Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-03-19
DR.. Sterrett will be at the Meade
Hotel March 81 to April 6.

Call and see the goods on the bar
gain counter at Mrs. Williams old
stand.
J. H. Watt, the harness maker of
Meade, was in town the first of the
week. -Ashlad Clipper.
c. R. Rice went over to Meade
county, Tuesday, to look after his
cattle rests.-Ashland Clipper.
DR.. Sterrett will be at the Meade
Hotel, March 81 to April 6, prepar-
ed to do dental work. Call early
and arrange your dates.
For SALE-Cane and kafir corn
seed, red or white. at my place.
MARTIN BUCK,
Lakeland, Kansas.
DR.. Smyser, painless den krN
tist, will be in Plains Wednes- ~
day and Thursday, March IS "a
and 26. And Fowler, Fridayw v
March IT.
E. T. Webb of Webb City, Mo.
is in town this week attending to
both ranch and law business. We
understand that Mr.. Webb is going
to build new ranch house, barns,
corrals ETC. in fact will have one of
the best equipped ranches in the
southwest.
Franz Drummond has concluded
that winter is at an end for last Mon
day night he threw his over coat
away. Such recklessness! We are
bound now to have another cold
spell and you will all know who is
the cause of it. So don't blame the
weather man or the ground hog. 1t
is not their fault.
Probably losses as result of the
storm will not be so bad as at first
predicted and those who suggested
heavy losse now take more hopeful
view of the situation. Most men
are prepared to care for their stock,
having corrals, sheds and feed in
abundance. Of course there are
exceptions where men trust to luck
and are short of feed. These men
will lose heavily. Probably the
larger ranches will be the heaviest
losers because they are not supplied
with feed in proportion to the num-
Der of cattle owned. 1t is certain
that small ranchmen will not lose to
the extent first anticipated, because
this class of men have feed and are
staying with their stock night and
day.-Guymon Herald.
A correspondent asks us if the
recent snow stormkilled as many cat
lie as reported. While even at this
time we have been unable to get re-
ports from some districts, it appears
that the reports are exaggerated con-
siderably. We note that some of
the papers report western Kansas as
being visited by blizzard when the
fact is that there was no blizzard.
There was considerable snow, but
the high winds did not lift the snow,
and make things disagreeable for
man and beast, as the regular old
fashioned blizzard would do. Had
there been a blizzard, we are in
clined to believe that there would be
only few cattle on the range at this
time. The cattle industry has not
been injured, and the cases of loss
are very few, in this section of the
ountry.-Liberal News.
From our youth up we have been
taught to keep the commandments,
yet every day we hear of some one
getting into trouble because they
have broken one. You all remem
Der that Mr.. Dooley, or was it one
of the poets? Gave US a new com
mandment. the nth, which read
"Thou shalt not rubber" Las
Tuesday night we had an awful ex
n ample of the results of disobeyinI
g this command. Our little frient
: Malcolm Judd, hearing the wine
e bowling outside, and the raindrop
e pattering on the roof, decided tina
y if he went to the Salvation Arm,
i meeting to see his best girl, that h
y had better cover his shoes with some
thing to keep out the water. H
had dim recollection that when h
last took off his rubbers, that he ha
thrown them under the sofa, so dow
on his marrow bones he goes an
rubbers for his rubbers under tn
sofa. Being exceedingly dark h
invoked the assistance of a coal o
" lamp, which he stationed underneat
= SAID sofa. Whilst Malcolm rubbere
the fringe of the sofa took fire an
in a moment was all ablaze. H
IN managed to drag the sofa into tt
in yard. where it was consumed
m Luckily no other damage was don