Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-01
Latest Kansas Events.
Kansas City Theaters.

Kansas City Theaters-.
At the Grand Opera House during
the week of September %, THE
Honeymoon Trail,'' one of the greatest
and most successful of musical come
dies, will be the attraction. The play
is full of catchy airs now popular from
coast to coast.
Monday evening, September 26, will
mark the special return engagement
of one week of The Girl From Rec
tors at the Willis. Wood. This play
has been received with hattering APP
proval from press and public wher-
ever produced The production is
identicahy the same as given in New
York. .
THE Fourth Estate" the greatest
newspaper play ever produced on the
American stage, will be the attraction
at the Shubert during he week begin
ming Sunday, September %. The play
is staged with telling effect and adj
mirably acted by a strong cast
Will Build a Hospital.
The preliminary arrangements for
the erection of St. Luke's hospital in
Wellington have finally been conclud-
ed and contractors have been asked
to submit bids for the building, which
is to cost about $4,000. The hospital
while principally built by local CAPT
tai, will be managed by the corpora
ton of Christ's hospital at Topeka A
maintenance fund of $4,000 a year for
three years was guaranteed personal
ly by E. B. Roser, a business man and
large property owner of the city, the
Topeka corporation insisting upon this
fund being provided as a condition of
their assuming charge of the enter
prise. The legislature will be asked
to pass a special act allowing the city
to vote an annual tax for this amount
in order that free treatment may be
given to charity patients.
Abolish Literary Societies at Normal.
The lives of the literary societies in
the Kanhas State Normal are threat
ened. 1t is the opinion of many stu
dents, who are members of the
Lyceum, Literati, Bellies Lettres and
Phylomethian societies, that the time
honored organizations have served
their purpose in the development of
the school, and that they should be
discarded. A committee of Is select
ed faculty members and students de-
cided that the membership of societies
be restricted to students of the sec
ondary courses, and that the present
societies be disbanded.
Corporations Pay Big Taxes.
Corporations which do business in
Franklin county will pay taxes this
year to the amount of S47, 643.18. The
total valuation of the property in the
county is S6,91S,660 and is divided
| among the % corporations, part of
them being small rural telephone lines
the smallest of which pays taxes to
the amount of IA cents
Returning Home From Mission Field.
Rev. w. D. and Mrs. Shermerhorn,
who have been missionaries in India
| for seven years, are on their way
home on account of the illness of Mrs
| Shermerhorn- They have been sta
toned at Hyderahorn, India. Before
going to India both Mr.. Shermerhorn
| and his wife were well known
| throughout Central Kansas
Veterans of $50 Hold Reunion.
| The veterans of SO an organization
founded many years ago at Lawrence
and including only those who came to
Douglass county prior to 1859, held
their twenty-first annual reunion the
| other day. About $50 were present at
the dinner and the program.
Old Settlers at Enterprise.
| The Dickinson county old settlers
| reunion was held at Enterprise the
other day. Judge o. L. Moore deliver
| ed the address and there was an
automobile ride for the old residents
of the county
| To Enjoin Issuance of Water Bonds
Mayor Hoyt and the city commits
sioners of Pittsburg have information
| that a case had been filed in the
United States district court in Fort
Scott in which J. B. Smith and Fred
H. Fitch, former Pittsburg residents
now living in Kansas City, seek to en-
join the city of Pittsburg from issuing
100000 in bonds to build a new
| waterworks system
Candidate for Canning Record.
Mrs John Weis, a farmers wife
near Salina, claims the record fol
canning peaches this year She has
put up 500 quart cans of peaches that
were raised on the Weis farm The
peaches were supposed to have beer