Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-17


Senator Forney has purchased the
State bank at Belle Piaine.
The Topeka Medical college is to be
merged with WashburD college.
Water was ten feet deep on the top
of the Lawrence dam on June 10.
John w. Breidenthal is at the head
of the new Usage City State bank.
Miss Ethel L. Lawrence, of Wichita,
has been appointed a copyist in the
patent Office.
The postal receipts at Junction City
have reached the limit which will
bring free delivery of mail
Z. d. George, of Manlxato, is chosen
as superintendent of the schools of
Paola, to succeed Ira Swain.
The wife of Fireman Elliott, of
Council Grove, was run over by an au-
tomobile and seriously injured.
Topeka contractors refuse to take
on any more contracts because they
already have ell they can manage this
year.
There are fields in Finney county
| which have been in alfalfa for 90 years
and are as good now as they ever
were.
There are thousands of bushels of
plums about Sterling on the market at
low price, there being lack of outside
| demand.
n. H. LOOMS, the new general at
torney for the Union Pacific, was
working on Saline county farm 20
years ago.
The Orient Townsite and Land COM
pany has taken charter. Its purpose
is to plat and sell townsites along the
Orient railroad
The Twentieth Kansas annual re-
union is to be held at Burlington Sep
TENDER 10 and II. A local fair will be
held at the same time.
DIR. A. B. Ryno, of Galva, has been
! arrested on suspicion that he was con-
nected in some way with the shooting
of Miss Maude Holmes.
w. NJ. Davidson, superintendent of
the Topeka public schools, was elected
| treasurer of the National Educational
association at the Minneapolis meeting.
Sheriff Taylor and posse rounded up
six farmers and corralled them in the
Sedan Jail, charged with conspiracy to
rob the Elgin State bank. They all
live near Elgin.
have syndicated, on the Rocky Ford
plan. 1t is expected that at least 500
cars of melons will be shipped from
Clyde this season.
Topeka is to issue SEQ, 900 worth of
paving and sewer bonds in August and
the city clerk received in less than one
week about twenty letters from East
ern firms asking chance to buy them
j. V. Clymer, who was the first city
attorney of Hutchinson and a member
of the legislature in the '7O's, is dead
at the age of 65 years. He served in
the civil war as captain in an Indiana
regiment.
The American Bridge company lost
timbers which were on the piling of a
bridge which was being constructed
over the Kansas river near Topeka.
The high water and drift wood swept
the timbers away.
Saline county has just completed a
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high and has twelve double cells. The
next problem of the kind the county
commissioners must meet is the needed
Improvement of the court house.
! Nine months ago James Neal,
farmer of Brown county, bought six
sows for S42.6O Recently he sold the
six sows and forty-two of their pigs
for 1925 Mr.. Neel has twenty-one of
the pigs left They were fed on
skinned milk and only 100 bushels of
| grain.
Altoona had 200 inhabitants at the
last census. The town is thrifty, hav-
ing 81, 343.6 G. in its treasury.
Two threshing engines have explo-
ded. One in Reno county owned and
operated by Abram Dierks and his
family, fatally injuring him, while
Sour others were seriously hurt. The
other was in Wilson county. Leo An
derson was blown 60 feet away. Pieces
of iron were thrown every way, one
striking VIM. Wilson, cutting his leg
off. Anderson was fatally hurt, while
Wilson is expected to recover.
| E. Emery Gore, of Lawrence. is en-
| joying 4 visit with his twin brother.
E. Emerson Gore, of Oregon. The
twins are rs years old and had been
separated 80 years. Even the relatives
of the brothers are puzzled to tell
which is which.
A committee of United Brethren
ministers is to decide whether Lane
university shall be removed from Le-
compton to Hutchinson. 1t is the old
est college in Kansas, having been es-
tablished when Lecompton was the
capital of the territory.
Eugene +. Ware, commissioner of
pensions, has been invited to address
the annual state encampment at Wich-
tia in September.
The Delaware river at Valley Falls
was higher one day last week than the
railroadmen ever saw it. At Atchison
the Missouri river was not far from
the draw bridge.
Andrew Erickson, farmer of Wa
baunsee county, tried to ford the high
water which covered the approach to