The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12
Agricultural College to Conduct
a Number of Contests
This Year.
OFFER S4OO IN CASH PRIZES
The Boys Will Compete in Corn and
kafir Growing and Girls in
Home Economics.

prizes which will be offered at the
statewide institute at the college next
winter. The boys and girls who are
in the club contests conducted by the
Kansas State Agricultural College will
be eligible for these prizes. Last year
the bankers association offered $125
in prizes.
The prizes will be offered in a num-
Der of different contests. In the corn
contest, the state will be divided into
three districts and competitions with
white and yellow varieties conducted
in each. There will be three prizes,
the cash value of which will be $40,
$3.50 and S. respectively.
Kafir contests, in which the state is
divided into two sections, will be held.
Eastern Kansas will include all the
state east of Phillips, Rocks, Ellis,
Pawnee, Edwards, Kiowa and Com
anche counties. The counties lying
west of this line will be in the western
Kansas contest. For sorghums other
than kafir there will be no division Of
the state, and three prizes for the best
ten-head exhibit are offered. There
will be two classes in the wheat con-
ter wheat Potatoes grown in any
part of Kansas may be entered in the
potato contest. Three prizes are Of
fered
For the girls there will be a num-
Der Of contests, prizes being offered
for one-piece house dresses, one-piece
work aprons, bib aprons, sewing
aprons and corset covers. The girls
contests are divided into class A and
class B, based upon the age Of the
contestants.
The girls may also enter the canned
products contest. A number of prizes
are offered for the best displays of
canned vegetables and for the best
displays of canned fruits. The baking
contest is also divided into class A
and class B, and includes prizes for
bread, cake, biscuit and cookies,
which are to be baked at the college
during the statewide institute.
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Frontenac Mine Rescue Team Won.
In the mine rescue and first aid field
meet at Pittsburg, Frontenac team No
z won the first prize and obtained the
trophy. The teams score was 100 per
cent. Frontenac's team No. won
second with a score of SO 1-3. Scam
mon team No. 2 took third prize with
a score of SO. George Amos of Pitts
burg won the one-man contest and
James Delaney of FTontenac was sec
ond, winning a tie with A. Sans of
ScammOn for the place. In the two
man contest Frontenac teams won
first and third and Pittsburg team
second. The meet was held under the
direction of the United States Bureau
of Mines and about one hundred min
ers participated.
Killed by Train.-August Frederick,
aged so, and partly deaf, was struck
and instantly killed by a passenger
train at Wilson. He is survived by
his wife and four children
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New High SchooI.-Minneapolis vot-
ed $4,000 for new high school build
Gently.
New Bank in Chautauqua.-With
the affairs of the defunct Citizens
State Bank tied up in court by the
Arnold Investment Company of Kan
sas City, which has sued to recover
$4,000, said to be the value of fraudu-
lent notes and mortgages bought by
the company from Frank E. Turner,
the cashier, a new bank has been
opened there in the old quarters. It
is known as the ChautauQua State
Bank, is owned by Sedan capital and
has no connection with the old bank.
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w. c. 7. u. Treasurer Dies.-WOrd
has been received in Winfield of the
death of Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson in
Portland, Ore. Mrs. Hutchinson was
elected to the office of national treas
urer of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union in 1909 after serving
ten years as president of the Kansas
W. c. T. U.
Mail Carriers EIect.-F. W. Whorton
Of Lawrence was elected president OF
the Kansas Association of Letter Car
riers at the annual state convention
in Pittsburg Albert Bailie of Pitts
burg was elected vice president, c. E
Priddy of Topeka secretary, and Geo
Edison of CoffeyyilIe treasurer.
Kept Name Observation-Disclosures b
had told associates a few days ago thai
he had relatives of wealth in the East
a.. unemployed man about 40 year;
old, who had been in Pittsburg severa
days, died, refusing to give his name
He was buried in an unmarked grave
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Fell Against Buzz SaW.-One hun
dred sixty stitches were taken il
wounds suffered by Billy Atkin, whe1
he fell into a buzz saw on Tom Shul
sky's farm, south of Denton recently
Although he was almost cut to pieces
he has chance to recover.
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Once Rich, Dies Pauper-John An
derson, an old resident of Osawatomie
is dead. He had been forsaken b,
relatives. and although at one time
wealthy land owner in Wyandott
county, died penniless Osawatomi
people contributed funds for a respect
able burial.
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Parsons Veteran Dies.-Lord Guil
ford Bolander.s "A years old, a Civ