asked him ii it cost $500 for coal Oil /
while they spanked with the light f
turned low: what he would be out to f
'un Il whole establishment. But it
vas like water on a duck 1t was SO +
much wasted breath, but we reserve
he right to say 1--WE told you So"
when in the dim and distant future
lie sometimes skins his. shins on a
lark night hunting a paregoric bottle.
It would not perhaps be deemed
eemly for Us to dilate on the good
qualities OF the bride, occupying the
rear relationship to her that we do.
We don't see though why we should
rowd out the item entirely simply
because she happens to be a sister.
And as she is the only girl in the fam
ly the offence, if any one calls it
UGH, Will never be repeated. She can
10 her own sewing and is yeTsed in !
l. I, !