Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-10

Finney county is to have a stone
court house.
The oberlin Herald accepts pay
ment of subscriptions in butter.
1t is said that Kansas farmers are
holding 100000 bushels of old corn
Farmers all over the state object to
the sun popping corn on their prem
ises.
1t has come to pass in Kansas that
the short grass shall be long and the
long grass short
Stafford is preparing to vote on
proposition to install a waterworks
and electric light plant
An expert in Pratt county attributes
the poor quality of butter to the cows
eating obnoxious weeds
Kansas will contribute its full quota,
and more, of hand-press newspaper
shops in the new Oklahoma district
Kansas is somewhat Inundated by
the fear that it may have to import
corn from New England for "husking
bees
Atchison has given up the idea of
corn carnival this year. 1t was either
that or use canned corn to decorate
with.
Anthony's Commercial Club has
raised $4,000 to induce the northern
extension of the Choctaw line to their
town.
A Clyde youth threatens to get mar
, ried or go to war, and it rests with the
young woman to decide which-or
both.
Instead of reporting the rainfall by
, inches, it is now being reported by
drops. In one township $50 drops fell
one morning.
By an odd arrangement of nomen-
clature Mrs. Hope of Kill Creek, Os-
borne county, was dangerously injured
last week by the explosion of a coffee
pot
Just to remind it's readers that bet
ter days are in store, the Arkansas
City Traveller got out it's When the
Frost is on the Pumpkin" poem and
ran it.
Nick Chiles, the Topeka negro who
went into partnership with Mrs. Ma
ton in the publication of the Smash
er's Mail, is under arrest for selling
liquor.
Topeka has been considerably dazed
ever since the discovery that the man
who keeps the smallpox hospital also
sells milk to a large number of city
customers.
J. o. Davidson of Wichita has
i brought a suit against Admiral Dewey
and others. Mrs. Dewey owns several
lots in Wichita which Davidson bought
at a tax sale.
A man in Beattie who can cash in
any day for $50, 1000, says he acquired
it all by the practice of thrift The
misfortune is that SO few people are
admitted to practice.
Bill White of lola, who is getting
- bot y,
for him, has offered an SIS fur cape to
the young lady who will write the best
recipe for chilblainS.
Charles E. McNall, postmaster at
Lebanon, Smith county, died last
week. He was an older brother of
Webb McNall of Gaylord, ex-superin-
tendent of insurance.
The postoffice department found 1t
necessary to make a ruling against
some thrifty mail carriers on Kansas
rural delivery routes who also carried
peddler's packs and were doing a
thriving business.
A school for the officers of the Kan
sas National Guard will be held in To-
peka September 1920, in anticipation
OF which the chief of artillery has al
ready instituted search for the crank
of the Calling gun
Harmon. Wilson: Kansas is develop
ing There are now several home
grown balloonists in the state who are
ready at any time to put on their spe-
cialty for a reasonable sum. Not so
very many years ago when Kansas
wished to witness a balloon ascension
they had their choice of waiting for
circus to come along or sending
thousand miles or so for professor"
A swindler struck lola recently and
disguised as a farmer sold lot OF
pure wild honey" He escaped before
it was discovered that the stuff was a
wretched mixture of cheap syrup, glu-
cose and rose water.
1t required a judge, twelve jurors
and three lawyers in MCPHERSON to de-
termine whether or not a turkey is an
animal within the scope and intent Of
the law 1t was decided in the affirm
ative, two of the lawyers dissenting.
According to the Wichita Star, Dea-
con White, Sedgwick county farmer,
expects to harvest 5000 bushels of
wheat The deacon started in twenty
years ago without a dollar. He now
Owls $40 acres of the best soil in the
country, well improved, stocked, and
does not owe a dollar
Railroad men in Kansas are so busy
that they haven't time to get married.
The Sterling Bulletin tells of one busy
man who got around the difficulty in
an original way. He is railroad agent
at Noble and c0uId he SDared from his,