Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-08-16

Floyd Lynn and Merit Beamer
returned Monday from Boone, Col,
where they had been working for a.
| bout three weeks.-Ransom Record.
Misses Wiiberta and Lodeila Kirk
endall left Tuesday morning for Sa-
lima after a visit to their grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs Roach.-Utica En-
terprise
Hiss Ella Swisher, who has been
teaching in Seattle, came home last
Thursday to visit her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. p. Swisher-Ransom Re
cord.
r. I. Pickering arrived home last
week from the hospital at Kansas
City where he underwent an operation
He is gaining in strength but still is
not in very good shape for wrestling
or foot racing.
Miss Elizabeth Reardon has resign
ed as teacher in the Wa-Keeney city
schools and has accepted a position to
teach English and History in the jun
ior High School of Hofton, Kansas.
Miss Reardon has taught in Wa-Kee-
ney for the past three years and was
re-elected for the fourth term.
Fred Shaw and George sNiesley ar
rived home Wednesday morning from
their pleasure trip to Colorado. Guess
they must have had a big time while
they were away as George looks rath-
er worn out and Fred lead him such
merry chase that he could not han
die the machine in this Office until he
had rested up day.
Frank Brown of Denver, Colo,
arrived in Hoxie thefirst of the
week for visit with his father, j.
H. Brown, and other relatives and
friends.-Hoxie Sentinel.
Harry Rott, representative for the
Topeka State Journal in the Sixth
District, was here Saturday and Sun
day in the interests of his paper.
He has been travelling over this part
of Kansas for the last forty years
and says that although the times are
about as hard as they ever have been
he finds the people well contented
and very few Of them are discouraged.
H. L. Nelson, who lives just north
of Ogallah, will have a public sale
of his live stock and farm imple-
-na<snts, st his farm on Thursday, Au-
gust %, sale to begin at o'clock
See the bills or the advertisement in
this paper. Mr.. Nelson expects to
sell off his property and will move
to the state of Washington in a short
time.
Four hundred thrity-fve head of
hogs were bought in this city Monday
by the Farmers Union. They were
sort of a cean-up bunch and consist
ed of everything from "a twenty-five
pound pig to four and five hundred
pound hogs. The price paid ranged
from s15.25 for the top down to $500
per hundred for the smallest and thin
nest. A car load of these light hogs
was purchased by W. W. Miller, of
Topeka, who shipped them to his big
ranch in Lyon county where he will
feed them this winter. The best load
of hogs was brought in by Fred
Shemm. They were not the largest of
the bunch but were even in size and
were well fattened.
Since the rain has washed the dust
off things and as the date of the Ire
go County Fair draws nearer, many of
the citizens of the county are finding
that they have something in the veg
etable or fruit line which will be good
enough to take to the fair. They are
making inquiries of the superinten-
dents and the secretary and showing
other interest in the fair. Some fruit
is being placed in cold sorage to keep
it in proper condition for exhibition.
Another pleasing thing is that the
people from all parts of the ceuny are
talking about being exhibitors and it
is evident that the display this year
will not be confined to a territory
within a few miles of WaKeeney.
Col. Eppler was up from Ellis Tues
day afternoon receiving several hun
dred pounds of country mixed iron
for the Rummage Acution Co., of this
place. The Col. says that the farmers
of east Trego county are preparing to
place crimp in the high priced
bailed hay by seeding from fifty to
one hundred acres of rye or wheat for
pasture. He says Ross & Waldo
sowed their rye last week and several
sowed wheat and that G. w. Musgrave