Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-03-09
Lee & Read have a new ad in this

issue.
Blankenchip and Cal Potter will
ship about 200 hides this week.
Mr.. Jas 1. Stamper and wife have
moved to their residence in the city.
Baby caps in embroidery and silk,
from I5c to soc. at Boyers'.
Griggs & Bolen sold several quar-
tiers of land during the past ten days.
w. w. Ward, of Taw, Kansas,
was in Meade Tuesday attending the
meeting of the board of assessors.
VIM. Bunyan, of Fowler, has been
appointed deputy sheriff by Sheriff
Givler. The appointment is good
one.
w. C. Osgood Jr. and Ed Sheriff.
came down from Bucklin Sunday on
90 and returned the same night on
80.
J. R. Griggs is east on some
realty business again this week.
He is expected to be home this
week.
Mr.. Finkle is now located in his
new blacksmith shop, it having been
completed by Messrs. Lee and
Holloway.
Harry Coon and wife were down
from Fowler the first of the week.
Harry was proving up his home
stead west of Meade.
Mrs. Thos Barton and two young
est children left Sunday for Mon
mouth, Illinois where they expect to
spend the summer months.
A number of the young friends of
the Boyer girls went down to the
place south of Meade last Friday
night and enjoyed a very pleasant
evening.
G. w. Hull, of Lyons, Kansas
was here Saturday and purchased
some fine quarters of land in Merrill
la twp. He left for his home the
same evening.
Are you going to plow sod?
We handle sod plows
Lee & Read.
A great variety of colors, in both
dress goods and millinery, were
never seen than this spring. There
are so many new shades. Boyers'
have them.
Mr.. E. D. Bower, of Payton,
Iowa, was in the city for several
days this week with immigrants.
Mr.. Bower is an immigration agent
for the Rock Island.
About forty land seekers arrived
in Meade this morning and all went
out to look at the artesian country.
1t is safe to predict that they will be
satisfied with that country.
Do you need stirring plow?
We have them. Lee & Read.
We publish the proceedings of the
board of township assessors in an
other column of this issue. Read
it and see what the valuation of your
property will be this year.
District Court will convene here
March III, 1905. There are 90
cases on the docket, mostly all be-
ing foreclosure and quiet title cases.
The term will probably be short
one.
Brother Buis will open a barber
shop on the north side in few days.
He has been learning the trade from
J. E. Roberts. Jr. for the past several
months, and will now open shop
of his own.
Parasols are unusually pretty this
spring; see them at Boyers'.
Our force has been on the sick
list this week with slight attacks of
la grip which threatened to get us
down, but we have escaped and are
able to work regularly again. We
are short of news however this week.
Mrs. w. c. Osgood Jr. of Buck
lin and friend, Miss Nellie Logs
ton, of the same place visited for
several days the past week with Mrs.
Osgood's mother, Mrs. James.
They returned to Bucklln Tuesday
night.
Mr.. C. A. Underwood, of Rice
county, KS. is here looking for To-
cation. Mr.. Underwood was for
merly a resident of La Rue, Ohio
and an old acquaintance of F. C..
Judd and Jake Kolb and family.
He thinks very favorably of our
county and will no btlocate here.