Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-15
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

night Tor ms nome at casper, WyO
J. A Huffman went down to Dor |
rance this morning a business |
trip.
C. G. Ropp returned Monday morn
ing from Rossville, Kansas, where he
| visited with his parents and other rel
atives.
Mr. and Mrs c. l. Hardman are
in Topeka on a combined business and
| pleasure trip
Ed Rufner arrived home last
Thursday from the hospital at To-
peka where he had been for about a
| month.
Mr. and Mrs J. R. Parsons and
family visited last Sunday at the
home of Mrs. Parsons parents IN
Cove county.
| A license was issued Tuesday auth
orizing the marriage of Mr.. Francis
P Scheck and Miss Mabel Irene
Macklin. both of Collyer, Kansas
| For Sale-Good three room house
and two fifty foot lots, three blocks
west of Trego County Bank, electric
light Price $500 Phone 1O2 or in
| quire of this office. Adv. Aft.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Carper and son,
/ of Lincoln, Nebraska, are visiting at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs w A.
Rhoden, southeast of Wa-Keeney- Mr..
/ Carper is a brother of Mrs. Rhoden.
Miss Beatrice Arnold, who won the
prize cow and calf given away by the
Cash Produce Co, requests the World
to express her thanks to all those
| prize.
E. 4. Courntey, The Rogers Cloth
ing Co, and the Farmers Union
store are each offering something of
special interest to their patrons in
their advertisements this weak Be
sure &c read them.
Rev. T. J. Nixon, of Salina, visited
with friends and relatives here and
at Ogallah during the last week. He
also preached in the Methodist church
at Ogallah last Sunday. He return
ed home Monday morning.
r. R. McCurdy, of Ellis, was in Wa
| Keeney Monday and made arrange
nents for opening up a battery and
electric repairing shop in this city in
the Olson building formerly used by
the Blue Front implement store He
IS carrying an advertisement in this
issue.
Nh and Mrs. g. H Benson are Wis
ting with relatives in Topeka this
attending a meeting of the state agri-
cultural board of which he is a mem
Der G. L. Hays is looking after bus
mess at the county clerks office while
MI. Benson is away.
The T. c. H. S. basket ball team
went down to Ellis last Friday even
ing to play a game with the Ellis
game for them this season but the
boys failed to win it. The boys say
bic players the Ellis team whic h
cave quite advantage in their
favor.
b E Grimm, who used to be a
Treeo county resident, writes US from
| Ohio, that he has nine oil wells in
| opera ton on his farm and his royalty
| IS 1925 90 per week and he has made
leases fo! twenty-five more wells, SO
| # that Will plan out he will soon have
$500 per week as an income. This is
almost as good as Trego County
| wheat fields.
The World is finding it pretty hard
| to 31Onnr NV Oy,Ix, CT
pages of home print when we ought
to be printing eight pages As soor
house that will guarantee to furnish
US each week with a sufficient amount
of paper for printing The World, we
will cut out the patents and go bacl
to home print.
The families under quarantine fol
small pox are: Joe Reddig, Mrs
Sarah Reddig and Paul, Irve Clevin
ger. s. e Campbell, F. NJ Munso1
ton is being used to prevent tn,
spread of the disease. The homes
have been placarded and it is no
necessary for anyone to unknowing1,
expose themselves to the disease.
Sixteen ladies of Wa-Keeney en-
Joyed a very pleasant afternoon Wed
nesday at the country home of Mrs
at the game of Five Hundred. A two
course luncheon was served In tn
evening Miss Alma Courtney an
MISS bessie IdITaD00, VINO are stay
ing with Mrs. Larrabee this week en-
tertained six of their lady friends 70
the evening.
About thirty-five ex-service me
and members of the American Legio
attended church in body at the Bar
list church last Sunday evening. !
special musical program had been al
ranged and the sermon preached b
the Rev Naylor was especially ar
propriate to the occasion and to tn
soldier boys 1t was very interest
ing service and was attended by
large audience.
During the last ten days D. I
Kruas, at the Wa-keeney Hardwar
Store has been as busy as anyon
could be. He has bunch of carper
tiers at work on the building both u
stairs and down, and as a result {
their labor the upper part of tn
building is fitted up in modern styl
for living and Store roo,