Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-09-25
KANSAS hOMMENT

SENIOR VICE COMMANDER.-GeQe
]. K. Hudson, of Topeka has been
elected senior vice commander of the
Kansas g. A. r department by the
council of administration to I'll the
vacancy caused by the death of NJ. A.
Carmichael at Garnett recently.
AN OLD FLINT-LoCK.-George Carver,
of Wichita, has received from his
mother, in Ohio, an old fiint-lock rifle
carried by an ancestor of his in the
war of 1872. The gun is very heavy
and the bayonet is very long. 1t is in
good working order and looks as if it
might do execution even now. The
stamp on it is simply the word ''Ohio"
imprinted in the barrel.
TWENTIETH KANSAS BABY Show
1t has been suggested by number of
the boys at the reunion at Burlington
that Twentieth Kansas baby show
be made feature of the reunion next
year, and the proposition has also been
made that all members who cannot
show wife and baby by that time be
fined and put on fatigue duty until
they reform.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH CONVENTION
The convention of the Christian church
of Kansas, held at Topeka, elected the
following new officers: President,
Milton Brown; superintendent of mis-
sions, w. S. Lowe; woman's depart
ment, Libby F. Ingels; department of
Sunday schools, C. A. Fink; depart
ment of young people, R. A. Rosen-
stein; childrens department, Eveline
Moore.
HIAwATHA ACADEMY OPENs.-The
Hiawatha academy, whose endowment
has recently been increased S25, 900 by
Rockefeller and Brown county patrons,
and which is now under the control of
the Baptist educational association,
opened its fall term with good at
tendance. A large number of students
will enter during the first weeks and it
is thought that all accommodations
will be crowded.
EUREKA REUNIoN.-The veterans of
81 to IS held reunion at Eureka last
week which was largely attended by
the old boys, their families and friends.
There was not minute of time that
the management were lacking in en-
tertainment of the crowds in attend
ance. Noted speakers, musicians, elo-
cutionists and vocalists were on call
from Tuesday morning until Friday
night. Charles Curtis and ]. G. Wood,
from Topeka, were speakers.
RAISED IN WICHITA.-Miss Eva Root
has been appointed private stenogra-
pher to Governor Root of Michigan.
She was born and raised in Wichita
and passed the public schools Of that
city, but left Wichita just one year ago
and has taken thorough training in
the International business college of
Saginaw, Mich, and from the college
she marched directly into the govern
or's Office and is giving perfect salts
faction.
FIRST FROST ITEMS. The first frost
of the season was noticed at Dodge
City on September 12. On the same
morning there was a light frost at
Florence. In Doniphan county along
the Missouri river bottoms all the green
leaves were nipped. Abilene reported
heavy frost, but it was too late to
injure corn. There was ice formed at
Ottawa. No damage to crops. Atchi-
son reports green stuff killed in the
bottoms. Lawrence reports heavy
white frost, with ice in exposed places.
Salina had a light frost with no dam
age, while Chetopa reports heavy
frost without damage.
: INSPECTIONS ARE PRoFITABLE.-State
Oil Inspector Spencer turned 1856
into the state treasury, fees collected
for August. The expenses of the de-
partment were $3.50. State Grain In
spector Northrup turned in August
fees amounting to s4.6O3; expenses,
s3,OO1.
A HOTEL BURNS hotel at
Sylvan Grove, Saline county, and a
nearby dwelling are burned, causing a
loss of $4,000 in the hotel building
alene, besides a considerable one on
furniture.
On GENERAL ToRRANCE's STAFF
Colonel J. L. Grimes, of Hiawatha, has
been selected as an aide de camp on
the staff of General Eli Torrance, com
mander-in-chief of the G. A, R., for
rhe national G. A. r. reunion to be
held next month at Washington, d. C.
Colonel Grimes was an aide-de-camp
several years ago at the Louisville ma
tional reunion.
GETTING NERvE.-Several of the stu
dents of Ottawa university have been
working as section hands on the Santa
-Fe this summer.
GET NEXT TO DAvIDsoN.-c. L. Da-
wilson, of Wichita, has bought lake
of seven acres of deep water, full of the
finest lake trout and bass. 1t lies in
the mountains of the northern part of
Colorado.
WILL BUILD AN Acknowledgment
General Fox, of the Kansas National
Guard, has received information that
Captain Charles Lander, of Company
K, at Lindsborg, promises to build an
armory at Lindsborg for his company.
He will put his own money into the
building.
FIVE YEARS IN THE PEN.-Allen
Williams, of Emporia, arrested at Abb
lene in company with 16-year old Mag
gle Morris, who was dressed in bows