Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-10-30

health for many months, being barely
able to remain at his post until after
commencement last June. Immediate
ly afterwards he went to Colorado for
| his health but regained little of his
| strength and came home a few weeks
ago.
FIFTEEN HEAD BROUGHT 81, 200.-J.
L. Dawdy, of Atchison county, took
fifteen of his blooded cattle to Gales
burg, ILL.,, where he sold them for
81, 200, an average of $3.50 head. He
sold one heifer, "Queen of iowa" to
r. w. Bolts & Son, OF Plymouth, Ill,
for $500, and another, Imperial SUI
sanna," to Whitsett &c Sons, of Pre-
Emption, ILL.,, at $500 also.
BALLOTS MADE UP WRoNG.-After
10000 ballots had been printed for
Shawnee county, it was discovered that
the form of the ballot had been made
up wrong. Another batch had to be
be printed. Such thing occurring in
the shadow of the capitol and within
close touch with central committees
caused panic among party managers.
A BUSY NIGHT.-From s p. m. until
daylight, the Santa Fe took between
700 and 500 cars of stock through Otta-
wa. 1t was one of the busiest nights
for stock extras that the yard men can
remember. Of the nights shipments
| about $50 cars came up over the South
ern Kansas and the rest came over the
cutoff.
TEN CARS OF GLAss.-A representa-
tive of a sash and door factory at
| Wichita closed a contract with the
Coffeyville glass factory the other day
for ten carloads of window glass. Ex-
perts say no better Window glass is
made anywhere in the United States
than that turned out by this Kansas
factory.
367 CARPBNTERs.-Att the close of the
next to the last day for registration
the books at Wichita carried the names
of 367 voters who registered as carpen-
tiers, yet there is n demand for more
carpenters there. 1t is likely that
there are so more who came into the
city too late to register.
An EXPECTED WEDDING. L.
Reid, of Topeka, and Miss Vera Low,
of Topeka, are married. Young Mr..
Reid is the well known cartoon artist;
the bride is the daughter of NJ. A.
Low, is an accomplished musician and
a fine horsewoman.
COMMISSIONER RESTS AT HONE
After burying his father at Fort Scott,
Pension Commissioner Ware went to
his home in Topeka to rest for a few
days. He cancelled all his engage
ments to speak in the Kansas campaign.
50 AT FAMILY REUNION. E. Pen
is having n family reunion. Eighty
mia members of the Pennington fam
lily met and remained together several
days.
WINTERS IN TOPEKA.-Sells & Downs
circus will winter in Topeka. Quarters
have been secured at the fair grounds.
The circus goes into winter quarters
on November IL.
THREE HURT. Snyder, a
living near Parsons, was driving
a spirited young team which ran away.
Mr.. s., his wife and his sister were all
seriously hurt.
POLAND CHINA Hoes.-At sale of
thoroughbred Poland-China hogs in
Clay Center fine young animals from
all over that section of Kansas were
brought and many breeders of state
reputation were present The hogs
averaged in price from $50 to S35.
SHOT SrRANGER.-George Bous-
field, miner living near Midway, near
Pittsburg, shot and killed stranger
who was trying to enter his house
The stranger had been hanging about
the camp for several days He was
not identified.
New mutual CoMPANY,-The Nema-
ha Mutual Fire Insurance company,
with headquarters at Seneca, Kas., has
been authorized by State Superintcnd-
emit of Insurance w. v. Church to do
business in the state. George w. Will
liams is president of the company and
John Stowell is secretary.
CHERRYvALE ZINC PLANT FIRE
Fire in the plant of the Edgar Zinc
company burned four smelling blocks
out of six. The damage is estimated
at $4,000, partially insured. The
stacks will be rebuilt Immediately.
SOLDIERS HOME ENGINEER John
G. Burchfield, of Kansas, recently con-
nected with the general land office at
Washington, has been appointed en-
gineer of the Soldiers home at John
son City, Tennessee. The home at
johnson City is planned to be the
largest institution of the kind in the
world.
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARs.-F. s. De
Long, who has been living at Preston,
accidentally discovered that Mrs. Shack
lee, who lives at Pratt, was a sister of
his he had not seen for eighteen years
OnSHARDIsT Buys A WAREHOUSE
Samuel Hoover, the apple man OF
Sedgwick county, has purchased big
cold storage warehouse on the Missouri
Pacific tracks in Wichita, and is filling
the big building with apples. This
building has a capacity of 5000 barrels
and Mr.. Hoover his an orchard of ITO
acres and next year will set out fifty
more acres in apples He purchased