Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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The city of Wellington has resumed
the practice of left-handed licensing
the selling of liquor.
Parsons makes a record of permanent
building improvements in 1901 of nearly
a half-million dollars.
Fifty-five of the graduates of Kansas
university living in Reno county have
organized an association.
Farmer boys about Wellington went
there and beat the town eleven, foot
ball team by score of II to o.
The health officer of Mitchell county
has forbidden all public meetings on
account of small pox scare.
A dispatch from Holton declares that
600 conversions have occurred at the
great revival just closed there.
Glen Elder is reported to have 40
cases of smallpox. The mail is fumi-
gated before it leaves the town.
Kansas wheat tops all markets,
thanks to the new seed wheat imported
by the State Millers' association.
There is beautiful natural park at
Wamego and preparations are going on
to pat it in the best condition possible
David Duncan, of Doniphan county,
declares that one bushel of wheat is
equal to two bushels of corn for fatten-
ing hogs.
The Cottrell Bros, of Marshall coun-
ty near Irving, are Hereford breeders
They have recently purchased more
land and now have a 900 acre ranch.
L. w. Kabler bought a Kingman
county farm for $500 few months
ago. Recently an Indiana man offered
him $40, 900 for the farm and Kabler re-
fused it.
General Hugh Cameron, the Kansas
hermit, while at his supper by a log fire
became unconscious and fell over. When
he came to he found both hands and
arms in the fire. He may lose them.
Judge Hazen of the Shawnee county
district court has decided that the
sheriff has no right to send papers to
an out of town officer, by mail, and
then charge mileage for serving them.
A double criminal was arrested at
Emporia on two charges, one for an at
tack upon a 13-year-old girl and the
other for peddling obscene literature
The young villain got off with one fine
of S25.
Superintendent Nelson's report shows
the average of term of public schools
in Kansas is 81 weeks, or a little over.
Cherokee county averaged 80 weeks.
The average school district tax levy for
schools of the state is ten and nine
tenths mills.
Journeymen plumbers of Wichita
have struck without previous notice,
and demand one hours less work day
and so cents per day more pay. They
will get neither. The master plumbers
would have considered the demand if
notice had been given in time to make
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The requirements for the teachers
diploma at Kansas university, which
are, in accordance with the provisions
of the Grattan certificate law, the
standard for all Kansas colleges, have
been approved by the state board of
education; so that students receiving
the teachers diploma will also receive
state teachers certificates good for
three years.
Money is coming into the state treas
ury at the rate of S15, 900 a day from
county treasurers, but it is expected
that before the middle of January it
will be coming in at several times that
rate.
The republican state convention is to
be dated by the state committee on Jan
uary 90, when they meet with the Kan
sas Day club.
Clay county's handsome new court
house stands in the center of a block
300 by 46O feet which was planted with
forest trees 25 years ago.
Ben johnson sold hog at Alma that
weighed over 600 pounds and brought
$40. The hog buyer says it was the
finest hog that ever passed through the
Alma yards.
Topeka bod carriers are asking a
raise of wages from s1.5O to So day
and common laborers about building
operations want 81. IS in place of SIPS.
Confidence is strong in Southern
Kansas along the line of the. Orient
railroad that it will be completed as
far as Wichita anyway from the south
by next Christmas.
The U. S. land Office at Topeka has
so little left to do that it is proposed to
divide that land district, the northern
half to go to the WalSeeny district and
the southern half to the Dodge City
district.
Notices have been ordered to be post
ed in all railway stations in the state
warning employees from selling tickets
to persons who have been exposed to
smallpox, and from permitting such
persons to enter upon trains. The
order is made by the state board of
health and is according to law.
Leonard Corwin, mute, who has
been janitor of two business houses at
Ottawa, has been missing since New
Years day.
c. c. Baker, president of the Topeka
city railway, says there is no truth in
the report that there is a deal going on
to sell the road. and that there is no
figuring with any one.
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