The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-11-21
HELP TO FARMERS
Authorities Conduct a Cholera
Prevention Campaign in
Linn County.
1.4OO HOGS ARE VACCINATED
Work Is Highly Commended BY the
People Living Near LaCygne-
District Enlarged.

paign conducted in Linn county by the
county agent, the veterinary depart
ment of the agricultural college, and
the college extension division through
DR.. c. A Mccall, employed by the
United States department of agricul-
ture, cooperating, is bearing large re-
suits.
A district was organized around La
Cygne, four miles wide and some four
teen miles long. Dr. Hobbs, of the
veterinary department, has made ten
trips to this county to vaccinate hogs
for the farmers in order to keep chol-
era out of the district. He has vacci-
mated 1,4OO hogs His work is being
highly commended by the people of
Linn county and the district is grow
ing in size each day. 1t is believed
that it will take in the whole county
within a few weeks. Similar dis
tricts will be started in other coun-
ties when there is sufficient local de-
mand.
VIII Discuss Charity.-Charity in
Kansas is the central subject for con-
sideration at the joint meeting of the
Kansas Conference of Charities and
Correction and the Kansas Society Of
Criminal Law and Criminology at Law
renee, November 1921 Graham Tag
Tor of Chicago and William T. Cross,
secretary of the National Conference
of Charities and Correction, will pre-
sent the most recent development in
humanitarian efforts. Another fea-
ture of the joint meeting will be the
reports of the four superintendent Of
Associated Charities.
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Seventy-first Anniversary. - The
Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal
church, South, of Kansas City, Kas.,
celebrated it's seventy-frst anniver-
sary last Sunday, as planned, with
Homecoming" services. About 500
people attended both morning and
evening services. A choir of fifty per-
sons, many of whom have been mem
bers for fifty or sixty years, assisted
the usual choir of younger people.
Some of the singers were so aged that
they had to be helped up the steps to
their places.
Bit His Wooden Leg.-George Lech-
Ter, an employee of the Santa Fe
freighthouse, at Atchison, is rejoicing
over the fact that he has a wooden
leg. On his way uptown he encounter
ed strange acting dog, which at
leg several times and tearing his cloth
leg several times ind tearing his cloth
ing before he could beat him off. The
dog manifested all the SYMPTOMS of hay
ing rabies. It was killed.
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Bodies In WeII.-The bodies of Mrs.
Lee More and her two children were
found in a we'll at their home at Thay-
er. 1t is believed Mrs. Moore killed
her children and then committed sui
eide Two weeks ago Mrs. Moore re-
ported to the county authorities that
her husband had left home and war
rant charging wife desertion was is
sued against Moore.
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Raises White Cross Fund.-One
thousand four hundred and ninety-one
dollars and sixty cents has been
pledged to the White Cross fund by
students and members of the faculty
at the University of Kansas. The sen
Tor law class subscribed $50
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Community EVenings.-A number OF
small towns and school districts near
Manhattan are to have community
evenings" The girls of the Young
Women's Christian Association are
planning to do some live work in ru
raj communities. At present class
of girls is studying the needs of the
farm women and child life in the coun
try The members of the class are
preparing to enter this rural work
which will be under the direction OF
Walter Burr, rural service expert il
the Kansas Agricultural College. The
girls have an excellent quartet which
will go with them to furnish the music
of the evening. Other girls will give
short papers and talks. The girls
first meeting was at Wabaunsee,- No
vember Is. Four other meetings viii
be held in communities near Wabaun
see.
Gives Candy for EIection.-Mis:
Euna NJ. Arrasmith, Republican coun
ty superintendent who was reelected
is giving out novel treat in the form
of boxes of candy instead Of the Gus
tomary cigars. She was the only wo
man candidate in Republic county il
the election.
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Fall Causes Death.-John E. Van
derbelt, a furniture dealer of Abilen,
for twenty-five years, is dead from in
juries he received in a fall down
stairway in his store. His skull wa.
fractured. His wife and an infant sol
survive.
Second Crop of Spuds.-Mr Free
johnson of Concordia, is using new
potatoes that matured from potatoe
planted in August. They are as larg
as hen eggs and were grown from
potato crop that matured early Il
July.
School War Threatens.-A schoo
war precipitated by the European wa
is threatened in Reno county. Til
board for the Medora district schoo
wants to teach the children German
A half dozen patrons of the school @
Russian and English birth have raise