The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-04-11
NORMAL HEAD INSTALLED
His Work at Pittsburg-GoV.
Hodges Present.

In the presence of Governor Hodges
tional institutions, educators, mem
bers Of the legislature and newspaper
men, William Aaron Brandenburg for
mally was inaugurated as the first
president of the State Manual Train
ing Normal School at Pittsburg. Pres
ident Brandenburg made an address
in which he said the purpose of the
Pittsburg school is to teach teachers
how to teach practical things of edu-
cation. DR.. L. D. Harvey, president
Of the Stout Institute, delivered an adj
dress following the inaugural address.
In the afternoon Governor Hodges
and the heads of the state educational
institutions, President Wilbur n. Ma
son Of Baker University and several
others delivered complimentary ad-
dresses.
Atchison Building Boom.-Two new
$4,000 churches and a $35, 900 theater
will be built here in the next year.
The Baptist church already has plans
under way for the erection of new
church building and Sunday school
auditorium, and the Methodist church
congregation has voted to raise $40,-
900 for a new church. At present At
Gibson is without a theater, the old
Seaton Theater having been con-
demned two years ago.
Woman Drowns.-Mrs. Wayne Hall,
25 years old, wife of Everett Hall, a
farmer living near Mildred, drowned
while attempting to ford the Usage
River in a buggy at Mildred. Miss
Cora Harvey, a school teacher, who
was with Mrs. Hall, was rescued.
End to SaIina Man.-John P. Drew
tits, for thirty-five years a farmer in
Saline county and for more than TWEEN
ty years trustee of Washington Town
ship, is dead at his home near Smo-
Ian. His widow, two sons and two
daughters survive.
Granddaughter of Patriot Dead
Mrs. Elizabeth Huntley. SO years old,
and the granddaughter of General
Blakesly, who. in the War of 1912, de-
serted to the Americans, is dead at
Smith Center.
Escapes from Reformatory.-Sam
Rocks, %, a second timer. sent up
from Wichita on charge of burglary
and grand larceny, escaped from the
reformatory at Hutchinson by cutting
hole through the roof and letting
himself down with rope. Rocks was
a dollhouse man and was allowed a
few extra liberties. A dummy was
found on the cot in his cell.
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Ottawa Judge Dies.-Joseph Paxton
Kerr, police Judge and at one time
one of the foremost landowners and
| business men of Franklin County
died recently at Ottawa of pneumonia.
He was an agriculturalist, railroad
contractor and scholar. He was born
in Mercer County. Pennsylvania, in
1880.
Pittsbureers sect Toeether."-six
hundred men-four hundred OF them
farmers-attended a get together
luncheon, given by the Pittsburg
| Chamber OF commerce the other day.
The affair was the first of number
the chamber plans to obtain members
| Of the chamber from the country.
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Shoots Robber-Tom Vance, night
Waterman. discovered robh. - in The
act of robbing the ]. W. Paulen mer-
camille store at Fredonia and arrested
them. after shooting one of the men
in the back The wounded man is
only slightly injured.
Veteran Dies.-isaac Anderson, a
retired farmer. 81 years of age and
a veteran of the Mexican and Civil
wars. is dead at Salina. He had lived
in Ottawa County and Saline County
thirty years. He left a widow. two
sons and a daughter.