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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

The rainfall Saturday evening was
eighty-seven one hundreds of an inch
Adolph Staatz, of Salt Lake, Utah.
was here the first of the week visiting
with relatives
Miss Edna Walker was up from FIT
Hays Normal over Sunday visiting
with home folks.
For Sa1e-F'ive head high grade red
poll two-year-o1d heifers. j. W. Bing-
ham, Wa-Keeeny. Adv. 22f.
Miss Ida Courtney came home from
Grinnen Monday where she had been
visiting her sister, Mrs. E. E. Beoug-
her.
A car load of southern watern elons
was opened up here Tuesday and the
citizens of this locality have been eat
ing watermelon since them.
Engineer-Wants position as engin-
eer or separator tender by man with
IA years experience. Call, write or
see me at Adam B. MATS. C. H. King.
Miss Ellen Truit, of Glaseo, Kansas,
arrived here Wednesday night and is
a guest at the home of Miss Jacobs
on the Davidson ranch northwest Of
town.
Fred Riggs left Wednesday for
Abilene where he is now located IN
visited here a few days with his par
ents and other relatives
O. B. Jones', of Corpus Christi,
Texas, formerly of Cove City, was
transacting business here last week
and visiting with L. o. Northup, and
is also looking after business inter
ests in Cove county
Forest Forester and family and
his brother, Miles, all of Manhattan
Kansas, were here Sunday as guests
at the W. W. Gibson home. They were
travelling by auto and were on their
way to the mountains.
Joe Poffenberger is the pop corr
king of Wa-Keeney this year. He
| brought a stalk of the corn down tovvI
/ Wednesday that measured nine feei
two inches with several well f1llee
ears which he pulled out of his field
Miss Georgina Allison arrived hon1s
Monday night and is now enjoying
rest at the home of her parents, Rev
and Mrs S. L. Allison. During th,
last year Miss Allison has been in tn,
canteen work of the Y NJ. c. A IN.
was stationed near Liverpool, Eng
land
from Lieut.. Jack Hyde that he ha.
arrived in New York from over sea
and that he would be at home as 500
as possible Jack was one of the frs
4 volunteers who entered the officer
training camp and received commits
sion as lieutenant
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24

hundred of then-and given an hour
to make up their minds They left
town and the towns all over the north
west part of Kansas have been crowd
ed with them since that time-Ellis
Headlight
Neutrality-suspicious. by competent
book keeper and stenographer in Wa
Keeney, by September 1st- Best of
references. Inquire of this Office. %
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24

appreciate the faithfu1ness of its ru-
raj correspondents and also wishes it
had about dozen more of them scat
tered throughout the country Each
township should be represented and
some of them are big enough that they
can furnish two orxthree writers with
items If you want your locality rep
resented in The World call on IS aid
make arrangements fer it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24

The usually faithful country cor
respondents for The World have not
responded very well this week and we
miss their items considerably How
ever, the harvest season demands in
creased labor and time and it is the
next thing to an impossibility for them
to find time to write the items AS
soon as the rush is over they will be
on duty again as usual The w ,rld
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24
DIcTAGRAMs
Oh for one good whack at the man
who put the bunc in carbunc1eI

And here is a friendly word of
warning for all concerned. On the up
per end of your neck, in the edge of
the hair, about three inches behind
your off ear, is no place at all to To-
cate carbunc1e-if you can do any
better. Beware of the poll-evil!
Yes, that pesky little boil developed
into a carbuncIe, which was anything
but little. But it is awfu1ly hard luck
that won't yield some fun, if you go
after it, and that is one way to cam
outage your misery.
AnG@another way is to think of
poor old Jiggs with the handle of
Maggie's pitcher sticking in him ever
since last Sunday morning.
But then, If he had the good sense
and the courage to have called the
Wa-Keeney doctors they would have
dug it out of him before this-I feel
sure.
And it beats all how many cripples
you can see-if you happen to have
your own head in sling.
Aunt Simpy has been studying
psychological therapeutics recently
and she has discovered that pain and
sickness are only matters of magma
ton. She has also heard that the peo-
pie of the next world have no pain or
sickness. She concludes, therefore,
that the people of the next world have
no ina ginations.
We all are glad to see our neighbors
prosper and so we read with intere.t
that the local nilkman has installed
a power plant that not only does the
milking but it also pumps the water
for the cows.
Now, lest some prospective custo-
mer should become frightened we wish
to say after several years patronage
that we have never had any kick on
the Milkobi1e milk
Oh, certainly, it is all right to be
careful; these new-fang1ed, labor saw
ing contraptions might get their
spouts crossed, but we are not expect
ing it.
We have heard before that these
Delco light and power plants are cap
able Of almost any sort Of farm stunt
but this is our first intimation that the
blamed thing viii suck cows.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24
Delicate Mechanism

- Despite it's scope Swift &
Company is a business of in
finite details, requiring infinite
attention.
Experienced men must know
livestock buying with a know1-
edge of weight, price, the amount
and quality of meat the live
animals will yield.
Each manufacturing operation must
be done with expert skill and scientific
precision. "A highly perishab1e product
must be handled with speed and care
to avoid loss.
and other specialists are required to
take care of our intricate problems.
Alert wisdom and judgment must
be used in getting stocks of goods into
the open channels of demand through
our four hundred branch houses.
Branch house organizations must
show activity and energy to sell at the
market in the face of acute cornPeti-
ton from other large packers, and
hundreds of small ones.
All these requirements ofinte11igence,
loyalty, devotion to the task, are met
in the personnel of Swift & Company.
Yet the profit is only fraction of cent
per pound with costs at minimum.
How can the workings of this deli
cate human mechanism be improved
upon?
Do you believe that Government
direction would add to our efficiency
or improve the service rendered the
producer and consumer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24

The Quality Car

The car you can drive 10000 miles and never
touch a wrench to the engine. Red Seal contlnen-
tai motor, Borg and Beck clutch, Warner Trans
mission, Willard Battery, Delco starting, light
ing, and ignition, Thinker bearings throughout,
weight of the passenger about $3.50 lbs If you
can find this quality of material in any $4,000
car you will be going some, if you drive a Davis
Six wherever you go you will be followed by adj
miring glances.
Ihave the agency for Trego, Cove, Ness and
Lane counties, and will make unusually at
tractive proposition to first party in each town
buying car to act as sub-agent, the price of
the 5 passenger is 81, $500 delivered here this
includes, extra tire and chains and all freight
other charges.
I have a special time proposition for farm
ers, 40 per cent cash down, balance or months,
pay as you ride, others wanting to buy time,
pay down one-third cash, balance 10 equal
monthly payments, if you are responsible you
can buy of these beautiful high powered cars
these terms. Can get you any time in 3
to days. For further details or demonstration,
see, call or write
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24

Now, lest some prospective custo-
mer should become frightened we wish
to say after several years patronage
that we have never had any kick on
the Mi1kobi1e milk
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24

Oh, certainly, it is all right to be
careful; these new-fang1ed, labor saw
ing contraptions might get their
spouts crossed, but we are not expect
ing it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24

We have heard before that these
De1co light and power plants are cap
able OF almost any sort Of farm stunt
but this is our first intimation that the
blamed thing will suck cows.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-24

Yes, that pesky little boil develope,
into a carbuncIe, which was. anythin,
but little. But it is awfuI1y hard lucl
that won't yield some fun, if you G.
after it, and that is one way to cam
outage your misery.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10
sPARRoWs' NESTS IN A SHIP
Attracted by Grain and Not at All At
feeted by Noise, Birds Make
Home There.

A large tramp steamer had been
towed into a northeast coast port for
repairs. After having discharged her
cargo Of grain, she was placed in a
dry dock, situated in the middle of
large ship-repairing establishment,
with all the usual accompaniment of
noise from pneumatic hammers, steam
whistles, shouting of men, and other
noises common to all such works.
The grain, of which there is always
good deal left about after the holds
are swept up, attracted the sparrows
in large numbers, and, as If guided by
instinct, they commenced to build
nests in various parts of the ship.
Undeterred by the noise or by the
constant going and coming of tho
workmen, they reared their broodS
before the repairs were completed,
and the vessel sailed. This is believed
to be a unique case, for although the
sparrow is q bold bird, 1t needed some
pluck to undertake home building in
such circumstances. The workmen adj
mired the pluck of these boisterous.
cheeky birds, and watched the proceed
Ings to the flight of the young birds
with great interest.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10

treatment for the German dead only
emphasizes the need that Germany
pay for the Dissertation Of the graves
of tie allied soldiers committed by her
troops in France.
Further Display of Irnpudence.
Just at the edge of the little French
city of st. Mihiel, held by the Ger
mans for four years and retaken by
the American troops late last summer,
is a German cemetery that stands as
an insult to the French people. Here
are buried large number of German
officers. In this cemetery the German
government erected a magnificent
Of these German officers, and over the
graves stand elaborate marble and
granite monuments erected to the
memory OF these German officers.
These monuments have been erected
on what has always been French soil.
and they stand there as one of the
greatest pieces of impudence commit
ted by the German nation in this war.
This is but another of the many,
many Incidents that add to the seri-
BUSINESS of the crimes committed by
the Boche, and for which he should
pay.
A very considerable portion of the
soil Of Belgium and northern France
is today given over to the graves Of
soldiers of the allies, and these sol
der boys would not be dead, these
graves would not be there. millions of
homes would not today be in mourn-
ing, had not a selfish people started a
war for the purposes of conquest and
loot; a war conducted with az the
wantonness and cruelty Of savages.
Why should they not pay, and pay,
and pay, until they find that an I'M
holy war, such as they waged, is the
most improbable business in which
man can engage?
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10
WOMEN SUFFERERS MAY
NEED SWAMP ROOT

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and
never suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy
condition, they may cause the other or
gansSto become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss of am
bition, nervousness, are often times symp-
toms of kidney trouble.
Don't delay starting treatment. DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root, physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, may
be just the remedy needed to overcome
such conditions.
Get medium or large size bottle inn
mediately from any drug store
However, if you wish first to test, this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10

Ience ensued. I tried to turn in the
direction from which the first voice
had come, but the sharp pain in my
shoulder warned me that it was use
less.
In a few seconds the door opened
and I could hear low voices down in
the corner. / could see the Tommies
around me intently gazing in the di-
rection of the voices. After few
minutes the door opened again, then
closed, and Jones came back. / looked
up at him and he solemnly nodded.
One more son of Britain had paid
the toll of war.
Ny unbandaged eye suddenly be
came cloudy and misty and hot tear
rolled down my cheek.
The door at the other end of the
ward opened and two stretcher bear
ers entered, going in the direction of
the dead man. Pretty soon they left
the ward, carrying stretcher, on
which was a still form covered with a
blanket. The Irishman on my right
was repeating to himself:
"Poor bloke, poor bloke; he sure
done his bit, and it won't be long be
fore he'll be pushin' up the daisies
somewhere in France. And before this
war is over, there'll be lots more in the
same fix"
One of the Tommies, in an effort to
be brave, addressed Jones:
whats is nyme, Mike? What bat.
talion'is e from?"
Jones answered:
flames Collins, lance corporal out
of the Royal Warwicks; five machine
gun bullets through the right lung
hemorrhage."
The door opened again and two
stretcher bearers entered, carrying q
Tommy, his head lying fiat. and a
smell of ether pervaded the ward. We
knew it was case from the Pictures
Operating room). The stretcher bear
ers placed him on the right of the
Irishman.
Jones now left me, and, getting lit
tie white basin, went over to the new
arrival. The Tommies turned inquir
ing looks in his direction. Answering
these glances, he read from the tag
pinned to the tunic of the patient:
"Shell wound, left foot-amputa-
ton"
Then and there knew that had
lost my prestige.
In a short while the form on tht
stretcher began to humble. This
| mumbIing soon turned to singing; thai
Tommy sure could sing! He must have
been a comedian in civilian life, be
cause the Tommies were soon roaring
with laughter; so was j, as much a:
my wounds would permit. Harry Tate
the famous English comedian, in hi
palmiest days, never had a more ap
preciative audience. After a while thu
singing ceased, and the Tommies be
gan eonversing among themselves. The
main topic was-"Blighty-Wha
Hopes7' Each enc was hoping hi
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10
GERMANY MUST PAY.
Kaiser's Men Responsible for
Millions of Murders.
CANNOT PAY FOR LIVES LOST
Nation Must Be Forced to Pay and
Pay and Pay, Until IL Has
Learned That Might Is
Not Right.
BY Wright 4. PATTERSON.

There are in France and Belgium
today very close to 100000 soldier
graves that would not have been there
had Germany not started war of con-
quest to crafty the selfish ambitions of
selfish people for world domination.
In these graves are buried the
heroes OF America, of England, of
France, of Belgium, of Italy, Of Can
ada, of Australia, of South Africa, of
India, Of Portugal, Of Morocco, of
China and other parts of the world.
These heroes gave their lives that the
cruelty selfish plans of the Boche
might be defeated; that the world
might be dwelling place for freemen
and not for the slaves of autocracy.
And the war in which they made
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10

discharge. That left harm o. yo~r'n
will be out O. commission for the -est
o. your f1fe. Your wife, IL you've got
one. will bloomin' well ave to cut
your meat for you, that is if you're
lucky enough to get any blinkin' meat
on the pension the Top 'Atg 'ome win
and you"
A feeling of pride surged through
me. In hospital of wounded soldiers
severely wounded case is more or
less looked up to. while man with
superficial wound is treated as an or
binary mortal I could read respect,
perhaps intermixed with little envy,
In the eyes of the surrounding Tom
mics and medical men.
The door at the end of the ward
opened. A howl came from the cot at
my right. and a gruff Irish voice
shouted:
"Close that damned door. You
bloomin' hospital men have no sinse
at all. Here am, knocked about by a
shell, and the likes o. youse puts me
in bloody draft. It's good thing we
have a navy; with the likes o. you
blokes In the army, we certainly need
one"
A smoker went up from the patients.
Then a Tommy on. my left answered
this outburst with:
Bloody nerve, I call 1t. Ere e is,
a. covered with blankets, and grousin'
about little drawft, and not many
hours back e was lynn in a bloomin'
! shell ole, with the wind a-blowin' the
1 whiskers off i'm, and e a-prayin' for
/ stretcher bearers. I'll wager a quid e
4 belongs to the Royal Irish Rifles"
The man on my right retorted:
! NAV, I'm not in the Royal Irish
Rifles, but belong to good outfit
the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and I can
lick the man that says they amt"
Just then, from corner of the ward
came the voice OF stretcher bearer;
"Jones, get the NJ. o. (medical of
ficer). Hurry up-quick-this pool
n bloke's a-goin' west"
The man holding my hand suddenly
released his grip, and rising to his fee
hurriedly left the ward. A dead 81
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10

punish the nations that have commit
ted the most terrible crimes known to
modern times, at least, by making the
people Of these nations work only that
they may pay.
Among the saddest sights to be
found in the battle areas of Europe
today is the lonely grave, the little
cross that stands by itself and marks
the spot where soldier met death by
stray shell. There were many, many
thousands Of these seen along the
sides of the thousand miles Of road
ways / covered In Belgium and north
ern France, and in very many cases
they marked the spot where German
shell had caught transport driver as
he guided his truck to or from the
front The boys who lie in these lone
~ graves were heroic American boys
heroic French boys, heroic British
boys, and they have paid the great
price that the Boche might not de-
stroy the freedom of the world. They
gave their all, and whatever the Boche
may be made to pay viii be small in
comparison with this sacrifice.
Near what was the city Of Noyon
one may see a striking comparison be-
tween the methods of the Boche and
those of the nations that have been
fighting the Germans. Here lie buried
side by side both French and German
soldiers. Around each cemetery the
French have built fence. Over each
French grave flies French flag, and
on each German grave green boughs
have been placed by the French. Such
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10
.tGiyE CALIFORNIA SYRUP or FIGS
AT ONCE If BILIOUS OR
CoNsTIPATED.

Look at the tongue, motherI II
coated, it is sure sign that your lit
tie ones stomach, liver and bowels
needs a gentle, thorough cleansing at
once
When peevish, cross, listless, pale,
doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act natu-
rally, or is feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore
throat, diarrhRa, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of california Syrup of
Figs" and in few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, undigested food
and sour bile gently moves out Of the
little bowels without gripping, and you
have a well, playful child again.
You needn't coax sick children to
take this harmless "fruit laxative"
they love its delicious taste, and it
always makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for bottle of
california Syrup of Figs" which has
directions for babies, children of all
ages and for groWn-ups plainly on the
bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold
here. To be sure you get the genuine,
ask to see that it is made by the "Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup Company" Refuse
any other kind with contempt-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10
SlOO Reward. sIO,

Catarrh is e local disease greatly inf1u-
enced by constitutional conditions. 1t
therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is taken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces OF the Sys-
tenn. HALLS CATARRFI MEDICINE
destroys the foundation of the disease,
gives the patient strength by improving
the general health and assists nature in
doing it's work. $4,000 for any case OF
Catarrh that HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE fails to cure.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
+. J. Cheney q Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10
Don't Forget cuticura Talcum

When adding to your toilet requisites.
An exquisitely scented face, skin, baby
and busting powder and perfume, rem
dering other perfumes superfluous.
You may rely on it because one of the
Cutieura Trio (Soap, Ointment and
Talcum). 25c each everywhere.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10
EarIv Declines.

If the truth could be discovered
probably it would be found that on
reason why woman lives longer shai
a man is because she doesn't pay ~
attention to statistics.-Dallas NJ.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-10
Novel Excuse.

One morning my little sister was
washing herself when we heard her
exclaim: Mamma, 1 can't wash my
ears; there is too much fancy work in
them. Chicago American.