Fourth Annual Field Meet at Ogallah Kans Labor Day
The Fourth Annual Field Meet at Ogallah Kansas on Labor Day September 4 offers a full day of events starting at 10:00 AM with music by Ellis band and a Live Stock Show with prizes for cattle and horses, grain and produce contests, a baby show, auto parade, dinner, field sports, and a baseball game. Local organizers include S. B. Harvey J. W. Blake ly and C. H. Benson with judges K. J. Turner Walter Hillman and Chris Marquand. The day features roadster and draft horse sweeps, egg and nail driving contests, and trophies from Tawney Reeves MacDonald Drug Co Ogallah Harness Shop and other sponsors. A report from prior days notes strong Western Kansas crops and growing farm activity in the area.
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Ellis Band
Harvey
J. W. Blakely
C. H. Benson
Ogallal Elevator
Fred Harrison
Continental Creamery Co
N. H. Hendricks
Tawney & Smith
Hendricks & Lindberg
MacDonald Drug Co
K. J. Turner
Walter Hillman
Chis
Marquand
Tawney & Reeves
Ogailah State Bank
Marquand Bros
Harper Restaurant
RB. A. Samuels
Tess
Waldo
Ogallah Harness Shop
T. Binder
Royal Live Stock Show building advances in Kansas City
Work speeds forward on a new brick or concrete structure at the Kansas City Stock Yards to house the American Royal Live Stock show sheep swine poultry and horse and mule sections. The 286 by 472 foot building will hold about 25000 head and include a fire wall stall room lunch room and metal fencing with hay racks and water troughs. It will be among the largest show places under one roof in the country and hosts the October 9 to 14 event.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Panhandle
Eye Ear Nose Throat Specialist Visits Town
Dr. M. J. Brown of Salina will be at the American House on Tuesday September 12 and Ellis on September 13 to treat medical and surgical eye ear nose and throat diseases and fit glasses scientifically Money Money Money Come see us at the Wa Keeney State Bank to arrange visits.
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Salina
Ellis
Wa-Keeney State Bank
Prairie hay price drop noted by Topeka market
Walter Osborn delivered a load of prairie hay to the Topeka market at 1.00 per ton, $22.60 total. Neighbors previously fetched $3.00 per ton for similar loads, illustrating market supply and demand effects noted by Hoyt Sentinel. Henry Whites runs a Ford in a Lincoln livery, completing a Hutchinson trip in about 23 hours despite rain and heavy mud.
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Walter Osborn
Ford
Hutchinson
Lincoln
Bliswater
Lincoln Republican
Ponds and exemptions under a 1912 irrigation law differ by size
The published statutes define two pond sizes two and four acre feet and two kinds earth and stone cement brick. Exemptions vary by type and capacity with earth one hundred dollars and stone or concrete two hundred for acre feet. three ponds per quarter section. For four acre feet earth two hundred, stone three hundred. up to five such ponds per quarter section. Ponds require survey at county expense and may be built in three to ten days depending on soil and dam height. Drainage pipes or siphons are optional. portable and usable for several ponds. Ponds must be maintained all year and completed by March 1, 1912 for maximum benefit.
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H. Harlan
Trego County High School Opens and Exams Announced
Trego County High School will open on Monday September 4 1911 Examinations for admission will be held in High School rooms Saturday August 26 1911 at 8 o'clock All prospective students who studied this summer to take the exam should be on hand promptly A fine attendance is promised Citizens of Wa Keeney with rooms to rent should notify the principal Personal inquiries and letters come daily about rooms board places to work for board Owens ice cream advertised as best quality at the O K 17
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Kansas
Trego County
E. B. Mathews
Hays
State Normal School
Visuer
State Normal Schools
State Normals
Western Normal
Munday
Wa Keeney
J. H. Niesley
The Thrifty Way to Wealth in Daily Labor
A Wichita Beacon excerpt extols thrift over shifting debt as the path to wealth. It contrasts thrifty earners who save and invest with spendthrifts who exhaust wages and incur debt, noting daily habits shape long term fortunes more than earned income. The piece references habitual spending tied to bank debt and the value of savings.
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Wichita Beacon
Russell rustlings and probate notes in Kansas headlines
A scattered column notes politicians in Atwood and possible governor bids by Senator Fred Robertson, plus speculation on Robert son’s political future. It also recounts a Kansas probate judge delaying fee hikes, a late health bulletin from the state board of health, and brief county health and water analyses including scarlet fever count and alcohol content in apple base cider.
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Dodge Ruppenthal
Leroy Berala
Fred Robertson
Atwood
Strom Hodges
Robertson
Congress
State Supreme Bench
State Board of Health
Russell County
W. J. Scott
Wallace County
Wa Keeney
Luray
Real Estate and Loan Notice in Garnett Kansas
Special notice for exchanges on farms ranches merchandise stocks income properties and livestock. Descriptive listing requested. 7 Holecomb Triplett Realty Co Garnett Kansas. Money to loan. See E D Wheeler.
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Holecomb—Triplett Realty Co
Garnett, Kans
E. D. Wheeler
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Ogallah
Kans
Labor Day
Wa-Keeney
Lars Hansen
Lyon
Helen Lyon
Willcox
Lyons
Trege County
O. Lyon
Fred W. Brandt
Plainville
M. J. Brown
Baker's
Owens
O. K
America
Wes Berrie Autos
Ang Mave
Tae Ford Witt
Butup Tasu
John W. Spena
Keeney, Kansas
Overland
Stafford
Weather Report
Mound City Paints
Verbeck. Lumber Co
Russell
Kansas County
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