Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Abilene's new Masonic hall is com
Pleted. It is funrishsd in grand style.
Mankato's waterworks plant is com
pleted and accepted by the city council.
Four boys of the Twentieth Kansas
are enrolled as students at the state
agricultural college.
About twenty members of the Tween
sieth Kansas are employed at the Tope-
tra shops and offices.
The contempt case of John P. Reese
in jail at Fl. Scott, will be taken to the
Federal supreme court
1t is reported that the plan is to hold
all the Kansas conventions, state and
congressional, in April.
W. FL. Biddle, state treasurer under
the Lewe1ling administration, is now
resident of Wellston, o. T.
A Barton county man has sold a
quarter section of land for $500 more
than he paid for it month ago.
Beloit Catholics expect to commence
work on church this year which will
cost in the neighborhood of $50. 900.
Mrs. Bertha Picket is treasurer of
of Lane county, and Miss Kate E. John
son holds the same office in Norton.
Reno county is to have new court
house to cost about $50, 900. More than
$50, 900 is now in hand for the purpose.
''Ice will be ice next summer in Kan
sas," said one ice factory magnate to
another-and then they took something.
A bill is before Congress to build
civil federal refornatory at Leaven
worth, for the confinement of young
prisoners.
So far this month the Kansas City
station has secured seventy-six recruits
for the regular army, largely from
Kansas.
Flora E. Pool in the Mail and Breeze
says that Hiawatha is the prettiest
small town in the state, with Sterling
q close second.
The secretary of war transmitted to
the house an estimate of $225,OOO for
rebuilding officers quarters at Fort
Leavenworth, Kas.
Bert Cole was driving in a buggy
near Colts, and collided with a Central
Branch train at crossing. He is in a
critical condition.
Christian Scientists of Howard have
established a reading room, open to all
who wish to take advantage of it from
4 to 4 p. III. every day.
Farmers were busy blowing during
-
started. Winter wheat is looking as
well as it could look.
The j. S. Smythe bank at Stockton is
closed and settling up. 1t is hoped
that it will be able to pay out in full,
at sacrifice of its capital
A Nemeha county farmer hauled
sixty-nine hogs into Wetmore few
days ago and sold them for nine hundred
and ninety-seven dollars and a nickel.
In the southwestern part of McPher-
son county are some sand hills and
sand lands. For years they were avoid
ed. Germans came in and took them
and have made them blossom like a
garden.
Mrs. Sarah Morley, of Wellington,
aged "a, committed suicide by hanging
herself in small -outbuilding on the
premises of her sister, Mrs. Robert
Earle, with whom she had been making
her home.
D. A. Guilds, of Fort Scott, through
Major Martin, of the Twentieth Kan
sas, has received from the adjutant
-.o-o,,1 tho rr,,,, oa ba PIi1;7,
pine war by his son, Halle Guilds, who
was killed on the firing line.
DR. Charley Howe, of Atchison urges
the residents of towns threatened with
smallpox to remember the vinegar
treatment. DR.. Howe cleaned the
smallpox out of Lenora with the vine
gar treatment and says that it is doing
good work at Centralia, where the dis
ease has been confined to single case
The superintendent of free delivery
both in cities and country, reports that
the work done by the carrier from
Station B of the Topeka Office exceeds
the record OF any other carrier in the
United States
The Kansas State Editorial associa
ton held pleasant session at For
Scott Jan 1928. The next meeting
will be held in Topeka. The following
officers were chosen: President, L
Randolph, Nortonville; Secretary, G
Davis, Concordia; treasurer, w. c. Ran
ey, Fort Scott.
a fine brick hotel will be put up a
Troy on the site of the old Highly Hous
which was destroyed by fire some week
ago.
Galena has closed a contract for
$50, 900 ice plant. The ice will be mad
from the water of the city we'll which
is about I 300 feet deep. and is soft an
pure.
Jewell county raised nine million
bushels of corn and it is estimated tina
not to exceed ten thousand bushels G
the crop have been shipped out of tn