The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-30
MUSIC FOR THE CHILDREN
Kansas State Normal Plans to Fur
nish Free Photograph Concerts
to Rural Schools.

Rural school music by parcel post
is a plan recently devised by F. A.
Beach, director of music at the state
normal school at Emporia. Rural
schools of Kansas may now have a
series of concerts lasting three days
for a total cost varying from thirty
nine cents to 81.
Mr.. Beach's plan is to prepare pro-
pram adapted to rural schools and
send it out on phOnograph records, &C
cOmpanied by the latest make of ma
chine. The entire outfit is contained
in two boxes, and is sent free for three
days to schools which are willing to
pay the postage. More than fifty
schools of Kansas have requested the
use of these machines. It is expected
that eight hundred to one thousand
rural schools will be visited with mu-
sic this winter.
The programs were made up from
group of more than seventy-five selec-
tions A special committee was ap-
pointed by the normal school last
spring, which visited a large number
of rural schools in the country, and
tested the music. The program is
largely made up by the vote of the
children.
The first day of the rural school con-
cert series is devoted to arousing in
terest in the music. The pieces are
played and the children allowed to
make comment. The second day the
music is repeated, and the teacher dis
cusses each piece and points out the
parts of special interest. The third
day is given to a joint program by
children and the photograph, and the
parents are invited. The children are
taught to sing many of the simpler
pieces, and singing games.
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Lived "a Hours with Broken Neck.
Arthur J. Burns, SIS years old, died
at Salina after living twenty-four
hours with broken neck, received
in an elevator accident at the Shella-
barger Mills. Three children sur
vive. Two had just returned home
from Texas and Kansas City, called
here to attend the funeral of their
mother, who died two weeks ago.
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Cousin of La Toilette Dead.-Mrs.
Phoebe Anna Nifsinger, 80 years old
and cousin of Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette Of Wisconsin, dropped dead
at Ottawa while sweeping. She had
| lived in Franklin county since 1859.
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Postmaster's Wife Dead.-Mrs. P.
McLindon, wife of the postmaster at
Williamsburg, died the other morning.
She was SO years old.
X x x
Would Gust New RuIe.-Petitions
! for the recall of the commission form
Of government were placed in circula
ton at lola the other day. Those be
hind the movement say the present
form of municipal rule has proved in
efficient in the four years it has beer
in existence.
Two Pioneers Dead.-Two widely
known Franklin county men died al
Ottawa the other day. AIvah Bari
was 70 years old and had lived many
years at Princeton. Thomas Dudley
Jones, 80 years old. came to Kansas
in 1857.
Civil War Veteran, 81, Dead.-Capt
Theodore Schermerhorn. 81 years old
a resident of Johnson county for fifty
years, is dead at his home in Olathe
He was born in New York and wa:
captain of a New York regiment O
volunteers in the Civil war.
\
s4oo, 600 for Ottawa University-Foul
hundred thousand dollars was voted
as an endowment fund to Ottawa uni
versity by the Baptist state conven
ton in Clay Center recently. MucI
of the money was at once pledged ant
the rest viii be raised throughout tn,
state among the Baptist churches.
Falls From Roof-Falling twent,
feet from porch roof to brick pave
ment, John Allen, timer OF Atchi
son, sustained a fractured skull ant
q wrenched back. His injuries az,
mt considered fatal