Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
New Sallaround.

Mrs Jacob Hoffer is expected home
soon.
Samuel Bradley is looking for his
landlord almost any day.
Baird and Morton furnished the
music for the John Huber dance Fri
day. night.
VIM. Hiber, of Wa-Keeney, remain
ed with S. II. Fl. Baird Thursday
night of this week.
Wind storm done considerable dam
age in the way of untopping hay and
sorghum stacks.
Eugene Warren was driving a St.
Louis machine and tngine gentleman
in this vicinity Wednesday.
Aaron Cockrell is drawing wheat
to market He figures the prospect
for new crop will not strengthen the
market.
Sam Horton and John Clark intend
breaking out 100 acres on the ClOtfel-
ter section joining Josh Musgrave on
the east.
Chris Baugher's peach orchard bears
a fine floral appearance. Chris says
if he can only escape a freeze this
time he is going to have nice lot of
apples and peaches.
ing hogs and cattle east and north
this week. When Ben comes over
with his cordOrOy pants turned up at
the bottom, he only wants to see your
stock and hear the price, its trade.
Alex Barnes got so anxious to see
his yOungest boy of his in pants that he
went to neighbor, borrowed a pair
of little boys pants and then nearly
wore the boy out besides running the
borrowed pants trying to put them on
him.
Rain! Rain! Rain! Just as we find
our wheat settling down for summer,
oats and barley sOwed, potatoes
planted and garden made, we are Wis
tied by 4 genuine good soaking rain.
not quite as much as we would like to
have had but it wet down about > to
3 inches.
The Marquand Brothers have near
ly SeYenty-five acres turned over on
section 16-1221, and a number of our
farmers have rented railroad lands at
the rate of 10 cents per acre for a
year, las long as the land is not sold
and hundreds of acres of prairie is be-
ing broken up.
Marion Goble has started himself
blacksmith shop of his own inyen-
ton, and with it he is having very
good success. Out of old fashioned
sod pillow mould boards he makes a
splendid ponw share. We understand
that he went over to Epp'S and pur-
chased very good stock of round
irons and other materials.
The most pleasant period recorded
on the pages of history of District A
occurred on Friday and Friday even
ing, April 3rd, 1896, that being the
last day of the winter term of Warren
Williams school. Grand preparations
had been made by the ladies not only
of District ~ but number from adj
joining districts to whom the teacher
and patrons are under many obliga-
tionS for their hospitality in render
ing SO much assistance in making the
affair one without a boundary. At
noon, desks, tables, chairs and laps
were loaded with eatableS until they
fairly groaned. After an hour or two
with their feet under the table every
body stacked and packed their dishes
with months rati0nS to be carried
home. All had satisfied look and
the men folks went after game of
base ball. All dispersed early in or
der to return to the entertainment
given by teacher and pupils. but let
us say right here that everybody as
sisted in the exercises in addition to
the preparation that had been made.
Every one called on volunteered TO
read, sing or declaim. and one of the
pleasing features of the evening was
the music furnished by the Cock
rell, Baird and Morton string band
at regular intervals. Words that
come to the writer can not ex-
press the good which such an enter
tainment is to a community. Har-
mony prevails everywhere and sue
cess crowns the young in Blossom
school. May we ever be found i'm the
future as now, is the wish of all.
Come again, everybody.
You KNOW.