Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-16
Local News.

DR.. Fee reports the birth of son
to Jess Edison, July nth.
Mrs. Newly is visiting her friend
Mrs. Bunch these hot days.
Doug Adams is having his barn
painted by the ex. harvest hands.
Read the offer to boys and girls
in another column, in regard to sell
ing books.
This office turned out large or
der of Job work for J. F. Bryan, of
Minneola.
Mrs. Backe and Miss Maggie
Martin visited the Seward county
normal last week.
Fred Gray and his clerk left Mon
day for Artesian, where they will
paint the Rice residence.
Both the Methodist and Presby-
terian churches look very pretty
since they have been papered.
We received a beautiful picture
postal card from John w. Baugh-
man, who is now IN NewYork City.
The Baptist church has also been
replastered and we now have all our
churches in the best possible condi-
ton.
We promised you three home tai
ent weddings and guess you've got
them by this time. Wear the only
prophets!
BERTHE Rosenberg has a swell new
set of harness on his gray team.
Old Tom and Joe look like young
colts now.
DR.. Dickerson returned from Gar
den City Saturday, bringing with
him Miss Dora Dickerson and her
younger sister.
DIR. Fee reports that Hal Pitman
of Minneola, who was so danger
ously snake bitten two weeks ago,
is now fastrecovering.
Mr.. Louis Boehler and family
left last Friday for San Francisco,
California, where they will spend
the summer months.
Harvest Hands will be the morn
ming subject at the Baptist Church
Sunday. Evening Second sermon
on Character Come and let US wor-
ship together.
Fred Gray has finished decorat-
ing the Drug Store. Instead of
the sombre chocolate, we now have
a delicate flesh tint trimmed with
pale pea green.
In answer to hurry-up call Sat
urday, DR.. Fee went to the Adams
ranch south of Plains, to attend
Mr.. Carr's child who was dan
gerously ill with dysentry.
Ned Snyder and w. w. TRULY
are in town gathering up bunch of
George Aliens thoroughbreds to
train for the relay race at Garden
City. this coming August.
The Junior League gave an ice
cream social last Thursday night
and netted the neat sum of S25.
The children are to be congratulated
on the excellence of the service.
Alex Tripod returned from Good
land, Kansas, last week where he
has been working for the Rock
Island. He has resigned his job
and will shortly go to California.
Sam Weston left today for El
Paso. He will then proceed to in
spect towns along the line of the
Orient road looking for good bust
ness opening. We wish him sue
cess.
Miss Margie Hamilton returned
home after an absence of two years
in Alexandria, Ind, where she has
been attending School. One of our
Real Estate men wears an unusual
grin.
DR.. Fee has just performed a
very successful operation on the
six year old son of Absalom Had
dock of Gray Co. Kas. He re-
moved the entire fibula from the
right leg. The bone was necrosed
from knee to ankle, caused by an
injury last winter. The operation
was highly successful and the pa
tient is rapidly recovering. Meade
County is to be congratulated on
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having resident surgeon of such
ability.
Our genial Normal instructors,
Baugher and Vinsonhaler, went out
hunting rabbits last Saturday in the
heat of the afternoon. Not find
ing any rabbits, they tried stalking