Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-12
The weather is becoming extreme

ly hot.
For SALE-One saddle horse. In
quire at this Office.
Liberal will celebrate the Fourth
of July this year, in grand style.
A girl baby was born at the home
of R. w. Campbell Wednesday
morning.
Miss Rhue Bonham is home from
Ottawa, Kansas, where she has been
attending school.
We are mighty glad the circus
did not stop at Meade, from the re-
ports from Liberal.
J. ]. Leach returned last Thurs
day from Harrington, where he had
been for several days.
The P. E. o. Society postponed
their social meeting last Saturday
so they could attend the Band Con-
cert.
DR.. Fee reports the birth of girl
baby at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Graham, of West Plains twp.
last week.
Wesley Edwards returned last
week from Baldwin, Kansas, where
he has been attending school for the
past year.
The A. o. U. W. lodge at this
place will give free entertainment
at the city hall next Monday night.
You should attend.
Will Shelley left Tuesday after
noon for his claim in Beaver coun-
ty where he will spend several days
making improvements on same.
Jance Lebeck is now section fore
man at this place. in place of Tom
Stewart who resigned the place last
week. Mr.. Lebeck is a good, steady
young man and we are pleased to
see him secure this position.
The camp meeting has begun in
Meade. The large tent is pitched
on the vacant lots south of R. R.
Wells residence. There are several
ministers in charge of the meeting,
and the attendance Is quite large.
A. Stinson's herd of 2,4oo head
of cattle, en- route to southeastern
Colorado, crossed the Rock Island
track at this point last Saturday.
They were crowded out of Wood
ward county.-Guymon Herald.
Bernard Lemert, cattle inspector
for the Texas Association, was in
town and vicinity Saturday. He
cut several cattle out of the herd
that belonged to ranchmen east of
this place.-Guymon Herald.
]. D. Dalgarn brought sample
of his wheat to this Office last Sat-
urday. 1t bids fair to make a very
good yield considering the unfavor-
able winter. Mr.. Dalgarn is locat-
ed miles east of Plains. He thinks
his wheat will make from 10 to IS
bushels per acre.
The Meade baseball nine has been
invited to come to Liberal on the
Fourth to play ball. The boys
should go, by all means, and assist
Liberal to celebrate. Our people
have stood around like sticks and
let the time pass without making an
effort to have a celebration. 1t is
too late now. to begin, for by the
time they got started, the Fourth
would be over.
Some of the circus men got the
best of the boys in making change.
One instance, an innocent young
man was asked to give paper money
for some silver. After the circus
man tried to find the exchange for
the fifty dollar bill the young man
had given, the circus man handed
back what appeared to be the same
paper saying he could not find the
change just then. Not until several
hours later did the young man dis
cover that the alleged fifty dollar
bill was a one dollar size. There
are several cases of this kind, and
the people are very sore over the
treatment.-Liberal News.
We clip the following from The
LaRue, (Ohio,) News, from its
write up of the meeting of the Alum
nj of the High School at that place:
zone of the Oldest and indeed
one of the most scholarly members
of the Alumni is Mrs. Rhoda Judd,
of Meade, Kansas. She was pres
ent upon this occasion and favored
her hearers by reading an original
essay on "My Kansas Home" She