Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-08-21
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

WANTED-Dish washer, steady
job, for restaurant Apply here 25tf
Attorney Carl M. Ho1mquist, of
Hays, was ransacting business here
Monday.
Mrs Loula Wilson was down from
Wa-Keeney,5 last week visiting her
father, George observation-disclosures
Record
J. W Spena unloaded another car
of Fords Monday and they are being
distributed among the anxious waiting
! buyers in this county.
Mrs. R. R. Ufford and children,
George and Betty Lou, have spent the
last week at Little River, Kansas, Wis
iting at the home of Mr. and Mrs
Howard Gordon
F. M. Munson has closed a deal with
VIM SUNNI erville for the purchase of
the -''Verbeck' property on Warren
avenue, now occupied by r. l. Picker
! ing This is excellent property and
viii make Mr. Munson and family a
fine home.
Mrs Emma Holborg came up from
Gorham, Tuesday, to spend few days
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. N.
a. Olson, southwest of Wa-Keeney
Mrs Ho1borg returned home on Fri
days jitney they are expecting
tuTSShefS the near future
Ward Hartley came IN. from Wa
| Keeney, Friday night, to visit at the
home of his aunt, Mrs VIM. Parks.
He has been working at Wax eney
during harvest and viii visit here un-
til time to re-enter school at Ottawa
Observation-Disclosures Record
Fred Zahn was up from Riverside
township and reports that during the
rain storm Sunday evening, August
10, heavy hail fell in that vicinity.
The strip was about three miles wide
and five or six miles long and vegeta-
ton of all kinds was 3Sbeat into the
ground"
Joe Papas and Rudolph Horak have
been duly appointed as solicitors for
1rego county for fund for the re-
| LET OF the Bohemian orphans in Bo-
hemla. Joe rustled around town Mon
day afternoon and collected liberal
contribution from Wa-Keeney bust
ness men.
Frank Binder and family left here
Saturday evening by auto on their
way to Kansas City where they will
make their home in the future. Mr..
Binder has a position in the car re-
pair shop of the Metropolitan railway
company They visited with relatives
at Ogallah and. Topeka enroute.
c. H Pofenberger, former local
agent at Hays, of the Standard Oil
Co., checked out, recently and J. J:
Love of Park, Kansas, succeeds him.
C. f. Price, a special Standard Oil
man, from Wichita, was here this
week, looking after the interests of
the Company-Hays Free Press. Mr..
and Mrs Pofenberger un1oaded their
household goods here last Friday and
will make Wa-Keeney their home.
Who in Trego county can beat a
yield of wheat like this? S. A. New
conner, of Collyer township reports a
yield of twenty-five and one-half
bushels to the acre on 100 acres. Tt
tested So pounds to the bushel and
sold for 81 per bushel. This wheat was
raised on ground part of which had
been plowed and part disced early and
was soN~n between the 10th to 18th
of September and had the advantage
of an early rain last fall
If you are planning on exhibiting
any poultry at the fair this fall It is
the best thing to begin now to pet and
especially feed that fowl. The fatter
they are and the tanner they are the
easier it viii be for the judges to han
die them Be sure to pick your hest
ones according to the standard and
not according to which one YOU like
the best Watch for off eoIored feath-
ers, feathers on the legs and side
springs on the combs The superin-
tendent of poultry will do what he
can to help you get the best birds Won
have IN your foek If you viii consult
him.