Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-06
Western Kansas World.
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Established March 1, 1870.
Official Paper of Trego County.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1897

ffeSn pork at Bakers
Picked pork at Bakers.
Smoked hams at Bakers.
n. Fuller is convalescing.
Subscribe for the WORLD.
Good fresh beef at Bakers
Last Tuesday was ground hog day.
A. c. Lord is still confined to the
house.
Fresh oysters at Bakers at 35 cents
per quart
The Republican at La Crosse is
new venture.
Len johnson cut about 300 tons of
ice last week.
Hon. w. F. King, of the east side,
was in town Saturday.
DR.. Jones made several professional
visits to Cheyenne Wells, this week.
March will soon be here. Then
we can sing. good by, Frakes, good by.
Judge Cowick made business trip
to eastern Kansas the first of the
week.
Fred Ahlers shipped another car of
swine to Kansas City Wednesday
morning.
and everything in the stationery line
at Cortright's.
c. G. Bestor, our enterprising mer-
chant, put up about fifty tons of 10
inch ice last Saturday.
Receiver Saum, of the land office,
made business trip to Kansas City
the latter part of last week.
George Morell, of Collver township,
was in Wa-Keeney last Friday and
paid US an appreciative visit.
DIR. Raffington, the Ellis dentist,
will be in Wa-Keeney February Sth
and 9Th. Office, Ferris hotel.
Hon. Ike Purcell, of Grainfield, the
next register of our land office. spent
Tuesday in the city the guest of his
old friend, John Sims.
Sheriff Lynn got his pass the first
of the year again Just the same-In-
dependent.
Next January he will get tie pass.
| Register of Deeds Cross spent the
first three days of the week in Hutch
inson, Kansas, and represented Wa
Keeney lodge No. 1851. Nj. w. of A,
at the Grand Lodge meeting.
A female tourist passed through
Wa-Keeney Tuesday evening. She
claimed to have walked all the way
from Denver, her destination being
Troy, Kansas
Wonder if she visited the indie
pendent offices!
Kansas has too many useless offices.
We hope the legislature will have the
courage to abolish them-Independ-
ent.
Now, Olson, do you think you can
make the people of Trego county (who
have known you for the past seven
teen years. believe you mean what
You say. Nit.
Thomas Roberts and family, who
had a narrow escape from being burn
ed to death by their house burning
down on the night of January 18th,
will move into town in the near
future, and he expects to secure en-
ployment in the shops.-Ellis indie
pendent.
We want one good man (having
horse), as permanent superintendent
for Trego county, to attend to our
business on salary. Must send along
with application, strong letters of
recommendation as to honesty, energy
and ability First-class man only.
State occupation. Address p. 0. Box
1852, Philadelphia, Pa.
An exchange says: .'There is more
money for the farmer selling cream
than most anything else. Eight or
ten good cows will make the ordinary
farmer independent II depends. If
the .sordinary farmer" has plenty of
feed to keep eight or ten cows he will
be all right, but if he is like the fell
low Col Blue tells about who said his
COW sucked herself and didn't need
any feed he would come out at the
little end of the horn
The Independent of last Saturday
gave notice that Mr.. Balloon would
hold teachers examination, etc. He
dIdp't hold any. although he lived in
thciofice, day and night, all the pre-
viobs week keeping n light burning
sna hsedh long, possibly to keep of
In nfs7zFxS We cannot conceive of
|xSH public business requiring such
clsl attention and do not know upon
what grounds he juStifieSS such ex-