Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-09-06
PASTURES PAY BIG
Chase County Stockmen Having
the Most Prosperous Year
in Their History.
DEMAND FOR GRASS FED BEEF
$40 Head on Their Grazing
Cattle.


$40 a Head on Their Grazing
Cattle.
Chase county stockmen are expert
encins their most prosperous year in
the cattle business With all pastures
green and as abundantly supplied
with grass as in the early spring
time, cattle have continued to put on
heavy gains without interruption since
they were turned on grazing the first
of May. So abundant is the grass
now that hundreds of cattle which
have been fattened and shipped to
market, where they have brought the
highest prices ever before recorded at
this time of the season, have been re-
placed with other cattle which have
been put on grazing in the same pas
lures and thus the live stock men will
be enabled to handle double their
usual output.
There will. be no less than twelve
hundred carloads of fat cattle, or
twenty-seven thousand head, shipped
out of Bazaar this season. Other
points in this county will ship several
carloads.
Some shipments of cattle have net
ted their owners SIS to $40 head.
Scores of shippers have cleaned up
profits which few years ago would
have seemed to them impossible.
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Sending Mail to Soldiers.
Before long several thousand young
men will be in the various canton
ment camps of the National army, and
their relatives and other friends will
wish to write to them. In order to
expedite the delivery of their mail
and give the boys the best service
possible, the post office officials in
struct their correspondents, if they
know in advance the company and
regiment to which the soldier is as
signed, to address mail according to
this sample:
PRIVATE JOHN JONES,
A Company, First Infantry,
Fort Sill, Ok.
not known, the mail should be ad-
dressed thus:
PRIVATE JOHN JONES,
of Minnesota,
Fort Sill, Ok
mail for each man will be distributed
Until then it will be delivered through
his state section.
Insurance Rates Stand.-Members
of the Kansas Fraternal Citizen will
not have to pay the increased rates
decided upon recently by the heads of
the order, at least not for the pres
ent. Recently the sheriff Of Reno
county served the order of Injunction
on the president of the order, who
was meeting with executives in Hutch
inson. AS result of the notice of
the suit, which is to be heard in No
vember, notice was sent to the clerks
of various camps over the state that
the old rates of Insurance would be
accepted for the present.
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A Wichita Refinery Soda. F.
Buser and H. ]. Buser, pioneers in the
refining business in Wichita, have
sold their holdings in the Wichita In
dependent Consolidated Company to
syndicate of eastern capitalists
headed by w. w. Partridge of New
York
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White and Allen in France.-Wi1-
liam Allen White of Emporia and
Henry J. Allen of Wichita are in
France. Mrs. White has received a
cablegram from MI. White. They
went in the interest of the Red Cross.
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Women Played Ball.-Two hundred
and sixty-five dollars was given to
the Red Cross chapter as proceeds
from a ball game between single and
married women at Wakeeney. The
single women won, IA to 9.
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New Depot at Junction City
Plans for a new passenger station, to
be one of the finest in Kansas, are
being prepared by architects of the
Union Pacific for construction at
Junction City. Work is to begin with
in several weeks. Construction has
been begun on an extensive addition
to the Union Pacific freight depot
here.
Editor a Captain.-Mrs. Charles H
Browne, wife of the editor of the
Headlight at Holton, is getting out
the paper, Mr.. Browne having gone
to war as captain of a company re-
cruited at Abilene.
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OIathe Pioneer Dead.-Mrs. w. H.
Mckee. 70 years old, a pioneer resi-