Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-11-22

Miss May Scott, an lola girl, is elect
ed school superintendent in Bingham
county, Idaho.
The lola cement plant in one day
sent out Is cars of its product and or
dered 20 empties.
]. F. Todd, formerly labor commits
sioner of Kansas, was elected to the
lower house in Oklahoma
Jewell county farmers harvested
their last cutting of alfalfa in the
middle week of November
Some farmers are moving their
wheat to prevent it's jointing. This
experiment will be watched.
General j. K. Hudson and Ex-Gov-
ernor John P. St. John, are both hand
ling mines at Versailles, Mo.
The State Teachers association will
meet in Topeka during holiday week
as has become the settled custom.
Sedgwick county employs 279 school
teachers; exceeding the number en-
ployed by any other Kansas county.
Members of the Canton National Aid
associa ton turned OFT and husked John
Evans orn crop because he was sick.
Clarence Olson, Lindsborg student
at Yale college, has been selected to
participate in the Yale Harvard de-
bate
John R. Harrison, of Salina, Kansas,
now postmaster at Havana, has been
made acting director general of posts
in Cuba.
Some of the department heads in the
state house are knocking because the
governor insists that they shall be more
economical.
A number of white persons are claim
ting to be relatives of Bert Higginboth-
am, the negro who died at Independ-
ence leaving unclaimed property.
Elgin, Chautauqua county, with
population of 300, is the largest cattle
shipping point in the world 1t S the
loading point for the Usage pastures.
The work of preparing bills is already
becoming voluminous. Of course there
will be hundreds presented to the legis-
lature that will deserve no considera-
ton, as usual.
Jas. Downs was killed at Cedarvale
while making an effort to save the life
of a girl who was in buggy with a
runaway team. The buggy pole passed
through his body.
Two inmates of the Beloit industrial
school set fires at that institution
which destroyed $40, 900 worth of prop.
erty. The problem now is whether to
send them to Lansing for committing
arson.
There will be no inaugural ball in
the Kansas state house this time.
There has been no ball at the three
preceding inaugurations. The prac-
tice was started early and was not
interrupted until it was Governor Nor
rill's turn.
State Grain Inspector Mckenzie
turned into the state treasury $4,151,
the amount collected in fees during
October. This paid up an existing de-
fciency and the expenses for October |
and left $193 to the credit of the in
spection department.
The 5-year-old daughter of A. M.
Sturm, of Concordia, fell backward |
into tub of scalding water and died |
within an hour. Her father was lying |
at the point of death at the time from
an accidental gun shot wound received |
during the previous week.
Probably the oldest house in Kansas
was built in Kickapoo in 1884 by the |
Catholics for a mission school. Cover |
nor Reeder, first territorial governor of |
Kansas, used it as his office; later it !
was occupied as the first U. s. land |
Office in Kansas. 1t is still standing. |
Robert Campbell and George Parkin-
son are both graduates of the Wichita |
high school. They are both gaining |
high rank in the Northwestern Univer- |
sity of Chicago. Last year Winfield |
student carried off the honors at the
Northwestern.
Astarch factory company in Michigan
has contracted for 10000 bushels of |
Gull potatoes in the Kaw Valley. It is |
promised that if he gets contracts for |
$4,000 bushels they will locate starch |
factory at Bonner Springs.
The Kansas Millers' association at
the session in Wichita empowered B.
Warkentine, of Newton, to arrange |
for the importation of Crimean hard |
wheat for seed. The idea is to place |
car of the wheat in every county of |
the wheat belt. The price of flour was |
not discussed at the meeting.
1t stands between superintendent
Nelson and Treasurer Grimes who of |
the candidates on the elected state
ticket received the most votes.
The new law names May 1 as the
date when county school superinteu-
dents enter upon their Office This |
leaves from January until May, space
of about months, for which county
commissioners will name superintend-
ents. 1t is probable that all who were