The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-05-22
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Pays More for Beets.-The sugar
company at Garden City has drawn
up it's contracts for beet growers to
be used this season and the signing
up of contracts will begin in a short
time. There will likely be no delay
about the closing up of the contracts
this season as the contracts are even
better than those of last season and
practically every contention of the
growers, made before signing the con-
tracts year ago, has been met by the
company with out any demand being
made for them by the growers this
season.
Wear Bronze Button UnIawfulIy.-
One of the general statutes of Kan
sas provides that it shall be a misde
meanor for any member Of the Grand
Army of the Republic who has been
dropped from the rolls or who has
been honorably or dishonorably dis
charged to continue to wear the lit
tie bronze button, and the officials
OF that organization are going to try
to break up this practice among old
soldiers. The department commander
took the matter up at the state en-
| campment and is still discussing it.
The law provides that an act such as
Commander Morgan discusses shall
be considered a misdemeanor, and up
on conviction the guilty person shall
be punished by Imprisonment for a
term not exceeding thirty days or a
fine not to exceed twenty-one dollars,
or by both such fine and imprison-
ment
knights TempTar Elect Officers
At the annual meeting of the Knights
Templar of the state in independence
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Sir Marvin L.
TRULY, independence, R. E. Grand
Commander; Sir Joseph E Bell, Con-
cordia, V. E. Department Grand Com
mander; Sir William F. March, Law
renee, E. Grand Generalissimo; Sir
John Kinkel, Hutchinson, E. Grand
Chaplain General; Sir Alex A. Sharp,
Larned, E. Grand Senior Warden; Sir
Rev. Chas. Il. Rogers, Hutchinson, E.
Grand PTelate; Sir William L. Max
we'll, Paola, E. Grand Junior Warden;
Sir John Mccullough, Galena, E.
Grand Treasurer; Sir Thomas J. An
derson, Topeka, E. Grand Recorder:
Sir Frederick Starnes, Wichita, Grand
Standard Bearer; Sir August o. Well
man, Topeka, E. Grand Sword Bearer;
Sir VIM. H. Martin, Parsons, E. Grand
Warden; Sir j. D. Mclean, Yelling
ton, e. Grand Captain of the Guards
David b. Fuller, Eureka, goes now to
rank of Past Grand Commander.
Hutchinson gets next years CON
clave.
Pabst Extract Can't Be SoId.-At-
torney General Fred S. Jackson has
the Pabst Brewing company on its
knees. 1t is begging that the attor-
ney general forget that part OF a
! recent opinion in which he held that
Pabst extract, two per cent and other
malt drinks could not be sold in Kan
sas without violating the liquor laws
of the state. This opinion was rend-
cred upon the request of a prominent
wholesale drug house of the state,
which wanted the facts The Pabst
company states in its letter to the at
torney general that its extract has
been sold upon the market as a medi-
cine for years and that it has been
so advertised in all of the lead
ing magazines of the country This
array of facts did not disturb Mr..
Jackson in the least. He replied that
the opinion was written, that it was
written after a careful investigation
into the subject and that he proposed
to stand by it. This settles it so far
as the Pabst extract is concerned.
Any sale of this liquid in Kansas will
, be the basis for prosecution started
by the office of the attorney general. >
. Kansas Donates to Minnesota
The University of Kansas is to lose
another professor before long. Prof
A. ]. Boynton, assistant professor IN
economics, has been appointed head
, of the department of economics at the
I University of Minnesota and will soon
! resign at K. U. to accept the new pc
sition. Increased salary is given as
one of the reasons for making the
change.
Farmers Will Hold Wheat-Tht
mills and farmers of central Kansas
are preparing to store wheat mex
; year. They have for several years
seen wheat lower in The fall than il
the spring ana the -ldSHlOn OF selling
wheat directly from the threshing NIL
chine has grown until early wintel
sees the crop we'll out of the whea
belt. This years experience has beer
!. a lesson and the mills are building
2 steel and concrete warehouses to holC
I $4,000 to 100000 bushels in prepare
. ton for a storage campaign. The far
S mers, too, are building granaries an
q barns and next season will see mor'
X wheat stored than in a half dozel
l. years. Most of the central Kansa
+ mills are shut down because of a lacl
of grain.
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n called for an opinion from the attoI
) ;ey general. as several legal question
n were involved. The attorney general
r in his opinion, puts all the juvelil
t actors out of business.
S Commandant keer's Successor
r has been announced at Fort Rifle