Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-28

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In the whole Union there are only
seven states in which there is more
mail delivered by rural carriers than
in Kansas.
The Jewell Republican thinks that
if Mrs. Chadwick ever gets a good
chance at the Judge and jury which
are to try her. they will not have
enough left to buy a breakfast.
Cowley county claims to have made
a good record in her domestic life dur
ing the year just closed She had 362
marriages and only seventy-one suits
for divorce.-Kansas City Journal.
Every editor is threatened by some
one with horsewhipping by the ladies
if he is a man; if a real young girl the
subscribers threaten to give her a
spanking. -Westmoreland Signal
The good Methodist town of Bald
win was shocked by a young man who
went to Galena during the holidays
and returned this week wearing an
Elks' emblem-Kansas City Star.
A. R. Alexander, editor of the Lead
er, has been selected as superintend-
ent of the Plattsburg public schools to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of P. H. Crafton.-Kidder Independ-
| ent.
The editor of the Cawker City Rec
ord, after trying to put all of his hol-
| iday advertisements next to reading
mater, knows how a politician feels
| when he tries to place 100 people in
| twenty-fiv jobs.-Kansas City Star.
| Corn is unusually heavy this year,
as is evidenced by the fact that when
a load is taken from the shelter to the
| elevators the farmers usually have
| from three to four bushels more on
| the wagon than the shelters were paid
for cleaning.
A Scandal woman who ordered
cloak from a mail order house is out
81 express so far and has no cloak
either. If she had ordered through
the local merchant and the goods
| were not as represented she would
have recourse without any expense
Journal.
The longest root we have seen
shown in a long time was being ex-
| hibited by Ed Tarvin last Saturday.
1t was a parsnip, the root of which
/ was forty inches long and the top
| twenty-four inches. 1t was grown in
| hard clay soil on the high prairie
Marshall County News.
Smith county boy who didn't lose
any time in reading the local papers,
/ saw an ad in a novel lately stating
that for 81 an Eastern concern would
send a plan for preventing shot from
scattering. The boy bit and by return
mail received this reply: use one
shot. Morton Champion.
/ Mrs. John Reidy, a Clyde woman,
was thrown from a carriage in a run
away one day last week, and being
| struck on the head by one of the
horses feet received a bad scalp
wound. Two children were in the
buggy with her but escaped without
injury.-Concordia Press.
From what farmers have told us we
| believe that an ice house properly
filled, is an economy on the farm.
Many farmers, who pay no attention
to such matters could be convenienced
by building and maintaining an ice
house. Think it over; build the house
and profit thereby.-Westmore
| Signal.
i Steve De Young, formerly editor of
4 the Cawker City Free Press, went to
farming in Decatur a good many years
ago, and is still at it. The Oberlin
Eye says: steve is busy husking
corn, which he has nearly completed.
His corn this year is exceptionally
fine and some of it is yielding over
fifty bushels an acre.-The Public
Record.
Manhattan institute held it's annual
meeting for the election of officers re-
Gently. The following were elected
President, w. S. Elliot; vice president
J. Q. A. Sheldon; secretary, L. N
Flint; treasurer, Challen Ewing; trus
tees, DIR. Little, Mrs. Briggs and Mr.
Wharton. Committee on arrange
ments, Mesdames Young, Purcell and
Greeley.-Manhattan Nationalist
There is a queer state of affairs in
the little town of Lanham, Washing
ton county, Kas. The main street OF
1.-THE town is the line between Nebras
ka and Kansas Tpe north side of the
. street is in Nebraska and the south
side is in Kansas. Nebraska has q
high license law; Kansas, prohibition