Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-27

towns are clamoring to pay off their
bonds that are not due
John R. Hamilton, of Illinois, has
sold to S. S. Findley, of Wichita, 300
acres of land east of Wichita for s13,-
635.
s. A. Deel, of Baldwin. has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the United
States magnetic observatory at Homo
lulu.
Tom Hackney, of Wellington is mis-
sing. He sold his claim at Lawton for
S7OO and has not been seen since Christ
mas.
Kansas has 4,17O Sunday schools;
81 ,594 Sunday school officers and teach
ers, 265, 7s6 scholars; total membership
BIZ. $3.50.
A Lawrence banker says that there
are twice as many notes paid before
they are due as there are renewals
asked for
Concordia has in use a revival tent
with capacity for 16, 900 people, and it
is regularly filed: SO a dispatch from
there asserts.
A fractional quarter section farm
near Derby, Sedgwicls county, has
been sold at $50 an acre. 1t is nearly
full quarter section.
Within few weeks SIS, 900 worth of
Geary county lands have changed
hands, and practically all of it has
been taken by home people.
A $4,000 fire at Wakeeny swept a
lumber yard, three dwellings, two
blacksmith shops, livery barn, and
damaged several other buildings.
The State Fair association has levied
a so per cent assessment on the capital
stock to be used to erect a new grand
stand and make other improvements.
Mrs. o. P. Massey, of Wichita, was
breaking up old china dishes for her
fowls when a piece struck her eyeball,
causing a painful hurt which may
destroy the sight of the eye.
G. A. R. posts in Kansas are grad
ually decreasing in number. The
membership has decreased 500 during
the past six months. This is shown by
the report of Adjutant F. NJ. Riddle.
The annual convention of Y. M. c.
A. secretaries at Topeka was an inter-
esting and profitable gathering. Gov
ernor Stanley gave the presidents and
secretaries who attended reception.
The third annual convention of the
Kansas Evolutionary Association will
be called at Ottawa on April 1919.
Several elocutionists from Kansas and
and Kansas City are on the program
S. A. Flenner, of Abilene, and Henry
Glade of Grand Island, Neb., will be-
gin the erection of a 300 barrel flour
mill at once, to be located ON the site
of the Abilene city mills burned last
summer.
At a meeting of the Topeka Minis
terial Union of Topeka resolution
was adopted asking the managers of
entertainments, exhibitions and recep-
tons not to set their engagements on
Thursday nights for the reason that
they interfere with the attendance at
prayer meetings.
Mrs. Mary E. Nichols, the oldest
Gently at Morrison, Ok. She was one
of a series of five generations living,
composed of Mrs. Sophia Brown, aged
"a; her daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Mich
OILS, aged ~ years; her granddaughter,
Mrs Susan Ball, aged AZ: her great
granddaughter, Mrs. Carina Olson,
aged "a, and her great great-grand-
daughter, aged ., each being the
daughter of the one next higher. The
aggregate ages of the series was 24O
years.
J. l.. CLANCY, veteran groceryman,
of Fort Scott, died from hiccoughs, the
attack lasting for several days, All
sorts of doctors tried to give him re-
lief and failed to do SO.
Suburban and rural grocers about
Atchison have been buying packing
house fresh meats from Kansas CITY
packers and the town butchers knocked
and threatened until the small grocers
were cut out by the packers. Now the
small grocers refuse to buy lard, salt
meats and canned goods of any Kansas
City packer.
A third man has been taken in,
charged with the murder of Geo. C.
Montgomery at Winfield, Ed Colby, of
Enid, formerly employed on the Miller
ranch. The other two are o. w. COT
felt and W. C. johnson.
There are 81 appeal liquor cases on
the docket for the April term of the
Shawnee county district court, and
Judge Hazen has set apart three weeks
of the term for hearing them. He also
| declares that every case will be tried
by jurors drawn from the jury box, no
substitutes to be allowed on the panel
A Clearwater doctor wanted skull
| and secured a human head from med
ical college at st. Louis. The doctor
buried the head in manure heap to
effect its decomposition, where it was
forked out by man who was hauling
| out the manure. A sensation resulted
A Topeka truss manufacturing COM
pany now has 6, 900 agencies in the Uni