Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-04
Kansas Notes

the town marshal in Russell this sum-
mer that there are hardly enough
left to get up a fight
A farmer out in the Sixth district
has two notices framed and hung
in his parlor. One is, God Bless
Our Home" and the ether PLANT the
Corn Thin"
Isaac Hahn, an Osborne county
farmer, had lockjaw for a week and
didn't know it, He thought it was
rheumatism. DIR. Chilcott and Dr..
Daily picked the lock.
The statehouse heating plant is out
of order again, and the officials and
clerks are catching severe colds.
Housekeeping has made rapid
progress lately" says. the Delphos Re
publican, toward the desired end,
which is the greatest good with the
least effort. About all there is to do
now for breakfast is to knock in the
head of big yellow box and call the
children"
Among the other provisions in the
contract which the Downs school
board makes the children sign is this:
No teacher shall engage in dancing
or card playing during the continu-
formal parties during the second
week.
The rural telephone is the Destroy
er of the old fashioned style of hero
ism. A Smith county farmers wife
saw the railroad bridge was on fire.
Instead of getting out her red petit
coat and tagging the train. she SIM
ply telephoned to the dispatcher's
officer.
The COTS Advance -oasts the Ne
maha county fair. 1t maintains that
the fine stock exhibit consists of three
cows, a calf and pig, and the art
gallery was as empty as church char
ity box.
Cattle coming in from the South
are infected, the live stock sanitary
commission says, with Texas fever.
D. w. Wilder of Hiawatha is not an
honorary fireman, but he is neverthe-
less entitled to hail President Roose-
welt as a brother, and give him the
mystic grip. Both are Harvard grad
yates, both belong to the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity and the famous Hasty
Pudding club.
w. F. Brown-"Brown of Pratt
the legislator of anti-railroad fame is
also a poet. One of his lyrics, entitled
.Forewarned," contains this pathetic
stanza:
1 revisited my dear old home last
night
But found the folks in tears;
My mothers face was pale with grief
My father older by years.
And my chair was empty beside the
hearth
And covered by long black veil,
While the woe depicted on my sisters
face
Finished the gruesome tale.
Clarence Richards of Wellington,
who is a midshipman in the United
States navy, has a great deal of study
ing to do, in addition to his other
duties, relates the Wellington Journal.
One day he was told to locate the ship
from the sun chart. While he was
figuring an officer looked over his
shoulder and found that he had made
mistake of about ninety degrees,
and had the ship located out in South
western Kansas. Great Scott, son."
the officer exclaimed, "how did you
ever get a ship as big as this one out
in Southern Kansas, where there isn't
enough water to take a bath?" Rich
ards scratched his head and turning
to the officer said: well, the fact of
the matter is, 1 am homesick and
wanted to go home"
An Emporia man was sleeping close
to an open window, on the night of
the first frost. with his mouth wide
open. The Gazette quotes a dentist
as authority for the item that the frost
warped his teeth.
A feature of the Atchison corn car
nival will be ten decorated baby bug
gies, containing ten pretty babies,
pushed by ten young and pretty girls
Chris. Crossman, an Ottawa young
man who went to the Philippines as
member of the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment has been appointed inspector of
police in Manila.
A bulletin issued by the United
States government, prepared under the
direction of the geological survey,
gives what purports to be the origin
of many geographical names in COM
mon use. For example: Santa Fee
county in Kansas and towns and coun-
ties in other states; a Spanish phrase
meaning holy faith - There is no
Santa Fe county in Kansas. The gov
| eminent is usually more accurate
The following advice from the Jewell
County Republican is probably right,
but is not likely to b etaken: MY son,