Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-27


will be dedicated October IA.
A Sunday fire at Sabetha destroyed
half block of business houses.
The lodge of Scottish Rite Masons of
Fort Scott has wired 500 to Galveston.
The Wichita high school opened with
| 435 pupils; more than there is room for
Ellsworth county is agitating for
high school to be located at Ellsworth.
T. L. Cumbrow, former mail car
rier of Salina, was Galveston victim.
Emancipation day, September %,
was quite generally celebrated by the
colored people.
The Rock Island is carrying dona-
tions to Galveston free and will do so
until October 81.
The state entomologist says that the
San Jose scale has not been seen in
Kansas this season.
Another homeseekers' excursion
passed through Kansas September 10,
bound for Oklahoma.
The soap and carpet grafters seem to
have reached Kansas. They reaped a
good harvest farther south.
Railroad men estimate that not more
than 35 per cent of the wheat crop has
come out to the railroads thus far.
Randall, Jewell county, with 300
people, has bank in which the de-
posits are five times the capital stock.
The Modern Woodmen of America
have been granted one and one-third
rate for their logrolling at Harper, Oc-
tober IL.
The Coffeyville Touring mills claim
to have paid out S1,OOO,OOO for wheat
within the past year. Other buyers
were plenty there
Saline county proposes to build
new Jail to cost $4,000. There is
large surplus fund in the county treas
ury to do the work with.
Paul E. Ravens, of Leavenworth, has
presented the public school at Ravens
library of his own selection. The
| town was named Tor MIN.
Prof. c. E. Boyd, who has occupied
the chair of history and political econ
omy at Kansas Agricultural college,
has resigned to go to a Boston college.
The Santa Fe's through freight bus
mess all goes over the Ottawa cutoff
now, while all through passenger
trains keep rhe main line through To-
peka.
This being the season when public
buildings school houses and other big
| consumers of coal lay in their winter
supplies, the coal cars of the Kansas
railroads are all in use
Bank Commissioner Prudential saws
that the best interest obtainable on
mortgage loans in Kansas is per cent
and that recently such loans have been
made in Topeka at per cent.
Cyclists are beginning to talk about
compelling the enforcement of their
right to one-half of the travelled track
in highways Salina cyclists have Or
ganized to bring suits for damages.
Rev. II. c. Durham, the first pastor
of the New Jerusalem church of Tope-
l1a, lost his entire family in the Calves
ton disaster. He was located there,
but was absent at the time of the
storm.
At the soldiers reunion at Smith
Center Joseph Shangrah and his broth
er, Paul Shangrah, both members of
Vermont regiments in the civil war
met for the first time since the close of
the war.
One-half of the people of Sumner
county live in nine of the cities in the
county.
The census bureau announces the
population of Topeka as 33, COS against
81, 0O7 in 1890.
The report of the managers of the
Hutchinson reformatory shows that %
per cent of the inmates can neither
read nor write. The six counties
which have % per cent of the popula-
ton of the state, furnish "a per cent of
the inmates. Sixty per cent of the in
mates are either full or half orphans.
Rev. Arthur Trip, Episcopal pastor
at Minneapolis has accepted call to
the parish in England which his father
served for more than 40 years.
A Santa Fe freight train was ditched
between Elk Falls and Longton, caus-
ing the east bound passenger to make
go around by Chanute from Long
ton.
George Starbuck made contract for
16O acres of Rocks county land for 4, 2OC
bushels of wheat, and from this years
crop has paid more than half of the
purchase with one-half his crop.
Mr. and Mrs. II. 81. Freeman, of In.
dependence, both aged So, have been
married 65 years. Mr.. and Mrs. Nor.
man Palmer, of Nortonville, are both
aged SO and have been married Ct
years.
A lad in Smith county, when Is year.
old, contracted to work for a farmer
six years for his board and clothes an6
deed to 100 acres of land, then to be