Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20

Wiling That their snare snail go 10
other counties whose people Jared
worse than theirs.
A BLAcKsNITn's TRUsT-The black
smiths of Hoyt, El1nont and Mayetta
held meeting and a schedule of prices
for iron and woodwork was presented
and the schedule mutually agreed to
as the ruling prices" in the future.
1t is contemplated that the agreement
ty towns.
The AUTOMOBILE LAw.-The attor-
ney general says that the law govern
ing the use of automobiles in Kansas is
constitutional and will be enforced if
complaint is made. The law requires
automobiles to be registered and num-
bered, the number TO be put on its
back
ATTENDING 1NsTITUTEs.-State SUI
perintendeut 1. L. Dayhoff and his as
sistant, Prof. Dyer, are kept on the
jump now visiting county institutes.
1t is the custom for representative of
the state school department to visit
each county normal in the state.
ANOTHER HEAvIEsT-The heaviest
rain OF the season fell at Cottonwood
Falls dnrinS the early morning of Aug.
8. Three inches of water swelled the
streams. Along with the rain was the
regulation heavy wind. There was no
serious damage.
NEVER HAD BETTER CoEN.-J. I.
Hanning, a farmer near Goddard, has
sixty acres of corn. which he says is
the best he has raised i'll 90 years. 1t
is the "Bloody Butcher" corn. He has
harvested 200 acres of good wheat this
year.
AHEAD ON THE DEAL-Amos Lin
gard, Franklin county farmer. lost Il
$3.50 span of horses during a heavy
rain. neighbor sympathized with
him and Lingard said he was $3.50
ahead as the rain would make $500 for
him
SALOON LICENSE RAIsED.-Great
Bend now charges booze sellers SIS a
month. There have been eight saloons
paying $50, and the council raised the
figure to lower the number of saloons.
DEsEBrIoNs Az FoRr RILEY.-Four
men from one Fort Riley cavalry troop
deserted in one day last week. There
have been nine desertions from the
troop in the past nine months.
Texas FEvER.-It has proven fatal
in the southern part of Cowley county,
and several pastures have been quar-
antined. The disease is said to be
under control there
SECOND CROP STRAwBERRIEs.-Mr
DR.. st. John, of Wichita, has second
crop of Strawberries, large and juicy
end of good color; equally as good as
the first crop.
KILLED BY STRAMoSIUM Tommy,
aged three years, son of Lee Moffett,
of Galena, pulled Il pod from a jimson
weed and ate the seeds He died in a
short time.
DECREASING ALU,INI-The Univer-
sity OF Kansas mas granted 2,431 de-
grees and the Alumni are increasing in
mum Der at the rate of over two hum
dred a year.
| MAKE TABLE GLASSWARE "A COM
| pany of that kind of Cicero, Indiana, is
to move 70 Coffcyville The company
is capitalized for $50, 900 and employ
/ $50 men.
BETTER THAN BEFoRE.-The people
who lost their homes in the Wellington
| cyclone are moving into new homes
| much finer than the RACED ones.
PREMIUMS ON SnEEP.-The Kansas
State fair. to be held at Topeka in the
week beginning September IA, offers
80 prizes OH sheep.
FIRE FROM LIsHTNING.-A So, 500 fire
at williamsburg; caused by lightning.
i WANT LOCAL SERVICE. state
board of railway commissioners has re-
ceived petitions from 1909 citizens of
twenty three towns between Bcllevillc
and Goodland asking that the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railway be COM
PEELED to establish a local passenger
train service in that territory.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Last week
Perry Richards, near Valley Center,
lost six cattle, which were feeding
through wire fence, near together,
and were in contact with the wires.
The lightning struck the wire.
LECoMPToN HIGH School the
property of Lane university has been
turned over to the Lecompton high
school. 1t consists of complete appar-
atus of all kinds, chemical and physic,
including telescope, microscopes library
and pianos and the rent of three rooms
of the university building.
A TAX FERRET officer of that
illI employed by the commissioners oil
Phillips county succeeded in digging
up several hundred thousand dollars
worth of property that has been es.
Gaping taxation entirely.
MARRIAGE LICENsE.-Assistant At.
torney General Close holds in ease
from Ottawa county, that the man
who wants a marriage license does moi
not have to make affidavit to anything
except what is included in the form sci
forth by law, and a probate judge has
no right to insert anything else.
FIFTY BUSHELS PER ACRE.-Mrs
Margaret Collins, who owns farm
two miles south of Asherville, had an
| acre and half of n now variety M
beardlcss wheat, which, when threshed
made 7511 bushels.
A MrSIsTER's CRoP-Rev Peter Boil
linger, of Bogue. Graham county has
combined farming with preaching and
had in $50 acres and the yield from
such of the fields as have been threshed
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