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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1906
Page
4
A historic advertisement proclaims a full line of farm implements including buggies spring wagons and wagons. It highlights car lot shipping best prices daily year round service gasoline engines pumping grinding listers corn tools breaking plows and disc plows for horses and engines. Emphasizes harness line and competitive pricing with freight savings compared to Kansas City.
A Prof A M Ten Eyck article explains two grain smuts loose smut and covered smut. It details how hot water and formaldehyde treatments destroy spores in wheat oats barley and corn and outlines practical seed treatment methods for clean yields.
The article notes that smut cannot be fully remedied except by picking and burning smut balls, with wind dispersal limiting field control. It warns manure fosters smut and suggests reduced attacks if smut is scarce. It also includes an ad for Quinine cold remedy and a domino offer, plus a weather report for Wa-Keeney with weekly highs and lows and rainfall totaling about three quarters of an inch.
Kansas City stockyards report reduced cattle supply this week due to rain across the territory. Demand for stockers and feeders remains weak, while killing cattle advance with overall stronger trade today as 9,500 head ran. Top today reaches about 5.45, with various classes priced between 3.00 and 6.50, and last week’s heavy run noted at 79,200 head, the heaviest since 1901.
Ellis county Democrats attempted to persuade J C Ruppenthal to run against incumbent J H Reeder for the 23d district judgeship. The Russell Record notes the move as a grandstand play to sway Republicans without serious hope of changing the outcome, praising Reeder’s experience and qualifications.
Olliver M. Wh is advertised as a chestnut stallion bred by Dubois Bros with 18 hands and 120 pounds. He will stand at Groff's varn Wa-Keeney Mondays Fridays Saturdays and Gwason Brothers ranch Saline Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays with high-spirited endurance and good bone. Mare owners pay ten dollars to ensure foal and care, with liability limited. registration in the American Trotting Register Association, Chicago.
Public notice from the Department of the Interior Mount your Land Office indicates that Edward W Latines has filed final proof for the northeast quarter of section FM, with witnesses Chartes Snelling Henry Hillian and Albert Jordan, all of Wa-Kee and Oenlinh, to establish continuous residence and cultivation of the land.
In the Probate Court of the county, the estate of W. T. Dorns is presented for final settlement. Creditors and others interested are notified to appear at the next term for proofs, and the administrator is to render the final accounts and disburse estate proceeds.
Public notice in Trego County Kansas informs the owners of a railroad tract near section thirty three that a court case will proceed. It states a petition alleging rights to use and occupy the land for six hundred acres and seeks legal resolution and response by a stated date.
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