Moore Brothers Funeral Pages Honor World War I Heroes
The WaKeeney service honored Eddie and Day Moore with Masonic and military burial. Born in WaKeeney and killed in the Argonne in 1918, they served in Company M 137 Infantry and Company L 140th Infantry. Relatives in California and Kansas attended as townspeople and Legion members paid tribute with 21-gun salute and taps.
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American Legion
Moore Brothers
Eddie
Day
WaKeeney
France
Argonme Forest
Flanders Field
Wa Keeney Lodge A. F. & A. M
Sargeant Abernathy
Camp Grant
S. J. Straw
Court House
Masonic Order
American Legions
Samies
Neil Ufford Earl Campbell
Albert Acre
Legion Boys
Ufford
Acre
Moore
Trego County
S. L. Allison
W. ER. Woodward
Allison
Presbyterian Church
Woodward
Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church Evening Services
A note from Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church invites all to Sunday evening prayer and sermon at 8 p m until further notice. The text contrasts shrinking use of published cards of thanks with the modern custom of bereaved families sending personal acknowledgments.
Obituary for Mrs Harriet Street in classic regional obituary
On August 6, 1921 Mrs Harriet Street wife of C W F Street died at Long Beach California from heart trouble caused by arteriosclerosis. She was among early settlers of Trego county and Wakeeney. She and husband lived in Parsons Kansas Fullerton California and finally Anaheim California. She leaves five children seven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral in Fullerton burial in Anaheim. The World extends sympathy to the bereaved.
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Harriet Street
C. W. F. Street
Long Beach
California
Ford Garage
Parsons
Kansas
Hays
Fullerton
Calif
Cora Shaw
This City
F. D. Street
McPherson
J. Sipple
Parson
Carrie Metz
Charles Street
Kansas City
John Rasek
Notice to Keene residents on student housing needs
Citizens of Wa Keeneey seek hosts for high school students needing room and board and light housekeeping spaces. Bruce Acre delivered Mrs. Acre from Palco on Sunday. they occupy a cottage previously used by Olig Braddy and his sister. Jock Gordon attended Sunday tram and funeral for Eddie and Day Moore.
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Bruce Acre
Palco
Mrs. Acre
Olig Braddy
Jock Gordon
Eddie
Day Moore
Trego County Fair bids and plans for western Kansas event
The Trego County Fair runs September 6 to 9 with prizes for displays of grain, vegetables, fruit, and livestock. Readers are urged to contribute items for exhibit and to recruit others as volunteers. Attractions include free acts by the O Connor Sisters and Kos sack riding, plus McClellan Carnival and Karl Simpson’s Comedians. The Union Pacific Highway is praised as a key regional route with historic significance.
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Trego County
Kansas
O'Connor Sisters
McClellan Carnival Company
Karl Simpson
Camp meeting moves to Ransom after long Trego run
The 1921 Central Kansas Holiness camp meeting closed at the WeKeeney fairgrounds with strong attendance, especially from out of town. After years at Wa Keeney, a committee resolved to thank the Trego County Fair Association for five years of free fairground use and to hold future camp meetings in Ransom.
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Central Kansas
Felows
Trego County
City fire district signaling by whistle code
Fire chief outlines a whistle system at the power plant to locate fires by district. A long siren followed by one two or three short whistles designates city areas south of the railroad, north of the track west of Franklin Street, or north of the track east of Franklin Street. Citizens report district when notifying central.
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W. B. Trimmer
Franklin Street
Court House Square
Oil in Trego County near Collyer reported strong find
Excitement grows over Walsh well No. 1 north of Collyer after oil sand was struck August 13. Work resumed after a week away as oil rose to the water line, owner W. M. McKnab notified and arrived. With hundreds of feet of water in the bore there is about three hundred feet of oil. testing will await water shutoff and casing work. Trego County seen as a proven oil field.
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Walsh Well
Collyer
Kansas
W. M. McKnab
Trego County
Walker Family Reunion At Estes Park And Loveland
A Walker family reunion in Estes Park on August 11 gathered six of nine siblings with relatives. Attendees included Belle Verbeck Nellie Huleatt Mary Connelly Elmer Huleatt H K Walker F B Walker Margaret W Bailey W B Walker and Aggie Laflin and others. Three pairs of twins appeared among the relatives. A second gathering occurred August 14 with morning church services and a meal at Lovelander hotel, after which some members planned eastward travel.
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Walker
Estes Park
Belle A. Verbeck
Long Beach
Calif
Nellie Huleatt
Mary Connelly
Loveland
Elmer Huleatt
Fort Morgan
Colo
H. K. Walker
Rock Island, DL
F. B. Walker
Wa Keney
Kans
Margaret W.bailey
Coal Valley
W. B. Walker
Manhattan
Kansas
Aggie Leflin
H. K
W. R. Walker
Ray Laflin
Aggie Laflin
Cole
First Presbyterian
Lovelander
Presbyterian Church Notes Sunday services announced
The regular Sabbath school and preaching will occur next Sunday morning with a sermon by Rev. S. L. Allison if he is able. Afternoon services will be at the Walker school house and all friends are invited to worship.
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S. L. Allison
Walker School House
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Edmund Ephriam Moore
Co. M. 137 Infantry
Co. L. 140Th Infantry
Thomas R
Nettie L. Moore
Lee Monroe
Topeka
D. A. Borah
Grinnell
Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church
Kansas City Star
W. W. Gibson
Rexall Stor
Rudolph Horak
Naimen
James Satran
Joe Vanek
Switlek
John Horak
James Nedji
Bednasek
Podlena
Wilson
Naiman
Trego County Fair
Union Pacific
Plains
State of
U. P
Westport
Missouri
Lawrence
Lecompton
Junction City
Fort Riley
Fort Hays
Fort Wallace
Colorado
Franklin E. Brooke
U. P. Highway Association
Missouri River
Denver
Winona News
WakKeeney
Svetoenia
ALKER
Presbyterian Church Notes
Margaret Swiggett
Leen
Wa Keeney
Wakeeney State Bank
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