Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
Breakfast bacon 12lc at Bakers.

Pure homemade lard at Bakers.
To rebuild or not to rebuild; that is
the question.
Kabo High Bust Black Corsets for
81 90 at G. n. Gibson's.
Born-March 3, 1895, to Mrs. and
Rev. James "a daughter
A. Spena, of Bosnia, Kan, made us a
pleasant call Thursday.
Those Ladies' Shirt Waists are out
Of sight, at G. n. Gibson's.
Read our weather predictions in
another column and then govern your
selves accordingly.
Our public schools, we are pleased
to say, seem to be running with the
least possible friction.
New Bingham Zeypher Outings and
prints, at c. n. Gibson's, at prices you
never bought at before.
There will be total eclipse of the
moon on next Sunday evening COM
mencing at about o'clock.
Clearance sale of boots and shoes at
Bestor's. Everything must go to
make room for new goods.
Wheat crops may occasionally fail
in western Kansas but the baby crop
never. We record three births in our
little city this week. And the coun-
try yet to hear from.
LOsT-On the night of January be-
tween the residence of Rev. J. f.
johnson and L. II. James "a brown
wooden scarf with red near the ends.
Finder will be rewarded by returning
the same to t. H. James.
1t is not given to US to read the fu-
ture but, if irrigation tests prove as
favorable as those best informed pre-
dict, we would like to give pen
picture of Wa-Keeney in 1900. 1t
would surely require a vivid magma
tion to do the subject justice.
For the first time since the fire we
are able to do all our work at home,
in our own office. From this time on
we will be entirely at home to all our
patrons and friends and cordially in
yite you to drop in and see our new
and especially our new
newspaper press with capacity of at
least 1000 an hour.
The flag was raised on the public |
school building on the poet Longfel- /
OW's birthday, but on the birthday of |
Jhe martyred Lincoln the flagstaff on
The school building was as bare as a
Dean pole in winter time Comment
S unnecessary ReyieW-H Headlight.
What the editor probably meant
vas that the people of Ellis are decid-
IDLY long on poetry and especially
abbreviated on patriotism.
While coming west last Friday on
he train when the porter called Wa
Aeeney we looked out of the car win
low and beheld the ravages of the
iery tiend and it made US sick at heart
o see nothing left of those magnifi-
ent buildings which have for many
cars adorned the west side of the
main street of the, at one time, ideal
ity of western Kansas, but the burn
ID and charred walls. -Hoxie Senti-
lel
The Fort Hays Military reservation
Ill has not been signed by the Presi-
ent and it would seem, therefore.
hat the mass meeting held by the
ltizens of Hays recently and since
he passage of the bill became known,
as a trifle premature. This will be
sore disappointment to our friends
f Hays City and we sympathize with :
hem. But they will try it again and,
e believe, with better success next I
me- t
At the meeting Of the Farmers In
jitute held in Wa-Keeney last Satur- :
ay, A. j. McCollum was elected pres >
lent for the ensuing year; j. d. Wolf.
Lce-president and H. Harlan, secre-
Try. J. w. Carson, H. Harlan, E. d. /
'heeler, ID. COuntryman, Joseph Run a
IN and James Rfnker were appointed p
on program for the next t
Getting which will probably be held s.
me time next fall. O
One G. E. White, of Greeley II
'unty, appealed to the chairman of =
lie aid commissioners at Topeka for '
Zip. He was bachelor and there y
re could not receive donations. The
lairman wrote him advising him and G
S bachelor friends that if they were tt
liable to secure help from the COM e
issioners, to devote a little time and L
ergy to getting married and thus b
made eligible to receive aid. The c;
'eeley County Republican is our au- u
GRITTY for saying that he began lC
sitting at once and,was married last %