Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-12

c. P. Fullington is in eastern
Kansas this week.
E. H. Boyer has choice rams for
sale. Ask him for prices. 4-12-2w.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. German were
over from Plains last Saturday and
Sunday.
The editor and wife were in Gray
county last Saturday and Sunday
visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bolen left last
Saturday night for Wichita for sew
eral days visit in that city.
The proceedings of the county
board and the bills allowed appear
in another place in this paper.
DR.. Simpson is setting out all
kinds of flowers in his garden on the
north east corner of the square.
Roscoe Griggs was appointed con-
stable of Meade Center twp. by the
County Commissioners at their last
session.
Dave Williams has just returned
from the Salmon place in Crooked
Creek twp. where he was finishing
his house.
We note from the Globe that DIR.
Fee highly recommends Nutritio as
a fine drink and says it is the drink
of all drinks.
There are some people in this city
who have more ''gall" than a Gov
ernment mule. They can't keep
from "butting in"
A. ]. Byrns has the contract of
putting in the concrete cellar wall for
the Odd Fellows building and will
begin in few days.
Otto Greet, formerly of Pittsburg,
Kansas, has purchased the store
building from Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
McNutt and will shortly move into
same.
DR.. Leslie has purchased one half
of the lot between McMeel's and
Marshall's stores on the north side
and expects to put in a brick drug
store in very short time.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. E. Downs died last Thursday
night and was buried Friday after
noon in Graceland cemetery. The
parents have the sympathy of their
many friends in Meade.
We note from last weeks Globe
that someone had reported that Geo.
B. Cones had withdrawn from the
Representative race, but it is false so
"A Citizen" says in that paper.
E. H. Boyer sold 74o head of
sheep TO some Butler county people
last week, receiving S4.75 per head
for 500 of them and 81. 90 per head
for 24o head. He still has large
herd remaining.
Miss Ethel Vaughn, of Chehallis,
was visiting Uncle Zack Ragland
and wife and J. C. Ragland and
family this week. She was on her
way home from the east. She left
Meade Saturday evening for home.
J. R. Keith was. down from Fow-
ler, Kansas last Thursday and re-
ports that he has his cement factory
in operation and that he IS making
cement rock. Mr.. Keith made this
office pleasant call while inthe city.
We are going to turn our atten-
ton to the Register of Deeds office
some of these weeks. We believe
the register is being imposed on by
some curb-stone real estate men and
other grafters who come in to dig up
equities and get our local people in
to trouble.
Remember that Saturday April IA,
is the day that the Democrats are to
meet at the city hall to elect dele
gates to the State convention to be
held at Topeka on April IS. Meade
Is entitled to two delegates and they
will have to pay their own railroad
fare-no passes for Democratic del
egates.
Mr.. and Mrs. McNutt expect to
leave in about month for Emporia.
Mr.. Greet has purchased their real
estate business and will conduct the
same. He has also purchased the
Selvidge place north of town. Thi:
is the quarter of land that DR.. Adam:
paid S1o, 400 for in the last boon
days.
Mr.. Denny Griffin, on of the fire
men who came to Meade at the time
Sam Fox was killed here, was il
Meade few days last week and il
company with J. R. Griggs, mad
this office pleasant call. Mr.