Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-23

Hoyt, jackson county, has a new
state bank.
There are "a cases of measles reported
in and about Miltonvale.
A packing company has incorporated
to operate at T.eavenworth-
CoffeyvilIe is confident of having
$500, 900 cotton mill built there this
year.
C. D. Prather, of Franklin county,
who was with the Twentieth Kansas,
is crazy.
Mr.. Helby, of Elwood, Indiana, is
looking for location for glass manu-
factory in Kansas.
Assaria, Saline county, has a new
state bank, the capital stock of which
is held by farmers.
The Bank of Waverly, at Waverly, is
transformed into national bank with
larger capital.
People of Emporia are making ar
engagements to have Chautauqua as
SChoAy IIlo year.
A. F. Watson, of Salina, has been APP
pointed to a high salaried clerkship in
the postoffice department
A creamery trust, to be promoted by
the Kansas creamery, is to have its
headquarters in New York.
Burlington proposes to follow the
plan adopted at Beloit, and provide a
rest room in the new court house.
| Patrick Jordan, who built most of
the houses in Beloit during its youth,
has just died at the age of 81 years.
Many German Russians from Argen
tina and some from from Brazil are ex-
pected to come to Kansas this year.
The Winfield Chautauqua assembly
is out of debt, and will this year build
on the assembly grounds a hall for
class work and special meetings
Charles F. Rudolph, a Santa Fe
brakeman, fell beneath a train at
Sharon, east of Medicine Lodge, and
received injuries from which he died in
few hours.
Smith Bros, of Bayard, Iowa, who
are the largest Shorthorn breeders in
the west, have bought farm of 24O
acres near Emporia, and will move
their business to their purchase.
An Emporia woman saw in a store
| draperies marked at So. 50 which were
exactly the same she had paid S13 for
to a peddler. Other women could find
plenty of like cases by looking for
! them
The Sumner county poor farm more
than pays expenses including the sal
airy of the superintendent. Products
of the farming 1901 sold for 81, SOL. 35 as
against the debtor items amounting to
S1,534.44.
Mo-, who has been the representative
of the Chas. Wolff Packing company in
Colorado, has disappeared with $4,000
cash collected by him. His bond 70
the company is for 1000.
A. B. Schwarting, of Eskridge, sold
10 grade Shorthorn steers on the Kan
sas City market at S6.75. The steers
averaged 1 ,6s2 pounds. Ed Schwarting
sold IL of the same kind of steers which
averaged 1 ,64S pounds for S665.
The Arkansas Valley circuit has fixed
this schedule: st. John, August IS;
Garden City, August %; Great Bend,
September 1; Sterling, September s;
Hutchinson, September %; Ell Dorado,
September 30; Winfield, October 6.
An Ottawa county woman went to a
store in Minneapolis to pay a balance
of So which she had owed for 10 years,
and which had occupied line in the
merchants profit and loss account for
ten years. 1t took a long time to find
the account, but she insisted upon pay
ing it.
The Union Pacific is building a new
turntable at Beloit. 1t is built with
table.
The Missouri Pacific is said to have
submitted a proposition to the town of
Dillon to move their division point
there from Council Grove if the town
will donate ten acres of land.
C. Oldfather, of Maize, Sedgwicll
county, drew his check for $1,000 in
payment for 1900 acres of land in Bar
Der county. He intends to break out
the land and sow it to alfalfa.
Mrs. S. F. Cravens, who is connected
with the Ottawa university, has been
decided by judges appointed by st.
Louis paper to be the most beautiful
woman in Kansas. The judges decided
from photographs
The old Rufus Cone farm near Wich-
tia was sold to an Illinois man a year
ago for $4,000. He has just sold the
farm for SIS, 500.
The supreme court decides that own.
ers of elevators are not liable for fire
loss to owners of wheat, except in case
of negligence on their part.
There is plan forming to build a
trolley line from Salina to Lincoln, q
distance of thirty-five miles. The Sa
lima commercial club is considering it
Jewell county farmers are learning
what oldest settlers of the west have
long known; to go on high ground tc
find living water at less depth thar
on low lands.
1t is thought that the Bourbon coun
ty grand jury now in session will find
bills against county officers and those
of the city of Fort Scott, as well a:
against the booze dealers.