Meade County news., 1916-05-18
SUNDAY VISITS UNIVERSITY
Students Welcome Evangelist and
Wife With "Rock Chalk" Yell
Compliment Editors.

BILLY" Sunday and his party
breezed into Lawrence the other day,
spoke for a few minutes to 1000 stu
dents and Kansas editors who packed
Robinson gymnasium to its utmost
capacity, won their admiration and
then were whisked in a motor car back
to Kansas City in order to be at the
scene of the revival work in time for
Billy to preach his afternoon sermon.
BILLY" Sunday lauded the tremen-
dous influence which the press is ex-
Tting for good and the betterment and
uplifting Of conditions of society, and
he declared the newspaper to be tho
greatest single agency for the ad-
vancement of the gospel.
"In fact, when the newspapers an
nounced that Billy Sunday was COM
ing to Kansas City to conduct relig-
ious campaign" the evangelist said,
at would have been more accurate to
say that the newspapers; were about to
open a religious campaign with Billy
Sunday aiding and abetting. am glad
to see newspapers of such high caliber
that they put religion on the front
page.
Billy" Sunday especially praised
the early Kansas editors for their glor-
ious victory in their fight for prohi-
bition and declared, If for no other
reason, he would always love Kansas
newspapers for their fight for prOhi-
bition. He told how he expected to
carry on his war against the whisky
gang until the undertaken pumped his
body full of embalming fluid and the
choir sang Lead, Kindly Light
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Baby browns In Jar-Attracted by
a number of crawfish which her older
brother had confined in five-gallon
jar, Thelma, the 16-months-old baby
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Mott of Cherry
vale, fell into the four inches Of water
which the jar contained and was
drowned.
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independence Merchant Dead
George H. Williams, widely known
merchant of Independence. died re-
Gently while working at his desk. He
was about 70 years old.
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Pittsbure's Population 19,935-Pitts-
burg now has population Of 1895.
Returns of the recent enumeration
were announced recently. Last year
the population was 17,715.
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Reward Hero's Widow-Mrs. John
L. Long, widow, has been awarded
$35 a month for herself as long as
she is widow and IS month for
her son, Glenn Long, until he is 16
years old, by the Carnegie Hero Fund
commission.
Plan Community May Day-Plans
are being made at Mcpherson to make
the third annual All-Schools May day.
May II, one of the biggest get togeth-
er meetings that Mcpherson county
has ever held. The big feature Of the
day will be the parade led by the
May queen and her attendants, fol
lowed by presentations OF the city
schools and colleges Of the county
and many floats from the town and
country districts.
To. Spend $4,000 on Roads-About
5000 in bridge and road improve
ment work has been contracted for
or advertised by the county commits
sioners of Atchison county. The inn
<,,cv,oo onfo include moro than forr
miles of macadamized roads, several
miles of grading and dirt roads.
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Salt Plant 6urns-The main build
ing of the Bevis Rock Salt Company's
plant at Lyons was completely de-
stroyed by fire the other night. The
loss viii be about 100000. The origin
of the fire is not known