Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-01
Kansas Notes

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A Sharper has been selling a prep
aration of sawdust to a number of
Lyon county farmers as a wonderful
food for cows.
A paper in Dodge City tells of q
man who received painful injuries by
running against a corner of the
roundhouse.
Economy school district. in Butler
county, emphasizes its name by hold
| ing only seven months term and pay
| ing its teacher $50.
A swindIer started to work his game
on a man in Oskaloosa one day last
week. and in order to establish a cinch
he lent his victim $50. Now he is
looking for the victim
| Out in Rice county bride was given
a COW and a 500 bill as wedding pres
ents. The 800 will just about pay
| for the cows board until spring.
The magazine form in which the
Hiawatha World and several others
of the high grade weekly papers are
| printed, is referred to now as short
Skirts
The Salina Choral Union has reached
the acute stage of the fifth rehearsal.
| The entire town has been exposed to
it, and is expected to break out with
it any day.
Between December Is and January Ii.
j only 139 cases of smallpox were re-
ported in Kansas. There were, how
ever, several hundred cases of disease
known in Northern Kansas sil1rly Is
| TT which were not reported.
The family of Ellsworth Beers, of
i Leon, who is in the hospital service
| with the army in the Philippines, arises
/ to say that he is in no way responsible
| for the increased drunkenness among
/ the Filipinos.
i T. b. Gerow, director of the free en-
ployment bureau, in his report to the
4 governor, says he sent 1000 men into
i the harvest fields last year.
Colonel Whitelaw Snort, editor of
the Coolidge Enterprise, will read
paper at the annual meeting of the
State Editorial association in Man
haitian on the subject: 1.-The Effect of
Cinder Beetles in the Composing
| Room
i Prof. Dyche, who subscribes to the
proposition that the Garden of Eden
/ was situated at the North Pole. has
| greatly disappointed those who have
| always contended that it was located
somewhere in the vicinity of the Nc
Cook field.
i { Several Kansas papers are express
/ ing great indignation because the APP
pointment of seventeen officers of the
| Twel tleth Kansas regiment is re-
ferred to as 1.-The luck of the Twenti-
eth There is no such thing as
luck in Kansas, these papers would
/ have you know. 1t is p1uck-and
i pull.
i An Atchison girl who is visiting in
| Washington, attended reception at
the White House last week, and writ
ing home about it she says: I'VE
were presented to dear old Admiral
Dewey He is the incest man l know.
/ with one or two exceptions. He has
such charming manners, and actually
thanked Mr.. Cochran for the homer
/ (ahem,) of meeting us!"
Il Instead of holding a court-martialt
DO Investigate Commander Norton. why
/ not hold G. A. R. Post mortem?
/ Bion S. Hutchirs. known all over
Kansas and for the last few years
editor of the Chickasaw Enterprise,
has bought 1000 acre farm along the
Marias des Cygne river near Rich Hill,
Mo-, and will locate there.
4 There is some discomfort because
men with jags are fined SIS in Law
renee But SIS is a low estimate of
i the free advertisement that goes with
i What greater proof that the Kan
sas farmer bears no resemblance to the
! caricatures of him could be asked than
/ this advertisement in Pottawatomie
/ county paper: 1.-THE face massage and
| skin food as applied as Kemper's bar
| Der shop is of much benefit to the face,
| cleansing, softening and identifying
| the skin. 1t removes freckles, black
heads, pimples, tan, ETC., giving the
complexion a fresh and beautiful ap-
| rearance. Try it."
The State Historical society has re-
ceived from Major Franklin Osgood,
now of Amarillo, Tex, the manuscript
of his memoirs of the early days in
Kansas.
/ Lindsborg News: This Office will
get a few more spaces and quads-
The editor drew $12 in the Conven-
ton hall guessing contest.
"Beloit girls," says an exchange.
ARE pledging themselves to send their
company home at 10 o'clock" The
new matron seems to be starting or
right
| Also, the barber in Perry who
| thought it would be good scheme to
blow the SCOT out of his chimney with
| gunpowder is entitled to a place in
| the Book
woman in Emporia has two sets
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