Meade County news., 1916-06-01
WILL HAVE A BIBLE TICKET
Mems Glasses In Parsons Sunday
Schools to Take Part In City
Election.

fractional fights in city politics have
caused the Parsons Mems Associated
Bible Glasses to select candidates for
Mayor and commissioners for the next
primary election and recently the
names of the men they picked to run
were announced. The organization
represents all the Protestant churches
in the city and it is planned to try to
give the united support of all religious
bodies in the city to the ticket they
have approved.
1T is not matter Of the churches
trying to mix in politics" l.. w. Jack
son, president of the association, said.
1T is a matter of church organization
pledging their support to those who
will endeavor to make Parsons bet
ter city in which to live. The men
whom we have indorsed are of unques-
toned integrity and they have prom
ised us they will clean up their city
If elected and Parsons has needed just
such housecleaning for long time
J. G. Bertsch, the present mayor;
Henry Olen, a former commissioner,
and A. L. Boyd, boilermaker at the
Missouri, Kansas G. Texas Railway
shops, are the men who have been in.
dorsed by the Bible classes. Mayor
Bertsch was appointed few months
ago to fill out the unexpired term OF
o. p Stewart, who resigned.
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Prairie Fires BeneficiaI.-Prairie
fires in Western Kansas earlier in
the spring are believed to be the
cause of the fact that few Hessian
flies are bothering the wheat there
now. In Ness County there has been
no trouble caused by fly in the wheat.
The county is to have the bumper
crop of 80 years. Rush and Ford
Counties report that there is little
or no Hessian fly where there were
prairie fires.
100000 Estate in court-The heirs
of the late William Mathewson, Of
Wichita, who claimed to be the origi-
nal Buffalo Bill, are engaged in suit
over his estate, said to be worth $780,
000
Crushed to Death.-L. r. Gilbert,
who came to Salina from Wichita re-
Gently, was crushed to death when q
ton of lumber fell on him at the
Weber yards.
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Postmasters Elect.-W. o. Rigby of
Topeka was elected president by the
Kansas postmasters at Wichita and
the following are the new vice presi-
dents: Sam Graybill, Hutchinson,
first vice president; w. r. Long of
Kingman, second vice president; r.
L. Notson, Herington, third vice pres
ident; John l. Saunders, fourth vice
president. The treasurer is Harrison
Parkman of Emporia. John Lapham
of Chanute is secretary. Salina won
the next convention, which will be
hold on the third Monday and Tues
day in May, 1917.
Labette Pioneer Dles.-J. T. Brad
ley, 73 years old, for almost fifty years
a resident Of Labette county, is dead
at his home in Parsons. He was a
veteran of the Civil War.
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FaII is Feet With Five.-Five
young women of Belpre, Edwards
County, were severely injured at the
state hospital for the insane, west of
Larned, when a motor car in which
they were riding plunged over the side
of the Pawnee Creek dam, the other
day.
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Proper Boxes or No Mail.-Postmas-
ters in their state convention at Wich'
ita went on record against delivering
mail to patrons of rural routes who dc
not provide regulation mail boxes and
who do not have them properly placed
About fifty postmasters attended the
meeting, which ended with banquet
Ex-Mayor of Plttsburg Dead.-A. B
, Kirkwood, formerly widely known
mine operator, former mayor of Pitts
burg and ownear Of the Kirkwood
Block there, is dead. He was 81 years
old and native Of Maryland,