Free press., 1901-10-05

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a cadet corps is being organized at
the Kansas Wesleyan at SaIina.
Topeka packers are paying Sc. rs for
hogs the highest price since 1885.
The Unitarians of Wichita are
planning to build SO, 900 church
Sumner county expects to have an
increased acreage of wheat planted
this year.
The grape crop in some places in
Kansas is reported to be 10, 900 pounds
to the acre.
rolled this year in Bethany college,
at Lindsborg.
An ancestor of Carl D. AvignoR. of
Newton, a Santa Fe brakeman, was a
French nobleman.
G. A. Blair, of Mulvane, won the
first prize for the finest peaches at the
Buffalo exposition.
Corn in Nemaha county is yielding
40 to As bushels to the acre. tits selling
at 40 cents bushel.
The Old Soldiers reunion at River
side Park comes during the Wichita
fair and carnival week
Chairman Henry L. Allen, of the
state board of charities, has bought a
farm in Franklin county.
The board of railroad commissioners
has decided in favor of Concordias be-
ing granted jobbing rates.
A collection for special purpose was
taken in the Methodist church at Pratt
and the amount taken was 1925.
The commercial club of Hutchinson
is agitating the purchase by the city of
the waterworks and light plant.
A Cloud county man who was in Kan
sas City with cattle said that the num-
ber of cattle in his county is so per cent
short
Alfalfa growers near Cimarron are
getting a fourth crop of hay this year.
This is remarkable considering the
drouth.
The Jetmore College, a new Metho-
dist school, has been opened. It's pres
ident is R. A. Lee Master, the resident
minister.
A Parsons bank offers to cash war
rants at par, drawn on the general
fund for the amount needed to purchase
the site for the new asylum.
Miss Abby Huntington Ware, of To-
pel1a, daughter of Eugene Ware, is to
teach English and history in the Fort
Scott high school this year.
1t is said that J. NJ Simpson, the Nc
Pherson politician, cleared $50, 900 in
one week, by investing in margins in
lard in the Kansas City market.
The afianced bride of Lieutenant
Burton Mitchell, Miss Marley, of
Olathe, died recently. Lieutenant
Mitchell is aide to General Funston.
Associate Justice A. H. Ellis, of the
supreme court, is sick at the home of
his brother in Kansas City and will
not be able to attend the October term
of the court.
The highest point in Kansas is Bird
City, in Cheyenne county, 900 feet
above the level of the sea. The lowest
point is Kansas City, Kan.-7OO feet
above the sea level.
Business men of Emporia are plan
ming to buy lots adjoining the grounds
of the state normal for the new library
building. There is but one vacant place
on the grounds to put it and that is
out of sight from anywhere; back of the
main building.
One entire outer wall of the Wareham
opera house at Manhattan fell, carrying
telephone office is in the building and
the system is damaged so that service
was cut off for time. The building il
insured only against fire.
| st. Paul's Methodist church of Wicl,-
ita is planning to build a S25, 900 ad-
dition. 1t will have pipe organ. The
church owns IT'S feet on the corner
their old church occupies
The Continental Creamery company
has provided for fund of 500, 600 II
sas and Oklahoma. It is expected that
81. 200 will be used to build creamery
at Wichita. A Allarge amount will TX
used to increase the number of its skim
ming stations. They now have s9(
sl1imming stations.
Miss Maud Hunter represented Ce. es
at the wheat jubilee in Wellington.
Ernest Lewis, a 13-year-old colort.t
boy, is the latest victim of too much
boy jumping on moving trains IL
switching yards. He did this in WicA
ita and both his legs were cut off. II,
lived eight hours never losing CONSCIOUS
ness. The boys father was informed
of the terrible occurrence by messenge1
while he was at work at the Office O
5 the Western Newspaper Union. H
; was greatly affected, but sympathy wa
of no value at that moment.
Kansas corn, Kafir corn and lat,
fruits have been injured considerabl.
by frosts. In the central portion of tn,
state damage was the most severe.