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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1902
Page
4
Pickled pork at Baker's and fresh beef advertise the Baker's shop while a long list of holiday voices detail Christmas visits, church entertainments, and family travelers. Ranchers, merchants, and town officials appear, including Oke Band, Wa-Keeney band, and local teachers bound for Topeka. probate and public notices peek through as trains from Iowa to Colorado connect the region.
Activities in Ogallah include Christmas travel to Chapman by Harvey and son Will, cattle shipped to Kansas City by W. A. Tawney, and Dr D W Kurtz planning holidays there. A tabernacle fund reached 250, new buggy for J Q Thompson, Ed Myerly and Bert McKnight’s town visits, and a fresh veterinary instrument set for George W York. Teachers named at local schools, LDS elders Teeters and Ward visiting F M Coop before the westbound train.
Splendid weather follows a blizzard that misses east Trego as Ellis residents rush for coal last Saturday. Miss Mapes closes her north district 11 school for holiday vacation while Miss Nellie King endures asthma. District 13 lists its old schoolhouse for sale amid local chatter of weddings and small-town visits.
A vivid, humorous sketch extols a Missouri fiddler whose improvised gourd fiddle and lively set charm the audience. It celebrates rustic tunes like Cotton Eyed Joe and Dranken Hiccoughs, contrasts them with grand opera forms, and humorously declares the fiddler’s antics outshine formal concert repertoire.
A long lament for a state fiddle player, described as a one man orchestra who avoids reliance on support and is slipping into obscurity as culture and neglect push him to the background. The piece admits local bias and a playful self mockery of taste while praising the artist’s musical impact.
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