Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-20


And winter in the spring
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The press is powerful but can't do
everything. On November %, 1891,
WORLD said: Before next years
wheat crop is threshed we must and
will have a Touring mill" Where, o,
where is it:
And so J. G. Coffey is away up in
Washington. Well / used to tell Jer-
~ if he didn't mend his ways he was
liable to go somewhere and he's most
there now.
Cookingham is a great name for
doctor to carry through life but there
is such a man in Kansas.
"When Knighthood Was In Flower
is running as serial story in Colonel
Tilton's paper, The Beatrice (Nebr.)
Weekly Times.
What's the matter, too much wind
or too much rain? Haven't seen
kite this spring. Except Tom.]
How would Roosevelt and Folk do
for presidential ticket? The Demo-
Gratis ought to be glad of such a chance
because half loaf is better than
none.
Who was it once called himself
the ''Poet Larat of Trego County,"
He wrote "a fable in rhyme back in
1891. Own up now.
*x*
One day last week a young man was
up on Hem avenue looking for the
soldiers Home" Where do you
suppose he wanted to go?
Every spring for three or four years
robins have appeared in the court
house park but has anyone ever known
them to build nests anywhere around
here?
I've been watching Il long time but
so far no one has made the mistake of
calling it postum serious"
*x*
The story of the old farmer who was
alarmed lest his daughter should mar
ry Chinaman named Ping Pong re-
minds me of the Irishman who said
he went home and found his wife in
bed with Cerebro Spinal Meningitis.
''Hivins, Ord have kilt the diyilish
Dagop said his friend.
/ received letter from a brother
in-law at Monmouth, Oregon, the
other day which reminds me that his
name is about as odd as my own. tMr.
Pukeaway" is what a new-made ac-
quaintance called him. His name is
G. G. Fuqua and he is not Missouri
an, either.
Just because he is the father of six
children our president thinks he is
quite an expert but the record of the
Thornburg family makes him look |
like an amateur Sometimes go over |
the names of the boys there were no
girls) just to test my memory. Let me |
see. The roll runs about like this; |
Jonathan, Alex, Restore, John, Thorn
as, Isaac, Lindley, Nathan, George,
Rufus and the Others l have forgot
ten. Just an even dozen-all sons of |
Isaac and Rhoda Thornburg.
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just for pasuime I've been looking
over my old papers and 1 find that my
file of the WORLD is not so complete |
as / thought it to be. If you have
any old copies 1.-THE older the BETTER
which you do not care to keep, or ex-
pect to burn up, then would like to
have them. more especially if they be
of issues prior to 1894. Copies prior
to 1885 are even more desirable and L /
think quite scarce hereabout. OIL
course if you have complete file you
will want to keep it yourself.
"Old Stormy" has a good deal to say
about mules. Well I've had some ex-
perience with the hybrids myself.
Once / made a dobletree for AL Hin
shaw and remembering that L had
seen man carrying a spring seat on a
mule thought / might deliver the
goods in that way. They were deliv-
cred with despatch all right but rath-
er promiscuously. and SO was /. l.
vowed then and there to kill that
mule but | didn't. He lived to be a /