Meade County news., 1917-11-08
Farmers Near Lawrence Peti-
tiOn for Seventeen Miles of
Concrete Highway.
PART. OF FORT TO FORT ROAD
The Road Will Cost About $4,000 a
MiIe-Government to Help
Bear Expense.

renee west to the county line has been
filed with the county commissioners.
This sector is part of the proposed
Fort Leavenworth to Fort Riley road
and is the main highway between
Lawrence and Topeka The board of
commissioners doubtless will grant
the read at the next meeting, Novem-
ber 5.
The route covered in this petition
is through the village of Stull, sixteen
miles west of Lawrence. 1t joins with
the Watson route southeast of Topeka,
which the farmers of Shawnee county
have asked their commissioners to
pave.
But now another route from Law
renee to Topeka is asking for recog-
milton. A petition asking for route
from Lawrence to Topeka through Big
| Springs and Tecumseh has almost 49,
900 acres pledged to the support Of
the road, while there are only about
along the road.
The result will be that there will be
concrete road from the northeast
corner of Douglas county to the west
ern part as part of concrete road
from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Riley
through Lawrence and Topeka. The
road will branch east from Tonga
noxie to Kansas City when Leaven-
worth county files petitions for the
road. This ill then make much
shorter and better road from Kansas
City to Lawrence and Topeka. The
road will cost about $4,000 mile and
will be paid for by the benefit district
along the route, the township, the
county, the state and national govern
ment. This system Of distribution Of
road expense is making possible the
rapid building of roads in Kansas.
Work on this road will probably start
early next spring.
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Captain o'NeiII to X. S. A. Can
nouncement was made recently of the
appointment of Capt. w. P. ]. O'Neill
as commandant of the military depart
ment at the Kansas State Agricultural
College. Captain O'Neill was gradu-
ated from West Point in 1911 and has
been with the Fifteenth Cavalry in the
Philippines the last two years.
Found Body of Man.-The body Of
a man bearing an Identification card
that gave his name rs John Barrett
was found on a farm northeast Of
Lawrence recently. The man had ap-
parently been dead almost week.
The man was poorly dressed.
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First Hunting Victim.-In the first
hunting accident Of the fall season at
Hutchinson, Don Mckay narrowly es-
capped death and will lose the sight Of
both eyes. A shotgun in the hands
of Riley Johnston, friend, was acct
dentally discharged. The men were
hunting rabbits.
Civil War Veteran Dies.-George
Briggs, II years of age, an old resi-
dent of Neodesha, died recently. He
was a veteran Of the Civil war and a
Mason.
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A Pioneer Kansan Dead.-Hiram W..
johnson, a pioneer Kansan, formerly
a resident of Horton, is dead at the
home of a daughter in Junction City.
He was 76 years old. A widow and
eight children survive him.
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Ammunition Train. Capt. ]. G.
Montgomery, POST adjutant at Fort
Riley, has left for Chickamauga Park,
Ca, to take command of an ammuni-
tion train. He has been stationed at
Fort Riley for several years and was
formerly secretary Of The mounted
service school.
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Doctor Drops Dead.-Dr. Newton G..
Davis, widely known physician and
examiner for the Kingman draft
board, dropped dead recently at his
home. Heart disease was the cause
Doctor Davis came to Kingman from
| Indianapolis. He was a Mason.
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Exhibition Cakes to Soldiers.-At
the conclusion of a community school
fair at Lancaster, near Atchison, it
was decided to send all the twenty
five cakes on exhibition to Atchison
county boys at Camp Funston.
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Big Apple Fire.-Seventeen thou
sand five hundred bushels OF apples
we're destroyed at Parker when the
barns and storage houses of the Kill
larney ranch were swept by fire. The
cause of the fire is not known.
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Shorter Hours FOR Mil Hands.-The
Leavenwortb Milling Company has
granted its men an 8-hour day. Here
tofore the men have been working
twelve hours. The j. c. Lysle Milling
Company is expected to take the same
step.
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Newspaper Changes Hands.-Ralph
Mcdonald has leased the Robinson In
dex to Dave Batson, former Robin
son boy. Mr.. Mcdonald has gone to
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