Wilson County, Kansas Newspaper Articles

WILSON COUNTY, KANSAS

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

THE WHISTLES OF NEODESHA

Neodesha is rapidly becoming a city of whistles and whistles sound like business, anyway. Of course the ice plant had a whistle as soon as it began business last week. It is a beautiful mezzo soprano whistle cut bias between the z's and trimmed around the edges with passamenterie without caring whether the word is spelled right or not. The steam laundry has long had a falsetto noise with a hole in its heel and two buttons gone. The Land mill has for several months had a tenor whistle that would grade No. 2 hard without sweating. When the oil refinery put in a whistle it chose one that chimes at 2,414 feet and has 500 barrels capacity daily.

This week the city water works pumping station fell into the whistle habit, too, and put in one with a lovely tone that is a duet between the alto and the baritone and gives excellent satisfaction.

But the real whistle will be the one at the V. V. V. brick plant. It came a few days ago accompanied by an actual guarantee from the foundry that it will be heard in Fredonia, seventeen miles aways.

It is a double barreled whistle and shoots both ways. If you haven't heard it yet it is only because it hasn't whistled yet. That is Dr. Allen's joke and he carries the copyright on it. It weights 150 pounds and is four feet long. That is the whistle, not the joke. The steam is let into it by a wheel valve instead of by a whistle cord so that it begins and quits gradually so as not to startle Fredonia by waking it up too suddenly. It is a double whistle with a deep basso profundo chime that will shake the windows and rattle the bones in Cherryvale. - Neodesha Register. (Kansas Semi Weekly Capital, July 6, 1900, page 3)

TWO YEARS IN THE PEN

For Neodesha Barber Who Did a Side line Business in Pecans

Kansas City, Mo., - Feb. 16 - William Basore, Jr., 22, years old of Neodesha was convicted of using the mails to defraud in the United States District Court in Kansas City, Kan., today and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. It is charged that Basore who was a barber had obtained approximately a thousand dollars, from persons in Kansas and Missouri by advertising the sale of pecans and after collecting the money failing to deliver them.(Emporia Gazette, February 16, 1915, page 1)

ARRESTED THE MAYOR

Neodesha, Kan., - Aug. 24 - The temperance agitation here has taken on a new turn and the county attorney has arrested Mayor J. S. Scudder of this city for dereliction of duty. The arrest was made under the Kansas law providing that the mayor, among other officials shall furnish the county attorney with information he may have of the violation of the prohibitory law. County Attorney J. M. Kennedy, has been given considerable trouble by people who blamed him for not prosecuting offenders and he had the mayor arrested for not giving him information.

Mayor Scudder immediately furnished a bond of $500 for his appearance in court.

It is impossible to find out who furnished the county attorney with the information on which the warrant was issued, but that may possibly be developed at the trial in the district court.

Upon the outcome of this action will probably be based the subsequent course toward other officials designated by the statute. (Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital, August 27, 1897, page 2)

KANSAS OFFICIAL A SUICIDE

Ill Health Believed the Cause of Act of Wilson County Treasurer

Fredonia, Kas.---W. H. Tyler, Wilson County treasurer, committed suicide at his home here by shooting. For a number of years Mr. Tyler conducted a banking business at Lafountain, this county. He was serving his second term as county treasurer. The last year he was in ill health and for several days during his deputy's absence on business had been working until after midnight in the office. His accounts were checked up only a few days ago and found correct. He was 62 years old. His wife survives.
(Kansas City Star ~ June 18, 1919 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)

CHILD HEROINE OF KANSAS

6-Year-Old Girl Saves Her Baby Sister From Drowning

Independence, Kan., Aug. 25---The 6-year-old daughter of J. C. Scott, living two miles west of Roper, a little town near here, heroically saved her younger sister from drowning a few days ago at the risk of losing her own life.

The younger sister, who is 18 months old, fell into an old cistern that had about 10 feet of water in it. The mother heard the child scream and together with the older daughter ran to the rescue. The older child was led down into the cistern by the mjother, but the daughter was not strong enough to hold the drowning girl while the mother pulled the two out. A plank was then thrown into the cistern and the older girl then plunged into the water. By holding onto the board she managed to keep herself as well as her sister, who was by that time nearly drowned, above water until help arrived.

It was an almost an hour before help came, but both the children were saved, although they could not have held out much longer.
(Jackson Citizen ~ August 28, 1900 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)