The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-09
RAISED FINE CROPS OF KAFIR
Young Farmers in Short Grass Coun-
ties Get Free Trip to Manhattan
as Reward.

Farmer boys from the southwestern
counties will receive a free trip to
Manhattan as a result of the fine kafir
they raised last summer.
The boys are the prize winners in
the contest inaugurated by Lee Gould,
farm demonstration agent of the state
agricultural college, with headquar-
tiers in Dodge. Last spring he prom
ised trip to Manhattan to the win
ner of a Kafir contest in each county
in his district. The boys planted an
acre of Kaf1r, tended it without irri-
cation, harvested the crop and sold it.
They were judged on the size of the
yield, the essay each wrote telling OF
his cultivation method and the net
profit made from the crop. Some of
the counties made arrangements to
send several boys on the trip where
their showing was unusually good.
The boys will spend an entire week
at the college at the annual meeting
of the demonstration agents and the
state agricultural meeting getting
pointers on scientific farming The
| winners are: Edwards county, Joseph
Craft, Kinsley; Raymond Rugger,
Lewis; Finney county, DANIEL Lowe,
Pierceville: Ford county, George Hink,
Dodge; Grant county, Frank Rider,
| Claude Rider and Allen Hickok, all Of
| New Ulysses; Gray county, Roy Grue-
ger, Cimarron; Hamilton county, Lee
Burris, Coolidge; Haskell county, Les
ter Alexander, Santa Fe; Kearny
county, Lloyd and Everett Craig, Ken
dali; Stevens county, John Moser,
| Dewy Moser and Edward Brightcup,
| Hugoton.
Fence Staple in His Lunge.-L. T.
Wheeler, farmer south of Wichita,
| left for Pittsburgh, Pa, with fence
| staple in his lungs, in the hope that
he could find relief in a surgical oper.
alton by lung specialist there recon-
mended by Wichita surgeons. Wheel
er sucked the staple into his lungs
while building a wire fence.
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A caesarian Operation.-A Caesar
ian operation has been successfully
performed at Wichita hospital. The
mother is the wife OF Rollo Rose, a
carpenter residing west of Wichita.
|
Newspaper Change. - Harry w.
Bouck, who has been in partnership
with R. E. Lewis in the publication of
the Alma Signal for nearly two years,
will leave January 1 to go into part
nership with Thomas Evans in the
publication of the Crawford County
Enterprise at Gfrard Mr.. Bouck will
retain his interest in the Signal.
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Killed in Mine ExpIosion.-A gas
explosion recently wrecked the shaft
Of mine north of Pittsburg, and
killed Thomas Franklin Thomas Lee
gard Of Franklin, escaped uninjured
Ottawa Newspapers Consolidate
R. A. Harris, editor and owner of the
Ottawa Evening Herald, has bought
Thomas w. Morgan's Daily Republic
This leaves only one daily newspaper
there. Mr.. Morgan is warden at the
federal prison and had published the
Republic ten years.
Victim of Accident.-Arthur Noble
of Wichita was killed near there
when shotgun among a party O
four hunters was discharged by
sudden stopping of the sleigh in which
the party rode.
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'WiId" Engine Injured Nine.-Twr
people were severely injured and seT
en- slightly injured when a wild en-
CINE, starting On its own accord. "a,
two miles and collided with Missouri
Pacific passenger train No log, south
bound, on shannon Hill, west of Atchi
son the other day.
\
> indian School at WichIta.-A schoo
for Indians that win be supplemental
/ II the government Institutions wiz b
built In Wichita by philanthropfst
: working with the officers of the LAX
Mohonk conference.