Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-09-03

fered TO turn over the farm TO cancel
the mortgage, which offer the mortga
gee refused to accept Then good crops
began to help him out, and now he is a
rich man. He not only owns the old
home place, which the mortgage com.
pany would not have, but also several
other well improved farms in that vi.
cinity.
A SCHOOL RULISe.-County Super
intendent Knowles of Marion county
asked If q child could attend German
school for three months and English
school for two mon this and not be liable
for truancy. The attorney general
held that the child could be charged
with truancy unless it attend one
school for the full term each year.
ANOTHER HAIL SToRM heavy fall
of hail occurred in the south and east
portion of Saline county. At Assaria
and Gypsum City hailstoncs were
picked up measuring from eight TO
twelve inches in circumference. The
average hailstones were unusually
large. AS there was but little wind at
the time the damage will be light
BABY MUTILATED Mrs. Maggie
Calhoun, OF South Haven, attempted to
leave moving Santa Fe passenger
train at Edmonds with her two-year-
old son i'll her arms. She handed the
baby to man on the platform, who
stumbled and fell, the baby rolling
onto the track and the wheels cut off
its right foot ut the ankle.
CONTRACT WAS CROOKED 1t is made
pnblic that the Topeka board of educa-
ton had revoked its contract with a
school supply company for some $4,000
worth of seats and 1000 worth OF
blaclsboards for the new city school
buildings on account Of alleged crook
edness upon the part of certain mem
bers of the committee.
TEACHERS PAY RAIsED.-After a
supplemental special examination of
teachers in Dickinson county to fll up
the lacle of thirty teachers, the teach
ers' salaries were raised. The raise
brought up the average $3.50 a month
and increased the total pay of the
teachers of the county SIS, 800 over last
year.
PRICE AND AssEsssrENT.-The price
paid by the Continental Creamery COM
pany for the Mocser Ice and Cold Sto.
rage plant in Topeka was 5000, 900.
The assessed value of the plant as re-
turned was $4,000. The assessment
is supposed to represent forty per cent
of the value of the property.
FIRST APPEAI.-The Missouri Pacific
has refused to obey the order of the
state board Of railroad commissioners
to build depot and establish a station
agent at Berryton, Shawnee county.
This is the first order issued by the
board from which an appeal has been
taken.
LUCAS ELEVATOR BURNED.-The
Morrison & Co.'s elevator burned at
Lucas with about 5000 bushels of
wheat. The fire originated in the en-.
CINE rooms, the elevator being operated
by a gasoline engine.
WITHOUT Hrs DRIvER.-In a race
during the fair at Fredonia the horse,
Oregon, whose driver had been thrown
out at the quarter pole. finished the
heat with the empty sullsy, without a
break
PLEAsANToN HAS GAs-The city has
struck second strong gas well and
now has two wells, either of which,
will light and heat the town.
MCPHERSON FOR BoYs.-Five boy
babies in less than four weeks is the
record in one ward at Mcpherson.
FIRE AT HARRINeToN-Part OF the
Harrington livery barn and five horses
are burned. The loss is 81, 700.
MARCH TO REUNION. Members oil
Lincoln post, G. A. r., of Topeka, pro-
pose to march to the state reunion at
Lawrence. The distance is twenty.
eight miles. The state will furnish
tents for the march and two doctors
have volunteered to go along. A wagon
train and ambulance will accompany
the soldiers. The las. night on the
road will be spent with General Hugh
Cameron, the hermit. Notice has been
served on the farmers along the route
that the soldiers will forage their
grub.
POTTERY CLAY. T. Hanning,
whose farm is southwest of Goddard,
SedgwiclS county, has found vein oil
pottery clay five feet thick, ofcxcellent
quality for fine pottery, having been
tested in Ohio and Illinois. Tho clay
is apparently inexhaustible.
PEDDLERs Musr Pathfinder a law
passed last winter foot peddler mus,
pay IS. 1-horse peddler $40 and 2.
horse peddler $50. This license mus,
be paid in each county canvassed.
This law. if enforced, will be a relief
to farmers wives.
SOUTHWESTERN REUNIoN.-The ex.
ccutive committee of the Wichita and
Southwestern reunion are planning for
the program for the annual meeting
from September 80 to October ?, the
same dates chosen by the Wichita Fair
association.
SANTA FE SHoPMEN.-The excursion
TO st. Joseph by the men of the Santa
Fe shops at Topeka, an annual affair,
was the biggest and the jolliest ever
held. There were two sections of the
excursion train and nearly 1000 tickets
were sold.
IRRIGATION CONGRESS- Bailey
has appointed II. H. Hathaway, OF
Scott City, as delegate to the Ma