Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-07-18
NY PASTIME.
BY THEODORE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
An American widow of 66 has mar
ried young Dago of 25. His name is
SQuadrito.. What next?
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Many people know for whom Trego
county was named but L have not
learned who first suggested the name.
Can you tell me?
w. r. Holmes helped Henry Starr
to make sorghum syrup In the fall of
! 1879. Harm Schneider now owns the
farm where the work was done. Mr..
Webber had Il sorghum factory about
! the same time. A trace of the old
| furnace is still to be seen in Geo. Hob
Dicks pasture. Weber died about
1880 and was buried on the claim. The
| bodies of himself and daughter, Mary,
where removed to the Wa-Keeney
cemetery in 1891. Henry Robinson
and Aaron Owens did the work. /
was present when the bodies were
lifted. Weber was an old soldier.
No, am not writing ga history of
Trego county" (only some of 1.-The his
tory''l although | would like to do so.
am hardly equal to the task and it
J is not yet time for a very pretentious
book of local events. / am collecting
and preserving data for the use of
some future historian; trying to con-
meet the past with the present; to
make these items interesting now and
valuable hereafter and to this end
| your help is solicited. Last and per-
haps least, 1 must keep busy. I'd like
] to do something useful even if it is
not very profitable.
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Joseph Ritner was elected governor
of Pennsylvania in 1885. In his inau
gural address he says: "The people
have willed the destruction of all Sc
cret societies and that will cannot be
disregarded." Joseph was elected on
| the anti-Masonic ticket but he was
| mistaken. There are now nearly two
million Masons in the world at large,
about half of them in the United
State, and secret societies have multi
piled beyond number.
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On one of our recent evening walks
we discovered some triXolium pre-
tense in full bloom. This may be
nothing new for you but it is the first
time l have seen red clover in TregO.
1t was in the depot park. We have
also found blue grass in the draw near
mustard, and yellow or ''Sweet" TEX
as) clover ~ are getting scattered
along the track. White clover is grow
ing on several lawns in town. A few
favorable seasons, like this and last
year, would make great changes in the
plant and animal life of these prairies.
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BY the time your wheat is threshed
the country will be over-run by an
army of peddlers, fakirs and sharps
with get-rich quick schemes to pry
you loose from your money. Two years
ago the kitchen cabinet people took
over $4,000 out of this county actual
figures-no guess work. A little later
the steel range collector gathered g.
800 in eight days collecting ana that
was not all; there is still another crop
of notes to be threshed out. The fakir |
is very accommodating fellow. He |
will give you long time at low inter- |
est. If you need ranges or cabinets |
you can buy of local dealers. If they |
do you up you will have a chance to |
get even. II that does not suit you |
can send to Gummery Ward or TO Rose |
Shearbuck s. Co. Beware of the fleet |
ing CRATER.
John w. Altman. of Riverside, is
native of Lewis county, w. Va, and |
has been ever since September ID,
lS47. He came to Kansas in 1873 and |
landed at Walker in Ellis county Sep
TENDER 10, where he passed his first
night in boxcar which served as
Cohi uotei anu depot. lie SET
tied on school land in Trego county in
February, 1873 At that time there
were but two other men in what is
now Riverside township: John Barker
and Riley Page. Mr.. Altman kept |
batch" until March Is, 1882, when he
married Miss Mary Anderson who
came to this county April /, 1879.
Their oldest child was born January
8, 1883, but Mr.. Altman thinks Miss
Matte Page was the first child born
in the township. George Dull built
the first stone house and Mr.. Altman