Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-03-10
KANSAS COMMENT.


on Sunday.
! "a LAND SALE-W. Overfield lately
sold twenty-five acres OF land near
Hiawatha for $3.50, or s1sl per acre.
week to remove the Newton public Ii
brary into its new quarters and install
it.
BEARING ORANGE TREE.-A Smith
county woman hasan orange tree con-
tanning 70 oranges and Afty-two bios
SONS.
A KANSAS BoY.-Ertel Weaver. an
bingham boy, is at Colon, the seat OF
Panama troubles, on the battleship,
ATLANTA"
OFFERED 80 CENrs.-A Halstead man
was offered eighty cents bushel for
his 4 900 bushels of wheat last week,
but declined.
OLDEST MAsoN-Wilson. in Ellis
worth county, claims the Oldest Mason
in the state in the person of A. Van
Nausdle, who joined the order in 1s4S.
E1eHrY OUT OF ScHooL.-More than
80 pupils of the Oakland school are
out of school on account of measles.
Oakland is q city Of the third class ad-
joining Topeka.
COMMITTEE SUCCBssFUL.-The COM
mittee appointed at Wichita to sell
$50, 900 worth of the Orient construc-
ton company stock completed its can
yass and succeeded in disposing of that
amount.
A COUNTY AssocIArIoN.-The hard
ware and implement men of McPher-
son county have organized county as
sociation. 1t is branch of the retail
association of Kansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma.
DUST STORM ON WHRAT-The dust
storm is reported from Junction City
as having done great damage to wheat
fields by blowing the dirt away from
the roots. A like report comes from
Hutchinson.
FAMINE OF TEAcHERs.-For the first
time in the history Of Wichita there is
n famine of teachers in the public
schools. There is at present one va
cancy in the regular list and there are
no substitutes to fill the place.
ABILENE is DRY.-For the first time
in years Abilene went dry" the
'jointists" having moved out their
goods and quit business. The action
is the result of an effort of the Law
and Order League of the county to
close every joint.
95rH BIRTHDAY.-Mrs. c. NJ. Rice, or
"Auntie" Rice as she is known, cele-
brated her ninety-fifth birthday ut
Hiawatha on February go, Washing
tons birthday. She was the subject
of much attention and was the recip
lent of many presents on that day.
Mrs. Rice still retains her keen hear
ing, has fairly good eyesight and a
brilliant mind. She INSISTS that she
will be a centenarian. She still re-
tains her wonderful memory.
PART OF LAW INvALID.-Attorney
General Coleman holds that justices of
the peace and constabfes in second
class cities should be elected at the
November election; that this law Is in
violation of the state constitution as
construed by the supreme court, and is
therefore, invalid. The state consti-
tuition provides that all township
officers shall be elected at the Novem-
Der election and the supreme court has
held that justices and constables in a
second class city are township officers
DAMAGE DoNE.-Great damage to
farm buildings, stock and grain is re-
ported from Culver, Lincoln, Colbert,
Marquette, Ellsworth, Kanapolis, Ora
ham, Ellis, Russell, Lakin, Hill City,
and other places. At Deerfield, seven
miles from Lalkin, the school children
were kept in the school building until
after o'clock at night, until oil dan
ger was passed.
KILLING PRAIRIE Does.-Roy Nc
Neal, trustee of Beaver township, Scott
county, has eight men employed to
help him kill prairie dogs.
ENGINEER SUIcIDEs.-Henry Kreit-
mier, an ex-Santa Fe engineer, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head with a revolver while stand
ing in the Cottonwood river at EN-
poria. He had been missing from
his home two days when his body was
found.
RAISED SURPLUs.-At the dedica-
ton of the new NJ. E. Grace church
Sunday at Winfield 81, 800 had to be
raised before the ceremony could take
place. Within an hour %, 200 was sub
seribed.
GROUND 10000, 900 BUsHELs-One
hundred and twenty-four mills in Kan
sas report that that they have ground
90, 235, 900 bushels of wheat in the eight
months beginning July estimating
the amount for the last two weeks of
February There are are more than
100 mills which have not reported, in
oluding ten, each Of which are over
900 barrel capacity. 1t appears quite
certain that the Kansas mills have
used, in the aggregate, not less than
30 million bushels of wheat in the first
eight months Of the crop year.
SIX OF ONE FAMnY.-At Burden,
Cowley county, six Of the same family
were buried ia one day. They lost
their lives at jackson, Utah, where
Whit Burk was foreman of a construc-
ton gang, With him was his brother
William and their children. The work
train in switching bumped into two
cars loaded with dynamite, near which