The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-23


tributed to the Belgian Relief Fund
in Kansas will be used in that work
We have some office expenses to
pay, but the telephone and telegraph
companies have given US free teIe-
phone and telegraph service and the
railroads hauled the -four we purchas-
ed free up to within few days. The
New York and London relief commit
tees now pay the freight on the flour
from Kansas to New York and thence
across the ocean
Mr.. Scott goes to Belgium as the
representative from Kansas to see con-
ditions and help in the distribution of
the -four. He will pay his own ex-
penses from lola to Belgium, his ex-
penses in that country and return and
will make a report to the contributors
to the relief fund
To Interchange Teachers.-To in
terchange faculty members and stu
dents between one Kansas education
al institution and another is a plan
recommended by the board Of admin
istratiOn in its biennial report to Gov
ernor Hodges. If the plans made by
the board are carried out, students
from Kansas university, for example,
may go to the agricultural college or
to any of the normal schools and take
work, applying it on their degree from
Kansas university.
Made Quick settIement.-The first
case under the State Compensation
Law has been settled in Cherokee
County, as a result of which a widow
has been compensated for the death of
her husband without having to pay out
any money for court costs or lawyer
fees. J. A. Westcott, an employee of
the Empire District Electric company,
fell from a scaffold October 10 last
and was killed The company has
agreed to pay Mrs. Westcott $4,000,
the maximum under the Kansas law.
New Postmasters.-Preside Wilson
recently appointed the following post
masters: George s. Hartley, Arkan-
sas City; John W. Lapham, Chanute,
and L. D. Hagan, Newton.
Oldest Citizen Dead-Mrs. Jane
Foster, "a years old, Manhattans old
est citizen, is dead at the home OF her
daughter there. With her husband
Mrs. Foster came to Kansas in 1860
and a few years later settled on a
farm north Of Manhattan.
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Woman 100 Years old.-Mrs. Sarah
Hale of Muscotah, a small town in
Atchison county recently celebrated
her one hundredth birthday. She was
surrounded by children, grandchildren
and great grandchildren.
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Smothered to Death.-Sleeping in
an almost alright basement caused
the death recently Of Ernest Raetz of
Aida. John Baker, employed by
Raetz. was made unconscious, but was
revived by a pulmotor.
Church Relic in Fire.-The first bell
that summoned Kansas people to
worship is said to have been destroy
ed in school house fire near Leaven-
worth. Cast of copper. it was brought
from st. Louis in 1855, a gift from
/ Doctor Rufus. 1t hung in the belfrey
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Leavenworth until 1865, when it was
sold to the Kickapoo school board,
Farmer Hangs HimseIf.-C. B. Lusk,
farmer near Parsons, brooding over
the death of son recently hanged
himself.
Charged With EmbezzIement.-
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of $4,000 from the wholesale dry
goods corporation of which he was
treasurer, Thomas BIodgett, a church
man and Young Mems Christian As
| sociation official, has been arrested at
| Wichita.
Central Kansas Farmer.-A. P Ro-
dine, farmer and one of the earliest
settlers in Central Kansas, is dead at
the farm home in the southwest part
of Saline county after an illness of six
months.
Talk Offices to Wichita.-The Mis-
| souri, and Kansas Telephone Com
panE announces the removal Of its
main auditing department for Kansas
to Wichita It means the addition of
number of families to Wichita, and
that all of Kansas will be handled
from that point by the telephone com
pany. A six-story building will be
built, partly for the telephone COM
pany's occupancy.
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| Rock Kills Miner.-A fall of rock in
a mine at Carona near Pittsburg killed
Newt Tonlin the other afternoon.
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Smallpox In Kansas ToWns.-Com-
! plant has been made by the Sedgvick
| County board OF health against the
smallpox epidemic at Andover, But
Ter County, where for three weeks the
disease has held sway and the schools
have not been closed and there have
been no quarantine regulations es-
tab1ished.
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Dedicate Orgsn.-A fine pipe organ
has been given to the Methodist
church Of WaterviIle by Mrs. S. T..
Powell. It was dedicated in the mem
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