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TM7TTIK?TrTTT7yTT 71 Offlcial'Gounty Paper. Subscription $1. Wa-Keeney, Kans- March 5. 1910. H. S. Glvler. Prop. 32nd Year. Number I. Drag the road3. Mb VOL. 32, NO. 1. Beautiful weather again Pickled pork at Baker's. - Easter comes early this year March 27th. March 8th is the new date for J. B. Ruppe's big sale. Don't fail to read the new and changed ads in this issue. Do not forget to see E. D. Wheeler if you want a farm loan. L. Tatman painted the roof of the World office building Thurs day. Wanted Fat hogs. Highest market price paid. W. C. Rhoades. Lou Gleason made a business trip to Kansas City the first of the week. Ernest Hamburg, of Ellis, was "in Wa-Keeney, Wednesday on business. Clade Martin's restaurant will occupy the building vacated by the city bakery. This week Grandpa Wisch was taken to Kansas City for medi cal treatment. The Kansas Editorial Associa tion meets at Wichita, Monday and Tuesday, March 7th and 8th. You can get A. Booth's cele brated sealshipt oysters, solid meats, at Baker's, at 50 cents a quart. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church, it was decided to sell the lots north of the parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Law left for Kansas-City last Wednesday night where Mr. Law will re ceive medical and surgical treat ment. Wanted To rent, four or" five room house, possession April 1st; three year lease preferred. Call on or address D. S. Gilmore, 'World office. Make, me offer on block 14, Smith's addition to Wa-Keeney, 3 room house, barn, two good wells. Address S. Parks, Wa Keeney, Kans. On Tuesday night a baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Gunckel This is the first girl in the family and the parents and grandparents are very proud of the new arrival. Lincoln, Kans., is in darkness and will be, so the Republican says, for at least thirty days, caused by the engine at their electric light plant going out of commission by the break of a large casting. Fred Anderson Las a washing machine that appeals to the hearts o 5 the housewives. It is run by water power and all the housewife has to do is turrf"bn the water and the machine does the rest. v The Methodist Aid society will serve a chicken pie supper at the home of Mrs. Edgar S. Brown on Thursday evening, March 17th, from 6 to 8 o'clock. Everybody cordially invited. Harvey Penny and C. M. Wann with two other gentlemen whose names we did not learn were up from Hays last Tuesday looking at Trego county dirt. Evidently these gentlemen appreciate the fact that Trego county soil amounts to something these days. - ; " The Sherry's high class comed ians, peerless musicians, vocal ists, dancers and musical sketch artists. Don't fail to see them in their latest farce comedies en titled "My Boy Jim," "A Pair of Lobsters" and "Breaking In to. Vaudeville", every line a scream. The Sherry's have been on the road for years and have built up a reputation that is all the recommendation they need. New music, latest songs, clever dancing, quick changes, no waits. Your money back if not satisfied. At court house, Tuesday, March 8th. ' For Sale Seed barley, milk cow, (fresh soon), matched team of 'good work and brood mares, and some good farm machinery. J.T. W. Clocd. New 7VT I i JT New , . : . . EI Telephone 44 The Trego Mercantile Company, wa KeeneyJ Fresh pork at Baker's. , Subscribe for the World. Everybody making garden. For Rent Nw 1-4 29-11-24 and ne 1-4 1-13-22. Herman Long, Drs. Jones & Herrick will test your eyes and guarantee glasses. Pure home made lard at Baker's. , Farmers! Remember J. B. Ruppe's sale was postponed 'till March 8th. The Methodist Aid society will meet with Mrs. F. P. Lucas next Tuesday afternoon, March 8th. Miss Emma Shepard is again in the millinery and dry goods department of the Trego Mer cantile Co. Her many friends were glad to welcome Iter back. E. L. Boice came up from Man hattan last week and is looking over his farms in southwest Tre go. He sold a quarter of land this week and has a bid for his half section. F. M. Hatch loaded a car ofl stock and household goods Wed nesday afternoon and shipped to Melrose, Mont., where he will make his future home. Jess Plants accompunied him. Trustee Lutters was up from Willcox township Tuesday and paid the World a friendly visit. Mr. Lutters has been on the sick list for a long time but we are pleased to note that he is on the mend Ex State Treasurer Tom Kelly and F. M. Burnham, railroad promoters, were in the city last Monday. Mr. Kelly is a railroad contractor and went over the proprosed Garden City & North west R. R. with a view of bid ding on the grading. A BACON BREAKFAST Braces a person up for the work of the day. Nothing else is so satisfying, nothing else supplies an equal amount of energy to "do things. " Providing The Bacon is mild, sweet and nicely streaked with fat and lean. Now you might think it was an easy matter to find such Ba con BUT IT ISNT. .Most Bacons are too salty, or too fat or too lean, or too some thing or other. If you prefer something just right, we can give it to you. Our Bacon car. be served to children as well as grown-ups. It can be enjoyed by the office worker as well as the outdoor laborer. Try an order. N STAR GROCERY SPRING Ginghams, Woolen-Suitings, Batistes, Silks, Laees, Embroideries, Shirt Waists Turban Hair Goods, Jabots, Notions, Dress Trimmings, Come in and Another Shale Boom in Northern Kansas Topeka, Feb. 27. Another shale boom is on- in northwest ern Kansas. It is not a gold shale , scheme. It is gas shale proposition this time. Van Tyne Pritchard, a mining engineer of Pittsburg, Pa., claims to have discovered that gas, of equal quality to coal gas, a"nd in almost unlimited quantities, can be man ufactured from the shale now bedded in western Kansas. If his scheme works, the fuel prob lem will be solved forever in that section. Mr. Pritchard stated that the shale would prodoce from 6,000 to 8,000 feet of gas per ton, as against 12,000 to 10,000 feet from good gas coal. The heat ing power of the gas is approxi mate two and one-half times that of natural gas and the illum inating power is 24 to 20 candle in a standard jet of five feet per hour as against 14 to 18 'candles of coal gas. The shale bed is in a broad belt from Ford county to the north line of Kansas and beyond across Nebraska, the Dakotas and Montana, far up into Canada. It is also found in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and other states. The gas can be manufactured at a nominal cost and the by products will be sufficient to pay all the expenses and yield a hand some profit. One very . impor tant feature of the process is that no coal or other fuel beyond that furnished by the shale itself is required." The retorts will be constructed in such a manner that the shale may be drawn di rectly into the combustion cham ber, thus saving nearly all of the radiated heat. Tn addition the shale-contains a large percentage of fixed car-on, which is con verted into coke during the ex traction of the gas and aids ma terially in heating the retorts. Mr. Pritchard's experiments throw a curious side-light on the gold excitement in Trego county some years ago. It appears that the Trego county gold miners were in reality partly right. The shale actually contains a small . and variable amount of trold, t,he average being about $2 per ton. This is entirely too lit tle to pay as a gold mining prop osition, especially as the oil con tained in the shale makes the ex traction of the gold difficult and expensive K. C. Journal. For Sale Red Texas seed oats price reasonable; a John Deere riding lister nqyr last spring, as good as new now, with 2 lays, never listed over 50 acres last spring, and kept ia shed all sum mer and winter. 1 Brown riding cultivator new; will sell cheap for cash or good note. Lou A. Sigler, 7 miles southwest of Wa Keeney. Farmers, when in town drop into J. 'Al Moye's restaurant for breakfast, dinner and supper. He will treat yon right. Goods'! Lace Collars, Everything Look Around Ogallah Forestry Station. " As spring approaches, I hear many requests as to the best trees to plant and the best meth ods of caring for them. The only thing lacking to make trees grow in this country is mqjsture. This must be overcome either by irrigation or dry methods of cul tivation, and as irrigation is not practicable on most farms we must use dry methods of culti vation, and to do this we must get our ground in proper condi tion. First we must get rid of the Buffalo sod. This can be doneby cropping a year or twd, then after the crop comes off in fall, plow deep not later than December 1st then cover with a light coat of straw; this will con serve the moisture and keep the soil from blowing. In the spring go on with disk and harrow and work down good. Set out trees as soon as the frost is out or as soon as you can get the trees. One year old trees from the seed are always best. The distance trees are to be set, will depend on weatner. A grove or wind brake is wanted. If a windbrake is wanted the trees should be be set four feet apart in the row, and the rows should be six feet apart and run east and west. Do not set trees out in one long row but bunch them up so that they will protect each other from the wind and shade the ground. If a grove is wanted, trees may be set ten or twelve feet apart each way but do not set far enough apart that they will not shade the ground after they are too old to cultivate, as that will help to keep the weeds out and conserve the moisture. In regards to varieties I would say that Aus tand Scotch pine and Red Cedar are by far the best evergreens. Among the forest trees I sug gest planting the Honey Locust, Osage Hedge, Elm, Ash, Maple and Cottonwood on the upland and Catalpa on low sandy land. There is no doubt thaj trees will grow in western Kansas as there are a number of groves that bear testimony to this fact, but trees must have care and there is no use to waste trees and valuable time if they are not put ut right and taken care of after they are put out. The thing to keep in mind is to conserve the moisture. If you do that, you have the tree problem solved. Get one thous and growing trees on every quarter of land and the wind I will be milder as it blows from toe nortn m winter ana soutn m summer. F. J. Turner, foreman of forestry station,- Ogallah, Kan- ses. Itch! Itch! Itch! Scratch! Scratch! Scratch! The more you scratch the worse the itch. Try Doan's Ointment. It cures piles, eczema, any skin itching. All druggists sell it. E. F Sullivan, Optometrist will be at American hotel, Tues day, March 8th. - Miss Ida Cloud is the new as sistant clerk in the postoffice. NEW New A Correction Ogallah, Feb. 27, W10. Editor World: Will you please put this in the paper, that I would like to inform the people of Ogallah and the surrounding country and especially the editor of the County Line notes, that it is a falsehood about my father's marriage. I do not know who started the report, but whoever it was, would please attend to their own affairs and Mr. Bu chanan would attend to his. I am quite surprised to know that our would be Christian neighbors would ever think my father guilty of- such a thing. Mr. Buchanan is now visiting in Illinois, while the woman in question lives in Iowa. I would like to inform our neighbors or those that are telling that he is married that it is all a lie, and to ask them not to tell it any more. Respectfully, Edith Buchanan. The city dads of Ellis last week accepted their new electric light and water plant which is one of the best in this section of the state, and is now being success fully and profitably operated under municipal control. March is a good month to begin letting your light shine and drinking pure city water instead of beer and wine. Wa-Keeney should have more resident properties in the form of four or five room cottages for rent. Applications for residenc es of this character are daily being made and if they were available, our population would rapidly increase. What better investments can a person secure than a number of dwellings rented at a good price? To Know Where to buy, is as important in glass es as any thing else. We hope our name is all the guide you need. E. F. Sullivan, Optometrist at Wa-Keeney , Tuesday, March 8th. The Interstate Association of Operating Thresher men meets at Wichita, March 8th, 9th and 10th, and all reports to the con trary are in error. Arrange ments are already completed for entertaining the largest gather ing of , this kind ever heJd in Wichita. The active . member ship of the association has been increased by several hundred during the year, and the execu tive sessions will bring np mat ters of great importance to every thresherman in the southwest. Contrary to any reports that there was to be no March meet ing there will be held in Wich-1 ita on. the 8th, 9th and 10th of that month the largest gathering of thresherman ever gotten to gether at one time and place. All threshermen are welcome whether members of the State Association or not. Drs. Jones & Herrick will test your eyes and guarantee glasses. This issue celebrates the thir ty-second birthday of the West ern Kansas World, and during that period the paper has under gone many changes. When one remembers that from 1878until 1910 there were lots of things doing in western Kansas from hot winds, grasshoppers, bliz ' zards. the Farmers' allianrf H j Coxey's army, Populism, mort j gages, crop failures, white cano gg! pied wagons seeking the rising e g I sun, to high schools, electric gl flights, city water works, auto t23 j mobiles, land from $20 to 40 per fgl I acre, public libraries, women's ! federated clubs, t vo story brick IM; , blocks, an by no means last Slnor least, the Stubb's adminis- tration, is it any wonder that the World holds its head-up a little proudly as it takes a retrospect ive glimpse down the vista of years, and yet c:m say today that it is one of the largjst and best papers in western Kansas. Its office contains one large x power press and- three job presses, one recently purchas ed and up to date in every re spect. As an , advertising medi um it can not be beat for its cir culation is far in advance of any newspaper of iks size in this western country and reaches the homes of many families in the nearby towns as well as a large number of eastern states where readers have land inter ests. As for job work 'we think we can compete with any one; we can do fancy job work from the dantiest programs, calling cards, etc., down to sale bills, placards or any old thing you may desire in this line. We are especially equipped for this work and guar antee to please you . or refund your money. At present there are three steady employes in the office. - During the years we have owned the World we have much to thank our old friends and pa trons for there are always those who stand by a man when the fight is on, to those we offer our sincere thanks, to the knockers and kickers we have nothing to say for their influence has been so puny it has not harmed us. Our desire is to enlarge our work, to give everybody a square deal and make the World a factor for the benefit of the town and county, and again we thank al who have helped us to get to the prosperous place which we now occupy. This week the city bakery has moved into the rooms recently vacated by the Wa-Keeney res taurant. - Mr. Fuhrken now has more room in which to enlarge his business - which has been steadily on the increase ever since his arrival in our city. H( is a number one baker and has one of the best and up to dat equipments in westei-n Kansas and as every thing is so clear and fresh that it is a pleasure to patronize such a place and Wa Keeney is justly proud of her fine bakery Last Sunday night Rev. C. E. Walker closed a five weeks' ser ies of meetings at the M. E. church. Rev. Walker was a very able scholar, an excellent preach er and could expound the scrip tures in a marvelous manner. Those who came in close contact with him were - able to learn much from him for he was not only a teacher but was a Godly and devout man. While perhaps it was not in great numbers that his work could be counted, yet there are many who feel it was very helpful and a great bless ing to have him in our midst and feel that the good eed sown will bring forth harvest in many lives The water works have been tested this week- with good re sults. At present the large city tank is full, also the railroad tank, and a few families are using the water. As soon as the nozzles arrive our fire protec tion will be complete. A rather strange sight this week was the unloading of six immigrant cars in our railroad yard. These goods were from Nebraskaand it makes us feel good to see them pile into our fair and prosperous county by the car load.