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The Cheney Sentinel from Cheney, Kansas • Page 1

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State llitciicai Society 2 iurJivA Kansas a fT TT fT Tl TX TTT IT II 1J Pr JJL-X JLL JL Ao -4 1L VOL. 25. NO. 19 CHENEY. SEDGWICK COUNTY.

KANSAS. THURSDAY, JUNE 10. 1920 $200 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE A i i If fl a i 1 II wirn.il i Hill Former Councilman Likes Improvements in Cheney Win. McCue, Fairview, (Okla.) BOYS- GIRLS 1 The Citizens State Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $35,000.00 Abstracter, daughter, Verna and 0 sons. John andStanley, wafted intoip 1 TT 0 i 1 TT Katmai And The Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes Lucius Grant Folsom, who has accompanied four expeditions into Alaska in the last five years for the National Geographic Society, will lecture in the Cheney City Hall, Friday night, May 11, under the auspices of the Y.

M. and Y. W. societies. A nominal fee of 20 and 35 cents will be charged.

Mr. Folsom is a brother of Rer. Folsom of Goddard. i Cheney Monday on a breeze from the west. It has been almost two years since Mr.McCue left Cheney and the vicissitudes of life have Vacation lime Is 0 I ji.t: i.

IMES OLLARS IVIDENDS Now At Hand shows up his genial smile. He is doing real well in Fairview and his business is growing. He re- YOU WILL NEED and the Valley of Ten his family as well as the Ok Pocket Knives i lahoma climate will permit them to be. He was much elated that Cheney was getting waterworks and sewerage. Fairview has 2000 souls, but no sewerage.

We will endeavor to have Mr.McCue write us about taxes in Oklahoma as I Thousand will be -the subject of Mr. Folsom's lecture. Alaska is the world's wonder. One of the most beautiful countries in the world. Mr.

Folsom will illustrate his lecture with 150 colored views. No one in this community "Habit is a cable of which we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot brerk it" Our greatest financiers tell us that the first thousand was the hardest to get. Their advice is to save a little each day. Electric Irons Roller Skates Silverw are Safety Razors Manicure Sets Scissors Watches Base Balls Base Ball Gloves Base Ball Bats Air Guns Rifles Flash Lights should fail to hear of the wonders 'compared to Kansas. It will be ofnnp ofthft riohpst nossftssionsi interesting and also enlightening I I of the United States.

Mr. Folsom en we think of taxes in Kansas. was a school teacher in Alaska six Mr.McCue expects to return home today. Mrs. McCuc andlg O.

Northcutt, President W. E. Zirkle, Cashier some of the children exnect to visit i E- E- Crossley, V. Pres. T.

L. Northcutt, A. Cash in Cheney this summer. iss years before he went on these expeditions. His powers to describe what he has seen, will be of much benefit to all.

Mr. Saunders will show the pictures. The societies will divide the proceeds, which they will use Hazel taughtschool last winter and this summer is taking a course in Buy Them from Us and Get The Best Make Oar Store Your Headquarters Contractors Make Statement The Y. M. and Y.

W. Meetings All Summer The Y. M. and Y. C.

A's. In order to allay the feeling that the State Normal at Alva. Cheney would not continue the Will Be Small Yield jwin hold their regular monthly good advantage. 1 1 There are many guesses on what meeting in theMiigh school auditor- Co. ardware Cheney Equity Mrs.

Dora Biggs Passed Away the wheat yield will be in this ter-jium on Friday evening, June 18 ritory and they vary considerably at 8 o'clock. The boys who at- Mrs. Chas. Schweitzer and mother, Mrs. B.

El ward, returned ast week from Hitchcock, where they had been called by the Christian Church Notes tended the summer camp at Elm-dale will have there pictures there and will give the associations some idea of life at Camp Wood. There will be and refreshments. All young people of the com sickness and death of their daugh- er and sister, Mrs. Dora Biggs, wife of Tony Biggs. Mrs.

Biggs death occurredMay 26. She leaves waterworks and sewer construction and that the work had "blown we wish to state that work wTas called off in order to permit us to check up our work and thru a misunderstanding. The work was not stopped through any failure of the city officials to take care of their part of the contract, because we have never worked with a better hunch of men who pushed the work forward more rapidly and who realize that in these strenuous times, allowances must be made. We make this statement to, top any adverse criticism that may be made on the city officials, for our relations with them arc the most amicable. McCoy Taylor Mrs.

L. N. Birch, who has been ill, is reported as improving. besides her husband, three young munity are cordially invited to be present and a special invitation is more than heretofore. Owing to i the wind blowing out so much wheat probably 40 per cent many believe that the yield will be only 50 per cent of what it was last year.

However, not all take this gloomy view. North of Cheney the yield will be very light as much of the wheal was blown out. West and south they will be considerable, allhough not as much as in former years, There is this much to the predictions. They all hinge on the point of whether we get another rain in time to make the heads fill properly. A fifty per cent crop children, the youngest 2 yrs.

old; extended to former members of ler mother, two sisters and a half Stole Set of Harness Some miscreant slipped into Ernest Pipkin's barn last Friday night and carried off a new set of harness which had been in use about two weeks. Ernest got track of him and found that he was going west. Marshal Garrison got on the trail and it was learned the parties camped near Greensburg, Sunday night. The had traveled two nights without making camp. The officers expect to land their man and the harness.

Just received a shipment of Du- both Associations. brother and half sister. MrsJSiggs was born SVth of Cheney 3tyears 1111 We had a splendid Bible School Oast present. Let us increase that number nextSunday, we can if we, will. A fine crowd picnic Tuesday.

Our offering for Foreign Missions Sunday night totaled $85.00 counting our birthday money. Tsual services next Sunday. Subject of the morning sermon, Manhood of Evening, "The Way of the Cross1'. Sunday afternoon at 2:15 we will go to Murdock. Everyone invited to attend these services.

Read Sentinel Ads It Pays. ago, ana uaa uvea on a rarm tuere Mr. and Mrs, David Zirkle and daughters, of Southllaven, visited the WallaceZirkle family Tuesday. David has been a little under the weather and is looking for a job until about ten years ago when she removed to Oklahoma. Burial took place in Okeene, Oklahoma.

The many friends of the family that will take some of the worries off his shoulders. sympathize with them in their sorrow. rolin floor covering, there are some very pretty patterns. C. O.

Nelson. Construction Gang Remember Ubmy Grandmothers is still a matter of conjecture. Harvest will begin about June 20. Casads Attended Family Reunion H. L.

Casad and family were in Cheney last Friday, having come from Norwich where they attend-a reunion of the Van Giesen family, Mrs. Casad's family. There were sixty-four of the family pres Copper 'Kettle? 2 I S3 We had hopes that every account on our books would be paid on or before Jan. 1st. We were some 2 ent.

The reunion was held at the I Going Strong C. J. IMcCoy of McCoy Taylor, contractors, who are putting in the waterworks and sewers for Cheney, was in the city Tuesday morning having failed to make connections to arrive Monday. Mr. McCoy immediately ordered the work to proceed and assured the council there would be no more stops.

He expects to get the work completed soon after the first of July. The big tower, we understand, has been loaded but freight from Pittsburg, Pa. does not move 1 i are now accounts what disappointed. We asking that all past due be settled once. Harry Thorn home near Norwich.

Harry called on the Sentinel family to let us kuow that crop prospects around Moreland, his home, were very flattering. He says that he noticed much more feed in this year than heretofore, i S5? 2 1 How she prized it? And how she used it for years and years? And brought it out only on special occasions? What would she have thought of a copper washtub? Probably that it was too good to be true. But it isn't I A. H. Hill Lumber Com'y W.

V. Thresher, Mgr. any too fast. Automobile Storage. Commencing June 1st, we will charge 25c per day, or fractional thereof, for storage, and 50c for night storage.

This is necessary in order to keep up the expense of cleaning floors and pushing cars 52 II even places that had a chance to be put into wheat. He is well pleased with the looks of his farm north of Cheney on which BenBergkamp lives, and compliments Mr. Berg-kamp for his work. Chas. Fifer, deputy county treasurer, was in Cheney Tuesday calling on his friends.

Chas. has been in the treasurer's office for several years and is asking the Democratic party for the treasurer nomination this year. His genial smile is entitled to some 0 ira I ELECTRIC CLOTHES WASHER has a 2 foot copper tub gleaming outside, perfectly smooth inside, that oscillates and washes clothes absolutely clean, and quicker than you would have thought possible. BlueBird has only one kind of tub copper. And copper was chosen because it wears long; retains heat, never i i IN MEN'S JEWELRY there are so few pieces, that what a man wears in Jewelry MUST BE GOOD.

Solid Gold Signet Rings are very practical and are always appreciated. Let me show you my stock before you buy. around and help keep up the building. Wulf Bros. Cheney Motor Co.

Woltee Motor Co. Miss Lillian Woodward, who taught in Locust Grove, and has been spending a few days with her brother, Earl and Mrs, Woodward, left Tuesday morning for Wichita and Burns where sha will visit friends before going toRaton, X. M. to join her parents. It is probable Miss Woodward will not return to Georgia next will organize music classes in Raton this fall.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Plaugher living near Conway Springs, are the parents of a baby girl, born May 30. The little Miss tipped the scales to 12 pounds. Mrs.

Plaugher is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Reeves.

rusts or acts chemically on the clothes and is as easy to clean as a china plate. Because it is the best! Every feature of BlueBird is just as wonderful as the tub. See it today. Call at the store, or phone and arrange for A Free Demonstration in your home. Learn what BlueBird wash-hour will mean to you.

P. G. Kroeker and family' and OltoSouders and family are in the regions of Denver, Colo.this week and -expect to make Yellowstone Park next week. They are traveling Ford a la and turning up their noses at the hotel profiteers. They will return to Cheney before the first of July.

Mr. and Mrs. Clias. Walton and boy, were out from Wichita last Sunday to visit. with his mother.

They expect to leave for Palmer Lake, Colo.this week for the benefit of Mrs. Walton's health, which has not been good since she suffer ed with the flu last winter. 1 ROBERT KING JEWELER HAMILTON WATCHES it.

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