The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-12
SENDS MOVIE FILMS FREE
Kansas State University Starts EX-
change for Benefit of School Chill
dren-MoVe Popular.

The University of Kansas has start
ed a motion picture film exchange,
which it will operate free of charge
for the benefit of school children in
small Kansas towns. Prof. F. r. Ham
ilton, director of the extension work
at the university, saw the advantages
Of teaching by means of motion pic
lures. He also saw that the field of
educational movies was not broad
| enough to induce commercial picture
managers to show them. He believed
| the university should go into the mo-
| ton picture business.
The exchange has been running only
a month, but in that time twenty-eight
inquiries have come to the office, and
| every film is out on the road all the
| time. Each reel is shown two or
| three times each week. Professor
Hamilton is trying to get several more
sets of films to supply the demand for
/ them.
! No fee is paid for the use OF the
! films and all express charges are paid
| by the person borrowing the pictures.
/ Practically all of the applicants for
! the use of the films are school super
! intendents, who exhibit the films in
| local picture theaters for the school
| children.
Windmill Factory for SaIina-Capi-
tai has been fully secured for the cree
ton of a factory at Salina for the
manufacture of windmills for ir-iga-
ton purposes. The factory will be in
working order by early spring.
Kansas Girl Left Lens Afoot.-Miss
Clara Willemetz of Pittsburg walked
| eighty-fve miles through the war
stricken territory from Lens to a point
near Calais, France, to board a ship
| bound for America a few weeks ago
Miss Willemetz, a miIliner, who had
| gone to Europe last summer, has just
arrived home.
Gave Poison by Mistake.-MTs.
! James Osborne died at lola the other
night of poison, administered by mis-
| take. Three members of the Osborne
! family were i'll with typhoid fever.
Two glass fruit jars were on the table
! One contained carboIic acid, used as
| a fumigant and antiseptic, the other
contained boiled drinking water Mrs
| Osborne asked for a drink. She was
handed the jar containing the poison
| and from it she took a large quantity.
| Death followed within few moments.
Efforts to resuscitate her with the pull
motor proved futile.
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Need Rain BadIy.-The dry weather
in Chase county, which has lasted al
most two months, is beginning to tell
on fall wheat. A lack of moisture to-
gether with the very warm fall has
! caused bugs to infest wheat fields
more thickly than ever before.
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Rush Wheat ShiPments.-One hun
dred cars of wheat have arrived in Sa-
lima in twenty-four hours. The hur-
ried shipment is said to be due to fear
! of a freight rate raise on December 1,
claimed to be due to the war tax meas
ure of congress.
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Tied Up Schedule changes-The
proposed change in the timetable Of
the Missouri Pacific road in Kansas,
which was TO have taken effect re-
Gently and which abolished one train
a day between Kansas City and Wich-
tia, has been annuIled by the state
utilities board.
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Raised 5o-PoUnd Turkey.-The 1arg-
est turkey gobbler ever raised in Sa-
! line county is now on farm six miles
south OF Salina- It is genuine bronze
and weighs fifty pounds. 1t viii be
kept for next years flock
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| Typhoid Epidemic in Manhattan
| An epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out in Manhattan Several
State Agricultural College students
have been sent home, having develop
| ed typhoid. Ned w KimbaH, editor
of the Manhattan Daily Mercury, is
J one Of those suffering
Mine Explosion Kills one--An ex-
pIosion IN mine No. IS Of the Central
Coal and Coke Company near Pitts
burg, killed Albert Stimsc, a shotfierer.
A second worker escaped because ne
wore an oxygen helmet