Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-10-24
BAKER GETS ITS BIG FUND
Methodist University at Baldwin
Raises 100000 After Two Years
of Strenuous Work.

Baker University has raised it's half
million dollar endowment. In a gi-
gantic celebration at Baldwin, which
included mass meeting of 1000 per-
sons in the college gymnasium, fol-
lowed by a torchlight procession of
the entire town and college to Cave
ness Park, the athletic field of the
school, the elimination of two years
Of hard campaigning was celebrated.
The impression was of the Fourth
of July. Guns were booming, rockets
darted into the sky and the festive
spirit was in the air.
Under the terms of the agreement
of the general education board of New
York, $4,000 of the money raised will
be allowed for immediate use. The
House of Hanover, one of the perma-
nent class organizations of the college,
and the senior class of this year, is
financing plan to raise enough
money among its members. to start
the erection of new science building,
which is needed badly at the present
time. The raising of $4,000 will be
necessary before this can be under
taken. OF the $450,0O0 left for pro-
ductive endowment, disposal will be
made through well chosen farm loans
yielding per cent.
Baldwin, a town of twelve hundred,
assumed a burden of $4,000 toward
raising the endowment. The four col
lege classes, after two days cam
paign by the class officers, pledged
s7,67S. OF this amount the seniors
pledged s3,14O; the juniors, s1,435;
the sophomores, $3.50, and the fresh
men, s1,273. Other departments con-
tributed $515, making the total stu
dent contribution $s,193.
Bakers at Junction City-Seventy-
five members of the Master Bakers
Association of Kansas were in attend
ance at the annual convention which
was held at Junction City recently.
Train Kills Roy.-WilIiam G. Lytt1e.
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lyttle of
Emporia, was killed recently by fall
ing from a moving train near Edger-
ton. Letters in the boys pocket were
the means of Identification. Miss
Grace Lyttle, sister of the dead boy,
was drowned in the Neosho river at
Hartford while boating about six years
ago
Killed by lrterurban Car.-Charles
Denton, section foreman at Wallula,
father of seven children, was run over
and killed by southbound Kansas
City Western interurban car recently
near trestle south of Lansing.
Insects Bite Causes Death-The
bite of an insect killed Lee Wright, a
Butler county farmer. While working
in an alfalfa field two weeks ago the
insect flew into Wright's nose Physi-
clans tried for two weeks to save his
life. He died in Wichita hospital.
A Successful Fair.-The Bourbon
county fair closed recently at Union
town 1t was the most successful fair
ever held in that county
Parsons Gets Shops Back-At
conference at independence an agree
ment was reached whereby the Mis-
souri,, Kansas G Texas Railway Com
pany agrees to bring its shops back
to Parsons from Dallas, Tex, and SIT
Of its officers and office men from St
Louis.
Motor Club on Tour-Sixty-five
motor cars, carrying members of the
Clay County Motor Club. made a tour
of Riley county recently They visited
Leonardville, Winkler. Randolph. Gar
rison. Manhattan, Keats and Riley.