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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-29

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Home Department we will have
more next quarter.
There will be a ball game in
Meade ball park July goth between
Haviland and Meade.
Rough dry family washing and
fat work ironed for 5 cents per lb.
at the Laundry.
The attendance at Sunday School
was 88. Let us make it a hundred
We need you and you need the S. S.
Come and help.
Webb Lodge No. 275 A. F. & A.
NJ. Stated communication Sat. July
81. 1909. work in the Master Mason
degree.
WM. BAcHE, w. M.
Rich Boyer is another farmer
who believes in enjoying the fruits
of his labor as he goes along, and
with his family left, Monday to take
in the fair at Seattle. Mr.. Boyer
will return via California stopping
along the way to see the show places
of that state, and New Mexico, visi-
ting friends as he travels.
Miss Kate Sourbeer, a sister of
Franklin Sourbeer, will spend the
summer with relatives here Miss
Sourber resides at Philadelphia, Pa.
and is not used to our western land
but we hope she will like the coun-
try and have pleasant visit.
Jacob Heape, our old time friend
and ex-trustee of Logan township,
but now residing in north west
Clarke county was in town this
week and reports things fourishing.
Mr.. Heape is good judge of a
conditions here having farmed in
Meade county for some TWEEN ty
years.
Sam Huston has bought 24o
acre farm near Fall River in Butler
county, Kansas, and contemplates
removing to his purchase some time
in the near future. However, he is
not fully convinced that Butler is as
pleasant a place to live as Meade,
and will not dispose of his property
here till later. If his new location
does not suit him he will return to
Meade 1t is our guess that he Will
not long be absent from Meade
county.
Last week while helping the car
penters working on the Methodist
church, T. G.. Baxter met with
painful accident, and one which
may prove dangerous. He picked
up piece of dimension and was
passing it in to the workmen. when
it overb alanced and slipped from his
hands. As it went, a large silver
caught his hand on the inside just
back of the knuckle joint and pene-
trating diagonally through the hand
it came out at the middle joint of
the little finger. He came up town
and had it dressed and is now carry
ing it in a sling.
Hon. F. Nj. Paul remarked to US
in a conversation this week that he
did not know that Meade was so
pretty city and such pleasant place
TO live until he had recently been
riding over town noticing the lawns, |
trees, and shrubbery. Happening to
be in the northwest part of town the
other day we remembered his remark
and took a closer look at the resi-
dence property about there. The
trees are thrifty and in evidence on
all lawns, and elms, naples. ash,
and locust along the streets will soon
make the walks cool and at all times
of dav. We noticed that F. w. |
Curla nd Louie Boehler, had been
particularly fortunate in securing
good stand of blue grass and clover
and an excellent growth of trees.
Mr.. Curl has some Carolina poplars
that have made large growth and
are straight, well headed and SYM
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-29
Miss Olive Walk left for a. trip
to Denver last week,

MISS olive Walk left for a. trip
to Denver last week.
Prof. Won Prosky went down to
Englewood on Thursday of last week
where he organized a class in mus
ic.
Arthur Randolph called in at the:
News Office for a neighborly chat:
this week. He has finished his har-
vest.
Mrs. Judd's sister and husband A.
M. Patten with their son are visit.
ing with F. &. Judd for some weeks,
this week they are down on the;
Skunk Aroya, the guests of Jake:
Kolb and family.
Mrs. Austin Ball of Duran, N. NJ,
and Mrs. N. A. Baker of Duncan.
Ok. are visiting their father S. O.
Ball and Mrs. Elsie Griggs, up to-
Monday of this week when Mrs.
Ball returned home Mrs. Baker
will remain with her sister Mrs.
Griggs some weeks,
The remodeling of the c. K. Sour
beer house is nearing completion
and is very neat and handIly ar
ranged residence. MIR. Keller who
did the carpenter work has designed,
and erected a fine plain stairway.
finished in hard pine and oil as the:
finishing touch to the job.
Ray Millman, editor of the sprlght-
ly and newsy Liberal News made:
this Office a friendly call while in,
the city Monday on official business.
as oil Inspector of the district This,
was our first meeting with Mr.. Mill
man and we hope in the future to.
have many calls and talks with So
pleasant neighbor
The threshing is progressing welp
in some parts of the county, but east
and southeast, the rain caused the:
stacks to enter what the farmers CALI
the sweat, and there it is too wet to-
thresh. The stream of grain which,
came trickling in last week in fitfuE
and uncertain manner has become
steady stream of constantly increas
ing volume and will last to we'll into
the winter months!
NJ. O. Danks has traded a part:
of his ranch on lower Crookedi
Greek for 500 acres just south of
K. c. The land lays on both sides
of the Kansas Missouri line 23o.
acres being in Kansas and the BAL
ance IN Missouri. Mr.. banks is an
other man who came here in the:
early days, worked hayd and had
faith in the country and has made:
good. Now, wishing TO yetire from
active duty, but not willing to part
with all of his property here, he
made the trade mentioned above b.
cause as be remarked to US he couldi
reut the land there in small tracts
to adjoining farmers, while ranch
was valuable if rented, only as
and renters able to care for
so large place as his rannch was
and who would propedfy care for it
were hard TO find
The Methodist brethren are max
ing extensive repairs on their church
The north wall is being
removed and an alcoye built on
that side, to accommodate the ros..
trum which will be of a size suffi
cient to accommodate sbe- choir and
pulpit. The building will be re. eat
ed with new pews bn semicircle,
thus allowing those who sit in the
Sunday School room to- face the
minister when that room by means.
of the foldsns doors is thrown into
the main audience room. The pre-
sent alcove on the west will be re-
moved and window 8xII feet builtl
in there, with. one to, match in the;
east end. Besides making more:
seating capacity the new. arrange
ment will add much 10 the beauty
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-29

Joe James nnlSneQ months mar
vesting and came to town or Monday
both for business and pleasure.
MIR. Geo. Buck and family of
Ohio are visiting old scenes and
friends in Meade, and are the guests
of Sheriff Price.
There will be special chlldren's
service at the Methodist church next
Sunday morning. Special music
and address. Come and bring the
children.
The Meade County Normal OPEN
ed Monday July 10th with SO enroll
ed. The News will have some
thing of interest to the teachers and
and those hiring teachers in the next
issue.
The Basinger machine threshed
J. R. Graves barley crop west of
town Wednesday and report a good
crop and that their new machine
made good on its trial trip.
Allen Miller came down from his
ranch in the upper valley Monday
on business. Allen has as fine a
cultivated grove of forest trees on
his place as can be found anywhere
hereabouts.
William Totheroh brought his
solemn face into the News office
Monday. There is always smile
where Bill goes. He thinks of settl-
ing down in Meade and again open
ing shop.
Sam Currier brought in the first
load of his 1000 bushel crop of
wheat, which grades No. hard tur-
key wheat. That grade of wheat
brings S1.oo on the Meade market
this summer.
Register of Deeds, Tom Gray, is
again in the office giving the work
his personal attention. Owing TO
the scarcity of help in the harvest
fields he made@a full hand while
cutting his large crop. Tom is a
handy man and an expert either in
the field or the office.
Hon. F. NJ. Paul was in the News
office this week and informs US that
he has secured the DR.. c. B. Leslie
residence, and will move his family
to Meade soon so that they can en-:
Joy the excellent school advantages
to be had here.
We gratefully acknowledge the re-
ceipt of complimentary pass to
the Pratt county fair from the presi-
dent of the fair association, S. P.
Gebhart of The Pratt Union. The
management is making very COM
plete preparations for the fair and
widely. We hope to at
tend a part of the session.
Henry Brinckman and wife with
R. NJ. Painter and wife passed
Meade on their way to the
fair at Seattle last week. Mr.. Brink
man ard wife will take in the fair
with other points of interest in the
Mr.. and Mrs. Painter
will make a somewhat extended trip
going through Colorado or returning
that way, and will attend the Grand
Army reunion at Salt Lake. Capt
Painter has travelled over the noun
tain country considerably in the
past and lived for some years in
and will meet friends all
along the route.
Mr.. John ]. Friesen from south
east of Meade hauled into town and
sold for $500 per bushel his crop of
wheat from 10 acres. This was
and paid for by the Meade
Grain & Seed Co. at their elevator
in Meade yielded 55 bushels per
acre. The machine measure was
,o25 bushels per acre, which indi-
Gates that it was good plump wheat
clean and overweight. Mr.. Friesen
bought this land two years ago from
Fullington & Mars for So. 90 per
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-29
"A Letter from G. 6. Hull
burt
Portland, Ore. July 8, 1909.
Editor Meade News,
Meade, Kans.

Editor Meade News,
Meade, kans.
Dear Sir:
will endeavor to fulfill yonr
urgent request and send you
few items of interest incidental
to our trip, but ere close feel
sure the patrons of the News
will be fully convinced that letter
writing is far from my calling.
We left Meade on the evening
of the 10th of last month and ar
rived at Topeka at, 500 A. NJ.
next morning, and. as the special
train to Portland did not leave
till lis P. M. we had little over
8 hours for shopping and sight
seeing in the Capital of our great
state. One can hardly appre-
ciate the advancement and devel-
opment of the large cities of
Kansas until he gets on the
streetcars and rides through the
resident district and to different
points of interest, then it seems
to one who is not freq uent vlsl-
tor more of a dream than a reali-
ty.
At LIS, strange to say, as we
are still on the G. r. l. & P. The
train master called train No. 27
and we, with several other dele
gates to the Northern Baptist
Convention, boarded the train,
as we found ourselves in COM
panv with the following Rev
erend Gentleman; Young, Pastor
of the FirstBaptist Church Top
eka; Crawford, State Correspond
ing Sec. of Bap. Convention
work of Kansas; Springston, one
of the leading SIS. workers of
our Bap. denomination in Kan
sas;Shanks, Pastor First Church
Winfield; Brown, Pastor First
Church Lawrence: DR.. l. M.
Clark Dist. Missionery of <. c.;
Wells, with whom Meade people
are acquainted. He is still work
ing in the interest of our denom-
national seminary at K. c. Kan.
and many others that memory
fails to recall at present. At Nc
Farland we picked up Rev. Cass-
ody and and family, Pastor First
Church, Wichita; at Manhattan.
Rev. Atkinson and from there on
we kept gaining till our number
was nearly sixty, and a jollier
crowd never got together.
At day light the next morning
we were pounding our way along
through eastern Colorado. To
our right we saw drove of antel-
ope, and occasionally claim
shack. About nine o'clock it was
announced that Pixies Peak was
in sight, and it remained so all
day. Colorado Springs was our
first stop of interest AS we
had to lay there three hours for
our train drive was planned and
we went first to Manitou and had
a drink of the famous Soda Water
and as the ma jor part of the crowd
were pre- chers nothing stronger
was offered. From there we
went to the Garden of the Gods,
which contains some of the most
striking scenery in the Rocky
Mountains. In this valley of
wonders divers forms are repre-
sented by enormous masses of
1eQ SduuStolc. uS DSd Iii III
Gateway" is the entrance into
the garden. Other points of in
terest and suggestion are 1.-The
Three Graces" Statue of 1iber-
tv', kissing Camels" Seal and
Bear Mushroom Park" and
Battle Ship and Balanced Rock"
After returning to the city and
replenishing the inner man, our
two cars were coupled to the
Denver and Rio Grand and we
were soon merrily on our way to-
Ward Pueblo. Our next stop of
interest was Canon City. At
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-29

Gorge" from which comes the
headwaters of the Arkansas. The
scenery of this great gorge is be-
yond description. The walls on
both sides at Inspiration Point
are twenty seven hundred feet
high and are buta very little wild
er at the top than at the bottom
and at some places the bottom
is not wide enough for both river
and r. r. track. and the track is
laid on a swinging bridge. We
arrived at Tennessee Pass just
at dark. We were informed
here that we were about 1000 ft.
nearer heaven than we had ever
been before, the elevation being
10000 feet above the sea level.
From this pass can be seen the
Mountain of the Holy Cross. "
The cross is formed of two tram
sverse canons of great depth in
which lies eternal snow. This
is the Divide of the Rocky Noun
tains and we were now ready to
make descent on western slope
and as night had overtaken us
we are unable to give any descri-
ton of this descent or any other
points of interest of this great
mountain range which is certain
ly properly named. We crossed
the line between Colorado and
Utah about five O'Clock Wednes-
doy morning and this is surely a
desert land and we are in sight
of the Wasatch Range.
The foothills are void of any
Vegetation and as one of our COM
pany expressed it, "They look
like great herd of elephants. :"
At noon we arrived at Helper
at the foot of the mountains af-
ter which we soon passed thro'
the magnificent "Castle Gate"
which derives it's name from the
huge rock formations that have
the appearance of great castles.
We now enter the beautiful ir-
rigated valley of the Salt Lake
region. At Springvale we were
held three hours because of a
freight wreck ahead. This is
a lovely little city of some 5000,
guarded on the sonth and east
by snow capped mountains of the
Wasatch range. AS the finest
of fruit is plentiful in this region
Strawberries were delivered to
us at the cars, fresh from the
vines at ten cents per quart.
This was our first and last last
purchase of cheap products of
the western slope.
We were to arrive at Salt Lake
City at SIS p. m. and have the
remainder of the afternoon for
sight seeing; but on account of
the delay at Springvale we miss
ed this treat.
At Ogden our cars were trans
ferred to the Oregon Short Line
and we rode all day Thursday
thro' southern Idaho, the ma ior
part of which is covered with
large sage brush and lava bould-
erS.
In certain localities we found
the land being cleared of this
sage brush and brought under
cultivation. This two-davs ride
would strengthen the faith of
Western Kansas Farmers.
At Shoshone we entered the ir-
rigated district of the Snake
River Valley. Here the govern
ment is putting in extensive irri-
CATION works, but as yet the
country is not developed much
but further on we passed thro'
highly developed district where
fruit, small grains and alfalfa
are grown in abundance. This
is also a great cattle and sheep
country; That night we passed
thro' Eastern Oregon of which
we can tell little as we were
nc Loon oa,.~nfy,11v- 1,-a, &c
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-29

There are now 48 members in the
Home Department we will have
more next quarter.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-25
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Right Rev. William George McClos-
key. bishop of Louisville. KY, and the
Oldest living prelate in the United
States, died, aged eighty-five years.
The $4,000 ton battleship to be built
by the New York ShipbuildiDg COM
pany will be known as the Arkansas.
and that by William Cramps Sons &
Company as the Wyoming. The con-
tracts for these ships were let several
days ago
Attempting the part of peacemaker
between w. o. Terry and John Shan
non at Tyrone, N. M, Grant county
mining camp, Thomas Burch received
two bullets and died soon after. Terry,
who fired the fatal shots, is in Jail at
Silver City.
Walter l.. Fisher of Chicago, presi-
dent of the Conservation League of
America, announced completion of
the formation of the National Conser-
walton Association with former Presi-
dent Charles w. Eliot of Harvard as
president.
Eugene Pearson, former chief clerk
in the depot quartermaster's office of
the United States army in San Fran
cisco. was sentenced to one year and
one day in the San Quentin prison,
for embezzling S1,140 from the govern
ment. A motion for a new trial was
denied.
The T. H. Bunch company, a large
grain concern, at Little Rock, Ark,
has filed petition in bankruptcy. 1t
is reported that local banking institu-
tions are involved to the extent of
100000. The annual business of the
concern, it is said, has ranged between
S4,000,0O0 and s7.000.000.
The Standard Oil Company has a
deal pending which is recognized by
financial interests as the beginning of
movement to gain control Of the en-
tire country's production of natural
gas. This deal. which will go through
within short time, will give to the
Standard Oil Company entire owner
ship Of the Reserve Gas Company,
which controls the gas output of West
Virginia.
Plans and specifications practically
have been finished and the contracts
will be let in few days for new
office building for the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
at Topeka. The new building will lie
erected Immediately south of the pre-
sent office building. 1t will cost about
100000. The structure will be six
stories high and 75x152 feet in dimen-
sions. 1t it TO be fireproof, construct
ed of steel and concrete. 1t will ac-
commodate 600 clerks. The Root &
Siomens firm OF Kansas City designed
the building.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-25
GENERAL NEWS.

The first process of making soda on
an extensive scale was discovered by
Nicholas Leblanc, French chemist,
in 1871.
Ohio produced 2e,27o,639 short tons
of coal last year, a decrease from the
previous years output of about 1927
per cent.
In some Of the public schools of
Connecticut course of agriculture
has been introduced in some Of the
higher grades.
During the last year the population
of Germany increased by $4,000 per-
sons, to 63,SS6,000, according to off
cial statistics.
SKINNED milk has been proved a
valuable food for laying hens, accord
ing to experiments of the Virginia ex-
pertinent station.
Tigers (American braed) are said
to have eaten up two naturalist ex-
plorers in Costa Rica. If the polar
bear were anthropophagous like the
Central American tiger. civilization
but why pursue the subject?
Another great millionaire has fol-
lowed Russell Sage's example in trust
ing his widow with his whole fortune.
In each case the decedent knew his
residuary legatee well enough to be
sure of making no mistake-which is
a real advantage.
In tearing down the old house built
by William Whipple, a pioneer lumber
man who died twenty years ago, Con-
tractor William Jackson at Bay City,
Mich. found musty pillow slip which
aroused his curiosity because 1t was
so heavy. Ripping open the slip with
his jack-knife, he found $4,000 in gold
coin mingled with the feathers. The
money was turned over to Frederick
Whipple, son, who is preparing to
erect a new house on the site.
1t is well known that the long arc
tic winter, with its depressing effects
on body and mind, often upsets the
best balanced nervous system, even of
the natives. But this hysteria vanishes
with the summer. Explorers have
suffered in the same way, and two
committed suicide. In summer Eski-
mos get so full blooded that nose
bleeding is very common.
Minister WI says he expects to see
war abolished. In his country the tax
payers evidently have no song with a
line equivalent to THE army and navy
forever"
The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-25
The Root of AItruism.

The three eternal roots of altruistic
energy are these: First, the principle
of Justice; that there is a moral law
before which all men are equal, so
that 1 ought to help my neighbor to
his rights. Second, the principle of
charity that l owe infinite tenderness
to any shape or kind of man, however
unworthy or useless to the state.
Third, the principle of free will; that
| can really decide to help my neigh
Dor, and am truly disgraced if I do not
do so. To this may be added the
idea of definite judgment; that is,
that the action will at some time ter
ribly matter to the helper and the
helped.-G. X. Chesterton.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-25
FALL PAINTING.

The majority of property owners
are under the impression that spring
time is the only painting time. But
the fall of the year offers several ad-
vantages to the painter. One of the
most important is that surfaces are
almost sure to be dry, and there is no
frost or inner moisture to work out
after the paint is applied.
Pure white lead-the Dutch Boy
Painter kind-mixed with pure lin
seed oil (tinted as desired) gives a
winter coat to building that is an
armor against the severest attacks of
the winter rain, sleet, winds and snow.
National Lead Company, 1902 Trim
ity Bldg, New York city, makers of
pure white lead, Dutch Boy Painter
trademark, are offering to those in
terested a complete painters outfit,
consisting of blow pipe and lead
tester, book of color schemes, etc.
State whether you want exterior or
interior decorating
The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-25
From Overhead,

A canary hung directly over the big
square table in the Hungarian res
taurant
"Once," said woman who was din
ing there, "the bottom dropped out
of the cage, the bird flew at the or
chestra yonder, and we had bird seed
IN our soup. 1t was awful"
THAT reminds me-" said the cross
eyed man, ''of one time when we were
having little game of poker on the
B. & o. You know how those trains
roll. Well. just about the middle of
the game down came all the grips and
dress suit cases straight into the
kitty and broke up the game. Money
flew everywhere. We got so mixed
we couldn't tell which had won or
where the money was that whoever
had won 1t won. Talk about bird
seed!"
The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-25
A New One About Napoleon.

A new" story about Napoleon is
necessarily doubtful; the probability
is that it is simply so old that it has
been forgotten. However, here is one
that Arthur M. Chuquet prints in
L'Opinion as never before published.
1t relatesto Napoleon and Blucher.
The emperor received the general
at the castle of Finkenstein, while he
was preparing for the siege of Danzig.
He drew him to a window in an upper
story and paid him compliments on
his military gifts, and Blucher, going
away delighted, described the inter
view to his aide-de-camp. What a
chance you missed" exclaimed the
latter.
You might have changed the whole
course of history"
"How?"
why, you might have thrown him
out of the window"
"Confound it," replied Blucher. $50
might! If only l had thought of it. y
New York Evening Post.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-25

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