Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1899-03-18
WA-KEENEY, KAN, MARCH 18. 1899

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county Friday
Representative Lawson received
last Thursday afternoon two thor
oughbred Aberdeen-Angus bulls from
Leavenworth county.
Measles have strnck Wa-Keency
broad side, and as there has been nc
precantion taken against the disease
We'll all have 'em by and by.
MARRIED-At the M. E. parsonage
in this city, Thursday, March Is, 1899.
Mr.. Charles X. Sellers and Miss Myr.
| tie McNey, Rev. Gunckel officiating.
WORLD and host of warm friends
extend hearty congratulations.
One OF our business men after the
change of time, went home and in
formed his wife that the next morn
ing she would have to rise at o'clock
she kindly but positively refused to
do so. After due consideration the
gentleman in question figured out
that if he rose at o'clock that he
would be up in plenty of time 1t is
needless to add that it was entirely
satisfactory to his wife.
Congressman Reeder of Logan was
IN the city Tuesday forenoon. His
mission here was for the sole purpose
OF meeting and shaking hands with
everybody irrespective of politics. He
was delighted with our city. Mr..
Reeder is feeding 1S7 head of steers
and the same number of hogs on his
farm near Logan, and expects to top
the market in July with a train load
or rat steers and hogs. He has lived
in western Kansas over a quarter of a
century and knows the needs of our
people. He Will make an excellent
congressman.
What do you think of these prices.
YOU howlers for good old times In
1868, Oacon was retailed at 20 cents
per pound, white sugar, 20 cents per
pound. tea. S1.15 per pound. flour per
hundred weight, $50 to 800. salt,
S4-0O per barrel, coal oil. 20 cents per
gallon, and the average rate of wages
was not as high as to-day. The pri-
Yates in the army received S13. 90 per
month. and there was lot of them
that out of this pittance had to sup
port family; we might add further,
calico was 30 cents per yard, coffee, 75
cents per pound Ellsworth Reporter.
Once opon time a tramp was sore
ly In need of something to eat and
farm house lie spake
unto the farmer. saying: ''If you will
the cravings of the inner man, L will
Kill all the rats about the place"
Agreed" said the tiller of the soil.
and he ordered his good wife to give
the tramp square meal. After the |
tramp had devoured everything i'm |
sight he went to the wOodpile and Sc
lected stout club, then seated him. |
self on the porch and said to the far
mer: Now bring on your rats"
MOral-AlwayS have the details |
specified in the contract.-Chicago |
News.
A sixteen-year-old girl imagines /
that she is an angel, and never gets
over it, after woman gets old, she
thinks of how she was admired and
in her youth, and feels t
that some great wrong was done her
Is she was at sixteen. If she is mar
led, she is apt to lay the blame on
,he brutality of her husband; if she
s an old maid, she lays it on her
ather, who was poor, and thus forced
Ter to work, which resulted in T
tooping figure and harsh features.
man never has this experience; he
5 at his worst at sixteen, and does
lot reach his best until he is twenty
TX to thirty BY that time he has +
little sense and never mis-
axes compliment for the truth
AtchiSOn Globe.
An exchange says the girl who gives
way to a desire to gad about the +
treets and cultivate the acquaint- II
nee OF young men, and acting theit
importing simpleton, is laying the i
oundation for a useless after life Z
ZEN to one after she IS married she I
Iill develop into slattery gossip, il ,
o greater misfortune befalls her. 1t
J the girl with good common sense, /
he girl that loves home and helps I
er mother, that wins the model hus-
and and becomes an ornament to a
'omanhoOd- The girl that does this e
nd devOteS some of her time to read t
lg, tries to win the esteem of every L
ody; while the gadding street orna- o
tent wins only the admiration of v
nose whose admiration is not worth p
aving.
Down at Mcpherson a week ago, last
1nday morning female evangelist
'ked her female listeners to remove q
leir hats, as she could not see all the ii
ces in her audience nor the audi G
ice could not see her face. The Re- q
lblican says: Never. perhaps, in the 81
fe of 50 many ladies present was 5.