Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-08


/ VIM. Shrenkler transacted business
at Russell Wednesday morning.
| DIR. Lacerte, of ColIyer was tran
sacting business in this city Saturday.
Taxes are now due and a few cit
liens are avoiding the rush and paying
early.
| Attorney and Mrs. Ed Rea, of Hays,
were in Wa-Keeney short time last
Saturday.
| Hagel, the piano tuner, worked in
this territory Tuesday this being his
| first visit here for more than a year
James Beason went up to Oakley
Wednesday where he will commence
work with one of the Union Pacific
signal corps crews.
Misses Edna Walker and Anna
Hastings who are attending the FIT.
Hays Normal, spent Saturday and
Sunday with home folks in this city.
W. E. Smith, of Russell, was tran
sacting business in this county last
Monday Mr.. Smith is president of the
Russell county fair association.
| Mrs. Fred Alberson returned to her
home at Russell Wednesday after a
VanDorn, who lives up in Graham
Ecounty.
! Ellsworth McAtee and sister, Miss
Elsie, came in on the jitney Tuesday
for short visit with home folks
They were accompanied by their lit
tie niece.
| J. r. Talmage, wife and child, ar
rived home last Sunday evening from
| Elkhart, Kansas, where they had been
for couple of weeks visiting at the
home of her parents.
L. HI. Galloway arrived home last
Saturday morning from Kansas City
where he had been with some cattle.
He reports having struck good mar
ket and is well pleased with the sale.
Walter Gunckel went down to Ellis
Tuesday on business. He reports quite
a demand for helpers at the round
house and in the railroad yards but
that@ there is scarcity of suitable
houses in which to live in Ellis.
Two car loads of fat and stock hogs
were brought in Wa-Keeney Monday
by the Farmers Union and were shipp-
ed out for the Kansas City market.
The top price paid was $15.75 per
hundred. A great many of them were
stock hogs
In writing to his home folks Andy
Croft states that he has passed the
preliminary examination and been ac-
| he - II
Sam as civil engineer. If he passes
the final examination it will mean
that he must report for immediate
service in France.
1 Grant Billings arrived home last
Friday morning from the stock market
at Kansas City where he had been
with two car loads of cattle. He had
a bunch of heavy stuff which brought
him a good price and some smaller
stuff of quality which was readily
picked up by the buyers. One yearling
heifer Melted him over $50.
Mrs. P. P. Shuler arrived home the
last of the week from Halstead, Kan
sas, where she had been for a couple
of weeks helping to care for her sis
ter who was i'll in the hospital. She
was accompanied home by W. D Shut
er, of Hutchinson, Kansas, father OF
Mr.. Shuler, who will visit for couple
of weeks.
A letter has been received from
Carter Brown from Camp Funston
that he is getting along nicely but he
finds that his hearing is a great dis
advantage to him. He also says that
in the physical examination he under
went his hearing was not tested which
seems rather strange to those who
have known him for a long time
and know that his hearing is defective
I For several days the last week or
ders from the stock yards at Kansas
City and shortage of stock cars pre-
vented shipping any cattle from this
place but the embargo was lifted and
Wednesday morning three car loads
from the Davidson ranch and one by
Mr.. Lucas were billed out from Voda
and one by j. E. Mccall and one by
j. G. Hixson went out from Wa-Kee-
ney. The cattle from the Davidson
ranch were shipped to Glascoe. The
restrictions were placed on by the
stock yards because of inability to
weigh them as there were only three
stock scales in working order after
the fire and new ones had NOT beer