Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-11-06
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

Mr.. John E. Harmon, of Culver,
Kansas, and Miss Irene N. Wooden,
of Grainfie1d, were married at the
Office of the Probate Judge in this
city last Saturday morning.
H. G. Kyle, vice president of the
Golden Belt Mortgage Co., of Abilene,
was transacting business here the last
of the week for his company, it being
interested in some real estate loans in
this county.
Orchard, Colo, where he will spend
the winter trapping. He says Orchard
is a good trapping place and that one
can make considerable money during
the winter months
Rev. Byers, field secretary for the
Bethany Hospital at Kansas City,
Kansas, a Methodist institution, was
here and at Quinter over Sunday and
the first of the week working in the
interests of the institution.
The statement appears in the Edi-
son advertisement this week that new
machines are hard to get Mr. Mum
son of the Wa-Keeney Drug Store, in
forms us that this is a fact and that
those who wish to secure a machine
very soon should place their order
at once.
Mrs A ]. McCollum has been quite
i'll at her home in the east part of
town during the last ten days. She is
suffering much pain from an infection
of the lungs and from sciatic rheuma-
tism At this writing she is some
what improved but still in need of
close attention.
L. H. Galloway shipped three car
loads of cows and calves to the Kan
sas City market Saturday morning.
He arrived home Tuesday morning
and informed the writer that he was
well pleased with his sale. The mar
ket was low but his cattle averaged
up so well that they brought him in
more money than he was looking for.
F. D. Hastings who is manager for
an elevator at Menlo, was home a few
days the last week looking after af-
fairs. He says very little wheat is
being moved in that locality on ac-
count of the shortage of cars. Thous-
ands of bushels of wheat are piled out
on the ground and much of it is spoil
ing. The farmers do not like the idea
of the governme encouraging them
to put out large acreage of wheat
and then not making it possible for
them to get it on the market after it
is raised and threshed.
Alex Harvey was up from Ogallah
township Saturday and made this
office a social call. He says he has
not been able to get his threshing
done and that considerable of the
wheat has spoiled in the stack. He
has a good idea about the wheat which
cannot be threshed. He says his hens
can thresh it even when the machine
cannot and that he is going to give
them the chance Eggs at fifty cents
per dozen will pay for wheat pretty
fast and threshing it from the straw
will give the hens plenty of exercise
and keep them in good laying con-
dition.
This office received a letter the last
of the week from w. J. Shelton who
left here in September for his old
home in England. In this letter ne
says: Il had a very pleasant passage
across the Atlantic. This was my
fourteenth crossing and I saw my
first ice berg near the great banks of
New Foundland. 1t was a last years
product and unusually late in the sea-
son. We were about two or three
miles from it and it looked like a
small mountain. The trees here are
in full leaf a1tho we get a white frost
frequently in the morning on the
grass However, they are putting on
autumn tint" This letter was dated
October 10th.