Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-10-11

ober 20, 1917, at p M VIM Grekei,
owner. 80 1tp.
Wayne Willis, of Emporia, is here
h1yinp cattle for his big ranch in
Lyons county.
| VIM. Cox and Ray Shaw went down
to Camp Funston and Kansas City
i Sunday morning via auto route on
business trip
Miss Alma Courtney and little
nephew, Vernon Courtney, were at
GrinneH over Sunday visiting with
relatives and friends
Mrs T. R. Moore and daughter,
Miss Georgia, arrived home Monday
night from Kansas City where they
had spent the last two weeks.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Bundy arrived
home Monday evening from visit
with Mrs. Bundy's parents in eastern
Missouri. They made the trip by the
auto route.
DR.. Allison left Monday morning
on 104 for the meeting of the Kansas
Synod, at Emporia, Kansas, as he is
moderator of that meeting. He will
be back Friday night
Mr. and Mrs. Gerd Struss and fam
lily and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Oelkers
and son, who have been visiting at the
Struss home for the past two weeks
left Friday morning for Grainola,
.Oklahoma.
H. NJ. Sprague came in last Friday
night from his grading camp which
| is now located in Wyoming and re-
manned here until Wednesday night
visiting with his children and trans
acting business
Mrs. Hal Cartwright and two chill
dren have spent the last week in this
city at the home of her father, A S.
Peacock On her homeward journey
she will visit with relatives and
friends in Colorado.
| VIM Brabb was in from the Adair
vicinity the first of the week and re-
ports that wheat is looking better in
this vicinity than it is along the east
side of the county. That vicinity did
not get the rain in September that we
did here
H. H. Bacon arrived home last Fri
day night from eastern Kansas and
Oklahoma where he had been on a
land trade. He attended the Wheat
Show at Wichita and reports it a big
display and a fine show of all farm
products.
Mata Collins, brother of W. P.
Collins came in Tuesday evening from
Oklahoma. He was delayed and did
i not arrive here in time to go down
to Camp Funston Will the other boys
on Tuesday morning so left We1nes-
day morning on the jitney.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ NJ. Bennett de-
parted last Friday night for Superior,
Nebraska, where they expect to make
their future home. Thay have been
in this city since last spring but the
climate was not as satisfactory to
them as at their old home in Nebraska
Mr.. and Mrs Roy Sterrett and
mother, and Miss Ruth Feiler, all of
Quinter and vicinity, were in Wa
Keeney last Saturday. The ladies were
shopping with Wa-Keeney merchants
and Roy called on friends while he
was waiting.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. P Davis and
daughter Beverly left Sunday night
for Rossville, Kansas, where they
have shipped their household goods
and where Mr. Davis has a position
| Trego county friends are sorry that
they decided to leave this vicinity but
wish them success.
The registration papers of E. W.
Gibson, formerly city marshal of Wa
Keeney, have been ordered transferr-
ed from this county to Tuscaloosa,
Alabamy, where he is now living and
ne viii be called to the army service
from there as soon as his papers.
arrive.
| J. L. Franklin arrived home Satur-
day night from trip to Syracuse,
New York, where he visited his sons
who are in training with the volun-
| teer army of the Uunited States. The
boys are expecting to be ordered to
| embark for France at any time Mr.
| Franklin also visited at New York
City while away and reports a good
| time.
Trego County High School foot
ball team won the first game played
for the season of 1917 by a score of