Meade County news., 1915-02-25
START BIG MOVE FOR PEACE
New Peace and Equity League Organ
lied at Topeka Meeting : Four
Hundred Delegates Attend.

The Kansas Peace and Equity
League has been organized to promote
peace and the disarmament of the ma
tions of the world. Governor Capper
was chosen president; j. B. Chapman
TO Atchison, vice president; T. A.
MacNeal Of Topeka, secretary, and
c, L. Davidson of Wichita, treasurer,
About four hundred delegates from
schools, lodges, churches and other
organizations attended the recent con.
ference at Topeka. 1t was called by
Governor Capper and the governor
presided at all of the sessions. 1t was
voted to have the governor ask the
governor of each state to call SINH
lar meeting and, as soon as the state
societies organized, then a big nation
al convention would be called with
delegates from each state association
to help organize the society that will
extend its peace propaganda into
every civilized nation.
1t is not the purpose Of the organ.
ization to urge the nations now at war
to declare peace. 1t is the plan to
spread the propaganda of disarma-
ment and universal peace throughout
the world, get the people in each coun-
try aroused to the point of insisting
that no ruler or group of men can de-
clare war without vote of congress
or even vote of the people, If pos
sible.
Hodges iGoes East.-Ex- Governor
George H. Hodges left recently for
Philadelphia. He will make sixteen
speeches in and near the city in about
three weeks. He will talk on national
prohibition in the interest of the Anti
Saloon League
School Teacher Dies.-Miss Hannah
Bunbury, fifty-one years a teacher,
died at her home in Emporia recently.
For thirty-four years she had taught
in the Emporia schools.
Pioneer Physician Dies.-Dr. NJ. l..
Fullenwider of Eldorado is dead of
heart disease. He was &C years old
and was one of the early settlers Of
Butler county.
Costly Fire at Wetmore.-A loss ap-
proximating 100000 occurred at Wet
more the other day in fire, which
started in the basement of the opera
house block. The Wetmore State
Bank, on the ground floor of the build
ing, the Masonic Hall, the postoffice
and business places have been de-
stroyed.
Killed by Fly Wheel.-Rufus Fenni-
more of Scammon, 21 years old, who
was caught in a fywheel at a strip
coal pit. died the other night in
hospital at Pittsburg.
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Club Women to Meet.-The dates
for the annual meeting of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, which
will convene In Emporia this year,
were fixed for May 5, and at
meeting of the Lyon County Fedora
tion of Women.
Normal so Years Old.-F1fty years
ago the state normal school held its
first session in Emporia. Recently its
first president, Judge Lyman B. Kel-
logg, made an anniversary address
and told somewhat of the difficulties
and successes of the 50-year journey.
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Teachers Meet In Emporla.-The an
nual conference of school superintend-
ents in Kansas cities OF the first and
second class held two-day session
in Emporia recently. The officers
elected before adjournment we're:
Supt John Lofty, Manhattan, presi.
dent; Supt ]. B. Heffelfinger, Eldo-
RADIO, vice president; Supt A. F. Sen
ter, Great Bend, secretary-treasurer
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Woman go Years Old Oies.-Mrs
Nancy Taylor, 80 years old, is dead al
Pittsburg She bad lived in Pittsbi re
fortY-three years