Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-14
Kansas Notes


fifty varieties of grass grow in Kan
sas-
Alton will vote next month on a
proposition to issue $4,000 bonds to
build a water works plant
A Garden City man has bred a fowl
that is a cross between a chicken,
guinea, goose. duck. a turkey and
peacock
The first postoffice in Kansas was
established May 20. 1928. at the site of
Fort Leavenworth. Philip p. Rand
was the postmaster
A child 2-years-old was choked to
death the other day at Eureka and the
physicians found a walnut kernel
lodged in it's throat.
Complaint is made in Howard be-
cause this seasons consignment of
grocery store maple sugar" contains
less real maple sugar than ever be-
fore.
One mill out in Hays City grinds
5000 bushels of wheat every twenty
four hours, and still has the presump-
ton to claim that it's flour is exceed
ing fine"
Preston had one of those old fash
toned Thanksgiving days at which, ac-
cording to printed reports, the tables
fairly groaned under the load of good
things
Since the discovery that Russian
thistle makes an excellent fodder it is
expected that some one will find out
that the heel fly is fair substitute for
shrimp.
A Shelbina paper states that lowing
to the overcrowded condition of our
columns this week a number of births
and deaths were postponed until next
Thursday"
Lord Scully, who owns 10000 acres
of the best farm land in Marshall and
Marion counties, refuses to sell an
acre of it. He makes a fortune each
year in rentals.
Bonner Springs has organized a
Commercial club and expects in few
months to scatter Sunshine" excur-
sions over to Wilder a. d up the river
as far as Linwood.
Charles Morton, one of the deputy
clerks of the supreme court, won a
case of malt tonic, hunting coat, two
hats and meal ticket at trap shoot
ing contest last week.
One Leavenworth society woman has
collection of 13S pitchers. No out
slider ever dreamed that the GROWER
Leavenworth society.
A Wellsville man claims to have
won $1,000 in a Mexican lottery.
There are a whole lot of people who
will insist on counting the money be-
fore they will believe it.
A Leavenworth man has undertaken
to corner the tobasco sauce market
since the announcement that the gov
ernment's military service and staff
college is to be located there.
Twenty-Five Kansas Counties have
no representation whatever in the
state penitentiary. Some of them are
free from lawlessness and others have
very punk prosecuting attorneys.
The report that there are twenty
six widows in the little town of Logan,
Phillips county, is believed to have
been started by the Commercial club,
as a means of starting immigration
that way.
A favorite song at the big revival
services in Winfield is ITO the Har-
vest Fields,'' and it sounds very much
like the refrain that went up when
the bumper wheat crop was ready to
be gathered.
The reason the advertising patron
age of the Prison Trusty, printed in
the state penitentiary, is SO small is
that the subscribers are not able, gen
orally speaking, to get away and avail
themselves of bargains
All meetings of the State Teachers
association will be held in the state
capitol in Topeka this year, instead of
assigning submeetings to various
churches, schools and halls The ex-
ecutive council has granted the use of
the legislative committee rooms for
this purpose.
1t has been the general impression
that Mexico was the greatest town for
temperance reform in Missouri, but a
report from Moberly states that 1.-The
water wagons were going every which
way this morning"
Two convict mounts were aban-
doned near Fidelity, Jasper county,
one day this week. The horses were
wet with foam and saddle marked.
The farmers in that vicinity are now
looking for Leavenworth- convicts at
$50 per.
Isaac Lane, cousin of Senator
James H. Lane, died in the Jackson
county poorhouse last week. He was
an eccentric character, 80 years of age.
At one time during the boom days
he was reckoned rich, but his money
took wings and flew away.
When he thinks the MOTEL coffee toe
weak. man in Holton strengthens it