The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-05-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Brief Review Of the Happenings of Week Condensed Into
PARAGRAPH for our Busy Readers

caney Gets Company Of Militia
Colonel P. NJ. Hoisingfon, Command
ing the second regiment. Kansas ma
tional guards, has mustered in a new
company of the state militia at Caney.
This will be known as company K,
taking the place of company K at FL
| dorado, which was mustered out of
the service some weeks ago because
of lack of interest in military affairs.
The new company starts out with the
full quota OF sixty members.
| Uncle Sam Means Business.-That
Uncle Sam means business when he
says the roads must be fixed mp, was
demonstrated to fete~n farmers when
the postal authorities sent word to
Carrier Caravan. ontsro94e.N 3<frOm
Lawrence office to quit serving all
the people living on certain roads. So
the mail was allowed to pile up in the
local office for the fifteen farmers
until they move their boxes over to
another road or come to town after
it.
Lid" Off on AdvertIsine.-State
Auditor Nation has taken off the cid"
and will permit the state educational
institutions to advertise at the states
expense. But he will ask them to be
judicious in their expenditures. Last
year he thought they wasted state
money in advertising for pupils. He
found, however, they had many con-
tracts outstanding which could not be
| abrogated. When the legislature met
| this year all the schools put in items
for advertising, but for some reason
the ways and means committee did
not include separate items for adver-
Using. The auditor took that to mean
the legislature had cut out the ad-
vertising, so he called a halt A short
time ago he found the agricultural
college was spending money for ad-
Vert1slng purposes out of a fund
which the state does not control. The
money was coming from fund which
the federal government donates direct
to the college. Mr.. Nation believed
this was not fair to the state univer-
s1ty and state normal, so he has serv-
ed notice on the heads of all institu-
tons that they can spend a reason
sSole amount for advertising.
Tribute to Riddles Memory.-Fix-
ing Ottawa as the next meeting place
and organizing an association of past
grand chancellors, the grand lodge
Knights of Pythias, adjourned at
Garden City after electing the follow
ing officers: Grand hancellor, R. V.
Brokaw, Hiawatha; grand vice chan
cellor, w. w. Bowers, Columbus;
grand prelate, Charles Little, Scran-
ton; grand keeper of records and
seals, Gus Neubert, Kansas City;
grand master of excheQuer, F. A. Viii
cox, Abilene; grand master at arms.
R. L. Barrack, Salina; grand inner
guard, D. A. Knox, Garden City; SUI
preme representative, F. L. Britton,
lola. A lodge of sorrow was held, at
| which appropriate tribute was paid
the memory of A. P. Riddle of Mime
apolis, killed in an automobile acct
dent, and one of the orders most
prominent members. The three rep
rsentatives to the supreme lodge are
W. j. Duvall, Hutchinson; George NJ.
Culver, Concordia, and F. L. Briton,
lola. The Pythian Sisters elected
Brokaw, Hiawatha; grand senior.
Jennie Evens, Larned; grand junior,
Ella Shaw, Eureka; grand manager,
Mary Webster, Bronson; grand mis-
tress of records and correspondence,
ALA Hills, Garrett; grand mistress
of finance, Ida Finley, Salina; grand
protector, Ruth Morris, Kinsley: grand
guard of the. outer temple, Abbie
Schermerhorn, Galena; supreme rep
resentative, Carrie Kinnard, Wichita;
alternate, Cora Taylor, Yates Cen
ter.
sedswick county's Big Growth
The population of Sedgwick county,
including the city of Wichita, as taken
from the assessment rolls in the of.
flee of County Assessor G.. W. Bris-
tow, is 71,623, which is an increase
from 56,774. This makes total in
crease of 14,774 persons The In
crease in the county is 3,177 and the
increase in the city is 1852. 5
Nichols May Remain at Head.-The
committee of the board of regents of
the State Agricultural college at Man
haitian, who went on their third hunt
ing trip last April to look for a new
president of the institution, have re-
turned with no better results than
they had in their other hunting trips
Regent Arthur Capper says that it is
probable that e. R. Nichols will con-
tinue to be the president for another
year at least. 1t is becoming more
evident that while the committee had
three or four men whom they looked
upon favorably for the place, yet they
failed for some reason or another to
land man, although salary rang
ing from $4,000 to $4,000 a year was
to be paid, providing the right man
could be found, which so far has been
an impossibility
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men have already been located, but
that the officers delayed the matter
Of