Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-12-02
Eggs are still out of sight.

the City Bakery
A trip in the air is about the quick
est way TO get under ground
Rev. Beason is holding revival
meetings at Woodston this week
Mild, bright weather, little too
dry and windy for the young wheat
The wa-Keeney Studio will be
closed after January 1st- for six
months.
Captain Northup and wife OF the
Salvation Army were in town We'd
nesday soliciting aid for the army.
John j. Harrison, cashier of the
Collyer State Bank, was a Wa-Keen-
ey visitor last Wednesday and made
US a friendly call.
Mr. and Mrs Clyde Poffenberger
and three children of Graham county,
ate Thanksgiving dinner with Grand
pa and Grandma Poffenberger
The Quinter Advocate is very
liberal with its advertising space. 1t
devotes three columns for home
talent play for the benefit of their
band.
For Sale-Three span mules, three
years old in spring. Large bone and
good frame. Price reasonable VIM,
7. Littlechild, Jr., miles northwest
of Wa-Keeney. 37-3t
Secretary Crumbine says all cold
storage eggs must be labeled. If you
happen to get bad egg notify Crum
bine that it was bad, also,i it was cold
storage production.
Cold storage eggs are on the Wa
Keeney market at 30 cents a dozen
This is the first time since the organ
iZation of the county that our mer-
chants had to ship in eggs to supply
the demand,
Postoffice Inspector Elston was in
the city last Saturday and checked
up the post-office. Also instructed
the postmaster as to how to operate
the postal savings bank which opens
for business December 5, 1911.
Martin Sutcliff and wife of this city
and E. L. Wickizer and wife of Quin-
ter were in Wa-Keeney Sunday. They
had the babies christened at the Ep-
iscopal church. Martins baby was
christened Herbert Hopkins Sutcliff
while Mr.. Wickerzier's was christen-
ed Gladys Dale Wickizer-Grainfiel
| Cap Sheaf.
! Twenty large contractors who went
to Pratt this week to bid on the fish
hatchery found out several things
about each other while they were
killing time outside the door behind
which the University Regents were
considering bids. They found out
that two thirds of the number were
college men. Chancellor Strong re-
marked that this fact is a concrete
answer to Millionaire Crane.
| FL. J. McNair, a former resident of
Wa-Keeney, writes as follows from
Conway Springs, Kansas: November
9th. this year is regular old West
ern blizzard, showing and blowing
and temperature falling right along.
We like it fine here, but have a little
hankering for Western Kansas, es-
pecially Wa-Keeney. 1t is pretty dry
4 here for going into winter. You
will see from the above that Western
Kansas is not the only dry place in
Kansas at present writing.-Ed.
Speaking of the things that may
come to relieve the weary round of a
village pastors life the Smith county
/ Pioneer tells this one on a humble
shepherd out there: Recently he
received communication from a big
| whiskey firm in Kansas City. asking
him to send in names of those who
might want some of the cheering bev-
erage. AS a joke, the preacher sent
in the names of dozen men, most of
them being pillars of the church
What was his establishment two
weeks later to get draft of So from
the -whiskey house for his commission
on six sales. and also letter thank
ing hial II. AIS SCI vices
George Rarman OF the souIhwt st
part of the county was a Wa-KeeHey
visitor last Tuesday forenoon. He
had just arrived from Mena, Ark,
where he had visited his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. w. p. Harmon who formerly
lived in southwest Trego. He in
formed US that the item printed in
the World several weeks ago was
| untrue as TO his fathers health adj