Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-13

a part of last week on account OF
impossible roads
We have been wondering just
how much water fell during the
last rain. Most reports place 1T
at from to 10 inches.
Homer Douglas arrived on the
east bound train last Sunday
He says that they had about four
inches of snow at Modoc.
Rhade Sidebottom who has
been working in Canada for the
past three years returned last
week for visit with home folks.
Mrs. Chas. Scott returned
from a visit with relatives at
Mountain View, Mo-, last Satur-
day night after stay of about
six weeks.
Sunday, December z, 1913, the
first day of sunshine since
Thanksgiving, after nine days of
continuous rain is new record
for weather here.
Lee and OF Schrieber have
rented a room in the Arnold
house and are patching here.
They say it beats driving out
home every night over these
roads.
A. D. Moore returned from
South Dakota the latter part of
last week, where he has been
working in the harvest fields and
other work for the past two
months.
The lake in the west part of
town is wen filed with water,
more than there has been for a
number of years and the young
folks are anticipating some good
skating this winter.
The two east bound passenger
trains which are due here at
1I:25 a. m. and 4:45 p. m. re
spectively were snow bound in
Colo last Saturday night and did
not arrive till Sunday afternoon.
The east wall of Bert Tilley's
ice house caved in last week
caused by the continuous rain.
This will cause Mr.. Tilley quite
a lot of work to clean 1t out as he
had just been working on it and
had it nearly finished.
h0DOTUS 1IO1u plOSS WIZ live
near the creeks north of town
say that they were higher last
Saturday than they were ever
known to be. Nearly all the
bridges and culverts are either
washed our or badly damaged
and all fences are down.
Well, we have had the longest
continuous rain in the memory
of the oldest inhabitant, especial
ly at this time of the year and
have the very best prospect for a
bumper wheat crop that we have
had for number of years. Now
we are ready for some nice
weather and We'll bet the hole in
a doughnut to a fish hook that
we will have it. Any takers?
Wouldn't it have been a good
thing if the town had had several
large cisterns located in different
parts of the town to catch water
that has been going to waste dur
ing the recent rains, to have on
hand in case of a fire? 1t seems
to US that the added protection
that a plentiful water supply
would give the town would amply
repay US for the expense of
building the cisterns. and then.
my what shame it is to let all
that water run off somewhere
where it does harm instead of
good.
Chas. Schrieber, mail carrier
on Route 2 narrowly avoided a
serious accident to himself last
week. In crossing the bridge
. south of the Mulvaney place
} south of town his horses broke
through the bridge which had
been damaged by the high water
and got its feet fast some way
. Charles got out in about three
} feet of water and after consider
able difficulty managed to extri-
, cate the horse and drove on out
, when the water suddenly arose
, and had he still been in there he
would have had quite serious
} time getting out.
J. J. Coppersmith narrowly
| avoided being drowned last week
/ while on his way to get his child
rem from school; he had to cross
| the creek east of his place an6
the water became so deep that il
raised the buggy off the ground
] and swung it around hitting a