Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13

are made from Abilene.
The contract for the Mitchell county
court house is let for S33, $40.
General Fred Funston's sister Ella is
a student in Kansas University.
Salina gets special rates of one-half
fare for it's street fair, September pa
90.
Emporia boarding houses furnish
meals to Normal students at 81. SO
week.
A soda fountain explosion at Downs,
broke II. W. Forline's leg and crushed
the bones.
The Hiawatha World joins in the de-
nunciation of the Belgian hare specula-
ton scheme.
New corn is being sold at the Wichi-
ia stock yards and it is almost as dry
as old corn.
Kansas soda fountains sell claret in
phosphates and ice cream parlors serve
frozen egg nog.
A Jackson county farmer lost 5000
diamond while attending the Circle
vile Woodmen picnic.
The Hutchinson band ahd some local
singers gave the boys at the reform
school musical treat.
Kansas railroads are locating switch
engines all along the lines to handle
the great rush of wheat
Reece, Greenwood county, suffered
loss by fire. 1t is a small town and
large portion of it was burned.
Wichita proposes to vote at the time
of the general election in November,
on new high school to cost $4,000.
Lincoln county's new court house
has been dedicated with imposing cere-
monies with the whole county in at
tendance.
Herington's three days harvest fes-
tival was great success. On farmers
day prizes were given for the biggest
loads of grain.
farmers wife, in Dickinson county,
sued the sheriff for damages because
he searched her house and barn for
missing articles.
Ed M. Davis, the absconding cashier
of the Cross bank at Emporia, has been
located in Mexico, where he is clerk
for a coffee planter.
A Union Pacific section man has sued
that railway company for $15, ZOO dam
ages for injuries he received while
working on the track.
John Waller, of Kansas, once repre-
senting the United States in Madagas-
car, is now reported to be earning his
bread at manual labor.
Edith W., Wichita PAGER, took the
So 900 prize at a free for all race in
Decatur, Illinois. She had to contend
with two very fast PAGERS.
Jacob H. Roller, farmer living sew
en- miles west of Topeka, was struck
by Union Pacific train while driving
to town and instantly killed.
E. P. Davis, clerk of the district
court of Cloud county, is dead of ty-
phoid fever, aged SO. His wife and
son died of the same disease two years
ago.
Mrs. Robert Taylor, of Nortonville,
lost the first joint of some of her fingers
while tying her horse. Her fingers
were in the loop of the knot of the
hol rr,14 1, u
catching her fingers, tearing off the
ends.
Charles II. Hatton and Charles Mus
selman, who recently returned from an
extensive European tour, on their
wheels, are now both in college; Hat
ton at the University at Boulder, Col
orado, and Musselman at the Kentucky
university at Lexington.
At special election lola voted $780,
600 for light plant and a waterworks
system.
An operator in Eureka put out bull
letin announcing that Fitzsimmons
had killed Sharkey. She thought
knocked out meent killed.
The Rock Islands Homeseekers' ex-
cursions, on the third Tuesdays of each
month, are bringing a multitude of
! good citizens from the eastern states
to Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
They come, largely, from Ohio, Illinois,
| Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
The Arkansas river has had mere
water in it during the past six months
than ever before since Colorado irriga-
tors have been using most of the fow
Many Kansas Touring mills are using
their utmost capacity in filling orders
from England. Kansas flour is pre-
ferred in that market over Minnesota
| flour.
5The Thomas county high school at
Colby, opened with the largest enroll
ment it ever had. Many students were
turned away because rooms and board
could not be secured.
A homeseekers' excursion passed
through Wichita on the morning of
September 5. 1t was met there BY