Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-10-21

Fox Big Special at Garden Theatre
Friday and Saturday nights Big
southwest border play. adv
Mr. and Mrs Chas- Sellers were in
Salina the first of the week attend
ing convention of the Standard Oil
Co. agents
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shumaker, of
the northeast part of Sheridan coun-s
ty, were here over Sunday visiting at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. l.. M Baker
and Mr. and Mrs. John r. Parsons.
Mrs Shumaker is sister of Mr.
Baker.
DR. Herrick reports that Fred
Hacker who has been at the Hays hos
pita1 for the last five weeks expects
to be well enough to. come home the
last of this week Mrs. Frank Nc
Call came home from the hospital
Wednesday after having been there a
couple of weeks on account of I1er-
vous breakdown.
| The long dry spell of weather has at
| last been broken. Rain cmmenced
| to fall early this morning and has con-
] tinued throughout the forenoon. How
| long it will last we cannot tell but at
| present writing least two inches of
| water has fallen. It came slow and
easy and viii be a great benefit to the
growing wheat crop.
At present there is no work being
done in the Trego county oil field
north of CoIyer. There is trouble ex-
listing between the members OF the
company which has been doing the
work and operations have stopped I'M
til such time as the wrinkles can be
ironed out. Just how long that viii
be we cannot say All of the members
of the company with whom we have
talked are of the opinion that tn,
work will be continued by some one.
Just received a car load of fin
hand picked Johnathans. Selling a
1925 per heaping bushe1 basket
Good eating spuds for $500 per bu
They cook fine. One car pears, on
car Ben Davis apples, one car Be
\ Davis and Gano and enc car Ne,
York Baldwin & Greening apples
We will give general phone call whe
! they arrive. Watch this paper for on
announcements.
RIGGS & CARROLL,
At Blue Front. Phone 10 E
Mrs. Cora Shaw and daughter, Mis-
Edith, went down to Ellis Tuesda
where DIR. Kidd made an exray ez
animation of Miss Edith's knee whic
was injured about three weeks ago b
! a fall The examination revea1e
a fracture of the bone in the knee cal
1t was decided necessary to place tn
! limb in a plaster paris cast and tn
| doctors orders are that Miss Edit
remain quiet for about two week.
This comes at an unfortunate time a
she is the Republican candidate flo
register of deeds and had intended t
| visit the voters in the county durin
this time. However, she hopes to re
ceive their hearty support at the elet
ton on November End just the sam
Mention was made in The Wor]
last week of an automobile which ha
been stolen from the Fred Smith ga.
age at Oga11ah. Cards were sent OF
advertising it and as a result the ca
was identified at Hugo, Colo. and hs
been returned to its owner. 1t seen
that four men were implicated in tt
theft. Near Hugo they had entered
house and had stolen articles from
and after being apprehended ON tt
charge of burglary the authorize
made further investigation and four
them in possession of the stolen ca
The articles they had stolen in Col,
RADIO were returned to the owner ar
the authorities were willing to releas
the nen to Sheriff DeBoer of tn
county, but they refused to return
this county without requisite
papers. Mr.. DeBoer went to Topek
and from there to Denver on tt
requisitson and expects to return hon
the last of this week