Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
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VERBECK'S.


The ladies of the Episcopal church
will give their second Ten Cent social
on the evening of January 10, 1896, at
the Cleveland building. All are cordi-
ally invited.
| The first marriage license ever is
sued in TregO county was dated Sep
TENDER IL, 1879. The contracting par
ties were George Washington House
man and Miss Anna NJ. Caldwell, both
of Trego county. w. III. Fuson was
the probate judge who issued the
license and Rev. w. l.. Woodruff per-
formed the ceremony.
A good substantial vein of coal seven
inches in thickness, twenty feet from
the surface, is reported to have been
struck on the Smoky Hill river south
west of town. The discovery of good
bank of coal would be God send to
this locality, as coal is about the dear
est thing in the market. We hope
the report is true. ELLIS Review
Headlight.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of
the Kansas State Board of Agricul-
ture will convene in Topeka January
8, at o'clock p. M, and continue in
session three days. An elaborate pro-
gramme has been prepared and the
most noted agriculturalists and col
| in 40 a Wi
dress the meeting. Reduced rates at
the hotels, and one and one-third fare
on all the railroads entering the
city have been secured.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Brooks, of New
Windsor, Colo, are mourning the loss
of their bright little daughter, Min
ME, who died of scarlet fever on De-
eember %, 1895, after an illness OF
only four days. Minnie was born in
Wa-Keeney and was about years old,
The friends, in Wa-Keeney, of Mr.,
and Mrs. Brooks, sympathiZe with
them in their sad bereavement.
! An exchange, in discussing the
rights of vehicles on the road, calls
attention to a point not seemingly
understood or observed, as follows
When you are driving along and a
team comes up behind don't imagine
it has no right to go ahead without
your consent is asked and don't imag
inc you are justified in whipping up
and crowding the team attempting tC
go around out in the ditch. You per.
haps have the right to race with the
party attempting to go around, but
you must give up half the road or you
will pay the damage in case of an &C
cident. The road does not belong tC
any one man and the man who comes
up behind you perhaps knows the gait
he wants to travel better than you do
If he wants to travel faster than yor
do, he has right to go ahead, and i
YOU prevent him from exercising that
right you are liable to prosecution fol
: obstructing the public highway.
Ten years ago last Wednesday
January /, 1896-was the commence
ment of the worst blizzard ever ex
perienced in western Kansas. During
: the forenoon of that day the SUI
shone brightly, the air was. almost a.
warm and balmy as in spring, and {
: number of farmers were blowing
: Shortly after noon the sky became
: cloudy and in couple of hours it be
gan to rain. From that time it grad
ually grew colder; the rain turned tt
sleet and then snow; the wind chang
| ed to the northwest and had the We
locity, almost, of a hurricane. 1t wa
impossible to see building at a dis
lance of two rods and neither man no
: beast could face the binding storm
The air seemed filled with small par
! ticles of ice and the terrible wine
) caused them to penetrate every cracl
t and crevice. 1t gradually grew colde
a during the night and until the fol
r lowing morning, when the thermome
ter registered twenty degrees below
! zero and the wind was blowing will
the velocity of sixty miles an hour
. Old settlers say there was never any
: thing like it before and we know tina
| there has not been even a close ap
J prOach to it since. Several human
J lives were lost in this land distric1
| and more than half the stock persisted
On account of drifts we were more
) than two weeks without mail. Fol
, two weeks or more it was very colo
Il and the wind blew necessarily. The
, winter of 1885 and 1886 has gone int
! history as the winter of ''big biz
yards" in western Kansas and We hope
the record may never be broken.