Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-15
Blue Ribbon

Well, the traveller has returned,
right side up.
H. F. Osterkamp has traded all his
horses and jacks for an Ozark ranch
in Wright county, Mo
Does any one want to bet the pie
for the crowd that we can't open
your pocketbook? Don't all speak at
once, please
The busiest fellows in town nova
days is the Odd Fellows as they have
have taken in nine new members in
the last two months.
Joe Sigler and Hill Thornton have
finally made swap. They will now
trade anything from a darning needle
to a half section of land.
Tuesday we got letter from north
ern Canada stating that kerosine was
$500 per gallon and flour s11.O0 per
sack. How would you like that?
Last Tuesday afternoon we visited
the Shriner farm to see Gilbert pump
water and we are ready to say that if
you have the water Gilbert can bring
it to the surface for you in good
shape. We saw him raise water 20
feet and turn it into the ditch at the
rate of $50 gallons per minute. 1t
soon made piece of dry land look
like lake. 1t looked good to US.
Lessons folks received the sad news
Sunday that one of their relatives
had died suddenly in Lincoln county.
ct, 1nff
small children and an invalid hus-
band in the hospital. Just a year
ago her sister died. 1t seems some
people have more than their share
of trouble in this world. Oh, how
thankful we should be for good
health, consequently we should do
our best TO preserve it.
Well, on our trip south, we drove
through Ness, Hodgeman, Ford and
Edwards counties, returning through
Pawnee and Rush. We never saw
finer land or better improvements
nor more general thrift than we saw
in those four southern counties. Far
ands of bushels of wheat getting 10
and so cents, oats is only 80 and bar
ley 80 cents down there. The corn
crop was good there, but they plant
very little corn. The country is near
~ all settled up with Germans most
of them are Catholics and the bal
ance are Lutherans. We saw three
Catholic churches in a row not more
than s or 10 miles a part, one of them
nd NTH 81 h
two miles east of it is not yet COM
pleted.
One strange freak we encountered
in our travels was an old man trying
to build line of railroad from Jet
more west. He is and has been work
ing at it single handled for five years;
he has the fills all made for dist
ance of three miles; he buys the right
of way and has money in the bank:
he wants TO sell shares of stock and
| wants to put in the connecting link
to connect the Jetmore branch with
branch that runs about twelves
miles east of Garden City; the dis
lance to be built is forty or fifty
miles; he seems to understand the
WI "ClLs di1A IlACN say AIC SUI Z
knows how to keep secret; he is
often visited by strangers that come
into town in automobiles, but he will
| not tell who they are or what their
business was; he is dutchman and
| is known as old Rudolph, his name
being Rudolph Myers. We had for
got to ask whether he had taken out
a charter or had incOrporated his
road or not. The people of Jetmore
would like to see the road completed
soon so they would get more train
service as it is they have only one
train each way every day except SUM-
| days when no trains are run on that
branch of the great Santa Fe. On
the main line in the next county
south they have thirteen passenger
trains day now.