Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-12-25

Gibson.
/ The fourth and last quarterly con-
ference of the Wax eeney charge will
be held on January 10 and l., 1898.
Let there be full attendance of Off
cial board as there will be business of
! Importance to see to.
! Il. j. Nixon and family returned
from an extended visit among rela-
4 tives in Illinois last Saturday even
! ing. Tommy says the people of west
4 ern Kansas are in better circum-
/ stances than those. in the east and
much better off than the eastern farm
renter.
! The celebrated carpet-bagger, j. c.
Loomillcr, who had the effrontery to
swear in ballot at our late election.
has turned up in Indiana, where he
has taken unto himself Il better half.
He viii no undoubtedly bring back
his spouse to his home in Wax eeney
we don't think.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Sweet, of Denver. died iii that city.
December II. Mr.. Sweet brought the
remains here for interment. The be-
reayed parents have the sympathy of
Il large circle of friends in the loss of
their only child. Mr.. Sweet returned
to Denver last Saturday evening. He
has a position in the Grant smelter
Postmaster Gibson and his thor
oughly efficient and accommodating
clerk now h.tV.A I,ai ffi.a t.,l
in the Trego county bank building
which has been renovated and repa-
pered. VIII Wollner was the artist
in charge of the latter feature of the
improvements. Mr.. Gibson now has
the cleanest, cosiest. brightest and
most convenient postoflice within q
range of hundred miles.
Our readers, generally, will remem-
Der the recent death of Fred Ahlers
who had the respect of all his ac-
GulintanceS. At the time of his
death he was member of the Wood
men lodge of this city and carried Il
life policy of $1,000. Friends of the
family will be gratified to learn that
it has been paid without delay. The
Woodmen is a beneficcnt order and
its members can point to this instance
in support of the belief they have III
its ability and good faith in perform
ing its promises.
\ light ''skift" of the beautiful
snow fell last Sunday. 1t came with
out buster or furry as a benediction
to the thousands acres of wheat al
that hundreds of bushels of seed
wheat are still in the granaries of the
farmers who have not yet finished
sowing. We predict that wheat has
been and viii be sown in six or seven
months of the present crop year. EX-
perience has shown that in yield the
last may be first and the first may be
last.
Two of our Franklin street business
men and base ball artists who pose aS
representatives of the fats and
leans" respectively, have made a
novel wager which will surprise the
natives who happen to be conyersant
with the conditions and circum-
stances: The one who first shaveS off
fore the first of April is bounden to
the other in the sum equal to the
value of all the oysters both can eat.
We say faithful" because faith is the
substance OF things hoped for and the
evidence of things not seen. How
ever. as each has signs of mustache on
his chin we calmly await the hirsute
developments which, according to q
juvenile tradition were said to follow
liberal application of cats and
cream.
We have repeatedly called the at
tention of our farmer readers to the
merits of The Kansas City Live Stock
Indicator as practical, all around
farm paper, just suited to the wants
of the farmers of this county. 1t af
fords us great pleasure, however, to
mention this excellent paper again.
and to call attention to the extra edi