Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-28

to eat, Old ST would suggest four
kinds of said and a toothpick. ],
four flies and six chiggers to the
above combination you will know how
to spell picnic"
That was a great "bulP' WORLD
pulled off last week-sending the
Probate Judge to the undertakers'
convention. Oh, of course It is all
right, Hizzoner will stand for any
thing, once, but if it happens again
the Red Cross will have to come in
and take charge.
Well, it is true that / did look in on
the undertakers' convention for a few
but the chief mogul was just
about to begin demonstration and /
thought it prudent to take my corpus
away from that vicinity while the
taking was still automatic.
The Probate Judges had plenty to
talk about. One of the subjects they
Gust and DISGUST was new laws of
1917" Under this head they paid their
respects to the new majority age of
females" which became effective May
&c. Prior to that date girl attained
her majority at the age of 10 but now
she must be 21. 1t was the unan-
imous opinion of the judges present
that if a girl became Is years old
prior to May &c she is still "of age"
although not yet 10. On the other
hand, the girl who became 10 even
the next day after May 26 is under
age" and will remain a minor until
she is 81.
1t would be well to note that there
is quite difference between the age
of majority and the manageable age
without consent of the parent. A girl
may still marry at the age of 10, just
the same as before the new law went
into effect, but now she must be 21
erty. A young man must be 81 in
either case, and of course the voting
age is 81 for both sexes.
History sometimes fails to repeat
herself. The drought of 1893 was
broken by a big rain on Sunday even
ing, June 25.
This item is on the typewriter this
9th day of June 1917. Our rainfall
for the last six months has been
about five inches, and for the last
twelve months it has been only lit
tie more than IL inches-or about one
half the average annual precipitation.
Trego and Ness counties seem to
whole state. Down in the Arkansas
valley I saw thousands of acres of the
finest wheat and oats one could care
to see. Of course that is little consol-
alton for those farmers wheat has
failed entirely but it may be some
comfort to know that seed for the
next sowing is not far away
If the reader is inclined to kick on
dry weather conditions, and to knock
on the powers that be, perhaps he will
kindly recall a few facts like these:
AT the time of the drought of 1913
the city water system had about 1875
patrons; it now has more than 300
some 80 odd having been connected
since freezing weather. In 1913 very
few patrons tried to water their gar
dens; now everybody is irrigating
The average garden hose. will run ten
gallons per minute under pressure,
and ten such outlets will let water
out faster than one city pump
can pump it in. The city tank holds
$4,000 gallons. Two hundred garden
hose will empty the tank in less than
forty minutes even when the pu1np
is running. Every patron has at least
one hydrant and some have four OF
i've Four or five hundred garden
hose, all opened on the stroke of the
clock (f not a little before), will com
pletely empty the tank in. eight or ten
minutes. At 200 gallons per minute il
takes more than six hours pumping to
fill the tank full to overfowing, but il
the riser pipe is full up to the bottom
of the tank the pressure is almost
as great as it is when the tank is full
because the pressure depends upon
the height of the column and not uuor
the volume of water. Hence, if the
pump is running, and if all hydrants
are shut off according to ordinance, the