Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-01-28

| eral improvements. Five substantial
store buildings were erected during
1903, all of which are occupied, and an
other is now in course of construction
| which will be used as a salesroom for
the wagon, carriage and farm nipple
ment branch of hardware store The
erection of more business houses dur
ing the present year is contemplated
WAS PIONEER AND Standardization
c. Russell, aged 81 years, died in Law
renee January 10. He was born in
Pennsylvania, came to Kansas in 1856,
was participant in the early border
struggles, served in the Eighth and
Thirteenth Kansas infantry regiments,
nominated Governor Crawford, and
was offered the position of paymaster
in the army by President Lincoln.
BOND ELECTION VoID.-The Winfield
bond election held December % at
which S134, 900 in bonds was voted for
an electric railway plant, waterworks
system and prospecting for natural
gas has been declared illegal for the
reason that the matter was submitted
to the voters in one proposition instead
of three and a majority of the voters
did not vote Another election will be
held
CoAcHERs AND DBIvERs.-E. S. Thay-
er has shipped from Abilene % head of
horses to Clifton Park, N Y. He went
along to see that they were properly
sold. The horses consisted of coachers
Lou Ray, the pacing mare, seen at the
! matinee races last summer. was among
the number. She has a record of 2:2415
which was made on the Abilene track.
! A KANsAN GETS 4 RAIsE.-Harry B.
Howe. of Topeka, a clerk in the treas
ury department, has received a salary
promotion from $1,000 to $1,000 per
| year. William II. Baker, of Kansas, a
clerk in the pension bureau, at salary
of 81 200, has been appointed special
examiner in the field for the bureau.
His salary will be 81 300 a year, with
! So per diem additional.
! CHAMPION BUTTER MAKER.-Mrs. NJ.
/ L. Willard is the champion butter
maker of Rush county. In one month
! from five cows she made and marketed
/ 131 pounds of butter. With what was
! used at home the total amounted to
over $50 pounds. The cows were not
thoroughbreds but they had good care
and feeding.
WAS A KANSAS TEAcHER.-Dr. V. G.
A. Tresslcr. of Springfield, Ohio, who
! has just been elected president of Mid
| land college, at Atchison. About fif
teen years ago he taught school at Pea
body, Kansas.
LUTHER SCoTT.-Luther Scott,
member of the Kansas legislature in
| 1899, and for four years county attor-
ney of Elk county, is dead He leaves
a wife and two grown daughters.
! GEN MILES IN ToPEKA-General
Nelson A. Miles has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver an address to the To
peka old soldiers on Lincoln day, Feb
ruary 10.
SELL CoTToNwooDs.-Atch coun-
ty expects to realize 81, 200 out of the
cottonwood grove on the new poor
farm, which is being cut into lumber.
ALFALFA FIGUREs.-The twenty-four
leading alfalfa counties of the state
have 364, 1913 acres, which is "a per cent
of the total area planted.
A HEAVY BULL.-Charles Meyer, of
Brown county, owns an Aberdeen
Angus bull six years old that weighs
2,14o pounds.
Two HUNDRED A YEAR.-Near to
1000 complies have taken out marriage
licenses in the past five years in Brown
county.
CowLEY COUNTY SToNE.-Cowley
county shipped 80 carloads of stone to
Omaha to be used in college building.
FIRE AT MoRAN.-Moran is the VIC
tim again of a destructive fire, entail
ing loss of S35, 1000 Two of the best
business buildings in town occupied by
two large stocks of general merchan-
disc, and smaller store room, in which
was stock of drugs packed ready for
shipment, were consumed.
ard Oil company has decided to estab-
lish station at Colby, where gasoline
and coal oil will be stored in large
quantities and shipped to towns in
| Northwest Kansas.
PRIZE TO STATION AGENr-Every
year the Santa Fe company offers set
of prizes to agents along the line who
keep their stations in the best shape,
show an increase of business and also
show the best management. Agent
w. w. Burnett, of the Arkansas City
station, has won second prize, check
for 5000. The first prize was won by
an agent in Texas.
On PRoMoTERs.-Kansas towns are
swarming with coal oil promoters
There are honest men among them
with some of the opposite character.
WoN THE PRrzE.-While George Self
ridge, a Sterling man, was confined to
his home by sickness he worked on a
puzzle given out by some eastern med
icine company. The main prize was a
town lot in Piney Grove, Michigan.
Mr.. Selfridge has just received notice
that his solution won first money and
he has received the deed to the lot
PAID TO CARRIERs.-The amount
paid during the last three months of
1908 to rural mail carriers in Kansas
was S134,O 29. %. There are now $50
carriers