Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-11-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

meet in Topeka December % and 20.
The legislature will be asked to aid
in making showing at the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition.
Only 1s county treasurers attended
the late meeting of the County Treas
urers' association.
The electric wiring and fixtures of
the new Missouri Pacific depot in Wich-
ita cost nearly 81, 200.
A Mcpherson county farmer had
broom corn crop this season which
melted him S22 an acre.
Circus talent is plentiful in Parsons
and it is to be utilized to make the
auditorium fund grow.
Bob Torrington, of Wichita, has been
advanced to the position of tourist
agent of the Rock Island.
The industrial school for girls at
Beloit received 90 inmates during the
past year and paroled 90.
Kramer Bros large elevator at We'll
lington collapsed. There was about
$4,000 bushels of wheat in it
The appellate court discountenances
the right ola police judge to cause
witness to testify against his will.
The recent flood of the Verdigris
river did great damage to corn in the
shock, hay, alfalfa and winter wheat
There has been a wonderful expan-
sion of switchboards in telephone ex-
changes in Kansas during the past
year.
The chorus of Bethany college with
500 voices proposes to sing the Messiah
in various cities during Chistmas
week.
Walter T. Swingle, of Topeka, an ex-
plorer for the department of agricul-
ture, is in Africa studying the date
palm
A box car which was used for depot
ut Valley Center in place of the burned
depot, caught fire and was partly
burned
Fl. K. Bates, who died suddenly at
Fort Scott, was master mechanic at the
Fort Scott shops of the Memphis road
for % years.
Miss Agnes Curry, of near Norton
vile, has started for the Philippines to
marry Luther C. Douglas, OF the Sixth
Infantry band.
An Atchison man, legless, deaf and
dumb, who lays paving brick is an OBJ
iect of much curiosity to the able
bodied loafers.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Q. Chandler have
furnished room in the Wichita hos
pital as nursery for children who are
charity patients.
r. Nj. Devore's house at Andover was
struck by lightning in recent storm.
Mrs. Devore was stunned and the roof
of the house was torn up.
viii Parker, son of J. o. Parker, of
Lakin. is in Manila hospital suffering
from four "bolo" wounds. He is in
the Forty-fourth regiment.
The $50 excursionists from Reno
county to the Kansas Agricultural col
lege, many of them teachers, had very
disagreeable weather during their visit
Mrs Noble L. Prentis is visiting the
county superintendent of public in
struction throughout the state with
the object in view of trying to get the
late Noble Prentis' History of Kan
sas' introduced in the schools of the
state.
The Walden shoe factory, of Griggs-
vile, Ill, is looking over openings in
Kansas to'choose place to move their
plant. Chanute, Emporia and Wichita
are being considered and perhaps more
places will be.
John S. Moor, aged 63, and his broth
er Jonas Moor, aged SO, lived together,
alone, on farm some ten miles south
of Wichita On Sunday evening, Oc-
tober %, a tornado demolished their
house and John S. Moor was killed.
The wind did damage at two other
farms near by.
An Independence lad who wanted
spending money bad enough to work
for it, planted five bushels of potatoes
last spring. After they were well
grown he sowed sorghum seed through
the patch. He will clean up between
S45 and $50 for his hustling.
Work on the old Whitaker packing
house in Wichita has been commenced
by the Cudahy company, the new own
ers, and Sd men was the number of the
first gang of men put to work. The
company's first act was to arrange for
insurance on every man employed.
Montgomery county has four cities
of over 1000 inhabitants. They are
Independence, Coffeyville, Cherryvale
and Caney.
There are held in the state treasury
bonds belonging to the Agricultural
college, $500, 900; to the normal school
s225, 900; TO Kansas University S160, 900:
to the permanent school fund 81, OO0,-
600, and to the Storrnont library fund
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