Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-07-08
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

Forrest Carpenter came in last
Thursday evening from Colorado to
take a hand in the harvest work on
his fathers farm northeast of town
Mrs Sarah Reddig went up to Col
orado Springs Saturday night where
she will visit at the home of her
dughter, Mrs. Parr, for a few weeks
Advertising is business necessity
1t is the most economical method of
distributing goods The don't ad-
vertise'' merchant must get larger
profits because his volume of business
is less.
The board of county commissioners
met in regular session Monday morn
ing but owing to the rush of harvest
work they finished up business in
short order and returned home to the
harvest field.
AS fine a string of channel catfish
as have ever been caught by hook and
line form the Saline river were
brought in Monday night by Cole
Inglis. They weighed from one to
three pounds.
WaKeeney presented an almost de-
serted appearance Monday morning
The farmers were all in the harvest
field and they had cleared the city of
the extra harvest ndnOS, AcICC Ci1SIC
were very few people in town.
| Miss Blanche Smith, bookkeeper at
the Verbeck Lumber & Supply Co.
| yard, went up to Denver last Satur-
day night where she will join Miss
| Elizabeth Mccall on an outing trip
to the pleasure resorts.
James Finch came in from Towner,
/ Colorado, Sunday night with a bunch
of the young men from that vicinity
| who are here for the harvest season
Jim says he is getting along all right
| in Colorado and that he will not re-
main here for the harvest.
Henry johnson came in Sunday
i night from Kansas City and is look
ing after the crop interests on his
farm southwest of town. He is now
located in Kansas City having recently
gone there from Topeka.
This vicinity visited by very
, heavy wind storm early Monday
; morning but it did not seem to cover
much of the surrounding territory nor
to do any damage to the crop. There
was quite a heavy shower of rain a
} few miles north of town.
U. S. Rucker came in Tuesday
morning from is home near Law
renee and is cutting his wheat crop
just east of town. He says the har-
vest season in eastern Kansas has
been a wet one with su1try weather
Monday was very pleasant day
5 Whether it is indicative of de-
: cline in prices or not but the local
merchants have been able to get p1en-
5 ty of sugar of late at the high price
1t may be that the big fellows are un-
; loading with the intention of letting
the price go down on the smaller deal
5 er.
81 Rev. Barkart left Sunday evening
} on a trip to Lincoln, Nebr. and Chi
cago, Ill At Lincoln he will visit with
8 his daughters and at Chicago he viii
3 visit with his sister and other rela-
} tives. He expects to be gone Over
5 next Sunday and there will be ne
3 preaching services at the Lutheran
church.
81 Mr. and Mrs. Mich Bach and family
: left Monday afternoon for Oakley
? where they spent the afternoon ant
evening with friends. There they
boarded train No. 1O3 for sixty da!
8 trip through the west their destina
Z ton being eastern Oregon. Walter
5 Bach is in charge of the section fol
the present for his father.
I'll The union services which were helC
| in the Baptist church last Sunday ev
s ening were attended by a good sizet
audience The sermon was preached
q by the Rev. Grant Mann of the Meth
. odist church. He used for his theme
.<The Spirit of America and preached
) | a patriotic sermon which was fl1e<
with excellent thought. The service.
next Sunday evening will be held il
, the Presbyterian church.
J. l. Morgan, west of town, me
with and accident Monday which vii
3 put him out of the heavy work O.
harvesting for the present, at least
While working with a header box t.
3 get it in shape to use, the thin.
slipped and fell back on j. L. break
ing a couple of bones in his 1ef
hand and throwing the left thumb on
of joint It is bunch of hard lucl
3 but he is making the best of it an