Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

school house year for six years.
Company H, Twentieth Kansas, held
reunion in Lawrence, February 4.
The Kansas Grain Dealers associa-
ton are to meet in Topeka on March
1918.
Winfield jointists have removed most
of their costly furniture in anticipation
of raid.
All the joints in Hiawatha are
wrecked and the proprietors have
skipped out.
The foundations for a new $4,000
Methodist church at lola are almost
completed.
The snow broke up railroad commu-
nication along the lines running west
from Atchison.
February opened with 100 students
enrolled at Kansas university, with
more expected.
Students at Ottawa university placed
half dozen quarantine flags on the
building, for lark.
The clerks of the district courts of
the state met in Topeka last week.
They have SALARY" complaint.
A new Bank has been organized at
Wathena to take the place of the bank
which was wrecked by its cashier.
L. NJ. Erb, of New York, visited
Lawrence with view of placing an
electric street railway in that city.
Mrs. Jessie Brown and her two chill
dren- were drowned while fording the
Verdigris river south of Coffeyville.
Weir City will ask the legislature to
be given the authority to vote 5000
to put in city light and water plant.
c. w. Jewell, retired banker of To-
peka, who died recently, left $4,000 to
the endowment fund of Washburn col
lege.
A Pullman car load of interested
business men of Wichita will attend
the Livestock meeting at Woodward,
o. T.
Aetna Life Insurance company on de-
faulted interest on bonds issued in
1879.
Fred Harvey, the Santa Fe eating
house man, was reported as being near
death on Feb. at his home in Leaven-
worth.
Leading ladies of Harper visited the
saloons there and insisted that they be
closed; to be followed by destructive
acts.
Mr. Huckle, of Osborne county, be-
ing handy, rugged an attachment to
his windmill to work crosscut saw at
his woodpile.
Branner School, with 600 pupils, in
the eastern portion of Topeka, has
been closed because one of the janitors
has the smallpox.
o. P. Updegraff, of Topeka, was one
of those who could talk, and did talk
at the National Live Stock association
meeting at Salt Lake City.
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the twenty-third annual session of the
Kansas grand lodge of the a. O. U. w.
will meet in Leavenworth.
The Eureka boring has struck oil in
paying quantities and the town is ju-
fdlant. There had been heavy expend-
iture of money on the work.
Hiawatha druggist was told that
he must quit selling whisky or quit
business. In ten minutes his door was
locked and sign put up offering his
place and stock for sale.
Three Hutchinson boys were sem
fenced to the reform school for stealing
chickens. There were two more bows
in the gang according to their own
story, who begged to be sent too. They
were sent.
Lawrence has established a pest
house on an island in the Kansas river
The two mild cases of varioloid of uni
versity students are about over.
State Labor Commissioner Lee John
son was reelected by the Kansas State
Labor society; also B. P. Scott was
reelected as assistant commissioner.
After March the following MEM
bers of the Kansas delegation in Con-
gress will each control an appointment
to the naval academy at Annapolis:
Representatives Chas. f. Scott, j. D.
Bowersock, A. NJ. Jackson; w. A. Cal
derhead and w. A. Reeder.
A Decatur county farm of 200 acres
has been sold for $4,000. The build
ings on the farm are worth no more
than $500. The riddle is solved by the
statement that more than a quarter
section is seeded to alfalfa which pro-
duces more than $4,000 year.
Stockmen of Osborne county who
have tried both say that they can raise
more and better feed from sorghum
than from alfalfa, acre for acre.
A mattress factory in Wichita uses
about 300 cords of cottonwood, each
season, from which excelsior is made.
The factory has the latest machinery
for this purpose.
J. c. Fuller, owner of the disc-drill
factory at Moline, Illinois, and of the
gas works and much other property in
Winfield and in Kansas City, died Feb
ruary 6, at Moline, Illinois
The womans' clubs of Emporia have
federated to promote things which will
tend to the general welfare of the
town.
Re. w. Thrall, of Eureka, is the owner
of the largest herd of Galloway cattle
in Kansas, and is also the newly elect
ed president of the American Galloway
Breeders association.