Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-18
Kansas Notes

L
! bal poudre" New Years eve. The
ioudre was smokeless.
The bank deposits in the little
own of Gardner, with population OF
,nly AIS, amount to $4,000.
Salina refers to that portion of the
own most Of the police court cases
ONE from as the Bad Lands
A man in Savonburg has named his
log Athena because it doesn't do
.nything but hang around and sleep
| Mrs. Matte Isham of Wichita has
;ued Alonzo Lemon for breach of
promise and stipulates $4,000 as the
:Orrect amount.
! Ed Miller has abandoned the Wake
ield Searchlight and left the town
Without a paper in order to start
! lew one in Parsons.
| Notwithstanding the drought and the
'rice of fodder and the cinder beetles.
;0S marriage licenses were issued in
reno county last year.
! A Topeka restaurant advertises that
is motto is THE best none too good
The proprietor ought to edit that motto
md make it little less ambiguous.
] Rabbits are SO cheap on the Wich-
ia market that Fred Collier estimates
hat if the huntsman misses one shot
n twelve he forfeits his days prof
| is.
Ed Breetches lives in Little Valley,
Mcpherson county, and made a record
his week by husking 10S bushels of
:orn in one day. He is entitled to the
)elt
| The Clay Center Times advises
armers who contemplate planting
>-oomcorn to plant the striped handle
:ariety, as it seems to be the best
ieller.
| Oats are selling for seventy-fve
.ents a bushel in Wichita, and the
eagle predicts that they will be sell
ng for five cents apiece before
ipring.
| A Clay Center man, seized with an
inhibition to lead a better life, has
worn off wearing Photographic but
ens of his friends on the lapel of
lis coat.
| Baldwin, which has always been the
| amen corner of Eastern Kansas, is
utmost the only town this side of the
18th meridian that has escaped the re-
rival fad.
An anonymous Emporia man sent
paint brush and a bucket of red paint
% young woman as a Christmas
I present, and now she will quit using
t entirely.
The day after Christmas a Linds-
borg mans pocketbook was SO lean
hat Anna Carlson says he had to
AXE a screw driver to pry the sides
/ IF it apart.
| A petition addressed to President
Roosevelt is being circulated in Leav
snworth asking for a pardon for the
solitary federal convict who has plot
| ed to escape.
| The Oskaloosa wife murderer was
sentenced to fifty years in the peni-
.entiary. 1t is estimated that he will
De too old when his term has expired
o kill any more women.
Burlingame boasts that it has spent
;23, 600 for tombstones in the last
year, but Usage City maintains that
| t is yet the better town for persons
/ Who are now on earth
A Kansas editor says it's needless
% go far to see a football game. He
says Just try to slop a bunch of pigs
n trough that only two can get
heir noses into at once
Plevna, in Reno county, never ap
3eared in print until its only school
house was destroyed by fire last week.
md it has been too bewildered by the
glare of publicity to replace it.
One man in Wellington is so particu-
ar that he has lifted up his voice in
wrath because the pesthouse is 10
Gated only 100 feet distant from the
intake of the city water supply.
A preacher in Mcpherson paid So, 900
cash for a farm and refused $4,000
or it the next day. The clergymen of
Mcpherson, it seems, have something
IN their barrels besides old sermons.
Mrs. B. P. Waggener, of Atchison.
bought her husband a Morris chair for
Christmas and surrounded the fact
with much secrecy, but the bill, which
went to Mr.. Waggener, arrived ahead
Of the chair.
An Emporia newspaper offered a
piano in a voting contest for the pref
.iest girl in Lyon county. On the last
lay it looked as though a certain girl
would win, but at the last moment
The next girl behind her walked into
The office with Is 900 votes for herself
and won.
The Rev c. NJ. Sheldon. author of
In His Steps," is also a talented
writer of verse. On New Years day
he passed cards among his Topeka
friends on which were two stanzas en-
titled 1902 A portion of it:
Dear friend of mine, the year is new;
1 wish happy year for you.
Whatever lies within its hand,
Easy or hard to understand.
Whether it brings you smiles or tears.