Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-06

ing its admission requirements to keep
down its enrolment. The policy OF
Williams is to limit its students to the
number of about 400 and to give these
students the advantage of intimate
personal contact with as cultured and
sound faculty of instruction as it is
possible to procure. The education
provided by Williams is of such a
known quality that it could easily
quadruple its enrolment at any annual
term opening. Williams is one Ameri-
can college that is Indifferent to size
and thoughtful only of quality. What
is to prevent Kansas from making its
own Washburn college the Williams OF
the West?
Barber county's bonded Indebtedness
is reduced to S213,OOO.
Parsons has appointed May 14-17 as
the time for street fair.
The tree bugs appeared in Ottawa in
the last days of February.
1t is said that it is no use for Chau-
tauqua county druggist to apply for a
license to sell liquors.
A ''Gold Bond Investment Company
swindler has been caught and brought
to Great Bend for prosecution.
DIR. ]. A. Moore is dead. He had
been a practicing physician in Emporia
since 1860. He was born in Virginia
in 1929.
1t is claimed that Medicine Lodge
patronizes more mail order houses
than any other town in the. southern
counties.
Lieut.. Adna G. Clarke wears for a
watch charm steel Remington bullet
which he caught in his shoulder in the
Philippines.
Kansas expends 50 per capita for the
support of the public schools instead
of 81 as has been published. There
are so, 500 children of school age.
Miss Minnie Liggett, aged 40, who
was one of the victims of the hotel fire
in New York, was at one time head
dressmaker in Wichita drygood.
store.
General Funston and Lieutenant
Mitchell have been made life member.
of the Elks at lola. There was a swell
banquet. Many Elks were there from
out of town.
A. E. Case, of Marion, was the secre
tary of the first Sunday school il
Marion county when the county ex
tended to the Colorado line and to In
dian Territory, comprising more thar
one-third of the state.
The Seneca Tribune tells of farmer
in Nemaha county who cut $50 tons O
hay more than he needed and offered i
at SIS ton in the fall without finding
buyer. He has now baled the hay anC
shipped it to Kansas City, realizing ST.
a ton net.
II. 2. Welsh, an old and prominent
citizen of Ottawa died of apoplexy re
Gently. He came to Franklin count,
in 1858, making the journey with tire,
yoke of oxen and a wagon He wa
twice a member of the legislature, il
1868 and 1871.
The United Brethren church at At
tica was burned by a fire started from
filling a gasoline lamp. Two resi-
| dences caught fire but were saved
Some fool sent dispatch to the Kan
sas City Journal reporting rain an,
wind storm in Wichita on February &c
There was no rain and only an ordi
nary breeze.
There are six forty acre tracts O
public land remaining in the Topelz
land district They are in the fin
hills of Chase, Greenwood and Chau
tauqua counties and of but little value
'sPolar creameriesp are the lates
graft. Parties who have worked thei
plan in Iowa are in Kansas. The
take notes for polar creameries
which prove to be worthless. Tn
notes run as high as Ss5, and they tur
up in a bank.
Oh w COu bnudy 10 year
ago Grant Hornaday was earning 81
month as collector for the First Ma
tional bank of Fort Scott. Now he
the president of that bank and OWL
much of its capital stock. Hustling
Yes.
Ben Hamilton, son of J. R. Hami
| i,,Ar - fha+ l;~k- = -. Joo
at Norton, was caught in a snow slid
in Idaho about the middle of Februar
and lost his life. Before his death h
was offered $40, 900 for his interest in
mine there.
Congressman Jackson received lie
ter from one of his constituents whic
said: 81 received sample of yor
garden seed, and if you send me
catalogue and price list of all govern
ment seeds, think can work you u
a nice trade"
The Wellington city council agree
to join with the Federation of Clul
and the Masonic orders in the erectio
of three story building so by 100 fee
for fire department headquarters, cit
offices, public hall and lodge room
at a cost of SIS, 900.
Miss Julia R. Pearce, formerly
resident of Smith county and studel
of the state agricultural college /,
Manhattan, is attracting attention
her scientific studies as an expert al
alyst in the bureau of soils, depar
ment of agriculture.