Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-13
local News.

District Court convencs in this
city next Tuesday, March 1S.
Will Mott is back from Liberal
to work on the Globe and in the
postofice.
Meade now has night operator.
The work was too heavy for Agent
Eaton and he was given help.
Young & Campbell have moved
their real estate Office to the build
ing recently purchased from Mrs.
Judd.
| Mr.. VIM. Patton, of Manchester,
Okla, has been visiting for several
days with Thos. Johnston and fam
lily. Mr.. Patton is a cousin of Mrs.
Johnston.
A number of the young people of
the city attended the ball at Fowler
on last Tuesday evening. They re-
turned Wednesday morning and re-
port an excellent time.
Mrs. D. Skinner and her daughter,
Mrs. Thurston left last Friday for
Ohio, where Mrs. Skinner will re-
main during the summer with her
daughter and other relatives.
l. G. Combs, a contractor from
Bucklin, was in the city Sunday
consulting with Messrs. McMeel and
Boehler in regard to the construction
of their store building at that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. >Elery Cooper come
| up from Santa Rosa, N. M, last
Thursday evening, for several days
visit with friends and relatives.
They returned to their home at San
ia Rosa, Wednesday.
E. l.. Weaver was up from the XI
ranch Monday. He says they were
fighting prairie fire for two days,
and they lost about 80, acres of
their pasture. They succeeded in
saving all their hay.
The big prairie fire last week de-
stroyed the entire range of B. H.
Campbell & Sons. They were COM
PEELED to move their cattle TO Clark
county.
Mr.. o. P. Stumph, who has been
attending DR.. Fees drug store dur
ing his absence, left Monday for his
home in Dodge City. Mr.. Stumph
was very pleasant gentleman and
was liked by everyone who met him
during his short stay in our city.
Mr.. F. G. Hamilton went through
Meade Monday on his way to In
man for a few days to relieve the
agent at that place. When he ar
rived there he found the depot
quarantined on account ofsmall-pox
so he came to Meade awaiting fur
ther orders.
Mr.. F. L. Shamhart and family,
of Franklin county, arrived in
Meade last week and will locate in
Meade county. Mr.. Shamhart is a
brother of w. N. Shamhart of this
city. Mr.. Shamhart is well pleased
with the country. He says he thinks
this is the best country he has seen
in his travels through eartern Kan
sas and Oklahoma. We are pleas
ed to have Mr.. Shamhart and fam
lily locate with US.
DR.. Fee returned from Fort Scott
Kansas, Monday, where he had
been to take the examination before
the State Board of Pharmacy, which
met in that city. There were 43 ap.
plicants of whom 23 failed, the DR..
receiving the highest average of any
who passed. Some parties in this
county have recently been writing
letters to the State Board and also
to the Governor and the Attorney
General falsely stating that DR.. Fee
was running "dive" under the
guise of drug store. Now, there
was no truth in these reports as ev-
cry one here knows, and the results
are sure to be disastrous to the par
ties who made the false reports.
DR.. Fee bought the drug store and
was conducting the same in good
faith, intending to take the examina-
ton for registration as soon as the
Board met which he did, success
fully passing the same, as we always
believed he was thoroughly compe-
tent to do so. The State Board oi
Pharmacy is composed of gentleman
who do not belong to the narrow
tgauge category, but on the othel
hand, are broad-minded men, who
recognize ability to the exclusion o