Hays City News Briefs Mix Personal Notes and Local Ads
Random items from Hays City include travels of Miss Susie Hottel to eastern Kansas, the Mes Sick Grand Concert Company notice, Barrett's Cash Store offer with a china gift, and the Hays City Monument Works dedication for Mrs Edward Chalk. Also seen are for sale notices, hail insurance from Q A Cortright, and local visits by J W Ghumm and Jake Hobbs. Local trades include Kath corn seed, a sorrel mare, a black horse, and a land purchase by Wm Knitter in Oakley with commentary on height and a knitter-related joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Ghumm
Wa-Kee
Jake Hobbs
Graham County
Fresh Park at Baker's and local notes in Ogallah
Notices include bail in surance near Ogallah and pasture ads for horses and cattle two and a half miles south of Ogallah. Varying town items cover a marriage in Manhattan, a Wa-Keeney dog license deadline, and political notices for Wm Wells and Sheriff candidate Courtney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogallah
W. H. Hendricks
Kans
Wa-Keeney High School Defeats Ogallah 7 To 2 In Ball Game
Last Friday the Wa-Keeney team beat Ogallah 7 to 2 in a close high school ball game. Smee and Keraus led Wa-Keeney in the box while Mapes and Anderson pitched for Ogallah. Tom Scott was injured sliding home but stayed in and finished the game despite memory gaps after the collision with the catcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogallah
Smee
Keraus
Wa-Keeney
Mapes
Anderson
Dr. Kidd
Tom Scott
Local Notices and Advertisements from Trego County
Dr. M Jay Brown the Salina eye ear nose and throat specialist to appear at the American House on Saturday June 13th glasses fitted for sale cheap a 24 horsepower Port Huron engine a 12 disc steam plow and a 36x70 Avery separator offered John W Spena miss Lucy Courtright new post office clerk Grover Hays leaving office to harvest fields harmless annual church gatherings Sunday and Monday Baptist meetings and Hebrews 6 4 6 readings Kennedy laxative syrup advertised Messick concert tickets at the drug store May 30 admission 50 cents public school graduates 1905 and others born or mentioned Isaac Stewart Ellenwood Collyer and K J H Deatrich wartime veteran and early mover in Trego county seeking representative post with long service record and strong character
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Jay Brown
Salina
Port Huron
John W. Spena
Messick
Trego County
Court House
Margaret Chapter
O. EK. S
Garet
Pickled pork at Baker's and a busy Wa-Keeney week
Local notices report Mrs. Morse visiting Salina, Mrs. Livingston and son from Hackberry visiting Wa-Keene y, and numerous errands across town. Embalming course for Stanley Straw in Kansas City, a bridge repair on Spring Creek, and farming notices include 400 to 500 bushels of corn for sale. A fatal/unknown-cause death of Marnie Mosier from Ellis is noted with an interment in Wa-Keeney. A street collision damages a buggy near Frank Wollner’s store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Stewart
Wa Keeney
Kas
Mr. Stewart
Marnie’ Mosier
Ellis
Wa-Keeney
Wa Ae
Scott
M. EL
Ferris Visit Plans and County Tax Discussion Highlight Downs Note
Mr and Mrs C J Ferris plan two Kansas visits then Seattle for summer with daughter Mrs A J Davis A Downs Times note discusses Trego County high school costs 3041 for year about sixty cents per quarter section and the feasibility of a fourth teacher under new assessment law It also critiques Congressman Reeders stance on Interstate Commerce Commission funding amid a growing federal deficit and a cautious treasury outlook for 1906.
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C. J. Ferris
Kans
Kansas City
Seattle
Wash
A. J. Davis
Ieaty High School
Trego County
Reeder
W. A. Reeder
Interstate Commercee Commission
Congressional Committee
Congress
Treasury
Devoe Company Letter on Paint Scarcity and Adulteration
A letter to Mr John Nelson from P W Devoe Co. New York Chicago and Kansas City explains paint pricing and adulteration. It recounts a Union South Carolina cotton mill president rejecting two offers and choosing the cheaper 1.25 gallon with 18 percent short measure while alleging 40 percent full measure adulteration and 45 percent short measure adulteration. The note warns against Devoe costs and references Verbeck Lucas as sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Devoe
P.W. Devoe . Co
New York
Chicago
Kansas City
Pls
Verbeck & Lucas
Skeletons Found While Surveying in Hill County
Surveyor Miller found the crumbling skeletons of two bodies while surveying for a road in the south part of the county. The bones were in a bank side washed by high water of a previous day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill City
Miller
Burly Negro Killed After Attack in Early Kansas News
The Topeka Capital notes a burglar tragedy in Kansas history, mentioning a burly Black man killed by a woman after an assault. The bloated body was later found and buried by three squads of soldiers. Also, the county board of commissioners schedules equalization meetings in Keeney for June 1908 with township dates for Ogallah Glencoe Riverside Wa Keeney Willcox Collyer and Franklin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ttis
Kansas
Topeka
County Board of
Board of County Lsioners
Local Medicine Claims Strong Satisfaction for Kidney Pills
Mr John Riha of Vining testifies he has sold Del Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for about a year and finds them highly effective. He notes a dozen customers report perfect satisfaction and he has used them with fine results. Sold by W W Swanson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Riha
Vining
del Witt
W. Ww. Arsson
Disturbed Congregation Coughing Prompted Remedy Purchase
A note from W. W. Gibson notes a person who disturbed the congregation last Sunday by coughing is asked to buy Foley's Honey and Tar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley's
W. W. Gibson
Prohibition Party Mass Meeting Planned at Wa Keeney
Prohibition workers plan a mass meeting on Saturday June 6 at the court house Wa Keeney to discuss party interests. Secretary EB Cousteyuan urges attendance and participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prohibition Party
Prohibition
Court House
Wa Keeney
Foley’s Honey and Tar Endorsed as Safe Cough Remedy
Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung troubles is claimed safe for children and adults as it contains no opiates or harmful drugs. Advertiser Gibson notes positive comments on Merry Widow hats. Mrs S Joyce of Claremont NH reports Foley’s Kidney Cure cured her long standing kidney trouble. Property: 160 acre farm for rent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
W. Gibson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hart Insurance
O. A. Carr
Glen Jones
Alfred Yobbs
Susie Hottel
Messick Grand Concert Company
Barrett's
Hays City
Edward Chalk
Fiyr
Q. A. Cortright
Kansas Mutual Hail Insurance Co
S. A. Orr
Quinter
Lola Orr
G. G. Marshall
State Treasurer's Association
Hutchinson
Iowa
East Kansas
Warren & Parke
Lyndon
Kansat
Ladies’ Good Will
Caddick Corner
Jessie and
Gracie Hanna
Wm. Knitter
Oakley
Mr. Knitter
Fresh Park
Baker's
See
O. A. Cortright
Henry Samson
Manhattan
Elmer
Rebecca Washington
Hays
Wm. Wells
Wells
Our Neigh
Bee County
Trego
Willie
Jake
Courtney
Banner
Bat
Howe & Son
Lucy Courtright
Grover Hays
Baptist Church
Kennedy
E. W. Hoch
J. H. Deatrich
Collyer Township
Deatrich
Grant
Sheridan
Ellsworth
Railroad Company
Baker’s
R. E. Morse
F. M. Morgan
Weel Weeks
Burnham
Utica
E. M. Brown
Mary Kepner
Abilene
Mrs. L. Olmstead
Togo
Mr. Street
Trego Mercantile Store
Ferris House
E. H. Barrett
Stanley Straw
Mr. Bassett
Morse
Wm. Wollner
Gracie
Pendennis
Prof
Hans
Tom Roberts
Todadag
Tom
J. BR. Wilson
Spring Creek
Ridgway
Mrs. Williams
Warren
Harrison
Deatrick
Collyer
Florence Beatty
Emporia
Geo. Smee
George
Reeves
Nichols & Shepard
Talon
W. P. Sandstoe
Wa- Keeney
Cox
Hev. Cox
M. ES
Main Street
Frank Wollner
John Nelson
Wa Keeney, Kans
The
EB. Cousteyuan
Electric Theatre
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