For Sale and Want Column Highlights Wa-Keeney ads
A dense list of sales and wants from Wa-Keeney Kansas including cane seed at $1.00 per bushel, McCormick header, Ford side curtain, four-room cottage, Hereford calf stock, mule teams, farm loans in Graham County, and job ads seeking harvest help and route representatives. Also notes on enlargement services and equipment like knife weeders and harness sets. Multiple names: F B Walker, A Cortright, Lew H. Galloway, C G Mort, Arthur Olson, L H Galloway, J M Perry, A W Nelson. Locations: Wa-Keeney Hill City Ellis Manche. Dates: none explicit. Formats: For Sale, Wanted, Found, Adv listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.T. Bean
F. B. Walker
Keeney
A. Cortright
McCormick Header
George Reeder
Wa- Keeney
Lew H. Galloway
Wa-Keeney
C. G Mort
Kansas
Graham County
Frank Grecian
Hill City
Arthur Olson
Women's World
South Clinton St
Chicago
L. H. Galloway
Denver
Hadsell
Kit Carson
Cole
Herald
Grabner
F. E. Grabner
J. C. Everett
D. D
Presbyterian Church
Allisons
Olsen
Collyer
Wa Keeney and Vicinity
National Fund
Trego Court
Trego County
Farmers Mail
Breeze
George Young
Abilene
Young
F. C
Wilf Wolliner
Holsterz
Variegated Cut Worms Threaten Local Alfalfa Fields
Reports from Fort Hays and Kansas State Agricultural College identify the pests as Variegated Cut Worms. Professor George A. Dean recommends poison bran mash, 100 pounds bran plus Paris Green, lemons, molasses, and water, spread over about 15 acres, to kill worms and curb young grasshoppers. Cost is about 50 cents per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Hays Experiment Station
George A. Dean
Kansas State Agricultural College
Dean
Rainy trip home and local teaching salaries listed
A fragment notes a family returning home by jitney due to rain and mud. It then lists school positions and salaries for 35 District 2, naming several teachers and assignments. A letter from Henry Lacerte at Presidio of San Francisco writes of keeping clerical work, missing a prior issue, and a connection with a cousin’s correspondent in France.
Irregular South Trego Notes and Local Visits
South Trego items show disruption from mail or editors as residents make visits and socialize. Mr and Mrs James Benisch drove to Utica for real estate business while the Delco Light agent Hall from Ellis inspected the Benisch plant. Families including Cyphers McKinleys and W B Cypher toured relatives, with Louise and Blanche McKinley traveling to visit grandparents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Trego
James Benisch
Utica
Pete Schneider
A. R. McKinley
Hall
Ellis
Delco
Jas. Benisch
Benisch
Day Cypher
Ed. Bryant
W. B. Cypher
Louise
Blanche McKinley
Pete Mai
John Wiedeman
Jacob Blehn
Russell
Ee Alex Rece
Jacob Righm
Tys
Regular meetings of Wa Keeney Lodge No. 148
Regular communication schedule noted for Wa Keeney Lodge A F and A M No 148 on the first and third Tuesdays each month. Visiting and sojourning brothers invited to attend. Special communications at the call of Worshipful Master. Wm J Beardwell W M J W Bingham Secy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keeney Lodge
A. F
A. M. No
Wm. J. Beardwell
W. M
Also Mentioned on This Page
FISK
Greenwood
Wakeeney
Kans
Len G. Johnson
King Pontiac Occidental
J. M. Perry
Chas. Kellogg
Grinnell
Sel
Fred Stabone
Fred Eichman
John Weideman
Adam Main
John Steiben
Hemphill
Beatrice Kirkman
Delia Tripp
Alpha Enix
Mattie Teague
Elizabeth Harrison
Hester Nixon
Ridgway
Catherine Platner
Bosna
Merle Biehler
Diamond
William Cros
Adair
Marie Gregg
Ford
Olive Runyon
Riverside
Carrie Pugh
Nellie Hendricks
Voda
Mattie Thiel
Lucy DeBoer
Hazel ‘Thompson
Maple Grove
Minnie Katina
Maraquand
Edith Nixon
N.B.C. Graham
National Biscuit Company
Mont Rose
Lucy Stephens
Pleasant Valley
Janet Schimkowitsch
Hiawatha
Margaret Hal- Bia
oSee
Liberty
Freda Finkbeiner
Henry Lacerte
Presidio
San Francisco
Cal
France
Tance
Brother Alvarez
Henry
Trego
the Friendly Tobacco
Kentucky
Velvet
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