Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11


is an army surgeon on the island Jolo.
Miss Rebecca Baxter, of Franklin
county was thrown from buggy and
killed.
Five women have recently been added
to the force at the Topeka pension
Office.
The probate judge of Shawnee coun-
ty issued about $50 marriage licenses
in 1899.
A movement is now on foot to close
up the telephone exchange on Sundays
in Marion.
The holiday business on the Rock
Island was enormous, nearly double
what it was last year.
Seven hundred people turned out to
witness the opening of the new Y NJ.
c. A. rooms at Ottawa.
B. B. Smyth has been elected libra
rian CT the Kansas Academy of Science
for the sixteenth time.
Farmers institutes are being held all
over Kansas this year. They are grow
ing to be very popular.
w. II. Rankin has been designated
as member of the civil service board
for the postoffice at Lawrence, Kas.
The poor commissioner gave away
200 tons of coal to the poor of Shawnee,
county during the month of December.
1t takes eight days for the raw ma
terial to be changed into binding Irvine
at the new plant at the state peniten-
tiary.
Congressman Curtis is pressing his
proposed appropriation for new
building at the federal prison at Leav-
enworth.
Rev. G. D. Olden, very able pastor
in Topeka, had been sold on the auc-
ton block three times before he was
IL years old.
Business men of Burlington may put
up fund for the purpose Of sinking a.
hole in order to find what wealth lies
buried down there.
new creamery is to be established
at Womer, Smith county. A steam
separator and a $4,000 plant will be
erected in the early spring.
A Wichita man has shipped sample
of canned jackrabbit to England. If
this is received favorably he will go
into the business on large scale.
R. E. Torrington, who was formerly
employed in the Santa Fe freight
offices in Wellington, has been appoint
ed ticket agent for the Rock Island at
Wichita.
At Chillicothe, Illinois, the mother
of ]. G.. johnson of Peabody, caught
fire in lighting lamp and was burned
to death. The children were gather
ing for family reunion on Christmas.
R. A. Goodman, living five miles
west of Wichita, is entitled to prize
as the champion hog raiser of Kansas.
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land-China hog which, when dressed
weighed exactly $40 pounds.
The class of large girls at the Sol
diers' Orphans home at Atchison has
been reduced from thirty to ten in the
last three months. w. F. Martin, state
agent for the home, places about eight
children a month in families, and the
number of children in the home has
been decreased from 22O last August to
165 at the present time.
Representatives of the National AS
will visit Topeka to make arrangements
J for the convention of that order which
is to be held in that city in May.
State Auditor Cole refused to regis.
ter $40, 900 worth of Delaware town.
ship, Jefferson county refunding bonds.
The bonds provide for an interest rate
of per cent which Mr.. Cole regards as
= suspicious circumstance as the state
school fund would take the bonds a.
: AZ per cent. His action will allow
time for an investigation.
, New call boxes have been put il
place in many offices and business
) houses in Topeka. The boxes are Sc
arranged that messengers. police, cab:
I or express wagons can be called by
, simply pushing the indicator to the
right place.
Sam Triplett, of Labette county hai
been awarded a medal for gallan
/ action in the Cuban war. He was {;
S sailor on the Marblehead and performed
e perilous feat in cutting the cable a
a Cienfuegos. He is now on the battle
ship Indiana.
t Stephen Balch, who has large vine
C yards in Sedgwick county, has solt
d three carloads of grape cuttings to
d nurseryman of Cowley county.
d Catholics of Alma dedicated a fin
D new church last week which takes tn
place of one burned less than yea
S ago. The building cost &c. 500, and tn
V debt on it amounts to less than $500
n Father Ramp is given credit for tn
S major portion of the work which wa
he h,,i1l;-o- -,