Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-24
KANSAS COMMENT

drowned in the Marais des Cygnes
river two miles south of LaCygne
while seining for minnows.
Big Gas Transaction.-The biggest
gas transaction in the history of Kan
sas since the sale of lots at Kanopolis
occurred the other day, when the Peo-
pies Gas Company sold out their
Montgomery county interests for
$1,000,O0O.
Six Novices Take Vows. = The
eighth annual retreat at Nazareth con-
vent, at Concordia, has closed. Eight
young women were received into no
vitiate of the Sisters of st. Joseph
and six novices took their final VOWS.
The sermon was by Rev. M. ]. Hof-
erer of Chicago, who conducted the
retreat.
Hutchinson Census. - D. G. Pres
grave, who is in charge of the new
directory being compiled by the r.
L. Polk company of Detroit. says that
his figures will prove that Hutchinson
has nearly if not quite $4,000 people
at this time. There is chance that
Hutchinson has enough people. if all
of them are counted. to make this
city of the first class.
A Paint Plant. - Coffeyville has
landed a new industry. firm OF
Kansas City, Kan. has secured SO
acres in addition to the town, con-
venient to the Missouri Pacific tracks.
The industry will bring 800 workmen
and the immediate expenditure of the
company for the erection of buildings,
which are to cover thirteen acres of
the tract. and the coupling of the
same ready for the carrying on of the
work of the immense factory will be
s250.000.
Homemade Engine. - The three
Woods boys of Russell have built a
homemade gasoline engine to run
the family washing machine, and it
works all right, too. The remarkable
thing about the engine is that it is a
combination of a great many pieces
of machinery and other things. They
have in it parts of lawn mower,
cream separator, typewriter and the
governor is made from an old umbrel-
la, while for springs they have taken
them from window shade rollers.
Knocking on Irvine PIant.-Senator
Porter, of Montgomery, says scheme
Is on foot to knock out the binding
Irvine plant at the state penitentiary.
Just who is behind it he says he
doocnSf EnnT hr1f inf hot in
his opinion, the twine trust might
know. The only way it can be at
tackled, he says, is for the state audi
tor to decline to pay any bills for the
plant. The supreme court knocked
out the oil refinery because it was
the main thing, not the incidental, to
the branch penitentiary. 1t might de-
eide that the binding Irvine plant is
incidental to the Lansing prison, and
is necessary to keep convicts employ
ed.
Small Banks Increasing. Banks
are becoming numerous in small Kan
sas towns. Men who have not any
thing to do and can rake up from
5000 to $500 are organizing a small
bank. Under the law the capital must
be at least $4,000, but that is easy
to get. The farmers put up most of
it. The promoter never has to put
in more than $500 and some promot-
ers do not even put in cent. And
a strange thing about it is that the
establishment of so many small banks
doesn't cut down the deposits of the
old banks. The money for the new
banks seems to come from the farm
ers.
Streets of ndependence.-Effort Is
being made to establish a uniform and
symmetrical plan for the streets of
which, if adopted, will greatly beauti-
fly the physical aspect of the whole
town. Although the streets may not
be paved or finished otherwise, at
present. it has been planned that the
driveway of each street shall be laid
out forty feet wide, with thirty feet
for parking allowed on both sides.
The curbing all over the city, in
every instance, is to be the standard
curb and gutter combined which is
made of concrete. The driveway then
can be kept in a beautiful condition
by steam rollers or other means. The
streets in Independence are beauti-
fully shaded. Pride has been taken
in keeping the trees trimmed and in
a condition to shade and beautify the
streets.
Died on Wedding Day. Francis
on his fifty-frst wedding anniversary,
at his home in Hartford, after an ill
ness that lasted several months. His
widow and five children survive. Mr..
Brogan was born in Ireland, and
came to America when 20 years old.3
Kansas Masonic Home. - James
Snedden, superintendent of the Kan
sas Masonic Home. announces that
the contracts will be let for an addi-
tion of dining room and eleven 9TH
er rooms which would be built this
fall. as we'll as the new chapel given
by the Order of the Eastern Star
G. A. r. Brigades.-For the purpose
of increasing interest in the G. A. R.
and securing new members, Depart
ment Commander Coney has divided
the state into brigades and named a
brigade commander for each one.
Gas in Chase county.-James Far.
rington, brother-in-law of c. ]. Ian
try, who lives on the old Lantry farm
Just west of Strong City, is the first
person to burn natural gas in Chase
county. He had his residence plumb
ed and gas turned on for use in his
book store.
Special Trains in Lincoln Park
Special trains brought crowds to Lin
coin Park, Cawker City, to attend the