Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
KANSAS COMMENT

Kansan Invents Glass Machine
At Coffeyville, w. E. Heal, OF the
Sunfiower Glass company, is the in
ventor of two glass machines, one for
making plate glass and one for the
manufacture of window glass.
AbiIene's City Park. - The city
council has approved the valuations
made for the whole city hall block,
and work will begin Immediately in
the clearing OF of the unsighty
structures that have made the block
q picture of desolation for years. The
city voted bonds for the improve
ment of the property last spring and
these will pay for the entire prop
erty.
Burned by Live Wire.-Oliver Rog-
ers, conductor on the lola Electric
line, was severely burned about his
hands by a live wire and but for the
presence of mind and quick action OF
his motorman Elmer Logan, who
pulled the live wire away from him,
he would doubtless have been burned
to death by the strong current of the
line.
! st. Johns Commercial Club.-The
st. John Commercial Club met and
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, Howard
Gray; vice-president, o. B. Shepherd;
Hecretary, H. J. Cornwell; financial
secretary, ]. W. Rixon; treasurer, R.
w. Thompson. The club starts out
with a membership of over sixty and
it promises to do much good in
Monumental way, as well as making
the city more attractive.
Junction City Gets Contract. - The
bids on the big meat contract at FIT.
Riley for the last six months of this
year were opened at Fit. Riley and
the Junction City Packing Company
had the lowest bid. Severtl big
packing companies of Kansas City
bid on the contract and it was the
first time in many years that the To-
cal contractors have succeeded in I'M
derbidding the outside packers. The
lowest bid on the meat was 1924 a
hundred.
Adopts Parking System. - At the
last meeting of the city council of
Marysville an ordinance was passed
looking to the parking of all the resi-
dence streets of Marysville. The plan
outlined is similar to the one used at
Topeka and it is the intention of the
council to inaugurate the system at
once. Eventually every residence
street will be parked for a width of
ten feet from the sidewalk line to the
curb line on each side and trees will
be set out on the parking.
Violated Eight-Hour Law. R.
Robinson, assistant labor commits
sioner, has returned from Pittsburg,
where he adjusted a case of violating
the state eight-hour labor law, and in
vestigated the coal strike situation
H. r. Nash, the state paving con-
tractor, who has been violating the
eight-hour law, paid a fine of $50 and
has promised to obey the law in the
future. Mr.. Robinson says that the
miners are looking forward to an
early settlement Of the coal strike.
To Make Loans Easier.-It will be
possible for wage earners with small
savings to build homes if the next
legislature passes what will be known
as deed of trust law, declared Kan
sas bankers in annual convention at
Wichita. They recognize the need of
such a law and will favor a bill be-
fore the 1907 legislature that will en-
body their views of what the law
should be. 1t was declared that a
deed of trust law would lower rates
of interest, encourage loans and make
it safe to loan near the full value on
real estate security.
San Jose Scale at Dodge.-Prof. Po-
pence of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College, has been investigating
the Entertainments of the San Jose
scale in the Kansas orchards. He has
only found it at Garden City.
Report Of Dairy Products. - Secre-
tary F. D. Coburn, of the Kansas
State Board of Agriculture, reports
the dairy products of Kansas for last
year as having a value of $S,499,-
l243.S6. Adding to this the value OF
milk and butter consumed in the
home, the total would easily be SIS,
100000 per year. Although in its in.
fancy, the dairy business of Kansas
far exceeds in value the total yearly
product of all Of her gas and oil
fields, and all of her orchards and
gardens. The dairy is a gold mine
for Kansas, and Kansas butter has
therefore ranked high in the New
York and home markets. Lately
however, it is found that a large per
centage of Kansas butter ranks only
las seconds" in the New York mar
ket, and there is no sale for it. The
quality of Kansas butter must be i'm
proved or failure will be the portion
of the Kansas dairyman.
Wholesale Chicken Thief.-William
Reed, a colored man of Curranville
followed out the accredited mania Of
his race by stealing 81 chickens from
his neighbors and fellow citizens. He
was trailed up the next morning and
IAC SniSnCnS Oil Aounu. ne eSCdpeu.s
Sallna Miller Honored. - George
Warren. of the Lee-Warren Milling
company. has been asked to give
five minute talk on the subject Flour
Manufacture. Its Cost and Necess
airy Accounting Methods" at the an
nual mill owners convention at Mil
waukee to be held June 20, 81 and 22.E
Dropped Dead at Bat-While play
ing baseball on Sunday at Englevale
Kan, Clark Williams. aged 80, drop
ped dead while at the bat. He at
tempted to knock a fly and in reach
ing out ruptured a brain blood yes
Sci and died instantly.