Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-07
First White Child Born in
Meade County.

record evidence whichwill IN part
at least settle it we publish from
The Pear1ette Call the three
items following. The first one
is a picture of frontier life to
which in its truth, and simplicity
of heroic endurance, and pathos
the pen of ingalls, could add moth
ing. 1t appears in the Call of
April Is, 1879, and is the first
issue of that paper:
About one o'clock on the morn
ing of Monday, April 9TH, Dunk
Arter sent Billy Bunshuh, his
nearest neighbor, in great haste
after Mrs. Robt. Lawson.
Billy arrived at Lawson's safe
1y, and a moment after he started
back accompanied by Mrs. l..
They had before them a walk of
half a mile, due west.
An hour later they had not
arrived at there journeys end,
and Dunk began to get uneasy;
so be built an out-fire, and start
ed in search. Not being able to
find them, Dunk started after
Mrs. Billy Heinz, who lives about
a mile south.
About four o'clock Mrs. Law
son and her escort, after wander
ing all over the township, brought
up at the Call office, about two
miles south of Arter's. Here
they were joined by Mrs. Ben
nett, and taking new bearings
made a new start.
All this time Mrs. Arter was
alone, if we except her little child
ren, who were all sleeping.
It was we'll after four O'Clock
when Dunk; [who had also been
lost) arrived with Mrs. Heinz.
And there sat Mrs. Arter holding
in her arms Master VIM. Bennett
Arter, a lad nearly three hours
old. Mr.. Bunshuh and party ar
rived shortly after Dunk.
We are glad to announce that
both mother and child are doing
well, and we beg leave to COM
mend them to the kindly re-
mem brances of all who can SYM
pathize with sucha heroic mother.
Leave what gifts you can with
the committee mentioned else
where. In the meantime, at once
in fact, will not some kind friends
mail the mother little tea, and
the youngster some flannels!
Any little thing you may send
will be worthily bestowed.
The next one appears in the
Call of August /, 1879. The ref
erence to the Heinz family we
are una bic to find in the previous
issues, but from settlers of that
time we learn that that family
had a son born just north of the
county line, who was the first
white child born in the valley
It was bitten by a rattle snake
some years aft .r at Dodge City
and died. This item follows:
Lieut.. Brown, (''Hoodoo," the
boys call him) is the joyful par
ent of 1.-TWO boys, both twins
Mrs. Brown and the youngsters
are doing finely, and Hoodoo is
well Hoodoo is as we'll as any
one could expect under the cir
stances, and his friends hope he
will pull through. But his ex-
plosion at any moment would not
be unexpected to some of US.
There is also brand new baby,
of the female persuasion, at
the S d nc of Douglass
Ayres, and Doug is about four
inches taller than he was pre-
viouS to the little event.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Heinz
but we spoke of their fortune in
another item.
The third one we publish be-
cause the family is yet living in
the county and sit is boy" is
now one of our best young men.
Our friend EliaSon. front name
Andy, is now about the proudest
and happiest man in Meade coun-
ty or IN any other county. His
face is continually wreathed with
smiles, and he has not been
known to speak but four words
during the last two weeks. He
speaks these in sprightly, hap
py, fatherly way, and as near as
we could catch them they were,
sit is boy"
| ]. III. Rhodes was up from his
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