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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
4
Auction notice mentions Lorats and Mor Collections with prices in cents per item. References to Union Party, timing and location. Includes ambiguous names and places like Beehive and ABSA. No clear event outcome. archival OCR fragment limits clarity.
Local items report residents in Collyer socializing and visiting, construction activity, a frame house being built by Adam Ziegler, a late lumber price drop spurring new building, and several visits among neighbors. A church repairman from Kansas City plans return, a minor burglary is noted, and Corpus Christi procession coverage appears. Dean's Ointment advertises relief for itching and skin conditions.
Chronicle of Bloody Run notes letters and gossip about residents. Mentions Mrs Burkett breaking a limb and greeting sympathy, Carl Christensen starting a fence job at Hurry Ranch, and Gal loway family’s sympathy for others. Describes roadwork, telephone lines, improvised insulators from beer bottles, a rainbow sign, storm losses including grain, hogs, and tools, Grover Cleveland Hays’ harvest act on Hurry Ranch, and a Decoration Day ride with a repair mishap involving a bicycle stay.
A collection of short items from Willgox and nearby residents includes Larry Ely with a new bogey, Joe Haug moving to a new house last week, visits by Pearl Blacksome, Mrs. Milholland and John joining dinner at Fryes, J P Hazen getting a piano, Loyd and Agnes Stowe visiting Walter Doerschlag, and Ed Doerschlag’s family at Mr. McKune’s. Also mentions Anna Vanderlip and Haug at Gullett’s, a rain shower, a favorable crops outlook, attendance at the Sand Wall holiness convention, and an ad for Dean’s Regulats laxative for habitue constipation.
BCALLAR D. Arts owns land west of D Pershing for a quarter. Wheat shows strong improvement after rains. Joe Marqusad works at the hardware store for his brother. Westie Misses Bessid and Lacy Court. Jol Therseating Ocal, lah friends, after a year away on the coast. Mr. Tawney advances progress on a proposed rural line south. M. F P Holmstrom rents C C Vetter house formerly Nelson. Ross & Waldo tear down elevator to build a modern large elevator and implement house.
Miss Grace Holmes returns home. J Stettler bought a separator. Chas Chance visited Wa Kee ney. Jesse Plants farms for Frank Hoobler. Lemarr family visited county seat. Mrs Hoobler improving. Mrs T Garnett visited neighbors. Heavy rains washed out some crops. Birth announced May 10 in T Butts home. Clelia Cartright to work at Hoobler home all summer. Mrs Garnett and son Willis stay indefinitely, at F Resenacht's. Visitors from Minneapolis and Derwein arrived for a week at Smith ranch.
It rained heavily in western Kansas hindering corn cultivation while six storms in ten days strain bridges. John Glass bought a team of mares recently. Frank Cross visited the county seat last Saturday. Lightning struck Ellis telegraph office last week but caused little damage. Union Pacific may soon run motor cars from Ellis to Topeka to ease travel.
In Riverside the rain continues as Roy Leisure on the Ryan and Cheneworth ranch recovers from a week of illness. Charles Loser returns from Denver where he had been working at his trade and his family feared he was dead due to no word. Prank Edwards reports some sod work in the area.
A June 6 1908 notice blends light verse and gossip about local figures Bill Lashell Eston Fish and Will Egbert with rustic humor on bachelor life. It includes poetic flourishes about hunting and meals, then shifts to a legal notice by Gustave Sirz vs S G Rountree with court actions and attachment for debt in Kansas.
Publication notice from the District Court of Trego County Kansas dated June 1908. Identifies BL Gime as claimant or party and notes court action within the county and state. Text is fragmentary but indicates an official legal notice proceeding.
Stomach troubles warning and promotion for Rodol by W. W. Gibson. Also sale ad for a sorrel mare and black horse by J. W. Ghomm, 12 miles south of Wa Keeney. Plus a moral mirror quote and De Witt's Early Risers liver pills sold by Gibson. Barrett’s Cash Store offers a dish with every dollar purchase.
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