Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

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] building a Jayhawker machine in the
Jayhawker state, it is not strange
that Mr.. Cessna should be good
f1ier
And, by the way, those aeroplane
| flights constituted one of the most
satisfactory features of the whole
weeks exhibitions Yes, that mono
pane was build at Rago, a small
| town in the southern part of King
man county, Kansas. Thought you
might want to know where to send
| your order.)
| Life is just one blow after ano her.
There was the chautauqua followed
! by teachers institute week and all
schools-day. Then came the county
fair and the aeroplane, and we must
not forget the music by the Collyer
and Salina bands. Along with all
this we have had Labor Day and the
/ first day of school. Next week is
court week, which also brings the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
Masonic building and speech by
| Governor Capper, and in this connec-
tion it is appropriate to mention an
expected visit of the Grand Matron
to the Wa-Keeney Chapter of the o.
e. S in the near future. The county
commissioners will meet for their
regular quarterly session October f.
and with all this we are preparing
for the seasons course of lyceum en-
tertainmentS.
No, indeed, the above list is not
complete. There are two or three
other quite interesting prospective
events which we are not at liberty to
make public at this time.
Yes, we shall have course of six
or seven entertainments this winter,
most of them being good musical
numbers. Booklets will be distribut-
ed and season tickets put on sale
early in October. The first number
will be given by the Varallo- Gross
orchestra Saturday evening, October
18th. Remember the dape and be
sure 60 get your season tickets before
this first big number is given.
Referring again to the county fair:
The exhibits of fruit, flowers and veg
etables we're especially gratifying to
old timers who very naturally COM
pared them with the possibilities of
twenty five years ago. 1.-The sun do
move" The country improves and
the world grows better every day
The old boy who is writing this
paragraph is much given to remin
iscent reflections and just now he is
thinking of the first day he was ever
allowed to attend a county fair-and
how nearly he missed it. He was too
sick that morning to eat any break
fast but his good old mother (only
half as old as she is now, however)
fixed up hot dish, half food and half
medicine which Strengthened him out
and he was permitted to go to the
fair, riding on a pile of hay in the
rear of a neighbours lumbers wagon.
Humiliating? No, he felt as proud
as king on his chariot And didn't
he have on a new pair of cowhide
boots, right from the bench of coun-
try shoemaker OF course he did,
and his trousers were tucked very
neatly into the tops of those new
boots, you betl And you can bet
some more that there were no such
boots on exhibition at the little
Trego county fair. And what sights
he saw, one of the best remembered
being the Lick daub'' man, pulling
candy over and over a big hook which
was fastened to a post under a tent.
And what a multitude of tempting
ways there was to spend the money
that particular boy didn't have.
However, he probably is no worse off
now because he didn't have money to
buy everything in sight and certainly
his remembrance of that first day at
county fair affords him no less
pleasure on that account. And that
was forty-odd years ago Memory
recalls the pleasant things OF life
most often, and magnifiies them.
Yes, times have changed. Every
thing changes with time and location,
except human nature which changes
! only in the manner of its expression