Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Arbor day April 18th.

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quire of r. C. Wilson.
G.. W. Tunnel was in Wa-Keeney
last Saturday ''as saucy as ever
Sam. Anderson of Riverside, had
business at the county seat last Sat
urday.
John Sims and ID. E. Pendergrass
dined with DR.. Jones on his Big creek
ranch last Monday.
New Bingham Zephyr Outings and
prints, at G. n. Gibson's, at prices you
never bought at before.
With eggs selling for cents dozen
there is not much encouragement for
our hens to be diligent in business.
The AtchiSon Champion says the
man who sells Kansas farm now can
never buy it back at present prices.
Frank Mccormack was elected a
member of Wa-Keeney lodge /. o. O.
F. last Wednesday evening. He join
ed by card
We learn that Hugh Tidball's little
boy, who was kicked in the head by
horse a few weeks since, is getting
along nicely.
A number of covered wagons passed
through Wa-Keeney this week. One
significant fact in this connection is
they are all going west.
Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers
is popular preparation in one bottle,
colOrs evenly a brown or black. Any
person can easily apply it at home.
1t is said that March 10th, 1866, was
the coolest day ever experienced
in Kansas. The thermometer in To-
peka on that day indicated 80 degrees
below zero.
The commissioners of Wallace cOun-
ty have employed Williams, Loomis
and Blair, of the legal department of
the U. p. r. r., to resist the suits
now pending against county warrants.
Last Sunday was lovely day. Not
that beautiful days are so rare in
western Kansas as to deserve special
mention, but perfect weather cannot
always safely be counted on even here
at this capricious season of the year.
The ladies of the Presbyterian Mis-
sionary society held it's annual cleo
tion of officers last Thursday for the
ensuing year: Mrs. A. HI. Blair, pres
ident; Mrs. James Kelly, first vice
president; Mrs. r. G. Wilson, second
vice president: Mrs. s. NJ. Hutzel, sec
Rotary and treasurer.
Chamberlain'S Cough Remedy gives
the best satisfaction of any cough
medicine | handle, and as a seller
leads all other preparations in this
market. / recommend it because it
is the best medicine / ever handled
for coughs, colds and Group. A. w.
BALDRIDGE, Millersville, Ill. For
sale by Jones & Gibson, uggists,
" NJ. Hinsdale, of st. Anthoney's
Park, Mimi, was in the city Wednes-
day and called at the Santa Fe Land
department. Mr.. Hinsdale left last
night for Great Bend from which
point he will make tour Of the west
ern part of the state investigating the
irrigable land districts. Mr.. Hins-
dale has for many years been con-
nected with the State Agricultural
college of Minnesota and has now
taken up irrigation and immigration
promotion. His visit to western Kan
sas is for the purpose of ascertaining
the facts concerning country he has
never yet seen, but has heard that
there is none better on earth. After
completing a tour of Kansas Mr..
HinSdale will go to Fort Collins and
Greeley, Colorado, on the same mis-
sion Satisfying himself as to the
condition in the two states, he will
return to Minnesota and conduct par
ties of immigrants to the west.-Capi-
tai.
Governor Morrill, has issued the fol-
lowing Arbor day proclamation:
when our state was admitted into the
Union it was a vast prairie. Trees were
found only skirting the numerous small
streams which carry the numerous waters to
the sea. Artificial groves were almost un-
known Now, in the eastern part of the state
the prairies are dotted with beautiful groves,
offering shade to traveller and rest to the
weary husbandman. The whole aspect of
the country has been changed. In many of
the eastern counties it has more the appear
ance of timber country which has been par
TALLY cleared
1T was a wise suggestion of one of my
predecessors that day be set apart to be
devoted by the people of the state to plant
ing out trees. Every school house and every
church should be surrounded by them. The
highways should be lined with beautiful
shade trees and every home should be beau
titled by the planting out of trees and shrub
berry.
Il would, therefore, most earnestly urge
that the eleventh day of April be set apart