Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-08-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF 1NrEREsr.


1t has been decided at Cottonwood
Falls to hold fall festivities in grove
on October 3 and 4.
A Hutchinson hotel man supposed he
had planted an acre of canteloupes but
the vines grew cucumbers.
The hotel and livery barn at Sylvia,
Reno county, is burned and the entire
town came near being swept away.
The government has completed
telephone system of its own at Fort
Riley. It connects with all the offices
at the fort.
The express agent at Cimarron re-
ports his c. o. D. receipts on TASKS and
cases double the receipts from any
other single source.
Rich Brookeas (colored) of Topeka,
served 80 years in the regular army
and is asking for place as janitor in
the war department.
Chas. T. Rooster, of Marysville, is
dead of paralysis of the throat. He
had lived there for nearly 40 years and
was president of bank.
Steam plows are turning the soil of
Sumner county for the next wheat
crop. There are quite a number of
steam plows now at the job.
A letter mailed in France and ad-
dressed to Hays City, America, reached
the old town on Big Creek alongside
the agricultural experiment station and
the sub-normal school.
Counties in Central Kansas are sell
ing boom lots at private sale on which
taxes are three and fourth years in
arrears, under the law which was made
to apply to dead lots.
John Geehan, an NJ. K. & T. switch
man at Parsons, was killed while
working in the yards, by being thrown
from the top of stock car while set
ting brake, and two cars ran over him.
Every town which Buckskin Bills
wild west show visits boils over with
wrath over it as a fake. Many per-
sonal thieving cases are reported in
the way of over charges and short
changing.
Working in one section gang for the
Missouri Pacific at Leroy is a Mexican,
an Italian, a Frenchman, A Boer,
Spaniard, Greek, a Dutchman, an
Irishman, a Welshman, an Ethiopian
and Missourian.
An Overlook girl acquired the habit
of pulling out single hairs from her
head and chewing and swallowing
them. 1t required a surgical operation
to take bunch of hair five inches
long from her insides.
Geo. w. Finch, the eldest of the
newspaper family of that name, who
has practiced law for a number of
years at Harper, was killed in a rum
away on August Is. His dead body
was found in the road.
w. H. Mackey, the new United
States marshal for Kansas, will con-
tinue to live at Junction City. 1t will
be remembered that he is recent APP
pointee as postmaster of his home town
which position he now vacates.
Miss Elizabeth E. Bentley has re-
signed the position of assistant in En-
glish in Baker university to accept the
chair of English in Simpson college,
Indianola, Iowa. The trustees of
Baker have no one in view to fill the
position as yet.
General Frederick Funston says he
will visit the Veterans Association at
Ottawa at their reunion on October 1-3,
provided he is not asked to talk.
Superintendent Nelson rules that
under the law authorizing consolida-
ton of school districts, parents can
draw pay for taking their children to
school.
President Nichols, of the Kansas
Agricultural college, has declined the
presidency of the Rhode Island college
of agriculture and will remain at Man
haitian.
Ex-Congressman S. S. Kirkpatrick,
of Fredonia, has taken a charter for
$4,000 brick plant at his home
town.
County surveyors of Kansas will hold
their annual meeting in Wichita Sep
TENDER "a and 25, dates which will en-
able them to take advantage of the
rates made for the carnival.
The Topeka insane asylum turned
into the state treasury 81, 1870 in fees
collected during the past quarter for
the care of patients who have property
of their own or rich relatives.
Rocky Ford canteloupes are now
coming to market. They are raised in
the Arkansas river valley from Dodge
City west into Colorado.
Over 100 persons of Independence
were poisoned by eating ice cream soda.
Doctors have been kept busy. The
poison was ptomaine which was in the
milk used.
Members of school boards in first
and second class cities do not come
under the law prohibiting the employ
ment of teacher who is a relative OF
a member of the board.
Hog cholera has appeared in Lyon
county in the districts which were
flooded in the spring. A large num-
Der of animals are dying from it.
Police of Junction City have cleaned
out the hoboes by carrying heavy horse
whips on their beats. The tramps do
not wait to be ordered out of town but
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