Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-10-07
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS


was transacting business here Mon
day
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy LaRue are IN
Wichita this week visiting at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Bacon and also
taking in the big grain show.
Two car loads of good hogs were
purchased in WaKeeney Monday by
the Trego Co. Coop. Assn The top
price paid was $3.50 per hundred
The Rev. J, A. Malmgren, Of OgaE
lah, was transacting business in Wa
Keeney Monday forenoon and will
here after get The World as one of
our regular subscribers.
Fred Naimon arrived home Sunday
night from Waconda Springs, Kansas,
where he has spent the last few weeks
taking treatment He is somewhat
improved in health but not able to do
any work.
The personal property belonging to
the late Mrs. Kessler, northwest of
WaKeeney, is to be. sold at public
auction on the farm four miles north
and four miles west of WaKeeney to-
day
E. E. Beougher is remodeIing his
home in the south part of town and
when it is completed will have a real
home.-Grinne1 Record. Mrs. Beough-
er will be remembered by WaKeeney
people as Miss Emma Courtney
A short time ago threshing rigs
were being shipped into this country
and now that the threshing season is
over some of them are being shipped
out again. The most of the outfits
have had a very successful threshing
season.
Lee Palmer left Monday night for
Orchard, Colo, where he expects to
spend the next several months Dur
ing the trapping season he will devote
his time to catching the fur bearing
animals he has been doing for the
last several years.
E. A. Courtney arrived home Sun
day morning from Longmont, Colo
RADIO, where he had been conducting
special sale of merchandise. He is
working under the T. K. Kelly Sales
System and left the first of the week
for Milburn, Oklahoma, where he will
conduct another sale.
According to reports the most of
the farmers got their feed crop cut
before the freeze last week The ex-
ceptional1y late fall allowed the kafir
and feterita to mature so that if it
was not cut before the freeze it VIII
make a good seed crop and can be
put up into siIos.
A pretty. young school teacher who
had a school near Larned, inaugrated
new cure for hardness recently
She offered kiss to the first arrival
each morning. At five O'clock, three
young men were seen roosting on the
fence 81 a hn of he
school and two directors had put in an
appearance--LeRoy Reporter.
After having purchased the neces-
sary high priced machinery and paid
the high wages for harvesting and
threshing the farmer is told that he
must take big slump in the price of
his wheat and cron. The farmers
ought to join the union and work just
eight hours a day for two or three
years and see if he could then make
as much as the average BRIDESMAID
Hill City Republican.
Artificial legs may be put to vari-
Gus uses other than walking The
federal authorities arrested a man
who had been carrying bullion away
from the Denver mint in the hollow
of his artificial leg. A man in Okla
homa is reported to have used his arti-
fetal leg as container for booze
| which he pedd1ed- A travelling man
made use of his false leg to win ten
dollars On cold day he bet his
driver that he could hold his leg out
of the car longer than the driver
could The cork leg won the bet
Exchange.
The announcement of J. M Rinker
as candidate for representative on
the Democrat ticket from this county
appears in The World. Mr.. Rinker is
one of the early settlers of this county
and Is one of the most successful
wheat growers. He first located on
what is known as the Harmon ranch
when he came to this county where he
engaged in the cattle business. He
afterward moved to the farm east of
WaKeeney which has been his home
for MANY wears and Sinco