Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-25

| of hogs from the Mitchell county
poor farm brought $3.50 the other
day.
Enlarge Hutchinson Hospital. =
Twelve Hutchinson physicians have
! purchased the Stewart Hospital Asso-
citation and Training School for
Nurses. The capital stock is 500
000 The building will be doubled in
size.
Quail for Delaware.-A thousand
live young Kansas quail have been
| shipped to Delaware and released on
/ the game preserve of Frank Thomp-
son, a noted Philadelphia hunter. The
quail cost Mr.. Thompson 81 each, laid
| down.
Church Holds Annual Meeting. =
The Bethany Lutheran church held
its annual meeting at Lindsborg and
elected officers for the ensuing year.
The Bethany church is the largest
Swedish Lutheran church west of
the Missouri river.
Delegates to Convention. = Mayor
Ross has appointed seven delegates to
represent the city of Wichita at the
semi-centennial convention to be held
in Topeka January 30. The delegates
were appointed at the request of the
Topeka Commercial club
BottIers Ask for Leeislation.-Frank
Hugh Grant, of Junction City, Kas.,
was elected president of the Kansas
and Missouri Bottlers' Association at
Wichita. The bottlers meet in To
peka next January. A law to prohib-
it the sale of bottles to junk dealers
and the refilling of bottles by other
persons than the owner will be asked
for
Express Companies Fined. - The
Topeka managers of the three ex-
press companies were fined 500
each in police court for refusal to pay
the license tax levied against express
companies by the city. They will ap-
! peal their cases to test the law. They
claim they are exempt from such a
license.
More Tank capacity.-At Paola the
| Standard Oil Company is putting up
two S00-barrel tanks in the Rantoul
field from where it will run q four
inch pipe to the Dickinson farm, a
mile north of Osawatomie, where the
oil will be run into the company's
twelve-inch pipe line instead of to the
receiving station at Paola. The pres
ent line from Rantoul TO Paola cannot
handle the amount of oil produced.
county the county treasurer, Charles
Lewis, reports that $4,000 in taxes
have been collected this year out of
total of s216,9S9, which is about
per cent over tat of last year. This
is the best showing of collections ever
made, which indicates state of pros
perity for Miami county. Mr.. Lewis
has notified the state treasurer that
Miami county's portion of the first
payment of state tax. about $4,000,
is ready.
One Gambling Place cIosed.-What
may result in the closing of all the
gambling rooms in Wichita W be-
gun by the issuance of an injunction
ordering the closing of one of the
more prominent places. The injunc-
ton was issued by Judge Thomas T.
| Wilson, of the district court. Infor-
nation was filed by Detective Harry
| Sutton, an ex-member of the city po-
| lice force. Tie sheriff was ordered
| to seize the gambling devices in the
| house
Santa Fe Wants Its Coal. - The
! Santa Fe Company has asked Referee
Loomis. of the Devlin estate, to order
the trustees to turn over TO it about
100000 worth of coal for money adj
vanced to c. ]. Devlin Just before his
failure. The company claims it adj
vanced the money in order that Dew
! lin could meet his pay roll and that
| it had a verbal contract with him
| that it should receive coal for the
money. He died without carrying
out the contract and now the COM
pany wants its coal.
! Caught Between Observation-Disclosures
Mcdonald, a switchman employed by
| the NJ. X. & T. railroad company at
| Parsons, was caught between the
| drawbacks of a switch engine and a
freight car in the yards and crushed
so that he died three hours later. Nc
Donald was about 80 years of age, I'M
married, and his only known relative
is his mother, who lives in Richmond,
Ill. He came to this place in March
from Kansas City.
Marriage May Cost His Job.-Be-
cause of his secret marriage, which
was in Chicago June 20, last year, and
which became known only this week,
Dr. E. Stanton Hymer house physi-
clan at st. Francis hospital at WITCH
tia. may lose his position. Dr.. Hymer
became associated with the hospital
less than a year ago. The rules of
the hospital provide that the physi-
clans there shall not be married. This
rule APPARENTLY had little effect on the
young physician, for soon after he
began work he went to Chicago and
there married Miss Helen Richardson.
Mrs. Hymer remained in Chicago and
Dr. Hymer returned here. He re-
sumed his hospital work and all was
going well until frequent letters in the
same handwriting started an inquiry
TWO Column Gard of Thanks.-An
Eastern distiller wrote to Manford
Schoonover, of Garnett, offering him
-four full quarts" on trial. Schoon-
over replied in letter that made
two columns in his Journal. Over
100000 copies of this letter have been
circulated = not by the distiller,
though.
Prizes for Best Lawns.-Many Kan
sas towns are now offering prizes for
the best kept and most beautiful
lawns. This is done to encourage
people to improve their lawns, thus
identifying the town.
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