The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
START BIG MOVE FOR PEACE
New Peace and Equity League Organ
lied at Topeka Meeting - Four
Hundred Delegates Attend.


Hundred Delegates Attend.
The Kansas Peace and Equity
League has been organized to promote
peace and the disarmament of the ma
lions Of the world. Governor Capper
was chosen president; J. B. Chapman
70 Atchison, vice president; T. A
MacNeaI 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. It was
voted to have the governor ask the
governor of each state to call a SINH
lar meeting and, as soon as the state
| societies organized, then 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. It is the plan to
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 a vote Of congress
or even a vote of the people, If pos
sible.
Hodges Goes East-Ex-Governor
| George H Hodges left recently for
| Philadelphia He viii 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.-NIiss 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. VI. l.
FuIlenwider of Eldorado is dead Of
heart disease. He was IS years old
and was one of the early settlers of
Butler county.
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! Costly Fire at Wetmore.-A loss ap-
proximating 100000 occurred at Wet
more the other day in a 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 postoffce
and business places have been de-
stroyed-
Killed by Fly WheeI.-Rufus Fenni-
more of Scammon, 81 years old, who
| was caught in a fywheeI at a strip
coal pit, died the other night in
hospital at Pittsburg.
|
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,
we're fixed for Nay 3, and at a
meeting Of the Lyon County Fedora
ton Of Women
Normal SO Years OId.-FTfty years
ago the state normal school held its
first session in Emporia- Recently its
first president, Judge Lyman B. Kel-
Iogg, made an anniversary address
and told somewhat of the difficulties
and successes of the 50-year journey
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Teachers Meet in Emporia.-The an
nuaI conference Of school superintend-
ents in Kansas cities of the first and
second class held a two-day session
in Emporia recently. The officers
elected before adjournment were:
Supt. John Lofty, Manhattan. presi-
dent; Supt. ]. B. Hefelfnger, Edo
RADIO, vice president; Supt- A F Sen
ter, Great Bend, secretary-treasurer.
Woman 90 Years Old Dies-Mrs.
Nancy Taylor. SO years old, is dead at
Pfttsburg She had lived in Pittsburg
forty-three years.
: Dodge City Pioneer Dies.-Amads
Tilghman, IS years old, pioneer resi-
dent Of Dodge, died there recently
She was the mother Of Mrs ". N
Locke Of Dodge and OF 'BilI' Thigh
man, an early marshal OF Dodge and
later a government peace officer In
Oklahoma.
Shot Eirer Fatally Injured.-Henry
: Heekhear, q shot hrer, was fatally in
( 5ured IN an explosion In q mine o.
, the Central Coal and Coke Company
near Frontenac the other night. HG
died IN tho 7rsv 20 q hoznita1