Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-05-24
FOWLER NEWS.

there was new baby in town
last week at the home of Will
Green. Mother and son doing
well and Will expects him to vote
for Bryan in 1921.
The spell is broken, for the
proverbial seven Sundays rain
following wet Easter failed to
materialize last Sunday and we
now look for a little dust to fly.
Walter Burford and son Henry
moved house for VIM. Ellis last
Tuesday, despite the mud and
water.
We have heard of love driving
people insane, and making them
blind, crossing deep rivers and
climbing mountains, scorning
distance and laughing at advers-
ity, but we never knew it to make
a fellow lose his hat. What on
earth man could be doing with
his hands is puzzle. The hands
we understand were made to
hold on with-onto your hat, if
the wind blows.
Sim Burford left Monday for
Nevada, Mo-, where he will take
magnetic treatment from DIR.
Weltmer, of that place. From
there he will visit relatives at
Syracuse and then return to
Hutchinson to attend Reno county
Normal. His sweetheart accom-
panied him as far as Minneola.
B. F. Cox left very suddenly
Monday morning for the east,
taking his little handbag along,
which caused some to conjecture
that maybe Uncle Ben had seen
the error of his way and finally
concluded to seek a better half,
The Fowler band is brushing up
preparatory to giving him and
the choice of his heart a rousing
reception on their return. Ben
claims he is going to the Demo-
cratic convention at Wichita.
Mr., and Mrs, Johnson were
pleasant callers at Marion Nett's
Sunday.
Miss Edna Roberts, of Mineo1a,
was a visitor at Walter Burford's
last week.
Miss Minnie Edwards was a
pleasant caller in the city last
week.
DIR. Fee was in the city Thurs
dav last.
The fish will all suffer now as
the Fowler Consolidated Fin
Chasers Co. haye purchased an
immense net with which they are
seineing all the bull frogs and
lucky bugs out of the creek near
the dam.
Ernest Johnson has resigned
hisapprenticeship atJim Brooks.
Quite crowd of young folks
visited at Mr.. Burfords Sunday
to have a little farewell before
Sim left. They report lots of
fun and that the crowd had their
pictures struck as a remember
ance of the fun boat-riding.
The boys took a notion last
Thursday night to serenade the
town, which they did in a very
creditab1e manner. Nothing
sounds so sweet as to be awak-
ened from midnight s1umber by
sonorous strains of music. Give
us another treat, boys, in the
future.
Messrs. Sims and Hodges went
to Meade Saturday.
Rosa Nett was visiting her
brother Frank Monday night.
Pete Craig, the stalwart farm
er from the west, was doing BUSH
ness in town Friday.
Mary Palmer returned Friday
frym Ashland, where she had
been as a delegate to the Christ
ian Endeavor convention.
The Fowler school will give
closing entertainment at the M.
E. church. Friday night, May rs.
Everybody invited to attend.
The chinch bug continues to
do business in good form and
some fears are entertained that
he may do the harvesting this
year.
Elliott Henry was transacting
business in the city Monday.
Sam Turner was missed from
town all day Sunday but showed
up Monday morning all o. k. He
talks of getting buggy as BIZ
cycle is nuisance on Sunday.
CRAcKERJAcK.