Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-03

ST. Joe Tourists at kinsIey.-Sixty
members Of the st. Joseph, NO., Com
mercial club, making a tour of Kan
sas, visited Kinsley. They were well
pleased with the short grass coun-
try.
Ice Plant at Larned.-C. W. Smith,
of the Larned Electric Light Co., is
erecting a fine cement building to be
used as an ice plant for supplying the
city and surrounding towns with a
good grade of ice this summer.
Changed to National Bank. - The
application of the Merchants State
Bank of Almana, Kan, to convert
into the First National Bank of Alme-
ma, with $4,000 capital, has been ap-
proved by the comptroller of the cur
rency.
Foreigners Take Holiday. - The
agents of the various railroads cen
tering in Pittsburg report the largest
local passenger business for some
time and this increase is all the re-
suit of the present coal strike. Since
the miners of this district went on
strike April 1, there have been hun
dreds of Italians who have left for
visit to their fatherland, they taking
advantage of the present suspension
to visit the scenes of their childhood.
Supplied From concordia. "A well
grounded rumor has recently got into
circulation that the postoffice depart
ment is to discontinue the Prosser
branch mail service, having in con-
temptation the idea of serving the
postofices along that line from towns
on other lines of railroad by star
in existence for about twenty-five
years, and there are a great many
people who depend on it.
Pythians Called Upon. Grand
Chancellor C. N. Miller, of the Knights
of Pythias order in Kansas, issued
circular letter from his office in Min
neapolis to members of that order in
Kansas calling on them to respond to
the appeal in aid for the sufferers in
the disaster at San Francisco. Lodges
and individual members are requested
to forward their contributions to A.
c. Jobes, grand master of exchequcr
at Wichita, Kan.
Drowned in Cellar.-Antone HUM,
1G-year-old son of Charles HUM, was
found dead in his fathers cellar. When
found the body was lying with the
face immersed in few inches of
stagnant water which had collected in
the cellar. The lad was subject to
fits and would frequently fall to the
ground Unexpectedly and writhe in
spasms. In all probability young HUM
was the victim of one of these spells
when he fell face down in the cellar
as there were no marks of violence on
the body.
To Have OId-Fashioned Fair. -
Wichita and Sedgwick county are to
have an old-fashioned county fair. This
was definitely decided at a meeting
Der of commerce. This matter has
been under consideration for some
time and after much discussion it was
decided to go ahead with the PROPOSE
ton. The fair will be held some time
in September. 1t will be a fair in
which the exhibits will consist of the
manufactured and agricultural pro-
ducts of Wichita and Sedgwick coun-
ty. 1t will be both a manufacturers
and a farmers exhibition at the same
time.
cowIey County Sells MuIes.-S. E.
Pershall, the mule buyer, has shipped
a total of $50 mules from Cowley coun-
ty since last December. The total
number for the year is 1882. The
shipments were all made from Arkan-
sas City, Winfield. Dexter and OK
ford. The highest price paid was for
a load of 81 head purchased from La
har & Mcdowell, of Arkansas City, on
February 10, which averaged $162.25
a head. The average price for all
mules shipped during the past twelve
months is right at s125 per head ag-
gregating the large sum of S222,750,
paid to the farmers of Cowley county
for mules
Log Rolling at IoIa.-The NJ. w. A.
log rolling which is being planned for
the latter part of September will be
a big affair and the lodge will make
arrangements for 10000 out-of-town
visitors All of the lodges over the
county will be asked to help in the
log rolling. The lola lodge has some
thing like 500 members and with the
500 members over the county 500 peo-
pie would assist in the big event.
Leavenworth Tents by Express. -
The authorities at Fl. Leavenworth
were notified by the War department
II send every tent at the post to San
Francisco by express. Half an hour
later thr-@ special cars were speed
ing on their way to the fort from Ar
gentine. The military authorities are
preparing the tents and blankets for
shipment and the cars will be loaded
in record breaking time and rushed
off to Holiday by special train so as
to meet No. Z, which will carry the
much needed tents and supplies to
the coast. The Wells Fargo Express
Company is handling the stuff This
is undoubtedly the biggest express
shipment ever handled out of Leaven-
worth.
Patriotic Sparrows. - An Atchison
man planted lettuce, but as fast as it
came through the ground the English
sparrows ate it off. He finally got a
few small flags and stuck them in the
lettuce bed and not sparrow will
consent to touch that lettuce as long
as Old Glory floats over it.
Fatal Fall on SidewaIk.-Mrs. ALLIE
bach. formerly Miss Hulda Helstrom,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Helstrom of
northeast of Mcpherson, died at her
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