Municipal owned lighting urged for Wa-Keeney plan
A Kansas correspondent argues municipal ownership of an electric lighting plant offers lower costs and better service than private firms. He outlines AC 2200 V primary and 110 V secondary, Tungsten street lighting, and cost projections including 10c per kWh with lamp specifics. He notes savings from joint water works use and warns of private providers’ profit motives. Geo. P. Taylor signs the letter. A. V. Hixson recently traveled from Texas and praises western Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Peacock
Wa-Keeney
Kansas
Deak
K.W
Geo. P. Taylor
Wa-Keeney Local Notes and Rural Business
Local news item highlights include farm for rent, land deals, and multiple residents ill or traveling. Notes cover barn work, property sales, visiting relatives, and upcoming water works and electric light votes. Community events feature birthdays, visits, and local sales of hay and fodder.
Central Hotel Closes Indefinitely Due to Ill Health
Notice to patrons that the Central Hotel will close indefinitely after tonight Saturday July 24 with no more meals served. Regular boarders will receive sleeping accommodations until they can arrange elsewhere. Two visiting wrestlers staged a bogus match at Wilson's hall as part of a fraud, then fled town leaving the host and printer with losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Buss
Propritor Central Hotel
Trego House
Iowa
Kansas
Wilson’s Hall
Babee
Barbee
Keep Cool With Summer Goods At Low Prices
Hot weather prompts tips to stay cool and avoid heavy meals. Offers include cool India linens from 10 to 25 cents per yard, batistes, ginghams, silks at sale prices, dressy low shoes in tans wines oxbloods and blacks, summer hose, straw hats, lightweight suits, and oxfords for men at reduced rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batistes
Kansas Longing and Quiet Virtue Echo in Rural Tales
The piece juxtaposes nostalgia for Kansas with outcomes of migration to Oklahoma Colorado and Texas. It contrasts land longing with a quiet neighbor’s moral steadiness, praising modest piety and helpful conduct while hinting at eternal reward beyond this life.
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Kansas
Seneca Tribune
Oklahoma
Colorado
Texas
Memmory
Persia
Happy
Osborne County
Osborne Farmer
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A. V. Hixson
H. Long
C. L. Hardman
Roy F. Hammer
J. H. Acre
Edna Steele
Walter Parks
BP. W. Wheeler
Sterling, Lr
Gilbert Mathews
Banner
Olson
Steve Babbitt
Central Life
Beloit
L. Tatman
J. H. Courtney
Rocky Ford
Roy Blakely
Ogallah
Wa- Keeney
W. W. Gibson
Chas. Steinberger
J. W. Bush
Luray
G. L. Barger
J. J. Drummond
T. W. Bundy
Ladies’ Aid Society
W. H. Sommerville
Hattie Shaw
West Chicago
D. W. Keller
Gretchen
KF. A. Mechau
New Mexico
Sir
F. M. Epperly of
Ellsworth
Walter Swiggett
Herman Long
W. E. Crabill
Mr. Crabill
Nebraska
Wa Keeney
Poffenberger
E. F. Sullivan
Optician
American Hotel
Steinberger Ranch
Frank Motz
Hays
Frank
Lucy Courtright
Carthage
Lil
Katie Cowick
Wagoner
Okla
Julia Blair
Miss Cowick
R. Cowick
Frank Walker
Ellis
Osterkamp’s Mill
I. J. Deary
Dean
John Spena
Harry Reichard
Harry
John
Supreme Court
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