Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-06-14

Services are now held at the Pres
byterian church two Sundays O.
each month.
Born:-To Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Gilstrap, Monday morning, a gir
baby.
Art Pinnick and Geo. Fowler
were in Meade Tuesday transactine
business.
Englewood, Kansas, has put uI
SI85 in purses for horse races fol
July 4.
Fred Mckinney went to Hutchin.
son Wednesday evening for several
days visit.
J. w. Stringer, of Plains, was g
pleasant caller at this office last
Wednesday,.
We had excellent showers of rain
Sunday and Monday morning. Thi:
will insure good wheat yield.
Postmaster Fuhr left Sunday fol
Kansas City, where he will purchase
furniture and fixtures for the new
postoffice building.
R. A. Harper left Tuesday night
for Mineral Wells, Texas, to visit
his father who is quite sick. Mrs.
Harper accompanied him.
Hodge Marshall says it pays to
advertise-that his patent leather
shoes got back to the store as mys-
teriously as they disappeared.
Odd Fellows Memorial day was
properly observed last Sunday. The
graves of deceased members and
friends were beautifully decorated.
We notice one of the city lights
lying in mud hole near the post
Office. Now these two lamps COS,
about 500 and they should be taken
care of little better than they have
been in the past.
Mr.. Chas Roberts and family re.
turned from Missouri Saturday nigh,
where they have heen for the past
winter. Mr.. Roberts father accom-.
panied them and will remain fol
a few weeks.
Keith and Byrns are at work thi:
week laying up the cement block:
in Leslie's new drug store. 1t will
be very neat building when com
pleted and will make the doctor {:
very commodious quarters.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. S. McMeel anc
daughters Misses Nora and Ann;
left Monday night for Wichita to at
tend the commencement exercises a
Mt. Carmel, where Miss Geneviev,
McMeel graduates this year.
Parson Daniel Gibbons Cole,
colored minister stopped off il
Meade Tuesday. While here h
made this office a call. The Parsol
was in search of a pension board, a
he had served in the Civil war.
The name of the Golden Stat
Limited has been changed to Th
California Special and this trail
now stops at the following station
going west: Mcpherson, Hutchinson
Pratt, Greensburg, Bucklin, Meade
Plains, Liberal, Guymon, Stratford
Dalhart and Tucumcari.
Miss Wallace, young lady fror
Denver, Colo, was in the city thi
week soliciting subscriptions for Th
Farm and Ranch, an agriculture pa
per published in that city. She wa
very captivating young lady an
captured number of subscription
for her paper.
The News believes in the enforce
ment of all laws, regardless of wh
is the violator. We realize that
costs money to do so, but that
what every honest man expects whe
: he pays his taxes annually. He e:
poets to be protected.
The name of S. o. Ball has bee
suggested to US as suitable cand
date for Probate Judge. Mr.. Bs
is man whose character and int
rity are above reproach and Meth
party will make any mistake in nor
mating and electing him to that il
portant Office.
Mr.. H. C. Mayse, editor of tt
Ashland Clipper and Miss Cassit
of that city were united in maria
recently at Ashland, Kansas. T
News congratulates our brother
K. his matrimonial venture. Althou
v beginning rather late in life, we no
te Providence may prolong his life
few years to make up for late sta