Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Light, Phone and Power company
at Great Bend has incorporated.
There are several women acting as
rural mail carriers in Sumner county.
N. ]. Wamble fell dead of heart dis
ease in his store at Coffeyville on July
II.
Southern Kansas received a heavy
rainstorm on July 81. 1t extended
over the state line south.
Topeka will also make a proposition
to secure the Lane university. Hutch
inson has made bid for it.
The Dickinson county high school is
to give a business course, including
typewriting and stenography.
Fifteen girl operators have tied up
the Atchison telephone system by stri-
king. They want a S. raise.
The old settlers of Marshall county
will hold a reunion, with barbecue
trimmings, at Blue Rapids on August
1928
terrific rain and hail storm swept
over Abilene on July 81 soaking most
of the country, but doing no serious
damage.
The Quivira monument is to be I'M
yelled near Junction City on August
IL. 1t is to commemorate the Coronado
expedition of 1912.
Farmers of Lyon county had wet
time for threshing oats, which are
turning out No. 1. Bluegrass is of
poor quality and short yield.
Otto Kuehne says he will move his
picking plant from Topeka to Kansas
City after this years crop is worked
up because he can secure better freight
rates from that point.
Canon Bywater, of Grace cathedral
of Topeka, having gone to Colorado as
archdeacon of that diocese, Rev. De
Lou Burke, of Vincennes, Indiana, has
been elected to succeed him.
An interstate convention of Kansas,
Missouri and Indian Territory miners
is called to meet at Topeka on Septem-
Der 1. The general feeling among the
miners is in opposition to strike.
There are sixty barrels of cream
shipped from the Windhorst and Spear
vile Swimming stations weekly. Each
barrel is valued at about S14, making
total value of $40 for weeks ship
ments.
Editor M. f. Amrine, of the Council
Grove Guard, and Miss Lou Becht were
out riding when their team was fright
ened at an automobile and ran away.
Miss Becht was thought to be fatally
injured.
Mrs. Jenny Sherman Grierson, who
went to China several years ago as
Miss Jenny Sherman, and married
there, has come to her old home at OF
tawa to visit her parents and to remain
year.
An unusually large amount of bust
ness has been done by the Topeka en-
ployment agency of late. Demand for
labor of all kinds has been good, al
though farm hands are still most fire.
quently in demand.
E. w. Carter, railroad mail clerk
been quite badly hurt. While he was
at work his car was being switched
about the Newton yards and he was
thrown against the stove.
D. ]. Roberts, foreman of the first
division of the government printing
Office in Washington, has come home
to Emporia to rest, after his work OF
having charge of printing bills and
laws during the long session of con,
gress.
T. n. Cole has sued Postmaster C. C.
Gray, of lie Roy, for 81, 900 damages
for failure to deliver a postal card
which would have notified him of the
death of his father. He charges the
postmaster with carelessness and neg
ligence in employing careless clerks.
Civil service examinations will be
held for positions in the department
service in Washington as follows
Fort Scott, September 80; Parsons, DC
tober 10; Salina, October 10 and 81; To
pelza, September 80; Wichita, October /:
and 81.
The Kansas City Red Men went tc
Parsons to find the best place to hold q
picnic. 1t was an orderly crowd o.
about LOO people.
A meeting of business men called t.
raise funds for the expenses of the en-
campment of the National Guard a
Emporia, was attended by only fiv,
business men.
The Throop hotel in Topeka is t.
force water from well by electri,
power to a reservoir in the top of tn,
building. One object is to save the
cost of water.
A letter mailed in 1864 by Centrali;
banker, while in the Confederate army
has just been returned to him from tn,
dead letter Office.
The State Soldiers home at For
.odge has a beautiful new chape
which will soon be complete and read,
for the old veterans use with thei
wives.
An unusually large number of schoo
houses are being erected during tn,
present summer, Mcpherson count,
alone expanding over $4,000 for TIL
purpose.
The lola cement plant is to have tw
new sections costing 100000, giving
the plant the largest capacity of an,
Portland cement plant on earth.