Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-02-05
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

sacted business at Hays Tuesday
Mr. and Mrs Chris Rohn, from
south of town, went down to Hays
this morning
For Sa1e-High grade, nearly
| white, holstein male calf, one week
old. J. W. Bingham. Adv.
Judge I. T. Purcell is holding court
this week at Hays The next regular
term for Trego county is scheduled to
open on February 10TH
County Clerk, c. H. Benson went
| down to Topeka Tuesday night for the
purpose of attending the meeting of
| the state tax commission.
/ MI and Mrs. D. E. CIPHER arrived
| home Tuesday night from Pratt, Kan
sas, where they had been visiting at
the home of Mr. Cypher's sister.
Judge l. T. Purcell is at Hays this
week holding the regular term of dis
trict court. The next regular term for
| Trego county is due to open February
/ 10Th
The Rev. J. D. Kelly, of Sa1ina,
| secretary of the Kansas Baptist Asso-
| citation, who filled the Baptist pulpit
here for several weeks last year. is
in this city today.
Mrs. Bertha Martin, who has been
| working as one of the centrals on the
| Wa-Keeney exchange, left Wednes-
day for Delphos, Kansas, where she
takes another similar position at a
higher salary.
! The Rev. Heiser, the new pastor of
| the Presbyterian church, is expected
to arrive here with his family next
| week and, if so, will hold his first ser
vices at the church Sunday, February
/ 18th.
The ladies of the Woman's Mission
airy society of the Presbyterian
church who served the lunches and
handled the cooked food sale at
Kelly's store last Saturday are verv
well pleased with the results. The
/ net proceeds were about S44
/ Grandma Swiggett and daughter.
Miss Margaret, arrived home We'd
nesday night from their visit in IN
diana. Mrs. Swiggett stood the trip
nicely and is glad to be at home
again, but had very pleasant visit
aside from the death of her sister
which occurred in December
The most of our citizens are feeling
that the better way to do at present
is to stay at home and avoid travelling
on the train Hence, there is a derth
OF local news this week. The news
papers can stand it once or twice if
1t will prevent the spread of the dis
ease and save the editor from writing
obituaries
The season of public sales is lust
opening and during the next month or
SIX weeks there are going to be a
good many of them. The large cir
culation of the Western Kansas
; World throughout this county makes
it the ideal advertising medium for
public sales Those who are going to
have sales will make money by turn
) ing the advertising over to The
World.
Last Thursday evening was red
letter event in the life of the mem
bers of Wa-Keeney camp of Boy
Scouts big chicken supper and
general good time was arranged and
pulled off for them at the dining room
of the Methodist church Following
the supper the program consisted OF
several very interesting talks by Older
citizens of Wa-Keeney who are inter.
3 ested in the Boy Scout work
3 The shrubs, the trees, the sidewalks
Z and the whole earth in this vicinity
5 was covered with coating of ice thi
morning a quarter of an inch thicl
& and it was both dangerous and Difficult
to get around The only persons VIII
5 were really enjoying life were tn
youngsters who were speeding aroun
on ice skates AS they go skiddino b,
we older fellows can realize the in
ward feeling of the poet when he ex
r claimed "Oh, happy years; one
more who would not be a boy"
Two very sad deaths of the mothe
of the family have occurred in thi
county this week from the effects c
the influenza epidemic which is no,
raging in this state. Those deaths ar
. that of Mrs Alph Parsons, near Vod.
: and Mrs Chas- Lofstead, in Oga1la
: township We are informed thu
u practically all of the other member
It of these families are sick from tn
N disease Mr. Parsons and his thre
"a children are all belfast and Mr. Pal