Collyer News Highlights Local Crop and Life Events
Saturday in Collyer featured new potatoes and cherries as luxuries amid ongoing alfalfa harvests. Rain in Kansas brings mixed fortunes. locals anticipate a bumper crop if hail stays away. Community notes include garden praise, home improvements, social visits, rumored equipment purchases, and a windmill accident injury. Children’s Day program weather improved briefly with rain.
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Collyer
Kansas
VanDeitrich
Addison
Trega County
Fand
Miss Kall Geir
Chas. Thiel
John Harrison
John Tilton
Pruties
E. Guschensky
la Crosse
Janet Burns
Chicago
Idaho
Legion of
Hail and Floods Hit Local Areas Across County
Big Creek reports heavy rain and hail damaging gardens and fruit. Fences washed out by high water. Wheat crop losses feared across several farms. Lightning kills cattle. Miss Nellie Kutina wins a piano from Hays Republicans. Residents urged to support farmers facing losses.
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Samuel Glass
Ellis
Win. Dite
Fred Eggar
Glencoe
A. B. Norcross
Nellie Kutina
Hays
Nora Wilson
State University
Lawrence
Voda Area Weather Devastates Crops and Fences
Heavy rain and hail struck Voda on Sunday, dumping 3.5 inches in an hour and wrecking crops. Local growers like Mollinosky, Schwanbeck, and Kristoff families reported 50 percent losses on hundreds of acres, with alfalfa and barley largely ruined and fences washed away. Chickens and homes suffered scattered damage while insurance covered only small per acre claims.
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V. Mollinosky
Voda
Robert Kirdencut
Shuit's Caver
A. W. Schwanbeck
Kristoff Bros
Ralph Kristoff
Geo. Kristoff
Bradley Brown
Nemaha County
Wa-Keeney
Land of Promise
R. Owens
Schwanbeck Bros
Otto Wolf
Ernest Hillman
Chas. Spena
Hoekman
Tegmeyer
Harvest Rain Fills Voda Area and Guides Farm Talk
Local notes say harvest may begin soon as storms drop three and a half inches of rain in Voda last Sunday. Residents report fences, cattle, and land sales. several townsfolk and visitors, including Miss Minnie Schmitt and Mr. Kirkendall, are mentioned with a mix of weather, farming, and social visits.
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Ralph Kristoff
Voda
Anna Thiel
John Ivens
Onion
John
Philip Krhut
C. M. Krhut
Minnie Schmitt
Salina
Kan
Knapp
August Tegmeyr
Annie Benisch
John Krhut
Harry Blake
Kirkendall
Insurance Ad Claims Old Firm Paid Losses In Full
The St Paul Mutual Hail and Cy clone Insurance Co has operated in this state for two years and, per its sworn statement, has paid its losses in full. Otis E Doane offers insurance at eight percent. Phone 725.
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St. Paul Mutual Hail & Cyclone Insurance Co
Charles W. Barnes
Otis E. Doane
Kansas City Stock Yards Market Report June 14 1909
Kansas City stockyards report irregular cattle demand with steers and grass cattle down 10 to 20 cents weekly. Top steer price $7.00 for 1420 pounds. heavy and light steers steady to strong. Hogs rising with 14,060 head run. prices heavy hogs 7.60 to 7.80, pigs 6.00 to 7.00. Sheep lambs firm today after a week of declines. lambs 8.50 sold, wethers 4.75 to 5.50, goats 3.25 to 4.00. J A Rickart L S Correspondent.
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Montana
Kansas
Kansas City
Kaw
J. A. Rickart
L. S
Hopper Tours Rail Line From Ness For Inspection
President J C Hopper of the Nebraska Kansas and Southern railroad conducted a late day tour by automobile to inspect the road’s work and returned to Ness. He and J F Spangler of Ness toured the northeast line, expressing satisfaction with progress and noting the engine for the work train is due by Monday.
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J. C. Hopper
Nebraska, Kansas & Southern Railroad
Ness
Hopper
Land Offers In Trego County At Cash Prices
East half of northeast quarter of section 5 township 14 range 28 at 12.00 per acre cash or 12.50 per acre with one fourth cash. also 160 acres southwest quarter of section 34 13 23 in Trego county at 12.00 per acre cash or 12.50 per acre with one fourth cash. Land owned by a non resident and offered at these prices. If in Texas Panhandle would fetch 20 per acre. Apply to Leonard Everett Council Bluffs Iowa or H F Kine Wa Keeney Kansas. Pure home made lard at Bakers.
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Township 14
Range
Trega County
Texas
Trego County
Leonard Everett
Council Bluffs
Iowa
H. F. Kine
Wa-Keeney
Kansas
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Kansas City Market Report
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Fe J Hille
A. H. Bear
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Trego County State Bank
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