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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1902
Page
4
In Kansas the Populists face a new election law shaping judge and clerk appointments. The largest vote party gets two judges and one clerk each polling place, the second highest party one judge and one clerk, reducing the Populists to no judges. The caller questions why they persist and notes Democrats returning to their roots.
The summer term of the A branch of the State Norm opens May 23 for two months with the September regular term to follow. Classes, curriculum, and a temporary site at the old Fort Hays hospital are described as a transition to a permanent school house with creek quarry stone. The plan includes using much of the 7200 acre reservation for an experimental farm and a State Agricultural college, with a professor sowing about 0,000 acres and future crops like Rusia and Turkey wheat to guide local farmers. The community anticipates support from donors alongside Emporia and Manhattan schools, while a newspaper quip about American reading habits is noted.
At an April 25 meeting of the G A R arrangements committee, committees were chosen for Decoration of Hall, Flowers, Music, Placing Flags on Graves, and Flowers on Graves with instruction of children. Names include C N Gibson, W H Swiggett, W S Harrison, A B Mumert, O W Lahman, and others. Executive urges completion of duties.
A series of small ads offers items for sale including a Jersey cow a kitchen cabinet and pure Red Kaffir seed at $1.50 per bushel while stock lasts. Also for sale are a Ladies Columbia buckle wool foot pump and gramophones with 24 records. A photograph gallery notice states N A Voss will be in Wa-Keeney May 16 and 17.
The Nebraska Colorado Express departs Kansas City at 9 30 p m and reaches Denver at 3 15 p m next day saving three hours. The route includes time in Denver for business or visiting with connections onward through Scenic Colorado in chair cars sleepers and dining cars. The Burlington Denver Express leaves KC at 10 40 a m and personal California excursions run via through tourist sleepers from Kansas City each Wednesday and Thursday morning.
The Semi-Weekly Capital, Toneka, promotes itself as a premier farm paper with world market reports, AP-sourced news, and extensive local coverage. It emphasizes fair editorials, bipartisan news, and a twice weekly print for 81.00 per year or 1.50 with World.
The undersigned gives notice of an application to the Probate Court at WaKane transits to sell the fall and school land in Trego County Kansas. It names Glenn, Bacher, Paine, Banner and others to prove settlement, residence, and possessments. The hearing date is early April in Trego County Kansas.
Department of the Interior contest notice alleges C J Parris as contestant against homestead entry 24600 dated May 23 1900 for the southeast quarter of section 2 township 18 south range 9 west. The protest claims absence from land due to employment in the army and requests appearance with evidence on June 2008 before the registrar to determine the validity of the claim and require publication of the notice.
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