Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-02-28
WILL TRAIN PLAY TEACHERS
State University Soon to Begin
Courses in Child Welfare and
Gymnastics.

Gymnastics.
To the constantly increasing group
of public welfare courses which are
taught at the University of Kansas
will be added training classes for play
ground instructors. Two lines of in
struction will be given in the prepare
ton of playground supervisors. The
department of physical education I'M
der the direction of DR.. James Nal
smith will teach folk games and gym
nastics, and the department of child
welfare, under Prof. William A. Nc
Keever, will teach the psychology OF
children and recreation.
No Smallpox at X. U.-One ner-
vous Kansas boy wrote to Chan
cellor Frank Strong the other
day anxiously 1nquiring whether the
University of Kansas was quaran-
tined. He wanted to enter the instl-
tuition when enrolment for the Sec
ond semester begins, and imagined
that the University plant was closed.
ANY danger of a smallpox epidemic
is now at an end, explained Chancel-
Tor Strong. Not single case has
been reported for two weeks. Proper
precautions were taken at the start,
and the disease did not spread beyond
the two original mild cases. A large
number of students and faculty were
vaccinated free by the state.
You may feel sure that it will be
absolutely safe for you to come to the
University" added the Chancellor.
Whisky from Faucet.-When Off
GERS visited the home of Walt How
ard at Pittsburg, accused of selling
liquor, they saw a faucet protruding
from the wall as if it were an inno-
cent part of water service. The
Howard home is outside the city linn
its and has no water connections. So
the officers turned it and it yielded
whisky. A little investigating dis
closed that the faucet was. the outlet
for 16-gallon key which was hidden
in a closet on the other side of the
wall. The key was nearly empty.
Howard had been arrested a few days
previous on charge of liquor selling.
He now faces two charges and is in
the county jail.
Killed BY His Job.-John Allen, for
ten years postmaster of Yale a small
mining town northeast of Pittsburgh,
had been seeking for several months
to be relieved of his Office He re-
signed recently, but his resignation
was not accepted. Death relieved the
veteran official. Worry over his in
ability to get rid of his job was one
of the causes of his death. friends
said
County EmpIoye crazed-During an
apparent fit of insanity John Northern
threatened to kill charges on the Ford
county farm, of which he has been
manager. He also threatened to kill
one of his sons and attempted to drink
poison He was taken to probate
court by the sheriff
Travelling Exhibit-The engineering
faculty of the University of Kansas is
gathering material for an exhibit
which is to be shipped over Kansas to
give the taxpayers an idea of the work
accomplished by the Engineering
School
Goes to West Point.-Desmond
O'Keefe. sophomore at the Kansas |
university and a son of John T. |
O'Keefe, an attorney of Leavenworth. |
has been appointed cadet to the |
Military Academy at West Point. He |
is to REPORT for duty at the school |
June Is.
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New Rule for Fort Scott--Fortl
Scott at a special election adopted |
commission government by a bare
majority of 8. The vote was very |
light. only 1.66s votes out of total |
of 1875 registered