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W A-KEENEY, KANS., JUNE 28. 1917
39th Year Number 18
CHILD KILLED BT HORSE
BED CROSS ORGANIZES
Take - Notice
v We have a surplus ,of some lines and
other, lines of Goods are to be reduced.
To accomplish this will make Prices,
on these Goods each week that will
move them. It is no bankrupt or clos
ing out sale or bankrupt sale but we
desire to turn these goods into cash.
For Saturday and One Week
A Chrome Tan Shoe ;
r $1.75 ,
It is a good Shoe and we have about
Thirty pair of them.
farmers Union Store
RUBBER STANDS STRAIN BET
TER THAN STEEL
. Three sets of chains were worn out
between' the road bed and the tires
on the pilot car of the San Francisco
motor caravan, is reported of remark
able trip made to the St. Louis Ad
Men's Convention, by San Francisco
Automobile and Advertising men.
Four survivors of the original party
of fourteen cars arrived in St. Louis
on schedule time after undergoing one
of the hardest tests jdriver, machine
and tires ever stood. A series of snow
and rain storms preceded the plucky
San Franciscans in their severe test.
Four days of rain in eastern Nevada
and western Utah played havoc with
the roads and put several of the cars
out of the running. The Studebaker
pilot car became so clogged with mud,
early , on the trip, it was necessary to
chop the mud guards from the car.
Three of the Goodrich Safety Tread
Tires, which equipped the Studebaker
pilot car, driven by Chester N.
Weaver of San Francisco, finished the
trip filled with San Francisco air. The
fourth tire was punctured when about
fifty miles from St. Louis. Next to
the enthusiasm of the San Francisco
men over the landing of the next
Associated Advertising Clubs f the
World Convention for San Francisco
in 1918, is their praise of Goodrich
Tire stamina. Mr. Weaver's car was
the only one in tha caravan that didn't
experience tire trouble m the long
grind. The four cars to win the strug
gle with elements were a Chevrolet,
two Studebakers and a Buick. The
members of the party were R. C. Dur
ant, A. D. Plughoff, G. A. Bucking
ham, Fred Connors, James Houlihan,
Mr. and Mrs. Bernstein and Chester
N. Weaver.
WILL CLOSE JULY FOURTH
The following merchants have sign
ed to close July 4th, 1917. t
Trego Co. Co-Op Association.
Verbeck Lumber and Supply Co.
H. O. Reichard. '
A. M, Finfey :
W; F. Swiggett.
The Tregq Mercantile Co.
P. E. Keraus.
Trego County Bank.
F. H.Olson.
; 1 Wa-Keeney State Bank.. .
': Mrs. T. R.. Moore, -v..
Star Grocery. t,v " ,- nf"4-&
A. S Treger. " " '
H..W. Finch.
E. H. Dodge.
J. H. - Poffenberger.
R. I. Pickering.
Hardman Lumber Co.
John E. Reddig.
O. L. Lucas.
S. J. Straw.
R. H. Hobbs.
E. A. Courtney.
C. P. Hashman.
J. C. Cortright.
F. C. Wollner.
J. J. Keraus.
L. S. Myerly.
Ralph Pierson.
Charles Steele.
A. Hillman.
Wa-Keeney Hardware Co.
W. G. Baker. .
Caron's Ladies Outfitters.
Western Kansas World.
About 9:30 o'clock last Saturday
morning Chas. Yowell rode his horse
from the: stock yards in Wa-Keeney
across the track to his., home' on the
north side. There he was met by his
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wife' and" Hale sott ' Lota - Cec wh flerge "number; responded "but owing
was. about three-years. ofdJ-.The .little
leliow wanted to ride on the horse
from which Mr: Yowell had dismount
ed. Believing the animal to h nntbL
and also tired, and from- the further!
tact that he wax holding the reigns,
saddle. . Something entered- tin . ni-
mal's brain from either freight or
anger and it commenced to rear and
pitch. Mr. Yowell grabbed hold of the
boy and tried to take-him fmm x
saddle but unfortunately-the "child's
foot became entangled in the strap
which tightens the hind si'ncn uul 1m
could not- be removed. The ; horse
. Last Saturday afternoon a meeting
was . called at the court house by
County; Clerk C- H. Benson for the
purpose of organizing a Red Cross
cnaweer m . irego Uounty. Quite a
to
tfce fact that .it had not been . sdver?
asea ana talked up people were not
generally aware of the meeting for
had they been a larger crowd would
4&ll?s have been there to help , in
Wis -y which fa just now being so
Mr. Yowell set the little boy in the j extefaWely '.pushed is. every town - in
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' icmuYTO. me j xutrse I ,rvice .more comronaDie and
jerked away from Mr, Yowell and also, F ffl ttai; the 'care they will so much
pulled the child from his grasp. ; It
then started for. the barn
pitching, swinging, the child : in the
air.- A violent lunge threw-him "high
above the horses back and loosened
him from the saddle, letting him fall
to the hard road, his head striking
first From appearances it ia cnnnid.
ered that the child must have struck
the front feet of the horse - while
swinging in the stran but that the
greatest injury was received when he
struck; the ground after being thrown
loose. Dr. Jones was called and did
what he could but it was decided to
take the child to the Hospital at Havs.
which was done. The doctors-there
operated upon him and did what they
could but he died about three o'clock
in the afternoon without haviner re
gained consciousness. " The body was
brought home and burried in the Wa
Keeney Cemetery Sunday afternoon.
The sympathy of the entire commun
ity is extended to Mr. and Mrs. YwU
in their sudden bereavement.
Kansas, as 'well as everv state in the
unjea, however every one is going to
be- gives : ample - opportunity, to- join
the Wder and help make it a success
in-Brego' county. We can hot all go
te te front neither can all be Red
Cktwfc nurses' but your dollars can go
to' make the boys who do go into
active service '.more comfortable and
A PENURIOUS MEAN MAN
You may justly call the man mean
who pays his children money ; and
then steaU.it from them afterwards,
and also kh man who steals money
jwidowf but the meanest man
this office forte knows anything about
is the fellow who entered this office
Tuesday afternoon and stole $1.50 in
subscription money . which had just
been received from a widow and left
on the office desk for about ten min
utes. - The loss of the money isn't so
bad but the thing which makes it
look so penuriously mean is the fact
that a fellow would enter a newspaper
office and steal a dollar and a half of
subscription money. It makes us feel
like offering him at least two dollars
if he will return the one fifty.
The World accidently slipped one
over on Judge Peacock last week when
it stated that he was attending the
undertakers' convention at Hutchin
son. He was attending the probate"1
judges' convention but both crowds
were there at the same time, and he
may have gotten mixed up the under
takers for all we know.
wounded.. We may not have a
PJr Wveyen, , a ... relative enlist;.but
other peoples.boys will go and they-go
to pwiteWTyour interestsr and mine,
and lay down their lives if need be in
doing it, then lets be true blue loyal
citizens and Americans and give will
ingly "te this" noble cause. One "Red
Cross nurse says that even . one dol
lar may be the means of saving one
American soldier, just think of it! One
dollar fitted against the life our own
rave. boys, perhaps . from Trego
county.- All the people, children in
cluded, are ureed to da thm'r
One dollar and .'a half for every body
mthe county would briner it on' in
the neighborhood Of $9000 for . this
county. Ellis county will raise $20,000
and many of the western counties are
sending in laree amounts- Ttaco
county has never lagged in any task
set for her yet and will not fail in
this. 'For. information inquire of C. H.
Benson.: president of the Red Cross
movement or Mrs. A. H. Blair, secre
tary. - The society was organized and
elected C. H. Benson, president, Mrs.
A H. Blair, secretary, Curtis Hutch
iBfin, treasurer. The following are the
annual members paying one dollar on
joining the organization A. S. Pea-
tOFln Mn Mini jrVKTAil .. UtfJo
kiSreMrs. A. B.-Jones,' Mrs. W.. YL
4 1 ? 1- . . .. rr rl n. . - ' - .
ociTwHn. n. o. txivier, sirs. A. H.
Peacock," Mrs. W. R. Walker, Mrs.. A,.
H. Blair, -Mrs. E. J. Garett, Mrs.
Athertonj ' Misses ' Georgia Moore,
Julia Blair and Lacy ' Herrtck. The
contributing members are those who
pay five dollars were 'Hudson Harlan
and Curtis Hutchison... The sustain
ing members or those who nav ten
dollars were C. H. Benson, W. J. Wil
liams, Grover Hays and S. J. Straw.
Leaders are 1 to be aDDointed in
every township and the work is to be
organized and pushed as rapidly as
possible. No cause lies nearer to
every patriotic, heart than the Red
Cross movement at this particular
time and every one should do a part
and help make it the big success it
deserves to be. -
MARGARET SWIGGETT
.- , Bonded Abstracter
Insurance - ' Farm Loans
h;u., Wa-Keeney, Kansas :
(Register of Deeds of Trego County Eight Consecutive Years)
HAMILTON WATCH ES
Are conceded by Jewelers to be the best watches made in America.
Their time keeping qualities, tbeir beauty in appeal ance, as well as
their lasting qualities, have a national reputation to be first class.
Come in and let me show them to you. '
SOLID GOLD WEDDING RINGS
An assortment of different styles, different sizes, different weights
and different prices always on hand. ,
TABLE WARE IN STERLING SILVER AND
SILVER PLATED
A. S. TREGER, Wa-Keeney, Kansas
SMELLS OIL IN HAMILTON
COUNTY
Mrs. Ben C. Rich of Ogallah, visit
ed with Mrs. W. C. Olson last Tues
day.
. Lawrence, June 26. "Dodge City
men are leasing land around here. Is
there any. oil out here?"
So- writes a Hamilton County man
from a Kansas ranch that is five miles
east of the Colorado line. The letter
was Addressed to Dr. R. C. Moore of
the University of Kansas, state geol
ogist. Doctor Moore replied that so
far as he knew there was no oil in
Hamilton County; at least, if there
was it was in a different oil horizon
than that found in Southern-Central
and Eastern Kansas. "
In Eastern Kansas, Doctor Moore
explained, oil is found at 600 to 1,800
feet deep. : Westward the oil bearing
sands, are deeper, 2,400 to' 2,600 feet
in ' -Chautauqua and Mongomery
counties; 2,600 to 2,800 feet in Butler
County and getting to about 3,500
and 4,000 feet as the drillers go west
ward into Summer County.- As the
strata underlying Kansas continues
to dip deeper the further west they
go in Kansas, oil possibilities in Ham
ilton County must come from other
strata the geologists believe.
To answer the Hamilton County
man and all other Kansas, so far as
possible, Doctor Moore and other
members of the University faculty
have been working on a . geological
survey of the state. All the informa
tion of drilling and mining in the en
tire state has been gathered so facl
as -possible. For instance, the survey
defines as clearly as may be, a very
expensive and narrow granite dome
or ridge that streaks along under'
quite a few honest Kansas acres.
This ridge runs from near Seneca,
through Onaga, Wabaunsee, Kelso,
Cottonwood Falls to near Burns and
has cost oil prospectors goodly sums.
The survey will be the most com
prehensive ever undertaken in Kan
sas. It will cover about 250 pages
and will be free to residents of Kan
sas. It will be issued some time next
fall. Announcement will be " made
later. News Service Department of
Journalism in University of Kansas.
ANOTHER RECORD SMASH '
Establishes New Transcontinental
- Pace .
.- Looking fit "for hundreds of more
miles, Allen T. Bedell handed General
J. T. Bell, Governors Island, New
York, a military -message from Gen- '
eral Liggett .otN Los Angeles, at the'
completion -of his record 'smashing
run across the continent. - - - .
-Riding his Goodrich equipped Hen
derson at an average of 26 1-4 miles
per hour, Bedell covered the distance
in 7 days, 16 hours. 16 minutes, there.
by lowering the "old record by 3 days,
4.9 hours and 54 minutes. Bedell also
smashed the best transcontinental
auto record. "
This is the second record breakincr
performance staged by Bedell this
year. Riding a Goodrich equipped
Harley-Davidson he broke the worlds
24-hour record, by covering 1153.5
miles in one day.
Ludwig Dietz and son, Henry, F. A.
Dietz, Wm. Deitz, John Deitz, George
Koleber jr. and , Phillip Kline, left
Wednesday momine for Russell
county where they will work in the
harvest fields.
FIREWORKS AND PATRIOTISM
The time has passed when .any one
believes that real patriotism- can best
find expression in a pandemonium of
torpedoes and giant crackers, or even
in nocturnal displays of beautiful
fireworks.
In these critical times when every
ounce of powder is needed for the
guns that shall defend the nation,
needless waste of these precious mat
erials is not an expression of "patrio
tism but is an actual hindrance to our
boys who will go to the front.
The attendant waste of life and
valuable property in the past should
also be taken into account. In the last
fourteen years 1,892 people have been
killed and 42,909 have been wounded
by the use of fire works and other
high explosives on the Fourth of July.
There are plenty of ways in which
to show patriotism without wasting
valuable military resources, destroy
. ing costly property by fire and sac
rificing the lives of our children.
It is hoped that all good citizens
will co-operate with the local author
ities in making Independence Day,
1917, a genuinely "Sane Fourth."
L. X. Hussey,
State Fire Marsha).
Ready For the 4th off
' The da v we all celebrate the day of excursions, outings
and picnics. If you are planning a trip out of the City,
you can no doubt find many items of interest to you in
today's store news. '
Visit our ready-to-wear: department and notice the splendid display
of outer appareL You will find the assortment so varied, that choos
ing the particular model that you have in mind will be a very easy task.
Smart Dresses
. Among which will be found exclusive models. The materi
als include Georgette, Voile, Organdie, Linen and many others
$6.00 to $35.00
White Tub Skirts in a variety of styles at CJl.TS to 07.50
Cool Blouses of sheer white Voiles and Organdies at 31 to 2.73
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