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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1909
Page
4
Advertising rates are shown at cents per inch with display advertisements measured by time and space. Job work estimates are delivered except for 10 local customers. notices are repeated weekly, and entries are filed at the post office in Wickeney Kansas. Established March 2, 1879. Saturday, Aug. 7, 109.
Mrs J Deitrich is very ill. Elmer Tilton buys the telephone line. Harrison visited Wa-Keeney Tuesday. Acre and family spent Sunday with Mr Siever. Price’s sister from Kansas City visiting. Harry Reid family with Cass family Sunday. Interest in restaurant attraction for Charley Brown. Walsh families at York home Sunday. Threshing machines active locally. School meeting Saturday. Mrs Acre elected clerk. Hickman visits with Beb Glenn. Collyer song titled Every man who passes by stops in. Mrs Griggs and daughter Nina recovering. Edith Seath and Irene Acre to teach next year. Locals Guschewsky, Mlinek, Acre, Kessler couple trip to San Louis Valley. Chas King’s auto mentioned with wide berth. Birthday party honored Joe Razank. gifts of dolls, knives, mugs, lemon squeezer. Drs Jones & Herrick offer eye tests and glasses. Lemar visits C C McKune. Mrs Gould and Flossie Sryder visited Hoobler. Cliff Baker buying fat cattle from HL Schneider and W Genisch. Orevy Lions host ice cream party. Ice cream social at Wm Barber’s. Bessie Rogers to attend Odessa Missouri winter school. Charlie Rogers also. Clark Rogers to teach at Fort Collins Nebraska. noted as successful. C G C McKune marked 45th birthday with dinner. rocking chair and spectacles given.
Hawley Smith visited at MV while Pete Schneider plows for Joseph Jackson. Farmers are busy plowing and putting up feed. Charley Chants cuts millet for M V Smith and son. N J Squires plans a trip to Nebraska to look at land. Misses Anna and Ida Haug visited C F Folker. A baby girl arrived at Mr and Mrs Lee Miller. Mesdames H J Hoobler and F.
The Nebraska Kansas and Southern Railway Company is securing deeds for its right of way in Finney Hodgeman and Ness counties. A F McCarty leads the effort with O L Lennon assisting. Six and a half miles of track exist at Garden City and work continues on section two near the Pawnee valley. The project relies on donated land, bank financing, and a foreign bond syndicate’s involvement.
A rural notice advises farmers to combat summer cow flies with a Kansas station recipe using two cakes of laundry soap dissolved in warm water. Add 112 pounds of raisin, half a pint of fish oil, water to three gallons, and half a pint of kerosene when ready to use. Apply to each cow with a brush or spray pump about three times weekly until the hair coats with raisin.
An advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a permanent cure for back pain tied to kidney issues. A Wa-Keeney user claims relief after two months with no recurrence. Also promotes Doan's Ointment for itching piles, bleeding, or protrusion with nationwide availability.
A quoted admonition urges residents to move if unhappy but warns against abandoning their community while still a part of it. The speaker appeals to common sense and decency and references Elbert Hubbard as the source of the quote.
During summer months children are prone to bowel disorders and should receive careful attention. As soon as looseness of the bowels is noticed Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy should be given. It costs only 25 cents a bottle and is economical to keep on hand. Obtain a bottle today.
The Courier Journal reports a well known Louisville woman famed for speaking without thought. Her daughter entertains a young man on the front porch while a neighbor chats at the fence. A baby girl a year old nearby tries to walk as the mother criticizes early walking. The young man shifts topic to the weather.
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