Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-06
KANSAS ITEMS

WITHOUT anOther BaptlSC cnurcn.
The Sedgwick Paragraph has de |
cided to reduce expenses by DISMISS |
ing it's Esopus, N. Y, correspondent
Abilene has decided to have a city
park if it can find a suitable site about
100 feet above low water mark.
Topeka has a row over the city
printing that threatens to become as
fierce as the kind they have In Hia
watha and Concordia- .
A serious trouble has been found
by the Conway Springs Star among the
fry-size chickens of that neighborhood
Their heads are coming off.
In Westmoreland a young man pub
Hshed a card to deny the deport that
he had resigned his place in the bank
in order to play professional base
ball.
Department Commander Charles
Harris has issued a general order a
column and half in length telling the
G. A. R. that the best way to reach the
national encampment is by patroniz
ing a certain railroad.
An Elk county girl sent a photo
graph through the mail and on one
corner of the wrapper wrote don't
mash" The youth to whom 1t was
addressed wrote back that he was
sorry, but he just couldn't help 1t.
There is a difference of opinion be
teen authorities in Leona, Doniphan
county, as to whether dab of powder
on a woman's face means she is an
amateur in the use of it. or an old.
timer who is getting careless.
A Troy man wrote a notice" and
took it around to the Chief office 70 be
published. The Chief omits the names
and uses it. 'Notise. 1 won pay
noe diets conteracted by mi wifi. She
has quit me cold and 1 amt a bizness
of suportin fikel wimen.'
B. P. Waggener's annual picnic tc
all the children in Atchison county I'M
der fifteen years of age will be given
July 80. Rides to Forest park and
everything at the park, including the
merry-go-round, music, moving pic
! lures and lunch. are free.
Referring to the statement made
! few days ago that none of Henry
| Gassaway Davis early p1aymates has
made himself known in Kansas yet
Bent Murdoch says, in the Eldorado
| Republican: Its this way: Henry
| Gassaway's sister married brother OF
| lucky rider of 1863 sister of Nor.
! gan married a Ridgeway, whose sister
married a brother of General George
B. Mcclellan, who was an uncle of ex.
| Congressman Mcclellan, of New York.
Another sister married lack Pierpont,
whose daughter, Katherine, married
Thomas Murdock-peace to his ashes
| who was father of the Kansas tribe.
| Henry Gassaway and the sainted
Thomas played old sledge, ran horses
followed the hounds, preached, taught
school and did lot of things together
in their boyhood days around Tag.
CARTS Run, Cheat river and the Pier.
| pont settlement in Old Virginia And
that is all there is to this story
| Mr.. Huzza of Burlington is less en-
| tnusiastic since two of his horses were
killed by lightning last week.
| A woman in Beloit advertises that
she will take care of babies while their
mothers go to the St Louis exposi-
ton.
Gaylord, in Smith county, has had
| only one lawsuit in two years, and sew
eral attorneys and commemorative
| have been forced to go to work.
Congressman Vic Murdoch is going
to make ninety speeches in the Sew.
enth district campaign, and his uncle
Bent computes that he will have to
drink seven full barrels of warm gym
water in doing 1t.
81 often wonder" says Don Wells
In the Erie Record, what becomes of
| these continual town knockers when
they die" But they never die
w. \. Morgan is taking chances on
| General Bells bull pen and is writing
war" correspondence for the Hutchin-
son News from Cripple Creek
The Topeka Pipe Organ association
played a mean joke on Major Tom
Anderson by accepting his resigna-
ton.
Congressman Charles F. Scott uses
81 am told in alleging that 81 bot
tie is charged for beer on the St Louis
Pike.
The o1d-fashioned man who still in
sist upon having a tag at the base of
his shirt front has been located in Sa-
lima.
Henry Drum, the Republican nomi-
nee for county-mattorney Of Bourbon
county, can scarcely complain If he is
beaten.
''Why Not Dykes?'' a headline in a
Topeka paper. referring to the. river
problem and not to the Sixth district
congressional situation.
1t is regarded as -unprofessional'
for dentists to advertise, but one in