Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-01
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

Fresh pork at Bakers Adv. IT,
j. w Oliver of Perry, Kansas ar
rived here Tuesday morning to look
after bushes in connection with ms
farms in this county
Miss Lillian Ryan, linotype operator |
for The World, left last Friday night
for a week or ten days visit at the |
home of her parents at Wellsville, Kan
sas-
Mr. and Mrs. Jess McAtee and chill
dren of Ellsworth, arrived here Mon
day afternoon for a visit at the home
| of Mr. and Mrs. E. McAAtee, parents
of Jess.
Bryce Logan transacted business
and visited at La Crosse a few days
this week. He is arranging to open
| his jewelry business there the first of
September.
/ Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. w r. Walker
and children left last Friday for their
home at Manhattan after having been
here for week visiting and transact
ing business
Next Monday will be celebrated in
Russell as Labor Day with a big home
coming picnic. The merchants have
published special advertisement COW
ering the day
Miss Eva Walker intends leaving
Saturday morning on her trip to En-
poria where she will resume her
studies at The College of Emporia.
Enroute she will stop at Concordia
and Manhattan 2
J.F. Poole VINO has been in the mer-
camille business at Grainfie1d for
many years, who was returning home
from Kansas City, stopped over in Wa
!, Keeney Monday and visited a few
e hours with Mr.. and Mrs. I. T. Purcell.
i According to item in the Hays
< papers the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
e Rea was almost completely destroyed
e by fire last week. Mr.. and Mrs. Rea
e were visiting at the home of their dau-
e ghter in Wisconsin at the time and the
+ origin of the fire is unknown.
g Mrs. /. T. Purcell is having a very
nice little five-room bungalow built or
their lots in the east part of Wa.
= Keeney, south of the railroad near the
o high school building. She expects tx
G also make other improvements on the
9 lots.
3 John Helget and Adam Riede1 Of
& the east side of the county were trans
g acting business here Saturday. They
8 We're interested in getting some roat
3 work done in that part of the county
g Mr. Riede1 will keep posted on county
3 affairs by reading the World.
= w D. Guilbert, who left this county
< several weeks ago for overland triI
g to California, writes that he has pur
8 chased small farm near Escondide
3 and fifteen miles from Oceanside. Ire
& go County friends hope he and Mrs
8 Guilbert will find a pleasant home il
q the west.
g Mr.. and Mr.. J. II. Hickman have
9 their new home on Easter avenue nea1
3 ly completed and have moved into i
z this week. This is a modern home il
g every respect and one of the incest il
3 the city. 1t is built of lyle and stucc,
3 with oak and bui1t-in furnishings an,
g finishings.
9 w. G. Moore from the south Treg
3 neighborhood is one of the new sub
g sribers to the The World. Mr. Moor
g and family are from Harvey count
3 but have lived in this county for tn
z last three years He has been raisin
G considerable wheat since coming her
3 and this year got sixteen bushels pc
3 acre from over one-hundred acres.
F. M. Munson, salesman for tn
3 territory for the Edison Phonograr
3 Co, is advertising a tone test to tai
g place at Collyer, Kansas, on Monda
9 evening, September 10Th. Miss He
en- hewitt and Miss Virginia Powe
. viii be the artists who take part
@g this test This will be the season
3 big attraction for Co1lyer and vicinit
& Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Walker al
G daughter, Miss Eva, and Mr.. and MI
3 j. w Bailey of Rock Island, Ill. a
Z rived here Monday night from Low
g land, Colo, where they had spent t.
3 last few weeks in the mountains MI
3 Bailey is a sister of Mr.. Walker ~
& and Mrs Bailey will visit here a she
6 time before leaving for their hon