Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-07
Acetylene gas is catching on rapidly

Acetylene gas is catching on rapidly
at Norton.
In one day the treasurer of Labette
county took in thirty-tive thousand
dollars in taxes
For the third time the residents of
lola have voted down the question of
city ownership of gas
Members of the Gaylord band last
week blew themselves for a complete
lot of new instruments.
The warning af the fall in tempera-
ture came in ample time to enable one
to replenish their coal bin this time.
The salaries of the country school
teachers in Kansas averaged S32 per
month, the smallest average in the
Union.
After the first of the year the Odd
Fellows and Receccas of Oswego will
meet in new hall which they are
fitting up.
Clay Center wants an insane asylum.
Stockton may put in bid for nor
mai school, too.
Those people at Woodbine who blew
up a joint with dynamite certainly
have most emphatic way of mani
Testing their displeasure.
Westmoreland, the county seat of
Pottawatomie, is still making signs for
q railroad to come that way. West
moresand is the only county seat town
in the eastern half of the state that is
without railroad.
State Superintendent Stryker has a
bill ready for the consideration of the
extra session of the legislature, pro-
viding for the extension of the text
book law so as to include High school
books and apparatus.
The Baptists of Peabody will feel
better after the dawning of the New
Year On the last day of 1898 special
services will be held and at that time
the mortgage which has been on the
church will be burned.
AS further evidence that the people
in the western portion of Kansas are
doing well it is noted in the Stockton
| Record that within the past year five
fraternal insurance orders have been
established in that town
Girard is very proud of the new First
| National bank building, which has
just been completed at cost of S1c,-
900. The Press prints picture of the
edifice which shows that it would be a
credit to the best business street of
any town in the state.
Speaking of juries and verdicts, mod
ern wisdom suggests that a big life in
surance is a great error. If it does not
induce your children to murder you,
| and if somebody else murders you, it
| induces the insurance companies to
prove your children murderers.
The following notice is posted on
the door of the Office of the Rock Is
land agent at Phil1ipsburg: Halt
About, Face March! Personally we
have no objection to your presence in
the Office, but we need our time to do
our work. Your presence is hind
rance. If you have business to trans
act, call at the window where we will
| be pleased to meet you. Please do not
| come inside the office" The company
| ought to put that agent on the retired
| list.
All agricultural colleges should pro-
vide winter courses of study and in
structinn for farmers boys and girls
| The work on the farm demands their
! help during the summer months and
| the winter season is the only time that
most of the farmers boys and girls
can devote to attending school The
| school year for farmers children who
are old enough to attend colleges must
| begin with about the first of Novem-
! Der and end with about the first of
| April. This gives five months for
school in each year.
Milking cows properly requires ex-
perience, skill and tact, and is both a
science and an art. 1t requires patience
and yet it must be done quickly and
| gently. A man who can milk eight or
| ten good cows in an hour and do it
we'll is valuable man for dairyman
to have. A kicking COW can nearly
| always be traced to kicking or I'M
| sk1llful mixer. A swearing man or
! boy should not be allowed to milk a
cow, for an oath and blow generally
| go together, and they are both indica-
i tive of the brute in human form.
| Secretary Coburn is overwhelmed
with applications for his reports, so
much so, in fact, that he can not begin
20 supply the demand. The statement
that has been made that there are sew
eral tons of old reports of various
| kinds in the basement of the state
house does not apply to his reports.
They are gobbled up as fast as they
are published. Before the last bien-
NAL report was out there were a thou
sand applications on file for copies,
and as soon as the newspapers an
nounced that it had been issued the
applications came in by the hundred.
Three fad-end pugilists are giving