Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-07

transacting business in Meade Tues
day.
The Catholic workers society will
meet at, the home of Mrs. F. Wehrle
Friday afternoon.
B. F. Bisbee was over from Plains
Tuesday getting lumber to make
header barges for his wheat crop.
Don't forget the meeting of the
Meade County Live Stock Associa-
ton next Saturday. All be present.
The Fowler Union Sunday school
will give picnic at Lambert's grove
July 4th. All are invited to attenn.
A good soaking rain fell Monday
night, just the thing to make crops
grow. 1t greatly benefited the.wheat
and almost insures a good crop.
E. H. Boyer shipped car load
of wool to the market at St. Louis
this week. Mr.. Boyer has one of
the largest herds of sheep in this
part of Kansas.
A herd of 1900 head of yearlings
passed through Meade Monday,
They were from the Beatty ranch in
the west end of the strip and were
to be delivered to parties in Barber
county.
We notice from the East side cor
respondent that there are some gos-
Slippers out in the country and that
they do not all reside in the city.
We may also have to extend the
jurisdiction of our contemplated
scandal gossip club to the country
as well as the city.
Mrs. Shaw, of Artesian, is justly
proud of her strawberry patch this
year. She is picking from IS to 100
quarts daily which she is disposing
of at 10 cents per quart. The ber-
ries are as large and fine as grow in
any country, and far discount any
that have been shipped in, as these
are fresh from the patch each day.
We acknowledge the receipt of a
fine boquet of this fruit.
A letter received this week from
Ed. Wehrle, Mariveles, Luzon Is
land, dated April "a, states that he
is in good health and that every
thing is quiet in that vicinity at
present. Ed is in Co. A, of the
famous .32nd U. S. " which took
the place of the goth Kansas. We
shall publish an account of this reg
iment next week taken from the
Manila Freedom, published in the
City of Manila.
Last Friday night an advance man
put in his appearance in town and
billed show for Saturday night.
The bills indicated that the '.pro-
fessor" was world-renowned ven
triloquist and ''hypnotist." Satur-
day evening professorly looking
fellow "showed up" and proved to
be the ''hypnotist'. A small crowd
assembled at the hall to see the per
Torrance and witness the s'wonder-
full freak. The show commenced
about 9 o'clock with the ''Prof." on
the stage. He made short state
ment about his line of work and
stated that he would ''hypnotize'
anyone who would come forward.
Several of the boys went up for trlal
and the ''Prof." concluded thai
they were not good subjects. He
went through some hand motions
with some of the small boys, ther
he and his partner "hypnotized'
each other and made a speech OF
two, which any Io-year-old boy
could have discounted. The partner
blacked up and came out and go
off song or two, and cracked
several jokes, all of which wore
whiskers yard long. The audienct
began to leave and pretty soon the
"Prof." said goodnight and stated
that he would try again Monda,
night. All the boys were dissatisfied
and wanted their money back, 81
the night marshal put the "Prof.
and his assistant in the holdover ant
went to see Co. Atty. Bodle, wht
concluded that he would not b.
warranted in holding them. Sun
day morning they were turned loos
and both took tie pass east, hayin,