Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-10
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| Mrs. Judd and Miss Jessie Lam
kin visited at Plains last Sunday.
| John Kibby and family have re-
turned from Dodge City, this week.
John Jones arrived in Meade last
week after an absence of three years.
| Jim Walter, of Mill Greek, 1. T.
is here to spend a few weeks with
parents.
Frank Davis has moved into his
new Office north of the First Nation
al Bank.
John Williams shipped three car
loads of cattle to St. Joe last Sum
day night.
John Wchrle is having some ce-
ment sidewalks built around his res
idence.
Sheriff Givler made a business
trip to Kansas City Sunday return
ing Tuesday.
There will be dance at the city
hall Friday night to which everyone
is invited.
Judge Bierer and family of Guth-
rie are visiting at the home of Rev.
Stamper.
The cement works is again in op-
Grafton, having received a carload
of cement.
The county treasurer's quarterly
statement appears in another column
of this issue.
Mr.. Ed. Tebbe and family, of
Perry, Okla, are visiting Rev. Stam-
per and family.
A. F. German and wife we're over
from Plains Sunday visiting Judge
jenkins and wife.
Mrs. Hamnel, of Norman, Okla,
is visiting her brothers Jay and Will
Ellis and families.
Twist & Fletcher have erected a
new furniture warehouse on the south
side of the square.
Chas. Talley shipped load of
cattle to St. Joe Saturday night.
He returned Tuesday.
Herbert Pond, nephew of Maj.
Pond arrived in Meade Tuesday to
visit his uncle for several days.
Byrns and Jefferson have just fin
ished cement crossing from the
First National Bauk to the National
hotel.
There is great rejoicing at the
home of John Trober over the birth
of a 1o-pound boy baby Tuesday
morning.
All our people returned from the
Dodge City reunion. They all say
that the town was ''dry" with only
few "wet" spots.
B. S. McMeel is up at his old
home in Iowa this week visiting.
He will stop at St. Joe on his way
home and purchase his fall line of
goods.
Mrs. Magdalene Reich, sister of
Mrs. John Wehrle, accompanied by
her grandson, Walter Cottrell, ar
rived in Meade last Sunday from
New York and will visit for some
time.
The owners of Silverthorn colts
will he interested to learn that Gold
dust Maid by Silverthorn in the a:Ia
trot at Detroit pushed Sadie Mack
out in a:o6H. She was driven by
Ed. Gear. She was bred by Mr.. |
Biggs, of Garden City.
Some few weeks ago ]. L. Layton
section foreman at Fowler swore out
warrant charging Levi Casey with
breaking into box car and taking
an old stove and bench. The pre-
liminary was held at Meade Monday
before Justice Mars and after hear
ing the evidence of Layton and sew
eral witnesses for the defense Judge
Mars discharged Casey. We learn
from several residents of Fowler that
there was some i'll feeling between
Laton ond Casey and that the rail-
way company wanted the section
foreman to account for the articles
or arrest someone and it fell on
Casey. The evidence showed that
some laborers of an extra gang had
carried the bench in question to the
house where Casey was baching.
Also the old stove had lain out in
the ditch for more than year prior
| to the time Casey hauled it out to
his claim house. There was no evil
dence that Casey ever broke into a
box car. In fact anyone who is ac-
quainted with Mr.. Casey knows that