Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-09-05
Local News.

The grass is getting quite green
since the rains.
The weather is great deal cooler
at the present time.
Harry Coon went to Hutchinson
Tuesday to attend the fair.
The Ashland Base Ball nine de-
feated the Coldw ater nine last week.
The rain last Saturday night and
Sunday morning measured 1.4o
inches.
Everyone seems to have a more
pleasing countenance since the re-
cent rain.
Our base ball boys are expecting
to play the Ashland nine here
week from next Saturday.
Frank Frame is home for a short
visit from Rocky Ford where he has
been for the past few months.
Miss Edith Porter is in the city
this week visiting friends. While
here she is the guest of Mrs. J. B.
Buck.
Mrs. L. E. Wood and son, Frank,
left Wednesday for Whitehall, Ind,
where she will visit for several
weeks.
Mrs. Geo. Harlan and son who
have been visiting at D. Gerow's
left this week for their home IN
Mocon, Mo.
Mr.. Moses Black and son, Ernest,
returned last week from Woodward
county where they had been doing
some surveying on an irrigation
ditch,
The Angel threshing machine
passed through the city Tuesday.
They went from Kessler's place up
north of town to thresh barley for
Jim Eason.
We are requested to announce
that Rev. Parks will be here next
Sunday and hold services at the
Presbyterian church. Communion
services will be held in the morning.
At the delinquent tax sale last
Tuesday nearly all the delinquent
tax land was bid in by residents of
Meade county. This is good evi-
dence that the demand for western
Kansas lands is increasing.
| J. H. Camp & Son are kept ex-
tremely busy these days grinding
wheat and barley which is being fed
very extensively by most of the
farmers and stockmen in place of
corn which they think too high in
price. The barley and wheatground
together makes excellent feed.
We are advised that Rube Orr
got good bottom land claim eight
miles from Anadarko, in the new
country. The claim is valued at
S1,o has timber on it, much of
which is walnut. We are glad Mr..
Orr has secured such a good claim.
He is expected home to-day and
will probably move his family down
there within the next few months.
Our city schools opened last Mon
day morning, with Prof. Mccoy as
Principal; Miss Maud Bayliss in the
Grammar department; Miss Sada
Jenkins, intermediate and Miss Jen-
ME Kessler, Primary. The attend
ance is very good and will increase
later in the term when some of the
more advanced scholars will begin.
The school starts off in excellent
condition and everything indicates
that we will have a very successful
term.
Mr.. J. B. Sweet, of Burlington,
Coffee county, Kansas, has been in
Meade county for the past few days
looking oyer the county with view
of locating. Mr.. Sweet is an old ac-
quaintance of Judge Jenkins, who
took him out Tuesday and showed
him our beautiful artesian valley.
Mr.. Sweet expressed great surprise
at the flowing wells and thinks it the
greatest country in Kansas. We
would be pleased to have him locate
among US.
J. W. Jacoby, whom Sheriff Judd
took to Quincy, ILL.,, to the solkiers'
home, is back in this county. He
arrived at his brothers house in
West Plains twp. last week. Mr..
Jacoby was adjudged insane in the
Probate Court of this county early
in the summer, but as he had not
been in the state six months. could
not be taken to the asylum. He
had been an inmate of the home at