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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-08
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A Close Call.


First Tramp-Wot are yer so happy
about?
Second Tramp called at wild
der's house fer something to eat and
the woman most killed me with a
club.
Don't see nothin' in that ter smile
over
wos JUS thinkin wot an escape
had. She might a-took a fancy to
me and married me."-New York
Weekly.
Ciseraced.
First New Yorker--"What has be-
come of Delaney? haven't seen him
for an age"
Second New Yorker-"O, he was
.rn over by street car in PhEadel.
p,iia."
First New Yorker What Gls.
grace!"- Smart Set
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-08
A Come-6own.

"Rimer's poems have been getting
into the magazines lately"
Yes, I've been predicting that.
His stuff has been deteriorating OF
late" .
Cautious Compliment.
how do you like my new fall hate"
rs it all paid for?"
Yes"
IT'S perfectly beautiful" ~ Detroit
Free Press.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09

In the selection of Professor J. R.
Campbell, for several years superin-
tendent of the Guthrie schools. for
the president of the Southwestern
Narmal, the regents have certainly
acted wisely. The writer has known
Professor Campbell for about twelve
years and knows him to be of the
right material for the place. His
qualifications are unquestioned and
his integrity a guaranty that the
management of the institution will
be in safe and competent hands. He
is fine instructor, an independent
manager, an energetic worker and
one who commands the respect and
esteem of those who know him.
Medford, Oklahoma Patriot.
Professor Campbell was principal
of the Meade Schools in I8So-9o
and tn. writer must say he was the
best instructor we ever wentto school
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09
Mrs. M. A. WILLIAMS
Irrigation Meeting.

At Garden City, Thursday and
Friday, April I6 and II. 1903. The
following speakers have been invit-
ed and are expected to be present.
Prof. E. Haworth, State Universe
ty, Lawrence, Kansas.
Hon. C. 7. Johnson. Assistant
Chief National Irrigation Investiga-
ton. Cheyenne, Wyo.
Hon. John H. Churchill, presi-
dent State Board of Agriculture.
Dodge City, Kansas.
Hon. E. R. Moses, Chairman
Executive Committee. National
Irrigation Association, Great Bend
Kansas.
Q Hon. John Hall, Vice President
National Irrigation Association,
Syracuse, Kansas.
Senator F. D. Smith, Kinsley Kan
SaS.
Hon. w. r. Hopkins, Garden
City, Kansas.
Hon. C. NJ. Beeson, Dodge
City, Kansas.
A Representative of the American
Beet Sugar Company, Rocky Ford,
Colorado.
A Representative of the National
Beet Sugar Company, Sugar City
Colorado.
The Republican nominee for con
gress, Seventh district.
The Democratic nominee for con
gress, Seventh district.
All parties interested in irrigation
in Southwestern Kansas are espec.
tally invited to be present and assis
in the organization of a Southwes
Kansas Irrigation Association
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09
PLAINS Department.
F. 8. SULLIVAN Editor.

Elder Gillidett is down at Liberal
holding revival.
Geo. B. Cones, the real estate
rustler from Meade, was doing busi-
ness in Plains Monday.
protracted meeting is in progress
under the direction of Brother Robin
son. May much good result there
from.
John Elder has been under the
weather for several days past. but
we are pleased to note that he is
improving.
Don T. Edwards has beenin Kan
sas City for ten days, and we are
seriously considering the advisability
of offering rewardfor his recapture.
G. B. Harlan, of Cheney, was in
the city the first of the week making
arrangements to move his family
and stock to his homestead six miles
southwest of town.
Chas. Schwerdfeger and R. C.
Miller, from eastern Kansas were in
the city this week, and each purchas-
ed half section of land before re-
turning. You just can't keep the
people out.
At the head of needed improve
ments in Plains, we might mention
bank, a blacksmith and barber.
There are plendid openings for these
three industries and liberal induce
ments will be offered, if necessary,
to secure either or all of them.
c. A. Seward, one of Plains old
timers has purchased the SW. quar-
ter of section II, joining the town
site on the west, and will i'm
mediately improve the same by
building, planting an orchard etc.
Now girls is your chance; come
early and avoid the rush.
Coates Bros, from Liberal, came
up Monday and took contract for
brerking gao acres. SO men, with
teams and breaking plows are on
their way here from central Kansas,
and sooh the rich black soil will ap-
pear where now the buffalo grass
tuans itsface to the sky for thousands
of acres.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09

Latest styles of spring and sum-
mer dress goods just received at
Boyer's.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09

Last week, G.. c. Brown sold hi
ranch, including the horses, cattle.
farm implements and improvements
w. l.. Ledbetter, recently from
Moulton, Iowa, is the purchaser.
Mr.. Ledbetter has become interested
in the country. and has now estab-
Used a residence. He and the
others associated with him, ap-
pear to be hard workers, and there
is no doubt but that they will make
a success of their ventur. Mr..
Brown will continue in the cattle
business as before. News.
Wonder if Chet Long will tell
his audience at Arlington on Deco
ration Day while expatiating on the
heroism and sacrificer of the boy:
buried in that historic ground, thai
one of his last acts as congressman
from the Seventh district of Kansa:
was to remove ]. L. Bower as post
master at ingalls,, an old veteran il
poor health, for daring to be man
for exercising the God-given right tt
think and act for himself. A maj
who thus tramDles upon the Twin!
veteran is fine specimen ofscoupd
relism to stand amidst the graves o
the dead and talk of their hcroisn
and sacrifce.-Gray County Times
Latest styles of spring and sum
mer dress goods just received a
Boyer's.
Auy lady who is fond of mic
ln.-Lwaor ebo,ld ra1i and ree IN
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09

Auy lady who is fond of nice
ncckwear should call and see the
new collars at Wehle's.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09
Attorney for the Bank.

When a little money buys so
much, as we are selling, it is well
spent, To prove our statement, we
ask you to look at our line of Spring
styles in wash Fabrics, at Wehrle's
The Royal Neighbors will give a
general supper at the City Hall on
the evening of April 18th. Supper
will begin at O'Clock p. NJ. Every
body invited.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09
Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons knowing themselves indebted
to c. G. Berger on accounts, that
C. G. Berger has assigned all of his
book accounts to the Meade State
Bank, and that all of said accounts
are now in my hands for collection,
for the Meade State Bank.
A. T. BoDLE JR.
Attorney for the Bank.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction.

Every now and again we read in
the papers of the wonderful sagac-
| ity displayed by dumb animals, and
now we have an instance right in
our own county.
Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Bus
ing and Mrs. Rowe, prepared to
feed the domestic stock, in the shape
of two small spotted cats and one
large grey Thomas cat. They took
a heavy granite-ware pudding dish,
weighing about five pounds and filed
it plentifully with scraps ofall kinds,
making a total of weight of about
eight pounds avoirdupois. Then
they placed the dish full of food out
on the porch step and called the
cats. In a moment they were there,
demonstrating their pleasure as only
hungry felines know how. But alas
for the two little cats, Mr.. Thomas
cat was hungry. kind reader please
note this fact, and he did not pro-
pose to share that dish of food with
any one else. Accordingly, right in
the sight of the two good ladies
above mentioned, Thomas seized
the dish full of food in his powerful
jaws and jumped on top of the roof
dish, food and all. After he had
disposed of the food, he returned
the empty dish.
Later in the day the ladies related
the circumstance to two gentlemen
who evidently had touch of Mis-
sourian blood in their veins. In
order to convince them Mrs. Busing
prepared more food for the felines
after supper and set a lantern out
on the porch in order that the
skeptical parties might be able to
see with their own eyes. The cats
we're called but alas, Thomas cat
wouldnot perform, he was not hungry
you see, and in consequence the
skeptical individuals are still trying
to argue the impossibility of the
feat. A five pound cat jumps four
teen feet with a weight of eight
pounds in his jaws, and then unlike
some persons of our acquaintance,
did not forget to return the dish he
had borrowed. Yea, Verify, Truth
is stranger than Fiction, though
some people say that the reason is.
that we so seldom hear the truth.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09
a Wonderful Structure.

The annual Engineering number of
the Railway Age, issued March 20,
contains very interesting and in
structive account of the construction
of the new Rock Island passenger
depot in Chicago.
In many respects the building is
one of the most remarkable struct-
ures in recent years, and the rapid
ity with which it has been erected is
graphically shown. in connection
with the article, by series of photo
graphs taken at intervals of from 10
to 80 days.
In the photographs, the building
is seen rising like flourishing plant;
one story. the three, four, seven,
eleven, and finally the top cornice.
The building is IL stories high
and has a frontage on Van Buren
street of z15 feet. The construc-
ton directly pertaining to the sta
ton extends south from Van Buren
street I,433 feet. The train shed is
$50 feet long and 21s feet in width:
The roof is supported by Io steel
trusses. The center is IS feet above
the track level. The glass area in
roof, sides and ends exceeds 48, 900
square feet.
Some interesting facts are.
Tne amount of structural steel
used in the depot is greater than in
any other building in Chicago, being
IA, 200 tons.
More than 200, 900 field rivets
were used.
A total of 7,7So piles were used in
the foundation.
The tracks enter the station at an
of IS feet above the side
walk.
There will be $500 electric lights
in the main building and 1oS arc
lamps in the train shed.
There are II tracks; 1900 trains
a day can be moved in and out of
the station.
The modern and economical
methods used in construction are IL
ustrated by the fact that one of the
first acts of the constructors was to |
set up in the old train shed a Gates
stone crusher, and as fast as the
stone was taken from the walls of
the old building it was put through
the crusher to be used in the found
atoms for the new building.
An indication of the difference in
size of the two buildings is gived by |
the fact that the stone from the old
building was not sufficient for the
of the new, and con-
siderable additional stone had to be |
purchased.
Trains ceased running into the |
Did depot December, 2o, 1901, and
it is expected that the new depot
will be occupied May, I. This
gives 16 months as the time occupied
IN demolishing the old building, put
ting in a new foundation and erect
ing and finishing the new building.
The total area of depot. trainshed
and power house is I97,4oI square
feet, or little over AZ acres.
The new building is on the site of
the old station and is the only pas
senger depot in Chicago located on
the elevated loop. over which trains
Of all elevated lines pass.
The first and second floors are de- |
voted to waiting rooms, ticket Office
ETC.. and the floors above to general
offices of the railways using the de-
pot.
The Rock Island is tobe congratu-
lated on the beauty and convenience
of it's new Chicago terminal.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09
Notice.

Having disposed of my dry goods
stock to the Misses Boyer. 1 would
thank persons knowing themselves
to be indebted to me, to come in at
their earliest convenience and make
settlement.
Mps M A WILLIAMS
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09

New ideas are not necessarily
good ideas. Nor new goods, good
goods. Yet we believe you will ad-
NIT that we have both if you will ex-
anime our millinery. Wehrle's.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09

You can walk around, talk or
otherwise enjoy yourself if you at
tend the Band concert and Ice
cream social Thursday evening,
April, 10Th Admission 10 cents.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09

Attorney A. B. Reeves was in
town the other day and made this
Office an agreeable and very instruc-
tive call. Mr.. Reeves has for long
time been studying the geological
formation of this section, having
read all the works on the subject
that he could get hold of. He has
the utmost confidence in the belief
that gas and oil can be found in the
country north of Dodge City. So
firmly does he believe it that he and
other Dodge parties are taking the
proper legal and other necessary
steps to organize a company with a
capital stock of $40, 900 which shall
be used in boring 1900 or 1000 feet
into the bowels ofthe earth to see what
is there. 1t is to be hoped that the
company will meet with the greatest
success with this venture-Bucklin
Banner.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-09
Spring Opening

The latest styles and novelties.
Ladies' and Childrens' hats, veil
ings and millinery goods tWehrle's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.

e. s. RANDALL POTOMAC RIVER LINE co,
DAILY STEAMERS FOR RIVER LANDINGS.
Monday and Wednesday at pm. for Colonial
Beach, Colton's and intermediate landings. and
landings in Wicomico river and Nomini and Lower
Machodoc creeks, Va. Saturdays at am for
Colonial Beach and intermediate landings, and
Bushwood. Rock Point, Colton's. Currioman and
landings In Nomini creek.
Sunday, ~uesday and Thursday at am for
landings to Colonial Beach and Maddox creek.
UNITED STATES NAIL ROUTE,
WASHINGTON. D. O., TO GLYMONT. Md.
and intermediate landings.
The STEAMER ESTELLE RANDALL-DaiIy, ex-
cept Sunday. $3.50 am. Returning about $3.50 pm.
Passenger accommodate lions frst-class. Freight re.
ceived until within half hour Of sailing.
III s. RANDALL, Manager, phone 1765. GEO.
o. CARPENTER, General Agent. Washington.
andria, phone SO. fe28-f,25
THE WEEMS STEAMBOAT co.
Potomac River Route-Winter Schedule.
On and after December Is the steamer Potomac
will leave 7th st. wharf every Thursday at pm.
for Baltimore and river landings. Returning, win
n ". shin1ton esrIv Thursday mornip1 All riva.
freight must be prepaid. Baltimore and Philadel-
phia freight solicited Accommodation for passen-
gers strictly hrst-class:
deS0-tf.12 Telephone Main 74S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07

Branch Offices.
II not convenient to call at The Star
office, 11th street and Pennsylvania
avenue. leave your advertisements at
any Postal Telegraph office, all Of
which are branch offices of The Even
ing Star.
Advertising Rates:
One cent a word for Rooms For Rent
Rooms and Board-Boarding-W ant
ed Help and Situations. Minimum
charge. 1oc. an insertion.
NORTHWEST BRANCHES.
14th and Welling-Eppley's Drug Store.
10Th and U sts.-Portner's Drug store.
1902 14th street-Albinson's.
14th and r. I.-Portman & Hoyles
18th and T-Criswells Drug Store.
VT. ave. and I-Kings Drug Store.
Conn. ave. and L-Wood's Drug Store.
18th and Pa.-Herbsts Drug Store.
N. ]. ave. and H-Stsnhope Pharmacy
Woodward & Lothrop's.
s. Kann. Sons & Co.
12O1z F st.-King's Cigar Store.
e12 Pennsylvania ave.
Sth and F sts.-Government building
9th and d streets.
u. s. Capitol-House Corridor.
City Post Offlce-Main Entrance.
Columbian Building.
Jenifer Building.
Hotels-Raleigh. New Willard. Nation
al. Ebbitt. Riggs. Regent, Gordon
Barton and Normandie.
EAST WASHINGTON.
I'd e. Pa. ave. s.e.-Dobyns' Drug Store.
Sth and E s.e.-Bradley's Drug Store
11th and E. Cap.-Haley's Drug store.
SOUTHWEST.
11th st. wharf-Postal Telegraph office.
GEORGETOWN.
32d and M-O'Donnell's Drug Store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07

YOUR PROPERTY PAY? If
not, why not? Is the proper management exer-
cised? 1t all depends this. We believe we
can save you money by managing your property.
Ask those who intrust their business to us-that
ia the best recommendation We employ COM
petent force Of clerks. who devote their entire
time and energy to that branch of the business.
We make prompt remittances. Our office is most
accessibly located being near the principal gov
eminent departments. Eotels, etc, and surround.
ed by the most important street car lines. GIVE
Us 4 TRIAL MOORE 4 HILL (Inc.),
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07

WE HAVE JUST EFFECTED ARRANGEMENTS
for storing household furniture In any quantity at
rates remarkably low. Consult by all means.
BROWN q TOLS0N. Aucts.. l40o-u n. T. ave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07
PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
Bureau Of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Depart
ment, Washington, D. G.. until TWELVE O'CLOCK
NOON, MARCH SEVENTH, 1903, and publicly
opened Immediately thereafter, to furnish at the
Navy Yard. Washington, D. G., quantity Of
Mixed Acid. Files. Thread Hemp. sheepskins.
Nuts Copper and Alcohol. Blank proposals Will
be furnished upon application to the Bureau. A.
s. KENNY. Paymaster General, U. 8. N.
fe2S-1aw, 2w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-07

WANTED-wITHN rs MILES OF WASHINGTON,
board for one two ladies. about SIC month.
State particulars. Boz 81, Star once. lts
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-03
L. & N. Depot Used.

The Louisville and Nashville Railway Companys new passenger station was used for the first time yesterday by the roads trains on the Birmingham. Selma and New Orleans and the Selma and Pensacola branch.
 The depot Is of pressed brick with stone trimmings and is unusually handsome, the interior finish being in hard woods and the fittings of unusually pretty design.
 On the first floor are three waiting rooms. one for ladies. one for gentlemen and one for colored persons. They are finished and furnished alike with broad and comfortable benches. with lavatories and with lighting apparatus of ornamen- tai design. On the first floor also are the ticket office. presided over by Ticket Agent L. c. Harrison and the lunch room in charge of Henry Clay.
 In the second story are the offices of Train Master Thomas B. Turner, Chief Train Dispatcher Harrison and Track Supervisor w. L. Thornton.
 The train sheds will be immediately to the east of the depot and are to be built within a short time. They will be 300 feet long and will afford ample accom- modation for passengers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-03

Georgia concerning whom there was question. My party advisers in the State have been Major Hanson ofMacon, MT. Walter Johnson of Atlanta-both of them ex-Confederate soldiers-and MT. Harry Stilwell Edwards, also of Macon. be- iieve you will agree with me that in no State would 1t be possible to find gem uemen abler and more upright or better qualified to fill the positions they have filled with reference to me. In every in stance where these gentlemen have united in making recommendation, I have been able to follow their advice. Am l not right in saying that the Federal office holders whom have appointed through out your State are, as a body, men and women of a high order of efficiency and integrity? If you know of any Federal office holder in Georgia of whom this is not true, pray let me know 1t at once l will welcome testimony from you or any other reputable citizen which will tend to show that a given public officer Is unworthy; and most emphatically, short will be the thrift of any one whose lack of worth Is proven. Incidentally, I may mention that a large percentage of the incumbents of Federal offices in Georgia under me, are as I understand it, of your own political faith. But they are supported by me in every way as long as they continue to render good and faithful service to the public.
 This Is true of your own State; and by applying to Mfr. Thomas Nelson Page, of Virginia, to General Basil Duke, of Kentucky; to MT. George Crawford, of Tennessee; to Mir. John McIlhenny, of Louisiana; to Judge Jones, of Alabama, and MT. Edgar s. Wilson, of Mississippi, All of them DaNnOnrAfa nd oil aR men of the highest standing in their re- spective communities. you will find that what l have done in Georgia stands not as the exception, but as the rule for what have done throughout the South. l have good reason to believe that my appointees in the different States men Homeland as the sum of the parts Is the whole. necessarily In the South at large represent not merely an appointment up- on those whose places they took, but up- on the whole. higher standard of Feder- al service than has hitherto been attained In the communities in question. may add that the proportion of colored men among these new appointees is only about one in hundred. In view of all these facts, have been surprised and some what pained at what seems to me the incomprehensible outcry in the South about my actions-an outcrv annarentIv started In New York for reasons wholly unconnscted with the question nominally at issue. l am concerned at the attitude thus taken by so many of the Southern people. but l am not in the least angry and still less will this attitude have the erect of making ne swerve one hairs breadth to one ride or to the other, from the course I have marked out-the course nave consistently followed in the past ana snall consistently follow in the fu- ture. With regard Sincerely vour.
 Theodore Roosevelt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-03

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 he slightest symptoms of kidney or blad- your family history, send ct once to Dr. will gladly send you by mail, immediately, Swamp Root and a book containing many imonial letters received from men and that you read this generous offer in The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-03
Real Estate Transfers.

The following transfers of real estate have been filed in the Probate Court:
 s. Kirkpatrick and wife to Devry M. Brown, lots l and 2 in block l, on Frank lin and Robertson Streets; consideration $40O0.
 Emily s. Driskell to E. p. Todd, four and one-half acres in Section 1, Township 19 Range II; consideration $25O.
 Joseph w. Stllweli to Thomas O. Spencer, lots and and the south half of lots and and a triangular lot be- tween said lots according to the origi- nal survey of Selma; consideration $2,sO0.