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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
4
Multiple small notices advertise land for rent or sale, patent remedies, poultry stock, flour and groceries, health tonics, blood purifiers, and beverages. Names appear with local sellers and businesses such as R A Bess, John Riha, W Gibson, Skelton ranch, Kodol, E CaustTexson, Osterkamp, Burdock Blood Bitters, and J C Owen, reflecting a modern rural marketplace.
A series of property transfers listed including Seely V Haney to August Smith and various deeds to and from Sanford Gossett, John McNaughton, Taliaferro, Carpenter, Diemes, Shumway, Jordan, Brokaw, and others. Transactions reference nw se sections and fractional lot descriptions across multiple townships.
The executive committee submits a report of financial transactions for the Wa Kee Bey Entertainment Association dated October 16 1907. It notes total receipts from ticket sales and advertising and mentions balances carried to the entertainment fund. It covers payments to band, janitor and advertising, debt from prior years, and the cost of courses and performances. Officers listed: J W Pages President, A Wire Treasurer, J Hamman Secretary.
Government thermometer records show a warm week with a string of mild days. Temperatures ranged from a high near 73 and a low around 16, with Thursday through Sunday showing 40, 35, and extended periods of fair, bright weather. Wednesday marked the warmest day in three months.
A list of criminal, mandamus, debt, foreclosure, divorce, and quiet title cases scheduled for March term 1908 in the district court, naming numerous plaintiffs and defendants including Anna M. Schmitt, Paul Huycke, and R. B. Briggs among others, with additional notes on local library and school activities and a Foley's Honey and Tar advertisement.
An array of old ads tout health tonics and remedies including Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring tonic for the family, Poley's Kidney Cure praised by B Piegal of Evansville, and Foley's Honey and Tar advertised to stop severe colds or pneumonia potential. Also a real estate want ad seeks 160 acres or more to break and a notifier lists a Gibson contact near the depot.
Jack Billé Mouse Jack is set to join the season nine Joes at Harm Schneider’s, miles south of Wa Keeney. The note outlines payment terms of $.09 to insure service, and states mares removed from the neighborhood may be bred yet the owner must cover a service fee. Care is promised with safeguards but no liability for accidents. Owner: Senex green & Potcens.
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