City engineers propose water and power rate plan for city
Hijack and Veatch submitted to the city council a report on the cost of producing electric current and supplying residents, including bond interest and a sinking fund to retire them in 25 years. Recommended lighting and power rates, plus water tiers, are outlined, with a note the ordinance may be voted this month. The plan aims to avoid future tax levies for operation and interest expenses. Dr Burnett notes arrival of a son at the Park home on Hackberry, described as a lively Irishman with hope for good citizenship and farming.
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Hijack & Veatch
Dr. Burnett
Peter Park
Hackberry
Peter
Don t Play Blind Man s Buff With Your Dollars
A critique of mail order shopping highlights the lack of choice and quality compared with buying locally. The piece argues home stores let customers pick items to fit taste and needs, support neighbors, and ensure reasonable prices, contrasting mail order friction.
Collyer oil well yields first crew reports and outlook
A report from Oakley Graphic notes T D Anderson and Bob Armstrong visiting Oakley on their way home from Collyer where oil from the Collyer well is sampled. The crude is high quality, water is impeding progress as casing is stuck, and restoration of operations is expected soon with new tools ordered. The Collyer well is the first producing oil site in western Kansas and could spur many holes. Also reported is the death of Fritz Buchholz at Hays after an appendicitis operation with his son Henry preparing to bring the body home.
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T. D. Anderson
Collyer
Kansas
Anderson
Davis
Western
Gove County
Oakley Graphic
Fritz Buchholz
Hays
Buchholz
Henry
New School Building Opens After Completion in State
About five hundred patrons tour the new school house in district No 1 as it nears formal acceptance. The $50,000 bond project, planned since March, features two stories a basement gymnasium and classrooms for the first five grades plus a large auditorium. Twenty-two hundred pupils live nearby with eight teachers and a sizable modern facility.
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Thomas W. Williamson & Co
Topeka
Pricipal
Trego County Fair a Success and Growing Each Year
The Trego County Fair closed last Saturday as the biggest success yet, with strong attendance and free attractions. Organizers funded ample exhibitions and paid all premiums. a homecoming day concept is suggested for next year to reunite old friends.
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Trego County
Trego County Fair
Trego County High Opens Second Week With 137 Students
The school opens its second week of the new year with 137 students including 28 seniors, 33 juniors, 40 sophomores and 37 freshmen. There are 57 boys and 80 girls, with 34 driving 3 to 15 miles daily. Graduates teach across multiple states, mostly in Kansas. Football is in preparation and one date remains to be set for the schedule. Chapel hour runs 8:30 to 8:50, and fifteen alumni visited last week.
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Nime
Russell
Trego County High School
California
Nevada
Arizona
Washington
Idaho
Minnesota
Celcado
Oklahoma
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Texas
New Mexico
Kansas
Progress Slow on Casing Loosening for WaKeeney Well
No major progress this week in freeing the casing for reset at the WaKeeney well. Hydraulic jacks from southeastern Kansas first of week. initial joint pulled off before movement. A steel nipple and self-threading machine now in use. expected to allow pulling in or out. Next week may yield clearer updates.
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Kansas
Brown Drilling Co
WaKeeney
M. Jay Brown
Local News: Siglers Return Home and Birth Reported
Mrs Joe Sigler and children arrived home from Seattle last week. Nine pound daughter born to Mr and Mrs Seth Solberg of Little River. Solbergs formerly Hazel Morgan of this city. Also warning about men leading youths into sin for profit as WaKeeney youths were drugged by bootleg liquor, allegedly from Ellis linked sources.
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Joe Sigler
Seattle
Washington
Seth Solberg
Little River
Solberg
Hazel Morgan
The Empire of the Northwest lecture at church
Presbyterian notes announce a Sunday evening lecture titled The Empire of the Northwest illustrated by one hundred stereo optical pictures. Rev. S Hall Young, who joined the Alaska gold rush, furnishes the lecture highlighting material and spiritual development in this empire. Morning sermon asks What must I do to be saved.
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Northwest
S. Hall Young
Alaska
Church Notes Preaching and Sunday School Next Sunday
Sunday services listed with preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m Epworth League at 7 p m. Also invites attendance for church activities and Sunday School.
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Epworth League
Evening Prayer and Sermon at Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church
The Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church invites everyone to evening prayer and a sermon each Sunday at 8 p m until further notice, with a cordial invitation extended to all.
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Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church
Miss Sadie Yetter Marries Carl Schell Tonight
A home wedding at 6 o clock will unite Miss Sadie B Yetter daughter of Mr and Mrs C D Yetter with Mr Carl R B Schell son of Rev and Mrs R A Schell at the Yetter home 1224 Garfield avenue Topeka The Rev R A Schell will perform the ceremony with single ring service There are no attendants and the couple plan to reside at 1501 Mulvane street after September 15th Out of town guests are listed from WaKeeney and Kansas City as reported by Topeka Capital
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Sadie B. Yetter
C. D. Yetter
Carl RB. Schell
R. A. Schell
Miss Yetter
Garfield Avenue
EB. Claude Smith
F. C. Kenyon
Mendelssohn
Miss Vetter
Topeka High School
Washburn College
Pi Beta Tau
Schell
United States Army
Rockwell Field
Boulder
Colo
Auditor of Disbursements
Santa Fe
Mulvane Street
W. A. Tawney
C. H. Benson
Judd Benson
WaKeeney
Kan
William McEwen
Paul
Beulah Geheart
Kansas City
Topeks Capital
Public Recital at Garden Theatre Delights Local Pupils
Mrs W E Dillinger and her music pupils plan a public recital at Garden Theatre Saturday at 3 PM continuing every two weeks until further notice. The program lasts one hour with a ten cent admission to support theatre expenses. These entertainments are promoted as the best musical value for a small price.
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W. E. Dillinger
Garden Theatre
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Kantleek
W. W. Gibson
Rexall
Near East
Near East Relief Committee
Henry J. Alieh
Chamber of Commence
G. F. Cook
Lyons
Penny Hotel
Trego County Fair Association
S.J. Straw
Bakers
J. G. Hixson
W. BR. Tidball
Orion
Geo. Morell
H. E. Ladow
Jewell County
Ellis
Presbyterian Church Notes
Lutheran Church Notes
Sadie Yetter
Frank Ballach
A. J. Atherton
WaKeeney, Kansas
Margaret Swiggett
Faem Loans
Mara
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