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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
8
Local items report Rex Morgan ill with smallpox and a sale notice. Ralph Parks returns from Hays Normal. townsfolk plan dances in Ogallah and Keeney. Community updates cover church activities Children’s Day preparations, excavations, renovations, and social notices. Several residents travel, visit relatives, and attend meetings.
A list of book titles and authors appears beside a plea for shelving donations and material support. The notice promotes De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles, urging purchase through W. W. CIBSON.
To Clerks of School District Boards. Please call at the office and obtain required blanks for notice of the annual school meeting which will be held July 16, 1908. Mrs. C. D. Smrrx, County Supt.
Notice announces sale of a Reeves 25 HP engine and a 36x58 J.1. Case separator with case feeder and straw carrier. Describes items as in good working order and must be sold. Contact O. H. Olson in Ogallah Kansas for details.
Mr and Mrs William Harrison and Mr and Mrs Carter Collins express gratitude to friends and neighbors for help and flowers during the illness and death of their daughter and granddaughter.
The 1908 valuation will be unavailable for this year’s annual meetings. An estimate of expenses for maintaining the school should be prepared and adjournment of the meeting to early August advised. The county clerk can provide the valuation then, and the levy can be regularly made and certified. By 1907 law, no levy may exceed 102 percent of the 1907 valuation.
Weekly weather report for Wa Keeney covers the week ending Wednesday noon with temperatures from Thursday to Wednesday noting highs from 92 to 86 and lows from 50 to 65. Four showers yielded just over a half inch total. The season mirrors 1903 with frosts floods and rainfall continuing. Kansas Mutual Hail Insurance advised.
The Topeka Journal notes Harry Freese purchased the Hays Republican from George P. Griffith and will merge it with his Free Press likely giving Democrats sway in Ellis county. The item warns of alleged sensational uses of printed stationery for fortune telling and fraud while promoting ad sales.
De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are advertised as prompt and thorough, strengthening weakened kidneys and easing bladder inflammation. The claim is they are recommended everywhere and sold locally by W. W. Crn.
A dense page of mixed classifieds offers real estate sales and rentals in Kansas, farm land and cattle pasture notices near Wa-Keeney and Ogallah, forage and lumber ads, threshing equipment for sale, health remedy promotions, and insurance on livestock. Names include Mary S Roloson, Chas Spitsnausle, R L Thompson, Warren and Parke, W H Hendricks, W P Sandstoe, John W Spenna, and K C Wilson. Listings reference High School area, Wa-Keeney, Lyndon, and Delphos, with prices, quantities, and contact leads.
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