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

paStCrdge. FOR cattle INC COUNTY hoS
few equals.
The Frisco line was the first to make
rate for the Wichita logrolling on
September 5.
A general store at Rose, Woodson
county, was destroyed by fire August
30. Half insured
Marcellus Curtis, of Burlingame,
aged IL, stepped on stubble weed and
lock jaw resulted.
Harper county has voted for S42,500
in bonds for the Orient railroad, by
majority of about 175.
Good rains are reported as having
fallen August 25 in Mcpherson, Mont
gomery and Coffey counties.
A New York safe manufacturer says
he has sold more safes in Kansas this
year than in any other state.
F. Hurd, of Coffey county, was struck
on the head with hoe by his son-in-
law, and probably fatally injured.
A Wichita firm is prepared to store
thousand tons of hay and is now re-
ceiving several carloads every day.
Wamego township in Pottawatomie
county, has but three pieces of land
advertised in the delinquent tax list.
j. P. STICKY, German farmer near
Mound Ridge has threshed 10000 bu-,
shells of wheat and will plant 600 acres
this fall.
Clyde's watermelon festival brought
together IL, 900 people for the first day
of feasting. Concordia sent out two
trainloads.
The logrolling at Alma drew big
crowds. A special on the Rock Island
left Topeka with lis passengers and
reached Alma with about 600.
A local truss company of Topeka sent
5000 packages through the Topeka
postoffice during the past year, and
not one of them was missent or lost.
Postmaster Chan Perdue, of Beloit,
was presented with rubber tired sur
rev and set of double harness by the
citizens of Beloit, on his forty-ninth
birth day. :
Edward S. Washburn, president of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Mem
phis railway, died August 81, at Rye
Beach, Maine. He had worked up to
the presidency from clerkship.
A colored woman confined in Jail at
Pittsburg for drunkenness, had a friend
return the horse and buggy with which
she came to town, to her husband, with
a message to the effect that she was
staying with friends and would not be
home for a week or So. ,
1t is said that grafters are going
through the country with a set of
blanks like those used by the census
enumerators. Their claim is that they
want additional information on certain
matters, and after it has been secured
the farmer is asked to sign his name
to the statement. Later the signature
turns up in some bank on the business
end of a promissory note.
The Good Roads congress is to be
held in Topeka, September 1928. The
citizens of Shawnee county have raised
the funds necessary to build one and
| one-haf miles of macadamized road, a
portion of which will be constructed
under the supervision of E. j. Harri-
son, road expert of the national de-
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convention, thus affording an object
lesson. Mr.. Harrison will explain the
details of practical road building to
the delegates. Kansas railroads have
trip from all points in Kansas, good
for the week ending September "a.
Nearly everybody is eligible to be.
come delegates.
A conductor on a German railway
told a Newton man who is in Europe
that his wages were 20 cents q day and
that he had been trying to save enough
to take him back to Kansas, but had tc
| give it up.
A four-year-old daughter of VIM
Rhodes, near Maize, was playing about
box upon which was laid piece O.
railroad rail, weighing $50 pounds
She tugged at the rail until it fell from
the box and upon her, striking hel
across the body. She lived only few
hours.
There are four rural mail routes il
Jewell county, and some more in con
temptation. Burr Oak, Mankato, Jew
ell City, Randall and Ionia are all il
telephone connection, and many pri
vate houses on the line in the country
All of the men who have held tn,
office of sheriff of Labette county il
the past thirty-three years are still
alive.
Fred Chapman, of Wellington, dice
few days after receiving a life Ger
tificate from the state board of educa
ton.
Judge Frank Price, who left thu
short grass country and moved to San
dusky, Ohio, is preparing to com
back.
The prospect hole at Eureka strucl
what is believed to be a deposit of kao
lin at depth of $50 feet. The.find ma,