Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-16

Mcpherson county
Boy Ioafers have been barred from
bingham barber shops
The latest carload shipment to
New York from Garden City was one
of broomcorn-
Chicago music firm. puts out
song entitled: Carrie Nation and
Her Hatchet-''
The Union Pacific has stored away
twenty-eight carloads of ice from
Green River, Wyo., at Solomon
Brown and Harvey counties lead
in the number of students repre-
scented at the University of Kansas
this year.
Travelling straight north from Vlfete
in a five mile limit, five Johnson fam
lilies will be passed, none of whom are
related.
A party of Iowa men have pur-
chased 1000 acres of farm land in
Franklin county at an average OF
about $50 an acre.
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas
railway shops at Parsons have
turned out a $4,000 private car for
the president of the road
C. F. Conkiin, who carried on most
of the honors in this winters billiard
tournament in New York, is a former
Kansan.
Stanley appointed regent of the
University of Kansas, is a graduate of
that institution.
The oldest school teacher in Kansas
is said to be w. w. Walkey of Sheri-
dan county, who has been teaching
since 1S49. He has been in Kansas
twenty-one years.
Catt1emen in Greenwood county
are making hard times for lawyers.
pCf "a ed a q r.
bitrating differences. Three men are
chosen as an arbitration committee.
They investigate the trouble and make
a decision, which is final. fuss in
volving $4,000 was settled at Eureka
last week by an arbitration commit
tee.
You should patronize the merchants
who advertise. If a merchant don't
think enough of your trade to let you
know that he has goods for sale why
should you care to hunt him up,
when you come to town? A nice,
clean stock of goods is worthy of all
the putting it can get.-Grant Shaw.
Orlando C. Troxel, who graduated
from West Point last week and has
been assigned to an infantry regi-
ment in the Philippines, is the son of
farmer living twelve miles north of
Abilene.
The town marshal of Grandy was
a steel gang of sixty railroaders got
drunk. He filled the calaboose and
then took the rest and lowered them
| into an S0-foot coal shaft, where they
remained safely, all showing up for
| trial
Jesse Powell figures out that during
the last thirty-five years his wife has
baked 191 ,625 hot biscuits. of which
he has eaten one-half- That's an
average of seven a day. Mr.. Powell
weighs more than 200 pounds
The farmers of Doniphan county in
their efforts to corner pickles will
plant acres and acres of cucumbers.
Hiawatha is the modern Eden of
Kansas The town has fourteen
churches, bible class of 300 students
and not a joint nor Il druggist with
| liquor permit. Even the Chinese laun-
| dryman is a church member
At Woodbine, the Rev. w. M. Cleve-
| land, of Harrington, held a temper
ance meeting, after which a vigilance
committee called on the only jointist
| in the town, and ordered him to leave
at once. The jointist agreed to leave
and close his joint at once.
81 bought some apples from Chi
| naman yesterday, giving him an
American dollar writes a Kansas
boy from Pekin '.In the change
which he gave me was an American
half dollar of the date of 1913. / have
refused $40 for. it.
| Fear of insanity caused Clark Bald
win, single man, % years old. to
shoot and instantly kill himself in
| Wichita. Baldwin was a graduate OF
Paramount college and a printer by
| trade. Before he committed the deed
he wrote note to a friend in which
he stated that he was about to kill
himself because of his i'll health
which he thought would eventually
lead to insanity
In an Atchison spelling match
everybody went down before the word
caoutchouc. Caoutchouc is word
which one may look at intently for
ten minutes and then turn away with
out the eloquence to spell it.
| State superintendent of Schools
Nelson has made the semi-annual dis
| tribution of interest money to the
schools of Kansas. The total school
population this time is $50, as
compared with 504, 40 six months ago.
cents, as against A cents six months
ago. This is due to the increase in
school population and the fact that
last year almost all of the back in
terest on bonds was paid up
Noting the marriage IN that city of
A. j. Brownies and Alice G. Keith,
the Eldorado Republican clothes the
4 affair in romance. Fifteen years ago
| these people were sweethearts in a
small town in Missouri. The man
went away to Dakota to make a home
for his intended bride, and soon after
the girl moved to EldoYado. The man
succeeded not ouly in making home.
but also quite a fortune, but in tho
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