Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-21
TO DISCUSS THE SCHOOLS
Conference of Good Citizenship
League Called to Meet at En-
poria April and q.


The Kansas Good Citizenship
League, at the invitation of the
Council of Faculty Women at the
state normal school and the Lyon
County Federation of Clubs, will hold
an educational conference at Smporia
Friday and Saturday, April 3 and 4.
The meeting will be in the normal
auditorium.
The purpose of the conference is
to discuss the possible Improvement
of Kansas schools, crime and proven
ton measures and possible legisla-
ton with regard to these. The COM
plete program will be announced
later. All members of the league and
all men and women who are inter-
ested in this work are invited to at
tend.
Stephen Osborne Dies.-Stephen
J. Osborne died recently at Coffey-
vile after long illness He was 81
years old. He went there thirteen
years ago from Southwestern Kansas.
where he served as judge of the dis
trict court About fifteen years ago
he was speaker of the Kansas House
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a son is probate Judge of Montgomery
county.
Don't Work Roads Now NJ Lowe
of Kansas City, president of the Ma
tional Old Trails Association, has ad-
vised farmers in Barber county against
working the roads at this season. Mr..
Lowe says that in view of the coming
spring rains road work at this time
would be useless and the farmers had
better save their energy till the rainy
season is over.
Burns to Death.-In a blaze which
destroyed the NJ. B. Hamilton & Co.'s
glove factory at Leavenworth, Willard
Belknap, 60 years old, night watch
man, lost his life. Three firemen were
overcome by smoke. The loss proba-
bly, will be more than $4,000.
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Newspaper SoId.-R. L. Lee of
Brighton, Colo, has purchased the
Harrington Sun. weekly publication,
and has taken charge. P. w. Morgan
and H. C. Morgan have been manag-
ing the paper.
Skates for Mail CIerks.-Short four
men in the mailing department of the
postoffice, Capt. J. H. Shields, post
master at Wichita, has arranged to
put two of the employees on roller
skates in order to facilitate the receipt
and distribution of mail The plan
was tried in the Chicago postoffice in
the Christmas week and is said to
have worked well.
St. John is 81.-A meeting was held
recently at the court house in Olathe
by the friends of ex-Gov. John P St.
John, who is in the East making pro-
hibition speeches in the large cities.
The celebration was in honor of Mr.
st. Johns eighty-first birthday ami
versary and at the conclusion a COM
mittee was appointed to send congras-
ulations by telegraph
Journalists to K. u.-Charles H
Grasty and Wilbur d. Nesbit have
joined the list of men who will travel
to address the National Newspaper
Conference during the Kansas news
paper week at the University of Kan
sas, May II to IA.
Postmaster Dies.-M. d. Lyles:
postmaster at Saffordville for twelve
years and a resident of Chase county
since 1880, is dead at his home in
Saffordville- He was born at New
Market, Tenn, in 1871 and was a vet
eran of the Civil war He is survived
by wife and nine children.
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Married So Years.--Dr. and Mrs. Fl.
w Marsh of Winfield recently cele-
brated their fifty-eighth wedding an
niversary. They were married in
Ionia county, Michigan, February %,