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


Mrs John Gunckel transacted bus
mess at Ellis Monday.
The Rev. Robb, of Quinter, tram
sacted business here Monday.
w. B. and F. E. league and VIM.
Cox, of Collyer, transacted business
in this city last Saturday.
The Rev and Mrs W. R. Woodward
were down from Quinter Tuesday Wis
iting with Wa-Keeney friends.
: A box social viii be given at the
school house in district number 10 on
Friday, November 10th. Everybody
invited. Miss Della Trip, teacher.
: Addison Roundtree and family left
last Saturday morning for Ottawa,
Kansas, where they will visit for sew
eral weeks with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Edith Lynn and Miss Alma
Courtney were visitors over Sunday
at the home of Mrs. E. E. Beougher,
at Grinnell. They n surned home Mon
day morning.
II. C. Newland, the hardware man,
transacted business and visited with
friends at Hoxie the first of the week.
Henry Dewitt looked after the store
during his absence.
Guy McNair left Wednesday morn
ing for Lawrence to visit friends and
from there he will go go Kansas City
where he has employment for the
next few months at least.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Hudson and
20 = w 4
goods to Freeport, Kansas, where they
expect to engage in the hotel business,
having recently traded for property
at that place.
The first number of the lecture
course, the Hawaiian Singers took
place at the Garden Theatre Monday
night. The company consisted of
rendered a program which was very
pleasing to the audience.
Peter DeBoer, Jake Hickman and
Sam Kelly were down to Camp Fun
ston Sunday to see what was going on
and incidentally to visit with the boys
from this vicinity who are there. They
report finding them in good spirits
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Mrs. w. C. Stumpff and children, of
Collyer township, left Tuesday morn
ing for Wilson where they will visit
with her mother. 1t is the plan of Mrs
Stumpff to bring her mother with her
on her return. In the meantime, w. C.
is "enjoying" the pleasures of batch
ing.
VIM. Parks came down from Wi
mona last Saturday morning where he
has been with his daughter, Mrs. M.
c. Williams for the last several weeks
He says Mr.. Williams has plenty of
feed to run his cattle through the
winter but that there, are a great
many cattle being shipped from that
county this fall
There are from one to five or six
cars of freight being unloaded in the
freight yard in this city practically
every day which goes to show that if
the people did not raise a sufficient
supply last summer to feed them and
their stock through the winter, they
have the money 20 buy it and
are buying both necessities and lpxur-
les.
The people of this vicinity are help
| ing to pay the expenses of the war
but find it little difficult to get ac-
customed to paying an additional eight
per cent on all freight and express
bills and on passenger tickets. The
boys at the depot also find it difficult
to keep track of and to figure out all
the additional charges in their line of
work.
w. w. Parks is advertising public
sale to be held at his farm two miles
west and three and one-ha1f miles
south of Wa-Keeney, for Tuesday,
November IS, sale to commence at
1 o'clock p. m. Eight head of horses,
six head of cattle, five hogs and farm
machinery are included in his list. See
paper.
G. L. Jarboe, breeder of fancy
pure bred red poll cattle, who lives a
few miles northeast of Quinter, has
three-year-o heifer which has made
record of 1858 pounds of milk
and 484.O9 pounds of butter fat dur
ing the last year. There are mighty
few mature cows in western Kansas
which can equal this record and Mr..
Jarboe is justly proud of her.
About the best thing in the line of