Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-05

hot.
Don't forget to attend Alva Bill
ing's sale next Tuesday.
Photographer Bean was down from
Oakley the first of the week attend
ing to business matters.
For sale or trade-l model T 1915
Ford touring car. Inquire at Wa
Keeney garage--Adv % If
John H. Dienes returned Tuesday
to Eft Collins, Colo, after brief
business visit in Trego county.
G. w. Glass of Oklahoma, pulled
his threshing outfit 10 the j. L. Mar
KEEL neighborilood the first of the
week.
Dick Owens, mayor of Foda, finish
ed threshing his wheat last week.
His crop amounted to (only) Il, 600
bushels.
Chas. Davis, are of Collyer town.
ships pioneer citizens, is reported
very ill at the home of Emery Cass
on the Saline river.
Thomas NJ. Martin of Seattle,
Wash, arrived in the city the first of
the week and went to Ogallah to look
over his property there.
Mr.. and Mr.. Calvin Keyser and
children and Grandma Hafiiger and
Mrs. J. f. Markell spent last Sunday
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. -Truesdale
of south Graham county.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. McCollum en-
tertained the Mccall and Sellens fam
lilies Tuesday at a dinner party
Wednesday the McCollum family was
entertained at the Mccall home.
A. J. McCollum has spent several
hundred dollars recently for repairs
to his home for cement walks, paint
ing, chicken house, etc. Mr.. Nice
has one of the incest cottage homes
in the city.
Atty. L. B. Reardsley, of Russell,
was in town on business last Tuesday
He reported good rain in Russell
county last Monday night.
An unusual situation obtains in
Trego county is that both plaintiff
and defendant in case lately filed in
district court have died. 1t is not
unusual for some party connected
with case to die, but for both to
die is rare Judge Ruppenthal in
Luray Herald.
From the odorous breaths running
around on Main street this week, it
looks as though there were a number
who have been trying hard to put the
breweries out of business. Unfortu-
nately they are not all transients-
Colby Tribune. This editor has a
great big nose for news1
The returns from Tuesdays cleo
ton show a light vote. Benson re-
ceived the highest vote cast; Peacock
received more votes than Acre and
Hunt combined; Altman carried sew
en- precincts out OF ten but DeBoer
won; Rea won out for state sena-
tor and Benton won by large ma
jerity over Anderson for congress.
A young man by the name of Leon
ard forged some checks on J. L. Best
and the Trego Nero. Co., last week
He was arrested and placed in jail,
and was tried before Justice Acre
last Friday, and waived preliminary
examination. The justice bound him
over to ,he district court and fixed
bail at 81, 500. Some bond for a forg-
cry less than 500.
Stratford, Texas, August 2, 1916.
Brother Givler: i will write few
lines. We have had some bad luck
lately-we lost our house in town by
fire while only the girls were at home
so we lost all our household goods,
books, pictures and many preci-
Gus little mementos that we had
gathered up for more than forty
years. We had no insurance as we
had expected to move out of the
house this week. Our wheat crop
was total failure, and il is very dry
here now SO our feed crop will be
light. Lou is at Plains, Kan, now