Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-13
EXHIBITS OF ART
FREE TO KANSAS
State Owns Large Collection
of Valuable Prints.
ALL CITIZENS SHOULD SEE IT
The Pictures Are Available to Any
Club or Like Organization in
the State-Handled Like
Travelling Library.

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cling art exhibits Of any state. Every
person in the small towns of the state
may have chance to see this ex-
hibit IL they want it. The collection
numbers about 400 prints of the great
paintings of Italy, Belgium, Holland.
Germany, France, England and Amer
lea. Some of the paintings were made
by Alinari in Rome and Braun &
Clement in Paris and many are the
Copely prints. Each print is 22x2S
inches. The pictures are valued at
about $1,000.
Many of the American pictures were
given by the artists who made them to
the Kansas collection. The prints
cannot be obtained from any other
source. Blashfeld went to the home
of the owner OF his Music" panel and
asked permission to make the print
for Kansas. Alexander Harrison and
Dwight w. Tryon made special re-
quests of the owners of two of their
pictures to allow the paintings to be
Photographed for the Kansas collec-
ton and Mrs. Montgomery Sears Of
Boston, the owner of George Fuller's
winfield Dysart," had special print
made of the picture and sent it to
Kansas.
The collection is the work Of Mrs.
Kate A. Arlington of. Council Grove.
The collection was available to any
club or organization in the state. 1t
is handled through the Kansas Travel
ing Library. A small charge is made
to pay the expense of packing and
shipping the exhibit Printed lectures
on each painting are provided, and II
the clubs desire, an artist-lecturer may
also be obtained. The gallery belongs
to the state and the state wants every
one of its citizens to see the collec-
ton.
Topeka.-The Kansas pure food law
finally is to be tested In the courts.
It was enacted in 1907, and while there
have been many threats of taking the
law into the supreme court by food
manufacturers and dealers, none had
the nerve to do 1t. Several thousand
dollars have been collected in fines
for adulterated foods or dirty store.
rooms while the law has been in ef-
feet. But s. A. WEIGH, a poolroom
keeper at Wichita, sold some cider
that Is said to have contained more
alcohol than pure cider should con-
totu orI u,oo alec Y,,iahropdod Wa1nh
was arrested and his case is now
pending In the district court at Wich-
tia. Dr. S. ]. Crumbine. secretary Of
the state board of health and chief
food and drug inspector, was notified
that Welch's attorneys would ask that
the case be dismissed on the ground
that the law under which the prosecu-
tion was brought was unconstitutional
and worked an undue hardship on the
interests of private citizens. The ap-
plication for dismissal will make it
possible to test out every feature of
the law, and it will be brought to the
supreme court as soon as the lower
court hands down its decision.
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s. s. Graybill, sanitary live stock
commissioner, has arranged that a test
case of the state law providing for the
payment of county indemnities for an
imals. killed by order of his depart
ment on account of Infectious dis
eases, may be tried in Cloud county.
Henderson Martin, chairman of the
Kansas public utilities commission,
went to washington for a conference
with members of other state utilities
commissions regarding the physical
valuation plans of the interstate COM
MERGE commission. The state COM
missions want the interstate COM
merce commission to give the states
representation in each OF the physical
valuation districts. Some of the
states have already made valuations
of their own and have asked the inter
state commerce commission to adopt
them. Another proposition to be dis
cusseoi ia the proposed per lent in
crease in freight rates between New
York and Chicago. It is estimated
this increase would mean a million
dollars a year additional freight
charges to Kansas shippers alone
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Wheat conditions are still ideal.
The recent rains are responsible for
early and abundant growth and many
fields are now being pastured. Other
fields will be used for this purpose
as soon as the ground dries out suf-
ficiently. The growing conditions
have been excellent since the seed
was placed in the ground.
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The motorcycle is TO enter politics
In Shawnee county. Heretofore, the
office seeker has gone campaigning in
an auto, buggy or some years ago
on horseback. Now the pop-pop ma
chine is to have try-out in the cam
paign for the primar yelection
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The report of George B. Ross, state
grain inspector, filed with Gov. George
H. Hodges, for the quarter ending
October /, 1913, shows receipts in fees