Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Wilson ball club has taken two
500 prizes this season.
Late fruit about Larned was dam
aged by hail on August 25.
Surgeon Major John A. Rafter, of
Holton, has been sent to Manila.
Roy Smith, of Dickinson county, was
killed by lightning August 27. He
was % years old.
c. w. Morgan, of Kingman, was
driving nail when the hammer slip
ped and the nail flew into his eye.
Delegate Flynn says the secretary of
the interior is thoroughly in sympathy
with the people of Indian Territory.
A train load of fat steers has been
bought at the Kansas C:ty stock yards
to be shipped, alive, to the Klondike.
The First Presbyterian church of
Topeka has been re-decorated and car
peted, the carpet alone costing $1,000.
There are 1,295 Kansas soldiers now
serving in the Philippines; with "a COM
missioned officers in the volunteer SER
vice.
The colored people of two or more
counties will hold an emancipation
celebration at Valley Falls on Septem-
Der 90.
ICowley county commissioners levied
a five mill tax for the purpose of re-
ducing the bonded Indebtedness of the
county.
Lieutenant Collin Ball, of the Tween
tieth Kansas, had several uncles who
served with his father in the Confed-
crate army.
Good rains in Central Kansas have
revived the pastures and benefited the
fodder crops. The prospect for wheat
seeding is fine.
There are so many threshing outfits
reported burned, usually including loss
of wheat, that it is impossible to keep
tab on them all.
A paper mill at Independence is said
to be sure thing. 1t will cost $685.
900 and will employ from so to rs men.
20 bonus was given.
A Presbyterian excursion from Olathe
to Leavenworth on August 80, over
the Santa Fe, was a large one. Ten
cars were engaged for it.
Burlington claims to have a citizen
who is cousin of Minister Conger and
Yates Center is the home of a nephew
of the minister to China.
The imbecile asylum at Winfield now
has 2O4 inmates, of whom 125 are male
and 70 are females. The state now has
$135, 200 invested in this charity.
VIM. A. Jones, of Harper county,
died of heart disease August %, while
cutting corn. He was missed but his
body was not found until the next day.
1t is said that minister in Dickin-
son county has told his congregation
that the women's high hats must come
off during service or that the sexes
must be separated to different sides of
the church.
The Frisco railroad has made ar
rangements to run special train to
Wichita from Columbus, Kansas, on
September 5, the date of the annual
logrolling of the Woodmen of the
World in that city.
The people of Kansas City, Kas., are
pleased with the census, which places
its population at 81, AIS. This is but
500 less than was claimed by the Mer-
camille club. There are from Is, 900 to
10000 people whose earnings are made
in the city but who live in additions
not in the corporate limits.
1t is said that 5000 people assembled
at Wetmore, from Nemaha, Brown and
jackson counties, at the annual Modern
Woodmen logrolling on August %.
J. A. Dawdy, of Mitchell county, ha.
built balm which will hold hundred:
of tons of hay, 10000 bushels of grain
and 100 head of horses and cattle with
out crowding.
A son of Silas Robinson, of Osag,
SoUhOy. NhiAC Ilylh W JUMP 1TOuu
fence onto his horse, fell and sun
flower stalk pierced his bowels, making
a dangerous wound.
j. p. Williams. a veteran just re
turned from the Leavenworth Soldiers
home, died of heart disease near Win
field while seining. His body wa
found in water only waist deep.
The new report of the labor commits
sioner of the state contains chapters OF
the following subjects: Wage earne
statistics; labor organizations: tn
packing industry; the creamery indus
try; lead and zinc industry: count.
charities; industrial education; chatte
mortgages; factory inspection; strike
and other labor troubles.
Central Kansas had hail storm OIL
the night of August "a. East boun,
trains were delayed. An elevator wa
blown down at Bavaria.
During the hot weather meetings o
associations of various kinds have beel
held in Riverside park, Wichita TIL
Woman's Missionary society of tn
First Presbyterian church met Their
near the fountain. The Sabbath schoo
of the First Methodist church appoint