Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-06-13

Nansan WINS IN Beauty snow. -
Roy S. Thompson. of Topeka, was
voted the handsomest man of the
senior class of Yale university by
his classmates in the annual beauty
contest.
More conviets ParoIed. Gov,
ernor Frantz issued paroles to these
Oklahoma prisoners in the Kansas
penitentiary: George st. Clair,
Woodward county, convicted Novem-
Der, 1906. grand larceny, two years;
Bert Burns, sentenced from Kay
county, five years for burglary sec
ond degree; Sabin Tucker, Woods
county, sentenced two years for for
gerry.
Old Settler Shoots Sef.-John Nc
knight, an old soldier, of Clay Cen
ter, shot himself just above the
heart with revolver The act was
due to dependency caused by i'll
ness. He is an old soldier of the
southern side and about 65 years old
He was once marshal of Clay Center
and known by everybody in the
county. The doctors say he can live
only short time.
Sanitation For Teachers. = School
teachers will be taught the new pure
food, drug and sanitation laws
Every county in Kansas will have a
normal institute this summer. The
board of health has prepared a small
pamphlet which summarizes the
salient features of the new laws, and
these pamphlets will be the text
book for the teachers. Especially
Will an effort be made to instruct
teachers how to cope with the SAM
tary problems in schools Through
the drinking water, the ventilation,
the heating and good many other
avenues, disease is carried into
school rooms. More than that, the
teacher should know what to do in a
community in which an epidemic of
contagious disease has started. 2
CampbelI's Official Staff. - R. A.
Campbell, commander, department of
Kansas, G. A. R., makes the follow
ing announcements of appointments
for his official staff: Assistant adju-
tant general, ]. NJ. Miller, post No. /,
Topeka; assistant quartermaster-
general, H. X. Devendorf, post No. l.,
Topeka; judge advocate, o. L. Moore,
post No. 60, Abilene; department in
spector, Joseph A. Walters, post No.
81, Great Bend; chief mastering
officer, A. M. Crary, post No. 424,
Harrington; patriotic instructor. Will
liam Leonard, post No. rs, Wichita;
assistant patriotic instructor, ]. NJ.
Burt, post No. 81, Parsons; chief of
staff, A. M. Fuller, Topeka; chief of
recruiting aides, Daniel E. Reid,
Hutchinson; chief of aides-de-camp,
]. H. Rickle, Chanute; chief bugler,
G. H. Hoyt, Lawrence.
Must Accept c. o. D. Whisky. -
Judge Pollock has granted a manda-
tory Injunction compelling the Wells
Fargo and Pacific Express Com
panies to accept and deliver in Kan
sas c. o. D. liquor shipments. Judge
Pollock holds that prohibition or To-
cal option laws cannot affect inter
state shipments, and that since I'M
der the constitution an express COM
pany cannot be stopped from max
Ing deliveries in a prohibition state,
it cannot refuse to accept such c. o.
ID. Shinmn re in NJ
Shoenheit, general attorney for the
distilling company, urged that that
discrimination could not be made
against liquor or any other class of
merchandise. Judge Pollock's tenn
porary order is to hold until June Is,
when he will give the matter a hear
ing.
Coolest in Forty Years. - The
weather report for May, 1907, pre-
pared by DR.. F. H. Snow, of the Uni
versity of Kansas, from observa-
tons taken at Lawrence, says the
past month was the coolest May in
forty years record. There were five
white frosts during the month, the
last being on the 9th, the latest
| spring frost on record. The rain.
fall was nearly the normal amount
The wind was below the average We
locity, and the cloudiness very much
above normal. The mean tempera,
| ture was 59.05 degrees. which is 5.95
| degrees below the May average. The
highest temperature was S7.5 de-
grees, on the. 18th; the lowest was
90 h. fol
| was 4.06 inches, which is SO inch be
| low the May average. The entire
rainfall for the five months of 1907
now completed has been 1865
inches, which is SO inch above the
average for the same months in the
thirty-nine preceding years and
double the amount for the same
| period in 1906. Rain in measurable
quantities on seven days. There
were three thunderstorms during the
month. The month was 5.97 per cent
cloudier than usual.
Topeka Tipping Increased?- The
probate courts record of liquor sales
in Shawnee county for May indicate
that 1892 purchases of liquor were
made and signed for at forty-five To
peka drug stores. This SURPRISES
the record-breaking number of last
month by 10,931 sales.
| Boy Killed by Cars. = Harry Viii
liams, the eleven-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Williams, of Wichita
was run over in the Santa Fe yards
by switch train, losing an arm ant
one leg. He died in the Wichita Hos
pital two hours later
| Her Cbanned Oninion