Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-23

ter and larger than ever before.
Washburn college has taken on the
Kansas Medical college as a depart
ment.
A Conway Springs man has 40 acres
of locust trees which he is growing for
posts.
Joseph Fl. Hay, treasurer of Harvey
county, is dead after an illness of four
weeks
Fifty students of Bethany college at
Lindsborg worked in the broom corn
harvest.
Wellington owns the electric light
| plant but Eliminates the city building
with gas
Lyon county claims to be certain of
better crop of apples than it has ever
produced.
Peder Paulsen, of Plum Grove, But
Ter county, harvested 1920 bushels of
oats off 20 acres.
The Topeka free employment bureau
is unable to supply the demand for la
borers in that city.
Miss Bertha NJ. Rowley, of Topeka,
has been appointed typewriter at the
Ell Reno land Office.
Lane county has gained fifty votes
in the past year. Cattle and wheat are
the principal industries
The Teichgraber Bros -four mill at
| Gypsum, near Salina, was burned,
causing loss of $25, ZOO.
A Hutchinson hotel man supposed he
had planted an acre of canteloupes but
the vines grew cucumbers.
The Southwestern Grain Journal, of
Topeka, estimates the Kansas corn crop
this year at 235, 900, 600 bushels.
In the Marshall county Republican
years old, made speech. He has held
Office for 80 years.
Steam plows are turning the soil of
Sumner county for the next wheat
crop. There are quite a number of
steam plows now at the job.
When Grover Cleveland was sheriff
OF Erie county N. Y, he boarded at the
home of Andy Wolfe, now prosper
Gus farmer living near Solomon City.
County surveyors of Kansas will hold
their annual meeting in Wichita Sep
TENDER "a and %, dates which will en-
able them to take advantage Of the
rates made for the carnival.
Bishop Fink was present at the dedi-
cation of the new Catholic church at
Burlington. The church is 40 by 80
feet, brick veneered, with tower 125
feet high. II cost more than 10000.
Every town which Buckskin Bills
wild west show visits boils over with
wrath over it as a fake. Many per-
sonal thieving cases are reported in
the way of over charges and short
changing.
! Geo. w. Finch, the eldest of the
newspaper family of that name, who
! has practiced law for a number of
years at Harper, was killed in a run
away on August Is. His dead body
was found in the road.
Miss Elizabeth E. Bentley has re-
signed the position of assistant in En-
! glish in Baker university to accept the
chair of English in Simpson college,
Indianola, Iowa. The trustees of
Baker have no one in view to fill the
| position as yet.
R. B. Baker, of Abilene, has just
been reunited with daughter that he
had supposed to be dead for % years.
His wife left him at Cameron, Mo-, and
went to Ohio where she died leaving a
little daughter. The father heard that
the child died also. Recently she
learned that her father was living and
came to Abilene. The meeting was a
happy one.
Mrs. Rebecca Buckley Burlxet, who
has just died at Holton, was grand
daughter of John Hart, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. Mrs. Burkett was IS years old.
President Ernest R. Nichols, of the
Kansas State Agricultural college, ha~
been selected for the position of presi-
dent of the Rhode Island College of
Agriculture and Mechanics Arts at
Kingston.
Cattle are dying in Greenwood coun-
ty from strange disease. It thought
that it may be hydrophobia-
The new Friends church near Claflin
was dedicated free of debt. The church,
supplied with the necessary furniture
and seats, cost about 81, 400, and is a
neat structure. The Friends society
is quite strong organization in that
part of Barton county.
Roland Wiley, the father of Mrs.
Castle, who was killed by Jessie Nor
rison, is travelling man, and this fact
is lining up large percentage of the
travelling men against the subscriptions
by members OF that guild to raise a
fund in Miss Morrison's interest.
A Reno county alfalfa raiser says
that IA acres devoted to that crop will
bring in better returns than 16o acre:
of prairie hay land.