Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-13

OF Kansas the entire output OF hour IN
the state this year will be sold in east
ern and foreign markets as Kansas
flour. Heretofore it has been custom
airy for the Kansas millers to market
their flour under some of the more pop
popular Minnesota brands. Hereafter
Kansas millers will refuse to brand the
Kansas -four as anything other than
the product of Kansas mills.
New CHURCH AT PRATT.-The build
ing committee of the Baptist church at
Pratt have secured prepared plans
which show very elaborate structure.
The building will be 49x9i feet, divided
into convenient apartments. There
will be an auditorium, Sunday school
room, six class rooms, three dressing
rooms, ia baptistry, three vestibules,
an infant class room, two front en-
frances, one rear entrance and one
side entrance; also large basement.
REUNIONS MERGED. The Forest Park
Veterans Reunion association, an or
ganization including the counties of
the Second congressional district, an
nonnces that its annual reunion, fixed
for September l to 4, has been called
off and that the event will be merged
with the state reunion at Lawrence
Septem Der to 20.
SCHELI APPoINTED.-W. F. Schell,
of Wichita, has been selected by the
Worlds Fair commission to have
charge of the Kansas horticultural ex-
hibit at st. Louis Mr.. Schell was
recommended by Fred Wellhouse, the
apple grower. W. H. Barnes was an
applicant; for this position.
HAVE No CoNvIcTs. -Twenty-one
counties in Kansas have no convicts in
the Kansas penitentiary. They are:
Cheyenne, Cove, Grant, Gray, Greeley,
Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Lane,
Morris, Morton, Ness, Rawlins, Rush,
Scott, Sheridan, Stafford, Stanton,
Thomas, Trego and Wichita.
FOUND PEARLs.-For a month Il
party has been searching for mussels
in the Neosho in Allen county, and the
lola Register is told that $500 worth of
pearls have been found by them
CATCHING FISH BY HAND.-The MIN
nescah river was up two feet the other
day. The banks were lined with fish
erman and many a catch was made
without hook or line.
LARGR PRICE PER ACRE.--Mr. Han
son living four miles southwest of lola.
sold a quarter section of land for Sl27
per acre. Two years ago. he purchased
the land for $40 an acre
NAME WAS MAURER report
that ]. Meyer, a farmer living north
of Milan, was found dead was incor-
rect. The person found was Jacob
Maurcr.
GENERAL RAINs.-The rains of July
80 and 81 were general over the state
and were heaviest in the corn belt
where rains were most needed.
HAIL II MEADE.-It is reported that
about Globe, Meade county, during
one of the recent rains big hailstorm
damaged the feed crop.
For A CITY PARK.-Coffeyv is to
vote upon issuing 5000 in bonds for
the purpose of buying land for city
park.
LINE OF THEIR OwN.-Arllansas City,
Geuda, Wellington and Winfield threat
en- to build an interurban line of their
own.
HAIL STORMS Topeka, Atchison,
and Troy report hail with heavy rain
on August ). The hail did no damage
SHORT TAX LIsTs.-The delinquent
tax lists of'many counties are not long
enough to pao for publishing them.
NINE PARTIES OUT-The University
of Kansas has sent out nine scientific
expeditions this summer.
NEW TELEPHONE LINE.-The Santa
FeGarden City telephone line is open
and doing business.
PETRIFIED SEAI--Council f. o.
Peiller, of Paola, has purchased from
John Reed, n farmer at Louisburg, a
petrified seal, and has placed it in the
city park at Paola Mr.. Reed discov-
cred it on mis- farm some years ago,
| and many scientists have sought to buy
| it.
QUARANTINE RAIsED.-The cattle
men of Graham and Cove counties have
convinced the sanitary board that there
is no mango there and the board ex-
empted those counties from the dipping
order.
| MUST TEAR Down ALL FENCEs-A.
H. Burtis, special agent of the interior
department, has returned from Wash
ington and says the department is
really in earnest this this time with it's
order to require western Kansas cattle
men to tear down ali fences around
| government land.
WOMEN LATH A CHURCH. Chris
tian church at Marysville was ready
for lathing when harvest began. No
men could be had to do the work and
! the women of the church put on the
lath as high as they could reach.
New DEPOT OPhNED.-Music and
refreshments between the hours of s
and 10 p. m. marked the opening of the
Frisco passenger depot at Wichita.
The interior of the station was beauti-
fully decorated with ported and cut
flowers.
TOPEKA FIRST DIRECTORY. ID. &.
Millison. who has been an honored cit
izen of Wichita for many years, was,
in 1868 and 1869 book and job printer
in Topeka. 1t was he who published
the first city directory of the capital
city.