Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Easter bonnets will soon be in de-

Easter bonnetS will soon be in de-
mand.
A. II. Latin started Friday morning
for Lincoln, Neb.
Kabo High Bust Black Corsets for
81 90 at C. n. Gibson's.
M. III. Johnson, of Glencoe, was in
the county capital last Saturday.
Miss Miller and three Drummond
children went to Missouri last Thurs
day evening.
For Sale-One pair of young farm
horses. Will sell cheap on years
time. w. S. Mead.
How are you fixed for shoes? Look
this matter up while you can buy
them at cost, at G. G. BestOr's.
Several of our exchanges have al
ready brought out their old stereo-
typed local about the fruit all being
killed.
D. j. Wilson, Bruce Furbeck and
Charles Lofiin, three of a kind from
Glencoe, were in the county capital
Friday.
Mrs. E. A. Lewis and children left
Wednesday evening for their old home
in Ohio. They will spend the sum-
mer there.
Judge and Mrs. Lee Monroe went to
Topeka Monday evening. The judge
will visit his parents in Sigourney,
Iowa, before returning.
Mrs. Pendergrass is enjoying a visit
from her sister Mrs. Mansfield, of
Oklahoma. Mrs. Mansfeld's little
daughter Allie is also here.
f. d. Wonner has had an irrigation
pump and wind mill manufactured on
plan to suit himself. Cheapness,
simplicity and durability, he claims,
are some of it's special features.
You may call it instinct if you
choose, but we have observed for a
number of years that kite and marble
playing among the boys is a sure har-
binger of spring.
Louis Morell, formerly of Wa-Kee-
ney, now of Walker, Mo-, visited
old friends here last week. He start
ed for home Monday morning after
first subscribing for the WORLD to
keep himself posted on Trego county
matters.
An Ellsworth man has invented a
corn cutter which cuts the corn and
drops it in piles. We know what three
fOurthS of our readers will think upon
reading the above item but-Well we
are on the era of better times and per-
haps will want car load of them this
fall.
Ex-County Treasurer Dick plead
guilty to the charge of embezzlement
and was sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary. Dick converted
about $780, 900 of the county's funds tic
his own use and most of the people
will think that he can afford to be i'm.
prisoned at the rate of 81 500 per year
Every farmer in Trego county who
has suitable land should SOW patch
of alfalfa this spring if only half ar
acre. We have seen it growing to per.
lection in Colorado and other lOcali
ties where the conditions are not sc
favorable as in Trego county. Try it
Try it this spring. Don't wait an
other whole year.
Not long ago Rev. Funk visited one
of his brethren and of course stayed
for dinner, after which little nine
year-old girl with considerable poetic
ability composed the following:
sOnce we had little chicken
With feathers white as soon,
The preachers paid US visit
And the chicken had to co.
-Kirwin Globe.
A letter from George w. BLACKWELL
announces that he has no intention
of leaving western Kansas. He ex
pect to travel some the coming season
but, to quote his own language, will
not go with the intent of changing
my home that my government gave
me in 1862, or disfiguring the deco
that Benjamin HarrisOn's name is at
tached to by attaching mine. l an
intending to place western Kansas or
exhibition in the East the coming
year to redeem what she has lost ir
the past four"
We are once more reminded of the
uncertainty of all things earthly by
the dispatches from Washington an
nouncing that the Fort Hays Military
Reservation will soon be placed upor
the market for sale. For severa
years there have been a number o.
abandoned reservations in the hands
of custodians. Commissioner Lamor
eaux went before the appropriations
committee and asked for $4,000 to pay