The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
HAVE NEW GOOD ROADS PLAN
Fund to Keep County Highways
in Repair.

The commercial clubs Of Arkansas
City and Winfield have each adopted
an original plan for the improvement
of country roads which promises to
give Cowley county the best dirt roads
in the state
Nine principal roads run into Ar
kansas City, and through the efforts
of the Commercial Club, nine business
men have volunteered to look after
those roads Each has just one road
to look after. He is known as the road
captain, and the responsibility for
keeping up the road rests entirely
upon his shoulders. Each captain has
named two enterprising farmers
along his road as d construction and
maintenance committee. Where pos
sible, the captain gets the cO-Operae
ton of the road overseers. But if tho
road Overseer is a drone, the captain
pays no attention TO him.
Each captain has made an estimate
of the amount of money it will take
to keep his particular road in good
condition for a year, with such aid as
the township trustees and farmers
will render. The total amount asked
for by the nine captains has been
raised among the business men of Ar
kansas City.
The Winfield plan differs material
ly from the Arkansas City plan, but
it is proving very effective. The Win
field Commercial Club has raised
fund to give prizes to the farmers who
keep their respective roads in the
best condition from now until March
1 next.
A. o. u. w. Act InvaIid.-Judge Os-
car Foust, in the district court at lola,
held invalid an act passed by the Kan
sas grand lodge of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, providing for
cash settlement with aged and needy
members in good standing.
30-Cent Gas Is Announced.-An-
nouncement was made at Lawrence
recently by the local gas company of
a raise to 80 cents per 1000 cubic feet
in the price of natural gas, to become
effective October 1.
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Horses Kick Kills Farmer.-Victor
| Wilmeth, % years old, a farmer Iiv-
| ing north of Atchison, in Doniphan
county, was kicked on the head by
horse the other morning and killed.
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Gave Blood to Save Life.-One of
Fairmount's football stars will take
chance at not being able to play the
game this season, in an effort to save
the life of a Mrs. Kirk of MullinviIle.
quart of blood was taken from tbs
arm of Bruce Wetmore and infused
into the veins of Mrs. Kirk, in last
effort to save her life.
Dead in Motor Mishap.-F. Miles,
! A years old, wealthy retired farmer
of Green, Clay County, was killed and
Mrs A S King and her niece, Miss
Edna Hunter, severely injured when
the motor car in which they were rid
ing skidded in the sand one mile
south OF Monument, Col, and turned
over
Capt. A. J. Vickers Dead.-Capt. A
j. Vickers, one of the members of the
company which plated the city of
Pittsburg and a widely known resi-
dent of Crawford County many years
ago, died the other night at his home
in Oklahoma City at the age of 80.
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Pays LAWYER Deficit.-The Emporia
City commissioners have received a
check for S5.00S.51 from a bonding
company, settling in full the amount
appropriated from the city treasury by
w A. LAWYER, former commissioned Of
finance.
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He's a Popcorn Magnate-James
lambert is entitled to be called Pop
corn King jim" He has eighteen
acres of popcorn that frost OF hail
would not destroy. and seven acres
J that is later. 1t is estimated that this
corn viii average seventy-fYe bushels
to the acre.
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Crushed by Elevator Machinery
Clyde Hahn of Welton, seven miles
east of Newton, was killed when his
clothing was caught in machinery at
an elevator He is survived by bis
wife and three children.