Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-01-20
DICTAGRAMS


about to retire and leave the active
management of affairs to his sons.
George has been in the retail meat
market business in WaKeeney for the
last forty years. If all the beef, NUT
ton, pork poultry and cured meats
purvey to the public from his little
old shop on Russell avenue in that
time could be hung on racks along
the Golden Belt the string would reach
from WaKeeney to Ogallan and back
again. He had sold fish enough to
stock every pond on Big Creek from
Oakley to Russell, with bushels of
oysters left over for planting on the
Saline. And all this is taking ac-
count of the numerous other con1mod-
tiles found on sale in a hrst-class
meat market in town And Mr. Baker
has not always had the only meat
market in town. From first to last
he has had nearly thirty competitors,
off and on, during he last forty years
When times were good a new man
would open up shop and divide the
business with him, only to 3'fold his
tent like the Arab and silently steal
away" when trade grew slack again,
content to s1et George do it, but Mr..
Baker has kept right on a-keeping on
through thick and thin. He has
earned a rest and the boys, Cliff and
Walt, will kept up the business at the
same old stand-perhaps the oldest
business house in the city in the
point of continuous operation at one
and the same place.
Readers of the daily press may
have noticed the recent announcement
of the death of Bishop Israel, at Erie,
Pennsylvania, following an attack of
shingles Shingles is corruption or
another form of the word 'tsurcingle'
I and the disease is so called because
| its visible effects appear along the
waist line, usually extending about
half way round. It is legendary that
| If the eruption completely encircle
the patient he will certainly die, and
| those who have once been afflicted
| with the ma1ady are ready to admit
that by the time the victim has been
fully cinched he will be quite willing
| to turn in his time.
In one OF his recent prose poems
Walt Mason used the expression
'stheir weird to dree." 1t looks like
a misprint but it isn't. 1t is equiva
lent to saying "their fate to endure.
The abilities and the uses to which
the Henrycar can be put seem to b.
unlimited. A recent want ad call
for the service of husky young mai
who can milk and run a Ford"
The reader is allowed to suppos
hot tsc@ 1,
home-brew business about two month
ago and agreed to divide the outpu
, ffty-ffty. The first batch they ra
off was just sufficient to fill an s-ga
Ion sweet cider key which they foun
in the rear of our grocery store
They stored the key and contents
an old cellar or abandoned ice-hous
and left 1T there to ripen and tax
on that age and smoothness which
said to please the palate of all di
eliminating drinkers of contrabar
rotations One night just befo1
Christmas they met at the old celia
\ for the purpose of dividing the each
| One bought a 5-gaIlon key and tt
| other brought a 3-gallon key, Bot
empty of course, and then their pro
lem was how to divide the eight ga
Ions of brew into two equal parts
four gallons for each partner, wit
out the use of any other vessel
measure of any kind or size, ca
partner thinking that the other wou
| come prepared and able to make
equitable division of the goods b
| which both had failed to do. For
moment they were stumped but the
natural ability and ingenuity soon e
abled them to make exactly ev
/ division and each man got his flo
. gallons of joy-juice- How did tn
- accomplish the equal division?
d 1t is supposed that the two emit,
ss prising citizens above mentioned l,
q an empty key behind which was
81 clew that led to the discovery and
B vestigation of the plot Out of to-
E readers, however, are not permit
81 to think that we have more than t
81 boozers in our midst; we have no
sfsire to discredit the community I