Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-04
Kansas Notes

Norton Golf club, with capital of
81, 900.
The "lovingest" pair in Hutchinson
are over 60 years old-but they were
married only last week
The Kansas Rube.'' was knocked
out in the fifth round by Joe" VOL
colt at Fort Erie last week
News comes from Dighton of a wo-
man who was injured by the "prema-
ture discharge of a sorghum cam
The only physician in the town OF
Alton is under quarantine by reason of
smallpox in his family. 1t is the only
case there.
A man and woman in Atchison who
were divorced last June have just
been married again. With some peo-
pie love is intermittent.
Farmers in Northern Kansas are
now selling stuff to their city custom
ers by long distance telephones and de-
livering it by rural mail carriers.
Out in Berne, where actual butter is
scarce, there is a clamor for a law
which will prevent the coloring of in
ferior butter to represent good oleo-
margarine.
The Rev. Hugh Park McClurkin of
Topeka, after fifty-three years in the
Reformed Presbyterian ministry and
record for having preached S,268 SER
mons, has re..red.
The "foolishest' break the law has
made recently was in Holton. where a
man with a wife weighing over 200
pounds was charged with having no
visible means of support.
A man near Smith Center sold fifty
walnut trees on his farm to a Chicago
furniture factory. The Saline Herald
says it is certain the boys in the neigh
borhood never gave their consent to
the transaction.
You may imagine our grief last
Monday morning. says a Central Kan
sas editor, upon opening letter con-
tanning a money order for $1.15. to
learn that it was made payable to some
one way up in Minnesota
There was a double wedding in
Mankato this week in which Frank
Matousek and Frances Noravek, and
Frank Peroutek and Emma Moravek
were the principals, and the Monitor
| extended it's congratulationek to the
happy coupleks.
GA young man who keeps going to
see a girl without any serious inten-
| tion," says the sage of the Jewell City
| Republican land the one who keeps
| taking a little stimulant every day
without any serious intention, will
both know more later on
A story is told of Wichita boy who
| was jimmying around the barn and
| came across some bran and began eat
| ing it His father saw him. What
| are you doing?" he asked Eating
| bran,' answered the boy. well. for
| Gods sake, son, eat anything you
want but let the horses feed alone this
| winter.
A man in Downs has lost all faith
| in dreams. One night he dreamed that
| a certain number would win the Kan
sas City Convention hall prize. He
| got out of bed and wrote the number
| down and the next day he bought a
| ticket and made guess in accordance
with his dream 1t was just about
| $4,000 too high.
| Bert Foote was sitting in barber
| shop in Hiawatha the other night tell
| ing of his success as rabbit hunter
| There were six men in the shop and
| each one engaged from three to six
rabbits from Foote, thinking his yarns
| were imaginary and that he could not
| deliver them. On the -ollowing night
| Foote called on every man and deliv-
| cred the number of rabbits he had en-
gagged
The Sawlog correspondent of the
| Jetmore Herald worked it's items up
| last week into nineteen verses of ter
rife nerve racking rhyme. One of
| them, which has distinct flavor of
| life out in the range country, is as
| follows. LAS the colder weather comes
| And the blue is on our lips. Everyone
| or nearly SO, Spends their time in
| picking chips
| A remarkable accident which en-
| phasizes the necessity for strict and
immediate quarantine against cinder
| beetles occurred in the Coolidge rail-
| road yards. Twenty of the company's
| new steel fiat cars, loaded with Colo
| RADIO coal, were on a side track and a
| switch engine with Dad" Slack at
| the throttle were sent to hitch them
| on to No IS, the eastbound through
| fast freight, the main line. The
| preliminary coupling was made and
! the head brakeman waved "go ahead"
| The switch engine tugged for a mo-
| ment and then shot forward, but with
| only seven of the coal cars. An ex-
| animation showed that nest of Gin
| der beetles in the eighth car had not
| only devoured all of the coal, but had
| eaten the car almost in two near the