Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-15

ness few hours Tuesday morning.
T. F. Poole>took them to Wa Keeney
in his auto that afternoon--Gra
field Cap Sheaf.
A newspaper offered prize for the
best answer to the conundrum:
ssWhy is a newspaper like a woman. y
The prize was won by boy who sent
in the following: Because every man
should have one of his own and not
be running after his neighbors. -
Elk.
1t is said that certain mother in
neighboring town was informed by
a note from a teacher that her son
should be treated for astigmatism.
The faithful mother wrote a note
back that she had given Johnny a
sound thrashing and hoped he would
not do it again.-Ex.
The boy who knows about mules
lives in Moran. The other day the
teacher in the Moran schools asked
for some member of her class to give
better form to the sentence, ''John
can ride the mule if he wants to. y
The little boy in question answered:
''John can ride the mule if the mule
wants him to.''-Parsons Sun.
Mr.. Gregory unloaded thousand
head of big Hereford steers in the
Wallace yards Sunday, and they
drove them north Monday to the Dy-
county. There were forty-two loads
and it looked like olden times around
Wallace for Wallace cores
pondence in Sharon Springs Times.
a man found ten dollar bill. He
paid his rent with it, and his land
lord paid his grocery CLERK, the clerk
paid his board. and the landlady paid
debt she owed to the man who
found the bill. He took the bill to
the bank and deposited it, and the
banker threw it out as counterfeit.
Now who was the loser by the deal or
was anybody?-Ex.
Charley Waterson had four colts
snake-bitten last Friday; they all got
it on the nose and he thinks the same
RATHER did it all and that it probably
happened while the colts were nosing
around clay bank in the pasture.
The rattler's batting average seems
to be pretty good, but he is apt to
strike out if @. G. ever runs onto
him.-Utica Enterprise.
Some German friend contributes
this to the cheer-up literature of the
day: ''Schmile und the world schmiles
nit you; laugh, und the world viii
roar; howl, und the world will leai
you, undt nefer come back any more
for all Nv us couldn't peen handsome
nor all NV us wear goot clothes: but a
schmile vas not extensive, und Gov
ers world of voes.' Eek.
Here is a puzzle that puzzles every
body: Take the number of your liv
| ing brothers, double the amount, ado
to it 3, multiply by 5, add to it the
number of your living sisters, multi
ply by 10, add the number of death.
of brothers and subtract $50 from tn,
result. The right figure will be thu
number of deaths of brothers, tn,
middle figure will be the number o
living SlSl0TS, anu Tie l6lL nuuD0
will show the number of living broth
ers. Try it and SEEK.
i Harry Williams received large ap
pie weighing u ounces this weel
from Russell Newman of Weiser, Ida
no., Each year for the past five year
he has sent an apple to Harry. Thi
is very pretty red one being the il
rigated kind. Mr.. Newman is tn
. father of Dick Newman of Ransom
Kan; he is los years old, and claim
. to be the oldest Odd Fellow living
, he holds his membership with tn
Ness City lodge.-Ness City Echo.
w. G. Work is down at Gentry
, Ark, and in letter TO Henry Stuck
ey, he said: s'They surely have som
nice weather here but when that
said it is all said. Potatoes are 81. Il
apples s1.OO, hay $1,000; SO you Sc
there isn't much difference in price
. from out there / tell you one thing
they don't make the money fror
their 5, 10 and 20 acre tracts her
they do out there, and don't you bs
lieve everything you hear about thi
country for if you were down her
you would find out differently''-Hi
. CITY Republican