The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-14
PLANGlANTc CHORUS
Everybody in Kansas to Be
Asked TO Sing Old Tunes :
On Same Day.
FIRST OF MAY IS SUGGESTED
Board of Administration and Super
intendent Ross Behind Move
College Men Will Help.

For whole state to Join in sing
ing the good old songs, to devote a
sunny spring day to recalling the
words of annie Laurie" and The
Old Folks at Home is a conception
that may be realized in Kansas May /.
On that day the board of educa-
tional administration and w. D. Ross,
state superintendent of schools, would
have the men, women, and children
Of the state gather in the different
communities and, under clear Kansas
skies, sing the immortal tunes togeth-
er. As leaders of the giant chorus,
they would appoint the young college
men and women who are attending
the university, the agricultural col
lege and the normals-
Professors Beach, Hoover, Valley
and Skilton of the normaIs, college,
and university have signified their ap-
preFai of the plan, and are working
on the details of the program
The idea of having state wide
celebration peculiar to the state, has
been adopted by several eastern
states, and by nearly all of the older
are connected with playground and
folk dancing movement in the schools.
Dean Ski1ton of the School of Fine
Arts at the University Of Kansas will
have charge Of the singing on Mt
Dread. 1t is thought that the annual
May Fete Of the university women
will be combined with the singing
exercises. It has been the custom OF
the women to unite in an outdoor
spectacle which consists of folk dane
ing and rural plays. These affairs
have always attracted large crowds,
as they are staged by several hundred
university women.
First Snake Story.-WhiIe blasting
out ledge OF rock for a spring On the
Josh Wallace farm a short distance
east Of Winfield few days ago, Ezra
Wilson found a cavity in which there
vas a dark ball Of considerable size,
which, upon being disturbed, dis
solved itself into a wriggling, Shiny
mass of snakes. There were $50 of
the snakes in the ball. with ten others
scattered about in other creyices At
ter killing the reptiles it was found
that every species of snake found in
Kansas. with one exception, was
present at the Information convention.
The rattlesnake was absent.
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Ola TeIegrapher Desd.-Fred Gard
ner, the pioneer. operator of the Santa
Fe. when it was tu:lt across Kansas,
is dead at his home in Dodge City
He was 20 years cid, and was pen
sioner OF. the Santa F,e, having served
the road thirty-four years. Mr.. Gard
ner was appointed an operator in
North Topeka in 1872 and served two
years at the front, moving his instru-
meuts along as the road was built.
He was appointed agent at Dodge
City in 1888 and held the place until
pensioaod in 1906.
Gusts PooIhalIs-PooI halls are to
be unknown III Lawrence after the
present year. The city council has
passed an ordinance ousting the halls
January 1, 1915. The action came af-
ter the presentation Of petitions
signed by thousands of citizens de-
claring pool halls detrimental to the
youth of the city and students of the
University of Kansas.
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Dismissed charge-V. D. Cooper,
| the travelling salesman, who charged
Walter Race, a Wichita private de-