Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-09

day morning.
W. w. Gibson is giving the interior |
of his drug store a coat of fresh |
paint Will Wollner and Ted Nor
gan are the artists on the job.
L. E. Hoicomb, the blacksmith,
moved his shop into the Olson build |
| ing across the street from the Yer
beck Lumber and Supply CO. IS store. |
Postoffice Inspector Elston of Sa- |
lima, Kan. and Postmaster Lessen
ring of Ellis, dropped in on us Tues
day afternoon and the former check |
ed up the postoffice. This was Mr. |
Elston's third examination of this |
office.
The next number of the course of |
entertainments will be given Satur-
day evening. January 80. by Whites !
| Star Concert Company. This is an
extra number and promises to be an
extra good one. 1t will be free to all
holders of season tickets and only
| thirty-fiye cents to others; only twen-
ty-five cents to all pupils of the pub
| lie schools.
| Out in the western part of the
state man and a woman were tied
| by the official count for county OIL
ce. They decided the matter by a
lfiip of coin, and the man won the
office. Now the woman contests the
case, asserting that it should have
been decided by drawing straws.
Mr. and Mrs John L. Sheafer of La
Harpe, Kans., came in Tuesday for a
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Moore.
The ladies are sisters, Mrs. Shearer
is teaching school in Arkansas this
winter and is out here enjoying her
vacation. They visited few days
with Mr.. Shearer's relatives in Bunk
er Hill.-Wilson World.
Here is a summary of the Kansas
| crops for 1914: Corn 10000. 900
bushels; wheat, 163. 920. 900 bushels:
oats, 80, 235, 900 bushels: barley. $780,
900 bushels, rye, 100000 bushels:
potatoes, 4, AGO. 900 bushels; sweet po-
tatoes, $50, 600 bushels; hay, ?, 492, 900
tons; apples, 800, coo bushels: clover
seed, $4,000 bushels; grapes. $1,000
y bushels. Add to this the thou
sands of bushels of other fruits and
vegetables. not recorded, and you
+ will know why Kansas this year is a
: land of plenty.
The postoffice will be transferred
, today from the room in the Odd Eel
! lows building which it has occupied
, for the past four years, to the Fink
: building across the street, next door
= to the Utica State Bank building
! and Miss Lizzie Cooper will assume
charge of Uncle Sans business al
J. this place. The retiring postmaster
r B. NJ. Bovard, has proven himself
+ one of the best and most obliglins
t who has ever had charge of the Office
J. and leaves it with the good will of al
d its patrons.-Utica Enterprise.
= The Troy Chief tells of a road hoi
near Centralia who refused to turl
out on narrow roadway and ALLOW
several autos to pass him. Wheneve
the road widened he whipped up hi
horse and the machines wer
unable to pass. One driver final,
- got by him and blocked the road. Th
other machines drew up alongsid
and the drivers forced the road no,
: into car, tied his horse and tool
r him nearly to CentTalia before the,
!. turned him loose to walk back. H,
K was saying things unprintable wher
i last heard of.
Related by the Atchison Globe
She tripped into a music store anc
\ asked a clerk: t'Have you Kissed Ne
= in the Moonlight?' . s'Not me- re
!. piled the clerk. task the man at the
other counter" Which recalls that
at an Atchison Sunday school the
teacher asked the question, "Who
drove the children of Israel into Ca
naan?" Nobody seemed to know, and
the question was repeated with en-
phasis. The silence was deathlike.
Come now" continued the teacher.
e 'You little boy on the back seat, who
: drove the children of Israel into Ca
z naan?' Although considerably en-
: barrassed by what he considered a
reflection he answered promptly; 81
: never did; we just moved here from
? Missouri last week.
p Grain and Stock Farm
? roo acre farm in miles of Fail