Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-03


Bert Nicely. pardoned convict. stole
a watch at Fort Scott. and was locked
up again.
| Sumner county expects to have ar
increased acreage of wheat planted
this year.
An ancestor of Carl D Avignon. OF
French nobleman.
G. a. Blair. of Mulvane. won the
first prize for the finest peaches at tho
Buffalo exposition.
VIM. Bitner. a brakeman on the Rock
Island, was killed at Herington while
switching in the yards.
The Old Soldiers reunion at River
side Park comes during the Wichita
fair and carnival week.
Chairman Henry L. Allen, of the
state board of charities, has bought
farm in Franklin county.
The board of railroad commissioners
has decided in favor of Concordia's be
/ ing granted JODDlng rates.
| collection for special purpose was
taken in the Methodist church at Pratt
and the amount taken was S225.
The Jetmore College. a new Metho-
dist school, has been opened. It's pres
ident is r. A. Lee Master, the resident
minister.
| 1t is said that j. NJ. Simpson, the Nc
| Pherson politician, cleared $50, 900 in
one week, by investing in margins in
lard in the Kansas City market.
C. w. Morgan. acting transfer clerk
! at the Santa Fe in Wichita. has been
sent to take position on the railroad
! postofficc on the Atchison and Lenora
| railroad.
! Smith, the Redfield barber. who was
| driven out of that town for speaking
disrespectfully of President Mckinney,
tries other locations and is regularly
asked to move on.
st. Paul's Methodist church of Wich-
tia is planning to build a SIS, 900 adj
dition. 1t will have pipe organ. The
church owns IT'S feet on the corner
their old church occupies.
There are exhibited in store windows
| at Wellington fur garments labeled
from 1925 to $500, with others at smaller
prices. Goods of this description find
sale in the families of the wheat grow
| ers.
John A. Fleener, of Arkansas City,
has sued the Ancient Order of Pyra-
mids for SIS, 200 for injuries which rem
dered him a cripple for life; the injuries
being received while he was being in
! itiated.
| The Farmers Elevator at Rush Cen
ter was opened with procession of so
| loads of wheat, from north of Bison,
headed by the A. o. L. w. band, with
the Star Spangled banner floating
from many of the wagons.
The Continental Creamery company,
has provided for fund of 500, 900 to
enlarge its factory and stations in Kana
sas and Oklahoma. 1t is expected that
| $50 will be used to build creamery
at Wichita. A large amount will be
used to increase the number of it's skim
ming stations. They now have 300
skimrning stations.
c. j. Garrett, farmer near Burling-
ton, invited the hired man of another
farm to ride to town with him. The
hired man said he was glad Mckinley
was shot. Garrett knocked the fellow
out of his wagon, then hitched his team
and pommeled the daylights out of him
The hired man tried to find justice OF
the peace to swear out a warrant for
Carrots arrest but could find none.
Miss Maud Hunter represented Ceres
at the wheat jubilee in Wellington
Ernest Lewis. a 13-year-old colored
boy, is the latest victim of too much
boy jumping on moving trains in
switching yards. He did this in Wich-
tia and both his legs were cut off. He
lived eight hours never losing conscious
ness. The boys father was informed
of the terrible occurrence by messenger
while he was at work at the office of
the Western Newspaper Union. He
was greatly affected, but sympathy was
of no value at that moment.
A nine-foot vein of fire clay has been
found two miles south of Topeka \
large portion of the Dudley farm is
underlaid with the fire clay.
On Sunday morning September -,
the Wichita city Jail was without an
occupant: which has not occurred be-
fore in a long time; but fair week is
close at hand.
James James. of Ell Dorado, wept
like a child when the news of the death
of his comrade, VIM. Mckinley. came.
They enlisted together as privates, at
Cleveland, in 1861.
Kansas corn, Kafir corn and late
fruits have been injured considerably
by frosts. In the central portion of the
state damage was the most severe.
Emporia now expects trains to be
running there over the Emporia and
Omaha road before it sees any Orient
trains. Locating engineers are there
at work.
Ledru Guthrie, former practicing
attorney of Wellington, has so much
business in his new location in New
York City as to require six rooms for
his office.
Captain Fred Il. Dodge. formerly of
Leavenworth and The Twentieth Kan
sas, is now chief of the fire department
| in Manila.
Emma Goldman visited Pittsburg
four years ago and not much is remem-