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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
Lost In Fog

Clay Shane, who lives with his
parents on their farm, sixteen
miles southeast of Meade, left
home last Thursday morning be-
tween nine and ten O'Clock to
look after traps which he had set
not far from the house. There
was heavy fog that morning,
and when he did not return with
in a reasonable length of time
the family became alarmed and
started in search. Failing to To-
cate him they notified neighbors
and searching parties were at
once formed. The remainder Of
that day, all night, and until
almost noon the next day was
spent in an effort to get trace of
him before he was finally found
near Rice Bros. ranch, thirteen
miles west OF Ashland, He had
not slept and had nothing to eat
for two days. When overtaken
he was headed toward some
rough country, used only for
pasture, and had he gone much
further, it is doubtful if he would
have been found before death,
due to hunger and exposure,
oulo ] lhaye ensued,
When he left home his dog, a
Shepherd, followed and was with
him when found.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
Ordinance No. 1873

An ordinance prohibiting the
erection and maintenance of
Hitch racks and Hitching posts
on certain Streets IN the City of
Meade, Kansas, providing for
the removal OF hitch racks and
posts now on said Streets and
providing penalties for the viola
ton of the same.
Be it Ordained by the Mayor
and Council of the City of Meade,
Kansas.
SEC. l. That is shall be un-
lawful for any person to erect or
maintain any hitch rack or posts
for bitching purposes along the
North side of Block 13, Block "a"
and Block -; on the South side
of Block 7, Block 8 and Block 9;
on the East side of Block 7 and
13; on the East side of Block s
and Block "a; on the West side
of Block s and Block "A";and on
the West side of Block 9 and IL,
all in the Original Survey, Meade,
Kansas.
SEC. II. That all hitch racks
and hitching posts now erected
in the Streets adjacent to and
abuttlng on the above specified
Blocks shall be removed within
Thirty days from the Publication
of this Ordinance by the Parties
so erecting or maintaining the
same, and if not so removed the
Street Commissioner of the City
of Meade, is hereby empowered
to remove the same.
SEC. III. Any person or Per-
sons violating the provisions of
this Ordinance, shall upon con-
viction be fined in any sum not
less than $1,000 nor more than
SIS 90.
SEC. W This Ordinance
shall take effect and be in force
from and after its Publication in
The Meade County News.
Passed and approved this 14th
day of February, 1916.
Seal. S. D. ADAMS,
Attest. Mayor.
E. E. INNS, City Clerk.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
Small Pox

Bucklin. Feb. l6.-The small
poX quarantine at Bucklin is to
last another week, at least, as a
result of an order issued by the
county board Of health. There
have been seventeen cases OF
small pox at Rucklin IN the last
thirty days, some Of them mild
and some serious. One physician
there says the disease is not
small poX, itls understood, and
considerable difficulty about en-
forcing the quarantine has been
the result.
The board issued the order
that there shall be no school, no
church sessions nor public meet.
lngs of any klnd up to and includ-
ing February 20. BY this meas
ure the officials hope to stop the
disease without further spread.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
Drilling For Oil

Senator o. d, Young, of Kan
sas City, Missouri, was at the
Union depot this morning en-
route to Ashland, whence he will
depart north to his 21,OOO-acre
ranch on Bluff creek not far from
kingsdown.
1t is not generally known that
there is any drilling for oil as far
west as Clark county, but Sena-
tor Young and Dave Fritzlen, an
ad Joining ranchman, are drilling
a hole that IS already down 1900
feet with good prospects for
striking something.
The country is rough IN that
neighborhood and Mr.. Hatch, d
well-known Missouri geologist
is confident that oil exists IN that
section. Already they have
reached the we'll known sand IN
which oil is generally found.
While Senator Young is very
hopeful of results he is very care
ful about not letting his hopes
run too far. He told the Beacon
this morning that, so far, they
had found nothing but they had
good prospects and splendid as
surance from the geologist,
whom he has known for MANY
years as very relia bic scientist.
Wichita Beacon.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
Odd Fellows

The Meade Initiatory Degree
team went to Fowler Thursday
and put on that degree to good
class of candidates, after which
a nice lunch was served and all
reporteda royal good time.
On Monday the First Degree
team of Fowler came down and
put on the First Degree and they
certainly knew how to do the
work. We would be pleased to
see this team 60 TO Grand Lodge
and give the work there. If they
did we are confident that they
would carry off the first prize.
After lodge closed a big feed
was IN waiting and all present
done justice to the affair and all
reiolced that they were present.
May more such meetings. occur.
One Who Was There.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
The Byers Case

Dodge City Kansas, Feb. IL
The first direct news of the
rumored developments in the
Nellie Byers murder case reach
ed Dodge City to day in a letter
received by Dodge City girl
from a friend in New Ulysses.
The letter says farm hand,
Orwell Slemp, has been arrested
by the Grant county officials and
as a result a new arrest in the
case is expected soon.
1t was Slemp, seventeen-year
old boy who furnished the alIbi
on which Clint Henson, arrested
following the murder last Octob-
er, after Miss Byers had been
assaulted and choked to death on
the way from her school to her
boarding house, was released.
Slemp swore he was with Hen
sen, an ex-convict at the Liniger
farm. all afternoon of the day
the school teacher was killed.
Recently Slemp went TO work
on the ranch OF one of the county
officers and inadvertently let fall
a clue that led to the renewal of
the investigation of the crime.
1t is understood that Slemp,
Clint Henson, and the latter's
wife we're taken to Moscow by
the officers who we're inVcsti-
eating the clue.
Rumors that others are impli.
Gated and that only a part of the
story OF the life of Nellie Byers
has been told, arc rampant IN
New Ulysses. according to w. O
Blackburn, travelling salesman,
who was in that town on his trip
through the western part of the
state. mot one half the case
has been disclosed" Black burn
told friends. IF certain Grant
county people get on the stand
and tell what they know the en-
tire west half Of Kansas will he
surprised. Many developments
NAV be expected shortly"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

{. II. Burford, stockhO.der
in the Baldwin Manufacturing
Co. went TO Nickerson the first
of the week to attend business
meeting of the stockholders at
which time the closing OF the
sale OF stock in the company and
also the selling of the patent
right to Canada came before the
meeting. Mr.. Bnrford will leave
on or before March first for
Sparta, Michigan, where the fac
tory Is located and will remain
there until the harvest season
opens when be will travel as an
expert mechanic. Mrs. Burford
and the children viii remain in
Meade for the present.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
Revival Meetings

The revival meetings beng
held by Geo. f. Lyon and wife
of Topeka, at the ball over the
post Office are growing in inter.
est. There were 80 people came
down from Fowler to attend the
meeting one night this week and
the local attendance has been
good. The exact date of closing
has not been announced. Every
body is invited to attend the SER
vices.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

Mr. K. r. Wormau who farm Meade, is to be
congratulated upon purchase of Mogul t
from the weknown implement dealer Mr.. j. T. Helm.
Nh ranks of the farmers who SUBJ
sttutng cheap power for the much
horse power on the farm.
expects his Mogul Sl6 for all the heavy
DONG keeping horses only for the
corn planting cultvatlng and other light jobs
economy the has other advantages
It can work the and it
moves itself from on job another.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

About the middle OF this after
noon the fire alarm was sounded
and the report was that there
was fire at the electric light
plant. When the hose cart ar
rived IN the scene, the fire PROV
en- 10 be in weed patch on the
south side of the light plant and
a northwest wind was tanning
the flames toward the residences
in the northwest part Of the city.
Prompt work by the neighbors
and the fire company prevented
any damage.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

A. 7. Bodle, F. M. Davis, and
II. NJ. Painter went to Mlnneola
Monday to meet Judge L. M.
Day, who was on his way to Ash
land to hold the regular Febru-
AIRY term of court. The local at
torneys were there to argue "a
motion at cham bers.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

90 complaint Of G.. l.. CARING
Rouse, ID, II Sloss was arrested
charged with three counts:
drunkenness, disturbing the
peace. and assault. The case
came before Judge Sourbeer
this morning and the defendant
was fined $1,000 and costs. An
eppeal to thc District Court was
.akcr.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
A Musical Treat


Meade next Monday night, Feb
ruary 21st at $3.50 at the school
auditorium under the auspices
of Miss Carolyn D. White and
the Meade High school. No ad-
mission will be charged.
Harry Lyon Brenner, of St.
Louis. Lecturer and educator of
national fame and Rafael Navas,
the famous Spanish pianist, of
Wichita, also nationally known
will reveal to the people of Meade
the great educational advantages
of the Gowdowsky's Progressive
series of piano lessons with ster-
eoptican pictures.
Miss Carolyn D. White was
accepted as an authorized teacher
of the Gowdowsky Progressive
Conservatory course published
by the Art Publication Society
of St. Louis. This is a marked
honor to Miss White and great
innovation to Meade, as it makes
it possible for music students to
get a thorough conservatory
training at home.
The Art Publication Society
of St. Louis was formed for the
purpose of standardizing music
teaching and making it possible
for high school students to re-
ceive credit on music study the
same as on any other ma jor SUBJ
ject taught in high school. A
student can begin their music
study in Meade and in case they
change residence before complet-
ing school will be allowed credit
on work done in any other school
conservatory or college in the
United States using this system.
There are over three thousand
colleges, schools, Conservatives,
and leading teachers that have
adopted the system for base Of
piano instruction.
The editors of the Art Society
are the recognized musical au-
thorlties of the world.
Leopold Gowdowsky, editor in
chief, now in America, was ap-
pointed by the Emperor OF AUS
tria the Royal Professor Of Mas
ter school of Piano Playing OF
Vienna and with a life encum-
bency. Mr.. Gowdowsky's price
per lesson is SIS an hour. Emil
Sauer, also of Vienna, Josef
Hoffman, music editor of The
Ladies Home Journal, Edgar
Stillman Kelley, Americas great
est composer, DR.. W. S. B. Math
a,,,S md Emar.on Wh,tbnrpo
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

Mrs. S. M. Hunt has returned
from Winfield where she receive
ed medical treatment. She is
greatly improved.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

A number of the Meade teach.
ers left to-day on No. 2 for Hutch
inson where they willattend the
Teachers Association TO be held
there on Friday and Saturday of
this week.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

DR.. <. ]. McMeel left the first
of the week for Chicago, where
,he has position as house sur.
geon in the Illinois Central hos
pital.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

Frank Wehrle returned last
Saturday from a three weeks
stay in Excelsior Springs Mis-
souri, considerably improved in
health.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

Mrs. J. l, Slamper returned
last week from Wichita. where
she had been for medical treat
ment. She is considerably i'm
proved.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

Jersey" Stamper died last
week, Grandfather Stamper,
leading his pet cow has long been
a familiar scene in our city. The
cow was over twenty-one years
old.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

Charles DesMarias, of Grundy
Center, Iowa, arrived IN Meade
Saturday to visit his brothers,
E. p. and A. S. DesMarias.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

Rev. S. M. Hunt is quite sick
at his home in this city.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17
Births

To Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Smith
February 10th, boy.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-02-17

Don'tfail to see Backs specials
now on display at the NJ. & M.
Drug Store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

where you started; but that don't matter.
You're perfectly nice young gent now.
You keep yourself tubbed and tailored
and manicured like pet Pomeranian.
You've practised pink-tea manners until
they come almost natural, and you do the
society patter so it can hardly be detected
from the real thing. While Miss Paige
well, she's apt to be a bit crude, amt
she?"
"Oh, see here" he breaks in. II didn't
mean that she was not"
"Sure, l know" says l. you're par
tial to her, though. And that's what's
apt to get you in wrong. But lemme
point out that she wouldn't do for you at
all. Your talents run to usherin at we'd
din's, and bein' nice to the patronesses at
subscription dances, and gettin' yourself
asked around. Nancy would want YOU
to play golf and tennis with her, and she'd
smear you at either. Besides, there's
mother. By the way, Kirby, how do you
and Mrs. Dyckman-Paige hit it OFF,"
He sort of shivers.
Rather badly, l fear," says he. aShe
she is always asking me if l have a
stiff neck. Once she insisted on rubbing
it with some MISUNDERSTANDING oil.
haven't been there since. Their home is
such weird, old-fashioned place, too"
"Oh, well, says l, "what do you ex-
pect?"
He bit at that.
"But she is not really poor, is she?7
$50 that's why you tackled me, eh?" l
demands.
Il thought you would know says
he; "and, naturally, l was"
IL see, says l. I'll tell you this much:
the old girl is wearin' the same hat she
landed in nearly two years ago.
Kirby signs deep. N~a
IL thought as much, says he "Sor-
ry if I've bothered you, and-and thanks
awfully."
I GRINNED as l let him out the side
= door, and when goes back to Sadie I'm
lookin' cheerful and satisfied.
Wasn't it something about Nancy?n
she asks.
at was, says 1, "but put crimp
in it.
"You didn't discourage him, did your"
says she.
didn't l, thought" says I. "Why, that
poor prune went away with his NANCY
little romance shot as full of holes as a
Swiss cheese He won't hang around
Nancy any more, I'm bettin'."
So it was more or less of jolt, the very
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

Shorty says she, "some one wants to
see YOU"
"Eh? Me?" says I, rubin my eyes.
"A young man-some one you know. !"
"All right" says l. Bring him in.
"But he wants to talk to you pri-
vately," says Sadie Then, in a whisper,
dts Kirby Brooks. He's in the study. :"
"Huh!" says 1. "What the blazes-
say says Sadie. am dying to know.
MAYBE I'd been more cordial if it had
- been earlier in the evenin'. As it is,
I'm smotherin' a yawn as strolls in where
j. Kirby is pacin' the floor restless.
"McCabe," says he, II trust you will
pardon me for imposing on your good ma
ture in this manner, but"
"Who's been pinched for WHAT" says
|. "If it's matter of bail bond, let's have
the details"
ooh, it's nothing of the sort, l assure
you," says he. ain fact, it's about-er-
Miss Paige"
"Nancy!" says I. whats she been
up TOT"
mo, mol" says he. .@You fail to under
oVduu. ttul III tIldt Is all.
"Never met one," says 1. whats it
lke?" ..
He shrugs his shoulders hopeless, but
begins all over again. Well, in his mealy-
mouthed way it took him near a quarter
of an hour to state the proposition; but
when do surround the idea, believe me,
I'm wide awake.
"So?" says l, surveyin' him slt-eyed.
"You've been careless enough to go and
get soft on Nancy, eh?"
He mods. Il have grown very fond of
her." says he.
"But you have your doubts, goes on,
whether she's quite good enough for
YOU"
ooh, say!" he protests.
"Amounts to that, don't it?" says l.
"But chiefly you're after line on her
financial ratin'. That correct?"
He fingers his collar nervous, as if it
was chafn' his neck.
81 merely intended to suggest, says he,
"that | could hardly afford to-er-"
81 get you," says I.
Then | blazes ahead sort of crisp:
"Now listen to me, Kirby, while tell
you few things. First off, you're dead
right. She amt good enough for you
not by a mile. You're too elegant a
party for her-too classy and refined
altogether. Course, you've come up
from nothing much. l don't know just
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

say SO; guess most people would take it
for granted. But, in case there should be
another pair like this Paige girl and j.
Kirby Brooks lurkin' anywhere in the
background and foolish enough to call on
me the way they did-well, l want to
warn 'em, that's all. I'm romance
wrecker. And when it comes to directin'
the course of true love down a stretch of
rough water, I'm about as helpful as
plumbers apprentice tinkerin' balky
cuckoo clock.
The sad part about this case was that
meant well. First off, Nancy Paige was
a favorite at our house, from Sadie to
Mother Whaley AS for little Suly-
well, say; if you want real enthusiastic
report on Miss Paige, just ask him.
AS rule, too, Sully amt so partial to
young female persons-not yet. Gener-
ally he hangs his head and pouts when
they come around. But when Nancy
shows up he let's out war-whoop and
makes dive for her. He'll tow her off
to the play-room and chatter away to her
by the hour, as if she was a ten-year-old
boy instead of young lady goin' on
twenty-five.
SORT of discovered Nancy, Sully did.
Let's see, it was one day summer be-
fore last that he came draggin' her into
the yard by the hand and insists on show
in her his turtles and rabbits. Seems
she'd run across him down the road apiece
trying to capture a green garter-snake for
his private ZOO. And when she showed
him how to spear it with forked stick,
grab it behind the ears, and stow it in an
empty candy-box-well, after that he was
hers for keeps.
"Say, Pop" he confides to me one night,
"know who I'm goin' to marry when l
grow up?"
"Couldn't guess" says 1.
Nancy" says he.
"Does she know it," says 1.
"Ho!" says he. course not"
And suspicion that Miss Nancy thinks
good deal of Sully, though she never
takes on about him the way some do.
"He's real boy, isn't hep is her usual
remark after a session with Sully.
Not one of the gushy kind Nancy. A
quiet, well balanced young person, with
steady gray eyes that don't seem to miss
much, and trick of smilin' to herself as
if she found life entertainin'. No frills or
bluff about her-one of the kind that
seems to be too busy studyin' out other
folks to think much about herself.
Neighbors of ours, the Paiges have
been, ever since we've lived out at Rock
hurst-on-the-Sound. In fact, they were
there long before we came, though their
place down on the Point has been shut
more'n it's been open. An odd, squatty,
gray old house it is, with ramblin' col
lection of wings and sheds tackled on
promiscuous, and mostly smothered by
vines and scraggly cedars. Looks sort of
run-to-seed, you know.
But there's only Nancy and her mother;
and old lady Paige-Mrs. Dyckman-
Paige, she is-has the name of bein' bit
peculiar. Not batty, you understand but
Independent and freaky. Maybe that
comes from havin' lived so long in such
outlandish places-Siam and Morocco.
1t was tryin' to cure MIR. Dyckman-Paige
of something or other that started 'em
roamin', and by the time he finally cashed
in l guess she'd kind of got the habit.
Anyway, gather that she wouldn't have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
By SEWELL FORD
illustrations by F. Taua Wilson

And while she was pleasant enough
when people took pains to hunt her up,
she didn't go out often or show any signs
of wantin to mix much.
Mrs. Paige herself was kind of lame
some trouble with one hip joint. A hook
nosed old dame she was, with shrewd
eyes, prominent cheek-bones, and solid
set chin. She was fond of gettin' herself
up in queer rigs, Japanese silk things and
such Smoked cigarettes, too, so they
say.
"But, for all that" Sadie reports, "she's
bright and interesting. like her As for
Nancy, she's jewel"
So our house was one of the few places
where the Paiges occasionally came for
dinner; and on account of Sully, Nancy
ran in quite often. So much for them.
THISJ. Kirby Brooks, now, was differ
ent proposition-one of Purdy-Pell's
Office staff that Mrs. Purdy-Pell had sort
of taken up and entered in the younger
set. 1t was her idea, too, | suspect, his
comm to the Physical Culture Studio for
a course of boxin' lessons.
want to learn how to steam in few
stiff ones, in case you get in mix-up.
eh?' says /.
"Why-er-not exactly, says he. am
quite sure l should never allow myself to
become involved in-er-in that way.
But I'm told that boxing tends to give
one better poise-to make one more
flexible, as it were.
"Well, says l, "you could stand little
limberin' up, that's fact"
hot hou T
J. Kirby. Course, l don't know much
about the bond brokerage business.
expect it don't call for any shifty foot
work, but how he could be very useful
anywhere was beyond me; for his mind
seems to work almost as stiff as his neck
Anyway, he's one of these rubber-stamp
conversers: you know, never usn' any,
thing but book talk, always polite, but
just as free and chatty as set of stencils
It's the same with his dressin'. Very
particular about his clothes, j. Kirby.
Why, l expect if he was ever caught out
wearin' a soft hat with frock-coat, he'd
sneak home in taxi with the blinds
pulled down.
Honest, for salaried man he had some
mighty high notions. So many things
struck him as vulgar-table d'h6te din
ners, ready-made shirts, tinted note
paper, havin' to carry home package,
and living at clearinghouse. He had
bachelor quarters somewhere, and fifth
share in a valet. Also he sported silk
underwear, drank tea for breakfast, and
wore wrist-watch. regular chappie,
barrin' his keepin' business hours.
And yet, J. Kirby had made good in the
bond house. I'd known of his comm up
from clerk to one of Purdy-Pell's con-
fidential men. And l understand he
wasn't so much of fivver at the social
act. He had Mrs. Purdy-Pell as a coach,
the whole game being to see if he couldn't
annex some loppy young Gladys-Maude
whosepoppawoul settle an income on her.
So | didn't take much notice of how
frequent him and Miss Paige happened
to meet at our house. Still, they did seem
to get along together, after fashion.
Somehow, he appeared to know when he
was likely to run across her at our house,
and, either before or after he'd been to the
Purdy-Pells', he'd drop in. And Sadie's
trained me when to duck in such cases. I'd
get plimDSeS thOlIph IF Nancy Sittin'
New Britain herald., 1916-06-26
WANT NEWS CENSORSHIP

Washington, June 26.-Administra- ton officials today prepared to ask congress to authorize a military news censorship in connection with Mexi- can situation. Upon recommendation of the army war college a resolution was drafted at the war department empowering the President to promul- Bate censorship regulations. They would apply at the state, war and navy departments as well as along the border and in Mexico. Secretary Baker also announced that a press bureau under an army officer as censor, was heing organized to handle all news from the war department.