Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-09-03
KANSAS ITEMS


Householder for lieutenant governor.
An Atchison woman, the Globe says |
has the following motto embroidered |
on the inside of her darning basket:
81 must always be grateful that none
of my six children ever had foot
cut off,
The Erie Record points with pride
to a young man who used to be very
poor, but has rapidly worked his way
to the front and is now the ticket sell
er for merry-go-round that is touring
Southeastern Kansas.
Bent Murdoch of Eldorado is in dan
ger of being called upon to tell the
next federal grand jury what he
knows. He says he knows of a neigh
borhood in Missouri where a man can
take fifty cents and a gallon jug and
put them on a stump in the evening
and next morning the fifty cents will
be gone, but the jug-that will be full
of moonshine or mountain dew"
E. W. Hoch in the Marion Record:
The editor of this shee is leading
what Mr.. Roosevelt would call "a
strenuous life these days. He is ION
the CO. much of the time and edits
the paper in snatches of time.
At Dodge City we met the Rev. DR..
Thompson and wife, and heard many
nice .4ings about them from citizens
OF the town with whom we talked
They are getting along finely.
At the Soldiers home near Dodge
City, last week, we met some Marion
county folks. Mr.. Sidwell, from Ma,
rion, was lyooking WELL and seemingly
happy. George Minturn and wife OF
Florence are also there.
The independence Reporter issued
very creditable industrial edition this
week. 1t contained no group picture
of the independence band, but was
| otherwise satisfactory.
Two women rode into Smith Center
together one day recently and filed
suits in the district court. One asked
for divorce and alimony, and the 9TH
er sought damages because a man
promised to marry her and didn't.
The report that the Wednesday club
of Mcpherson meets on Fridays is
| denied; it meets on Mondays.
The office of probate judge in Rocks
county is being conducted without a
hitch. Not a marriage license has
been issued from the office since the
| first of July.
General Kuropatkin's Counter
Marches which are the same thing
as retreats, remind Mort Albaugh of a
Jim Lane story. He was down in Mis-
souri, and found his command con-
fronted with an overwhelming force
| of the enemy. He called a council of
his officers and they all agreed that
his position was untenable. Lane
closed the council of war with this
| characteristic announcement: "Jim
| Lane never retreats. Give orders for
the command to counter-march at 6
o'clock in the morning."
In reply to an inquirer the helpful
Fredonia Herald says: "If anything
shows an unprogressive, dead town
| 1t is the lack of weeds. Strangers
coming in and seing none growing
along the sidewalks get the idea thai
there is nothing going on AID that PEG
pie have nothing to do but look after
the condition of the public square and
the streets. It shows an over appli
cation to minor deails. No, I would
not cut them yet; it is the wrong time
of year, you might kill them. Just wait
until you can engage the services OF
| Jack Frost; he understands pruning
weeds to perfection. The city fathers
should see that the weeds leading tC
| the depot are not molested. Many
strangers have remarked their thrifty
growth and beauty. They are pictur
esque and give touch of nature to the
surroundings"
/ One of the most precious of E. w
Hoch's Thoughts We've Been Think
ing" from this weeks Marion Rec
ord: ct has always been said, how
truly we do not positively know, that
the sunflower turns its face evel
toward the sun; that it bows a genial
welcome to the king Of day wher
that monarch first lifts the curtain Of
night and peeps over the horizon upoI
an awakening world, and that it fol
lows the imperial visitor in his males
tic march across the heavens, ant
mods a goodnight to him as he passes
with his retinue of golden beams anG
silvery shadows behind the western
slopes. This may be an exaggeratior
of the sunflower's conduct, but we be
lieve it is at least partially true, and
that the Kansas flower does respond
in some degree to the attractions Of
the great luminary. Anyhow, the
thought of this handsome product OF
the prairies turning its frank, oper
face ever toward the light, and re
spending to the ardent wooing of the
sun with reciprocal affection, is in
spring, isn't it? 1t is symbol of the
, ideal soul-the soul that loves the