Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-08-11

Norman Elliott came in last weel
to see his sick child.
Lee & Read have a new ad ir
this issue. Read it.
Don't forget to attend the Nor.
NAL social, Friday night.
Norman Elliott left this morning
for his home in Newton.
Alex Mahieu was in town Wednes.
day transacting business.
Griggs & Bolen report the sale Of
two more quarters of land this week.
The republican county conven.
ton will be held at Meade, Saturday
Sept 10.
There are about sixteen republi-
can candidates for Register OF
Deeds.
R. S. Gerow attended the meeting
of the Telephone Managers Asso-
citation at Topeka last week.
Bargains in some second hand
goods that 1 will exchange for dol
lars or doughnuts. At Sourbeer's.
The editor was under the weather
the front end of the week, conse-
quently our local columns were ne
elected.
Riley Keith and James Jefferson
finished plastering John Wehrle's
residence this week. John Parks
assisted them.
Shelley Price announces his can
didacy for shelf this week. Shelley
is good boy and would make an
excellent officer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lamkin and
little daughter, of Wichita, Kansas,
spent Sunday in Meade visiting their
sister, Miss Jessie Lamkin.
Chas Talley returned from Kan
sas City, last week, where he had
been to sell a car of cattle. We
are sorry to say he struck a bad
market.
The ladies of the M. E. church
will serve ice cream and cake at the
City Hall Tuesday evening, August
I6. Everyone is cordially invited
to attend.
]. R. Reynolds returned from
Greensburg last week, where he has
been for a couple of weeks attend
ing Byrd Rogers, who has been SER
iously i'll for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sandusky and
little daughter returned to their home
at Oskaloosa, Iowa, last week.
They have been visiting with Uncle
Zack Ragland for several days.
Mr.. Cyril Phillips, cousin of Mr..
Fred Gray. arrived in Meade last
week from England. He will re-
main on this side of the pond for
some time trying his fortunes in
this country.
A letter from c. Ernest Funk,
Denver, says he Is living four lives
in one, and rusticating in Denver,
the greatest city of America. Chas.
says he thinks Tammany sold out.
He promises to write at length next
time.
We have samples of millet, alfalfa
and kafir corn from the farm of VIM
Smith, of Artesian. The millet is
as fine as any we ever saw in Meade
county, and the alfalfa planted this
spring is fine. The kahr corn is al
so fine and will make an abundant
yield.
We are requested to announce
that Mr.. Sam Conger will not be a
candidate for the Democratic nom
ination for sheriff. He gives per,
sonal reasons for declining to make
the race for the Office. His many
friends will be sorry to learn of his
withdrawal.
Mrs. Frank Randall, of Spring.
field, Missouri, who has been visit.
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. ],
Byrns, for few days, accompanied
them to Dodge City, to the reunion
last week While there she was taker
siriourly ill and was under the doc.
tors care until Saturday evening,
when she was brought to Meade.
Rev. c. Mennis, Catholic priest,
from New York City, who has {
brother stationed in Dodge City, i.
enjoying a part of his vacation visit
ing in Western Kansas. He was 4,
Santa Fe visitor yesterday in com
pany with Uncle John Rogers
Uncle John had met the Reverend