Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-27
Fifteen-Year-OId Miami County
Boy Won Every Contest
He Had Entered.
DID ALL THE WORK HIMSELF
ed and Cultivated it Without As
sistance From Elders.

Walter Hays, the 15-year-old winner
of sweepstakes for the best ten ears
of corn at the Kansas State Fair at
Hutchinson in September, was nosed
out of sweepstakes in the Miami
County finals at Paola the other day.
Young Hays won first on best ten
ears, first on best essay relating to
how he raised his corn, but lost by
narrow margin on the most profitable
acre and heaviest yield per acre. Wal
ter Hays, son of Mr.. and Mrs. w E.
Hays, who live two miles north of
Osawatomie, comes from a family of
natural farmers and champion corn
raisers. His two elder brothers, Glenn
and Cyde, have won county champion
ship in contrasting for the past five
or six years, but this is Walters first
year as a contestant for honors in
this department of farm work and
the fact that since he began exhibit
ing his corn in September he has won
every contest in which he has exhibit
ed has turned the attention of this en-
tire section of Kansas to him.
Young Hays selected the seed, cult
waited his acre, planted and attended
his corn and harvested it and has per-
sonally selected every ear for exhibit
ton purposes.
To Mark Golden BeIt-Charles NJ.
Harger of Abilene, president of the
Golden Belt Road Association, met
several members of the association at
Salina recently and a meeting was
called for November 10 at Manhattan.
Efforts will be made then to have the
road marked like the Santa Fe Trail
entirely through Kansas and a part of
Colorado, with iron markers showing
the distance from town to town and
other items of interest to travellers.
Mr.. Harger said that every effort will
be made to make the Golden Belt
Road the most popular highway from
Kansas City to Denver.
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Must Swear to Fight.-No immi-
grant need apply to him for citizen
ship papers who will not take oath
to fight for the United States when
occasion arises, Judge William /.
Start announced in the district court
at Hiawatha the other day.
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RattIesnake Killed Boy. - The 49,
month-old boy of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Mirrty in Plains, Kas., while in the
y
times. He was Immediately taken to
Liberal, but died in few minutes.
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Man Dies of Burns-John Robin
son, aged IS, died in the Atchison
county hospital recently as a result
of burns sustained last March when
barn caught fire. Doc Robinson,
as he was known, was veterinary
surgeon, a familiar figure there.
Hog Prices to Court.-Congressma
Dudley Doolittle ot the Fourth Con-
gressional District has called on the
federal Department Of Justice for inn
mediate attention to the attempt of
the meat packers to depress the prices
of live stock. especially hogs.
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Killed by Cave-in.-Isaac Babb,
As years old. of Lone Star, Douglas
county, was killed by a cave-in while
working on a bridge near Lone Star.
He was working at the bottom of the
bank when the bank above gave way
and pinned him beneoth it.
Columbus Votes Railroad Bonds
Columbus voted $40, 900 bonds to aid
the Oklahoma & Interstate Railway
Company to build an interurban line
from Columbus to Commerce, Ok, and
from Columbus to Galena The vote
was almost four to one in favor of the
bonds.
SaIina Votes Against Parks.-Sa-
lima voted against the issue of $40, 900
bonds for the establishment of a sys-
tenn of five small parks and play
grounds. The majority was 464 in
vote of 1.442, which was less than one
third of the vote of the city.
Oldest Kansas Odd Fellow Dead
J. G. w. Yeater died in Paola recent
ly. He was 81 years old. Mr.. Yeater is
believed to be the oldest member of
the Odd Fellows lodge in Kansas,
joining that order in Allegheny City,
Pa, in 1851. He was born in Stuff
CART, Germany.
Pointer, s years old, fell into a power
canal which runs through Arkansas
City at noon the other day while on
his way to school and was drowned.
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Bible in SaIina Schools.-The Salina
board of education recently approved
the course of the Bible study to be in
troduced in the city schools by w. s.
Heusner SuDeripreuf7ent The n