Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-05-27
Dictagranas

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wilson few DAYS ago and gladly ac-
tcepted it, was pleased TO visit that
I town for several reasons: It WAS my
6rst visit there, which may partially
explain why I got the invieationS
| having met some of the people else
where l thought I'd like Co know.
more of them, and having had some
correspondence with others, L had
some curiosity to see what manner of
people they are-and they lost moth
ing on account of the inspection,
however much they may have been
disappointed in me; another reason
/ for going TO Wilson was my desire
| to have little chat with Mr.. Ed
Schermerhorn concerning an incident
which happened in Trego county
before there was any such county on
| the map of Kansas, in which incid-
ent he had a leading part, or at least
an Interesting part [ had that lit
tie chat al righ5, aHd-tt was quite
satisfactory, but left a desire for
more particulars, local history being
one of the hobbies [ ride sometimes
went down to Wilson on the Day
light Limited, which owing to its
! moderate speed, should never be cali
ed ''iitney. y Hoistein, or Jersey
In fact, the scru bbiest scrub "dogieh'
heifer could beat it getting around
the hills and not half try Bue then,
for all these slurs on the q. r. safety
first, we arrived ali right aFdson time.
and it has long been considered an
unkind act TO find fault with the
bridge that carries one safely across,
and so let US give the Limited her
just dues.
Never before in all my life have L
seen so many acres Of green, growing
wheat in so short time as I saw Oh
that so mile ride to Wilson, and
nearly all of it had that bumper.e mer-
aid hue which foretelis a wonderful
activity in the automobile shops
barring the usual exigercies of Kan
-sas crop weather. To be sure. the
''srubbled-ins' fields and the hailed
out, volunteer patches of wheat do
not promise SO veil, but where the
seed bed had been property PrepaFed
the prospeetssf6r a good crop could
not be better. South Of Wilson there
were Complaints of damage by the
Hessian fly and some fields we're be-
ing plowed up and seeded to other
crop. By the way. this hy is Ger
man Importation. He came in the
forage which was brought over here
to feed the horses of he Hessian
soldiers which old King George hired
to fight his rebellious subjects about
lao years ago; but that is no fault of
our thousands of loyal German neigh
bors. 1t is one of the penalties of
war-our war for independence.
All along the line, hundreds of |
brown bleaching strawstacks. (some |
of them two years eld), contrasted !
strangely with the deep green of the I
fields. The hard winter of 191E121
taught farmers to save their STRAW
for feed. In only two or three places
were any burnt stack bottoms to be
seen. There should be some way to
make the unused straw serve as a
su bstitute for wood fibre, and thus
economic and conserve great resour
ces. Another item of waste was in
dicated by two or three headers
which seemed to be standing right
where the last days work left them
last harvest. [ understand the price
of headers has risen along with other
items in the high cost of making a
Ii liVing-high enough to take the pro-
fit off several acres of good wheat
While ia Wilson L stepped into the
power house OF the municipal eiec
tric light plant. L was interested ia
seeing the St. Msry's engines but 4
reason was the fact that the
plans for that plant weredrawn right
here en- this table where these lines 4
are being written. That happened
in the autumn of 1909, when Geo. P.
Taylor, G. E. of Stockton, was super
the installation Of our
water and light plants. Wilson
streets seem narrow in contrast with
ours and their light poles are not in
the middle of the street. Their tower
is higher than ours and they keep
one big light as.the peak When we
get our additional machinery INSTALL
ed L hope we may have our tower
lights restored.
For many years the odor of print
er's ink has had a great sort of pull
of me and SO it was only natural that
L should find my way into the sane
ruro of Editor Rakar of rho Wilson |