Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
fassas News notes.


for.
There is an old timer out in Ash
land who actually is too lazy t.
whittle.
The circus was a failure at Law
renee to the extent of not bringing
any rain.
With all of its dry weather Kansas
can't get up a kick on what it has to
eat this year.
If Gueda Springs mud will not cure
corns and cancers, it will not make
them any worse.
The fiercest poet yet lives out in
| Clyde, and recently he attempted to
| make rind jibe with band.
Nobody dreamed that Concordia was
getting gay until the papers there
| began to fuss about a curfew.
| 1t argues much for the morality of
Americas that the calaboose in that
town has been sold for taxes.
A man. in Troy who has made him
self sick twice eating peaches this
year las not found one with a worm
| in it.
Potatoes are so scarce around Man.
| haitian that the people feel that they
have nothing to fear from tuber-
| culosis.
The Shawnee County Horticultural
! society met last week to celebrate
the peach crop instead of assembling
/ to kill it.
There are five olive trees in Atchi-
son loaded with fine fruit, but nobody
in Atchison is really sporty enough
to like olives.
The band stand in Abilene is NOV
able, SO that the people of the same
/ locality do not have to stand the
music all the time.
There are plenty of fine dogs in
Leavenworth to give a bench show il
there was anybody there with the en-
terprise to get it up.
| Another incident resulting probably
from the drought is the divorce case
! brought by Maggie Korn against Ar
thur Korn in Wilson county.
| The fondneSS of cats ror cucumberS
which has been discovered by Linds-
borg lady will not tend to make those
animals any quieter at night.
Down in Sumner county, where the
wheat does nothing but grow, not one
| farm is on this years delinquent tax
list, and only a few town lots.
| 1t is certain that the same kind of
weather is not needed in Kansas to
make peaches and corn. Peaches and
| alfalfa seem to run closer together.
| The Leavenworth woman who set a
trap for a mouse and caught four
/ foot rattle snake, wasn't as badly
scared as if she had found mouse
in the trap.
r. j. Tiff of Ames has razor which
has been constantly in use for 100
years. His great grandfather owned
it. The Clyde Republican vouches for
| the story.
A Washington man has married a
young woman with just enough In
dian blood in her veins to establish a
Usage country.
The official seal of the state board
of medical examination and registra-
instead of the "ad astra' device, used
in most of the state seals.
Beloit is bound to have a clock in
the courthouse tower that will give its
breachy citizens no excuse for stay
ing out after the time for wel1-be-
haved persons to be in bed.
Frank Root of Topeka, a veteran
newspaper man, has written a book
about the early days of Kansas. He
calls it 1.-The Overland Stage" 1t is
J in the hands of the printer.
Isaac Sharp, an ancient Democratic
landmark in Kansas, died in Wash
Recently ne nOuTISucu III DdOT-
: ris county in the early SOS, and when
Morris was the only county in Kansas
to give a majority against Abraham
Lincoln. He served in The legislature
of 1868, and was the Democratic
nominee for governor in 1870.
An Abilene missionary in India
writes thankfully about the receipt OF
a lot of quilts sent by home friends
and then adds with yelled sarcasm
!, I'VE shall pray for cool weather in
order to enjoy them
The New York young woman who
has been elected professor of domes-
tic science at the agricultural college
at Manhattan ought to bring a lot OF
recipes to Kansas which the women
of that state know nothing about.
There are seventy-six- persons in
the town of Concordia who are pas,
! 20 years of age. The oldest person
in the place is SO. Here is a con-
spicuous proof of the wisdom OF
; burning the candle at only one end.
: At the Baxter Springs reunion q
D German farmer set up an apple stand
? put some apples in a paper sack and
then yelled: IF you guess der mum
Der of apples in der sack I give yor
all six of dem. Five cents a guess
Clara Risdon and her sister Chloe
are making a success of farming neal
d Delphcs. They put in fifty acres OF
{ wheat last season and will sow the
q same amount this fall. They take
& care of six cows, sixteen hogs, severa,