Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-10

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shows the receipts of the postofices
named Tor the last fiscal year as fol-
lows: Topeka, s171, II; Kansas
City. s1a1, ESQ. 46; Wichita. so7. 7os. CO;
Atchison. s4l,267.sl; Leavenworth,
s37, 5al.2 20; Lawrence, s34, s77.oO; Sal
lima, $50, o71.6s: Hutchinson, s2s, 165. %;
Emporia, sec, os4.O9; Fort Scott. sal.-
2O4 IL. This is for the sale of stamps,
stamped envelopes, newspaper postage
etc. II does not include the money
order business or the other incomes of
the Office.
CHURCH SELLS LAND. Bethany Lu-
theran church of Lindsborg, was given
80 acres in 1868 by the Union Pacific
railway for church and school pur-
poses. Ten acres were used for site of
church and parsonage, ten acres for
Bethany college, 20 acres was plated
and sold years ago and now the re-
manning 20 acres arc plated and the
lots will be sold at auction on Decem-
Der 5.
JENNET VS.. Zen DAvIs.-It is con-
coded that the Jennct apple is much
the superior OF the Ben Davis. yet some
orcrardists of Doniphan county arc
cutting out their Jcnnet trees. heir
reason is that, although the Jennet is
among the best of apples it is not good
looking, while the llsen Davis, an in
ferior apple, is handsome, and brings
better price i'll most markets because
| il is so.
| FOUND MAIL SACK.-Hartland boys,
while on Il rabbit hunt. found United
States mali pouch under i, building
used for church purposes. The letters
had been opened and rified of their con-
tents, but several money orders were
left in the pouch. The letters were
post-marlsed during August, and the
| pouch has, no doubt, been there since
that time.
ROCK ISLANDS MoeUIs.-They weigh
200, 500 pounds. with $50, 600 pounds on
the drivers. One of them went south
from Hcrington with freight train
a mile long with big loads of freight.
PEHITEHErARY oneANIsr. Miss Jes-
sic Morrison, who is under 25-year
sentence, is the organist in the wonen's
chapel at the state pcnitentiary She
has become cheerful over her music.
Two ATTEMPTS TO WRECK.
| Hiayatha Kansas City accommodation
train met with distractions on the
track south of Hiawatha twice within
4 week, but no damage WAS done.
Rock ISLAND TAxEs.--The Rocl, Is
! land paid its taxes in Sherman county
amounting to s12,631.s7. The assessed
valuation of their property in Goodland
and Sherman county is s300,630.
LOST a HAND.-Wcslcy Harder of
Willard, while working in the pressed
brick yards there, had his hand caught
in n brick machine and terribly
manglcd.
FoE MANUAL TRAINING.-The bid
for building the manual training
school for the Topeka board of cduca-
tion which was accepted, was 63,s47.
IN Atwood JAIL~-Edward Kelley
was captured in Chicago and lie will be
tried OH the charge of robbing the
Rawlins county treasury of So, 600.
HEAVY Hoes.-A farmer at McLouth
has marketed two hogs that weighed
| 1850 pounds. One tipped the scales at
ITO pounds and the other at $40.
NEosHo RAPIDS FIRE.-Thc business
portion OF the town, which was recent
ly Incorporated, has been destroyed by
| fire.
DOUBLE TRACK.-The Santa Fe has
| 3S miles of double track between Kan
sas City and Emporia on tho ''cut-off.
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. Kansas
Academy of Science held its annual
meeting at Manhattan last week.
SCARLET FEvER-The schools of
Mound Ridge are closed on account of
| scarlet fever.
MUNICIPAL LEAG UE.-All towns in
Kansas having population of 5000 or
over are entitled to rcprcscn: alton at
the meeting in Wichita on December
II, of the Kansas Municipal League.
1t is hoped that every qualified town
! will be represented.
LARGEST MEMBERsHIP.-The local
association at Topeka of the Railroad
Y. NJ. C. A. has the largest membership
Il. r a., O.
| Re system. Last months report
showed ,153 mem bers, but this months
report shows Ito.
A TEACHERS HoME.-Therc were
over 500 teachers in attendance ut the
Northwest Kansas Teachers associa-
ton meeting ut Norton. They adj
journed with SIS So OF hand. This as
ISOLATION is talking of establishing
teachers home somewhere near the
center of the district. 1t is incorpor-
ated and under good management.
HILL CITY BANK-In the recent hre
at Hill City, Graham county, the bank
building and contents burned, save
what was in the vault, which was Sc
cure.
SUGAR MILL. CLosED-The Fort Scott
sugar mill has closed down, having
used up all the cane grown in that part
of the country. This year there was Il
| large amount of business at the mill,
and this called for u large force of men.
They have now all been laid off and
are looking for other jobs.
LARGEST MEETINe.-Thc enrolment
of teachers for this meeting was the
largest in the history of the Southern
Kansas Teachers association. 1t was
54s This is ESQ more than ever en-