Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-07-19

Myron Niesley was at Hays We'd
nesday forenoon
i W. F. league, the Holstein cattle
man, of Collyer, was transactlng bus
mess here Monday.
Lee Gunckel, the right hand man
for the Hartman Lumber Co., is tax
ing much needed lay-of this week
Several people from this vicinity
were at Hays Wednesday consulting
an eye specialist who was there on a
regular visit
Jake Blickenstaf and wife and her
father, Mr.. Roesch, of Quinter, were
day afternoon
Emma Mayer, of near Wa-keeney,
were married July 9th in this city by
the Rev. Allison.
Mr.. nd Mrs. Joe Bowman, who lives
north of town in Graham county are
the glad parents Of a baby daughter
who arrived Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. o. Hemphill, arriv-
ed home the last of the week from the
eastern part of the state where they
have spent the last few weeks.
Mrs. VIII Wollner and children ar
rived home the last of-the week from
Pendennis where they had been visit
Miss Ruth Bingham arrived home
Tuesday night from Wasatch, Utah,
where she has spent the last several
weeks with Edith and Roy Sprague.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. W. Cloud left
this morning for weeks auto trip
during which they will visit at Shar-
on Springs, Atwood and Norton, Kan
sas.
Misses Edna and Eva Walker were
at Hays Wednesday forenoon, con-
sultiing with an eye specialist from
whom Miss Eva is receiving treat
ment.
Rev. J. F. Johnson, formerly pastor
on this charge, is in this locality sell
ing tombstones- Mr.. johnson was not
given a passionate at the spring con-
ference.-NatorHa Independent.
Frank Wollner and sons, Morgan,
and Maurice arrived home last Sun
day night from their outing in the
FOUNTAINS of Colorado. frankie did
not return with them but went to
Scandal, Kansas, for visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. W. Hendricks and
Mr.. and Mrs. McCready and Mrs. M.
Sunday visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Al Hendricks in the east
part of this city. They made the trip
by auto route.
Emil Lawson was in from the ranch
the last of the week transacting bus
mess. He says he spent the Fourth at
Mcpherson, making the trip by auto
and returned altogether. He also says
the prospects for a feed crop on the
ranch this year are pretty slim.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Williams and
daughter, Claudia, and Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Johnson and little daughter,
left Tuesday morning by the auto
route for the mountains of Colorado
where the ladies and children will
spend the next few weeks at the pleas
ure resorts.
A call for hogs in this county still
draws in a few but not as many as
such a call would have a few months
ago. The Farmers Union bought two
car loads of hogs here Monday for
which they paid top price of $14.25.
Hogs will be bought again some
time in August
Miss Ella CHESS, of Arnold, who is
a student at the FIT. Hays Normal
came up Saturday and was guest
of Mrs. Ray Nelson until the arrival of
her brother when Mrs. Nelson and
accompanied them to their home at
Arnold where they are spending the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. W. Shideler and
son, Arthur and daughter, Irma, Wis
tied with Wa-Keeney friends last
Thursday night and Friday. They had
been visiting friends and relatives in
the eastern part of the state and were
returning to their home at Boulder
Mr.. Shideler is in the furniture bus
mess and has a large establishment.
The annual meeting of the Central
Kansas Holiness Association is to be
held in Wa-Keeney this year at the
Trego County Fair Grounds The
session will commence on August End
and last for ten days. The principal
workers will be Mrs. Rose Potter
Crist, of Denver, and a singer A gen
eral invitation is extended to all to at
tend these meetings.
Some of the farmers are cutting
what Russian thistles they can find
that have made sufficient growth and
putting them up for cattle feed. The
despised thistle is said to make pretty
good feed when there is nothing else
and when it is put up before it is too
old The red root or pig weed, is also
claimed to make good feed in an
emergency like the present.
S. j., Straw was called to Quinter
last Friday evening to take charge
of the body of one of the Wurst boys,
of Quinter, who died as a soldier in
one of the training camps of the
south. He was accompanied by sever
al of the boys from here who are
members of the national guards or
have had military training. The cause
of death was diphtheria and no funeral