Collyer Community Roundup Steady New Year Notes
Collyer updates cover illness, new post office quarters, school resumes after holidays, and local events. Mrs. Brown ill, B Cass on sick list, Lizzie Spenn in Wa Keeney, Thiel family with Voda relatives, and plans for a new hall. Kids, bands, church renovations, and a Big Creek hall dance noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown Stills
B. Cass
Lizzie Spenn
Wa-Keeney
George Morell
Thiel
Collyer
D. B. Eisel
Tampa
Wynn
Kamilla Thiel
Ike
Hemerford
Lundr
Grinnell
Unday
Fred Gilbert
Big Greek Hall and community notes across Wa-Keeney area
Willie Papas visits Ellis home while Frank Zeman and family stop at Tague’s. Miss Carrie Stradal returns to Emporia duties and Annie Benisch goes back to Big Creek School. The district 37 teacher Ralph Parks is missing prompting a notice. Big Creek Hall holds annual meeting and extends interior with twenty extra feet. The town recalls a lively New Year dance and busy visits among local families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Papas
Ellis
Frank Zeman
Tague’s
Carrie Stradal
Emporia
Kaw
Ralph
Helen Henderson
Joe Papas
Tom Spena
Hillis
Mer
E. Knapp
Russell County
Mr. Brown
John Krhut
Russell
Ralph Parks
Big Creek Hall Association
Osborn Spitswaugle
John Stradal
John Zeman
Frank Stradal
Kansas
Kenyon
Bloody Run Rambles
Local notes describe social gatherings at the Cass and Elliott homes, New Year celebrations, and moves like B E Grim and family relocating to Wa-Keeney. A Christmas Day gathering in the Run is noted along with a buggy accident near a new road cut and a party visiting Lincoln county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Wa Keeney
B.E. Grim
Wa-Keeney
Riverside Cold Wave and Local Happenings Report
Riverside notes a cold wave on Tuesday and local activity includes Ness county residents threshing and shelling, a land visit to Scott county, and a December 29 1908 wedding in Greensburg between Miss Ethel Allman and Mr Roy Traylor. A prize fight between Frank Hays and Kay Miles drew a cautious crowd. referee E A Jewell supervised. Johnson quotes an Eclectric Oil testimonial from Hamburg New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoch
Ness County
Dick Zehn
Kishu Altman
Mr. Lennon
Ray Joseph
Chas B. Shinde
Scott County
Ethel Allman
Roy Traylor
J. W. Vanderlip
Traylor
Oklahoma City
Oklo
Greensburg
Kane
Frank Hays
Kay Miles
E. A. Jewell
Wedding Bells at the Allman Home
A wedding solemnized at Mr. and Mrs. John Allman home joined Miss Ethel Allman to Roy Traylor of Greensburg Kansas with Rev. J W Van derlip officiating The bridal party included Grace Allman and Elihu Allman The couple planned a return visit to Oklahoma City before settling in Greersburg Kansas The Brownell Courier notes the bride and groom’s families and the modest reception that followed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Allman
Ethel
Roy Traylor
Greensburg
Kansas
J. W. Vanderlip
Grace Allman
Elihu Allman
Traylor
Brownell and
Oklahoma City
Okla
Greersburg
Brownell
For Sale: 640 Acres near Ellis Kansas
For sale 640 acres of potato alfalfa and wheat land with fruit shade trees at the house and two springs. Property owned by W F Kine five miles west of Ellis Kansas. Also mentions Gleason Marshall belts and handbags and Baker’s pickled pork. Wa-Keeney loan option hinted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wa Keeney
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wa-Keeney Book Store
China
Teddy Bears
Kauffman
Smith & Barnes
MO. W. Glenn
Collyer, Kansas
Olney Music Company
Salina Kansas
Hays City
Osterkamp
Osterkamp’s Mill
Arch Larimer
Big Creek Hall
Sebastian Molsom
Morell School
Mesdames Mosier
LaCrosse
Hickman
Los Animas, Col
Mrs. J. Hickman, Sr
Mary Donovan
John Glenn
Yanktown
S. D
Riverside
Thomas
Nancy M. Hanson
Hamburg, N. Y
W. F. Kine
Ellis, Kas
Gleason & Marshall's
Anne of the Wa-Keeneyto Bank
Baker's
Trego County
Hardman Lumber
Wa-Keeney, Kansas
The
Wa-Keeney State Bank
Chester
Ahnivets
Bae Rack
Adam B. Mal
M. W. Mason
W. J. Wintiams
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