Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-01-06
STUDENTS HELP A CONVICT
California Prisoner Studying by Mail
Expects to Become a Salesman
When Term Ends.

H. Austin, better known as No.
27378 among his companions in San
Quentin, Cal, is student of the Uni
versity of Kansas despite the fact that
he is serving six and half years be-
hind thick walls two thousand miles
from Mount Dread. No 2737S is half
way through course in craftsmanship
given under the direction of the ex-
tension division at X. U. He has just
written to ask the university for die
tionary to use in preparing his les
sons and his letter, which was re-
ceived recently, reveals an unusual
sort of convict. Here is part of his
letter:
However, l am not kicking, neith-
er am | sore at society but am simply
trying to make the best of my misfor-
tune. l have secured a complete
course in craftsmanship and am trying
to master it as | expect to take up that
line upon my release but | am badly
in need of a dictionary and thought
perhaps you might have one that is
not being used by you any more that
you would send to me. = " The rea-
son that | write to you is that because
| was born and lived most of my life
in Kansas. My grandfather was a
member of the first legislature of the
state of Kansas and l think at one
time was state superintendent of
schools, Abraham Ellis was his
name"
Students at the university have be-
come so interested in the case of No.
2737S that they got up Christmas
box which confined not only the die !
tionary, but several other books, as
well as many periodicals.
X X
Ignore Mother Pension Law-The |
Sedgwick county commissioners gave |
the Mothers Pension Law another
swat the other afternoon when they |
refused to grant pensions to five wo-
men whom the investigating board re-
ported worthy and needy.
X X X
Kansas Boy Drowned.-COy Wilcox,
II years old, was drowned at Wash
ington when he broke through the ice
on Mill Creek. A companion tried to
assist him, but could not reach the lad
before he went under the ice. Search
ers found the body about an hour
later.
X X X
A Judge Refuses Gfts.-Iudge Dial
las Grover of the Salna district court
refused all Christmas gifts sent to him
by friends. He explained that as Judge
Of the district court he was not in a
position to accept gifts from others
than his immediate family. He refused
even box of candy for his children.
X X X
Many Marry in Indepe ndence.-Cu
Did has been running Santa Claus a
merry race at Independence twenty
our marriage licenses having been is.
sued by the probate judge in two days
'ecently.
Lyon County Pioneer Dead.-G. w. {
IOi HtOhj a lCSlutHL Vi Lyon county
'ince 1857, is dead. Born in Iowa in
1913, he was a member of the Ninth ,
Kansas Regiment in the Civil War.
X X X [
Franklin County Has Road Club
franklin county now is organized for t
he KIT. Highway a proposed route /
through Kansas as cutoff to the JEFF 8
erson Highway. L. j. Miller of OF {
ava, vice president for Franklin /
Ounty. has named local committees I
t Richmond, Princeton, Ottawa and i
Vellsville. t
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Marshall Warren Dead.-Marshal h
Warren died at his home in Emporia .
he other afternoon of heart disease. +
Ir. Warren was vice president OF the n
Warren Mortgage company. q