Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-08

see, D, washington, 3; wallace, l; VIII
son, 9; Wichita, /; Woodson, 5; Wyan.
dotte, Is.
A Denver firm is feeding 10, 900 sheep
at Almena.
The Emporia state normal will have
A venturesome Kansas prophet pre-
diets MINDLESS March to follow a
moonless February.
There are two dailies in Galena now;
and two more to be started Galena
has population of about 5000.
At Hutchinson, 1000 is already
raised for the new $50, coo court house
Work will commence at once.
Eight or ten members of the Twen-
tieth Kansas have expressed a willing
ness to mix in the Transvaal trouble.
According to the statistics of Leslie
Randolph of the Nortonville News
there are 100 female editors. reporters
and publishers in Kansas
A man who left Hamilton county to
go to sunny Arkansas writes home that
that country is the worst he ever saw,
not accepting Hamilton county.
The Telephone Exchange, published
in Chicago, says there are seventy indie
pendent exchanges in Kansas, 5000
phones, and 100 miles of wire.
An Indian couple near Coffeyvile
adopted the ways of the white man be-
fore acquiring his language, and got
divorce. The groom was 1O4; the bride
90.
In Clark county English sparrows are
destroying the buds of fruit trees till
farmers are trying to get the county
commissioners to offer reward for de-
struction of the birds.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Wright of Barber
county, have been married fifty years,
and have raised eight children and
seen twenty grandchildren grow to
manhood and womanhood without
death in their family or in their
children's families.
One of the favorite stories in the
short grass country right now is that
of the teacher who asked her pupils
what an anecdote was, and the answer
being ''a short funny tale" told
small boy to write a sentence contain
ing the word. He wrote: "A rabbit
has four legs and one anecdote."
There are only three legal holidays
in the state of Kansas. They are
Washington's birthday, February %;
Memorial day, May 80, and Labor day,
the first Monday in September. There
is no law making July 4, Thanksgiving,
Christmas OF New Years legal holi-
days.
Miss Margaret Ingalls,, niece of
John j. Ingalls,, was clerk of the Ken
lucky house of Representatives through
out the exciting times before and after
the assassination of Goebel. Miss In
gals is a daughter of Marius Ingalls,, a
boot and shoe merchant of Louisville.
The $50 acres left of the Severy
ranch were sold recently by Major
Hood to D. Beihier, of Dickinson
county. The price. paid was $4,000.
During boom times the Severy ranch
was one of the finest to be found in
Kansas. 1t comprised 1000 acres, and
was valued at $4,000.
After smooth agent who was hand
ling an Encyclopedia had taken eleven
orders in Cimarron at $40 per, it was
found that local man was selling the
same edition for SIS, and making a rea-
sonable profit; but as he did not adver-
tise it, no one would ever have found it
out if the agent had not appeared.
The grand lodge of Masons of Kan
sas has elected the following officers:
Charles ]. Webb, Topeka, grand mas
ter; Perry M. Hoisington, Newton, dep
uty master; T. E. Dewey, Abilene, SEN
Tor warden; Bester G. Brown, Topeka,
Junior warden; Robert E. Torrington,
Wichita, treasurer; Albert K. Wilson,
Topeka, secretary.
Neodesha has man by the name of
Ditto. He is always the same and so
are his wife and children. 1t also has
Sharpe physician and a Sharp cashier.
Winter is with the town the entire
year. The city is not level because it
has big Hill and several small ones.
The people don't have to go barefooted
because they have Stockings. And
still the town is in a bad way because
| it has Nitts.
| At Herington Commercial club has
been organized for the purpose of push
ing the town along and now Salina is
| talking of following suit.
Hutchinson's much boosted metro
politan airs received a severe jolt the
other day A clerk in the fashionable
haberdashery started to light his cigar
while standing in the collar depart
ment. The entire stock of celluloid
collars caught fire and was destroyed.
Now the .'4OO'' club members are wear
ing paper collars.
@'sUp to date" remarks Austin Neal.
''Nearly $50 Kansas people have been
found who bit at the Miller-get-rich-
quick-scheme that sneaked out west
from New York. The returns are not
all in yet"