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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1909
Page
2
Jesse Hickman Welch a new boy joins the family while several residents announce visits, births, and celebrations. Randall Reed returns from Junction City. Miss Nina Briggs visits relatives. many attend services, politics, and social events. Pianos, autos, and new purchases feature amid weather and farm notes.
Henry Graham visited Banner friends Sunday. Thurman Phares spent Sunday with the Stradal Bros. Jim Zeman delivered fine porkers at Wa-Keeney Saturday. Frank Benisch of south Trego visited Philip Krhutis. Sunday Miss Barbara Kearney of Hays visited sister Mrs. Tom Spena. John Zeman first in locality to put up alfalfa. J. P. Burker hosted his brother from Marshall county last week.
John Morgan assisted J P Burker in granary construction last week. Misses Nina and Mary Neff Nellie Pearl and Elmer Pearl visited J Muosmerts Sunday. Children Day program planned at Big Creek Sunday School district No 22 on Sunday June 13. Everyone invited to attend and support the young in Sunday school efforts.
The piece details social visits in Banner and nearby Wa-Keeney, including Ray and Blanch Puriat with Roy and Pearl Wiles, the Todds dining with Hoopers, and Allen the Topeka dentist. It covers road repairs, planned Children’s Day services, Wa-Keeney’s praise, and Decoration Day events with J W Howes’ address to a large audience, the courthouse ceremony, and a silk flag presentation to veteran A J Johnson.
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