Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-10-11

Watermelons are yet a regularly
delivered commodity on our market.
S. D. Adams is improving slowly
and will soon be able to assume his
business.
Thomas Scates of Dodge City
was a business visitor in Meade the
first of the week.
B. Buis, Grand Herald, of the
1. o. o. Grand Lodge, went to
Hutchinson last Monday.
District court convenes Oct 23rd.
There are about SO cases on the
docket, mostly all civil cases.
The Odd Fellows and Masonic
hall is being Plastered, and will soon
be ready for occupancy.
Mrs. Joe James left last Friday
night for Jerseyville, ILL.,, where she
will visit for several weeks with
relatives.
Did you notice that the Meade
county grown potato very much
out ranks the Colorado tuber in
quality?
The political affairs of Meade
county does not seem very lively.
Still it is little early. 1t will warm
up later.
James Wilson is making substantial
improvments on his residence on
east Carthage Ave. P. J. Lee has
the contract.
Mrs. L. E. Wood left the last of
last week to visit for several weeks
with her sons, Buford and Charles,
at Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Tom Hotz accompanied her
mother, Mrs. Young, home to
Vinita, 1. T., last week where she
will visit for some time.
DIR. VIM. Fee went to Minneola
last Monday evening on No. 80 to
attend four typhoid fever patients
which he has at that place.
Mrs. .Winnine Edison and little
daughter, of Liberal, Kans., is visit
ing her father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Marshall, south of
town.
o. R. Stevens and wife, Mrs.
John Braden, and Mrs. S. P. Bunch
left the first of the week to attend
the Rebekah Assembly which meets
in Hutchison this week.
We wish our patrons would phone
US the news. If you have friends
coming to visit you, tell US about 1t.
We are very busy and many items
escape our attention. Help us out.
Jno. D. Wehrle went to Huthin-
son Monday to attend the l. o. O..
F. Grand Lodge which meets in
Hutchinson this week. He is repre-
sentative from the Meade Lodge
No. 523.
This is hard year on politicians
in Meade County, for a thirty-two
horse power steam plow wont stop if
a man stands in front of it cant see
and the farmer is SO busy that he
wont see.
The farmers are so busy putting
in wheat that they won't stop to talk
politics, however they assure candi-
dates that they will stop sufficient
length of time on election day to
vote exactly as they please.
The democrats of Meade Center
township nominated the following
ticket last Saturday: Trustee, F. c,
Judd; Clerk, F. 1. Bennett; Treasur.
er. Tohn w. Russell; Justices, Rey.
J. w. Stamper, c. A. Mars.
The wet weather following harvest
delayed threshing so much thai
many farmers have either not threshec
or have only partly completed the
work, and seeding time coming OF
what grain is yet in stack will have
to wait as all the engines and now
busy blowing and drilling in wheat
Don't get excited-those columns
of smoke moving in different direc
tions are not battle ships or ever
cruisers. They only show where al
over-worked farmer is blowing, drill
ing and narrowing forty acres ever,
day in an effort to have his crop al
in before the merry Chistmas bell
ring out.
The bitches running south into tn
draw should be kept clean and il
some places should be dug out s.
that the water could be carried off
In the present condition the waite
stands until evaporation does wha
the bitches should do. Let the town
ship and city authorities look afte
these matters.
Sheriff Givler returned Tuesda