Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-05-08


There were eight graduates from the
Chetopa high school; all of them girls.
The Hotel Hamilton at Severance
burned down with a narrow escape of
persons on the second floor.
DIR. II. V. Chester, a spectacles ped
der, was arrested at Hutchinson
charged with assaulting a widow at
Galva.
Leavenworth and Nebraska City
packers are cutting the trusts prices
for beef and are making large sales in
Topeka.
DR.. Frank Swallow, a resident poll
tician of Valley Falls who has lived
there from childhood, has arranged to
move to Montana.
Workmen at the Kansas state house
for two carloads of marble which had
been lost in transit.
Jay Wilbur, Wichita gardener, will
go to Tampico, Mexico, to superintend
900 acres of land, large part of which
is used for gardening.
The produce buyers in Wichita esti-
mate that there has been paid out in
that city for poultry and eggs, within
the past year 1894, 900.
O. G. Dodge, formerly of Wamego,
Kansas, is now professor in mathe-
mates in the United States naval
academy at Annapolis.
There are Kansas farmers who would
sell out but who refuse to sell for cash.
They want a large part of the purchase
money to draw interest.
The city council of Waterville has
decided to erect a new city hall. The
funds are provided to the amount of
SIS, 900 by vote to issue bonds.
Banner City, Dickinson county, on
the Mo. Pac R. R., experienced a heavy
wind, with a clear sky, which unroofed
the Berry block, a brick building,
which was partly demolished.
IL Is unueTSUOOu UlldU OcHdJOT DuTJOu
and all republican members of tho
Kansas delegation in the house of rep
resentatives will attend the state con-
vention to be held at Wichita on May
%.
Kansas millers do not sell mixed
flour Internal Revenue collector
Simpson is selling practically no rev.
enue stamps for mixed flour. All
mixed flour must bear a revenue
stamp.
A partition was being taken out of
the Sherman house at Smith Center to
enlarge the office room when it was
found that it had been lathed with
sunfower stalks. The wall was in
perfect condition after standing about
% years.
When the Baptist young people as
sembled in Lawrence, there were 200
delegates present from the Kansas
river, Miami and Neosho districts.
The first service was prefaced by a
song and musical service by the Indian
pupils of Haskell institute
VIM Fouts, whose residence was
wrecked by the tornado in Linn county,
is reported fatally injured and his wife
and son and one daughter badly hurt
also. The same storm reached Pleas
anton and was accompanied by heavy
rain. Some buildings were wrecked in
| the town.
Representative Long secured the re-
instatement of DIR. Mckee, of Newton,
in the railway mail service and subse-
| quently transfer to clerkship in the
! pension bureau, where DR.. Mckee was
assigned to the medical division. DR..
Mckee is a brother to Captain Mckee,
journal clerk of the house of represent
| atives.
NJ. J. Rhue, an orchardist of Doni-
phan county, says the recent heavy
winds have been a good thing for the
orchards. The dust carried by the
wind, he says, smothered the moths
and other insects.
Frank Strong, the newly-elected
chancellor of Kansas University, was
given a ride by about so students.
They were clad in night shirts and
sheets and brought a hack, attached a
rope and hauled Mr.. Strong about the
city. He enjoyed and praised Their
enthusiasm.
Beloit holds over other Kansas towns
in Securing Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson for the Chautauqua meeting al
that place.
The regents of Kansas University
cannot find a satisfactory man fol
chancellor who will take the place a
$4,000 year, and that is the limit o.
the amount the regents can offer.
Seven new state banks were incor
porated on the day of the big vino
storm last week; one each at Medicine
Lodge, Dwight, Gridley, Wilsey, Geuda
Springs, Miltonvale and Augusta.
The state Sunday school convention
is to be held at Salina on May 1915
1t is thought that there may be thou
sand delegates in attendance.
Students of Baker university brok,
into the gymnasium while the girl
were playing basket ball and forty O
the boys wese suspended from tn,
school.
A Dickinson county road overseel
chopped down a mile and q half o
rural telephone poles because the,
were in his way. He was stopped by
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