Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-09-12
Wheat is ON the roboggan this

Mrs. Charlie Acre was on the sick
list this week.
Subscribe for the world-oldest pa
per in the county
Mrs. D. P. Roberts is on the sick
list this week. We are glad to learn
that she is improving
John J. Littlechild has rented the
EIiermeyer farm On Route and will
sow 200 acres to wheat.
Grandpa Larue is reportd quite
i'll at his home. We hope. TO
soon learn of his recovery.
County Attorney Hutzel attended
to business in the Supreme Court at
Topeka the first of the week.
Tom Spena and Joe Poffenberger
enjoyed an auto ride out to the James
Best ranch Thursday afternoon
John McNaughtcn, commissioner
of the first district, was in. town
Tuesday and made US an agreeable
call. Call again.
w F. Stranahan has our thanks
for some nice home grown peaches.
They are a fine specimen of what can
be grown in Western Kansas.
Major Poffenberger is expecting his
wife from White City the first of next
week and will go to house keeping in
the rooms above the barbershop.
J. G. Hixson will sell lot of 2.year-
old heifers and several bulls at pub
lie sale at the stock yards in Wa
Keeney, Saturday, September u,
1914. at , O'Clock p. M.
School began last Monday with
good interest and good attendance.
With an excellent corps of teachers
and good attendance this should be
school year of great things achieved.
A D. Shaw, who visited Yellow
stone Park and other places of inter
est in the west, stopped off here this
Shaw, and family. He is enroute to
his home at Chicago.
From now on through September
is the time to get your Americas
81 90 per hundred at residence of A.
J. McCollum, North Elm ST., Wa Kee-
ney, Kansas. Adv. 20 At
The Good Will Society will meet
with Mrs. A. P. Hinshaw Wednesday
afternoon, September Is, and as this
will be the first meeting of the sea
son considerable business will be
transacted. A good attendance is
desired.
The Federal Woman's Clubs of the
sixth district will hold their annual
meeting at Wa-Keeney, September
% and "A. The Club women of the
city are making preparation to have
L splendid meeting. The meetings
will be held in the court house and
the public is cordially invited to at
tend. The women from the town
and country are specially requested
to attend as the program furnished
will be one of much interest.
When a henious offence against the
law happens in your community,
how do you view it, what do you do?
What do you say? Maybe it doesn't
worry you very much. Possibly you
begin to sheer about the laws delay
and to wager that the offender will
go free. But from that instance the
judge hears of a charge, if grave he
is worried. There are a thousand
things to thing Of: viii people talk
so much and so passfonately as to
make fair trial locally out of ques-
ton? Will the newspapers slop over
and infuriate the people, or disqual-
ify tn cir readers from jury service?
Are all officials down to the humblest
alert attentive to duty? Have jurors
been properly listed and summoned2
Is the county attorney capable
Judge Ruppenthal in Luray Herald.
The most popular Indiana auto
mobile story is always on the Ford,
writes E. A. Kelley to his Toronto
Republican. And he continues:
From the number of times l have
been told the following, judge it to
be the best of the lot: A number of
automobile owners passed hence
without d ay and on up the shining
way on high to the Gates of PEARL
To the first arrival St. Peter said.
What make is your carp" ''It's a
Pierce-Arrow," was the reply
"Well," said St. Peter, you've had
fun enough. You turn into that
road running down hillD And so