Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
IS BEST CITY FOR CHILDREN
Winfield Captures $1,000 Prize in Con-
test Among the Second Class
Towns of State.

Winfield is the best town in Kansas
in which to rear children. Independ-
ence takes second place and McPher-
son is third. The judges in the model
town contest have made the report of
their findings to Prof. w. A. McKeever
at the University of Kansas.
First the judges asked Professor
McKeever If they could not divide the
first prize money between Winfield
and Independence and give McPher-
son the second place, each city being
so nearly equal in everything that
goes to make a model town for chill
dren that the judges found it hard to
pick between the three. But the di-
vision of the money could not be made.
Winfield will receive $1,000, given
by Governor and Mrs. W. r. Stubs.
independence will receive the $500
given by Charles F. Horner of Kansas
City. The money is to be devoted by
the two cities to making their towns
even better places for the children to
live in.
There were fifteen towns contesting
for the honor of being the model town.
The contest was limited to cities of
the second class and was based upon
these six propositions:
Opportunities for play and athletics.
School work and industrial training.
Social and recreation activities.
Physical and moral safeguards.
Activities of child fostering organ
iZations.
Attendance in Sunday schools.
The contesting towns we're:
Winfield, independence, Chanute,
Yates Center, Ottawa, Olathe, Newton,
Sterling, Garden City, Great Bend Nc
Pherson, Hays, Manhattan, Sabetha
and Hiawatha.
Leahy on Wichita Beacon.-Dave
Leahy, for many years a newspaper
man in Wichita, but until recently con-
nected with The Eldorau Republican
as an editorial writer, has joined the
editorial staff of the Wichita Beacon,
Henry ]. Aliens paper Mr.. Leahy
will be an editorial assistant.
Struck Gas in School WelI.-A good
flow of gas was struck at a depth of
three hundred and sixty-five feet in
well sunk by the school board of Dis
trict No. As in Chase county, known as
the Altemus School.
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Boy Drowned In FIood.-Edward
Bushnell, 1G years old, went riding
in skiff on the swollen drainage
canal at Wichita. He did not return
and early the next day his skiff and
oars were found mile from where he
lived. His body was found later BY
the police.
Veteran Trainman Killed.-Lee S, |
Weller, for twenty-six years a Missouri
Pacific trainman, fell between freight
cars in train at Durand the other
morning and was killed. His wife re-
sides in Wichita.
Atchison Veteran Dles.-George s
Gleitsch, aged 70, is dead at his home
in Atchison. He was a veteran of the
Civil war, serving throughout the war
in the First Ohio infantry. He had
lived in Kansas twenty-seven years.
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Hospital Patients In Panlc.-Light.
ming struck Mount Carmel hospital
one mile rom Pittsburg recently. A
hole was made in the roof, but no
flames appeared and the property dam.
age is slight. Fifty patients in the in.
stitution were thrown into a panic.
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Hotel Proprletress Burns to Death.
Mrs. T. ottinger, proprietress of
hotel at Granville, eight miles east
Of Topeka, was burned to death recent.
ly. She was trying to start a fire in
gasoline stove when the can ex,