Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-10-27

L. Finley each shipped a carload to
the sugar factory at Ames, Neb. Mr..
Weidenheimer gathered a little over
twenty-one tons from single acre All
beet growers are harvesting and from
this time forward the shipment will
be brisk and continuous for several
weeks. Beets will prove the most
profitable crop in the valley this year.
Remarked Again.-In Sumner coun-
ty C. W. Canady, aged ca, was mar
ried to his former wife, aged so. They
were divorced two years ago. Canady
mortgaged his farm for $1,000 and
gave his ex-wife the money. Since
then he has cleared off the mortgage
and bought another farm. Mrs. Can
ady, it is said, spent her $4,000 and de-
cided to come back and take care of
her former husband in his old age.
The couple have seven children.
Remarkable Yieid.-Probably the
biggest yield of apples per acre in
man Ploughe. The apples are all in
storage and an accurate statement of
the yield can be made There is in
an old orchard one and a half acres
of ground. From this there was pick
ed and stored 1 ,49S bushels of apples.
| This makes a remarkable yield of
1000 bushels of apples to the acre.
Sweet Potato Patch.-At Wamego
the sweet potato harvest is at it's
height at present So far the yield
exceeds all expectations. Fields that
early in the season promised little
are running 125 to 40 bushels to the
acre. Most of the pieces are doing
better-above 200 being harvested off
| many. The warm weather and rains
of the past six weeks are the causes
of the change of outlook.
Woodmen Cut Corn.-At Burlington
a number of the members of the Mod
| ern Woodmen camp at Halls Summit
| showed their brotherly love for Geo.
| Bennett, one of the members of the
camp, by cutting 1853 shocks of corn
for him. Mr.. Bennett has been laid
up for more than a month with a
! sprained ankle as a result of an &C.
cident on a haystacker, and had got
behind in his work.
! From Own Gas.-At Arkansas City
the Mountaineering company, of Chi
cago, started two wells in the field
north of town and engines are being
run by the gas FROM the company's
J wells, which were completed a short
! time age. Another we'll will be start
ed in the country between the pres
ent gas wells and town by the Kansas
| Oklahoma company.
Rebuilding oakIey.-The little town
of Oakley, which was almost entirely
! wiped out by fire few weeks ago, is
being rebuilt. Ten new brick build
| ings are in process of construction
and enough men cannot be found to
do the work. There isn't one town in
a hundred that would rebuild after a
! fire as fast as Oakley has.
Bore for OiI.-At Lebanon the Han
son National Drilling company has
four car loads of the largest drilling
machinery ever shipped to this state
on the ground and will commence at
once drilling 1900 foot hole for gas
and oil. The whole county is enthus-
|
Oldest Married CoupIe-Lyme Cook
and wife of Banner township, Smith
county, took the prize at the Gaylord
reunion as the oldest married couple
They have been married 50 years.
A Good Example.-Here's an exam
pie for women. A Brown county cit
izen of SO years has put up" 1875
quarts of fruit this season.
Earned His Money-This was a
busy summer for the Hiawatha court
house janitor. He as compelled to
NOW the lawn 10 times.
Monster onions.-Trego county is
raising II and 13-inch onions. One
farmer has 800 bushel patch.
Serious Accidental Viola boy was
cutting a clothes line when the knife
slipped and slit his eye ball. r
Escaped Prisoner Caught. Collie
Rosey, the prisoner who escaped from
the county Jail at Oskaloosa and who
gave Sheriff Swallow and his posse a
long and tiresome chase, was captur-
ed few miles above Perry, Kansas.
Rosey went to farm house and asked
TO be permitted to spend the night.
tie was caught there and taken to
Oskaloosa.
Struck CoaI.-At depth of 200 feet
24-inch vein of coal has been struck
at Seneca. Drilling is being contin-
ued on the theory that thicker veins
lie at greater depth.
Early Winter.-Snow and hail fel,
IN western Kansas, Oct 18th, driven
by strong north wind, and the tenn
perature dropped to Al degrees above
zero. A terrific storm swept over
Dickinson county and at Industry and
near Niles in Central Kansas. hail
smashed windows and ruined orchards
and alfalfa.
Raid Gambling Den.-A gambling
den at Peru was raided by Sheriff
lyle and four gamblers arrested and
lined. Five hundred dollars worth of
paraphernalia was burned in the court
yard
To Assist Farmers.-Upon the re-
quest of several Brown county farm
ers, the department of agriculture
has sent men to make soil survey.
J. L. Burgess is at the head of the par
ty and the survey is in progress. The
object is to solve all problems that in
any way relate to the production OF
crops.
Destroyed by Fire.-The Kay hotel
the only hosiery in Morland, small
town west of Hill City, and the build
ing and stock of the Morland Mercan.
tile company were destroyed by fire
last week.
Against Sunday Games-The Kansas