Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-12-27
Kansas Notes


Inadequate"
Notwithstanding all the affection
which their name implies, Mr. and Mrs.
Lovelady have been given a divorce
by the district court of Butler county
The Rock Island has begun burning
gunbo for ballast in the Smoky Hill
bottoms. Besides being durable and
dustless, gumbo has the advantage OF
being proof against the cinder beetles4
Scoffers occasionally demand to know
what women's clubs are good for Out
in Abilene the club women have
raised 1000 in cash and a large col
lection of books, and will open pub
lie library January 1.
Colonel Miner of Fort Leavenworth
may issue an order prohibiting officers
and privates from going into Leaven-
worth unless the city gives them bet
ter protection from gamblers and dis
orderly characters.
This is one of the mother-in-law
stories told by the Ottawa Herald: A
bridegroom went to visit his wife's
folks and at breakfast the first morn
ing he asked his mother-in-law for a
shredded wheat biscuit She refused
his demand and he had to use Force
The Brown County Fair association
which has given a fair each year in
out of existence. The old time county
fair with its cattle and pumpkins and
home made preserves was great in
stitution in its day, but bigger and bet
ter attractions in larger towns have
brought about the change
Eleven additional mail delivery
routes are to be established in Dick
inson county.
The Rev. Father Washiwashisky
has been called to be the pastor of a
Catholic church in Neodesha-
Burglars robbed a safe in Moonlight,
Cloud county, a few nights ago. and
one of the papers thereabout fears they
will be operating in daylight next
A foot ball game in Wellington ended
in a free fight The papers say the
spectators thought it was a part of
the game and did not know anything
about the fight until it was all over.
1T doesn't require much knowledge
to teach country school, says the
Hutchinson News. "All the require
ments necessary for a country school
teacher is to be a primary, intermediate
and high school teacher combined She
must be able to rustic her own kind
ling wood, build her own fires, adjust
the fallen stove pipes put in window
panes that the boys break. mend the
broken desk, love the dull. unruly pu-
pills as well as she does the bright,
obedient scholar, or at least give no
evidence of different condition of
affairs. She must be able to drive a
horse, spank the unruly kids, keep the
big boys from making love to her.
keep out of neighborhoOd rows and
keep on the good side of all the people
in the district. She must understand
the school laws and be able to interpret
them to the school board. She must
raise money for the school library,
keep all kinds of records, plant trees
On arbor day, but be of an irreproach-
able moral character and pass an ex-
animation in all the branches OF mod
ern education in which half the col
lege graduates ten years from examina-
ton would funk and in which an ap-
plication for $1,000 a year govern
ment position would fail For all these
varied accomplishments and for all
this labor the school teacher receives
the mdSn1I1conL salary Oh 90 70 $ou
4 month and finds herself until some
one takes pity on her and finds her.
Out of this sum she is expected %
, blow in part of it each year in at
tending the country normal to fit her
self more thoroughly for the earning
Of this magnificent salary"
A Joplin man was given a two years
sentence in the penitentiary for steal
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treasurer.
A Fort Scott lad, penitent after a
riotous spree, shed tears in court He
will also shed his coat and do time on
the rock pile
A 4-year-old girl in Atchison county
saved two younger children from death
and the house from burning last week
lamp was overturned while the
parents were spending the evening
away The little girl is a real hero
me-
John Gilmore of Fredonia. T. W.
Eckert of Arkansas City and Andy
Richards of Wellington are being mem
toned as possible congressman in the
new Eighth district 1t appears fore
ordained that the place will go to an
editor.
| In Minnesota a man is not allowed to
give away a drink of whisky unless
Il he has a license The Ottawa Herald
is moved to add: Unless the local