Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-06-24


Picture show at the voda Hall Fri
day evening, June 25th- me last
show before harvest--Com
Claude Reeves is assisting in the
grocery department of the Trego Co.
Coop store during the harvest rush
of work
w. w. Sellers and family have ar
ranged the rooms adjoining their meat
market for living apartments and are
comfortably situated where they can
wait on their trade either day or
night
Henry Samson is here this week
from Amarillo Texas spending his va
cation with his parnts, Mr. and Mrs
r. III. Samson. His wife arrived
from Lawrence Saturday evening
Quinter Advocate
There were a larger lumber of
tourist autos passed through Wa
Keeney Monday than there has been
any other three days previous this
year. They had doubtless accumu-
lated down east for two or three days
where they had been held up. ac-
count of the rain
L. S. Myerly has been very busy
in the county treasurer's Office the last
week or so writing out tax receipts for
the last half of the 1919 taxes The
penalty was legally attached June
goth and there was quite rush on
| the last few days preceding the Goth
and twenty or thirty thousand were
received.
Louis Honomichl and daughter,
Miss Matilda, came up from Wilson
| last Saturday afternoon and visited
| with relatives south of town until
| Wednesday Mr.. Honomichl informs
The World that he intends moving to
| this county as soon as he can find a
| suitable location.
! Chas Kellogg arrived home, at
| Co1lyer Tuesday from his vacation
trip to the mountains of Colorado
| On account of the muddy roads he
tied his car up at Grinnen and came
down to WaKeeney Tuesday on the
jitney to have bad tooth looked af-
ter, and returned to Collyer in the af-
! ternoon.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ Cobb, of Cas-
| per, Wyoming, have visited this week
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. II
Benson in this city Mr.. Cobb is 9
friend of Judd Benson and is grad
uate from the law department of the
i University of Kansas. They are OF
their way from Lawrence to then
home in Wyoming.
Word comes from Lit. C. B. Kelly
that he has arrived all o. K at SaI
| Francisco and that he has undergone
some examinations but nothing dehn
ite has been said or done regarding
the operation on his wounded Leg. He
also says that he had the pleasure OF
a visit with Mrs. T. r. Moore ane
daughter, Mrs. Georgia Fuller.
H. S. Givler, L., G. johnson and A
r. Mckinley, wife and son, left Tues
day morning for Wichita on com
bination business and pleasure trip
Mr.. and Mrs. Sits, of Hays, were
! here over Sunday visiting with then
daughters, Mrs. Mckinley and Mrs
Pete Schneider, a few miles south o.
town. They left for their home Tues
day.
While the mud was an inch or 81
deep on the street crossings the othel
day Mayor Kline offered high a.
81 per hour for man who wou1t
work with shovel and clean them of
but there were no takers Too mucl
prosperity. There don't anyone hav'
to work out on a rainy day now in or
der to make living. What's tn
use?
The chi1dren's day program give
by the Presbyterian Sabbath schoo
last Sunday was exceptionally inter
esting. The church was Beautiful.
decorated with flowers and ferns ant
the little people did their parts well
The offering taken, which goes towars
the support and establishment of new
schools in remote or neglected places
of our land, amounted to over thirt,
dollars
| There are different ways of killing
rats but almost any way will do JUS
so you kill the rat. Henry Boxbergel
knew he was feeding bunch of rat,
around his barn so the other day hi
lined out his garden hose and turnet
a stream of water into the hole which
appeared to be the most in use- Th'
rats would not stay in the same ho1,
with the water and when they poket
their heads above ground Henry wal