Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-17

daughters OF EDITOR he1Ser, were
shopping in this city last Friday.
w H. Novis came up from Ottowa
county last week and has been help
ing his son during the harvest season
Bert Moore and brother-in- law came
up from Annapolis last Saturday az
| ternoon and are helping Tom Kutina
In his harvest work
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Yetter came up
from Ogallah last Saturday and spent
the afternoon at the honTe of their
daughter, Mrs. Benson.
A new Advance-Rumely separator
was unloaded in Wa-Keeney Monday
by Robt- MOTLEY who viii use it in
the territory south of Wa-Keeney.
Jas. Nejd1 and wife, who have been
| visiting at the home of his brother,
Henry, returned to their home at
Friend, Nebr., last Friday by the auto
| route
The heavy showers of rain the first
of the week were great help to the
feed and corn crop. Previous to them
the soil was getting quite dry and
hard and little moisture was neces-
| sary-
Mrs. H R. Karstens and sons,
Henry and Fred, of Miner, Wisconsin,
came in last Tuesday for visit at
| the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Bryant. Mrs. Karstens is the mother
of Mrs. Bryant.
Peter Reidel was in town last Sat-
urday from his farm northwest of
town near St. Peter. He says harvest
has been progressing nicely in that
vicinity but that most of the farmers
were short on help.
The Sa1ina Journal of July II says:
Doctor and Mrs. w. j. Kidder an
nounce the birth of their daughter
this morning. DIR. Kidder practised
medicine here few years ago and
Wa-Keeney friends extend congratu1-
ations.
A J. Anterior received word Mon
day that his son, Cecil Anterior, had
arrived safely at Newport News from
service over seas. He was in the avis-
ton division and was on guard duty
there most of the time. He saw a lit
tie over one years service in France.
F. d. Hastings is now in charge of
a line elevator at Bogue, Kansas. He
was at home few days this week
visiting his daughter and friends. He
says there is considerable wheat in
the vicinity of Bogue but it is like
the wheat here, injured by the sudden
change to dry, hot weather.
Mrs. Mary Ufford-Gordon came in
Sunday night from Little River, Kan
sas, and is visiting her parents and
helping in the Trego Nero. store dur
ing the harvest rush. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon have been unable to find a
suitable house in which to I've at Lit
tie River and Mary will remain here
awaiting information from Jack re-
garding his success
In speaking of twilight harvest
crews, the LaRue farm east of town
has the most of them bested by sew
eral hours During the hot weather
the harvesting was all done at night
and the crew slept in the day time.
Both men and horses stood the work
IN fine shape and it was much more
comfortable for them. Bright moon
light nights made this twilight work
possible.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde CIPHER, of Kit
Carson, Colo, came down last Friday
night and have been visiting relatives
in this county this week. This is q
sort of honeymoon trip for them as
they were just married last Thursday
July TO- Clyde is now in the garage
business at Kit Carson and is doing
we'll He says land is selling very
high in that part of Colorado this year
and many farmers from Nebraska are
coming in and buying it.
The Rev. c. o. Baker and fami1y
are preparing to move to their new
location near Paul City. Nebraska He
has accepted work in rural comnaun.
ity which has been selected by the
churches of Nebraska, for the purpose
of demonstrating rural church work
The idea is to make the church soc.
ial up1ift for the community The
church Rev Baker is to serve has 9
membership of about 100 member
and there are about six hundred peo
. pie in its radius
er Major Archie johnson and family
nj of Kansas City, arrived here Sunday
20 and are visiting with his father, A. J
at Johnson and his sister, Mrs. VIM