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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
2
A columnist muses on common gains, vocabulary limits, and town improvement while noting the rising wages of railroad workers under government rule. The piece discusses soldier voters shaping future politics, postwar sentiment toward veterans, and the irony of homefront gladness contrasted with veterans’ joy, ending with a quip about brain food from fish and groats.
In a Kans a Legislature debate the author criticizes lawmakers who voted 33 000 for hogs cattle and bees while allotting only 7 000 for babies. The piece laments the priority gap and notes Dr DeVilbliss resignation over child health concerns. It also reports Miss Marie Gregg daughter of Dell Gregg of Morland township graduating from Trego County High School and teaching at Adair in northeast Trego county.
A scrapbook item from Kit Carson Herald details E. D. Wheeler visiting Wa Keeney Kansas, Clyde Cypher building a bungalow, foreman John Huggins, and S Herrick briefly taking money from a Gypsy woman. Hill City New Era reports two men found in a barn suspected of being crooks.
Various classified notices list for sale items and wants in Wa Keeney Kansas. Listings include 24 head of geldings and mares, Hereford bull calves, a McCormick header, four room cottages and houses, lost Liberty Bonds, and farm equipment. Also notices announce examinations for Normal Training and High School credits on June 6 7. Positions include WAITRESS WANTED at Way Cafe and Knife Weeders for crops. Names include Len G Johnson Lew H Galloway and A W Nelson.
Classified notice lists a wanted advertisement for a lady to work as a dishwasher at the Our Way Cafe. Also appears is an ad for a one-year-old registered Shorthorn bull for sale, described as red, with contact details in Ogallah Route 2 near Wa-Keeney, including phone 407.
Dr Pruitt s Sure Shot Lace Powder guarantees removal of all lice from young chicks in under two minutes or refunds money. Claims setting hens stay in nests when treated. Sold by Farmers Store.
Sealed bids will be accepted on the old school house of District No 5 to the highest bidder and removed by June 10 1919. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids by order of the Board H S Yewell Secretary Adv 1231.
One day mare about four years old with white face and a white spot on side. She left Stated address Wednesday April 15. Reward offered for information leading to recovery. Frank Atwood Ellis Kansas.
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