Meade County news., 1915-11-11
CITY MAY BUY WATER PLANT
Merchants Association Of Lawrence
Negotiating with Owners-Tired
Of the Poor Service.

Action of the stockholders of the
Lawrence Water Company, in consent
ing to accept $175,000 for the water
plant in Lawrence, paves the way for
municipal ownership of the water sys-
TEN. For several years the corpora
tion owning the plant has given un-
an election was held in an attempt to
take the plant over and put 1t under
municipal control, but the plan did not
carry.
The Merchants Association has
been negotiating with the company, q
New York concern, to buy the plant.
1t is believed the Lawrence citizens
will vote to buy the plant at the price
set by the stockholders rather than
submit to the present inefficient wat
er supply. The water problem is I'M
portant in Lawrence, because Of the
fact that the state university is To-
Gated there, with the health Of twenty
eight hundred students depending on
pure water. Practically every we'll in
Lawrence has been declared unsafe
because of sewage contamination. The
alternative is drinking city water,
which is so hardened with chemical
treatment in filtration that 1t is harm
full to digestion.
Kansas Boy Dying In War.-Charles
Martin, 81 years old, of Ottawa, Is
dying in an English hospital as re-
suit of wounds received while fight.
ing with the British expeditionary
force at the Dardanelles, according to
letter received by his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Martin of Ottawa.
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A Postofflce Robbed.-Burglars rob-
bed the postofflce at Council Grove the
other night of 1895 in stamps, but were
frightened away before they had time
to get to the money drawer.
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Big Price for Land.-A deal was
closed recently whereby Dick Weeks
becomes owner of the Charles Carman
farm of 100 acres, three miles west Of
Phillipsburg, for which he paid $11,-
900 in cash. Weeks sold his farm in
the south part Of the county for
100000
GIeed's Portrait at X. U.-A por-
trait of Charles s. Gleed Of Topeka
bo, haaY, raoaiyad a 4 tho ITnfUarpitu Of
Kansas and will be hung in the chan
cellor's office Mr.. Gleed formerly was
secretary Of the board of regents for
the university, being on the board
from 1890 to 1897.
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Bible in Salina Schools.-The Salina
board of education recently approved
the course Of the Bible study to be in
troduced in the city schools by w. s.
Heusner, superintendent. The in
structors are to be examined and
passed upon by a committee Of FIVE
appointed by school board and minis
terial union.
100000 for EmporIa coIIege.-The
first report Of the committee appoint
ed by the Presbyterian synod Of Kan
sas to solicit quarter million dollar
endowment for the college Of EN-
porla, reported recently that $100,117
had been pledged. The committee
has until December Is for the cam
paign.
judge Gillette Dead.-P B. Gillette,
fudge Of the Twenty-fourth Judicial
District is dead at Wichita hospital
following an operation for stomach
trouble. Judge Gillette had been a
resident of Kingman County thirty
years and Judge of this district, con-
sisting of Kingman, Harper, Barber
and Pratt counties, seventeen years.
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Wichita Music Teacher Injured
Miss Zelma Fisher, music instructor
at Wichita, may die of injuries re-
ceived recently when she was struck
by a Missouri Pacific engine. With
several others she was returning from
Sharon, where they had given a mu
sical program.
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Judge G. II. Buchanan Dies.-Judge
George H. Buckman, one of the best
known lawyers in southern Kansas,
died at his home in Winfield recently
He is survived by his wife and one
daughter