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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1901
Page
4
Local notice states laundry service drops on Tuesday and advises customers to leave packages at AMERICAN HOUSE for pickup or delivery. The instruction emphasizes timing and designated drop location.
Local diary notes M A Gupton, an Osborne dentist, will hold painless extractions and satin faction in Wa Keeney Monday December 9. The item also recounts a quarrel in Gove County between Quinter youths at a dance and a hostile exchange with the Gove County Advocate, condemning a rival editor as a “yellow sheet” and a “donkey.”
An ordinance prohibits reading, bartering, or selling on public streets in Wa Keeney Kansas without paying $2 per day for a license from the city clerk. The text references fines and includes fragmented census and school data, noting organized districts, population, enrollment, teachers, salaries, and indebtedness figures.
Month end reports from District No. 21 show 18 teaching days, 20 enrolled, 17.74 average daily attendance, with several students listed as neither absent nor tardy. Additional notes include a country sale offering heifers in calf by Polled-Angus and white faces, plus 500 bushels of six row seed barley for private sale. Also advertisement for Kansas Farmer subscription and cottage organs offered by C J Ferris.
The sixth annual Golden Belt session met in Wa-Keeney on November 20 with broad attendance. Resolutions praised prosperity and public schools, urged better funding, facilities, and teacher pay, and called for broader civic knowledge to safeguard the republic. They urged teacher organizations to push reforms, criticized inferior textbooks, and thanked local officials and contributors for hospitality and music.
December 22 at 1 30 pm program includes music, roll call, secretary’s report, and talks on teaching reading in public schools by R W Blakeley Chapters 5 6 7 8. review of Civic Education by W C P Rhoades. history of education pages 86 to dt. Paper The Golden Delta Association T A Bailey. Twenty minute limit. Smoked hams at Bakers. Subscribe for the Warp.
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