Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-10

Quite number of our city people
are laid up with the grip.
The city schools began last Mon
day, after the holiday vacation.
Will Bruce and Tom Johnston
went to Beaver Sunday on business,
returning Tuesday.
Charles Wehrle was laid up with
slight attack of the grip Tuesday.
Alf Siegel and Ned Snyder re-
turned from Ashland Tuesday night.
This Office has blank receipt books
for sale. If you need one call and
secure it.
Gerow & Roberts will half-sole
your shoes for so cents; hand-sewed
sole for 80 cents.
When you want fine job work, this
Office can accommodate you at the
most reasonable prices. Bring us
your work.
North East Slider is our latest
correspondent. We gladly welcome
him, and hope he may continue.
Judge Selvidge returned Tuesday
night from Missouri where he has
been for the past several weeks.
Will Shelley was assisting Mr..
Bergman in the bank, Wednesday,
owing to the sickness of Mr.. Boeh- |
ler.
Frank Millikan, of Haskell coun-
ty is Spoken of as candidate for
register of the land Office at Dodge
City.
Steve Montgomery was a caller at
this Office last week and deposited a |
couple of wheels for subscriptions to
THE News.
Mr.. John Shaw called on THE
News last Saturday to renew his
subscription to this moral weekly |
for another year.
We would like to hear from our
Odee correspondent more regularly.
Come to the front, Dutch, we like
to hear from that quarter. |
Mrs. H. J. Reas and children
came up from Liberal Monday morn
ing where they had been visiting for
several days with Mrs. Reas' folks. |
Maurice Mcdonald, who is well |
known to many to many of our citi-
zens, has started a paper at Sawyer,
Kansas. We wish him success in
his new venture.
B. F. Bisbee and his. son-in-law,
1. N. Melia were in Meade last
Thursday transacting business, and
they both called at this Office and
renewed their subscriptions for the
new year.
A letter from Ed Wehrle says that
he has been in the hospital with a
severe case of dysentery which re-
duced him from $50 to 1873 pounds.
He said that he expected to be back
to his regiment in a few weeks.
Mrs. Ed Aker and children came
up from Liberal Monday morning
and returned to Plains that evening.
School had been dismissed in Lib
eral and one house had been quar-
antined on account of scarlet fever
The literary society postponed its
meeting from last Friday night un-
til tomorrow night. We hope that
large crowd will turn out and that
everyone on the program will re-
spond and all help make it sue
cess.
Fred Weiss, of Windthorst, Kas.,
passed through Meade last Thurs
day on his way home from Odee
where he had been visiting friends
and relatives. He made this Office
a pleasant call before resuming his
journey.
The best way we know OF to be-
gin the new year, as well as the new
century, is to subscribe for THE
News. In all human probability,
many of you will not live to begin
another century in this manner, so
you better avail yourselves of the
opportunity and subscribe now.
The Cowboy preacher, as he
terms himself gave temperance lee
lures in the Presbyterian church last
Saturday night and Sunday. On
Monday night he gave a perform
ance at the city hall. 1t consisted
of few stereophcon views and
some other features and quite
large audience had turned out to
to see the show.
We hear it reported that George
Wiley is in Topeka with view of
getting an appropriation from the