Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-02
Kansas Notes

A joint debate between the teachers
of johnson and Miami counties was
held in Olathe Saturday, and the Ques-
ton, Resolved, That private corpora
lions promote the highest welfare OF
the public was decided in the mega
tive.
THE tax assessor was around last
week. says the Florence News-Bulle-
tin, finding out what the business
men were worth and Tuesday a repre-
sentative of Dun's mercantile agency
was around also finding out their
worth. OF course, there was no diff
fence in the reports given these two
men,
The letter heads of Laura E. Newell
of Manhattan announce her as a song
writer Orders filled promptly. Prices
reasonable" She makes a speciality of
'cantatas, services, hymns, anthems,
Sunday school songs, temperance
songs, waitz songs, ba1lards, etc, etc.
The etc is taken to include rag
time.
In 1880 the value of mineral products
in, Kansas amounted to 1 million dol
lars. Being a prairie state, its re-
sources We're regarded AS almost en-
tirely agricultural. Last year the min
eral product was IA millions. The i'm
portant items were COAL; zinc, salt,
clay, stone, natural gas, cement, oil,
lead and gypsum, in the order named.
If this years wheat crop is half as
large as the enthusiasts predict, it will
also be accompanied by a car famine
greater than normal.
Inman, the Ottawa murderer, has
hRan tn I-iC
and unless some governor takes pity
on him he will never be an Outman
again.
Neodesha has decided to incorporate
as city of the second class. 1t is a
slight formality which Neodesha real
ICES must be attended to in going from
third class to first class.
Instead of being promoted for gal
liant conduct in action, the three SOL
diers from Fort Leavenworth who
killed a man who was beating his wife,
have been arrested for murder.
A Leavenworth mother read in one
of the helpful Home Journals that it is
not right to be continually saying
don't to the children. She let her
little boy alone for half an hour and
in that time he broke the front gate,
tore his trousers, cut his new shoes,
was stung by a bee and licked" by a
bigger boy.
The negroes IN Saline held "bap-
thing few days ago, and very prop
erly it took place in the Smoky.
An Atchison woman was anxious to
do something to alleviate the suffer-
ing of sick man next door, SO she
sent him over teaspoonful of
Dame Rumor," busy old soul who
has a wide acquaintance throughout
the state, is quoted as the authority
for a large number of matricolial
stories in Salina this spring.
A man went into Fredonia recently
and organized a clothes pressing club
and collected 81 each from fifty meb-
bers. Then he moved on to the next
town and has neglected to come back
In the meantime the Fredonia trous-
ers are becoming hopelessly baggy.
An Atchison woman whose husband
makes $3.50 a. month does her own
Homework and the town is arguing
whether she ought not to devote her
time to music, literature and looking
pretty. The women, hold this latter
theory, but the men all argue for the
who helps.
A Cherryvale boy who was visiting
italy made trip to Pompeii recently
and wrote his folks about it. He
speaks of the many beautiful "stat-
ltes'' which he saw there and then
-ells of triumphal arch which L
could see by the inscription it was
dedicated to Nero Caeser.p
The regents of the UniVe. sity O.
Kansas recently increased the salaries
If the professors 5000 year. Kan
'as- has been losing several of its
most useful educators and the 5000 is
gratifying recognition.
At the editorial meeting in Beloit
asst week addresses were made by d.
\ Valentine OF Clay Center, Conner
T. Davies of Concordia, S. A. Dodge
# Beloit, John O. Royce of Phillips
,urg, l. l.. Kiene of Topeka and A.
!. Basye of Belleyille
A city girl is visiting in Great Bend,
md the other day the hostess re-
marked that her husband was out in
he yard pruning some of the trees.
oh, do you really raise your own
'runes? My, how. lovely" was the
reply 1t took the Great
Bend woman some time to realize that
he city girl was in earnest.
An Arkansas City paper relates that
n elderly man rushed up to middle
ged woman on the depot platform.
her with much enthusiasm
md kissed her before he discovered
hat she wasn't the woman he uos