Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-11-29
Kansas Notes

which, one enthusiastic reporter
says. will be the finest west Of New
York
An anti-saloon league has been or
agnized in Montgomery County to
change the name of Boozeville back
to Coneyvflle again
Two Ottawa men went hunting and
reported: I'VE got six ducks between
us" but admitted that the ducks few
away before they could close in on
them.
A Dickinson county bride and groom
decided they didn't want to be mar
ried' the day after the ceremony, so
they went back to the probate Judge
to get the thing undone. The judge
said mo" and cited them to lawyer.
Rather than bear the expense of
divorce they decided to '1et it CO."
A woman who formerly lived in
Lawrence and went back there this
week told a reporter the town had de-
Perforated. Why" she said, when I
was here twenty years ago was more
sought after than if l had been the
possessor of a million. Since that time
1 have married a rich man and come
back here dressed fit to kill, and no
attention is paid to me. The town is
not what it used to be- Still, Law
renee should feel pleased by the as
surance that it has changed.
Coffeyville hogs are dying with some
unknown skin and pimp1e disease.
A farmer killed an eagle which he
declares has been in the vicinity of
Olpe for years. His story is probably
true as the bird was baldheaded.
o.,
The town also needs belt factory.
Most of the young men wear both.
It's strange the number of men in
every community who imagine they
could be financiers if they had a
chance. The girl in Hiawatha who
lately inherited $1,000,000 is being
deluged with proposals of marriage
An obituary poem in a Southern
Kansas paper concluded in this pas
sionate burst of sentiment: "a dear,
sweet one has gone away; she will no
longer weep. We see her footprints
everywhere, but we cannot see her
feet
A Leavenworth woman IS asking for
a divorce on the grounds of a too in
dulgent' husband.
That all things wait for those who
come after them was exempliied to
blocks with a toothpick on an election
wager.
A Barton county farmer has fewer
| turkeys than he started in the fall
with, but the eighteen wolf scalps the
county paid him for this week will
about square matters.
Of
against Cora Minor has been brought
in Wilson county. Is there no way to
get these Minors to arbitrate?
The new hotel in Independence has
been named the CarI-Leau. Still,
A. c. Stitch built it and paid for it,
and is entitled to call it anything he
wants to.
A story is being told of Southern
Kansas cattle man who was riding
on a train a few days ago with a
shippers ticket, which had really
been issued to another person, a
much younger man. When the con-
ductor took the ticket and read the
description on it of the man to
whom it had been issued, he looked at
the elderly cattleman and said:
This ticket describes a much younger
man than you are. I can't let you
ride on it, ct can explain the mat
ter said the cattleman, very easily.
That ticket was issued to me at the
| time 1 ordered those cars in which to
ship my cattle to Kansas City"
I Five years have elapsed since the
Greeley county Jail had a prisoner in it.
The poor farm, too has such small
patronage that it is advertised for
sale.
Some of the Kansas acquaintance
of DIR. Carl Swenson, president of
Bethany College, Lindsborg, tell an
amusing story. Swenson, it seems,
often goes to Sweden to get new re-
cruits for his colony at Lindsborg.
On the last return from Sweden the
party stopped in New York to see
the sights. The Swedes were duly
impressed by what they saw. After
spending all one day looking around
one member of the party said to an
other: This is a great town,
think" Yes, assented the second,
s-and If this is New York, what
must Lindsborg be?''
At a base ball game between Gyp-
sum City and Roxbury the score ran
up as high as SIS to Is before all the
bats weresworn out.
A clergyman in one of the smaller
Emporia churches insists upon being
paid in advance He has promulgated
the rule, mo money, no sermon"
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