Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-05-06

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Bruce Acre was up from Ellis last
Friday visiting with home folks
Mr.. and Mrs w. H. Wright were
visiting at Smith Center the last of +,
/ the week +,
The spell seems to have been
broken Sunday passed without a rain
and the day was decidedly pleasant.
e. A. Courtney has been at Blaine,
Kansas, during the last two weeks
running store for A III. Kruger.
Joe Acre, deputy internal revenue
collector, here. the last of the +
] week on business and visited with
folks.
i C. j. Wiebke arrived in Wa-Keeney
from Kansas City Tuesday morning
and is expecting to remain here again
this summer and work at the carpen-
i tiers trade.
i The hooking birds have arrived /
from the south and it is not probable |
there will be any more frost or
i freezes this year. It is probably safe |
to plant your ban crop now
q Don't forget that Guy DeBoer will |
! have enough plants in the hot bed at
the Ice Plant-tomatoes, cabbage,
peppers, sweet potatoes, caulifower,
eggs plants, pansy and aster plants.
) Adv. 4 ST.
) Ray c. Hail. of Ellis, the Delco-
8 Light dealer for this district, informs
US that the raise in the price of Delcc
Light plants which scheduled to
5 be effective at this time, has been de-
3 ferred and will not take place until
9 May 31st. Those ordering plants now
3 will get them at the old price.
3 A large number of Wa-Keeney peo-
3 pie and the people of this vicinity
Z. IL.
= tend the music festival. Several auto
: parties were down Sunday to hear the
& rendering of @'The Creation" The de-
G gree of satisfaction of the crowd
3 varied according to the individual
3 musical ability and training.
81 The weather has been cold and
& backward this spring but nevertheless
the report comes from all parts of the
3 county that the growing wheat crop
g is doing fine. In fact, it seems to take
& cool weather for the wheat to do its
8 best The spring pasture furnished
: by the wheat is first class and stock
& and milk cows are doing as well as it
q is possible for them to do.
3 The closing out sale of the E. A
q Courtney stock of general merchan-
g Idise which was purchased the first OF
9 the month by A. H. Kruger, Oh
Luray, was finished up 1astSaturcay
9 night and the goods remaining un.
g sold were packed up and shipped out
4 by Mr.. Kruger Monday. The build
3 ing in which the stock was located is
g vacant at present but we understand
8 will soon be occupied by another lin.
3 of business.
Il Wednesday morning, Grant Wagon
& er, who driving his Ford along
G the street south of the Mercantile, has
8 the misfortune of running into CA
when attempting to clear another cal
z which was passing him. His four yea
G old son, Berne, who was in the ca.
3 with Grant was thrown against tn
9 Windshield and received bad cut OF
g his forehead. He was immediatel,
taken to DR.. Kidd's office where sew
3 eral stitches were taken in the Gu.
& but not before great loss of blood
9 Ellis Headlight.
G G. c. Mango1d has the management
8 of string of six harness horses whic
3 are being broke and worked out at tn
& / Trego County Fair. grounds, prepare
G tory to getting them in shape for tn
3 races next fall. Mr. Mangould
Z planning on entering his own mare i
O some of the faster and larger race.
8 She has cleaned up on everything i
3 this part of Kansas at all the race
& which have been held during the las
G few years. She is in excellent cor
dItIon this year and will likely max
her top record In this bunch of driy
& ers is a handsome young mare, a hal
sister OF the Mangould mare, whic
IS working out in fine shape and wi
enter the races for her first time ne1
6 fall She belongs to L. S. MyerIy
The richest man ever knew didn
& have much of his wealth in a banl
s Neither did he have it in houses an
6 lands His wealth didn't consist {
z gold He had just enough to keep til
wolf from the door. His wealth
z banked in his mind-for he was abs
9 lutely contented- "Why don't 70