The Chanute times., 1913-05-23
BRIEF MENTION OF
KANSAS NEWS ITEMS

were notified that OpuonS on dll Ihe
second hand twine plant machinery
in the country had been secured, pre-
sumably by agents of the twine manu-
facturers.
state Commissions of Public Ser
vice." is to be the title of the COM
mencement address by John Rogers
Commons of the University OF WIS
consin. to be delivered June 19 at the
fiftieth commencement of the Kansas
Agricultural College. Mr.. Commons
will consider commission government
for states.
The State Association of Probate
Judges met in Emporia recently Tor
the purpose of discussing the new
laws passed by the recent legisla-
ture and to come to a general agree
ment regarding their Interpretation
About forty probate judges were IN
attendance.
The department Of Industrial
journalism will remain at the Kansas
Agricultural College for the present
The printing plant will remain also,
but the course in printing will be
abolished. Printing will be offered as
an elective subject in the other
courses.
The examination of the will OF the
late H. H. Sudendorf, wealthy mil
Ter of Salina, who died recently, show
ed that he left $4,000 to the Kansas
Wesleyan University. The will pro-
vides that the money shall be expend-
ed for the salaries of the teachers.
The Star mail route to Uneda,
which was discontinued several
months ago, will be re-established
May IS, according to advices received
at Meade from Washington The
carrying contract has been awarded
to Harry Lewis.
T. A. Cordry has resigned as editor
of the Parsons Sun, to assume the
editorship of the Kansas Workman.
Mr.. Cordry will remain in Parsons
and has been elected secretary OF the
chamber of commerce of that city.
Resolutions providing for thirty
blocks of paving in the residence dis
trict of Eldorado were passed by the
city council. The streets are to be
thirty feet wide, twenty-six feet OF
paving and the curb and gutter
The 1914 convention of the Loyal
Order of Moose will be held in EN-
poria, that town receiving the vote
of the 1918 convention at Ottawa. j..
H. Johns of Topeka was reelected
president of the state association.
Believing that Mrs. Sarah Crothers
of Liberal is suffering from a well de-
fined case of pellagra, physicians
have requested the state authorities
to take charge of her and put her in
an institution for treatment.
F. A. Klene, Jr., secretary of the
Kansas Dry Farming Association, has
written the Industrial Club there
that Garden City has been chosen for
the coming Dry Farming Convention
June 4 and 5.
Miss Clara Conger, 1S years old, of
near wellington, was thrown from
buggy by a runaway team while driv-
ing to Dalton to visit with her sister,
Mrs. Grace Shaw, and died without
regaining consciousness.
H. D. Smith, Kansas pioneer and
founder of the Humboldt Interstate
is dead of heart disease Mr.. Smith
at one time, lived at Arkansas City,
where he founded the Arkansas City
X-Ray.
Seven hundred books, comprising
the private library of the late Capt
l.. T. Heritage, which by the Heri-
tage will were given to the Emporia
City Library, have been catalogued
shelved and are ready for circula-
ton.
The Kaw Valley Drainage Board
will be able to finish it's work of flood
protection within the ~ million dol
lars voted, and will have some $780,
900 remaining in its treasury.
One man was killed and one severe
ly injured by lightning near Peru the
other day. A heavy rain that fol-
lowed the electrical storm did much
damage.
The Southern Kansas Holstein-
Freisian Breeders Association, at a
recent meeting at Mulvane, decided
to try to interest all Kansas in the
development of better dairy cows.
Wichita will probably get the next
meeting of the State Bankers Associa-
tion.
The Association Of Kansas Osteo-
paths adjourned after their dinner at
Hutchinson to meet next year at
Topeka. DR.. W. NJ. Koons of Herring.
ton was elected president.
Anna Jane Cruey, so years old, was
shot and killed by Daniel Heller, aged
II years at Usage City. The boy was
cleaning a gun, believed not to be
loaded. The bullet struck Mrs. Cruey
Just back of the ear causing her death
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