Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-19

Mr.. John Harper, of Cimarron,
was in Meade last Saturday on legal
business. He left on No. 80 about
midnight the same night.
State Senator C.. E. Branine, of
Newton was in Meade last Friday
He was here on some real estate
business with F. M. Davis & Co.
| The revival meetings continue at
the NJ. E. Church. The weather
was so cold last Sunday night tn at
there was no services at either of the
churches.
Miss Mayme Campbell left last
Saturday morning for Kansas City,
Mo-, where she will remain for about
ten Gays purchasing spring and sum-
mer goods.
Mrs. F. Sourbeer has been SER
iously sick for the past ten days,
but is reported much better at this
time. She has been under the skill
lul care of DR.. Fee.
Mrs. Backe and SON Francis were
up from Liberal last Saturday and
Sunday visiting with Mr.. Backe.
Mrs. Backe also attended achers'
Association on Saturday.
| ]. R. Griggs returned from Beav-
er Monday where he has been for
several weeks publishing the Beav-
er Herald for Miss Maude Thomas.
who was east on a visit.
Miss Maude Thomas, publisher
of ihe Beaver Hearld, passed through
Meade last Thursday on her way
home to Beaver after several weeks
visit with friends and relatives in
Missouri.
| The thermometer registered 10
degrees below zero last Monday
morning. This is the coldest wealth
er recorded at this place this winter.
We hope that it will be the last such
weather this winter.
Misses Media and Gertie Boyer
have purchased Mrs. M. A. Will
liams' stock of dry goods and mil
linery and will conduct the business
at the old stand. We wish the new
firm success in their new venture.
4 Roscoe Gerow has ordered switch
board and will soon have the cen
trail Office properly installed. The
new firm will be known as The
Gerow Telephone Company, and
the Office is located on West Garth
age Ave, opposite Sourbeer's Jew
elry Store.
In another place will be seen the
advertisement of William Shelly,
Bonded Abstracter. Will has had
several years experience in this bus
mess and is thoroughly competent
to furnish titles. All work entrust-
ed to him will have the most care
full attention.
The first real blizzard of the win
ter struck US last Saturday night.
The snow drifted considerable and
on Sunday morning was several feet
deep in many of the drifts. 1t was
surely great change from what we
have been having in the way of
! weather.
Ormond Hamilton had force of
men at work Tuesday putting up ice,
but toward night the weather mod
Grated sufficiently to compel them
to stop work. This has been the
first time this winter that it has froz-
en- ice that would do to pack in the
3 house.
We now have our 10 x15 Gordon
Job press running with gasoline
! engine. The connection is made
with the engine used at Camps Feed
Mill. The machine runs very nice
ly and will be the means of enabling
] US to turn out our job work more
rapidly. The work was done BY
the Wysong boys.
E. A. Twist and family returned
\ last Saturday from Welden, Ill.
\ where they had been to attend tht
\ sickness and death of Mr.. Cicero
\ Twist, the father of Mr.. Twist. Mr.
\ Twist was 50 years of age and the
\ oldest settler in that county. w
\ publish portion of the obituary ii
\ another column of this ISSUE Mr.
4 Twists many friends sympathiz
with him in the death of his father
Mrs. Bob Smith and d daughter ar
visiting at the home of Capt. W. c
: Osgood. Mrs. Smith reports tha
Bob was recently held up and rob
bed at Dalhart while out to max
arrangements for the purchase @
some coal. He was in the neighbol