Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-03
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

| Toward Price and family, of ColIyer
were trading in Wa-Keeney Friday
| George Lynn and Tom Truman
We're up from Ransom Thursday. Mr..
thurman drove home new Ford car
purchased from j. W. Spena.
Virgil Franklin came in last Satur-
| day night from Camp Funston where
he received his discharge. He was
stationed at Camp Dix for the last
several months.
Mrs Mabel johnson left Sunday
night for Kansas City after having
been here about a week visiting with
her sons and at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Ufford
Al Hendricks is carrying his left
arm in a sling on account of a break
resulting from a fall from a tree
which he was trimming. Pretty hard
luck to be laid up just at this particu-
lar season of high wages
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Cruson and two
sons, Glen and Ralph, of Lebanon,
Oregon, were callers at this office last
Saturday. They were on their way
to Ogaliah where they will visit with
relatives for several weeks
John Lemke bought a section of
land north of Co1lyer last week from
VIM Cox for $4,000 He gets
fourth Of the crop with the place
Ih1s IS a short section and the con
slderation amounts to about $50 per
acre.
Chas- Spitsnaugle is linnping around
this week with a badly bruised right
foot from being damaged last week
by being trod upon by his big horse
1t seems to be getting well fast
enough that he will not get out of
work during the harvest season.
Mrs. L. Colder and son, Charles, of
chicago, cousins, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas- Marin, of Lindsborg, uncle and
aunt of Mrs Pete Hendricks south of
town, left last Saturday morning for
their homes after having visited here
for week at the home of Mrs.
Hendricks.
The arrival of a stranger in town
carrying suit case just now almost
invariably indicates the arrival of an
other harvest hand If you will need
a man it will be a good thing to land
on one of them as quickly as he lands
IN town Better pay man for a day
or two extra than to be without one
when you need him
Two threshing outfits from FIT. Col
Inns, Colo, were un1oaded here the
last of the week and are taking orders
for the threshing season. The man
ayers say that there was no snow in
the mountains last winter and con-
sequently no water in the irrigation
systems this summer The crops are
dried up in that country
Miss Elizabeth Wooster, state SUD-
erlntendent of schools, visited with
Mrs Minnie O'Neil, county superin-
tendent, last Friday Miss Wooster
mad been making a tour of the west
ern part of the state, visiting teach
ers institutes which were being held
and found it a difficult journey to
make two counties each day. She
took the train from here to Tonexa
Friday night.
An auto tourist came to town the
other evening and asked for the tour
lst camp ground. He was told that
no such place officially existed here.
1t seems that in many towns the
have selected and officially
declared certain location as a n,1b-
lie camping ground. The vacant lots
in the north addition to Wa-Keenev
nave long been used as camping
place for tourists.
Wa-Keeney needs to be cleaned II,
There are several tin can dumps and
manure piles about town which are
both unslght1y and unhealthy. For
the last several years cleanup day
has been officially declared but it has
not been so this year. However. PEG
pie ought to be willing to cleanup |
their own premises without pro |
but it seems they will not.
ihey work better whenever ssevery-
body is doing it''
Hugh Elliott, of Collyer township.
brought a sample of his 1919 crop of /
pats TO this Office last Friday morn
ing and held like the sample would
De worth looking at They were of
the red Texas variety, long. well fu- +
ed heads, and stood four and one-half
to five feet high. He also has a field
Of the best barley he has ever raised
irego county will certainly raise the
small grain this year and the pros