Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-12-12

A. s. Treger's Adv. Att
| You can get double distilled water
at the Wa-Keeney Drug Store AID AZ
! See johnson at Pickering's Garage.
Adv AZ 2t-
| Mr. and Mrs. j. H. Hickman are
on the sick list this week both being
victims of the flu.
| Private Henry Fabricius is home
from Camp Funston having been
given his honorable discharge.
Found-Sack of bran southwest of
John McCoy's in Graham county, last
| Sunday morning. Owner can have
same by paying for his notice. AID Al.
Miss Lois Drummond is now in the
post office and will take the place of
Mrs. May Spann who will leave about
the first of the year. Lois will make
an obliging and efficient clerk.
Privates Dewey Staatz, Oswald
Schimkowitsch and Dewey Whistler
returned home from Funston the first
of the week having been given honor
| able discharge. The boys are all
| looking good.
Private Earl Shaw returned home
| last Monday evening having received
an honorable discharge. Private "Bill"
makes a fine looking soldier. His
! company was ready to "go over"
when the armistice was signed.
The state civil service examination
for stenographers will he held Satur-
day, December IA, 1918, at Hays and
! Salina for this part of Kansas Appli-
cations should be sent to the Civil
Service Commission at Topeka at
once.
The Morse and Radio School at
$500. Men trained here are in great
demand. The Government is paying
higher wages now and time and a
half for all overtime over eight
hours. Adv. Al.
| Now that the ban has been raised
from sugar as large supply can be
bought for family use as is desired
however American people have found
out that they can get along with
much less than they thought and it is
doubtful if they will ever return to
the old ways of extravagant buying
before the war.
| Last Friday Grandma Bushman
celebrated her Seth birthday. She is
in good health and spirits and is a
great great grand mother. Her many
friends extend congratulations and
hope she may tarry to pass num-
Der of mile stones yet on the journey
| of life
| Word was received by relatives
| last week of the death of Mrs. Jesse
Courtney at her home in Great Bend,
Kansas, from pneumonia following in
| ffuenza. She leaves a husband and
five children. Mr.. and Mrs. Courntey
| Wa-Keeney and Mrs Courtney was a
fine christian woman having the re-
spect and esteem of all who knew her.
The funeral was held at Great Bend.
The family have the sympathy of
their many friends at this place in
this hour of sorrow and trial.
Era U. Hit, of Collyer, Kansas,
has recently received from the east
ern part of the state a pure bred
Holstein bull calf. His sire is the
great bull Vanderkamp Segis Pom
tiac. His dam, a fine New York COW.
His granddam a COW that made
37.59 lbs butter in days, her milk
testing 6S2 per cent butter fat His
great granddam K. P. Pontiac Lass is
the first COW in the world to make
over 44fbs butter in z days, her milk
testing over per cent fat. This
calf should do Mr.. Hit a lot of good
| in his already fine herd of Holsteins.
I On Thursday evening of last week
Mrs. ]. H Poffenberger and Mrs.
Clyde Poffenberger assisted by Mrs.
Albert Sellers and Miss Agnes Pof-
fenberger entertained a number of
friends in honor of the birthday of
J. H. Poffenberger. Cards and a
smoker" were enjoyed until a late
hour when delicious refreshments
were served. Joe was remembered
with some of his favorite brand of
cigars which the crowd sampled be-
fore leaving. A very jolly and in
formal evening was much enjoyed by
those present. The following is the
list of guests: F. S. Diebold, VIM.
Shrenkler, Walter Baker, Albert Sell
lers, Pete DeBoer, Chris Fellers, Sam
Kelly, w. Y. Herrick and H. S. Civ