Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-04-21
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

New car load OF Colorado SpudS at
the Farmers Union Store adv 7-2s-
Mrs Spitsnaugle, of Collyer. was
shopping here yesterday between
trains.
Mr. and Mrs Clarence CONFESS
made business trip to Ellis Wednes-
day.
Lost-Gold wrist watch and wrist
band Letter cur engraved on back.
Finder leave at this office. adv.S-H
A11is Chalmer dealer for Trego
county is F. H Mussemann, WaKee-
ney- Pulls four bottom 1Sx3O pillow.
w. II. Berger, of the Berger Mer-
camille Company of Collyer, was
transacting business here Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. E. Keraus went
down to Salina Sunday on a business
and pleasure trip returning home
Tuesday.
Tracts of five acres and up to forty
acres, less than one mile from main
street, WaKeeney, at 500 per acre.
Inquire of G. L. Barger. adv.-1tp-
The ladies of the Baptist church
will serve a chicken pie dinner in the
sheriff's office at the court house on
Tuesday, April Goth. All are invited
to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith, of Smith Cen
Ter, were mere 1ucSddy anu " eoucS-
day attending Presbytery- Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. G. G. Greenwood,
formerly of this city, are sisters.
Among the visitors from Hays who
were in WaKeeney Tuesday boosting
for the Music Festival week, Attor-
| ney E. A. Rea and Miss Agnew, of the
nomal faculty, were callers at The
World office.
Mrs. w. N. Larrabee and Mrs. H. C.
Johnson went down to Ellis Wednes-
day and visited a short time with
Grandma Williams. Mrs. Williams has
been in very poor health this winter
but at present her condition is some
what improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hutchinson ar
rived home from Illinois the last of
the week and while they are receiv-
ing the congratulations and best
| wishes of friends they are also set
Ting themselves in their new home
on Cakes street.
C. P. Hashman and Will Hocken-
smith arrived home Sunday from
a visit with home folks at Ottawa,
Kansas. Mrs. Hashman remained at
Ottawa for longer visit. They went
down by auto but did not return that
way on account of the bad roads.
Osterkamp has just received an
other shipment of mems clothing.
He is selling first class suits at from
fifteen to twenty-five dollars per suit.
They are a whole lot better quality
than you can get anywhere else at the
same price. See Osterkamp. adv.-1t
| A very interesting address the
| subject of christian Education" was
delivered in the Presbyterian church
last Sunday morning by D. c. Shat
ner, treasurer of the College of En-
poria the state Presbyterian college
| at Emporia, Kansas. Trego is one of
| the banner counties OF the state in
| point of number of its young people
! who are enrolled as students of that
| college.
| A recent letter from Sam f. Pea
cock contains the information that he
| is doing the Tuba1 Cain stunt in a
blacksmith shop in connection with a
| mine at Hilltop, Nevada. In other
words, he is tool sharpener for the
other workmen, at $3.50 per day. A
| number of miners have been laid off
| and a decline in wages will not come
as a surprise. The April storms are
| proving to be the worst of the winter.
The mail stage had missed one trip,
| the first failure of the whole winter.
A very serious accident happened
| last Friday afternoon in which Mrs.
1 Steve Nemechek and babe were so
| seriously burned that it was necessary
to take them to the hospital at Hays
for treatment. While pouring kero-
sene from a can into stove fire
the oil caught fire and caused the car
to explode throwing the burning oil
and fire all over the front of Mrs
Nemechek's clothing. She ran from
the house and her husband caught he1
and threw her into a watering tanl
and thus extinguished the flames
The babe was in the cradle in tn
house and while it received som
burns none of them were serious
Fortunately very little of the furni
ture or the walls of the house caugh
fire and it was not difficult to save tn
house from burning Mrs Nemeche
is very seriously burned but at presen