Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
WHEAT HARVEST ON.
Employment Agencies Busy
Now Sending Men to the
Kansas Fields.
HANDS WITH TEAMS IN DEMAND
Women Cooks are Also Badly Needed
by Farmers Wives to Help
Feed Workers.

The 1916 wheat harvest has begun
in thirteen Kansas counties. The
public employment bureau at Kansas
City has sent two parties to central
Kansas, tho second leaving for Macks-
vile, about fifty in number. The first
party, containing 100 men, has ar
rived at Larned.
Wheat cutting has begun in these
counties: Pawnee, Seward, Conan
che, Stafford, Barber, Ellsworth, Har-
per, Lincoln, Mcpherson, Osborn,
Pratt, Rush and Sumner. This re-
port comes officially from the Kansas
agricultural department at Topeka. In
a few other counties there may be
some cutting, but the harvest will not
be general until later in the week.
G. L. Green of the government en-
yployment service says there is not
iceable dearth of hands at the open
ing Of the season, but this shortage
may be taken care of as soon as the
men needing work become acquainted
with the official bulletins. Hereto
fore men depended upon "hearsay evil
dence" in. timing their departure for
the harvest fields. Now they are will
ing to take the word of the employ
ment bureaus and go when the grain
is ripe. They lose no time nor money
in that way.
Men with teams are especially in
demand now" said Mr.. Green. "Also
woman cooks are badly needed by
wheat belt housewives to cook for
throngs that help with harvest.
Enlistment In the army at this
time has very.little influence over the
shortage Of hands right now, in my
estimation" he said. "The chief eff
feet of the Mexican trouble on har-
vest will come from the calling of the
Kansas national guard, many of the
members of which are customarily in
the harvest fields at this. time of year.
This number is not large. and should
have no considerable effect"
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Girls Offer to Join.-Among the re-
cruits obtained by men who are or
ganizing a company of militia at
Pittsburg for the new Kansas regi-
ment are four girls who offered their
services as nurses. The recruiting
officer will ask the adjutant general
for instructions as to enlisting them.
1t is stated that a new company re-
cruited to full war strength will be
ready in Pittsburg soon.
Wyandotte Has Added 2001.-The
population of Wyandotte county has
increased 2,0O1 over last year. The
reports Of the county assessor show
Kansas City, Kan, in 1915, had 1920;
in 1916, 92,290; Rosedale in 1915 had
1922, and this year it is 1928; Bonner
Springs in 1915 had 1872, this year
1920. The total county population
this year is 1880 and last year was
111,129.
Rock Pile For Hoboes- Caldwell has
solved the l. w. w. and transient har-
vest hand problem after year hen
the waiting harvesters overran the
town and the citizenry was compelled
to arm and send two hundred of them
out Of town on freight train. The
mayor keeps special officer in the
railroad yards and all "floaters" are
shunted on unless they care to break
rock for their meals. The city has a
rock pile, and box of broken stones
Is the price Of meal.
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Fathehr and Son .Enlist.-The
neighbors will have to harvest Albert
Ferguson's wheat as a result Of the
mobilization Of the X. N. G. Fergu-
son and his two sons were at work in
their wheat field near Minneapolis
when they heard of the mobilization.
order. The three Immediately stopped
work and walked to Minneapolis,
where they enlisted.
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LeavenWorth Merchant Dead = MI.
chael H. Barlow, wholesale cigar
merchant, died at Leavenworth after
a long illness. He was 81 years old
and was reared there. He got his
start in business selling papers and
eighteen years ago became agent here
for The Kansas City Star. Later he
opened a cigar stand in the National
Hotel in connection with his news
venture.
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Women Jurors Soon Agree = Will
sons first women's jury spent just five
minutes in convicting travelling rep
resentative of brewery who was TAX
ing orders for beer in the village. The
Jurors are all married, but deny the
charge that their husbands had or
dered wet goods from the salesman.
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Mrs. BuIIene Dead-Mrs. Susan
Read Bullene, widow of the late La
throp Bullene, pioneer Kansas mer-
chant and one Of the founders of the
Emery, Bird Thayer Dry Goods COM
pany in Kansas City is dead at Elm
Park place, the family home in Law
renee. She was SO years old.
4
Pioneer Woman Dead.-Mrs. Cece-
Ala d. Towne is dead at her home in
lawrence. Her late husband, Hiram