Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Southern Kansas Lyceum League
will meet in Wichita July 6.
Harvesting was pretty generally
pushed along on Sunday June "a.
Alfred ]. Boyd fell from a freight
car near Leavenworth and was ground
to pieces.
There are 9,s0s school teachers in
Kansas and almost two-thirds of these
are young women.
Both of the young women of Ell Do
RADIO who fought with razor, were i'm
proving on June 25.
Mrs. Jake Maidin, of Rose Hill, But
Ter county, has been left S1O,o by
relative in the east.
Erwin Moore, aged 10, was drowned
in the Arkansas river, near Arkansas
City, while bathing.
John Dean, of Sumner county, visit
ed the county seat last week for the
first time in five years.
Colonel Massey, Miami county
farmer, lost half of his 1850 chickens
in one night, by theft.
A loss of So, 500 by fire occurred in
the burning of a general store at Lam
caster, Atchison county.
Miss Mary Morrill,, niece of Governor
Morrill,, is one of the missionaries who
are in danger in China.
The Arkansas Valley Spiritual asso-
citation will hold its session at Island
Park, Winfield, July III.
The Rock Islands Horton shops are
at work upon an order of 500 box cars,
to be turned out by August 1.
Eight teachers in Paramount college,
Wichita, have given $500 cash toward
the proposed endowment fund.
Thirty-one per cent of the 1910 ap-
plicants for teachers certificates in the
state, failed in the examinations.
A Montgomery county farmer says
that hogs like fresh cut hedge trim
mings and that it is good for the hogs.
Cheese got cheaper and some cream
cries cut the price for milk, and some
farmers cut the supply of the tactical
fluid.
Frank Brown and wife, who went
as missionaries to China from Fort
Scott, are the subject of deep interest
just now.
Atchison has purchased the last year,
S4,s50 worth of new fire apparatus,
making o,6o5 purchased in the last
two years.
The Kansas millers have pretty gen.
orally called in their purchasing agents
until the market settles down to more
firm basis.
Wichita sporting goods dealers have
ordered a carload of ammunition. The
fine prospects for fed sports induced
this action.
The populist national committee in
session at Kansas City has $50 mem.
bers; three from Kansas-Simpson,
Ridgeway and Breidenthal.
The summer term of the state nor
NAL school has 300 teachers in attend
ance and more are expected after the
close of the county institutes.
The state school fund holds local
Kansas bonds amounting to So, 6O1, 1868.
OF this $3.50, 900 is in bonds of tbs state,
the rest of counties and school dis
tricts.
The Wichita city council are talking
about destroying the female cotton
wood trees in that city. They have
been greater nuisance than usual
this summer.
William Gorham, near Russell, has
1000 acres of wheat, from which he ex-
poets to harvest 100, 900 bushels.
A Dickinson county farmer a few
weeks ago contracted his wheat at so
cents bushel. He now figures that
he lost 5000.
Milt Shields, of Saline county, last
year purchased quarter section for
$4,000. He sowed 100 acres of it to
wheat, rented another 80 acres and
put that in wheat, and has taken this
year enough wheat from both to pay
for his farm.
Prof. E. r. Nichols has been elected
president of Kansas Agricultural col
lege. He has been professor in that
college for ten years, and acting presi-
dent since Thomas E. Will was dismis-
sed
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers of Labette county, was or
ganizedlin 1874 and is the Oldest rail-
road brotherhood in the state.
Dick Fink, who lives on the Saline
river near Hays City, has 600 turkeys
and moves his herd from one farm to
another to clear them of grasshoppers.
The Chicago Tribune caused the back
action on the booming wheat prices by
long article on the immensely of the
Kansas wheat crop.
Detective Montgomery, of the Santa
Fe, and Sheriff Shawver, of Wellington
have arrested man giving his name
as Harper Zerfoose, who is supposed
to be one of the two fellows who muir
dered c. Coats, the Santa Fe operator
ut Winfield, last April.
Miss M. L. Stevenson, missionary
from Topeka, is reported to have been