Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-12-28
KANSAS COMMENT

the present time is in Topeka at the
hospital, where he has just undergone
an operation His neighbors gather
ed his corn.
Saved One.-Miss Effie L. Read, of
Highland, went to Chile as a mission
airy to convert the heather. She
wound up by marrying Ernest F. Moss,
traffic manager of big railroad there.
And Moss wasn't a heather, either.
Believes Packers Knew.-The beef
trust is very kind to the state. 1t fur
nishes the charitable Institutions with
meat at an extremely low figure. The
board of control let contracts for the
supply of meats to the various insti-
tutions. The bids called for first
class articles. Six NJ kers submitted
bids, but their figures were all about
the same
Not Enough Breeze.-For nearly a
week stock raisers in the vicinity of
Junction City have been pumping wa
ter by hand for their stock, both day
and night, as there has not been
enough air stirring to turn the wind
mills Close to the city windmills
have been idle for four days, and in
other parts of the county not wheel
has turned for a week
Tax Payments Larss.-At lola tax
payers are now hurrying to the coun-
ty treasurer's office to pay their taxes
before the goth of this month. after
which date, if they are not paid, there
will be five per cent penalty. The
force in the treasurers office is busy
day and night, trying to keep up with
the work, and even at that they will
have to get a little behind until the
rush is over.
Good as the Standard's.-The indie
pendent reineries are turning ont a
very good grade of OIL according to
State Oil Insr ,ctor Hussey From
what | can learn, heir oil is just as
good as the Standards" said he. ut
certainly tests just as well. Some of
it tests better. The Independents are
also increasing their trade, not only
in this state. but in other sections of
the West
Prosperity at Dorrance. - Six good
crops of wheat in succession and the
promise of another crop next year is
the way the people of Dorrance put
it, and this prospective seventh an
nual yield looks better at this time
than the average. There are five ele-
vators here, all of them doing bust
ness. So far it is said about 200 car
loads of this years crop of wheat has
been marketed and that there Is up
wards of % per cent of the yield yet
to be marketed. And the shipments
did not commence until the first of
July
Old Settlers. - Samuel McGill has
been living in the vicinity of Sabetha
for the last fifty years. He still owns
the farm he pre-empted and the deed
to the property bears the signature
of Abraham Lincoln. Trees which
sprouted on the farm after he pre-
empted it are now being cut and mar
;keted for lumber. some of them pro-
ducing two saw-logs. Another early
First district settler is E. Avery. of
the Sabetha neighborhood, who set
tied near Hiawatha forty-six years
ago.
Eudora Has Her O.In Gas.-Eudo-
rams are happy. Gas has been turned
into the mains of that thriving vii
lage. All the gs is supplied from
Will fho
and the supply, apparently, is mex
haus lie. More than two miles of
main pipe have been laid and plumb
ers and gas filters have been busy for
two months or longer preparing
houses for its use. The rates charg-
ed consumers are % cents for 1000
feet TO- residence and business
houses, 20 cents for schools and Is
cents for churches. The city hall is
heated and Illuminated free of
charge.
No Pardon for Mrs. New.-Goyern-
or Hoch announced that he would not
pardon Mrs. Amelia New, who is serv-
ing a prison sentence for killing her
husband in Greenwood county. The |
governor said: " Nothing will be done
IN this matter of the New pardon, at |
least for the present. The officials of |
Greenwood county seem to be oppos-
ed to the pardon, and the people Iiy-
ing in the country adjacent where the |
crime was committed are also oppos- |
ed to favor it, In the town PERTAINS |
great many favor the pardon. Per
sonally | do not think it would do
anybody any harm to turn this old
woman loose, but l do not feel justi-
fed in taking action contrary to ex-
sting sentiment"
Big Yieid.-J. L. Treu of Halifax.
Wabaunsee county, raised 1O4 bush.
els of corn on a measured acre this
year. This corn was weighed. so there
is no guess work about the matter.
The corn had no special care, but the
land on which it was raised had been
In alfalfa for several years. Mr.. Treu
says that this whole field is Just as
good as the one acre.
Petition in Bankruptcy. - An in.
voluntary petition of bankruptcy has
been filed against the Taylor Grain
company OF North Topeka in the Uni.
ted States district court
Bohemian Wedding. = How is this
Tor wedding party? Two hundred
and forty-eight people, brass band.
$500 worth of presents and fourteen
Kegs OF beer. 1t sounds as though it
might have been among the swells of
Milwaukee. but it wasn't; it was an
AFFAIR In Republic county, Kan, among
the Bohemfans near Cuba.
BIG Oil Well in Caneu Ei.Id