Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-03-24

Toned log barn raising was held on
John Ford's farm in Kingman county.
The logs used in its construction were
cut from trees planted by Mr.. Ford
since his settlement on his claim and
have grown from twigs and cuttings,
making logs of such size that it it was
all the men could do to handle them
and slide them along the skids by
means of pike poles, a rope and horse
power combined. Mr.. Ford has many
trees yet standing on his place fully
three feet in thickness, grown from
trees of his own planting.
MACDoNALD's IDEA-John MacDon-
aid, of the Western School Journal,
believes that law should be passed
at the next session of the legislature
permitting cities and counties to ap-
propriate money to send their school
superintendents to. other states for a
few weeks each year to study the
school methods. He says it will be
money well spent and that the pupils
VI hohoeio Will iCdP SiCoI OChChU III
the long run.
KANsAs-NEBRAsKA BIIL.-The fif-
tleth anniversary of the signing of
this bill is to be celebrated at Topeka
on May 3-5. Galusha A. Grow, of
Pennsylvania, who introduced the bill
in congress is to speak on the 4th.
M, Of Taf+ mill cDaa1-
the 3rd. May 5th is to be Women's
day, with flower parade and speeches
by Nebraska orators
MORE Rural PHoNEs.-The Missouri
& Kansas Telephone company has a
gang of laborers now at work building
rural lines out of Goddard An ex-
change is also being put in at Andale.
The company has fifty telephones in
that place. 1t is anticipated by the
managers of the company to put in an
exchange at Goddard in the near flu
ture.
FIRST SETTLER DEAD e. R. Corne-
lison, of Brown county, died recently.
llC " GilC uAoO NlllIC SCOIlCI LII Vic
county, preemptlng a homestead in
1854, upon which he and his wife lived
40 years. At the time of his death
Mr.. Cornelison still owned the farm,
which is valued at 500 an acre be-
sides several hundred acres of other
land.
81, 500 IN A WEEK-An Arkansas City
man made ST. 500 by buying and selling
an oil lease in Indian Territory with
in week. His motto, and a very good
one it is, probably is: LET the other
fellow do the boring"
COUNTY ExPENsEs.-It cost Shawnee
county during February $9,3OO.79 to
perform its business. Of this amount
81 ,260 was spent on road entering
the city and S6O7.9O was paid for coal
for the poor people.
NATIONAL GUARD.-General Free
man, of the regular army, assigned to
duty with the Kansas National Guard,
has begun an inspection of the guard
commencing with the Seneca company.
ELLIS COUNTY RUSSIANS Thirty
or forty families of Russians from Ellis
county are going to settle in north and
west of Knauston this spring. They
are buying land in that neighborhood.
CoFFELT DIsCHARGED.-O. w. Coffelt,
who was charged with killing G. C:
Montgomery, a secret service man, at
Winfield on October 5, 1901, has been
discharged in the district court.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. - Leaven-
worth Democrats held convention
and endorsed municipal ownership of
the water works and electric light
plants.
CHURCH DEDICATED. The Ash VAL
ley NJ E. church was dedicated at Lar
ned. Rev. T. C. Tiff, secretary of the
board of extension, conducted the SER
vices
GARDER CITY IS 26.-On March 16
the Goth anniversary of the settlement
of Garden City the old settlers associa-
ton forgot to celebrate.
A CLEAR DoCKET.-The criminal
docket of Harvey county is clear for
the first time in five years.
THE KANSAS FoRTs.-The amounts
expended at Fort Leavenworth and
Fort Riley amount to nearly one-third
of the general appropriations for such
purposes.
AKBoR DAY.-Governor Bailey has
set April 7 as Arbor day, and urges the
people to plant trees on that day.
The schools of the state will hold spec
'ial exercises and plant trees in the
school yards. %.
KEEPS BIBLE.-A barber of Pratt
to take the place of Puck and Judge.
INCREASED CAPITAL.-The Citizens
State bank of Geuda Springs has in
creased its capital from S., 900 to S10,-
OOo.. 1t has doubled the stock in two
years.
Arkansas PIoNEER,-Henry Godlove,
of Onaga, went there in 1859 and has
lived for forty-three years on the same
farm northeast of town, except for the
three years when he carried a muslzet
in the civil war q.
LIBRARY CoNTRAoT.-A Topeka com
pany secured the contract for building
the Carnegie library at Emporia, upon
its bid of $14, 800. t
ONLY VITRIoL PLANT.-Argentine
has the only plant in the United States
for the sole manufacture of blue Wit
riol.
BURNED TO DEATH.-John Hardison,
a colored man, paralytic, was left
alone in a house in Carbonate, when
the house caught fire. He was burned
l. 81, h., IL