Community notes from Voda and surrounding families
Local residents report visits and events across Voda and nearby areas. Families attend sales, hospital stays, and social gatherings while farm work continues. A Z C B J lodge hosts a hall event on Saturday night June 22 seeking wide attendance as the season finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vivian Owens
Geo. Kristof
Chas
P. Krhut
Farmers Union
Vods
Uncle Sam
Louis Krasnicka
John Bardovsky
St. Anthony's Hospital
Hays
J. D. Vandewater
Voda
Grant Billings
Chas. Kristof
Malinowsky
Jurka
Mary Bordovsky
Bordovsky
Juliss Neushafer
Kanapolis
L. Honomichi Sr
Fred
Wilson
Harvest News and Local Visits in South Trego
Harvest preparations loom as Jas Benisch travels to Ransom and WaKeeney on Saturday. Laura Ropp visits home folks this week while Fred Eichman builds a large barn. Lightning struck Wm Grekel’s barn last Tuesday, burning it to the ground. Families from Lacrosse Wilson Ellsworth and local farms share visits and travel plans ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas
Benisch
Ransom
Wa-Keeney
Laura Ropp
Fred Eichman Sr
Eastern Star Meeting
George Koleber Sr
George Jr
Julius Newschafer
Ellsworth
Jas. Beniish
Big Creek Weather Outlook And Local Notices
Dry hot conditions persist in Big Creek with grass drying and oats and barley strained by heat. Early wheat is filling well and harvest starts next week. Corn grows well but needs rain. Local notes include visitors from Collyer Ogallah and Ellis, a birth, a horse purchase, Children’s Day in Ogallah, Katharine Marts visiting, and barn repairs from cyclone damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Teeters
Collyer
Ellie
J. F. Burk
Ogallah
Ellis
Dell Mixer
John Kuhn
Victoria
John Glass
Katharine Marts
Will Glass
A. L. Leonard
Ogallab Rainy Day Notes and Local Happenings
Ogallab reports continued drought with wheat standing while harvest hands are scarce. Powers and Brockway shear their sheep, Walter Musgrave holds a sale and plans to muddy Missouri. Union Children’s Day events drew large crowds as Jolly Joe Funderburk returns for summer to run a soda fountain. Ady advertises fresh porket bakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powers
Brockway
Walter Musgrave
Missouri
Union
Ogallah
Jolly Joe Funderburk
Bert Gruson
Joe
Market Report from Kansas City Stock Yards 1918
Market summary by J. A. Richart shows cattle prices at highs for heavy Missouri steers $18, with widespread weakness in medium grades. Hogs advanced to $16.75 top. lambs eased to about $18.50–$19.00, with California and Arizona lots mixed. Goats declined. government purchases bolster pork demand. overall receipts about 34,000 head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Missouri
Choice
Kansas
California
Arizona
J. A. Richart
The Improved Knife Weeder Incident Report
A brief item notes a device called the Improved Knife Weeder failing in several rows and mentions blame for two, four, and siz in Sun A. D. Clayton, MUI City, Kan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun A. D. Clayton
Mui City
Kan
For Sale 160 Acre Farm in Trego County
160 acre farm in Trego County offered for quick sale at 15.00 per acre. Seller says reason is plans to leave the state and invites interested buyers to write for details. Sale notes urgency and contact expectation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bichon
Decos Vier
Trego County
State Bank
Ehaceter
Rabel Stetton PS. Diesois
Hall's Catarrh Medicine and executor notice in Kansas
A 1918 notice offers $100 reward for catarrh cure claims and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional treatment. The document also records letters testamentary issued to C. W. Snelling for the estate of James Snelling in Trego County Kansas with a one year claim period and a two year bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Toledo
Cheney Otto
Anl
Kansas World
State of Kansas
Trego County
James Snelling
Kansas
C. W. Snelling
Trego
Dana's Kidney Pills Promise Quick Back Pain Relief
Good news travels fast in Wa Keeney as readers report Dana's Kidney Pills easing backache and kidney issues. Mrs George E Dimmitt of Colby Kansas credits Dean's pills with ending months of pain, nervousness, and blurred sight after a year of relief. Price 60 cents at dealers. Don’t miss Co Msgrs Buffalo NY Adv.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Don't Sim, Co
Msgrs
Buffalo
N.Y
Adv
For Sale Auction Notice from Wa-Keeney Hardware Co Adv 16
LS-year old bay gelding will make 1500 lb horse. Two gray mares aged 16 and 17 to foal in July. Service paid. Also 1 Bull tractor with 3 bottom Case plows in good condition. Bargain sale. Also Acme wheat binder 128 Rew cuts 40 acres. John Hasek We Beaney Adv. 15 2tp
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wa-Keeney Hardware Co
Acme
John Hasek
We Beaney
Eye and Ear Care Services in Ogallah Kansas
Eye test conducted and glasses fitted. Sundays by appointment at East Room of Mrs Mapes building. Attorney Keeney and Parsons, embalmers Straw. Wa Keeney Kansas. S M Hutzel handles land sales, leases, rents, taxes for non residents. Special collections service.
Boschee's German Syrup Popular Cough Remedy Ad in Use Nationwide
The ad touts Boschee's German Syrup as a long established remedy used for fifty two years across the United States to ease coughs bronchitis and colds settled in the throat. It promises a restful night with no cough and easy morning expectoration aiding natural recovery. The notice mentions a sale location near Deering G Klenk nine miles north of Wa-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boschee
United States
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Walter F. Swiggett
Lodge Radhost
Neal’s Orchestra
Usco
Mrhut
Berdan & Son
Wa_-Heeney Hardware Co
Big Creek
Ogallab
W. Baker
Mound City Paint
The
Verbeck Lumber & Supply Co
Keeney, Kansas
Market Report
L. P. Arnott
Wa Keeney
E. D. Wheeler
We Keeney
John R. Parsons
Law
a-Keeney
Stanley J. Straw
S. M. Hutzel
T. W. Maynard
J T. W. Cloud
Overland Garage
Masers Tooth Specialty Dept
S. 5Th St. Paik Gelphia
Heckman Ranch
Dark Bay
Opal Maynard
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