Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-19

Newton, colonel of the Second regi-
ment. K N. G., inspected company
X after which the women of the town
gave them a banquet. The company
here is one of the best equipped in
the state.
Chautauqua at Winfield. = The
Chautauqua association has arranged
with Attorney General Hadley of Mis-
souri, to deliver a lecture here this
season. They are to pay him $3.50
and expenses. The exact date of his
coming has not been set Hadley
is the man who has been sticking the
knife into the Standard Oil Company
of late.
New Bank at Manhattan. - A new
state bank is being organized with a
capital stock of $4,000. Mr. Ramey
of Eskridge, is the chief factor in the
new bank and the $4,000 stock has
been subscribed by local capitalists.
The new organization has purchas-
ed one of the best business building
sites in the city and will erect hand
some building.
Cars Turned on Side. - A broken
coupling derailed st. Louis & San
Francisco passenger train No. 307,
west-bound, near Lorena. Only the
engine remained on the track. Both
the baggage car and the day coach
were turned on their sides. No one
was seriously injured. Steel sup
ports of brake beam behind the ten
der fell and spread the rail.
Kansas Bankers Close Meeting. =
The annual meeting of the bankers
of group five, comprising the south
west quarter of the state is closed.
The meeting of the group next year
will be at terling. The new officers
chosen are: President, Thomas At
kinson, Sterling; secretary. T. A. Eng
lish, Sterling; member state nominal
ing committee, F. s. Larrabee, Stat
ford
Mcpherson Y. M. C. A. organized.-
A meeting was held at the court
house for the purpose of perfecting
the final organization of the McPher-
son Y. NJ. G. A. This state organizer
was present. The Y. NJ C. A. move
ment has been progressing very
rapidly during the past week and the
movement is being supported very
heartily by the people of Mcpherson
and vicinity.
Turner's at keaVenworth.-The first
annual funniest of the Kansas-Mis-
souri-Nebraska turning societies
which will be held - Leavenworth
June %, "a and %, possibly longer,
will be the chief event of attraction
to local Germans and to those emanat-
ing from the Fatherland, in all parts
of the Missouri valley. The event
promises to be the biggest attraction
of the kind ever planned by western
Turner's.
Fish in Kansas Streams. = Harvey
county streams have been stocked
with fish from the fish warden's
ponds at Pratt, Kansas. County Game
and Fish Warden A R. Ainsworth re-
ceived from Del Travis, the state fish
warden, seven large cans of small
fish including the croppie and the
black bass varieties Each can con-
tanned 500 fish a little more than a
finger length in size and Mr.. Aims
worth promptly took the fish to the
country streams and turned them
loose.
Benders' Bones Not Found. - The
abandoned we'll on the old Bender
farm, near Mortimer and ten miles
north of Cherryvale, and in which it
had been reported by DR.. James A.
De Moss that the bodies of the no.
torious family were deposited and the
well filled With stones to depth of
eighteen feet, was overhauled but no
trace of the bodies was found. DIR.
De Moss made published statement
some time ago that he had the word
of one who claimed to have been an
eye witness to the burial of the bodies
of the Benders in the well.
Pool Hall REGULATION. At Concor-
dia Judge w. T. Dillon, in a case in
district court, has held the law of
1886 requiring owners of billiard and
pool halls in unincorporated towns to
secure a license from the township
clerk to be unconstitutional The eff
feet of the decision will be to AXE
it impossible for any unincorporated
town to collect license from billiard
or pool halls or to prevent their
operation.
Big Day for Anthony. - There will
be an immense crowd in Anthony
April 26 for the Wildey day celebra-
ton. All railways have granted a
very low rate of one fare plus fifty
cents and where train service is not
convenient will put on special trains.
The strongest fraternal organization
in America is that of the Independent
Order Of Odd Fellows, permanently
formed April 26, 1919, by Thomas Will
dey, John Duncan, John Cheatham
and Richard Rushworth at the home
of Thomas Woolworth, in South
EICQCl1Ch oil CCb, DnitlAlOlO.
Wildey was elected first Noble Grand
of Washington Lodge No. 1 of the
United States.
Kansas sportsmen's Shoot. = The
seventeenth annual shoot Of the Kan
sas Sportsmen's Association will be
held in Great Bend, April Is, 10, 20.
The coming shoot promises to be the
largest Of its kind ever held in the
state. An unusually large amount of
entries are on hand and many yet to
come in; $500 is the added money, to-
gether with several special events.
New Depot at Parsons.-The plan
for the new Frisco depot have been
received. The contract has been let
and work will commence as soon as
the buildings are removed. r
Teachers at Hiawatha.-The annual