Wa-Keeney News Highlights Local Notices and Ads
Wa-Keeney items include sales ads for the Wa-Keeney Clothing Store, a dance invitation at Voda Sol and Ogal Ish halls, and classifieds for real estate and a threshing outfit. Reports note visitors from Kansas City and Nebraska, stray livestock notices, and community updates on residents’ health and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker's
Hillman
F. B. Walker
Ray J. Shaw
Pickering’s
Wa-Keeney
Frank Purinton
Kanass City
Banner
Emma Tripp
Ecuss
Callyor Township
L. H. Galloway
Wa-Xeeney
Adv
FT. Mes
W. I. Nevis
Indiana
Novis
Wa-Keem
Isasc Nixon
Ogeliai
Joe Halbleib
Riverside
Joe
Galloway
Bert Dunn
Monument
Kans
Red Cross
B. Goffe
Wm. Lemke
John Lemke
Bic
Torbert
Quinter Advocate
Epworth League
Advocate
L. E. McElhenney
War Savings Proclamation Urges Nationwide Thrift Drive
President Wilson calls for total national effort toward wartime production and savings, urging Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps purchases, restraint on nonessential spending, and pledges to meet June 28 enlistment for a broad thrift movement aiding the war effort. Local notices mention community posts, sales, and personal notices amid wartime thrift messaging.
National War Savings Day Proclamation Urges Subscriptions
War Savings Day announced by Kansas War Savings Director under US Treasury authority calls taxpayers and wage earners to subscribe to War Savings Stamps on Friday June 25. Meetings will be held in schoolhouses at 8 20 P M with records of attendees and stamp amounts. Subscriptions may be signed in June 1915 with stamps priced by month and redeemed for five dollars in 1923. A table illustrates the pricing and timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
Tregsing Department
Sovietias
Great
Volunteer Army of
Chas
Heiner
Collyer
Wi-Keenegger
Wa-Keeney Clothing
Lemke
Wa-Keeney
Spena
Dockey Smith
Eldorado
Kans
Camp Funston
Bert Moore
Argola
Ogallah Township
Fred Riggs
Lucas
Kansas
Mac Thompson
Wi Keeney
Mae Thompson
M. W. Mason
Mary
Western Newspaper Union
Railroad Company
Heckman
Saline
Hays Porter
Hays
Wm. Grekel
Grekel
United States
War Savings
United States Treasury Department
Woman Recounts Relief From Constipation Through Draught
Scottsburg Indiana resident Mrs Annie Johnson recalls long suffering with constipation. After many medicines failed and doctors warned against more pills her stomach improved with occasional use of a draught that she credits with curing her ailment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Scottsburg
Ind
Annie Johnson
Bette
Wa-Keeney business and social notes reflect wartime effort
Local column records sales ads at The Wa-Keeney Clothing store and a variety of notices. It notes war fund events raising 17 dollars, animal control concerns about doped dogs, a washout driving a car into a ditch near Hill City, and multiple visits, travels, and farm plans across Ellis and surrounding counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan
Bee
Wa-Keeney Clothing
Clyde Gordon
Hudson Farm
George Boice
Bosna
Judge Peacock
Salina
Aaron Cockrell
A@dair
Ellis
Louis Honomich Sr
Wilson
James Benisch
Ellsworth
S. A. Shriner
Red Cross
East Side
Joe Sizler
J. L. Franklin
Pickering
Pearl Posten
Tom Kehler
Hill City
Mr. Franklin
Franklin
Wa Keeney
Herrick
Hays Hospital
Msc St
Lieutenant Brundage Receives Update From Reppert at Camp Lee
Lt V M Reppert writes from Camp Lee Virginia with new address and request that Russell papers be mailed there. He notes transfer may occur anytime and hopes for cooler climate after 110 degree day. Reppert highlights promotions from private to second lieutenant between 1917 and 1918 and mentions President’s daughter Marguerite singing at the Y M C A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. K. Brundage
V. M. Reppert
3Rd Co
Camp Lee
Russell
Reppert
Marguerite
Camp Fun
Ston
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. Straw
J. W. Bingham
D. E. Cypher
J. J. Kerrus
R. Owens
A G. Sehwanbeck
C H. Benson
E. M Groft
J. R. Wilson
W. Mattingly
G. I. Hays
John Kirkner
W. J.beardwell
James Feeney
District School of Instruction
Sheridan Coliseum
National War Savings
NORS
Baaxany War Savings
Secretary of the United States
Farm Labor Bureau
al Hendricks
H. C. Bryant
Billie” Jones
Keeney
Wu-Keeney
J.T. W. Cloud
Colo
Kansas City
Frank Walker
Huleat
Walker Brothers
Frank
Will. O. J. Lyons
Willcox Township
South Trego
Mason & Olson
Walter Musgrave
Musgrave
Mountain Grove
Ozarks
Missouri
Arkansas
R. C. Wilson
Cardu
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