Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-15

court house next Friday evening,
February 21st.
The Hays City Free Press says Gov
ernor Lewelling was sensible to de-
cline denomination as he could not
be elected. The Free Press might
have added NOR any other populist."
The state central committee met at
| Topeka last week and selected March
| 10th as the time and Wichita as the
place for holding the convention to
select delegates to the national con-
/ ventlOn.
! The bank has arranged device
whereby they can mount their gaSO-
| line engine and thus make it portable
and easily moved when desired. We
do not understand they have applied
for patent.
The editor of the Oakley Graphic
| became facetiouS last week and in
| large vacant space in his paper in
serted these words: ''This space ought
to be, but is not, occupied by the adj
yertisement of some Oakley business
man"
There was a ''taffy pulp at the
| Farmers Home last Saturday even
ing. Several of the young ladies made
this Office call and Ornamented the
key hole in our door with taffy.
Thanks. ladies! We don't need any
tafy-this is leap year.
Mrs. J. G. Martin departed Monday
evening for Wilson, Kansas, to visit
Mr. and Mrs. John Charvat, formerly
of Wa-Keeney. Wednesday morning
she left Wilson for Kansas City, Kan
sas. to visit her daughter, Mrs. Nc
MILAN. After spending two weeks
there she will go to Georgia.
There will be meeting of the
Ananias club at headquarters on next
Monday evening to elect president.
Let every member of the club be
present. Bring your pipes and a sack
of old style. The fellow who tells the
biggest yarn will be hOnOred with the
presidency.
Report of school in district 30 for
the past month: Number enrolled, 9;
number of days taught, 20; average
daily attendance, S.S5; names of those
neither absent nor tardy: Suethel,
Dell and Clyde CIPHER, Frank and
James Benisch; number of visitors, 3.
Mrs. E. S. Pugh, teacher.
Prof Atwater's entertainment was
the best ever held in the city. He is
up-tO-date in rendition and literary
taste. There is not better teacher
of elOcutiOn in the state and he will
be greeted by large crowd in Abb
lene at any time that he may appear.
d. +. Shirk. Abilene, Kansas, Supt.
Dickinson county.
Miss Miller, of Salina, representing
the Crane & Co. Publishing house, of
Topeka, interviewed our county Off
cialS and business men, one day last
week, in the interest of her firm. Miss
Miller is bright, plucky young
lady, and we are pleased to be able to
say that she is quite successful in the
field heretofore occupied exclusively
by men.
We learn that the children of our
public schools contemplate holding
literary meetings at the school house.
These meetings are to be held in the
evening and will be open to all who
wish to become members. We ap-
prove of the idea. Our young people,
especially. must have somewhere to
go and we know of no better place
than we'll educated literary society.
We have received a copy of the Ne
yada Iowa. Journal published by G.
A. Benjamin, whom many OF our
readers will remember as one of the
principal actors in marriage cere-
mOny which occurred in this city a
month agO-Or to be more explicit the
son-in-laW of Rev. and Mrs. johnson.
The paper is an eight page, all printed
at home, is full of news. except the
space used for paying advertisements.
William E. Atwater reader, humOr
| ist and imperSOnatOr at the court
house, Friday evening. February 81,
at o'clock. In securing the services
of Prof. Atwater, the literary asSocia-
tiOn has provided for the people of
| Wa-Keeney and vicinity an OppOrtu-
nifty for an evenings entertainment
which will afford especial enjoyment.
The excellent testimonials as to Mr..
Atwater'S ability to entertain his
audience is evidence of his true
merits. Teachers throughout the
county should improve the privilege
offered to hear the ablest reader and
elOcutiOnist in the state. The price
/ of admission has been reduced
to the minimum amount to cover the
| expense necessary to procure such rare
ability. Admission % cents, school
children 10 cents. The following is
/ the specimen programme:
The Minister'S Housekeeper. -. 49,. Stowe
Walkin' the Young 'Uns.- Anon
/ Old Ace Brooks
| The Death of SteerfOrth -. -. Dickens
II That Ma Old Sweetheart Of Mine ef Riieyy
| Sans Letter ...... .........-.-..--.-.Ta Taylor
Apple and Cheese. ................. go. Field
The Honor of the Woods .............. Murray
i Farmer StebbinS at the Bat Carleton
/ The Sod House in Heaven. Mills
The Incorporated Company of Mean Men,
Hamlet. Act III. Scene IL 1900. .Sha keSpeare
The One-Legged Goose. Anon
Our statutes provide that all prop
erty in this state, real and personal,
not expressly exempt therefrom, shall
be subject to taxation" THE term
personal property" includes every
tangible thing which is the subject of
| ownership, not forming part or parcel