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CROP MAKER
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SALE
AT THE
Wa-Keeney Stoek Yards
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Saturday, Juime ,23, '17
Beginning at 1:00 o'clock p. m.
300 Native Cattle 300
Consisting of two, three and four-year-old Heifers; a good
per cent good milk stock. In colors, reds, white faces and
blacks. Cattle for everybody. Also some choice light
weight bulls, Herefords, Durhams and Polled Angus.
Terms: Six months time on bankable notes with in
terest at 8 per cent. Everything offered will go to the
highest bidder.
L
EGAN & CO.
Auctioneers: Col. .J. H. Olagg and Col- IVI. W. Mason
PUBLIC SALE!!
Having rented my farm I will sell at public
auction at my farm five miles southeast of
WaKeeney, on
Tuesday, June 26, 1917
the following property
SO Head of Cattle SO
Consisting of 15 milch cows from 3ito 6 years old; 9 two-year-old
heifers; 11 yearling heifers; 7 calves; 1 bull; 7 bead coming three-year-old
heifers
6 Head of IVlules 6
Two four-year-old mules; 2 three-year-old mules; 1 six-year-old
gelding weight 1400; 1 year old colt; 1 team 6-year-old mules.
Four Shoata and Six Dozen Plymoth Rock Chickens.
Same Household Goods and Farm Machinery including one 15-gallon
barrel churm, Sharpless cream Separator, 2 heating stoves, surrey,
wagons, harness and numerous other articles.
The following property belonging to Elmer Cue -will also
be sold.
17 head two-year-old steers, 4 cows from 3 to 7 years old, 4 calves.
Some household goods.
Free Lunch at Noon, Sale immediately afterward
TERMS: All sums of CIO and under wili'be cast). On sums over CIO
a credit of six months will be given, purchaser to give bankable note
bearing 8 per cent interest. A discount of 2 per cent will be allowed
for cash on sums over CIO. No property to be removed until set
tled for. ' -
Hudson Harlan, Owner.
H. W. MASON. Auctioneer
EXCHANGE NOTES AND LOCALS
When our boys get into France in
sufficient numbers we would like to
see them given a position center,
left or right, and then let John Bull
and the frog eaters keep out of the
way. It may be a fool idea we have
in our head, but it is there and we
cant help it viz: That the boys will
show 'em what fighting is like. Nor
ton Courrier.
One of the coincidents reggistra
tion day brot to light was that Samuel
Wilson, of Salina, has seven sons, six
of them- between 21 and 31 years of
age, who registered . that : day, the
seventh net having been quite old
enough t to register, but plenty old
enough to enlist.
Here is something reasonably funny
that I found in my daily paper: 'a
minister, marrying a negro couple
asked the women "Do you take this
man for better. or for worse?" She
interrupted by explaining, "No, judge,
I wants him jest as he is. ff he treta
any better hell die, and if he gets
any wuss IH kill him myself." Vil
lage Deacon in Osborne Farmer.
My friend, you are not cutting so
all-fired much ice. You are probably
doing as much along that line as any
body, but all of us wouldn't destroy a
small iceberg in a dozen years. So
many of us are working at the game
that the average is mighty smalL Go
out to the cemetery and you will see
the small, marker at the grave of the
man who founded the town. Not one
in fifty of the citizens now know his
name. You may be able to convince
your wife and children that you are
some pumpkins but when you take
in a little more territory your com
petition is so stiff that you soon fall
by the wayside. You don't have to tell
the neighbors you are smart. They
will soon find it out if you have the
goods. The townsite is covered with
the wreckage of fellows who set the
burg on fire for a brief spell, or at
least imagined that they were so do
ing. Just settle down to a calm gait
and try to live and let others live,
The fellow who is cutting the most ice
isn't the one who is standing on the
housetops yelling himself hoarse. For
what shall it profit you if you attract
a crowd of ten million and then can't
sell any goods. Viliage Deacoif in
Osborne Farmer.
Jay E. House in the Topeka Cap
ital: Lets have some sense. The war
is going on until somebody, prefer
aDiy Germany, is licked, me con
scription law will stand. There will
be hardship, privation, suffering, dis
aster and death. Many homes will be
bereaved. Many promising 'young
men will be put down by death. We
have passed the point where we can
stop and argue whether the stake is
worth the price. ' Let's face the situ
ation without maudlin exhibitions ef
mental malnutrition. Let's have' some
sense. The war, whatever it cost will
not be without its compensations.
The national spirit was never so
fiacid and feeble, never so puerile, as
it has been in the past ten years. The
war will revive it. The time is com
ing again when the man who loves his
country will attract more attention
than the one who finds fault with it.
For such gglory be. And there are
these things to remember. Every
great priviledge which we as a
nation enjoy was won in battle. Every
heroic deed written in the annals of
this country was performed by a sol
dier or a sailor. Every memory which
the nation holds priceless is stained
with the blood of those, who in battle
array, followed the flag. Finally, for
get this stuff about it not being our
war. It is anybody's war. ' Freedom,
justice, truth and right are at stake.
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When Dr. John Crank left his farm
and moved into Hfll City, Kansas, it
might have been expected something
would happen. Anyone who has seen
the Doctor knows that he is a live
wire. Something generally happens
around where the Doctor is. When he
came to Kansas he brought a load of
household goods and ideas. He has
been giving out idea3 ever since. I
don't believe he is a Socialist . but he
knows more about Socialism than
most of the critics of that particular
creed. Well he whipped a western
Kansas homestead into submission
He made it buy two or three more
homesteads and then he turned it over
to a tenant.- .
By this time the doctor was getting
old, some past seventy. He moved in
to town to engage in some new busi-i
ness. In town he had time for think
ing and he soon evolved a scheme of
building a natatorium. We sympatb
ized with the doctor and undertook
to talk him out of this fanciful idea
of his second childhood. They used all
manners of persuasion and logic. The
doctor got his tenacity four years of
arguing with the south wind and the
sun in western Kansas, and in ad
dition to all this the doctor is some
talker also. So the people went back
to their plows and anvils and Crank
built his natatorium.
Built on a Hill
It is on a little hill toward the east
side of Hill City: It is semi-pretentious
affair 40 feet wide, 80 feet long
and from 4 to 12 feet deep and holds
about 4000 barrels. It is heated by
pipes and supplied by continuous run
ning water from a well. It has spring
boards, diving boards, dressing rooms
and bathing suits. It is sanitary, reg
ularly inspected and sterilized. And
best of all it is well patronized. It is
easily seen that in swimming facili
ties western Kansas is handicapped.
After a cloud burst if one was right
swift of foot one might get to the
creek in time to take a swim, but
any delay would be disastrous. But
people like to swim, especially boys,
and there are lots of boys in Western
Kansas. There are quite a few in
Hill City and hundreds of them go to
Dr. Crank's natatorium. Where ever
one goes in he leaves a quarter of a
dollar, and so the doctor prospers.
He supplied a need and the people
paid him.
To keep the water fresh the doctor
found he would have to let the water
out and refill the pool occasionally.
That would cause quite a waste of
water and "waste is sin" that is one
of the doctors maxims. Consequently
some ' means, must be evolved to con
serve this waste water. The natator
ium was on a hill. The hill sides and
the valley lay on three sides. Water
runs down hill. The plan was com
plete. A system of irrigation must be
installed at once.
The doctor had often thought of
irrigation, in the dry days of Kansas
He had studied the topic enough to
know that in Kansas the sub surface
system was the only plan. Plants of
the hardier variety must be used and
the best results would be from beets.
Thousands of barrels of water grad
ually drained into the ground, evenly
distributed over these ten acres, in
time would create a subsoil moisture
of considerable value. Evaporotion
could be retarded by a dust mulch
and ultimately fruit trees could be
grown at a profit.
His Life Very Busy
The doctor has been very busy. He
is often tired, but the success of his
plan is inspiring. The cherry trees
have paid good money for the past
two years. Berries are abundant.
Peach trees are coming into bearing
age. Apples and plums and apricots
and what not are growing and flour
ishing. The irigation plant is auto
matic. The-water is a by -product,
the orchard and truck patch are side
isues but are threatening to super
cede the mam issue. Last year he
old hundred of dollar's worth of
fruit. The Natatorium made him good
money.' This year his income in
creases.
The doctor if an old man, now past
80 but like a very few men, he has
never lost interest in life or men.
Any workable planv appeals to him.
Every spring he plants new trees,
just as if he were only 30. He is
eager for new varieties of trees, new
plans of culture. "I was just setting
out some trees today," said he. "I
will likely not eat any of their fruit
but somebody will, and when "they do
they will think about old man Crank."
Stockton Review. x
Since tne celebration on July 4th
in this city is to be safe and sane
without any explosives used, it has
been suggested that the big engine at
the light plant be properly adjusted
and that it be allowed to shoot and
pop as much as it pleases from early
in the mdrning until late at night.
Such a method would save money,
danger of fire, fingers and probably
some life and yet would accomplish
the same end in the line of noise.
Get your picture taken July 4th.
Bean's studio. Adv. 17 2t "
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Let an Avery Tractor Start
Flaking More Money for You
Right now is the time you should buy an Avery Kerosine
Tractor and let it start making money for you. Avery Kerosene
Tractors have long passed the experimental stage and are proven
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You can raise bigger crops by Tractor Farming and save ex
penses in doing it. With these added profits you and your family-'
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There are six sizes from a little two plow tractor to a big eight and
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every size run.
The 1917 Avery Catalog contains full information. Write for a.
copy.
WA-KEENEY HARDWARE CO
WA-KEENEY. KANSAS -
You WiU Find At
THE OG ALLAH GARAGE
Veedol Oil, Gasoline and Other Oils, Warner, Lenzes
and Goodyear Tires, Tubes and Auto Accessories.
Agent For Ford Cars
FRED SMITH, Prop.
Good Equipped Shop For Rent
PLAIN QUESTIONS TO WA-KEENEY
PEOPLE
Every Wa-Keeney Reader Will Ad
mit the Soundness of ; the Logic
"JVould Wa-Keeney people recom
mend Doan's Kidney Pills as they do
if the medicine were not reliable?
Would they confirm their statements
after years have elapsed if their ex
perience did not show the remedy to
be deserving of it ? Statements like
the following must carry conviction
to the mindtof the reader.
J. H. Poffenberger, prop, of barber
shop, Wa-Keeney, says: "I got two
boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills at W.
W. Gibson's Drug Store and they
stopped the dull ache and soreness in
the small of my back, which had an
noyed me for several months. They
also regulated my kidneys. I was
astonished at the good results, as
other medicines I had tried had done
me no good."
- RE-ENDORSEMENT
OVER SEVEN YEARS LATER,
Mr. Poffenbergegr said: "Time has
not changed the good opinion I hold,
of Doan's Kidney Pills. I recommend;
them as highly today as 1 did a few
years ago."
(First published in The Western Kansas
e World June 14, 1917.) j
Administratrix's Notice
State of Kansas. Trego County:
In the Probate Court held in and for said
County and State: .
Notice is hereby given, that letters of ad
ministration upon the estate of John Con
ner. late of Trego county. Kansas, deceas
ed, have been granted to the undersigned,
Julia A. Conner, by the Probate Court of
said county of Trego, bearing dale the 5th
day of June," 191 7.
All persons having claims against said es
tate are required to exhibit them tomefor
allowance, within one year after the date of
said letters, or they may be precluded from,
any benefit of such estate; and if such'
claims be not exhibited within two years -from
the time of the publication of this no
tice, they will be forever barred.
Dated this 5th day of June A. D. 1917.
JULIA A. CONNER.
AdminiSLatrix.-
Estate of John Conner, deceased.
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