Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-10-09
Kansas Events
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take charge of the inspection of castor
beans for market. lie referred the
matter to Attorney General GODDARD
and the latter rendered an opinion to
the effect that lie could not see how
they could in any way be classed as
tor beans will have to continue to go
to market without the states certificate
as to their quality.
KANSAS DIRT FOR FERTILIZER
Champaign county, Ills, famed for
more than half century as one of the
most productive in the Mississippi val
ley, is importing Kansas dirt for fer
tilizer and finding they can well nigh
double their yields of some crops by SO
doing. Further, its use produces re-
suits they have been unable to obtain
by the use of other fertilizers. This is
officially acknowledged, and published
by their state experiment station at
Urbaua.
OLD JETMoRE SETTLERs.-Hodgem
county has just held its first independ-
ent old settlers reunion at Jetmore.
Heretofore the county has joined with
the Ford county people. The speakers
were County Attorney A. Fl. Wilson,
Judge Charles E. Lobdell, Michael
Sweeney, T. S. Maun and others. A.
E. Wilson presided and a permanent
organization was effected.
STATE TwINE PLANT.-It is probable
that at the coming session of the legis-
lature bill will be introduced pro-
viding for the increasing of the state
Irvine plant to three times its present
capacity. The enlarged plant will fur
nish employment for much larger
number of convicts and in addition
will greatly swell the cash earnings of
the penitentiary.
BROWN COUNTY CoRN.-William Heff-
ner, of Brown county, has thirty acres
of corn that will average nearly fifteen
feet high. Most of the ears are eight
feet above ground. Seven sample ears
weigh eleven pounds The corn, to-
gether with a 76-pound pumpkin, were
taken as Kansas exhibit to the G. A.
Il. reunion, Washington.
WoN THE BEST CORN PRIZE.-Brad-
ford Miller has won the ten dollar
prize for the best ten ears of corn of
Shawnee county cultivation. The
prize was offered by the Topeka Com
mercial club. His corn was of the
white variety, the ten ears weighing
IS pounds AZ ounces and having an
aggregate length of 100 inches.
MORE TwINE Observation-Disclosures
Jewett, of the Lansing prison, has just
purchased $50, 900 worth of sisal in Yu-
catan for the prison Irvine plant. The
sisal cost o cents pound. This means
that binding Irvine will not be any
cheaper next year than it was this sea-
son. Sisai is twice as high now as it
was three years ago.
BURGLARS IN PosToFFIcE.-The post
Shawnee county, are totally destroyed
by fire. 1t is believed that burglars
looted the two places and set fire to
them to hide the the crime.
BRAKEMAN KILLED.-William La
mont, a freight brakeman on the Santa
Fe, was instantly killed at Olathe
while attempting to make coupling
on the local freight
TEACHERS CERTIFIcArEs.-Supe
tendent Nelson decides that school dis
trict treasurers cannot legally pay
teachers who do not hold legal Ger
| tificates.
THE FLORENCE ELEvAToR.-The5 O,-
| 900 bushel elevator built at Flor
enee by the Parker Grain company,
began handling grain October 8. The
company will clean and prepare for
the market about twenty cars of grain
a day, but it does not intend to do a
local business.
LIGHTNING's FREAK.-Durine thun-
der shower at Hutchinson lightning
struck a shovel in the hands of A. j.
Hooper, laborer, knocking him in
sensible. He will get well, but the
shovel handle was shattered.
"A LABOR TEMPLE.-The labor unions
of Topeka have appointed committee
to select site and secure plans for a
Labor Temple.
MALE TEACHERS ScARCE.-There is a
scarcity of male school teachers in
Reno county. There are only about
/ n 6nzau Aao H.
county, while there are score of
schools which would have employed
men teachers in preference to women
if the men had been available. The
men teachers can make more money in
other callings.
RoPING PRIZE AT WIcHITA-The
cowmen of the 1O1 ranch of Oklahoma
won the $500 in the roping contest at
the Wichita fair with the Arlington
ranch of Kansas and n new record for
| Wichita was established Hopkins
roped and tied his white steer in thirty.
six seconds. He holds the worlds rec
ord of 1917.
AUDITOR COLE SAYs.-Thinks the
progress and improvements made at
the Hays experiment station show a
great future for that splendid 1900
acres of land.
PLENTY OF FEEDING CATrLE-The
corn raisers are having no difficulty in
finding plenty of feeders. Forty cars
of stock cattle went through Abilene
in day apd the ranges promise to give
an abundance of both cattle aud sheep
to be fattened on the fine corn raised