Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-30

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The Woodmen's logrolling at Win
field brought about 10000 people to-
gether.
Ellsworth county is seriously discus
sing the establishing of county high
school.
Tho Union Pacific is putting down
gumbo ballast at the rate of half
mile day.
A special train went from Topeka to
carry attendants at the funeral of ex-
Senator Ingalls,.
The lola Portland Cement company
pays out $500 to its employees every
Saturday night.
A fresh raid on Topeka jointists on
the day before the Bryan notification,
broke up 40 of then.
Three persons were injured by runa-
ways among attendants at a picnic in
Nortonville last week.
John Erickson, of Sumner county,
threshed 35 bushels of wheat to the
acre off of bottom land.
Chas. Roberts was arrested at Will
liamsburg charged with killing bar
vest hand in Western Kansas.
Two new threshing outfits were
burned in Mcpherson county last week.
Eight stacks of wheat were burned
also.
A bank at La Crosse paid out on
wheat checks in the first nine days of
August $40, 992; and the rush had only
begun there.
There were 1 .625 out of town people
taken into Topeka on August %, by
the Santa Fe, Rock Island and Union
Pacific roads.
Mrs Henry Hewitt was found dead
in her bed at her home in Marshall
comfy, in which she and her husband
had resided for 40 years.
The Fort Scott log rolling was called
off by the executive committees on &C
count of failure to get rates from the
railroads which they wanted.
1t is said that 5000 people assembled
at Wetmore, from Nemaha, Brown and
jackson counties, at the annual Modern
Woodmen logrolling Oh August %.
At the soldiers reunion at Oswego
on September Governor Stanley will
present medals to the members Of Co.
G, Twentieth Kansas, who live in that
vicinity.
If Hutchinson's new ordinance is
valid it will cost telegraph companies
about $500 year, the Bell Telephone
company $1,000 and the express COM
panies 500 year each.
Secretary Coburn told the National
| Agricultural Congress, assembled at
Colorado Springs, that Kafir corn, al
falfa and the soy bean must revolution
ize the agriculture of the semi-arid
plains.
Some of the creameries are getting.
out of butter to fill orders The
shrinkage of the diaries on account of
continued dry and hot weather is the
cause. The weather, however, is i'm
proving.
The Frisco railroad has made ar
rangements to run a special train to
Wichita from Columbus, Kansas, on
September 5, the date of the annual
logrolling of the Woodmen of the
World in that city.
Miss Bessy Capper. sister of Arthur
Capper, and Superintendent H. S.
Myers, of the public schools of Garnett,
are married. The bride has been a
teacher in the state deaf and dumb
school at Olathe. Rev. S. b. McGrew,
who united the brides parents 80 years
ago, oficiated.
Senator Ingalls, held two life insur-
ance policies for $4,000 each. They
were fifteen payment policies which
were taken December 30, 1885.
Prisoners in Western Kansas are too
smart to stay in Jail, it would seem.
Every few days officers in the eastern
part of the state are notified that pris-
oners have escaped.
According to the assessors returns
of Kansas Galena made the largest
gain in population, lola made the next
largest gain, 2,O41, and Wichita the
next largest gain, 1,7sO.
Halls Summit suffered from two
fires, one in town burning a general
store and grocery store. Other build
ings were saved by hard work. The
other was big barn outside of town
with its contents, including 1,5OO bu-
shells of corn.
Jas. Wallace, farmer across the
Missouri river from Leavenworth, was
killed by DR.. Arlington in a quarrel
over line fence. The doctor drove to
Leavenworth, but soon went back over
the river and took his little daughter
and skipped out.
Joseph Potter, now so years old, is
probably the first white settler in At
Gibson county. He moved over from
Missouri June 3, 1854, the day after
the bill passed opening Kansas terri
tory to settlement.
Captain w. A. Green, Fort Scott