Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-31
Kansas Notes

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meet, she answered, for sociability.
and to talk over things about our
neighbors.''
In bringing suit for divorce at VIM
field after a few months OF married
life, Mrs Maggie Greeley declares she
was induced to marry at the tender age
of II and that she has found matri-
mony to be everything she did not ex-
pect it to be.
1t is set up by an Emporia wife in
q divorce petition that except when he
was drunk her husband treated her
with constant cruelty. Aside from the
unusual circumstances of a man being
kind and affectionate when he is drunk
and brutal when he is sober, the item
suggests an interesting query. Wouldn't
this wife have been justified in keeping
the old man half-seas over all of the
time.
Vernon Kellogg, now of the Leland
Stanford university, is a small man of
decidedly boyish appearance. When
was state entomologist of Kansas" he
says, Il used to ride on an annual
pass. Once when I was younger and
smaller than / am now I was in the
western part of the state looking for
grasshopper specimens. I boarded a
train and handed my pass to the con-
ductor. He studied it several minutes
Then he handed it back to me and
said: It's all right this time but tell
your paw if he don't quit letting you
ride on his pass it will be took up. .
A drunken man told the police judge
in Atchison that he drank a large
quantity of liquor to get up courage
to have a tooth pulled, and was ar
rested on his way to the dentists Of
flee.
Prof. Franklin does not say he has
received a calf to go to Leland STAN
ford university. He says he has re-
ceiyed an offer of $1,000 a year more
than Kansas is paying him and he's
going to take it
Ex-Governor E. n. Morrill, was this
week reelected superintendent of a
Sunday school in Hiawatha for his
thirty-first term. The next Republi-
can who was elected governor, W. E.
Stanley, is Wichita Sunday school
superintendent.
Ga1ena has one boy who is really
pretty-not handsome - pretty He
curls his hair, smokes cigarettes and
plays mandolin, parts his hair in the
middle and sings love songs in weak,
shirt waist voice that reminds one of
moonlight strolls with a drug store
blonde. Somebody says the Ga
lena Times adds, will kill that fellow
one of these days and the public will
rise up and demand that no inquest
be held
Burlington, with a population of
$500, collected only $50, cash from the
poll tax last year.
A farmer near Mulvane has the fol-
lowing notice in the Record; Hunters
once killed mule on my farm. II
want any more killed on my premises
will do the shooting myself"
An Atehison brakeman has written a
poem beginning: 1.-The hoghead blows
the whistle, the taIlow pot rings the
bell, the conductor takes the ticket
and the brakeman catches hell
This little incident happened in
Bunch's blacksmith shop" says the
Jewell County Republican. MIR. Bunch
handed his helper 50 that he owed him.
There was a farmer standing by
whom ss.s Keller owed and he passes
the money over to him. The farmer
owed Mr. Bunch and paid him the
money. Thus the 50 paid IS in less
than six minutes, and got back where
it started You never l-now how much
machinery you are going to set in mo-
ton nor how much good you are going
to do in thi sword, when you pay a
debt
A Highland woman has gone to
Florida to sell 1900 acres of land.
Where she obtained it the home paper
fails to state.
Two Fort Scott coal thieves were
fined $40 for stealing bushel of coal.
That would have brought them
couple of tons but they didn't have the
credit or the ten.
Ottawa is in the throes of a street
paving row, which is as much of a
calamity in a town as a fence-lina
dispute in the country.
A snow storm is generally good for
the winter wheat, and it is invariably
good for the out-of-town corresponds
ents who reiterate the fact
A man went to ticket seller of an
Atchlson theater after all the seats
were sold and asked for two stand
ing room tickets ~as close together
as possible, please
A Waterville man is enjoying life
fairly well with eight carbuncles on
his neck and one on his hand
At the age of eighty years Be1oit's
town drayman has decided to quit and
let some one else check up his bag
gage