Free press., 1906-06-09
Worms Hurtlna Corr.

sas. The wire worms are damaging
corn also. A good deal of corn is re-
ported replanted.
Arkansas City High School. - The
twenty-second annual commencement
exercises of the Arkansas City high
school took place. Dr. Matt S. Hughes,
of Kansas City, delivered the com
mencement address. The class num-
bers seventeen.
Concordia's Horse Racing. - Ar
rangements have been perfected by
the Cloud County Fair Association
for a Fourth of July racing matinee
with four harness and three running
races. Six hundred dollars in purses
are offered.
Getting Ready for Fair.-The state
officials and directors of the Modern
Woodmen lodge are at Ottawa con-
ferrins with a committee from the To-
cal lodge and with the Franklin Coun-
ty Fair Association in regard to hold
ing the state encampment in Forest
park here at fair time this fall.
Sale of Mill at Concordia.-The sale
by ]. H. Cline, of the Concordia Mill
ing Company. Consideration, $4,000.
The new company's officers are:
President, G. W. Huscher; vice-presi-
dent and general manager. Wilmer
Bennett; secretary-treasurer, Claude
E. Curran.
SaIina Merchants Trade Trip.-Sa-
lima merchants will make a three
days trip through Western Kansas.
The route this year will be west of
Scott City, thence south to McPher-
son. One hundred merchants will
make the trip. Last year about eighty
made a similar trip around the loop
on the Union Pacific.
High School Commencement. =
The commencement exercises of the
COncordia high school occurred with
a class of thirteen. The principal fea-
ture was an address on the Elements
of True Greatness" by William l..
BurHck, chancellor of the law depart
ment at the State university. This is
the twenty-fourth class to graduate
Wires and Vines.-Jerry Miller, of
Nemaha county, says that where
vines are trained on wire there is
great danger of their becoming winter
killed. The wire holds the cold and
wherever the delicate tendrils cling
to the wire they are frozen. Mr.. Mil
Ter has been using heavy rope which
he soalIen in oil, to train his vines
on.
John A. Glettig Used a Rifle. =
John A. Glettig. a well known Leav-
enworth butcher, died from the re-
suit of two self-inficted bullet
wounds. He shot himself through the
head with a rifle. Glettig had become
an habitual drunkard and had several
times attempted suicide in the past
few weeks. He leaves wife and eight
children.
Bad Track Causes Wreck. Two
wrecks caused by bad track have oc-
Cured in the Prosser branch of the
Missouri Pacific in two days. In the
last one. some ten miles from Con-
cordia, Conductor Sohlinger had one
leg badly crippled and the brakeman
and mail clerk were bruised. Super
intendent ]. NJ. Walsh was on the
wrecked train.
Diplomas for Fifty-Four. = At the
commencement exercises of Baker
university fifty-four graduates receiy-
ed diplomas. The honorary degree
of D. D. was conferred upon Rev. G.
F. Reisner, pastor of the Grace
Methodist oburoh Of noouar ood To
seph H. Hill of the Kansas State Nor
NAL, also the degree of L. L. D. upon
President Shanklin, of Upper Iowa
university. President Murlin also an
nounced that $1,S00 of the $4,000
conditional endowment necessary to
secure the Carnegie gift of $4,000
had been secured and that the rest
was expected within the next ten
days.
Santa Fe Summer scheduIe.-The
various division superintendents and
other higher officials of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company,
in session at Topeka, have practically
completed the summer time card,
which will go into effect June IT. One
of the features will be the establish
ment of a local passenger train be-
tween Dodge City. Kan, and La Junta,
Col. There will be practically no
changes in the through overland
trains. The California Limited will
be run daily this summer, where last
season it was run as a semi-weekly
train.
Parsons Man Gets Fortune. - The
will of the late H. G. Rouse. million
aire president of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas Railway Company, which
was admitted to probate gives the
Rouse building in Cleveland, Ohio, to
Benjamin L. Rouse of this city.
Linn County Hay Crop.-Good rains
have fallen in this part of the state
within forty-eight hours. There is
general good feeling among the farm
ers over the precipitation, although
the hay crop was somewhat cut short
b. the dry weather.
Burrows Investment. J. R. Bur
row, secretary of state, and several
other Kansas capitalists are negotiat-
ing for 200 600 acres r,f timber land in