Meade County news., 1918-01-03
SeVenty-Three Out of Seventy
Seven municipalities Have
Modern Streets.
OTHERS WILL IMPROVE SOON
Scarcity of Labor and War Expense
Have Not Been Able to Stop
the Good Work.

Ing prices TO the contrary, Kansas
towns continue to pull themselves out
OF the mud.
Kansas now has seventy-three towns
with hard surfaced streets, a gain of
twelve over last year, the greatest
gain ever recorded in annual compila-
ton.
The twelve honor towns are Angus
ia, population, Ats; Pratt, 4,35S;
Hays, S,OG9; Baxter Springs, 1879;
Hoisington, 1852; Lindsborg, 2,2O7;
Osborne, 1863; Downs, 1866; Man
kato, 1,148; Solomon, lob; Canton,
$50, and Gypsum, 65S population.
Augusta, which has trebled in popu-
lation since the discovery of the But
Ter county oil field, paved nine miles
of street with brick last year and has
three more under contract. Pratt,
which had been the largest town in
Kansas without paving, laid three
miles of brick last summer Baxter
Springs, which has more than doubled
in size since the opening of the Picher
lead and zinc field, has awarded con-
tracts for paving three miles. Hays
spent $183,0O0 on brick paving this
year. Hoisington expended $150,000
and Lindsborg $15O,OOO on the same
material. Osborne laid fourteen blocks
at cost of 100000. Downs put five
blocks in its business district as an
experiment. Mankato laid fifteen
blocks of brick and will lay more next
year. Solomon has let contracts
amounting to $4,000. Gypsum has
voted $4,000 and Canton 100000 for
concrete paving.
The two latter towns have fewer
than one thousand persons, and join
Tonganoxie, Glasco and Hope in the
select class of villages with improved
streets. Hope, with a population Of
558, continues the smallest community
in the state with paving. Its example
had much to do with the decision of
Canton. Gypsum, Lindsborg and Solo,
mon, its neighbors.
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Adopts SO Orphans.-As a Christ
mas greeting, l. A. Pribble of Salina
sent cablegram to Marshal Joffre,
Paris, that Salina had adopted thirty
six war orphans of France. One is
taken for the duration of the war by
Sunflower Council, U. c. T., the First
Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday
schools adopted ten and the rest were
taken by individuals and business
houses.
Accident Fatal to Saesman.-A. E.
Nelson, travelling salesman living at
Lyons, covering his territory in a mo-
tor car, was killed six miles south of
Salina when he lost control of his car
and it turned over. The body was
taken to Salina.
A Neodtsna fIonssr 5ead.-Cufford
Lesco, rs years old, who came to Will
son county in 1867, is dead at Neode-
Bha. Three brothers who came there
with him fifty years ago still survive
him. He was Union veteran in the
Civil War.
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and fifty-three students and graduates
of the Lawrence high school are now
in the military service of the govern
ment The Budget, the school paper,
has prepared list of all now in the
service and presented it to the school.
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Pratt Has 100 Men In France. -
Pratt county leads Kansas in the num-
Der of men in France. There are one
hundred from that county including
those who are with the ammunition
train.
Killed in Car Wreck.-John Klie-
dosty was killed the other night when
his motor car turned over a short dis
tance from Herndon. His body was
discovered pinned under the car.
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Oil Stock to Soldier.-When Mrs.
II. B. Slaymaker of Peabody opened
her mail recently she found certifi-
cate for five hundred shares of stock
in the Petroleum Producing and Re-
filming Company Of Tulsa, non-assess-
able stock, with this letter inclosed:
"A week ago, on train between Kan
sas City and Chicago, met your hus-
band, Lieutenant Slaymaker, off for
the front. AS am too old to go and
your husband is helping to fight my
battles, inclose this certificate of
stock to show in a measure at least
my appreciation for this service"
The letter was signed by E. C. Rey-
nolds.
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Move School to Get oiI.-At a spe-
cial election voters of School District
No. 81, Butler county, voted to lease
a tract of land which is believed to
be one Of the richest oil regions in
the county, but which has heretofore
been unavailable for development be-
cause of schoolhouse thereon.
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Kansas Walnut for Rifles.-A num-
Der of worl1men have begun cutting
walnut trees on the Foraker farm
southeast of Wellington, for shipment
TO an eastern gun factory, where they
will be made into rifle stocka