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

hats at Wehrle's.
Mrs Henry pays the freight on all
orders purchased from her.
Rev. Parks will preach at the
Presbyterian church next Sum
day.
County Clerk Tracy, of Beaver
county, was pleasant caller at this
afice Wednesday.
J. G. Leslie and family of Jeffer-
son City, Mo-, are visiting at the
home of DR.. Leslie.
Mr.. S. o. Ball and daughter, Mrs.
]. r. Griggs left Tuesday evening
for Missouri for several weeks visit.
There will be basket supper
at the LakeYiew school house on
Friday night Oct. 2. Everyone
is invited.
Mrs. Henry will be found at the
Meade Hotel every Saturday with |
her book of samples and styles of
fadiea wraps and tailored suits.
Will Pressly returned from Pen
nyslvania last Saturnay night where
he had been to attend the funeral of
his sister who recently died at Erie.
Boyer Sisters will take your
measure and send for you a coat,
waist, or skirt, and get just what
you want; we have sample of each
in our store.
The city has purchased a hose
wagon and about 500 feet of hose
for the water works. This is a
valuable addition and we will soon
be in position to fight fire.
A letter from A. J. Brewer, says
to send NFws to him at Scott City,
Kansas. where he has located for
the present. We were in hopes that
Mr.. Brewer would locate in Meade
county.
John Stalder returned from Fowler
Sunday where he had moved
house for J. H. King. John says
that it is rumored up in that country
that the old man has matrimonial
intentions, and the moving of the
house certainly gives cause for such
rumors.
Boyer Sisters are not idle; they
are learning their trade; and are now
prepared to clean and curl tips and
plumes. If you have old tips and
plumes that you want to use on
your new hat. briug them to US and |
we will make them look like new.
Call and see sample of our work.
We also have hats that will please |
you.
We understand that R. E. Steele |
has consented to contribute a gaso-
line engine to the City Water Works. |
This act of philanthropy on the part
of Mr.. Steele will certainly be ap-
preciated by the city fathers and
will cause all of our people to praise
him and ever remember his gracious
act toward the upbuilding of our
little city. Mr.. Steele is one of our
most extensive cattle men, having
been proprietor of the Crooked L
ranch for number of years.
Uncle Dick Skinner showed US a
very old relic this week, in the form
of patent issued to his father,
Cornelius Skinner, of Perry county,
Ohio, by Andrew Jackson, on May,
7, 1885. 1t is printed on heavy paper
and is in excellent condition con-
sidering it's age. The patent was
for $40 acres of land in the most
fertile part of Ohio, which was held
by Mr.. SINNERS family for num-
Der of years. 1t is an interesting
relic and Uucle Dick prizes it very
highly.
H. A. Busing, just on the line in
Kansas, on the Cimarron, is the
busiest man we have seen for some
time. He has stacks and stacks of
nearly all kinds of grain stacked in
his stack yard. Prairie hay, alfalfa,
sorgum, barley etc., besides about
a 1000 bushels of barley out on the
place ready for the thresher. He is
not yet nearly done harvesting his
hay and feed.-Beaver Journal.
| A. L. Ray made trip to Meade
Monday to get load of seed wheat,
which he and one of his neighbors
will SOW this fall. Mr.. Ray has a
homestead miles south of Beaver.
Beaver Journal.
/ Frank Byrns of Meade, Kansas,
and Mr.. Young of Englewood, of
the Salvation Army, were in Beaver
over Sunday to assist in the army
work here.-Beaver Journal.