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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1901
Page
4
A fragmented shopping list features items like dress braids silks fans and cotton gloves including ladies and children’s gloves plus shirt waists frocks sunbonnets and related apparel suggesting a thrift or saleroom listing from a historical paper.
Trego county investigators prepare a ton scale test of Kansas shale using the Gage concentration process. An iron tank is built as the ton test yields a silver piece and a gold button, with expectations of a sizable ingot and high value. Further tests planned, to be conducted in Topeka with five ton lots, amid harvest news and local updates.
The Big Creek area reports hot, clear weather ideal for corn and rapidly ripening wheat. Local thresher activity looms as Jacob Lutz buys a new header, Samuel Glass harvests vast wheat with two headers, and crews from Oakley Concordia and Glencoe plan nearby work. George Henderson sells eighteen McCormick headers this season as communities anticipate the hum of the thresher and lines form east of Ellis.
In historic prose the piece extols Utah climate from Great Salt Lake shore to fifty miles out, citing Father Escalante’s diary and praising scenic and climatic riches. It notes Union Pacific round trips with special fares from Missouri River to Capen and Salt Lake City, limited travel windows June through September, return by October, and proffers full details on request.
A wartime style notice laments a state law forcing able bodied men aged 21 to 45 to perform road work in War Keeney. It cites 143,210 eligible workers and 236,422 days of labor yielding 850,266 dollars for streets and alleys, praising populist influence and noting Cottage organs for sale by C. J. Ferris.
The Ogallah Skimming station will open for business Tuesday July 2. Everyone interested is invited to be present. Parties wanting cans can secure them at the station. Smith and family recently visited W S Kern’s family on Big Creek and departed Friday for their eastern Kansas home.
George Falloon forbids trespass on the southeast quarter of section 19 12 23. Trespassers will be prosecuted. Also an ad for Bromo Quinine remedy and carpets and wallpaper from C J Ferris with new samples.
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