Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-04-25

The Presbyterlans of Hiawatha have
decided to build $40, 900 church.
Gas has been found on the grounds
of the insane asylum at Osawatomie.
A company has been organized to
manufacture voting machines in Tope-
| ka.
1t is expected that local capital will
soon furnish an electric light plant for
| Alma.
Inmates of the state reform school
are hereafter to make their own
clothes.
Another damage suit has been
brought against the Winfield saloon
raiders.
Jesse Reed, editor Of the Oxford Reg
lister, died suddenly at Wellington on
April 10.
Miles Taylor, of Hutchinson, is to
be secretary to Senator Gibson, of
Montana
! The aphis, or wheat louise, has ap-
peared in the Chikaskia valley in Sum-
ner county.
Sheriff Simons, of Sedgwick county
has sold his 16O acre farm on the Little
Arkansas river for $4,000.
An Odd Fellows lodge has been or
ganized in Lakin. This is the sixth
secret society in the town.
Geo. b. Landers, wealthy cattle
man and banker of Anthony, died at
the Osawatomie insane asylum.
The Central Kansas Agricultural
Fair and Livestock association has
been organized at Hutchinson.
Governor Stanley expects to meet
the presidential party at the Colorado
line and escort it through Kansas.
The central school building in Usage
City is to be enlarged and improved
this summer to the amount of $4,000.
Fire has destroyed a $4,000 hard
ware and implement store and stock at
Beloit, and did damage in a lumber
yard.
Many eastern Kansas lands who al
lowed their property to be sold for
taxes are now endeavoring to clear
their titles.
The annual Christian church insti.
tute convened at Herington on April
II, with 65 ministers present from all
parts of the state.
Governor Stanley has appointed each
member of the tax commission a dele
gate to the national tax conference to
be held at Buffalo on May %.
Mayor Pollock, of Arkansas City,
has ordered every dive" and ''hole in
the WALL closed. He proposes to run
the city without revenue from joints.
The opening of the new auditorium
at Strong City occurred on April 1920.
The Modoc club and Marshall's band
from Topeka held leading parts in the
program.
The receipts of the local consistorv
from initiation fees was $50, 400: The
banquet cost 81, 900 for 735 plates. This
is told of the Scottish Rite centennial
jubilee III Wichita.
The state law department has re-
versed itself on the question of rural
registration. The opinion now given
out is that the law applies only to
Montgomery and Sumner counties.
doc" Hudson has sold his preemp-
ton claim near Potter, Atchison coun-
ty, at s65 an acre. Not long ago he
| divided S25, 900 among his three chill
dren. He made his money in cattle
farming.
The Sisters of st. Joseph have pur-
chased the Hill mansion in Fort Scott
for the establishing of convent and a
boarding school for girls.
A final dividend has been made to
the depositors of the Cross bank at EN-
poria- 1t is for Is per cent and it is
made from the proceeds of the sale of
Sunny Slope cattle, which realized
$4,000. The dividends have amounted
to 65 per cent, leaving loss to deposit
tors of S175,000 In the settlement all
capital and all liability of stockholders
were wiped out.
Mrs. Ida Eckert, the poetess who
will read poem at the launching of
the battlesh!p. Ohio, was formerly of
Kansas, living in Topeka.
sod house near Hill City. fell in as
the result of heavy rains, killing Mrs.
Hostutler and a child and breaking
Mr.. Hostutler's arm. One child was
uninjured.
State Superintendent Nelson has
heavy task. The law requires him to
sign all the common school diplomas
in the state, ranging from $50 or more
down, to the county.
John Lyster, fireman on a train
between Lawrence and Ottawa, fell
from his engine and struck a pile of
ties, causing his death. 1t was the
only lot of ties along the track for
long distance.
The Union Pacific station at Morland
is presided over by Miss Sophronia
Summerson. She handled a $50, 1000
business during 1900. She keeps the
station house as neat and trim as
residence could be kept; cultivates a
garden herself, and does the telegraph
service.
A new law authorizes all municipal
tiles to sell stock taken in exchange
for bonds voted to railroad compan-
les.
The corner stone for a new court
house at Clay Center will be laid on
April %. The building is to be of
Manhattan stone.
Sumner county has sold its stock in