Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-05-31
The weather is getting hotter and

at the Baptist church.
G. w. Umbarger was up from
Sand Greek Wednesday.
Who will be the candidates for
representative this year9
Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Shore were
visiting friends in Meade this week.
Buford Wood is visiting his
mother, Mrs. L. E. Wood, this
week.
Mrs. w. B. Rhodes and sister,
Miss Alice Muzzy, were in Meade
this week.
H. ]. Young purchased about IS
head of cattle from P. Blair & Sons
last week.
F. w. Flick is having an addition
built to his residence in the north
part of town.
R. P. Smith and wife left Tues
day overland for several weeks out
ing in Colorado.
The Bon Ton ice cream at Gray's
was the best quality of cream ever
served IN Meade.
w. c. Osgood jr. is papering and
painting the real estate Office of Geo.
B. Cones this week.
Misses Clara Rhodes and Hattie
Free came up from the Cimarron
Tuesday to spend Decoration Day.
We admire man sometimes for
the kind of enemies he makes, es-
pecially when they are very poor
kind.
The ball game Wednesday be-
tween the blues and whites resulted
it score of 9 to IS in favor of the
whites.
We are getting up club of sub
scribers for the Kansas City weekly
Times at ascts per year. Don't you
want a copyr Order at once.
Harry Reas topped the Kansas
City hog market on. Tuesday of last
week with his car of hogs shipped
from here. They averaged $40
pounds and he got $s.ao straight
for the load.
We never got paid for our in
fluence in supporting any candidate
and are not in the market. We pro-
pose to say what we please and if it
don't suit you, you must make the
best of it.
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The eclipse of the sun last Mon
day was watched with interest by
nearly everyone in town. 1t lasted
about an hour, beginning about 7
O'Clock a. m. and ended about 8.
The phenomenon attracted consider
able attention among the astrono-
mers.
In the district court of Com
anche county one VIM. Folks was
convicted and sentenced to years
in the penitentiary for shooting Mrs.
Volkman in January of this year.
The wounded woman was brought
into the court room on stretcher
to give her testimony.
The Cimarron Jacksonian threat
ems to run a daily during the cam
paign in that representative district
this fall if circumstances warrant it.
1t must get pretty hot up there. We
hope that such will not be the case
in this district. No telling though,
what is liable to happen.
Last week we had the pleasure OF
seeing some of the finest wheat we
ever saw in Kansas, over In West
Plains twp. A. v. Angel has 3oc
acres which is nearly all waist-high,
well filled and thick on the ground,
and with present prospects will make
an abundance of wheat. Mr.. Bisbee
also has fine prospect for a large
crop. He has 200 acres, that is q
little later than Mr.. Angell's but the
quality is equally as good. There
are several other fields around Plains
that will make abundant yields.
About one more rain will make q
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