Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-02-18
Local News.

n. J. DyInS went 10 Fla1nS Mon
day on business.
Chas Tally went to Topeka Tues
day on business.
The temperature continues colo
but without any moisture.
Don Otto came up for visit with
his brother Chas. Otto last week.
Marion Samples has been quite
sick with an ailment of his left ear.
Mrs. Maggie Reas is visiting a,
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. F.
German.
Mrs. J. R. Griggs has our thanks
for sack of old fashioned Missouri
hickory nuts.
Jim Stamper procured a good
well for ]. M. Eason last week,
depth 12o feet.
w. J. Woodard went toIWellsford
Sunday evening on Modern Wood
man business.
H. G. Marshall has been quite sick
for the past week with lagrippe
but is better at this writing.
DR.. Irwin left Friday for Dodge
City, which place will be his head
quarters for the year 1904.
A girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Mcknight at Wichita, Kansas
Tuesday morning. Mrs. Mcknight
is daughter of Judge Bodle of this
city.
DR.. Fee reports the birth of boy
baby at the home of Will King, of
West Plains. Another democrat
who will give the regulation war
whoop.
We acknowledge with thanks the
receipt of The Homeseeker's Guide,
from Frank S. Sullivan, Plains Kan
sas. The book is descriptive of
Meade and Seward counties.
F. w. Curl left last Monday ev-
ening for his home at Mt. Victory,
Ohio, where he will remain about
60 days. He will move his family
here about Mch. I,
Byrd Rogers, the genial rep
resentative of the Missouri Lumber &
Supply Co., at Greensburg, came
down on No. 3 Saturday for visit
with his many friends at this point.
If there are any better all-around
good fellows than Mr.. Rogers we
have failed to meet them.
Charley Talley reports that the
oil excitement near 'Wilburn, has
some foundation as the we'll at Mr..
Bunyan's, shows oil in the water to
such an extent that when stick is
saturated with the water, or what
ever it is, from the well, it will ig-
mite at once from a lighted match.
Attorney R. w. Griggs, of Meade,
was "toting" law books in Beaver
last week. The Colonel used to be
a regular Beaver caller but this is his
first visit this way for some time.
Mr.. Griggs failed show up at the
Herald Office this trip. Look out!
You can't snub Beaver Herald.
The school was closed in Meade
ou Monday morning on account of
the scarlet fever cases. There are
cases in two families in town and
number of pupils of the school have
been exposed to the disease. The
board of education held a meeting
on Monday morning and decided to
have a few days vacation until the
situation could be examined. 1t is
probable that the school will begin
again next Monday.
The Republicans held their con-
vention last Saturday and elected
delegates to the state, congregational,
and senat torial convention. B. F.
Leach and w. P. Bunyan were
elected to the state convention, B.
F. Bisbee and B. l. Vanhosen were
elected to the congressional and
Will Sourbeer and M. S. Gillidett
to the senatorial. ]. A. Porterfeld
was chairman and F. Fuhr was
secretary. The resolutions endorsed
Ed Hoch for Governor also Roose-
velt but on the state administration
and the career of our representative
there was profound silence.
We returned from St. Louis, Mo.
and the old Hoosier state last Mon
day, after an absence of nearly four
weeks, during which time we had a
very pleasant visit. At St. Louis we
found Frank, Ed and Charles Wehrle
and Roscoe Grlggs all doing nicely
and getting up in the world. We
visited our old Indiana home, after
an absence of nearly sixteen years