Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-13
Mrs. R. NJ. Painter is justice of the

| ne SOuJnWeSCern 1edcnerS aSSOcla-
ton meets this week in Dodge City.
Jerry Simpson has rented the Garri-
son ranch south of Lakin for his son.
The Episcopalians have neat stone
chapel almost completed in Syracuse.
The Commercial club of Arkansas
City has raised 81, 900 to prospect for
gas.
The Citizens National bank of Eu-
reka is new one with S25, 900 capital
stock.
Equal suffragists of Kansas are to
meet in convention at Olathe on De
cember 49,
In the census figures Galena and
Pittsburg lack only three people of be-
ing on tie.
The Armour Packing company pays
four poultry.
There are 3s1 new students at the
Kansas Agricultural college, of whom
95 are young women.
A "a inch vein of coal and small
flow of gas has been struck at Emporia
at depth of 1, 400 feet.
John Seaton has represented Atchi-
son in the Kansas house of representa-
tives continuously since 1879.
The Mcpherson district court opened
with only four jury cases on the dock
ct. The usual number is about SO.
Survivors of the Eleventh Kansas,
Colonel Plumb's old regiment, held
reunion at Emporia on December Z.
John Donohue, prosperous farmer
and stock raiser of Syracuse, has fin
ished threshing $50 bushels of alfalfa
seed
Chanute's new $4,000 M. E. church
is dedicated. There was So, 900 to
raise and the subscriptions amounted
to s2.s77
Chas Longren, of Riley county, has
marketed the best bunch of steers ever
sold on the November market in Kan
sas City.
Tho Kansas live stock inspector at
Arkansas City is ordered not to permit
any Oklahoma cattle to be shipped
into Kansas.
Cherryvale, a town with a popula-
ton of about 8, 800, makes q boast that
ffty-three houses have been built there
this summer.
A Lyon county farmer raised TIE
bushels of potatoes and 200 bushels of
corn on five and one-quarter acres of
land, which he marketed for S344 80.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Arthur, of Atchi-
son county, gave their fiftieth Thanks
giving dinner. Of their fourteen chill
dren, nine were present and passed
their plates for more.
DR.. Swan, secretary of the state
board of health, proposes that COM
mission be created to examine plumb
ers and pass upon their qualifications
in sanitary plumbing.
Mrs. Mary M. Stewart, of Mulvane,
is dead at the age of 100 years, months
and IL days. She was born in Ireland
and came to America in 1852, and has
lived in Mulvane since 1887.
A federation of Christian churches of
| Lyon county has been perfected for the
purpose of organizing more churches
in the county, and to extend them aid
until they are able to go without it.
| ]. A. Newman, the chairman of the
Santa Fee telegraphers, is quoted as
saying that the strike which com
menced in Texas may extend over the
entire system. There are about 1900
of the brotherhood employed by the
Santa Fe.
Mrs. Lydia Mackey, sister-in-law
of Senator Harris, OF Kansas, has a
clerical position in the congressional
library.
The Paris exhibit made by the Kan
sas labor bureau, was awarded silver
medal. An official notice of the award
has been received.
Senator Cubbison will this winter in
troduce bill providing that all coun-
ty and state officers in Kansas be elect
ed once every four years and be eligible
for reelection. This is correct. The
people have too many elections.
Lieutenant Bion B. Bierer, who was
in command of of the Yosemite at the
time it sunk at Guam, was born at
Hiawatha. Kansas, and entered the
navy from Kansas in 1887. He is scarce
~ 80 years old.
Robert Harrison, sixteen years old.
son CT Ex-Mayor Harrison, of Topeka,
was one Of the first II victims at the
glass works at San Francisco to die.
The population of the state of Kan
sas, as officially announced from Wash
ington, is ,47o. 4s5 as against 1,427, oe6
in 1890. This is an increase of 43, 39e.
1t is a Doniphan county man this
time who tells about having been called
to pay a note OF $166 for lightning
rod which was put upon his house
merely as an advertisement" There
are others.
Final surveys have been completed