Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-21

Wichita has been increased from So, DOC
to So, 200.
A farm in Washington county, of 500
acres, was recently sold for $4,000
spot cash.
A Topeka lawyer milks dozen cows
and then walks two miles to his Office
every morning.
An officers school for the Kansas
National Guard is to be held in New
ton June 27-29.
The local banks of Wellington took
the S14, 900 worth of bonds voted for
electric light service.
Mail service has been re-established
on the B. & NJ. branch between At
wood and st. Francis.
Ladies of Garden City gave a coon
show and made 500 for the improve.
ment of the cemetery.
Wellington proposes to hold a week
of carnival and an agricultural fair in
the middle of September
The second twenty .cars of Kansas
corn for starving India leaves Topeka
via the Santa Fe on June 20.
A Lutheran Sunday school excursion
from Abilene to Fort Riley was par
! ticipated in by about 500 people.
The state board of charities has Just
awarded contracts for $4,000 worth
of supplies for the state institutions.
The first car of new wheat to reach
the Kansas City market went from
Chautauqua county. The wheat was
sold at 20 cents.
A Missouri Pacific freight was
wrecked east of Eureka. In the wreck
were two carloads of hogs and half of
them were killed.
The probate judge of Sherman coun-
ty was called up at two o'clock in the
morning to marry a couple who couldn't
wait any longer.
Miss Lilly Stolz was married IS
minutes after delivering the gradua-
ting Grafton of her class at the Kansas
Wesleyan university.
All but six of the 5o4 votes cast at
Highland on the proposition to inn
prove the school house at cost of
$4,000 were for the proposition.
Kansas is flooded with all sorts of
agents who drive over the country
with every kind of contrivances. The
farmers say they are a nuisance.
Wichita A. o. U. W. lodge members
and their families ask for a special
train in two sections to take 1000 peo-
pie to Winfield, July II. to the state
picnic in Island park.
Lawrence has 43 pupils in the high
school for every thousand of population.
lola is next with thirty-six, Emporia
and Hutchinson have twenty, Newton
and Wichita nineteen.
The Rev. Linus Blakesley, who for
thirty years was pastor of the First
Congregational church of Topeka, will
remove with his wife to Ell Paso, Texas,
thinking the change will benefit their
health.
The roadmasters of the Western and
southern divisions of the Rock Island,
also Superintendent Bishop. use gaso-
line motors for their inspection trips.
A rate of 80 miles an hour can be made
with these motors.
The Santa Fe has $50 acres planted
with catalpas which are now IS years
old. Their cost has been 500 an acre.
1t is estimated that in ten years more
the tract will have produced $50, ooo
worth of poles, ties and pests
Rev. F. D. Bergstresser. from AL
legheny City, Pa. has been chosen as
pastor of the Lutheran church in Abb
ilene.
The Farmers Mutual Hail associa.
ton has 90 losses in the neigh borhood
of Caldwell, fifteen of which aggregate
$1,000
The M. E. church at Junction CITY
was in debt $4,000. The pastor an
nounced an effort to pay or reduce the
debt, and in thirty-one minutes by the
clock, pledges to the amount of S.
0s3.95 were made.
State Auditor Cole will try and COM
pei rich men with relatives in the in
sane asylum. to pay the state for the
care of them.
Sheridan township of Ottawa county
has no deaf. dumb. blind, idiotic or in
sane person. 1t has 1000 people, does
not owe cent and has $500 in its
treasury.
Levi Wilhelm, of Winchester, is dead.
He made fortune in Jefferson county
farming. He had been county treas
urer and had served several terms in
the legislature.
So many cattle have disappeared in
Barber comfy that the county COM
missioners have offered rewards for
the thieves.
Harper is suggesting it's wants to
the outside world; the most pressing
of which are an elevator and a tele-
phone system.
Thirty years ago Texas cattle drovers
found considerable difficulty in getting
their cattle through the herds of buf.