05 Jan 1907
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1907
Page
1
Community notes report sales and offerings including head of cattle for sale at 300 dollars per herd as well as flour and Bran items. Local residents like J D W Cloud Bran and Bardman Lumber Co advertise goods while others recount New Year visits and social events in Hays and Colby Kansas with numerous personal notices and a dance at Jones hall.
Miss Helen Morgan visits local friends while Lula Phares and Mrs. Kulp share Christmas with relatives. Colorado coal train by Ross and Waldo expected Saturday or Monday. A literary society meeting between Christmas and New Years set attendance records. Tom Hinshaw and crew plaster C Vetter's house Monday. Several residents spent Christmas with family in Topeka Mendota and nearby towns. Baker University student Ellis Brown spent the holidays at home. District No 10 held a large Christmas rede with an interesting program and gifts for many.
Gold and frosty days as J Bickler tours Wa Keeney on business. Larrabee family plans and visits across Ness county. Miss Hall hosts Miss Martin and Miss Homes with Gordon Miller as guests. New Year greetings, a big sale announced, cattle trades, and local schooling visits mark community life in Bosna and surrounding areas.
The eastern district reports mild winter weather and a string of social updates. Readers note several health items including mumps cases in the east end and tonsillitis for Mrs. Envel Christenson, with community mentions of farm activities, livestock sales in Hays City, a new house addition for Chas Wheeler, and Christmas gatherings at the Carltons.
New Year greetings mark a gloomy day yet townspeople enjoy shopping Saturday. Mrs Annie Thiel visited Mrs Fred Hickman. Dr Lacerte made calls after John Manzer’s incident. Teachers resume Monday after four weeks. Several attended a Grainfield dance. The Gh an Sisters and Miss Lacerts visited Fred Schwanbeck's. Nasale Gloss returns to Wa-Ke-nay to teach Monday. Norman Redmond and family move back to Trego from Troeka. Youths take mud-time fun with balls. adults note the weather.
Local social notes recount a January anniversary gathering for MPC.0 Hickman and friends hosted at Hinstiare, with gifts and music, and heartfelt thanks to hosts. The piece also shares lodge resolutions for Leonard Schmitt and poetic reflections on farming life and dietetics alongside a sketched chatty exchange.
Government thermometer records week’s max and min temperatures with a total rainfall and melted snow of one inch. 1906 precipitation reached 22.62 inches, nine tenths from April to October. July tops that period. note Nat M Brigham, Harvard graduate of 1880, as an entertainer.
A fragment discusses a people's lobby and criticizes lay participation in lawmaking, suggesting legislators should write their own bills with expert help. It also quotes Horace Greely praising the farm as the best investment for a farmer's family and youth.
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