Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-08
KANSAS NOTES

ing.
An army OF caterpfllars invaded To-
peka this week and is conducting its
autumn maneuvers.
"Supersede" is another word that
always drives the editor of the Jewell
City Republican to the dictionary. He
says: All the otner seeds have q
system-ex, pro and sue are coed;
&C, con, inter, pre-, re and Sc are
c-e-d-e'
Dickinson county points with pride
to a girl who was sent from there
to the state reformatory for girls in
Beloit and after two years she went
to Missouri and successfully passed
herself sa dainty, convent-bred
girl
Hiawatha was greatly shocked by
che Oriental dancing ladies on the
midway adjunct to it's recent fair.
The blame has been passed along from
one director to another, until it has
finally settled on one who knew moth
ing about it.
The Wichita Eagle credited
Thoughts We've Been Thinking to
Ed Howe, instead of Ed Hoch.
The gayest fellow in a poker
| ODSCA NCo Lie Wise AAdA VI lA0
Great Bend Tribune, ''is the one who
has the blues.'
The Capital City Male quartet is re-
lieving the Modoc club of some of the
arduous labor of the present campaign
in Topeka.
A man in Robinson who felt his
rheumatism approaching took a dose
of SPAWN cure by mistake and now
he feels as frisky as a 2-year-old colt.
A young woman entered a drug
store in Abilene and asked the clerk
| for a sponge bath. Then she blushed
ard said she meant a bath sponge.
A clergyman in Lyons preached last
Sunday on the subject, The Advan-
tage of the Circus"
There was so much shooting in a
drama given in the Great Bend opera
house a few nights ago that Marshal
| Wilson was awakened and he rushed
downtown to see what was the mat
ter.
David Tennal, a brother of Ralph
Tennal of the Atchison Globe, is on
his way to the Isthmus of Panama,
where he expects to establish brick
yard. He believes the building of the
great canal will create building boom
| anu ludI DTlCh Will ne III demand at
high prices.
| Del Valentine says e knows a mod
est philanthropist who, like Ewing
Herbert, does not wish his name made
public, who is thinking of supplement-
ing that "Silver Trophy" with an en-
dowment of a barrel of beer each
school year to the Greek letter fra
ternities of the University Of Kansas
| for &c
OF an encourager to oratory than
trophies.
One of the Gossip club girls in
Great Bend who has an unusual num-
Der of dresses and gowns has decided,
the Tribune says, to give a name to
each one of them. Some of the names
are: Thoughts of Strange Things
Get Off the Money" ''Was $21.39,
Now $12.49,'' do You Think It'll Come
OFF, The Kitchen Canary's Dream, -
THE Spinster's Last Gasp" Dress
makers Meal Ticket" Fair Japan
and the "Gunny Sack
L. Hawn, who has been probate
judge of Leavenworth county twenty
two years, refuses to accept another
term. Half the people in Leavenworth
will refuse to recognize a marriage
as legal unless it is performed by
Judge Hawn.
J. L. Brady of Lawrence has noticed
that horse looks at an automobile a
good deal like hen looks at an incu-
bator.
There is danger that if Chauncey
Depew ventures as far into the Sixth
district as Rawlfns county that he
may be mistaken for Chauncey Dewev
and run out of the short grass.
Leavenworth's city council has by
resolution invited the Right Rev.
Thomas P. Lillis, the new bishop OF
that diocese, to make his home there.
The invitation concludes: ITO count
him among her most honored and
worthy citizens and extend the hand
of support in all that goes to build up
our lovely city, on moral, intellectual
and religious bases, is, we are certain,
the common thought and desire of all
worthy citizens. Together we all pro-
claim thrice royal welcome"
A Winfield paper points an inter
esting moral with this simple tale
about a merchant in that town: He
is good man. He has lived in Win
field many years, and has large &C
Quaintance in the city and through
the country. His place of business
was located on the best business cor.
ner of the town. His store was well
supplied with fresh, sa1able goods, ar.
| ticleS of EVERYDAY use and necessity