The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-06-20
FIVE CHURCHES TO COMBINE
omy in Service Proposed by
Ottawa Laymen.

A Iayman movement to consolidate
five local churches in Ottawa has been
begun III the last few weeks The
churches in which the plans have
been discussed are the Congregations
al, the pulpit of which has been filed
during the past year by Dr. r. E.
Schwegler of Kansas University; the
Christian Church, which is in the field
for a pastor to succeed one recently
resigned; the First Presbyterian, the
United Presbyterian and the Lutheran,
which is now without a pastor
Members of the Christian Church
board are urging the consolidation on
the ground of providing better at
traction for boys and making for econ
omy in obtaining pastor of unusual
ability and an athletic director for the
young men of the various congrega-
items.
To Sue His Own CoIIege.-A dispute
over the bones of 4O-foot marine
lizard which roamed western Kansas
some million years ago, will furnish
Alonson Buick, a senior law student
at Lawrence, his first case. That it
is against the board in control of the
University of Kansas is only the irony
of fate. Peter Clarity of McAIIister,
Logan county, alleges that the fossil,
which now repOses in the college mu-
scum, was taken from his farm with
out permission. He is suing, through
the student who is to be graduated
this year, for $4,000 damages. He
says they can keep the bones.
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UnVeii Monument to Student-A
rough hewn granite drinking foun-
tain was unveiled at Emporia recent
~ with appropriate ceremonies in
memory of William s. Hay, a student
Of the Normal School, who died in
July, 1912. The fountain stands on
the Normal athletic field, near the
gymnasium, and its erection was the
work of the * Club, an athletic or
gan1zation Of which Hay was a mem
ber
Hog Cholera Plant Ready-The
preliminary work OF organizing Mar
shall county for the United States
government experiments looking to
| the eradication of hog cholera is prace
| tically completed and the government
| expert and one assistant is now there.
The experiments will be in charge of
DR.. G. n. Wickwire of the department
| of agriculture.
Wichita's Oldest Citizen Dies
| Henry F. Gray, Wich:tas oldest cfti-
zen, is dead at the age Of 1O2. Mr..
Gray cast his first vote for Andrew
Jackson. He attributed his long life
to regular habits and temperance.
K
Smith for Printer.-W. r. Smith edi-
tor of the Colum bus Advocate, has for
mally announced his candidacy for the
| Republican nomination for state
printer He is a native of Kansas.
Grade Crossing FataIity.-B NJ.
Chalfant, 20 years old, retired farm
er, was killed the other night by a
Missouri Pacific train at the Fourth
street grade crossing in Atchison.
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GaIena Brothers Drown.-Ralph and
Milford Chambers, Is and II years
old. sons Of Andy Chambers, farm
er living near Galena, were drowned
in Spring river while in bathing.
K
Hope to Elect Observation-Disclosures
lists in conference at Wichita declared
that they expect to carry the Third
district, sending Mrs. Emma W. Gro
yer to congress.
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Fall Kills Aged Woman.-Mrs Re
becca Holcomb, 102 years old, is dead
at the heme of her daughter, Mrs
Henry Thierolf at Solomon River as
the result of recent fall. She never
rallied from the shock. She was the
oldest resident of the county.
Boy DroWned.-Bradley Bower, g
years old, only son of E. S. Bower,
was drowned in the Smoky Hill river
at Lincoln Center He was swim
ming with five companions ranging Ia
age from to IL years. The lads
could not save him.