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State JistcricalSci WE - Prints All Official Count? News W A-KEENEY, KANS., JULY 19, 1917 ' - 39th Year Number HI $ii''i' LETTER FROM RALPH HARLAN The WaKeeney State Bank MARGARET SWIGGETT ' , Bonded Abstracter ' Insurance - Farm Loans ' Wa-Keeney, Kansas (Register of Deeds of Trego County Eight Consecutive Years) Capital and Earnings 60,000.00 Does a General Banlcing Business Writes Insurance in all its different branches. We Solicit RED CROSS LIST Wa-Keeney, Kansas, June 27, Dr. W. Y. Herrick Miss Hattie J. Kirby , 1917. $25.00 10.00 10.00 2.00 25.00 5.00 15.00 10.00 2.00 2.00 1.00 2.00 6.00 2.00 2.00 5.O0 5.00 Chas. R. Kirby E. Groft -L W. W. Gibson Christ Fellers F. C. Wollner, J. H. Niesley L. S. Myerly -J. H. Eulert Glen Hinshaw A. W. Heyl , C. C. Baird John S. Kelley C. H. Baker B. S. Reed : : Ed Monroe . A. H. Blair J. C. . Cortright A. S. PwUMIflf t.t, Ray R.'Ufford : W. G. Baker C. R. Hille E. D. Wheeler J. E. Fritts W. H. Swiggett Verbeck Lumber Co Adam B. Mai U. S. Miller C. P. Hashman J. G. Hixson ; John Kirkner H. E. Trippv. L. C. Gleason R. T. Bean R. I. Pickering Chris Tegtmeyer E. C. Marquand E. M. Bosserman J. J. Keraus Peter DeBoer R. H. Hobbs G. J. Caron : A. P. Hinshaw S. R. Powell H. L. Clare- Miss Betty Penny O. L. Lucas 0. L. Gunckel W. J. Skelton Mrs. M. J. Morgan Trego Co. Co-Op. Assn Mrs. Ida Pierson L. P. Davis Frank Montague : J. T. W. Cloud J. H. Acre Wa-Keeney Base Ball Club J ohn Hardman H. H. Bacon Coin Colection July 4th A. J. Atherton W. H. Musseman - W. L. Moden. W. N. Blanchard W. P. Novis Theodore Schnase P. P. Shuler I Fred Buchholx C. S. Hockman R. A- Kessler Ernest Musseman Wa-Keeney Produea Co.! "I H. C. Harries J. W. Harries. "2 A. H. Hamm W. C. P. Rhoades Z W. J. Simpson ; J. J. Drummond 1. J. Taylor : I R. M. Purington J. A. Briggs l Ellen Bowtnan v: Presbyterian Church Or Bruce Goffe W. A. Mong D. Pershing T. J. Rhoden W. J. Kulp Mrs. M. E. Reynolds Geo. Rhoden Henry Hobbick. E. E. Cue Mrs. Geo. Stephens R. J. Shaw Chas. Sellers Lee Gramley J. W. Bingham Mrs. Gallavan B. A. Stevens . Paul Jones . E. J. Dorman, ; Ralph Pierson " C. Poff enberger ; C. L. Hardman . Wa-Keeney State Bank & F. Kelly ; . 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 25.00 5.00 2.00 25.00 10.00 1.00 5.00 1.00 10.00 5.00 2.50 5.00 2.50 5.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 15.00 5.00 5.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 10.00 2.00 1.00 50.00 1.00 50.00 1.00 5.00 1.00 4.00 1.00 31.70 .10 2.00 51.01 2.00 2.50 4.00 1.00 2.00 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.O0 1.00 5.00 -2.O0 2.00 2.89 1.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 3.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 14.11 5.00 10.00 2.00 2.00 . 2.00 1.00 1.00 i.oo 2.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.25 1.00 .50 25.00 10.00 5.00 Your Trade A. S. Treger 5.00 O. H. Reichard 5.00 H. S. Givler 5.00 F. B. Walker 5.00 W. F. Swiggett 25.00 A. M. Finley 5.00 J. W. Spena 10.00 D. B .Kraus 2-.00 P. E. Keraus ; 5.00 Joe Papes 1.00 Trego Mercantile Co 25.00 Margaret Olson 5.00 F. H. Olson 10.00 Cal Loyd 5.00 E. S. Morgan . 2.00 O. W. Olson. ; 10.00 Mrs. A. Spena 5.00 Ed Gibson 1.00 C. B. Kelly. : 3.00 E. Erickson ' 2.00 W. B. Kelly 5.00 A. C. Ries 1.00 Emil Ublaker .25 E. H. DolezaL . .50 F. H. Bumham 5.00 John Rusek 1.00 C. E. Walz 1.00 Wm. Mattke : l 2.00 R. Howat 3.00 W. S. Gorrell 1.00 Henry Buchholz 1.00 Gerhard Musseman 1.00 North Branch Sunday School 2.15 Mrs. Bingham . 1.50 Irving Walker 1.00 Fred Sandstoe 1.00 Glen Waldin 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. R. Owens jr 5.00 Ernest Smith .50 Mrs. Sandstoe, sr : .50 Mrs. A. W. Purinton : 1.00 E. A. Wilds 1.00 R. E. Harvey 1.00 D. McKnight 1.00 C. M. Warn 1.00 W. R. Walker 50.00 Mrs. W. F. Hancock 5.00 Lew H. Galloway ' 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Walden 2.00 W. T. Littlechild 10.00 Ralph Walker 1.00 Mrs. Wm. Sandstoe 1.00 Wm Behrns , 1.00 J. E. Dalby 1.00 H. C. Todd r 1.00 M. E. Ward 1.00 A. E. Beaver .O0 J. W. Harvey 1.00 THE BANNER PICNIC We" beg to call the attention of our readers to the advertisement on the front page announcing the all day pic nic to be held at the Purinton grove near Castle Rock. We notice that the annual feast has assumed this year very large proportions, for instead of a local affair it is How the -big event of the people from four or five -different counties. Some of the participants in the doings are also coming from a distance. The main address 'will be given by a forceful orator, Hon. A. M. Keene, of Ft. Scott, speaker of the last house of representatives and avowed candidate for Governor of Kansas. It is also expected Gvernor Capper will attend and speak should circumstan ces permit him to come. Two of. our best country bands have donated their services for the occasion and three ball teams composed of the fastest stuff in Western Kansas will play two fast games full of thrills and inter est - t , In view of such attractions we hard ly need to urge our readers and their friends to be there as they are assur ed of a big time. This is a rich oppor tunity especially . for the town folks and business men to prove to the worthy farming community, which is inviting us, that the esteem we pro fess to entertain for them is truly genuine and sincere; in fact that we appreciate their company quite as much as their patronage and money. Then "off for Banner" all of us, next Wednesday, July 25th. Don't forget the date. PROGRAM 10:30 O'clock "America" with Band Accompan iment Sung by Air Present Invocation by Rev. P. S. Stringer. Greetings by the Organization Com mittee. 11:00 O'clock Concerts by the Quinter and Coll- s U. S. S. Arkansas. Dear Folks: - . - ...: I will try and answer your, letter today, 1:30 this morning. Am- get- ting along fine and enjoying my work. I have been changed again, this time to the distributing room where I stand watches. I'm on watch 4 hours, off 8, ' on .4, off. 8V on 4 off 12 and repeat I . haven't much to do down here. I 'give the Watt meter every hour to the distributing room (I am in the after board) and every two hours I have to ' go around to the ventilation motors and blowers to see that they are all. running and have plenty of oil. That takes half an hour or so, there are some forty three in alL The rest of ' the time I spend studiag electrical books or musing. I have to change a switch occasionally or maybe put in new fuses. Time passes quickly ex cept the night watches seem pretty " long at times. 1 will go ashore today 11 I can get some of the other fellows to stand part of my watch, 4 to 8 p. m. Black berries are ripe in the woodlands and perhaps 111 drop in at a farm house and buy a good old fashioned dinner, if I can get away before noon. We are allowed to take pictures of some parts of the ship only but I have a few kodak views 1 will send 11 they pass the censor. My company have all gone now to the merchant marine except Williams of Hays and I suppose 1 would be there now "if I had stayed in the gun crew. They will all get to go across the water and 1 would like to go also, if you say I can go back in the gun crew. I suppose it is my disposition to berestless and wish foe the excite ment, yet I am making good in the electrical department. - ; Yes Haskins and I have been chums here. He has just come out of the hos pital where he has been confined for a month with the mumps. He has a locker in the wash room which we both use to keep our soap and towels in. I bought the bucket and he a pad lock for it, so we are in partnership in general. I remember the whistle, it was put in my uniform and in getting ready to send my clothes home some yer Bands. ll!:uu u ClOCK One hour for Basket Dinner. 1:00 O'clock Vocal Selection by the Teague Quartette. Reading, Miss Jessie luttle. Music by the Quinter Band. Song, Mrs. John Glenn. Flag-Drill by Twelve Young Ladies of the Banner M. E. Church. ' Music by the Collyer Band. Address bv Hon. A. M. Keene, of Ft. Scott. Mr. Keene was speaker of the house during the last legislature; is a man of brilliant mind and a deep student of the present world crisis. Voval Selection by 'the league Quartette. - ' Reading, Mrs. Vanscyoc. Music by the Quinter Band. Song, Miss Evabelle Long. Reading, Mrs. Newcomb. Music by the Collyer Band. Governor Arthur Capper will also sneak should circumstances . permit him to attend, which he has express ed an earnest desire to do. 3:00 O'clock Tug of War: Missouri Pacific Men vs. Union Pacific Men; 10 on each side; prize $10 by the committee. " 3:30 O'clock Contests and Races as Follows: Nail Driving Contest; 10 married ladies vs. 10 single ladies; prize $1 to the winners by Mrs. J as. Teague. Egg Race; 5 girls vs. 5 beys, 8 to 12 years old; prize $1.0 by Mrs. W. A. Purinton. Young Ladies Foot Race; 200 ft dash; prize $1 by Mrs. James Walsh. Sack Race; 150 yard dash, opened to all; prize $1 by Tom OToole. Foot Race; opened to all, 300 ft dash; prize $1 by Chas. C. Downie. Lean Men's Race; 200 ft dash; prize $1 by Richard Owens. Fat Men's Race; weight 190 lbs.. 150 ft dash; prize $1 by Jas. Zeman. 3:30 O'clock Sharp Ball Games Start Quinter vs. Utica. Wa-Keeney vs. winners. 5:30 O'clock ' "Star Spangled Banner," Sung by All with band accompaniment" Benediction, Rev. Mac. D. Thomp son. COMMENT I notice it is announced that the fall style of men's clothing will be cut along the line of conservation of cloth.. This will likely take some of the bag out of the seat of the present style. , . Luther . Burbank, the California plant man, announces that he has per fected a new variety of wheat which one said send that to your kid brother if you have one. I showed him your letter yesterday not knowing that it was me that had owned the whistle. Yes lie is a dandy fellow. He changed from deck to fireman just before I joined the electrical gang, now he J3 trying to get into the gang and I think He will make it. P.'S. I gathered the blackberries and ate the good old fashioned south em )f arm dinner right It certainly was : a treat to . ramble through the woods that are to be seen along the coast - I When Ralph's clothes came there was an army or police whistle that he had got in some way m Kansas City. Attached to it was a' name tag and address. I wrote to the address asking whether the same was of any value to the owner. I received a reply from a lady saying that it had be longed to her nephew who had joined the navy and that she would prize it highly as a keepsake. In sending the whistle I spoke of Ralph a boy of eighteen now on the Arkansas and said . that they might even be com rades for aught I knew. In her second letter she told me her nephew too was a mere boy of eighteen and a Kansas product also. That she had raised him as her own, but that he just would go to the navy when the call came. - - She spoke so kindly and affection ately of him and as such a good boy, hoping that they might meet and be come friends, because they would need all the friends they could make, that I sent the letter to Ralph and told him to "find Haskins if he could. 34Det help thinking the eircum stances peculiar when We -consider the great number that has gone. Stranger still when the three boys, Kessler, Kerth and Ralph, who went expect ing to pe together but are now separ ated each from - the others by the greatest distance possible and still be under the U. S. In the back ground of Ralph's pic ture is a portion of one .of the twelve inch guns of the Arkansas.- H. Harlan. will yield five times as much per acre as the wheat now in use in this coun try. He has been working on this var iety for the last ten years. The speculator should be the last man to wish for socailism or govern ment control of all products, to pre vail in the United States, but he is certainly helping the causes along now by his disposition to bleed the last cent, out of the consumer. People won't staid for it always and will take socialism in preference. I am just struck enough on the United States navy to believe that if a German naval vessel gets within sight of one of Uncle Sam's ships it will be sent to the bottom of the sea. This talk that the United States has no first class navy will prove as bot tomless as the same kind of talk did during the Spanish American war. We are a funny bunch of people. When a public official goes ahead and does his duty as he sees it regardless ef the opinion of the people, ,we say he has a disposition ef "the people be damned." If some other official first inquires the sentiment of the people and acts according to it, we call him "a policy man." That is, whenever his actions da not accord with our views. Also, we condemn Germany for try ing to stir up the negroes and I. W. W's. in this country to riot and at the same time our men are doing all they pan to incourage the citizens of Ger many to insurrection. The difference is. If a riot is stirred up in this country it will result in the death of a few negroes and a few I. W. W's. while if an insurrection is successfully stirred up in Germany it will result in the overthrow and pos sible death of a few Prussian war lords and an emperor or two. I notice by an eastern Kansas ex change that some of the wealthy townships in that part of the state which usually make fun of western Kansas, are chuck full of slackers on the Red Cross fund. They feel that they have been asked to contribute entirely too much money and that they are unable to do so. In the mean time, the whole of western Kansas is coming across with the coin and not making any noise about it If the money is. needed they are willing to come across with their share of it Subscribe for the World. DIAMONDS, WATCHES. CLOCKS, JEWELRY I got them, I sell them,' I repair , them. Goods cheerfully shown, and estimates on work given free. All goods sold or repaired absolutely guaranteed. WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIALTY A. S TREGER, Wa-Keeney, Kansa Bamiuer Picnic I Come one, Come all! Come to the Grand All-Day Picnic and Basket. Dinner Wich will 'take place on Wednesday, July 25th Under the Famous Purinton Grove near Banner, Kansas, close by the Celebrated freak of na ture, Castle Rock. , . - Everything above Expenses Goes to Red Cross Fund AMERICAN RED CROSS CHAPTER Those ore-anizingr the Trcjro County Chapter, June 23, 1917. Annual piem bers $1.00 A. o. Peacock Mrs. A. B. Jones Mrs. W. Y. Herrick , Mrs. A. S. Peacock Mrs. H. S. Givler Mrs. A. J. Atherton Mrs. Salome A. Blair Miss Georgie Moore Mrs. Minnie O'Neil ' Mrs. Elizabeth McCall Mrs. A. J. Ellermeyer Mrs. H. F. Kline C Cold iron John R. Parson Miss Lacy Herrick Miss Bernice Mattingly Miss Lilian Chalk Mrs. W. W. Gibson Mrs. W. L. Larrabee Mrs. T. B. Hays Mrs. C. R. Hille Mrs. P. E. Keraus Miss Mary Ufford Mrs. Chas. Steinberger Miss Edith Ruffner Miss Lora Bean Mrs. C M. Kraus Lee Palmer Mrs. Colie Inglis Miss May Curry - Mrs. W. N. Larrabee y' Mrs. W. 3. Williams Mrs. W. J. Miller Miss Agnes Peffenberger ' Miss Alma Courtney Mrs. A. S. Treger Mrs. W. C. Baker Mrs. Rudolph Horak Mrs. A. M. Finley Mrs. G. C. Brittain Dr. G. E. Haughey Miss Margaret Pierson t Miss Shirley Pierson Mrs. Euphemia Galloway Mrs. Wm. Musseman Mrs. Emma Kessler Miss Ethel Cue Mrs. Ernest Musseman - Miss Diantha Walker ! - Mrs. Hugh Wonner T Miss Delpha Walker Miss Vera Walker L - Miss "Vesta Walker - I Mrs. W. F. Hancock Mrs. H. Howat r Miss Blanch Smith ! Miss Grace Hancock 13. Elijah J. Garrett 1 1 . Mrs. II. M. Smith - , 'i, . Miss Maude Niesley . Miss Mildred Niesley : - ' .', Mrs. H. Bacon " ' ' Mrs. J. H. Heckman Mrs. R. C. Wilson r : , Mrs. C." L. Hardman. 15 " Mrs. Bellairs . . ; .J Mrs. M. J. Morgan - . Mrs- O. L. Lucas i Mrs. P. P. Shuler Mrs. J. T. W. Cloud Subscribing Mebmers $2.00 Mrs. J. C. Cortright Miss Lilian Wendt Miss Hattie J. Kirby Mrs. M. E. Fritts -Mrs. Ida Pierson Mrs. Ethel Moden H XT A Tl .m.ir. i. a. mures Mrs. Marie Struss ' ' Mrs. Ray Ufford Mrs. Wm. Littlechild Mrs. Dr. Wall Mrs. C. M. Hutchison . Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Purcell Mr. and Mrs. B. Greenwood Mrs. T. R. Moore Miss Julia Blair Mrs. W. R. Walker Mrs. Elijah J. Garrett J. E. Evans Contributing Members $5.00 C. M. Hutchison Miss Margaret Swiggett ' F. B. Acre Hudson Harlan John F. Walsh Sustaining Members $10.00 W. J. Williams C. H. Benson G. L. Hays SI J. Straw - i. H. Heckman 102 members July 9th. I have a general magazine afteiy and will apreciate orders for any mag azines. Call 171 or leave orders at -store. Ida M. Courtney. Adv. 21 OREGON & CALIFORNIA RAIL ROAD COMPANY GRANT LANDS. Legal "fight over land at last ended. Title revested in United States. Land, by act of congress ordered to be op ened under homestead laws for settle ment and sale. Two million ithree hundred thousand acres. Containing . some of best Timber and Agricultural lands left in the United States. Large Copyrighted Map showing land by townships and sections, laws covering same and description of soil, climate, rainfall, elevations, temperature, etc. Postpaid. One Dollar. Grant Lands Locating Co., Portland, Oregon. 21tf . . , When you have the backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be oat of order. Try Sanol it does wonders . for the liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial 35c bottle of Sanol will con vince you. Get it at the drug store. . . Adv, 13. , : .'. Subscribe for the World $1.50 a year. ; - , . '