The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
Head of State Agricultural Col
Iege Extension Division
Goes to Arkansas.
MADE A REMARKABLE RECORD
Farmers Institutes in State Have In
creased 5000 Per cent Under
Mr.. MiIIer's Direction.


to become dean of extension service
in the University of Arkansas at prob
ably the largest salary paid to any
extension director in the country, and
has resigned his work here.
Dean Millers new work will include
what is done by both the university
and the agricultural college, as in Ar
kansas they are together. A larger
amount of money is available for
demonstrations in the state from the
United States government. This fed
eraI fund has been duplicated by the
state There are So county agents,
including 20 women, in Arkansas.
Over all this work Mr.. Miller will
have supervision.
Dean Miller came to the college in
October, 1905, as secretary of the
farmers institute committee. His
equipment consisted of flat top desk,
and he was the only man in his de-
partment. In the year just past $76,
600 has been expended in the progress
sive work which Mr.. Miller has built
up. His work became the extension
department in 1908, and was created
a division in 1872 while he himself
received the title of dean in 1913.
when Mr.. Miller came to the in
stitution the only extension work con-
sisted of unorganized farmers insti-
tutes," said DR.. H. J. Waters, presi-
dent of the college. Home economics
and engineering were added in 1909,
correspondence study in 1911, and ru-
raj service activity in 1914, until now
there are forty workers under the
deans direction.
An increase of more than 5000 per
cent in the number of farmers insti-
tutes has been made in Mr.. Miller's
incumbency. When he came there
were Is Institutes, whereas there are
now 432, with a mem bership of 49,
600 farmers, every county in the state
having from one to ten such organiza-
TONS.
Sunday Schools PopuIar.-July 4
was GO to Sunday School day in
Johnson county In Olathe with a
population of 1888, there were 2.O12
in Sunday School At the Christian
church there was an attendance of 731,
the enrolment being 437. An over
flow attendance being expected, seats
were erected in the rear of the~churcf:.
These cared for 200 of the extras,
while on a lawn across the street the
young mems class, known as the Tim
othy Club, with eighty-siX members,
held it's session. Sheriff E. G. Carroll
taught a class of thirteen prisoners in
the county jail.
Pastor Dies of Burns.-Rev A H.
Sears, eS years old, a retired Metho-
dist minister, is dead at Cheney from
the effects of burns received when
he tried to carry burning gasoline
stove out of the house occupied by a
newly married couple. The bride, Is
years old, tried to fill the stove while
it was lighted and the flames spread
TO the house. She summoned Rev.
Mr.. Sears, who owned the house.
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Fine Cattle OutIook-Not in many
years. according to Chase county cat
tlemen. has the outlook in the cattle
business been so favorable as at pres
ent.
Gave a SchoIarship.-A scholarship
in the school of milling at the agri-
cultural college at Manhattan has
Deen given by the Kansas Flour Mills
in the state The money will keep one
student year in the school Pro-
visions of awarding the scholarship
will be made and governed by the
college faculty.
Peabody Herald SoId.-The Peabody
Herald, owned by R. G. Wolfe, has
been sold TO Oscar S. Stauffer of The
Kansas City Star. Mr.. Stauffer expects
to assume the active management at
once
15-Year-OId Boy Drowns.-Joe Me-
nard. the 15-year-old son of Fred Me-
nard. was drowned the other day in
an old channel of the Republican river
while wading with another boy. His
body was not recovered.
Rock island Agent Dies.-W. R.
Carr, IS years old, Rock Island agent
at Rushviile, died there recently He
formerly was editor of the Warsaw,
ILL.,. Gazette and the Delaware, o.,
Gazette.
Captured a Hobo Rooster-A PIym-
outh Rock rooster was discovered at
Manhattan riding the bumpers of an
eastbound Union Pacific freight train.
The feathered hobo was discovered
by policeman while chasing the
regular kind from the train
Priest to Cetebrate.-John F. Cum
ningham. bishop of Concordia, will
celebrate the f1ftieth anniversary of
his priesthood September 81. The
archbishop of st. Louis and bishops
and priests from Kansas and neighbor-
ing states viii be present
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Ran Over Harvest Hand.-Greer
Hainsworth, % years old. of Lexing-
ton. Mo, at Hoisington for the har-
vest, fell beneath an eastbound Mis-
souri, Pacific freight train as he was
attempting to board it and his legs
were nangled. His left leg was am
putated and. his right leg may have
bo removed