Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-16
Another good rain Friday morning.

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More rain-more rest-wet weather
is the best.
| Mrs. DIR. Bellows and little son War
rem, of Kansas City. are visiting Mr..
and Mrs G. J. Ferris.
Master Fred Deatrich, of Kansas
City, Mo-, is visiting his grand par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. j. Ferris.
Joe Irwin has leased the west half
of his large ranch on the Smoky to
Ben Hicks, of McCracken. Ben. has
$50 head of cattle on it.
Washington Thursday morning that
the Wilcox postoffice had been discon-
tinued. This will shorten his mail
route many miles.
Frank King. the expert jeweler,
will be in Wa-Keeney from May 14th
to 21st at Mary Robinson's hotel. Fine
watch repairing speciality. Prices
to suit the times and satisfaction
guaranteed.
| Services at the Presbyterian church
Sunday morning and evening. Com
munion in connection with the morn
ing service. Rev. w. b. Brown, pas
tor, will conduct the services. All
are cordially invited to attend.
Warner George has shown us some
| specimens of coal found on the banks
of Big creek in Trego county. There
is no doubt about their being coal in
this vicinity, but whether in sufficient
quantities to pay for mining is an
open question. = Ellis Reyiew-Head-
light.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Schmitt received
yesterday morning the sad news of
the death of their niece, Miss Blache
| Cook, which occurred at NewtoWn,
ILL.,, on the 18th inst Miss Cook was
well known here having spent five
months last fall in our city for the
benefit of her health. Her many
friends will be panied to learn of her
death.
There will be Sabbath school at the
Stimit's school house on next Sabbath
at 10 o'clock a. m. Lesson: Matthew,
second chapter, first twelve verses.
There will be preaching at II o'clock.
If the people will turn out well from
adjoining districts, we may conclude
to hold Sabbath school at different
school houses. Please come out next
Sabbath promptly at 10 o'clock. Bring
your testaments. Gospel Hymns and
Finest of the Wheat.
Conner Davies, in the Republican
City News: Mrs. Davies-that'S our
better half. by long odds the best half,
as Gov. Riddle says of his wife-last
week sold 10 pounds of prime butter
and 163 dozen Of eggs over and above
the great quantity used by a family
of nine. That's one way we have of
explaining how ''we fill long felt
want by publishing the little old Re-
public City News. We just do it for
fun. Mrs. Davies husIles the feed.
Trade with the home merchant. He
is the man who helps pay for the side
walks on which you walk; for the
school in which your children or per-
haps you were educated; he helps to
keep up the church in which you wor-
ship. He is man who builds home
which enhances the value of you prop
erty. Every subscription paper that
is passed has his name on it; he is
the one that cannot afford to swindle
you. Self interest, if nothing else,
would prevent this: he bears his share
of the burden of good government
and stays with you in sunshine and
darkness: in. the days of prosperity
and adversely. These are but a few
of the reasons why our patronage
should be given to the home mer-
chant.-EX.
Quite little commotion was caused |
last Saturday on our streets among |
of our citizens on account of an article |
that appeared in the Russell Journal. |
relative to the lynching of the blind |
man Loomiiler in Oklahoma. on April |
2lSt. for the murder of his wife and |
child in Illinois about two years ago. |
Mr.. Loomiller is we'll known in Wa
Keeney, having visited here a num- |
Der of times during the past two |
years Abe FrakeS, a warm friend of |
the blind man. read the article and |
pronounced it Il hoax as he had re- |
ceived a postal card and letter from |
Loomiller since the 21st of April 1t |
was a very racy story, but as we did !
not see any account of it in our large /
dailieS, we put 1t down as anGtber of |
those fake newspaper stories.
Father, dear father, come home |
with me now. for ma has some carpets
to beat: she's got all the furniture |
out in the yard from the front door
clear down the street. The stove |
must come down and be put in the i
shed. and the yard must be cleaned of
dead grass. for its time to clean house I
and the devils to pay-and the front
window needs some new glass. Father.
dear father, come home with me now
and bring some bologna and cheese:
it's most u o'clock and there's moth
ing to eat-I'm so hungry I'm weak in
the knees. All the dinner we'll have
will he cold scraps and such, and we'll
have to eat standing up too, for the
table and chairs are all out in the
yard, oh, / wish the spring cleaning
was through. Father, dear father.
come home with me now, for ma is as
mad as a Turk. She says you are
lazy old thing and she proposes to put
you to work. There's painting to do