Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-03-03

rounded by members of the church.
A German colony bought many farms
of the old residents who moved away,
many of them to new homes about
Peck, l6 miles west of Wichita. There
the situation was just the opposite.
The farmers who had moved away
were succeeded by Methodist people,
many of them from the old Antioch
church, but they were without a
church. 1t was determined to move
their church The building is 40 by 25
feet, with belfry and a steeple. The
removal was an entire success.
WONDERFUL EsCAPE.-As Mrs. A. Fl.
Greisa was driving across the Union
Pacific tracks in North Lawrence her
horse was struck by the pilot of an en-
CINE and instantly killed. The shafts
were cut clearly off the buggy and
Mrs. Greisa was not in the least in
| jured. Mrs. Greisa did not hear the
train which was approaching at COM
paratively high speed, and was not
even thrown from the seat
!
| X. L. STANDARD HIGHER.-At the
annual spring election of seniors to
the honorary fraternity. Phi Beta Kap-
| pa, nineteen members of the class of
| 1904 received honors This is a large
number of honor graduates, and in
dicates that the standard of scholar
ship at X. U. is higher than formerly.
| The constitution does not allow more
than one fourth of the graduating class
to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa
WOULD REFORM BoYs.-The Cald-
shown on the streets of Caldwell the
past week or two, Kansas could well
follow Iowa's lead in the enactment of
the inebriate asylum law. Young men
and old have tried to out-Herod each
other in hilarity, and complaints come
daily of young boys drunken orgies"
| HIGH INSURANCE RATEs.-The bust
ness men of Wellington, angered by
! successive raises in the insurance rates
are organizing a mutual insurance
company and propose to carry their
own risks. 1t is said that several bust
ness men have cancelled all of their
policies and are without insurance.
AN OLD HIsToRY.-R. A. Mickey of
Morrill, is the owner of soft of gen.
eral history printed in the latter part
of the eighteenth century. 1t gives the
population of the United States at the
census in 1870 at three and one-half
millions. The book has been in the
Mickey family over century.
BUSINESS Observation-Disclosures every
business house in Mcpherson was closed
during the time the body of DIR. Carl
Swensson was in the city between
trains. The postoffice and the court
house were closed and the flag on the
courthouse hung at half mast.
ley, musician employed by the Sells
& Downs circus, had both legs cut off
by the cars at O'Fallon, Ill, ore day
last week. His home is in Pittsburg.
AMERICAN Book CoMPANY.-This
corporation has lost its case against
Kansas through it's dismissal of the
company's appeal by the United States
supreme court.
WIDE PRAIRIE FIRE.-A prairie fire
started near the Smoky Hill river,
southwest of Ellis, and burned over a
large area, destroying much pasture
JEWELL COUNTY CoAL.-At the Jew
ell county coal mine coal is selling at
the shaft at SIS a ton. The mine is
considered complete success.
AT SO DEGREEs.-At Dodge City on
February 90, the thermometer regis
tered SO degrees; the highest there in
February for 80 years.
PEABODY TALKING.-The town is
agitating the matter of securing a can
ming factory.
HOLDS THE RECoRD.-Asher Meow
en-, a mail carrier in Hiawatha, finished
seven years of continuous service Feb
ruary 4. He has never missed day of
being on duty from 6 o'clock in the
morning until o'clock at night in
that time. MCGOWAN holds the record
in Kansas.
MILLS FURNISH PowER-Ness CITY is
putting in a system of electric lights
Quite number of small Kansas towns
are now figuring on the same PROPOSE
ton. The power in all the cases is to
be furnished by local Touring mills.
JUSTICE WARPED.-At Louisberg two
men were tried on the charge of blow
ing open safe. They did the work
together and were captured together.
One of them was acquitted and the
other was convicted by different juries
The same man defended both cases
and the same evidence was used in each
case.
GIRL ORAToRs.-The girls of Wash
burn college completed their organi-
zation of an oratorical association and
will put some orators in the field for
the spring contests.
WAS IN KANSAS 2OTH.-The Army
and Navy record announces the APP
preaching marriage of Captain Edward
L. Glasgow, of Kansas, to Miss Anna
F. Starr, of Salem, N. ]. Captain
Glasgow is now in command of an ar
tillery company near Philadelphia. He
was formerly member of the Twen-
tieth Kansas as first lieutenant of COM
pany M.
FALSE FIRE ALARM.-An Argentine
girl of about IS years turned in false
fire alarm and was fined S25 in police
oourt