Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-14
local News.
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A number of our farmers are SOW
ing barley and other spring crops.
w. E. Davis was in the city last
week and returned to Hutchinson
Tuesday.
Elery Cooper and wife have NOV
ed into the property across from the
Catholic church.
Art, Bowen started to Optima
this week with two teams and ex-
poets to freight to that point.
DR.. Fee was called to Gray coun-
ty Wednesday to Mr.. Lands to set
broken leg for his son-in-law.
Mr.. P. McMeel, father of B. S.
McMeel, has been sick and unable
to be out for the past few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Braden re-
turned Monday night from Adams,
Ind, where they spent the winter.
Mrs. F. M. Martin left Wednes-
day morning for Illinois in response
to message that her mother was
not expected live.
The gentle zephyrs for the past
few days are not calculated to i'm
press the new corners very favorably
nor cause them to see visions of the
lovely Garden of Eden.
If any of the skeptical or unbe-
livers want to see literal hell exem-
plified just go out and fight a prairie
fire in a seventy-fve mile per hour
breeze.
Chas. A. Vaughn, of Jerseyville,
Ills, friend of Frank Hamilton, is
in the city visiting and looking at
the country, possibly with view of
locating.
Will. Osgood and Toms Johnston
are putting inlwindow glass in the
front of the building on the north
side and will soon have it ready for
business.
Coal has been scarce in our city
for the past two months. 1t seems
impossible to get any Canon City
coal and we have to be content with
a limited supply of eastern Kansas
coal.
Fred Ellis left last Monday for
Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he ex-
poets to remain for the present. His
brother, Frank, is already located
in that country, and has a good Sit
uation.
Claud Ragland is now employed
by the Rock Island in the water ser
vice. He runs the pumpihouse al
this place at present. We are glad
to see Claud get the place as he is q
good man.
A number of the scholars ano
friends of Prof. Dawson gathered a
the home of Miss Winnie Bonhan
on Tuesday evening to bid farewell
to the Prof. A very pleasant time
was spent by those in attendance.
| ]. M. Bosley, who recently traded
for the Kirby place in Fowler town
ship, was in the city this week. MIR
Bosley is well pleased with his 10
cation and thinks this great coun
try.
Prof. Dawson left on Wednesda,
morning for his home in Hutchin
son. He will return in July as h
has been engaged to conduct tn
Normal. Prof. Dawson taught
good school and is well liked by al
the scholars.
The term of our city schools end
ed last Monday. At meeting o
| +ba .obooI ho,rd - ,vo. Iao;Lal 2,
close school for the term. Th
teachers were paid for the tim
taught. We will have no NOR
school until September.
Clyde Palmer arrived Monda,
night from Medford, Ok, to visi
his friend Art Follick and to spen'
several days in the county hunting
Clyde used to be great nimrod an
does not seem to have lost any O
the fascination for such sport.
The steam shovel crew is at wor
west of the city widening the cut
and they are hauling the dirt east G
the city, widening the grade som
two feet on each side, Section Fore
men Cannon and Conger each hav
number of men assisting in tn
work.
A dispatch from the Adjutar
: General, Washington, D. c. to MI
Painter, says that the records sho'
that Sergeant VIM. H. Painter, c
Co. M, 44th Inf. was killed on jar
uary 20, at Santa Lucia, Island {
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