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

81. A. Rice, of Kansas City, proposes
to start glove and mitten factory in
Wamego.
Miss Luella Neiswanger has been ap-
pointed police judge in Almena, Nor
ton county.
VIM Lanyon has just put up $50, 900
for the bonds issued for building the
Pao1a waterworks.
3There is to be fall inspection of the
Kansas National Guards during No
vember and December.
The title to the Kansas Midland is
now complete in the Frisco line; the
last requisite act is finished.
Jos. Edwards, of near Clifton, raises
potatoes in quantities every year.
This year he ships five carloads.
The Kansas hens contribution to
the wealth of the state this year is es-
timated at four million dollars.
Kansas had a choice location as
signed for its building at the Pan
E. d. Replogle, Cottonwood Falls
druggist, was sandbagged and robbed
while driving home in his buggy.
The Kansas Millers' association will
hold another meeting in Topeka the
second Wednesday in November.
A Jefferson county man returned
from the Kansas City Angora goat
show with 162 goats and 126 kids.
An accidental discharge of a small
rifle instantly killed Herbert Golf, of
Arkansas City. He was 12 years old.
Sedgwicl1 has population of less
than 1000, yet there are over 200 daily
newspapers received at the post Office.
A West Virginia company has taken
a charter under the name of the Kan
sas Oil and Gas company of Fort Scott.
All of the Santa Fe's %, 042 freight
cars are equipped with air brakes; of
which 27,710 have automatic couplers.
The work of thirty coopers is re-
quired to supply the four or 5000 bar
rels used in the mills of Atchison every
week.
Samuel Lewis, a colored prisoner in
the Kansas penitentiary, sent there
from Wyandotte county, has commit
ted suicide.
A Mcpherson county farmer sold $3.50
worth of alfalfa seed from Is acres of
land, besides retaining bushels for
his own use.
The contract is let for Coffeyvilles
new municipal electric light and power
plant, for $17,9 The city voted $780,
600 in bonds.
brave lad near Cedarvale attacked
a catamount with stick and got his
shoulder and neck badly torn by the
animals claws.
5The special election in Washington,
Kas.. on issuing S25, 900 bonds for
system of waterworks, was carried by
large majority.
A bird dog at South Haven made a
dead set on box of quails at the depot,
thus giving away the shipper who was
breaking the law.
A church census in Wichita develops
the fact that nine-tenths of the families
in the city have preference for some
particular church.
A car of fish from the government
hatcheries has been distributed at
Wichita to farmers, with which to stock
their ponds on their farms.
The $50 excursionists from Reno
county to the Kansas Agricultural COL
lege, many of them teachers, had very
disagreeable weather during their visit
The Masonic temple in independence
was dedicated on October %. One of
the three living charter members OF
the Independence lodge, NJ. D. Henry,
was present. He is SO years old. The
lodge was organized in 1869. The tenn
pie cost about $3.50
There are stored in one warehouse in
Topeka between II and IS thousand
bushels of Kansas apples. Ben Davis,
Wine Sap and Missouri Pippin are
being shipped to the eastern states,
while Baldwins and Greetings are com.
ing to-Topeka from New York.
The twenty-ninth annual Sunday
school convention of Reno county will
be held in Nickerson November 13 and
II.
Attorney GODDARD has decided that
rules and regulations made by the state
board of health are effective and prac
tically have the force and effect OF
laws
There is quarter in Osborne county
for which the owner received $3.50, cash
rent, this season. The quarter is in al
falfa. The owner is going to raise tn,
rent, too.
An Eskridge barber who has worked
there year, says that he has not beer
swindled out of the price of a single
shave.
The board of health of Rush count,
asks the people to cooperate in tn
work of stamp ng out contagiou
disease ''that very much resemble
smallpox.
Frank Allgood, who is about to g
IN the repitaotiarv for borse StaaI;po