Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-05-24
A. ]. Byrns is plastering at the
National hotel this week.

the wedding in Odee Sunday:
There will be a dance and supper
at Plains, Kansas, Friday night.
Chas. Wehrle, of the News office,
is the possessor of a new bicycle.
Sourbeer, the Artesian Jeweler,
has an ad in another column. Read
it.
]. E. Roberts Jr. was initiated in
to mysteries of M. w. A last Mon
day night.
We hear the farmers say that the
chinch bugs are operating on some
of the barley fields.
Call and see Mrs. Wehrle's new
line of spring millinery, the best
ever brought to Meade.
Sunday will be Memorial Sunday
and the sermon will be preached at
II a. m. All are invited.
Another son was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Sheddan, of Fowler twp.
last Monday. All doing well.
Some of our people attended a
picnic at Mr.. Chilcott's last Tues
day, it being the last day of school
in that district.
Candidates for county offices
ought to be announcing themselves.
Come around and we will tell you
what it will cost.
Mrs. ]. E. Roberts and Mrs.
Hale arrived Wednesday evening
and will again be permanent resi-
dents of our city.
Fred Gray has fixed the room
next to his confectionery for an ice
cream parlor and will serve ice
cream twice-a-week.
The Odee correspondent gives an
account of the wedding at that place
last Sunday. The News also con-
graduates the happy couple.
Preaching at the Baptist church
Sunday at 3 o'clock p. m. and even
ing. No preaching in morning on
account of Memorial service.
We note the discontinuance of the
Kiowa County Independent. This
paper was nearly two years old, but
seemed to have a bad pasture.
We notice from the Beaver Herald
that Misses Hattie Rhodes, Doll
Follick and Eva Bonham, of this
county, were granted teachers GER
tificates at an examination recently
held there.
There is entirely too many scandal
gossippers among the people of this
city. We find it among the married
women in particular, while some of
the men are little better. Even if
you do hear some scandal news,
what good does it do to keep ped
ding it to all your neighbors? If it
continues we will propose the organ
ization of "Women's scandal gos-
sip club. We already have a plan
in mind which we think would be of
great benefit in several ways. We
don't like to start anything of the
kind, but in order to benefit the
community we feel that we will al
most be compelled to act. Should
we decide to make this move we de-
sire the earnest support of every
gossipper in Meade, scandal or
otherwise. We shall watch for fur
ther developments.
Night Marshal Leach had quite a
novel experience last Sunday night
about midnight. He was on his
beat when he discovered two men
bombarding the front-end of house
on Main street with rocks as he sup
posed, and he Immediately called
on them to halt but they fed with
the night marshal in hot pursuit.
The fugitives succeeded in eluding
the marshal and escaped in the
darkness. Mr.. Leach returned to
the scene of the bombardment and
and upon closer investigation dis
covered that the projectiles used
were of albuminous substance and
had been kept in stock long time.
In odor they very much resembled
those pestiferous missiles used by
the Chinese soldiers when wanting
to drive off an enemy. Now, we
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