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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-11-18
Worlds Sunday School Association.

The SIKH session OF the Worlds
Sunday Scnool Association viii &c
nel3 in Washington. D. c, May
18th 70 oath, 1870. The eyes.
thought and interests Of al Sunday
school workers throughout the world
are at present turned on this great
.convenuO-. This convention. repre-
sents a Ia ger constituency than any
other convention on the globe. and
there will be delegates from al parts
u the world.
The general officers OF this Asso-
ciauon ar Rev. B. F. Never. B. A.
President. London; there are four
active vioe-presidents aud fourteen
honorary vice-presi -ents. OF the
,cuve vice-prssidents one is from
MADEIRA Islands. one from London
one from Caaada and the otaer
from India. Mr.. W. NJ. Hartshorn
u Boston ali Rev. Carey Bonner.
* London. the general secretary o.
ne London Sunday school Union
re the Joint secretaries. Mr. Il. A.
dcCn'iis. Of Rhode Island. IS the
reasurer In. recording secretary
IF the convention is Mr. Marion
lawrence. the general secretary OF
the International Sunday school As
/ iociaaon of America and Dr. Geo
I " Bailey. OF Philadelphia. is th,
.hairman Of the executive cor
nittee.
Inc probabilities are that no
luring the life time OF but few o.
hose now prominent In Sunds,
school work IN the UniJed State
yill another session Of the World
/ sunday School Association be hell
n the United States. and for thi
/ -eason the number OF delegates al
1,ted 10 each state win be who'll
insufficient 70 supply the deman
/ to- credentials.
Due aouce Will be published in
5ew days relative TO the number q
delegates allowed from Virginia
/ The credentials for TIE Virginia dc
-gsaon viii be issued by Mr.. c. y
3aines. the general secretary OF IN
/ State Sunday School Association
4 Newport News. Virginia. and tho.
/ PERSONS who would Ike 20 atten
his great convention as a delegaI
rom the state and wishing advance
Information. should comnunica'
With the g-leral secretary OF Il
State Sunday School Association e.
Information relative 10 the numb.
II delegates allowed. credentials an
me like.
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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
Our New Press.

This issue of the News is the
first newspaper ever printed IN
Meade county on modern pow
er press. The directors of the
News Publishing Co., believe in
Meade, in Meade county, and the
business men and farmersof the
county and having the courage
of their faith, they have evidenced
it, by buying and placing in op-
GRAFTON the best equipped print
ing plant this side of Hutchin-
son, The new press is a Bah
cock Reliance, is modern in every
respect, and is driven by gaso-
line engine running at a speed
which makes it possible to get
1900 impressions per hour.
From this issue we will give our
subscribers a six page paper,
full of live news items, letters
from various parts of the world
comments on the news and events
of the week, and live business
notices.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
Notice
notices

The Meade school opens on
September 9th
At a meeting Of the school
board of school district No, ? it
was decided by the board that
all children whose parents re-
side out side of the district
and who desire to attend the
Meade schools shall be required
to pay S1.00 per month for tuit-
ion, payable monthly in advance
to Prof. Clark on the first school
day of each month. The board
will require d strict compliance
with the rules of the-state- board
of health in regard to the use of
drinking cups. That IS, each
pupil shall be provided with his
own upand shall use that and no
other for drinking purposes.
Published by request Of the
school board.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
Screen all food.

Keep all receptacles for gar
bage carefully covered and the
cans cleaned or sprinkled with
oil or lime.
Keep all stable manure in vault
or pit, screened or sprinkled with
lime, oil or other cheap prepar-
alton.
Cover food after meal; burn
or bury all table refuse.
Screen all food exposed for sale.
Screen all windows and doors,
especially the kitchen and dining
room.
Don't forget, if you see flies,
their breeding place is in nearby
filth. 1t may be behind the door,
under the table or in the cuspi-
dor.
IF there is no dirt and filth
there will be no flies.
If there is a nuisance in the
neighborhood write at once to
the Health Department.
TO KILL FLIES
The London Lancet, the
leading medical journal of the
world, says that the best and
simplest fly-kil1er is d weak So
luton of forma1dehyde in water
two teaspoonfuls to the pint9.
Place in plates or saucers
throughout the house. Ten
cents worth of formaldehyde will
last an ordinary family all sum-
Emet. It has no offensive smell,
is fatal to disease organisms, and
/ is practically nonpoisonous ex-
cept to insects.
Pyrethrum powder, which may
DC DouSIll at any di uS store,
burned IN the house will also Kill
the flies.
sWe hear mention Of d thrifty
pear orchard in this county
which we have not had the pleas
u1-e of inspecting. Tom Raphe
I=has 100 three year old pear trees
growing thrifty and nice on his
farm. It is said that the culti-
vation * thorough and frequent.
Our experience is that pear will
live through as much of hardship
and neglect as any fruittree tried
here, and with care will produce
large crops of the finest fruit.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
md the sand does not blow.

The land in the valley sells at
prices ranging from $4,000 to
S500.00 an acre. The principal
crops are fruit and alfalfa. For
the latter, think the ground is
well adapted and l would raise
that were I farmer. The
ground is sandy and in some
cases hard to get level enough to
prevent washing but the soil is
good and the work will not be in
vain.
They claim for the last twenty
five years they have had only
three failures. They have hap
pened in the last six years, and
they point to a failure throughout
the United States. There is
some truth in this. But the
springs are cold and very late
and unless you have hardy fruit
it will be killed. This year it is
mostly a failure. The peach
crop will be nearly a complete
failure. The small fruit was
fairly good. Gooseberries and
cherries selling in the orchards
for 25 and 80 cents a gallon.
Raspberries and blackberries
are selling at 90 cents d gallon.
Plumbs and pears will be very
good. Some apples are good
while others, and they are in the
majority, are poor. or no good.
Hay has risen from $500 a ton to
$1,000 in the last year and is still
frising Oats a year agowere IL
cents pound now they sell for
81E. Wheat is high everywhere
but we pay $500 a bushel for
chicken feed. And people are
plowing up alfalfa and planting
ont peach orchards. This
think will prove a failure. But
TT present there arc nal,s. peaple
coming here for homes. There
are three or four large irrigation
bitches opening up and few farm
ling, with no railroad to speak OF
as yet. l think in a few years
this country will come toits own
bitches will supply plenty OF
water and the railroads will aid
in distributing the products.
Living is high everywhere
think. The finance committees
at Washington don't seem to be
changing matters. But viii
not give such men as BriStoU
their just praise nor will I sol
this paper by expressing my
opinion of some of the other mer
at Washington. We are paying
90 cents dozen for lemons ant
they gave the men little more
protection. We need protec ting
Eggs are now 80 cents dozer
but mind now, don't say any
thing about that. l am a capital
ist. We have twenty-three hens
and sell seventy-five cents worth
of eggs every week. l may write
more sometime but at present
must stop and go to our own gar
den and get some potatoes.
GEORGE T. NEEDLES,
Pres. Mission.
Liberty \. NJ.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
Pres. Mission.
Liberty n. NJ.
Prof. Townsend, of the Fow-

Prof. Townsend, of the Fow-
Ter Academy, is in Meade this
week, one of the examining
board at the normal. Prof.
Townsend is a practical and well
equipped instructor, and under
his management the Fowler
Friends Academy has rapidly
taken rank as a first class school
The 1903 catalogue Of the Acad-
envy is on our table, and IS a neat
concise, and perfect exponent of
the lines Of study and plans Of
work for the coming year.
Marion Nett and wife are back
from the land of oranges. lemons
and flowers to sunny Kansas. and
Meade county, the prosperous
where wheat, alfalfa and all the
good things of this life are found
in abundance. They are enjoy
ing themselves with their child
ren and renewing old friend
ships.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
A Letter From Rev. Needles.
Liberty N. M. Aug.l 20, 1909,

[ shall tell you as near as l can
what / think of San Juan county
N. M. which is the extreme
northwest corner of the state.
The particular part of the coun-
ty that | know about is the San
Juan valley. Around the county
seat, Pennington, and extending
nearly westward for twenty-five
miles to Jewett or Liberty n. M.
If you were here you would find
a rocky hill about 900 feet high
extending north and south for
many miles. The river in the
past ages has plowed it's way
through the hogback as we call
it. This hogback is the eastern
boundary line of the Navajo res
ervation north of the river.
The reservation south of the
river extends east as far as Far
mington. We live about twenty
five miles west of Pennington
and little north. About a half
mile north of San Juan river and
about one hundred yards of the
hogback. So that we do not live
on the reservation as some sup
pose.
In my drives to and from Far
mington l see the crops, and in
my letters I shall try to give you
my impressions after six months
of soujourning The elevation.1s
a little over five thousand feet.
nearly mile higher than sea
level. In the west, north and
south we can see the mountains.
One would expect cool weather
and / think if it were not for the
extensive desert .nearus it would
be cool. But when ] tellyou that
we have not had enough rain to
lay the dust fo1s twenty four
hours since we came, you viii un=
derstand how we'll favored is
Kansas. The last month has
been very hot, 1 have not kept
any record but hot enough. If one
cannot remain in the shade or in
a breeze it is worse than Kansas.
If you can get both shade and
breeze it is cooler than Kansas.
| have been in the fields and
around the barn and do not Suf-
fer from heat. Some days in
the house when / can get no
: draft suffer considerably. The
nights are usually cool in the
open. Our house is we'll venti-
lated but we have moved out and
taken refuge in the hammock.
So / think that the nights are no
cooler than at Meade, the sum-
mer, however, is very short, the
winter being mild and the spring
long, cool and windy. | have not
spent fall or winter here but
they report delightful autumns
and mild winters but sometimes
disagreeable because of the
winds. But speaking of winds, l
never saw anything, read or
heard of anything that can de
scribe the sand storms that we
have here in the spring. l have
seen some dust and wind in Kan
sas and it is bad enough, but we
have a few days here that can
beat Kansas one hundred per
N cent. The wind IS worse at our
place than any other in the val
lev. The west winds must blow
mp. the river and then they get a
long valley or gorge from which
the bogback and hills near which
acts as a fue. You wonder how
we can drive ont at such times.
We don't drive out or walk about
anymore than we can help. My
team has been here on the place
for five years and / could not get
them to. face a sandstorm. l
have been out in few but turn
them loose and they run to shell
ter, you will have to VISIT US to
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26

improved In health that she IS
able to sit w in her chair a
part of the day. S.
Love Graham came down from
Mertilla Tuesday and reports
crops up there some what spot
ed in conformity with the rain
distribution. He also says that
our old friend, his father has re-
covered from anattack of typhoid
fever.
Sam Huston has inst returned
from pleasure trip to Kansas
City. Nemaha, and Jackson
counties Kansas. He felt so
good on his return that he is now
repairing, remodeling, and
painting his residence. Sam
will move to his farm in Green
wood county Kansas this fall
and wishes to leave his property
here in good shape.
J, J. Stalder left Monday on
No. ? for Topeka, to arrange
with a manufacturing company
there to place his alfalfa culti-
vator on the market. Mr.. Stald-
er invented this excellent ma
chine two or three years ago and
has been experimenting with and
improving it since. Having now
perfected it, he will soon have it
on sale 1t has been seen in
operation by several of the best
farmers in the county and they
are anxiously waiting the, time
when 9ne maybe procured.
Parents should remember the
provision made by the school
board requiring each pupil to
have drinking cup. To be pre-
pared for that call, H. G. Mar
shall & Co, have stock of
Alnninum colapsible drinking
tcups at the low price OF 10 cents
leach They also carry for the
fuse OF travellers a fine nicllle
cellap4able cup at so cents each.
We have for some time when
travelling used cup Of this kind
and know that they are service
able, neat and handy.
Jake Kolb is building new
residence on his ranch at the
head Of Skunk Aroya. Il is to be
a large two story structure of
cement block material, finished
in good style with modern con-
veniences. Jake is another one
of our OLD timers who came
here bare handed, took a home
stead and stuck to it. From
time to time as opportunity OF
fered, be added d quarter now
and again. till he has good
sized ranch we'll stocked with
good cattle and horses. 1t is
another case of the triumph of
industry energy and good man
agement. Meade county is
always generous to those who
have faith, and perseverance.
Jake's friends, and be has "a host
of them, rejoice with him in his
success.
Howard Norman came in Fri
day from his alfalfa and mule
ranch in the upper valley, and
from him we learned that he
has tested and fonnd amply
sufficient, the pumps install
led to supply his large II
rigation reservoir With water.
Having h ad considerable
knowledge of irrigation in Cali
fornia and other parts Of the
arid west, he has applied that
knowledge to local conditions
here 50 successfully, that he IS
just finishing the most complete
irrigation plant in the county.
Water upder pressure is difficult
to regulate in flow, hence he will
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
Beware of the Dangerous
HOuSe-F1y.

ICI Initiating Ol Tie uOuSC Hy
which is endorsed by the board
of health of New York.
Flies are the most dangerous
insects we have. They are much
more dangerous than bees or hor-
nets; these may sting you, and
the sting is painful, but you soon
get over the pain. Flies do much
more harm than this. They
walk over filthy places like sew
ers and garbage cans, and after
eating the filthy food which they
find there, they come into your
house and walk on the food you
eat, carrying on their feet the
tiny germs which live in filth Just
as you live in a house. These
germs are not only filthy and
disgusting, but many of them
cause such diseases as typhoid
fever, cholera infantum and sum-
mer complaint. When the flies
bring them from some dirty
place to your food or leave some
of them when they crawl on your
face or hands, you may swallow
there germs without knowing it
and be taken III with one of these
diseases. So the fly that seems
so harmless may do you much
more harm than a bee or a
hornet.
Your parents should place
screens at their doors and win
dows during the warm weather,
to keep the flies out of the house.
If they, cannot screen all the
rooms, they should screen those
in which food IS kept; and if any
one is sick in the house flies
s}agald he kept from the sick
room, 50 that they may not carry
germs from the sick person to
the rest Of the family.
Children may help to keep flies
from swarming in and around
houses, and from carrying germs
of sickness from one person to
another. In the first place, they
should not buy candy, fruit or
other food which is left in front
of stores or anywhere else where
flies may feed and walk on it.
Flies lay their eggs chiefly in
stable manure, and if this is left
without screens or other covers
to keep the flies away, great 6num-
bers will be hatched in every
stable. If you know of
stores where food is not covered
from flies, or of stables that have
swarmS of them around, getyo
father or mother to write to the
Board of Health about them. and
the Board will make the store
keepers or Stablemen obey its
rules. But before YOU report
other people for being car less
and dirty and SO making it pos
Sible for flies to become a nuiS-
ance, be sure that your own
house IS clean, and that no gar
bage-cans or boxes are left un-
covered to attract flies.
If you and all the people YOU
know willfollow this advice, there
will not be nearly 50 many flies
to plague YOU in hot weather, and
there will not be nearly 50 much
sickness and death, especially
among children, as now.
RULES FOR DEALING WITH THE Fly
NUISANCE
Keep the flies away from the
sick, especially those i'll with con-
tagious diseases. XIII every fly
that starts into the sick room.
His body is covered with disease
germs.
Do not allow decaying material
I of any sort Is accumulate on or
near your premises.
All refuse which tends in any
way to fermentation, such as
bedding, straw. paper waste and
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
Married

On Wednesday August 18th
1909 at St Borromeo' Catholic
Church, St. Charles Mo. Mr.
Frank c. Wehrle and Miss Mae
Potter.
Frank is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Wehrle. He grew
up here among Us and got his
schooling at the Meade schools.
Later when it came time to take
up his life work he went to ST
Louis and took work as machin-
ist. For some time be has been
the superintendent of the ma
cbinery department of a jewelry
manufacturing concern. 1t
always does us good to be able to
give to the world the successful
work of Meade boy. For
Frank we wish a long, happy
and successful married life.
Judge Randolph, since the be-
ginning of his official life as Pro
bate Judge has issued 123 mar
riage licenses.
Sts+e,I-~or,7 ~, .,,7i5.atior7 If NVabb.
Lodge No, Us a. T. & a. NJ
Saturday night August 2S. All
members requested to be pres
ent. Work in the first.
WM BAcKE, W NJ
Stanton, Of the Fowler. Gaz-
cite, came to the city this week
in the interest Of the proposed
Advertising scheme for the coun-
~. Stanton IS very busy but he
always has time TO spend in the
interest Of pushing his town and
county.
H.H. Freizen, from Jensen
Nebraska, arrived-with his fam
ily and farm tools, stock and
household goods on Friday. Mr..
/ Freizen locates on farm in the
Mennonite colony, near a rela-
tive, Mr.. C. Freizen.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-26
Normal Notes

Institute closed August 10th.
Messrs Kelley and Baugher left
on No. T.. Thursday. Quite a
party of the young people ac-
companied them as far as Fow-
Ter postponing their goodbye )"
as long as possible. Just before
reaching Fowler they all joined
in singing, good bye Kelley
goodbye Kelley, goodbye Kel-
lev were going to leave you now.
Then, goodbye Baugher, good
bye Baugher. goodbye Baugher
we're gong TO leave You now.
Then the handshakes and
good-bye's and the Young peo-
pie returned to Meade on No. I,
Messrs Kelley and Baugher viii
rot soon be forgotten in Meade
During the Institute % enrolled.
40 applicants took the eNanina-
ton. The board Of examiners
will finish grading papers this
week and next week viii publish
the names of those securing GER
u6cates. MATTE J. HAIGH,
Superintendent.
We met, on the. street one day
this week, farmer T. p Boyle
who had come in from his alfalfa
farm just northeast Of town for
some needed supplies Ed en-
tered the land which is now his
farm before this city was plated.
has been there attentive to busl-
ness, ever since, with the result
that he now has about all that one
needs, except a wife and child
ren.
Burl Graham, OF Mertilla has
spent several days IN the city
under treatment OF Dr. Simpson
Evening star., 1909-04-11
THE TIME OF SINGING.
BIZ REV. DIR. FREDERICK D. POWER,
Pastor Vermont Avenue Christian Church.

stretch forth their tendrils, shadows Of
foliage thfcken and weave rarer figures
on pavement and roadway, birds ny back.
streams freshen and sing. skies soften.
the landscape Is alive. the unbound earth
rejoices. Everywhere all creation Is bear
ing and awakening under the stupendous
miracle which divine Yower works every
year in the resurrection Of spring from
the icy grave Of winter. We should not
be slow to grasp the teachings of time.
The first lesson of spring is joyfulness.
The time of the singing has come"
Where singing Is there is Joy. gladness.
out in very slee. Christianity Is not an
unnatural system. gloomy system.
Devils may say so. but thousand eyes
that sparkle with hope. a thousand hearts
that beat happily declare it false. To the
Christian earth and ocean and stars.
birds and blossoms all teach God, the
Gospel, the goodness Of the Creator. Man
should rejoice with a rejoicing universe
The Time of the Singing Is time OF
praise. alteration. gratitude. So the earth
teaches us, and so the Great Teacher sent
from God.
Another INSTRUMENTATION Earth IL
full of 1t. The unfolding OF spring Oiled
poet and philosopher with vague revela-
tions as they watched the analogies OF
nature. If Gcd can so care fer the plants
and insects, why not man? The insect on
the grass blade becomes the living air
blossom: the coarse tuber blooms forth
in the beautiful flower: the lifeless egg
becomes the eagle soaring above its
broken prison and riveting It's eye on
the sun. Is not mans destiny az
noble, beautiful. sublime? Shall not
man S feshlY body go again to the dust
and his spirit assume a more glorious
body? Is not nieht the death of the day
and morning its resurrection? Winter the
death of the year and spring its resur-
rection? "As in Adam all die, so in Christ
shall all be made alive
thu fAarhHl
Is work-prer aration for the future When
the time Of the singing comes all nature
is busy. sprouting. blossonaing, CROWNS.
getting ready fer some future time The
farmer is busy preparing the soil end SOW
ing the seed with an eye to the future. So
the seed time Of life comes which comes
but once, and once lost cannot be re gained.
The day. the hour, the moment Is now.
o that men would let the earth teach
them. A wider vision comes. q sweet
holier hope, as we look not at the things
that are seen. but at the things that are
unseen.