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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1905
Page
4
Wa-Keeney Kansas items include a dog tax notice and city marshal enforcement, local business notices for seed and hardware, upcoming auctions, court and jury work, railroad damages settled, and community events like ice cream socials and church meetings. Notable names include W Beckman John Barclay Mr Potter D J Alsop L Caskey J T W Cloud R A Burns W E Scott and M Halvorsen with interstate travel mentions to Portland and Iowa.
Program notes a full day of events led by Rev F Campbell and state delegates. Activities include devotional exercises, reports from county officers, open conference, temperance work by Mrs Purinton, round table sessions, training for teachers, papers, and addresses by J H Bangle and Rev Everett, ending with a long service and devotional exercises led by Rev Erickson and state secretary Leiciaa.
Public notices outline township and city publishing duties for annual and quarterly financial statements. The piece notes editorials on sugar content of various regional girls, a census update, a July district meeting change, and local business posts about the Trego House renovations and a Kansas City trip.
Ogallah reports include a shed project by Samusis, E C Wald visiting, Lawson Bros delivering 1300 bushels of wheat at Ross and Waldos elevator, a medicine show and falling death rate, a petition to improve government corners, Dr Rush from Salina to be in Ogallah for three days starting June 13, town meeting scheduled, C C Vetter to retire as treasurer, dead cats reminder, cemetery lawn mower fund with Sears and Montgomery of Chicago contributing to the purchase.
Hot corn weather and promising wheat mark recent reporting from Big Creek. Community updates include Uncle Doris building a new house, Crosses visiting the hub, and Ellsworth ties via Robert Markell senior. Cars and tools traded as A P Teeters bought a Buckeye mower. Roads work eyed in Glencoe. Several travelers and settlers arrive in Ellis. Len Johnson sells a nearby farm for 913,000. Ellis Telephone line planning toward Mr Rich’s. Ex County Commissioner Halbleib sells land and buys a farm near Ellis. Jessie Taylor hosts a gathering at Mrs Shepherd’s.
The report notes a severe wind and hail storm hitting the area with extensive crop losses. Many farmers including J Finch, F Schwanbeck Sr, Gilbert Crocker, and Adolph Schwanbeck report total grain losses, often with little or no insurance. Several others suffer partial losses, damaged buildings, and stock losses across Plum Creek region.
The wind ripped the roof from M Bordovsky s stable and damaged his lumber shed and buggy. Val Malinosky lost his entire 150 acre crop. W D Austin narrowly escaped major loss as a corner of his wheat was hit though some hens were killed. Four inches of rain and a 30 minute hail storm swept the bail strip. Alfalfa is thriving and local farmers report busy plow work. A social and ice cream supper is planned at T Courtney s on June 14. Mrs Cornelia Steward, mother of Mrs A V Steinberger, died near Hoyt Kansas. funeral held after services in Topeka and Hoyt. The community extends sympathy.
Classified notices show a buyer seeking an 18 or 20 horsepower engine to plow on wages until paid, with rent guarantee in 80 days, for Wallace county. Contact G L Schantz Ontario Kansas. Also rental offer for farm land in Trego county and other local notices including a Sunday School convention in Collyer Kansas and ad teasers about Laxative BromoQuinine.
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