Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-05
Eallsas News Rotes.

SkeCcn Dy Augustus InOmaS, one or
Americas foremost playwrights- Luz
formerly with the Metropolitan Grand
Opera company, will give vocal selec-
lions; the Sa-vans will entertain in
haps:" Ameta will do her rotable
land are two very comical people who
manufacture laughter; Tommy Baker
always has something new and good in
a mono1ogue; and Memphis Kennedy
is musician who can be artistic and
funny at the same time. The Kino-
drome has new moving pictures each
week of the most timely public events
MatineeS are given every Sunday,
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday.
]. H. Dye, Wichita anarchist, has
been cast out of town.
Probably the most scholarly person
at Baker university is Mr.. Study.
Some real potatoes were among the
exhibits at the Rocks county fair last
week.
A careless proofreader on the We'll
lington Journal let society bugs" go
for debutantes.
The proud look you see on the faces
of the Newton people is owing to the
local fire department.
The invitation still hangs out at the
lola restaurants to drop in and get
slice of iced watermelon"
A couple of Topeka parents are
fighting in the courts over the custody
of a little boy of % years.
If you want to believe the Reflector.
there is a girl visiting in Abilene with
bunch of real Paris gowns.
Ottawa has Calamity alley which
sheds water into the cellars, and in
this way makes good it's name.
The bride whose age was published
in the Topeka Herald as 43 is not
likely to subscribe for that paper.
There is a good deal of talk in
Northern Kansas in favor of fewer
school districts and better schools.
Oswego is considerably elated at the
prospect of a having foot baller on
the Kansas university team this fall.
1t is easy TO guess what would hap
pen to Czolgosz if he were in Leaven-
worth, even if he is not colored man.
There was what the Times calls a
'sHot Fire. in Clay Center few days
ago. Clay Center never does things
by halves.
Abilene has at last become persuaded
that it can never look like city with
out garbage cans and has acted ac-
cordingly.
The burglar who broke into pantry
at Galena and ate up dishfu1 of cold
potatoes is fleeing in terror from the
enraged mob.
There was stuff enough of one kind
and another to draw 5000 people to
the lola fair in one day-pretty gooo
for a dry year.
The band concerts at Wichita will
close with September. After that. the
| people will have to depend on the
mosquitoes for music.
In independence young woman
who does not belong to the Rebekahs
has nothing to talk about when she
| is with the other girls.
An absent-minded farmer near
| Stockton forgot to tell his corn when
| il was time to quit and it grew to a
height of fourteen feet.
The stage is to receive an accession
/ in the person of an Abilene man who
has enjoyed a thorough dramatic
training as sheriff of Dickinson county.
| The unusual number of square
| ehouldered, 1ong-haired students with
| thick sweaters and bulldog pipes
which have appeared at Lawrence
| within the last fortnight presages a
/ year of exceptional success at the Kan
sas university.
rratt is much distressed because
| Tom Roll, an outsider, came to town
and won the horseshoe tossing cham
| pionship away from the most famous
| experts in Southwestern Kansas.
Pool Grinstead, the Doniphan county
editor who is in jail at Troy, was
robbed of fifty cents the other day
by another prisoner But what does
an editor in Jail need of none?
James Higgins, a brakeman, 25 years
| old, on the Atchison. Topeka and
| Santa Fe, while braking in the yards
| at Florence, fell under the cars and
had both legs cut off below the knees.
/ He is a married man and lives in En-
| poria-
One of the early effects of the recent
| big fire at Emporia is a rummage sale
to obtain money to help build new
Methodist church. A rummage sale is a
| proceeding which admits of the util-
| ization of old trash in rebuilding the
| walls of Zion.
A little Wichita boy whose grown
| kin tried to cure him of typhoid
| fever by means of faith alone, has
| gone to join the other little boys who
| have toyed with threshing machines.
or who have crawled through a hedge
| fence and pulled a shotgun through
| after them.
A stranger in lola could not raise
IS the other day by offering a horse
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