Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-01
KANSAS COMMENT.

seven hundred and fifty pounds OF
chewing gum were received in Wichita
one day last week.
Frost IN CHICAGO PHEss.-The
Hutchinson News puts it this way:
Unfortunately the Kaneas corn crop
was not injured by frost except i'll the
Chicago newspapers.
A VETERAN EDIroR.-Judge Mcln-
tire, of Arkansas City, who Is eighty
five years OF age, fell from porch ne
was building and was badly injured.
Judge McIntire was for many years u
Kansas editor.
MATEoH AT WAsHBUFS.-Mrs- Lua
Rose, matron of the girls boarding de-
partment at Washburn college, died
suddenly of heart disease. The de-
ceased was o widow. Her original
home was at Valley Falls
EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAPH LINE.-At n
cost of abont $4,000 the Santa Fc
railroad has completed an exclusive
telegraph line between Wichita and
Kansas City, by way of Topeka, that
will be nscd only by those three cities.
WooD is CHEAPER-The Shawnee
county commissioners are considering
the proposition To furnish wood to the
poor this winter because of the high
price of coal The wood would be
cheaper than the coal and the wood
yard would furnish employment to
some of the poor.
A THErsHINe REcoRD.-The worlds
wheat throshing record has been bro
Ken BY J. w. Groacnmcr, a farmer of
Trego county, who in eleven hours and
and fifteen minutes thrcshed 4,071
bushels of wheat, which surpassed the
old record by eighty-one bushels for
the same length of time.
FELL SIXTY FEET. -FranlS Hammond,
general foreman of iron bridge works
of the Santa lie, was ieillei at Elk
Falls, Kan, by falling from new iron
bridge which is being put in over the
Elk river ut that place. He fell about
sixty feet, alighting on his head and
shoulders among Il pile of timbers, and
was instantly killed.
ANOTHER PIONEER Rain, aged
IS years, a pioneer of Topeka and one
of the present county commissioners of
Shawnee county, died after an illness
of two months. Mr.. Rain came to
Kansas in 1859 and has lived III Shaw
nee county continuously ever since,
Mrs rain survives him. They cele-
brated their golden wedding u few
months ago.
GRAIN INSPECTION RECEIPTS. The
August receipts of the grain inspection
department were the largest on record.
Not counting the money which was
taken in at five fee stations, IL total OF
a,SSl,50 was collected by ]. W. Rail-
ford, state grain inspector. Tine de-
par ment paid ont SIS, 554 so in salaries
and 500 for expenses, leaving Il bal
ance of Sa,1374 Mr.. Eadford says the
rcccipts would have been $40, 900 if the
railroads could lave handled the grain.
Sixty -NINEEs CEIEBRATE-The an.
uual reunion of the old settlers OF
Montgomery county, known us the As
Eociation of SiXly-niners, will be held
at Dunliin's grove in Independence ON
October l and 2. That county was :;
part of the Usage diminished reserve
and the early settlers had many thrill
ling experiences with the Osage In
dians. These annual reunions are
looiied forward to with much pleasure
by the old timers and people all over
the country i'll large numbers. An in
tcresting program has been arranged.
ESCAPE OF A TEUsrY.--Harry Glass
pool, an Oklahoma convic. and n trus; Y
at the Kansas pcniteniiary, has cs-
capped. Glasspool WAS soldier in the
Spanish American war and was wound.
ed. He draws Il pension. The prison
officials believe that he will como back
because he will he unable to continue
to draw his pension while an escaped
prisoner.
WELLINGTON MAKES CLAIM.-It
claims that the city has more miles OF
cement walk than any other town OF
Its size in the country.
DECATUR's CRoPs.- Decatur county
crop this year amounts to over $500
per capita That county has about
5000 population. This year it raised
el,a72, 067 worth of wheat, 81. 37s, 2Ss
worth of corn, S4U9, 900 worth of live
stock and S544, 900 worth OF other crops,
making total of SS,6oG,355. This
would be $500 to the person or about
81, 900 to each family.
PRATT COUNTY GIVES SITE.-Thc
commissioners of Pratt county have
purchased IL acres and presented them
to the state for Il fish hatchery site.
THE TEUANCY LAw.-Attorney Gen.
eral Coleman holds that the law re-
quires attendance at school until pupi Is
are 16 years oil. Some truant officers
think that child is exempt on the Is III
birthday, but this opinion says that /,
pupil is not exempt from the operation
until he or she is IS years old.
SMOKING III LODGE RooM-N. 4.
Slime. of Ottawa, has started !, crusade
against smoking in the lodge room. lie
has issued circular calling upo nlodge
people throughout the country to abol-
ish the practice.
WHAT'S TIE MATTER WIrH KANSAS.
There have been many disastrous
wind Storms during the past five years
and not II single one in Kansas. They
have visited Missouri, Illinois. Arkan-
sas and Mississippi, but Kansas has
been free from them.
New CAT. LIE DIsrAsr.-James Steeu,
of Valley Fails, repor;s that Il new