Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-29
kansas news Rctes.


ordinance closing restaurants during
Sunday church service.
Kinsley boasts of having the finest
park and best kept lawns of any town
in the west half of the state.
Not for twenty years have the
streams of Osborne county been so
full as during the past week
Rather than kill the dogs in Abilene.
the owners who fail to pay the tax are
heavily fined and jailed in addition.
A Harlan man who is every saving
listed his corn at night SO that his
wife might drive after doing her days
work.
Grasshoppers are appearing rather
too numerous for the comfort of the
corn along the Prairie Dog in Thomas
county.
A Rock Island car loaded with fruit
jars was wrecked in Jefferson county.
The trainmen were, of course, badly
Jared up.
The state fair committee might get
some pointers from the ladies who
managed to clear 81 600 at the Catholic
fair. at Horton.
Pomona has rare citizen who is
so polite that he can stand off bill col
lectors so amiably that they apologize
An Ellsworth county man rubbed
lemon juice on the wounded portion of
a horse bitten by rationale, and
saved the animals life.
Anthony has started the prelimin-
aries for a harvest home celebration
July 4. Timely weather and seven
brass bands will do the rest.
A little cloudless whirlwind started
up the other day at COTS which
proved fierce enough to wipe barn
out of existence before retiring.
Just to recall old time an Arvonia
pioneer went out to the bank of the
Marais des Cygnes and dug up petri-
fed buffalo head, horns and all.
Charles S. Gleed, A. c. Jobes and
w. C. Edwards, three Kansans who
never lose are investing in zinc prop
critics in Boone county Arkansas.
Florence claims to have the prettiest
main street of any town in Kansas.
It was originally laid out by French
man who nad an eye for the future.
Elephant bugs are destroying the
corn around Augusta. Nothing so
small and inconsequental as chinch
bug could phase the mammoth stalks.
The Wellington National bank de-
clared a dividend Of 120 per cent the
other day. The bank capital stock is
$50. 900 and the dividend was 100000.
If the bottoms of the strawberry box
notes are to be trusted that reach
Hutchinson there is a Logan, Mo-, girl,
16 years old. who has never been
kissed.
The Concordia girl of IS years who
has $50 young chickens in her poultry
yard and several hens still on their
in
and sodas this summer.
Farmers in Cloud county have cut
glass fingerbowls on their dining
tables, and no one except an occasion
al guest from the East makes the mis-
take of drinking from them.
A nefvy tramp entered the home of
a newly married Woodson county
couple while they were hoeing garden
and exchanged his old clothes for the
wedding suit and a gold watch.
Dennis Star, a full blooded Indian,
has been on trial at Leavenworth for
wife murder. All the squaw witnesses
made motions around their necks sig
nifying their desire to see him hanged.
A charming colored widow with
three grown daughters worked her
rabbit foot on white boy long enough
to entice him into the probate judges
Office at lola where they were made
man and wife.
A man in Wellington who has grown
rich after twenty-five years in the
grocery business, attributes his success
to three things: Keeping good goods.
advertising regularly and literally, and
sticking to my knitting
Squire Conner of East Atchison
married a couple a few days ago and
after the ceremony the groom asked
the size of the bill of costs. "Oh, what
ever you think the bride is WORTH
handed him 25 cents.
A Smith county man lost pocket
book one year ago containing SIS.
The other day while blowing he up
turned the purse and coin, which only
illustrates that you can't keep good
thing down in Kansas.
Az absent-minded Osborne county
man started to mill but forgot his
Grand He squared himself by taking
home dress pattern to his wife but
he had no biscuits for supper
A courageous Ottawa girl faced,
fought and conquered a coyote that
met her in lonely road at dusk The
wolf was at least 4 week old and had
its eyes open.
Fish Warden Wiley has a get-rich-
quick scheme that leaves Belgian hares
and Angora goats at the starting post.
Gold fish, he says, are readily sold at
81 pair, and properly cared for one
pair of gold fish will produce thirty
pairs in year. He figures that in the