Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-22
DIcTAGRAMs
Old 81 says if his name were "Hand-
cuff" he'd try to break away from it.


cuff" he'd try to break away from it.
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A certain canary kept in this town
is often allowed the freedom of the
dining room and if not watched helps
himself at the sugar bowl. One day
recently he inadvertently took dip
from salt cellar instead. His antics
Immediately thereafter were comicaI
to the beholder but evidently it was
not very funny experience for the
bird
Speaking of Christmas presents,
Uncle Heck says Don't get a gun for
that ten-year old boy. Get him a
stick of dynamite. Dynamite never
goes off but once, which makes it
safer for the boy. Dynamite never
goes off except when it is loaded,
which makes it safer for the innocent
bystander.
One day last week lady standing
in her dooryard heard a shot fired
somewhere on the townsite and a
moment later shower of pellets fell
around her. At first she thought it
might be some of the Mexican
heather firing across the boundary
line-but it wasn't.
A Garden City man recently
coughed up dime which he had
carried in his throat 36 years, and
says he has felt better ever since. 1t
is almost fatal to some fellows to
co,,rt,~,,n yicEoI
The most distressing financial
cough many people have seems to
come on about tax-paying time. Some
fellows make roar over dollar of
tax once year and yet spend twice
that sum in useless and waste
full extravaganza every week in the
calendar. However, this year the
people of Trego county seem to be
paying their taxes with more than
their usual cheerful alacrity. On the
first day of November, the first tax
paying day, twenty-one citizens of
the county paid their taxes in full.
In the first Is days of the month 156
tax receipts were written, as against
81 in the corresponding period last
year, and all but ten of them were
for the full years tax. Times are
hard, no doubt, but perhaps they are
not so desperate as we try to make
ourselves think they are.
/ have been taxpayer for more
than thirty years, and L have fairly
good memory, but 1 cannot remem-,
Der single year in all that time
i losw
high taxes. And the man who takes
note of lower tax rate and speaks
of it gratefully is a rare bird, indeed.
When we pay taxes we are apt to
feel that we have lost something
forever, forgetful of what we have
had or expect to get for the money.
Too many of US want to find fault and
lay the blame on some officer who has
only done what the law and the
circumstances compelled him to do.
AS matter of fact, the highest tax
most of US pay is our district school
tax which we vote upon ourselves.
Our state tax this year is a trif1e
higher than last year. Our county
tax rate is the same as in 1912. Wa
| Keeney city rate is lower, which is
also true of Wa-Keeney, Ogallah,
Collyer, and Franklin townships.
Glencoe and WILCOX have the same
rate as last year but Riverside in
creased her rate Twelve of our
school districts have the same levy
this year as last and more than half
of the remaining districts have
lowered their levies. But, after all,
| it is well to remember that assessed
valuation counts for more than tax
rates or levies with the individual
| taxpayer.
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