The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-25
MORE KANSAS MAUD MULLERs
Atchison County Girl Mows Twenty
Acres of CIoVer-Sisters PIow
the CornfieId.

Atchison county has more Maud
Mullers Not content with allowing
the Swenson sisters of Monrovia, who
harvested $50 acres of wheat, to win
all of the glory, other Atchison young
women have thrown their bonnets
into the ring
Miss Edith Snider, daughter of Ed
Snider, a dairyman living southwest
of AtchisOn, cut all of their twenty
acres of clover recently.
While Miss Edith was moving the
hay, her two sisters, Ruth and Mar
garet, ran a 3-horse pillow over the
cornfe1d. Besides emuIating old
Maui Muller, the girls all played hero
ines in the 'milkmaid" role by milk
ing fifteen cows twice day
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Creditors File characterization of
the Kansas City. Mexico & Orient
Railroad, while it was under its for
mer mana cement, have filed = suit in
the district court at Wichita to pre-
vent the reorganized company from
encumb ering the railroads property
by issuing bonds or mortgages. The
old company, amounting to $4,000
against the railroad. Twenty-One
claimants join in the suit
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Leave Lansing to Hodges.-In their
annual recommendations to the gov
ernor and to the legislature the mem
bers of the state board of corrections.
in session at the state penitentiaTy,
decided to leave all recommendation
as to the reconstruction of the penal
institution in the hands of the com
mission appointed by Governor
Hodges for that purpose.
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Big Watermelon Crop.-The crop
of Sand Springs watermelOns this
year is estimated, from present pros
poets, at $500 cars One thousand
acres are devoted to watermelOns in
the sand hill district west of Abilene
and indications are for a record crop.
Widow Wants Allan unusual do
mestie tangle reached climax at At
Gibson when Mrs. Bessie Bradley filed
suit to prevent her two children from
sharing in the estate left by her hus-
band and their father some months
ago.
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Dies at Picnic.-W. S. Fleming in
troduced T. A Borman as a speaker
at the TeCumseh Fourth of July ceIe-
bration. He walked back to his chair
on the platform. In a minute he fell
off the platform and died without re-
gaining consciousness. Death was due
to heart disease Mr. Fleming was
in charge OF the arrangements for the
picnic given by the Tecumseh Grange
ImpaIed on shaft-Clinton J.
Burnes, a city salesman for a produce
wounds received in a collision with a
wagon when a tire OF his motorcycle
exploded. Burnes was impaled on a
shaft
Retired Farmer Dies-DeH Russo.
retired farmer and a resident Of
Kansas since 1870, is dead at his home
in Atchison. He is survived by a
widow and five children.
Train Runs Over Man.-Sam Munce
was run over by a northbound Katy
train at Columbus. Both legs were cut
of above the knee and he probably
will die
Kansas Teacher to Nj. U-Dr. F. j.
Kelly, who will become head of the
Emporia Normal Training School in
September, has been engaged by the
University of Missouri Summer School
to give courses in city school admin
istration and in high school problems.
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Quits Eating.-Dan Pierson, Pitts
burg restaurant man for twenty years
is on a hunger strike" He has not
eaten a bite for eighteen days, in at
tempting to reduce his weight He has
brought it down from 213 to 100. He
expects to fast two weeks longer.
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Wichita Pioneer Dies.-Leonard c.
Jackson, senior member of the Jack
son Walker Coal and Material Com
pany, a pioneer of Wichita, is dead.
He was 81 years old and came to
Wichita in 1875 from New York He
was a Mason and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church
A Tall Couple Wed.-The tallest
couple ever married in Wichita came
from UdalI the other day to start life
together They were Wilbert Fen, 6
feet 6 inches tall, and Mrs. Blenning,
feet and 2 inches tall