Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21
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by vanity in purchasing the Idal Mil
linery store in Council Grove Tues
day.
s. P Gephard of the Pratt Union
adopted this New Years resolution
and commends it to others: own
your own business; run your own
business; mind your own business"
Governor Hoch will not sell his Ma
rion Record but will lease it, it being
his intention to resume newspaper
work at the expiration of his term of
office. His farewell is TO run in this
weeks isue.
Opinion from the Eldorado Repub-
Iican: Comparatively few members
of the legislature of 1908 were re-
elected to the session of 1905; and I'M
less the members-elect do their duty
they will disappear in 1907
The fact that about 100 of the rural
schools of Kansas have installed lace
window curtains is construed by State
Superintendent Dayhoff TO indicate
high degree of prosperity in the
schools throughout the state.
At the ceremonies incident to the
acceptance of the statue of John J.
ingalls,, now in Statuary hall at the
capitol, all the members of the Kan
sas delegation in the house will make
addresses on the career of Senator
ingalls, and there will also be adj
dresses by members from other states.
| Representative Curtis, who is in
charge of the program in the house,
says that Representative Champ
| Clark and others have notified him
| that they will make speeches. In the
| senate the addresses will be by nearly
| all of those senators who served with
| Senator ingalls,. The ceremonies will
| be January Is.
Mrs. J. NJ. Quackenbush, who is saiG
| to have been the largest woman in
| Kansas, died recently at Emporla-
| She weighed 400 pounds, and no coffin
in town was large enough for her.
She was the mother of eight chill
| dren.
A strenuous citizen of Kinsley paid
| fine in the morning for getting into
| fight with one citizen, and then paid
| another fine in the afternoon for get
ting into a fight with another man.
Then he was willing to call it a day
and quit.
The store of A. Trum, at Leaven
time in two years. The latest hold
up yielded SIG.
d. A. Warren, representative-elect
from Linn county, may not be able to
attend the opening of the session
While he was leading two horses a
his home recently, one of them struck
him with it's foot, breaking his collar
bone.
| Henry Dorman who is believed to be
the oldest man in the United States
is preparing to celebrate his 1O6tf
birthday at his home at Liberal, Bar
ton county. He was born January 10
1899, and is said to be as active a!
many men in middle life.
Adequate protection should be af
forded the fish and game of Kansas,
says the Kingman Leader-Courier
Fifteen years ago there was no bet
ter fishing anywhere than in KingmaI
county There was sport galore, blu
seining and dynamiting- did the work
and to-day only ponds that have beel
stocked and afterward protected b.
private parties, furnish fishing. Thu
law prohibiting quail shooting in King
man county for five years seemed t.
many a foolish measure, but If oh
| served IL WOULD IN Cne emu pTONS
blessing. Proper protection for on
fish and game in Kansas for few
| years would restore the conditions o
fifteen years ago everywhere and ii
ford sport and enjoyment"
Since the editor of the Lyndon Her
aid put a bath room in his office build
ing he is accused of being disciple o
Alton B. Parker
A Junction City man who was no
aware that the last legislature mad
chicken stealing a felony was ser
fenced to the penitentiary last week.
In Atchison a non-partisan effort
being made to force third term upo
Mayor James w. Orr, whose resis
| ence is becoming weaker an
weaker.
J. B. Chapman of Lawton, o. T
is now in charge of the Home Print
ing company of Atchison- He ono
owned the Fort Scott Tribune, and i
1892 he bought the Topeka Daily Den
, ocrat from Charles K. Holiday.
/ Coolidge is the only town notice
: that failed to have a banner year. i
!, 1904.
r The Haviland Onlooker fills its frs
5 column and three-quarters of the SCI
l ond one with a quotation from Ru!
: kin's Modern Painters" Who say
5 that culchah is not making Roadway
Kansas?