Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-24

Sam Kelly departed last Monday
evening for the coast. He will visit
Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Frisco,
Los Angeles, San Diego and in fact
every place of interest along the Pa
cific. He will be the guest of our
former townsman, 6. I. Verbeck, at
Joseph j. Keraus and Chas. Splits
naugle attended the gas tractor and
blowing demonstration at Hutchin-
son this week returning Friday morn
ing. Mr.. Spitsnaugle purchased
through Mr.. Kraus a 1880 Avery
tractor for use on his farm. This
engine DEVELOPS 40 horse power at
blowing and so horse power on the
belt. Charlie says he has the prob
lem solved for better and more ex-
tensiye farming.
A shake-up in the rural carrier de-
partment of the postal service ap-
pears TO be imminent, on the ground
that the force contains too many old
soldiers who have reached the age
limit. AS rule the veterans who
do this work are as husky and as
lively yet as the young bloods. A
movement to weed out the old men
will not be popular in this section.
Rocks County Record
A Coffeyville couple, it is said, had
agreed to disagree and one of the
two had papers ready TO file for di-
vorce when the subject of a trip to
2 no "a "a III
up. Both expressed desire to go
and neither had anyone to go with.
So they decided they could postpone
getting their divorce as it was now
or never with them if they wanted
to go to the fair.-Norton Courier
Last Tuesday Hopper & Son began
work on the pit for the elevator
which is being erected by VIM.
Schrenkler. This is TO be a fine large
elevator with capacity of 80, 600
bushels. 1t will be over eighty feet
high, twenty feet being underground.
The bins viii be made of concrete
and viii be so arranged that the
drive way will be in the center. 1t
viii be among the largest, most
modern elevators in the country, and
will be among the substantial i'm
provements of this town.
J. W. Phares is down from Ores
cent City, Colo, this week The Wa
Keeney people who are out there for
their summer vacation, he reports as
well and all having fine time. He
states that himself, Mr. Purcell and
Mr.. Hartman have entered quite ex-
tensively into the lumber business,
having purchased quite a tract of
good timber land near Crescent and
have a saw mill on the land and the
| lumber which was nsed in building
their summer cottages was taken
| from this land and sawed by their
own mill. They expect to enter into
the business more fully in the future.
wheat cradle-the kind our grand
fathers used many years ago? asks
the Lamar MOI Republicans Sentinel
A. W. Long has a real one. Mr.. Long
says the one he has is ninety-flve
years old and still good enough fol
use. In fact, it will be used OF
several small patches of wheat here
in Lamar. The cradle very much re
sembles an ordinary scythe with foul
prongs attached in such manner a.
to catch the wheat when it is cut
Then the wheat is taken up in tn,
hand and laid in rows on the ground
to be later raked up and shocked.
Do you ever stop to watch a crowC
of urchins al play? If you have you
will notice that there is always on,
who seems TO be the leader TIL,
Others follow meekly after him. If h,
says to play pullaway, pullaway goes
Ii he starts TO run up an alley the,
all follow. Sometimes there are wv
kids and both want 10 be leaders
The result is a fight and one get
licked and the other one is the leader
Or possibly when it comes to show
down one of the aspirants runs AVA
and leaves the field to the lad wit
the best nerve. 1t is Just so after tn
kids become men. There is always
leader in every community. The res
follow along behind There ar
leaders in the church, in the lodge, j