Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-09-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

gathering in Lawrence.
lola, in Is years, has advanced from
roth in population to 18th.
Armour and Co.'S. poultry house at
Clay Center is damaged 5000 by fire.
Edward Berry has served thirteen
terms as county attorney in Marshall
county.
Semi-monthly pay days at the fac
tories and smelters at lola call for S45,-
900 each time.
The Standard oil company has placed
tanks at Alma for supplying all of Wa
baunsee county.
The school population of Topeka in
creased % in the past year. According
to the school census just completed the
total school population is IL, $50.
Prairie chickens are more plentiful
than usual in Western Kansas and par
ties from eastern cities are quite fire.
quent in counties along the Union Pa
cif1c
Fourteen of the 154 school district
clerks of the state failed to re-
port the tax levy to the county clerks
before Aug IS, the limit, and are liable
to fine.
Rains continue plentiful in Decatur
county and some corn will make thirty
bushels to the acre. Andrew Simpson
has $50 acres that he thinks will bring
him 4, 1000 bushels.
The Santa Fe let the contract for
building their new pattern house in
Topeka, for 5000. 1t is to be 40 by rs
feet, three stories high, of brick, and
well protected against fire.
Hereafter in Kansas under the new
election law, when a ballot is not
marked according to law it will be
thrown out, whether it shows the in
tention of the voter or not.
BENZ. Wallack, of Effingham, sixteen
years ago gave his eight children each
1000 in money, and since has given
them various sums each year. Last
week he gave each one $500.
Allen N. Cameron, of Kansas, has
been appointed marshal of the United
States consular court at Hankau, China.
He went from Lawrence as mission
airy to China several years ago.
Mat Bennan, a bachelor of Garden
City, who lived alone, was found dead.
There were evidences or murder. On
the last day he was down town it was
known that he had $500 which has not
been found.
Ernest brewers, of Bently, marketed
load of alfalfa seed which he sold for
S381.67 He says that one acre of his
alfalfa produced Is bushels of seed,
which breaks the record. That acres
seed brought s91.
The bridal dress worn by Miss Clara
s. Glenn, of Wichita, was made entirely
of cloth manufactured in the Philip
pines from banana fiber. She went to
Manila with her sister, the wife OF
Major w. H. Bishop, of Salina.
In Ellsworth county, where there are
several consolidated school districts the
board hires man to gather the pupils
who live two miles or more from the
school, and the people are pleased as it
gives them the benefit of graded schools.
Thirty neighbors, after the death OF
G. w. Graham, of Cowley county, cut
the hay On the Graham farm and
stacked it, put the corn in the shock
threshed the oats; all without charge
and because the crops needed attention
with no one to give it.
It is truth worth hammering al
that Kansas farmers could raise just as
many and just as good or better pota
toes as Colorado if they would irrigate
Russell county paper publishes a.
fact that man who is worth $40, OO(
tried to work the county into paying
the costs OF sending his wife to the in
sane
The steel strike in the east is respon
sible for delays in the completion O.
obout $50, 900 worth of improvements il
additions to the Rock Island shops a
Horton.
The first Sunday of the camp meeting
at Riverside park, Wichita, the stree
car company counted their passenger
after o'clock and there were 2,1s5.
An excellent quality of water-whit,
oil is said to be produced from the Kan
sas petroleum. During 1900 thirty
eight producing wells were drilled ant
fourteen old wells abandoned, making
100 productive oil wells in Kansas a
the close of the last year. Five dr.
holes were drilled during the yea
making the total number completed
43.
De Soto and planted it to potatoes
Their sales reach about 81 ,O5O. 1t il
estimated that if they had held for /;
later market their returns would hav,
been "a, 900 or S125 an acre
1t is expected that Doniphan county
will ship $50 car loads of apples thi
season. Two dollars barrel are
offered for winter apples on the trees
Buyers are now paying $3.50 a barre
fof early apples. The farmers are no
anxious to sell the winter apples jus
yet
Lieutenant E. n. Agnew married
May Sexton, of Minneapolis, Kas., and
they started for his post in the Philip
pines
During the past few years the west
ern Kansas counties have been promp
in the payment of bonds issued sine
the boom days.
]. L. Rock, of Alton, went to Ell REM
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