Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
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| parties.
| Another gas well was brought in
at Ottawa yesterday, but it wasn't laid
on the editors table.
Topeka believes that its latest muir
| der was the deed of a maniac. 1t is
| known that the murderer wore long,
| black whiskersl
Not satisfied with suppressing the
| inaugural ball in Topeka, the clergy
men are now demanding of the legis-
] lature law prohibiting Sunday base
4 ball
| The State Temperance union can
hardly help deploring the trend of af-
fairs in the Russian empire, where the
Liberals are becoming alarmingly
| active
side-splitting theatrical attraction
| in Hutchinson this week advertises:
"A gleeful commingling of joviality;"
also, "a coalition of mirth, vivacity
and gaiety.''
The esteemed Brown County World
not only begs to differ from the es-
teemed Atchison Globe, but it so far
forgets its love-one-another principles
as to exclaim 'PoohI'
Two brother of opposing political
|
Fred w. Benson, a Republican, was
elected register of deds by a plu-
rality of 1855, and William F. Benson, a
| Democrat, was elected state senator
by plurality of 76S.
"A middle-aged man appeared at the
office OF a Fort Scott lawyer recently
the Tribune says, land expressed his
intention of deciding all his property to
his wife. He is quite wealthy, and
stated that every few months he was
in the habit of getting drunk and
blowing in several thousand dollars.
| He owns land in Illinois and Colorado
besides real estate in this section"
The only silent thing so far discov-
cred in Grant county is the "g'' in the
pronunciation of the town of Cognac. 1
The Emporia woman VINO assaulted
William Allen White was strictly reg
ular," anyhow. She carried the horse
whip concealed in the folds of her
skirt
A Topeka man has motto" 1t is
tackled on the twall of his office and
reads: Live every day SO that you
can look any damn man in tie face
and tell him to go to hades.''
Billy Deford of Ottawa, who has
|
cratic national headquarters in New
York, has returned home. He is
pleased to find that his townsmen do
not blame him for Judge Parker's de-
| feat.
| Three-fOurths of all the applicants to
Governor-elect Hoch for jobs want to
| serve on the state board of charities.
THE benevolent spirit" said Congress
| Scott "SQQmS have davQ1nnod
with remarkable rapidity in Kansas
| lately
merry pastor in Marion breaks the
monotony of church notices with the
following: Hello, Central" Hello"
Give us the people, please" AL
right Hello, people. The pastor
and congregation of the Christian
church extend to all cordial invita-
ton to be present at our services next
Lords day morning and evening. Sub
| ject of morning service, The message
| to the church at Sardis;' services be-
gin at 10: As. In the evening we will
| give lecture on Adam the first man.
or The Bible a true history of crea-
| tion,' and will answer the infidePs IA
vorite question, Where did Cain get
| his wife?'''
The Radium pills which are adver-
tised by a druggist in Caldwell are not
| meant to be smoked
Among the unclaimed letters in the
Marion postoffice are some addressed
| to ]. Laughderback Conrad Schlott-
hauser and w. Zajicek. The postmas-
| ter surmises that the rightful claim
ants are not able to pronounce the
names.
Marry a girl whose surname begins
| with the same letter as your own, if
| possible" advises the Chaperon of the
Phillipsburg News. 1T will save her
| buying new trunks with fresh initials
| on them, re-marking clothes and hand
| kerchiefs, re-making monograms, and a
| dozen other details of the utmost i'm
| portance."
Some thoughts the Jewell City Re
| publican has been thinking" rs it
| crime to be a woman" shrieks a
| circular that we find in our mail box
| 1t isn't a crime, but it is the fate of
lot of nice people we know.
| The big turkey is spreading around
| like he owned the earth. Learn a les
| son from the turkey. As soon
| as we get a girl trained to set type a
| lot of fellows want to marry her.
| The Plainville Gazette heads one ar
| ticle ITO Our Readers That must
have made the other items feel a bit