Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-11-23
Reopen Schools. : The public


The Season at Hand. - Charles Mil
Ter, of Hiawatha, husked 119 bushels
of corn in one day recently. This re-
calls that the time for corn shucking
lies is now at hand.
Kansas New Fish PIant-Work ic
! progressing rapidly on the new state
fish hatchery near Pratt. A big two
story house is now being erected for
Office and hatchery.
Natural Gas For Winfield. - Doug
Bourdette, a local merchant, COM
menced piping this city for natural
gas. He owns the only producing gas
wells in the vicinity of Winfield.
Abilene to Have Park. - The Abb
lene Commercial Club has started
movement to provide a large city
park for Abilene. The meeting of the
promoters was held at the Offices of
President c. C. Wyandt and. there
were many present.
Want to Name a Drector-The 700
Equitable policy holders in Sumner
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Wellington, for director of that in
surance company. By all pulling TO-
gether and casting 700 votes for their
man they believe they will land him
Help on Farms Scarce.-The farm
ers of Labette county are having a
hard time to secure the necessary
help for the fall work on their farms.
Every day farmers send and come to
Parsons looking for help, and gener-
ally are unsuccessful in their efforts.
Monument to Veterans. - The Wo-
mems Relief Corps of Coffeyville has
| just placed an order for $4,000
monument to be erected in the mem
DRY of civil war soldiers. The monu-
ment represents a soldier at parade
rest, stands fifteen feet high and will
be in Elmwood cemetery where many
soldiers of the civil war lie buried.
Can't Pipe Under River. - Since it
was announced that the Kansas Nat
rual Gas Company would try to cross
the river with its pipes at Wade side
track by sinking the pipes il the river
bed, all the old river men and engi-
neers who have had to do with work
in this part of the Missouri have got
I together and decided that the plan
will not work.
Toronto Schools Closed. - District
ter, was adjourned until December II,
because of a diphtheria epidemic.
| There are twenty cases in the county
seat and schools, churches, lodges and
theaters are closed. There have been
four deaths. Schools have been clos
ed also in Neal, where one death has
resulted from diphtheria
Gathering Statistics. - C. F. Good
ing, special agent of the census bur-
| eau, has completed the statistics of
and sent his report to the department
Mr.. Gooding has spent three weeks
going over the records in the city
clerks office and making up his stat
istics, which show what the cost of
running the city is for each year,
what the value of the property is, to-
tailed by different classes, and the
rates and amounts of taxes. A num-
Der of large books were filled with
/ tables from the records in the office
of the city clerk.
May Sell Whole Town. - The town
| CT Bruce, or practically all of it, is to
be sold at sheriff's sale on Tuesday,
December 5, at the north door of the
court house in Girard. The Bruce
Mining and Smelling Company,
which owns the most of the TOWNSHIP
of Bruce, including the old smelling
plan; there, has been unable to pay
a judgment rendered against it by
the district court in a suit brought by
the Interstate Mortgage Trust Com
pany, of Parsons, and the court has
ordered the sheriff to sell the prop
erty and satisfy the judgment
To Be No Joint Banquet. - The
State Historical Society has with
drawn from the proposed Topeka day
banquet with the commercial club
| The reason given is that the Histori-
cal society cannot determine or APP
| proXimate beforehand what the at
tendance will be or what part of that
attendance will want to take part in
the banquet The commercial club
officers are busy finding out how many
Topeka people will be in attendance
in order to make arrangements for a
hall and give the order for the spread.
The banquet will come off just the
same in spite of the withdrawal of the
Historical Society.
Plating New Town. - General w.
e. Hardy, for years secretary of the
Kaw Indian council, is sponsor for a
new town being organized on the
right-of-way of tho Midland Valley
railroad. This town is to be known
as Hardy, and is located on 240 acres
of inherited Indian land which was
bought by the Hardy Townsite Com
pany from Albert Taylor. 1t is now
being surveyed and plated. Hardy
is three miles from the Kansas state
line
Banking Interests Merged. - The
First National Bank has purchased a
controlling interest in the Seneca
State Savings Bank and the separate
institutions will so continue. The
transaction receives favorable COM
ment-
200 Tons of Hay Burned. At Will
liamsburg while section hands on the
Santa Fe were burning fire guard
along their track south the fire got
away and burned about 200 tons of
hay. Most of this hay was on the
Silkville ranch, which is owned by
Troutman & Stone of Topeka
u c. 7. Oruanized.-A strong conn