Meade County news., 1916-06-08
HAIL HURTS WHEAT
The Loss in Barton and Rush
Counties May Amount to
100000.
MANY HOUSES WERE DAMAGED
Hundreds of Art Glass Church Win.
dows Destroyed-Hail Insurance
Men Were Hard Hit.

NIoHdtSdo VI FNih Stdoo W.
dows Destroyed-HaiI Insurance
Men Were Hard Hit.
The hailstorm which visited Barton
and Rush counties the other night did
damage estimated at more than $500,
900 in Barton county, and probably
was worse in Rush county. A mes,
sage from La Crosse states that the
central part of the county was badly
hailed out and at Bison there is a
big loss practically to every wheat
grower.
In Barton county there seemed to
be two storms at about the same time.
Each covered a territory about four
miles wide and about twenty miles
long. Not all the wheat in the path
Of the storm was hit, but large part
of it was. In Great Bend few houses
escaped damage. Two thousand dol
lars worth of art windows in two OF
the churches were broken. The dam
age at the Great Bend greenhouse
was very heavy, practically all of
the glass being broken.
The most of the wheat taken was
Insured against hail. The hail insur-
ance men have had the busiest day
they have ever known.
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Want Merle Thorpe-Prof. Merle
Thorpe, head of the department of
journalism at the University of Kan
sas, has returned from Washington,
ID. c., where he received an offer of
the position of editor of the Nations
Business, the official publication of
the Chamber of Commerce Of the Unit
ed States. Professor Thorpe said he
would confer with Chancellor Frank
Strong and the Kansas board Of ad-
ministration regarding years leave
of absence. Professor Thorpe came
to the University of Kansas from
Washington university in 1911.
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Last ReveilIe Called Hlm-A uni
form of Union blue lies on the bed
at the home in Hutchinson Of Joseph
Crouch, Company E, Elghty-third ILL
nois, veterans of the Civil war. He
placed it there ready to march with
his comrade of Joe Hooker post, but
reveille sounded for Comrade Crouch.
Shortly before the parade he was
found in his bedroom dead, clasping
one corner Of his uniform.
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! Judgment for $1,000 to Widow.
A jury in the district court at EN-.
poria awarded Mrs. owen Thomas
$1,000 damages against the Santa Fe
railway recently. Mrs. Thomas sued
for $50,090 under federal statute for
the death of her husband, who was a
Santa Fe conductor.
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Florence Boy Drowned-Alpha Jack
son, 11-year-old son of Albert Jack
son, was drowned five miles south of
Florence recently while swimming in
Spring creek.
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War Medal After So Years.-George
l.. Banks of Independence, has just
received from the War Department a
''medal of honor certificate" issued I'M
der the provisions of recently adopt
ed measure. 1t followed the presen-
tation to him Of medal of honor and
signalizes valiant service at the battle
of Missionary Ridge, Tenn, Novem-
ber 25, 1868, when as color bearer for
the Fifteenth Indiana infantry, he
planted the first Union flag on the en-
emy's parapet, although twice severe
ly wounded.
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Two Dead in Motor smash-Miss
Alma Nichols, 1S years old, and Mel
vim Johnson, 8 years old, we're killed
recently when a motor car driven by
Perry Johnson, wealthy farmer near
Glasco, ran off a culvert and turned
over.
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Wellington Has New Library.-The
public library board of Wellington has
accepted the new Carnegie library
building. The structure is of gray
tapestry brick, with trimmings of
Bedford and Carthage limestone and
red Spanish tile Beside the main H.
brary room, the building contains a
large room for public meetings and
entertainments and smaller commit
tee rooms and cffice rooms. Andrew
Carnegie donated $4,000 toward its
construction.
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Hlawatha Families SmalI.-This
year the deputy assessor found 8S9
families and only 1888 people. in Hia-
watha. This makes an average of but
3.S persons to family. It was found
that 225 families are made up of only
two people each, and that eighty-five
heads of families are living alone.
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An Atchison Grocer Dead.-Warren
Carey of Atchison, 70 years old, a
grocer, father of w. D. Carey, a dele.
gate to the Republican national con.
vention, died from a bullet wound
that he apparently had inflicted him
self. He had been in poor health