Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-07-11

of Wa-Keeney, harvest, this week
Utica Enterprise.
i County Clerk Benson left Tuesday
morning for Topeka on business. He
was absent several days
VIM. Cox, the Collyer real estate
man, was a county seat visitor last
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs Bruce o. COTE are
enjoying a visit from Mr.. Goffe's
/ father and mother, who reside at Will
son, this week.
| Wanted-To work as engineer for
! threshing crew; also wife will cook
for threshers. Ralph Mace, Wa-Kee-
ney, box &c. Adv. ct.
Judge Peacock, the weather man,
reports 55-100th inches of rain Tues
day night. This will help corn and
feed crops considerable.
The Good Will society will meet in
the Red Cross rooms next Wednesday.
A good attendance is requested as
there is plenty of work for all. Sec
rotary.
j. j. Shackelford was in from his
farm last Wednesday and reports that
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The wheat was cleaned up from the
header boxes.
Mrs. John Conner of the North
Saline has the best piece of wheat in
all that neighborhood, and everybody
is glad of it as Mrs. c. is deserving
of some good luck.
| On account of the high price of
meats nearly everybody in town is
| talking of raising a pig for their
winters meat and summers lard
| Even the widows and old bachelors
have caught the fever
For Rent-320 acres miles south
east OF Collyer, 6 miles from Voda,
80 acres pasture, good house, barn for
8 horses, other out buildings, garden
fenced, good well of water, wind
mill. Mrs. Mary Spitsnaugle. Ad 20
Mr.. Ryan, commission man of Kan
sas City, was in town last Saturday
and visited with a number of ranch
men in this county, to-wit: Bob
| Kirk, W. T. Littlechild, John Olson,
Al Mong and a number of others
whose names we did not learn
John R. Shearer, long of Bunkerhill,
goes from Grinnell this year to Oak
ley as head of the city schools. John
has the honor of being the first Rus
sell county citizen who graduated at
the University of Kansas. He was in
the Normal course.-Luray Herald
G. E. Kirkland and Judge Bond, of
Kansas City, were in town last Sat
urday enroute to Colorado. The for,
mer gentleman made this office Il
visit and remarked that he was at
home in the World office as he had
served as devil in it way back when
w. S. Tilton was running same. He
asked about Tilton and told some
funny things that happened when he
used to pull the old hand press back
in the eighties.
Judge and Mrs. A. S. Peacock had
the pleasure Sunday and Monday of
entertaining a number of the Judges
relatives whom he had never seen be-
fore. The list was composed of DIR.
and Mrs. A. L. Peacock and daugh-
ter, of Grimes, Iowa, J. w. Peacock
and son, A. L. Peacock, of Woodston,
Kansas. They are all cousins of the
Judge and brothers, uncles and cous-
ms of each other.
w. j. Meredith, of Phillipsburg,
kans., was in the city Monday even
ing and visited with Rev Powell for
a short while, as he is an ordained
Methodist minister But his mission
to Wa-Keeney was in his interest for
congressman of this district. He is a
Republican and is meeting with good
success over the district. His oppon-
ent for the nomination is Farmer
Hays White, OF Mankato, Jewel
county Mr.. M. made this Office a call.
but we were out
A soldiers chances. If your son
gees to the front he has % chances
of coming home TO one of being killed;
he has SO chances of recovering from
a wound to two chances of dying; he
has only one chance in 500 of loosing
a limb; he will live five years longer
on account of his physical training;
he is freer from disease in the army
than In civil life. In this war one man
dies from diseases to every ten from
bullets, this war is proportionally less
wasteful of life than any other in his
tory--Canadian Military Commission.