Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-05-16

one family in Harper county.
Five of the seven graduates in the
Atchison high school are colored.
The new NJ. E. church at Valley
Falls will be reado for dedication June
LIST.
The ninth annual musical jubilee to
be held in Hutchinson, is set for june
a..
independence failed to cast a two
thirds vote for electric light plant
bonds.
Senator Burton is planning a trip to
Mexico with Mr.. Stillwell, of the Orient
railroad.
There is an NJ. E. church in Augusta
that was built in 1873. 1t has been de-
clared unsafe.
All reports official and otherwise give
Kansas first place in the condition of
the wheat crop.
For the week ending at noon on May
1Othe clearing house receipts in Wichi-
ia were $780,
The new court house at lola is to be
built in the center of the CITY park and
will cost $4,000.
The Salina Commercial club is in
favor of having six saloons. with a
monthly fine of S1OO.
Fred Beauchamp. a farmer in Paw.
nee county, died of heart disease while
milking in his barnyard.
The war department has ordered the
establishment of a permanent recruit.
ing station at Fort Scott.
A G. A. +. monument costing $3.50
will be presented and dedicated at
Peabody on Decoration day.
The Medicine Lodge Odd Fellows
have decided to surrender their char
ter; an extremely rare thing.
The Kansas State Bankers associa.
tion will hold the 18th annual conven.
ton at Lawrence on May 1929.
The Union Pacific ballasting. work
ing from the east, will probably be
finished to Salina obout May 25.
large number of grafters were run
out of Oklahoma City last week. the
most of them coming into Kansas.
Station A, of the Wichita postoffice
has been established on the West Side
in Wichita. Another carrier is added
to the force.
A large and commodious Catholic
church is being built at Waterloo, near
the line between Sedgwick and King
man counties.
The Wetmore girls band raised $500
at an entertainment and will now visit
st. Paul and have Their pictures taken
under Minnehaha falls.
o. w. Daily, conductor on a Missouri
Pacific freight, had two fingers mashed
while making coupling in the yards
at Summit, east of Ell Dorado.
Prof. Carruth started it and eight of
the requisite sixteen citizens of Law.
renee have put up SIS each to save the
old Lawrence windmill from being
torn down.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lowery, of Ok
ford, are held by the coroner's Jury for
investigation of the charge of killing
their baby. The child's stomach was
analysed at Kansas City and poison
was found. Lowery was locked up.
Buyers from Iowa and other states
are so thick and SO busy in Kingman
county, that an Iowa man who arrived
in kingman on Saturday night walked
up reat estate agent on Sunday morn
ing and induced him to hitch up and
show him good bargain before the
inevitable daily rise in prices occurred.
He bought farm.
The Armour Packing company is
only one of the egg buyers in Franklin
county, but that company bought IG
carloads there in April.
At the state county high school ora
torical contest at Chapman. J. w. KAY
ser. of Sumner county, took first place.
with a. +. Morrison. of Norton, sec.
ond. All the county high schools were
Prof. w. N. Sinclair, president of
the State Teachers, association, has
been reelected superintendent of the
FL Dorado schools.
Next year railroad men can vote
wherever in the state they happen to
be. Registration can also be made bv
sending an affidavit to the city clerk.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana will
deliver the commencement address at
Baker university on the morning of
June o. In the afternoon of that dav
President Mckinley will be in Bald
win.
There are said to be Kansas farmers
who object to the free rural delivery
mail routes because they ''have enough
taxes to pay already
Colonel John C. Carpenter of Channte
is much talked about now because he
preferred to refuse two appointments
rendered him by the president.
Captain Z. c. Charlesworth. assistant
adjutant general, died in Topeka on
May 4. He was civil war veteran
and captain in the Kansas 22nd in
The Spanish war. His home has been
n Mitchell county since 1854.
Under a law which came in force On
Nay 1 the rate paid by the state for
he care of the pauper insane is cut
Town from $3.50 week to 81 a week.
Kansas railroads are arranging to
'un special trains into Topeka on the
lay the president and his party are
here.
Clark Bud, Santa Fe brakeman.
ell from the door of a baggage car