Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
H. Wilkey is working on Sham
hart's house.

he annual SCHOOL eieCtlOn Will
be held this afternoon.
John Elliott is working on his
residence IN the wrist part of town.
Mems and ladies shoes in all the
latest styles at E. w. Williams.
The celebrated Bond Shoe Co.'S
shoes are sold by E. w. Williams
Roscoe Gerow has a B5 cornet
for sale. Call and see him if you
want one.
Young & Campbell have new, up
to-date Meade County maps for
sale at IS cents each. If
When you want shoes call at the
corner grocery store and f. w will
show you the finest line of mems and
ladies' shoes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Faank Murphy and
Miss Hattie Rhodes were in the city
this week visiting friends. Frank
went down to Stratford "wednesday.
B. H. Beatte is located at Green's
burg for the present with his jewelry
stock. OF course he took a vaca-
ton this week to 60 down to STRAIT
ford to see the foot race.
We call attention to the ad. of
Will Shelley in another column.
He expects to begin special photo
graph work after August 1st, and is
now making arrangements.
The ladies of the Artesian Sunday
School will give an ice cream social
at the Artesian school house, Thurs
day evening. Aug. Ist. Everybody
cordially invited. Music.
We received letter from Egbert,
Wyo., this week from Linn Civ
ler, where he is employed herding
sheep. He likes the country quite
we'll and says he gets good wages.
w. ]. Woodard is bracing R.
R. Wells's building this week pre-
paratory to moving it to the lots
south of the court house. John
Stalder has the contract for moving
it.
We received letter from VIM.
Siebenthaler this week and he says
he don't think he will ever come
back to Meade county. We hope
he will change his mind about this
matter.
If local news is scarce in the pa
per this week please excuse us as we
went to Dalhart with the band and
also had the tax list to set up. We
don't like to have to make apologies
of this kind but are compelled to.
We can furnish you the New York
Week World in connec-
ton with THE News for SITS per
year. The paper comes to you ev
cry other day, and is better than a
daily where you cannot get your
mail every day.
The band social last Friday night
was largely attended by the town
people. They netted about $40.
The boys certainly feel encouraged
to have the citizens turn out and
help them. Several parties who
were unable to attend sent after ice
cream and enjoyed it at home.
There was an old soldiers meet
ing last Saturday to arrange for a
program to be given by the Meade
people at the Reunion to be held at
Dodge City next month. We were
not furnished copy of the proceed
ings and consequently do not know
what was done.
We were very favorably impressed
with the town of Guymon and its
citizens. We met R. P. Smith and
Ed Stephenson, manager of the
Guymon Grocery Company. With
what enterprise we saw exhibited by
the citizens it is sure to make a
thriving town. 1t certainly has our
best wishes.
The train from the west was laid
out last Friday on account of wreck
IS miles west of Liberal. The en-
CINE went off the track, followed by
several box cars and the coaches.
The coaches were brought into Lib
eral and the track temporarily re-
paired in order to let the train from
the east pass. None of the passen
gers were injured. A negro who
was stealing a ride had his hip dis
located.
A Band and Orchestra to be com
posed of children is being organized
in Meade hv f s. Drummond