Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26

| me lev JOnn >. brown, OF Law
renee, died last week at the age of 90
There are several women acting as
rural mail carriers in Sumner county.
| N. ]. Wamble fell dead of heart dis
ease in his store at Coffeyville on July
II.
Grant Hornaday, of Fort Scott, has
been elected director of the Frisco
system
In two years Wallace county has
paid for 1,351 wolf scalps at a dollar
| each.
The business portion of Galesburg,
near Parsons, is destroyed by fire.
Loss. SIS, 1000
The Dickinson county high school is
to give a business course, including
| typewriting and stenography.
Fifteen girl operators have tied up
the Atchison telephone system by stri
king. They want s5 raise.
Probate Judge Dimm, of Jackson
county, in his three and one-half years
in Office, has married 176 couples.
Cheyenne county claims to have one
| third of the acreage planted this year
in broom corn, in the entire state.
OF the 100 men paroled by Governor
Stanley only four have broken the
very strict conditions of the parole.
The old settlers of Marshall county
will hold a reunion, with barbecue
trimmings, at Blue Rapids on August
1928.
The Quivira monument is to be IN
yelled near Junction City on August
IL. It is to commemorate the Coronado
expedition of 1542.
Reports came in from central Kansas
that early potatoes are rotting from
too much wet. The late potatoes are
promising to do well.
Farmers of Lyon county had a wet
time for threshing oats, which are
turning out No. l. Bluegrass is of
poor quality and short yield.
The lola cement plant is to have two
new sections costing $500, 900. giving
the plant the largest capacity of any
Portland cement plant on earth.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, and
Coburn, the Kansas secretary of agri-
culture, each delivered an address at
the Beloit Chautauqua on July 16.
The hay crop in central Kansas is
the best in years and stockmen are pre-
pairing to feed many cattle as rough
ness is plenty and the corn is coming
on wonderfully.
James f. Legate has suffered re-
lapse and his physician said at once
that he would probably die soon, being
liable to die at any time, probably be-
fore this is read.
Twenty-six farmers about Blue
Rapids have organized stock company
with SO shares of 500 each and have
purchased a Percheron stallion from
Columbus, Ohio, firm.
Corn, fax and other crops of Coffey
county are in splendid shape, except
that wheat harvesting was delayed by
the continued rains, preventing taking
harvesting machinery into the fields.
f. n. Cole has sued Postmaster c. C.
Gray, of LIE Roy, for $1,000 damages
for failure to deliver a postal card
which would have notified him of the
death of his father. He charges the
postmaster with carelessness and neg
ligence in employing careless clerks.
Mrs. Mary Adelaide Walker, a grad
uate of Maryland college and who is
in Columbia university in New York
city, has been selected to succeed Miss
Hooley as matron of the college of the
Sisters of Bethany, who is to be mar
ried soon to the Rev. Irving Todd,
chaplain of the school.
Bert Hastings, aged 20 years, while
working on a Sumner county wheat
stack, was overcome by heat and fell
to the ground, breaking his neck.
The Sunday school of the First Pres
byterian church of Topeka, managed an
excursion to Fort Riley which required
seventeen passenger coaches to convey
it.
Oxford is to have a telephone ex-
change. The first emigrants to the
west side of the Arkansas river entered
what is now Sumner county and settled
at Oxford.
Sumner county has &C. rural mail car
riers, who supply every farm house.
A telephone company covering the
farming districts has been organized.
DIR. A. M'Calahan, a dentist, who
was veteran of the civil war and was
serving his second term as clerk of the
district court of Shawnee county, is
dead after years of suffering from
asthma. He was a prominent Mason,
having been grand commander of the
Scottish Rite body, grand high priest
of the Royal Arch Masons and grand
commander of the Knights Templar.
w. c. Miller, a representative from
Barber county in the Kansas legisla-
ture, has leased the old Fullington
ranch of 81, 900 acres in Kiowa comfy
and stocked it up with cattle.
During the fiscal year just ended