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)