Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-01-13
singer DIES
Leading HOrtiCuIturist of East
ern Kansas Passes Away
al Rosedale Home.
WIS A VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR
Starting in as Private He Came Out
a Major-once Prohibition Can
didate for Governor.

Major Frank IIolsinger, 70 years old,
a pioneer Kansan and one of the fore
most horticulturists of the Missouri
valley, is dead at his home in Rose
dale
An ardent aboltionist before and
during the war, he was a soldier who
fought his way through the various
promotions from a nrivate's -il1"' 10 =
majors shoulder straps. He was a
prohibitionist active la ,IIe n..,,On.,. o.
ganiZatiOn and he was horticulturist
who was looked upon as an authority
by fruit growers of the Middle West.
He was born April 3, 1886, in Hed
ford county, Pa. When young man
he taught school in the country dis
tricts near Woodbury., Pa, but at 10
be got the fever of the West in his
veins and migrated to Kansas He vas
living at Washington Creek when Fort
Saunders, a prO-slayery outpost, Nas
captured by Jim Lane during the days
of border warfare. Then Mr.. Holsing-
u ltlulhtu w wanna anu
joined the Pennsylvania reserves. Lat
er he was made captain of the Nine
teenth Maryland negro infantry. With
them he fought at Antietam. The VIII
derness, Fredericksburg and Bermuda
Hundred At the last named bate
his right arm was permanently dis
abled by shrapnel. He was subse
quently brevetted major. After the
war Major Holsinger, as an officer in
the regular army, was stationed for
two years on the Mexican border OBJ
serving the rebellion that was to drive
Macmillan from his throne.
In 1867 he was married to Miss
Mary Frances Long of Hagerstown,
Md, and two years later returned to
Kansas. Major Holsinger was a char
ter member and former president of
the Missouri Valley Horticultural So
ciety, former president of the Com
mercial State bank of Rosedale, past
commander of the military order of
the Loyal Legion. He was candidate
for congress, for governor OF hansls
and for the Kansas senate at different
times on the Prohibition ticket.
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Wettest Year in Kansas-The
weather record at Lawrence shows
51.62 inches of rainfall Gncluding
melted snow) in 1915, which is the
greatest in the forty-seven years rec
nrU and "a innbag ,,,oro tI,n, M,
NAL. .. ...
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Mrs. Florence cowley Dead.-Mrs.
Florence j. Cowley &c years old, one
of the early settlers of Cherokee
county, is dead at Columbus. Mrs
Cowley was well known because of
her activities in club and church
work
Emporia Votes Water Works Bonds |
Bonds were voted at a special cleo
tiOn in Emporia to the amount of $780, |
000 for the improvement of the water
works system. The election was close
and the majority for the bonds was
only A., according to the unofficial
count.
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Killed Two Rabbits, One Shot
G. w. Miller, editor of the Pratt Re-
publican, defies anyone in Kansas to
shoot two running rabbits with one
shot, as he has done Recently he
and two friends were out hunting
when two rabbits jumped up and ran
toward each other The editor saw
only one, but he got both.
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Kansas Firm Sharing Profits-The .
Humboldt Brick Manufacturing Com.
pany, one of the largest plants in the
gas belt, has inaugurated profit shar.
ing plan, dividing a sum among its
employees equal to per cent of their
years wages. The presentation was
made at banquet given the employees. |
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Charity Cost Him ,3oo.-Whne |
William Mock, 6S years old, farmer
residing near COrbn, small town
thirty-five miles south of Wichita,
was looking into young mans eye to
see if il was bloodshot, he was robbed
of a wallet containing cash and ne
gotiable securities worth $4,000.
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The Kansas Auctoneers Meet
The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Auctioneers' Association was
held in Leavenworth recently. Col,
onels" from all parts of the state
were there for the two-day session.
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Gasoline Explosion FataI-NIiss An.
ma Miller 10 years old, of Russell, is
dead in Wilson as the result of burns
received in an explosion of gasoline
the other day. .......
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New Augusta Gusher,-The first
real oil gusher in the Augusta field
was brought in the other night OH the
Ed Warner farm 1t flows twelve hun
dred barrels a day The drill is in
fifty feet of rich sand, which was
struck at 1885 feet B1ud HG
I' H.
Pittsburg Banker Dies.-William L.
Miller, rs years old, one of the richest