Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-10
List ofRan.as Fairs.

year, their dates, locations, and secrc-
taries. as reported to the State board
OF agriculture and furnished to the
public by Secretary F. D. Coburn: Al
len County Agricultural society, c. l..
Whitaker. secretary, lola, September
l1-l3. Allen County Fair and Moran
Driving Park association. Ii. P. Smith,
secretary, Moran, August 2o-23. An
derson County Fair association, NJ. L.
white, secretary, Garnctt, September
SO. Brown County Exposition asso-
citation. C. FL. Lawrence, secretary.
Hiawutha, September 1913. Chase
county Agricultural association, J. P.
Kuhl secretary, Cottonw wood Falls,
September 1913. Clay County Fair
association, j. ]. Marty, secre-
tary, Clay Center. Coffey Coun.
ty Fair association, j. E. Wood.
ford, secretary, burlington, Septem.
Der Ola. Cowley County Fair and
Driving Park association, A. C. Bangs.
secretary, Winfield, September 24-27.
Crawford County Agricultural society.
John Vets, secretary, Girard, August
27-5o. Finney County Agricultural SO.
clety, d. A. Minis, secretary, Garden
City, September 1928. Franklin coun.
ty Agricultural society, Chas. H. Ridg-
way, secretary, Ottawa. September
1920. Franklin County District Fair
association, j. j. McCabe, secretary,
Lane. Jackson County Agricultural
and Fair association, S. B. McGrew,
secretary, Holton, September 3o-Octo-
Der 4. Jefferson County Agricultural
and Mechanical association, Geo. A.
Patterson, secretary. Oskaloosa, Octo-
Der 11-13. Johnson County Co-opera.
two Fair association, C. NJ. Dickson,
secretary. Edgerton. September lo-1a
johnson County FAIR association, w.
L. Pugh, secretary, Olathe. August 81
81. Linn County Fair association, Ed
K. Smith, secretary, Mound City, Oct.
Ia. Marion County Agricultural So
ciety, Manly 1. Hill, secretary, Pea
body, September 25-27. Miami Coun-
ty Agricultural and Mechanical asso-
citation, Geo. P. Leavitt, secretary,
Paola, September 1927. Montgomery
County Agricultural society, d. w.
Kingsley, secretary, Independence,
September 1920. Morris County Ex-
position company, E. ]. Dill, score.
tary, Council Grove, September 24-27.
Nemaha Fair association, John Stow
ell, secretary, Seneca, September go.
Neosho County Agricultural society,
ID. Lodge, secretary, Erie, September
80. Neosho County-The Chanute Ag-
ricultural, Fair, Park and Driving as
ISOLATION, q. c. Rawlings, secretary,
Chanute, August 1916. Usage County
Fair association, E. G. Pipp, secretary,
Burlingame. Osborne County Fair as
ISOLATION, M. E. Smith, secretary, o.
borne. Riley County Agricultural So
ciety, FL. A. Ames, secretary, Riley,
September 1913. Rocks County Fair
association, I. N. Pepper, secret ary,
Stockton, October as. Saline County
Agricultural and Horticultural asso-
citation, Samuel Carlin, secretary, Sa-
lima. Sedgwiclz County-Kansas State
Fair" w. r, Hewey, secretary, Wich-
tia, October is. Wilson County Ag-
ricultural society, c. z. Cantrall, Sec
rotary, Fredonia, September 1913,
Chief Civil Engineer Dunn of the
Santa Re, and his entire force were
at Arkansas City Friday and Saturday
Locating the grounds for the NAM
moth round house and shops for the
Santa Fe railroad. Three hundred
additional men will be employed.
A young man named Macmillan
White. of junction City, went to To-
peka Monday to visit his sisters. He
drank several glasses of cider, which
produced headache, for which he
took large dose OF morphine. 1t
proved all overdose and he died at the
police station.
Attorney General F. B. Dawes rem
dered an opinion Wednesday after
noon in which he held that the State
auditor cannot legally audit the vouch-
ers presented for payment by the mem.
bers of the board of directors of the
Hutchinson reformatory. He objects
particularly to the item claiming 81
per day for board.
Kansas has applied for space for a
State exhibit at the Atlanta, Ca, Ex-
position.
The supreme court has made q de-
cision which reduces the rate that can
be charged for official State advcrtis-
ing one-half, or 20 so cents q square
The customary rate for many years
has been 81. The same decision seems
to carry with it q reduction in the
charges for publishing the supreme
court syllabi and tho laws to 25 cents
a square.
A dispatch from Topeka says: The
State printing committee, composed of
the Secretary of State, Attorney Gen.
eral and State Treasurer. find them
selves in an EMBARRASSING situation
They have ordered public printing to
the amount of $1,000 in excess of the
appropriation. The statutes are very
explicit on this point, and provide that
ANY officer or agent of the State vio-
lating this law shall be deemed guilty
of ENLIGHTENMENT of the amount in ex-
cess OF that expressly authorized by
law, and upon conviction shall be pun.
ishcd by confinement and hard labor
not exceeding five years, or in the
county Jail rot less than six months. +"
Mrs. w. w. Guthrie of Atchison was
badly bruised Sunday evening. She
was out driving with her hus band
when the horses became frightened
and started to run, and she Jumped
from the buggy.
Wichita has a precocious youth in
the person of 4-ycar-old Richmond
Benin. He can read and write, and do
sums in arithmetic that would puzzle
a child of 10. His parents say they
hardly know how or when he learned
to read, but he began a year ago by
reading the newspaper advertise
ments- He reads Dickens, and Is par
ticularly fond of David Copperfeld.
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