Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-10-04

i Iege have selected Prof. A NJ. Ten
eyeclI, assistant agricuIturist of the
agricultural college of North Dakota,
as professor of agriculture at this col
lege. Prof. d. II. Otis who has had
charge of dairying, has been placed in
charge of animal husbandry and Prof.
e. II. Webster, assistant professor in
the dairy department, has been placed
in full charge of dairying
DEMAND FOR WoRKERs.-An order
was placed with the free employment
agency in Topeka for $50 quarrymen
and labOrers for work either at Bene.
| dict, Kansas, or Blaclzwater Mo.
| Wages of rs and $3.50 are offered.
| More farm hands are wanted at the
agency, as a heavy run of calls for help
has been on for the past few days and
as yet there has been no supply TO draw
from.
STATE TwINE PLANr--It is probable
that at the coming session of the Ieeis-
lature bill will he introduced pro-
viding for the increasing of the state
Irvine plant to three times its present
| capacity. The enlarged plant will fur
nish employment for much larger
mum Der of convicts and in addition
will greatly swell the cash earnings of
the penitentiary.
MATERIAL FOR A FLooR.-Orders
have been placed for % carloads of
lola Portland cement, 100 cars of sand
! and SO of broken stone to be used for
making the flooring of the new ma
chine and boiler shops of the Santa Fe
at Topeka. On top of the foundation
which will be manufactured from this
will be an oak floor upon which the
men will work
MALE TEACHERS SCARCE.-Tkere is
! scarcity of male school teachers in
| Reno county. There are only about
dozen young men teaching in the
county, while there are a score of
schools which would have employed
men teachers in preference to women
if the men had been available The
| men teachers can make more money in
other callihgs.
corn raiserS are having no difficulty in
! finding plenty of feeders. Forty cars
of stock cattle went through Abilene
in day and the ranges promise to give
an abundance of both cattle and sheep
to be fattened on the fine corn raised
in Central Kansas.
CAME HERE IN 1s5S.-Dr j. II. Die
trich is dead at Hutchinson at the age
of 50 years. lie came to Kansas in
1858 and to Reno county in 1887. He
leaves large fortune His wife. to
whom he had been married fifty-fivc
years, and two. married daughters sur
vive him.
ARKANSAS VALLEY FRUIT. Mrs. j.
FL. Gates brought to the office of the
Syracuse Journal two of the finest of
pears, % purple plums on a seven inch
twig, and some Rhode Island Greening.
apples Syracuse is away out in west
ern Kansas.
Equal SUFFRAGISTs.- The annual |
convention of the Kansas equal suf- |
fragists will be held in Topeka October |
14-16 Helen Kimber, the president,
has issued the call for the convention |
FUNERAL OF JUDGE ELLIS. The su
preme judges, their clerks and state |
officers went by special train to Beloit
September %, to the funeral of Judge |
Abram H. Ellis
PROVIsO IN CONTRAcT.-Before Sc
curing their positions the teachers in |
the Downs school were required to
sign a contract, one clause of which |
reads as follows: mo teacher shall +
engage In dancing or card playing dur
ing the continuance of this contract
nor attend any formal parties during
the school week.
FORT SCOTT's WOMAN PAsToR.-The
Rev. Gertrude l.. Ewes is now in charge
of the Methodist Protestant church il
Fort Scott; the first woman to occupy /
such a position in that city.
BAPTIST AssOCIATION.-The Solomon
Valley Baptist association, covering
Northwest Kansas, held three DAYS
session at Asherville with seventy-five
ministers present Officers chosen:
o. A. Foote, Asherville, moderator; E.
r. Barber, Lincoln, secretary. Next
years meeting will be at Beloit
Two DAYS AT FLoRENCE.-Rain fell
at Florence for two days, with good
prospects of continuing indefinitely
During the two days over an inch and
a half of water fell. FAN seeding is
greatly hindered.
43RD Annual MEETING. The Kan
saS Baptist State convention will meet
in Wichita on October II. = good at
tendance is expected. Baptist state
home and foreign missions and Bap
list educational matters will occupy
the attention of the convention for sew
eral days
FEANKL1N COUNTY FAIR.-The
Franklin Agricultural Society cleared
up about $500 on it's fair this year.
with practically only Two days fair.
The last two days had but small at
tendance on account of rains