Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-10-16
hansas Events
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the Missouri river on the continent.
The building, in addition to the Office,
closet and bath rooms, has a freight
room 397 feet long and "a feet wide,
and on either side of this is a covered
platform eight feet wide, giving them
width for handling freight of forty
feet and floor capacity of nearly 10000
square feet. 1t will be seen from this
that the road has a space for handling
freight in Wichita considerably over
one third of an acre.
CHURCH WAS DEcoEArED.-As service
held in the Lutheran chnrch at Water
vile, marks the liberalized methods
which have been adopted in modern
times. The service was in the nature
of thanks giving for the bounteons
crops of the present year. The eiifice
was decorated throughout with fruits
of the farm and the orchard. Tall
stalks OF corn wed with corpulent
sheaves OF wheat and other grains in
suggesting the abundance of the season.
DosTER MAY SUCCEED HoRToN.-It
is given out on reliable authority that
when Chief Justice Doster retires from
the supreme bench in January, he will
be given the appointment as Missouri
Pacific attorney to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge A. II.
Horton. The salary will be about
double that of chief Justice.
BARNEY KELLY COMING HoME-Rev.
Bernard Kelly. who has been stationed
in the Philippine Islands for the past
year as chaplain of the United States
army, has received notice from the war
department that he will shortly be
placed on the retired list, and he is
now on his way home. He will reach
Topeka about November /.
estate dealer has purchased an auto
mobile with a carrying capacity of
II people which he will use in showing
his customers about over the country.
He believes he will be able to cover
more territory and do it at less expense
than by the old plan of using car
riages.
CHURCH AT THE SHoPs.-Bishop Mills
paugh has planned and negotiated for
the building of an Inexpensive but sui
ficiently commodious mission church
near the Santa Fe shops in Topeka for
the convenience Of the shopmen who
may be Episcopalians and others who
desire such services in that part of the
city
VETERAN DROPS DEAD.-Robert
Hardy, of Emporia, an old soldier,
dropped dead in front of the Citizens
bank. Mr.. Hardy had heart disease
He was in the Fourth West Virginia
infantry, Company s, during the civil
war, and had lived in Lyon county
about thirty-two years.
UP TO JUDGE DALE.-.The state fu-
sion committee, as anticipated, filed in
the district court in Wichita n suit in
mandamus of Secretary of State George
Clark and County Clerk John Chain,
seeking to get the state ticket headed
by Craddocl1 twice on the same ballot
WAGGENEB DENIES IT.-B. P. Wag-
that Chief Justice Doster will succeed
the late Albert II. Horton in the Wag-
gener law firm. He says no such ar
rangement has been discussed.
On, MOI Nor Now.-People are not
sneering at the "Orient" railroad
scheme as they were wont to do last
spring.
CROWDED SCHooLs.-The Junction
City public schools have increased to
such an extent in attendance that the
board OF education found it necessary
to provide more room. The old Meth
odist church was rented and will be
occupied by eighty pupils. The pres.
ent enrolment of the schools is 1,1Os.
OLD SETTLERS REUNION Dick
inson county old settlers reunion was
attended by many from all parts
of the county. 7. c. Henry, of Denver,
the old time wheat king. made the an
nual address
IN EARLY TIMEs.-Mrs. Margaret
McIlwaine died recently at her home
in Oslwatomie. She came to Kansas
in 1855 with her parents. She had
much experience with Missouri raiders
in the border ruffian times. Her first
husband was Robert Shields, who was
killed in battle while serving in the
Eleventh Kansas.
KANsANs ABRoAD.-Former resi-
dents of Concordia who are now living
in Los Angeles, CAL, met the other
day to hold picnic Seventy-one
were present.
LARGE COLLEGE ENRoLLMEMT.-Re-
ports already received by Frank Mel
son, State superintendent of public iu-
struction, indicate an unusually large
attendance at the state institutions
and the UNCONVENTIONAL colleges. The
attendance is far in advance of that of
any previous year. Forinstance Baker
university at Baldwin reports IS more
students than last year and the in
crease is largely in the college depart
ment DIR. Muriin believes that Baker
win have three hundred and sixty stu
dents this year.
New SANTA FE DEPoT.-Thc appli-
cation for the permit to make the long
talked of additions to the Santa Fe
depot at Topeka has been allowed by
the fire marshal In it the cost of the
improvement is estimated at $50, $50.
An addition at each end of the present
building is to be made. The old bag
orn no room, ,,-iIl ha torn, out 1,Lo all