Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-11-13

cars of cattle this week from Plains
Mrs. w. c. Osgood Jr. of Buck
lin, is in the city visiting home folk
Mr.. Lee Howard and family are
enjoying a visit from Mr.. Howard:
father.
Will Shelley makes an excellent
"spieler" for the different attraction:
at the fair.
1t is about time some of our cor.
respondents were reporting from the
rural districts.
J. c. Ragland has moved his fam
lily to Minneola, where they will re-
main for the winter.
Mr.. J. w. Kibby is hauling al
falfa from here to his ranch in Mer-
tilla twp. and feeding his cattle.
James Wilson and Rev. J. N.
Stamper were elected Justices in
this twp. at the recent election.
H. G Adams, of Maple Hill, Ks,
is in the county looking after his
cattle interests at the XI ranch.
Mrs. Rosenberg returned from
Spokane Falls, Wash, last week
where she had gone to visit her
daughter Lucy.
The Helping Hand will give an
entertainment at the city hall to-
night. Proceeds for the benefit OF
the waterworks.
Uncle Dick Skinner will leave in
a few days for Bowling Green, Ohio
where he will remain during the
winter months.
c. P. Fullington Is in town with
some land buyers this week, show
ing them the country and trying to
sell them some land.
Mrs ]. w. Kibby and children
left last Sunday night for Augusta,
Kansas, where they will visit relati-
yes for several weeks.
DR.. Fee left Tuesday for New
Mexico, where he will spend a
couple of weeks hunting deer and
other game of that region.
Henry Kobbs and wife are here
from Missouri. Mr.. Kobbs is the
owner of the place just north of
town, known as the Flick farm.
Tonight is the last night of the
fair. Tomorrow night will be the
waterworks ball. Also the Water
works supper will be held over the
drug store tomorrow night.
In the pony races last Wednesday
afternoon, Perry Erickson's horse
won the 400 yard race. Geo. AL
lens horse won the $50 yard race
Roscoe Griggs rode the Allen horse.
The Rock Island is now using
their large engines on this line. The
freight trains all consist of IS to &c
cars, much different from the old
order of things. The freight traffic
is very heavy.
7. M. Robinson has been invit ed
to hold memorial services of Rev.
N. G.. Collins at Dodge City, OF
Sunday 10th. In his absence DR.
Snyder will fill his pulpit morning
and evening at the Baptist Church,
in this city.
Jim Mahoney, who lives about 1c
miles west of Meade had the second
and third fingers of his left hand
taken off Wednesday. He got then
badly mashed in feed mill which
made amputation necessary. DR.
Nichols performed the operation.
A. H. Heber, a former Meade
County resident, passed through
Meade last Sunday night on his way
east. Mr.. Heber informed us that
he was doing well with his irrigation
and land business in southern Cal
ifornia' The company owns and
controls an irrigation ditch also foul
towns.
Mr.. w. B. Hays, of Plains, wa
in Meade last Thursday evening
While in H. G Marshall & Coz
store he was seized with a severe at
tack of heart failure, and for tim,
seemed in critical condition. Med
ical aid was summoned and he wa:
soon revived. He returned hom,
next day. Mr. Hays informed us
that he was subject to these attack
but that this was the first sever
one for eighteen years.