Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-15
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Prof Niesley and family enjoyed
visit from Mr.. and Mrs. H. Ellison of
Denver, several days last week.
Sam Garrigues, who is in the hos
pital yet, is reported as getting along
as well as could be hoped for con-
sidering the serious nature of his
case, and it is the expectation now
that he will be able to return home
this week, though it will necessarily
be long time at best before he re-
gains his health and strength He
returned home yesterday morning
Utica Enterprise.
Last Wednesday evening eighteen
picnickers gathered at the Gleason
Bros. ranch northwest of town
where one of the jolliest times of the
season was had Two auto loads
merry makers An excellent sup
per was enjoyed by all. The Gleason
ranch hospitality is known far and
wide and the invaders all declared
their intentions of returning soon.
W. T. Littlechild, one of thu lar
gest cattle men in western Kansas,
shipped in 80 head of steers last
Sunday from Kansas City, and drove
them out to his big ranch on the
Saline where he will fatten them
this winter and return them to Kan
sas City next spring. Uncle Billy
has been in Kansas long enough to
know that we have dry spell about
every ten years and he puts up
enough feed or always has on hand
enough to do him two years. Good
| idea this.
Ever notice that it business gets a
little quiet, the first thing the mer-
chant does is to cut out advertising
the very thing which should not be
done. The newspaper man has no
method for cutting down his expense.
No matter how dull his business may
be, every week the paper must come
out and the bills must be paid-and
the duller business is, the more his
income is cut into and the bigger his
| typeSetting bills grow. We have
often wondered if it were possible for
any condition to arise in which the
editor is not expected to ''be the
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. H Damn and son
Ben and youngest daughter of Belts
vile, Md, arrived in the city Wed
nesday evening and are visiting old
time friends. Mr.. Damn was head
clerk in the land office in the boom
days of Wa-Keeney when Captain
Hanna was register of the land office.
| In those days he was the best posted
man in all the west on land office
business. His son Ben was Just four
months old when he left Wa-Keeney
for the east-so it was quite treat
to him to see the town where he was
| born. Their many friends were glad
to meet them once more. Mr.. D.
says he can see great changes in the
old town in the past eighteen years.
On "Wednesday afternoon a quarrel
which ended in a stabbing affair took
place out near Frank Walkers old
place north of town. 1t seems that
there had been trouble brewing for
some time over the moving of the
school house in that neighborhood
and because notices of an election
that was to be held on that day were
not thought to be lawfully executed
quite a bitter quarrel followed. j.
w. Fronce and VIM. Trowbridge
were the first to make trouble and
Mr.. Nowlin son-in-law of Fronce
tried to assist him when Trowbridge
drew a knife and stabbed him in the
side. Mr.. Nowlin is suffering from
quite a painful wound. 1t is said
that legal proceedings will be instit-
uted against Trowbridge.
When a newspaper man owes for
stock, type, insurance, ETC., the cred
itors send a collector around, or their
statements, followed soon after by a
sight draft if not paid shortly. And
he has to dig up at the rate of ten,
fifty or hundred dollars at whack.
But when a thousand or more people
owe a newspaper man he can only
make his feeble little appeal to them
to pay their dollar or two apiece, and
if they don't pay he can, but he can
not send personal collector around,
or a sight draft, because it would be
impracticable. His creditors are
prompt with statements but his
debtors are not always prompt with
remittances, even though the debts