Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-03-10
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS


Plants, large variety, reasonable price
List your land with Cave Realty
Company. WaKeeney, office with H
F. Kline z3-6
Arthur Olson came up from Russell
business matters
Guy DeBoer has his hot bed ready
and viii have all kinds of plants
ready for this spring
Leonard HInshaw left Monday eve
ming for Stafford, Kansas where he
viii visit relatives for awhile and
may decide to remain until after the
spring crop IS put in
The packages OF government gar
den seeds sent The World for free
distribution by Congressman Hays
B. White, have all been given away
II we receive another package we VIII
mention It in these columns
The fine shower of rain which fell
IN this part OF Kansas saved the crop
for the first time this spring and put
the soil IN fine condition for sowing
barley and oats The farmers are
now at their spring work with a vim
which spells success # the weather
continues right
According to the temperature of the
weather the spring season Is here but
It IS a little too early according to the
calendar However, the migratory
birds are coming back and geese and
ducks are going further north The
grass and wheat fields are getting
green and early flower plants are
showing through the ground A maple
tree in the court house park was IN
full bloom the first of March and the
( farmers are at work in their fields
getting ready to SOW their spring
grain The winter has been dry and
warm and the weather seems to be
| trying to fool nature. Some are pre-
| dieting a foIIow-up of either cold
weather dry, windy summer, but
| let either one or both come IF It has to
nevertheless the inhabitants of this
vicinity are certainly enjoying the
| pleasant weather
| J. J. Keraus, of WaKeeney, who rep
| resented Trego county in the legisla
tive sessions of 1909 and 1911, couIdn'
| stay away from Topeka, and he visit
| ed the two bodies and renewed ac
| quaintances- When he was a member
the lower house was more evenly
divided politically On this visit h,
found 1t difficult to run across a Dem
ocrat. He took up q homestead in hi
county in 1886 In 1908 he was en-
\ gagged in the hardware trade, an.
| there he has staid the good years a
| well as the lean ones His county ais
| raised bumper crops The present out
look for crops is good WaKeeney ha
| a population of about 100 Sine
his residence there he has seen mucl
of the town build up and in lean year
he witnessed it going back He Is tn
present postmaster. He always put
in a good word for WaKeeney an
Trego county.-Sixth District New
| Notes in Topeka Journal
| Where did you get that stuff ?
remarked a friend the other day re
fering to some idea the writer pro
posed It 1t worth asking oneself FIRE
quently where he gets that stuff
That stuff Is worth thinking abou
Where does the young man who come
from the farm to the city get tn
something that enables him to pus
to the forefront One thing is
bounding health He brings to til
city a strong healthy body, aboundin
energy and life Health and Wit;
depth are the things money can't bu,
Another thing he brings is resources
fitness and naturalness- These tt
city can't buy except from the cou1
try and so these are the qualitie
the rural youth possesses for whic
the city Is ever asking It all raise
in ones mind what are the dferer
stufs most essential to business an
social success UnquestionabIy hea1t
some OF the standard kinds of slut
initiative, energy, enthusiasm Al
some of the standard kinds of stuff