The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-21
BIG PIPE ORGAN FOR SCHOOL

AS tribute to community music
which the Fort Hays Kansas Normal
school is bringing to Western Kansas
the new Sheridan coliseum, for which
the last legislature appropriated $780,
600, is to contain a $4,000 pipe organ
obtained as a gift from the alumni
and friends of the normal school.
The idea Of helping establish bands,
choruses and orchestras in the COM
munities of Western Kansas, which
Prof H. E. MaIloy, head of the depart
ment of music, inaugurated last Octo-
Der, has SO taken hold of the people
that $4,000 has already been pledged
toward the pipe organ.
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Wyie w. Cook to Seek Office.-Wy-
lie W. Cook, deputy state treasurer OF
Kansas and former banker and chief
of police of Kansas City, Kas., an
nounced at Parsons that he will be
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for state treasurer at the next
election, to succeed Earl Akers.
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Man Struck by Cow May Die.-A
toss of her head by a pedigreed Jersey
COW may cost Albert Knopple of Col
ony his life. KnoppIe was grooming
the animal for the Allen County Fair.
In striking at flies, which were an
moving her. the cow struck Knopple
across the forehead, fracturing the
skull
Chest Crushed by Mares Kick
Frank Stone, farmer 40 years old,
oh iCIf he
being broken, when a mettlesome prize
winning mare kicked him during a
parade of prize animals at the annual
farm products and stock show at Par
sons
Aged Woman DIes.-Mrs. Hannah
Combs, of Williamsburg, SO years old,
is dead at her home there. She had
lived there about thirty years.
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Riley County to Work Roads.-Riley
county will observe Governor Cap
per's proclamation and the roads. will
be worked August Is and 10. The
work will be in charge the Manhat-
tan Motor Club, which is endeavoring
to get the entire county lined up for
the two days.
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Community" at Norway.-Norway
township has purchased the old school
building and some lots on Main street
and the building will be moved to the
lots and used as a township commun-
ity building. This is the first town
ship to start, movement of this kind
in this county.
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Pioneer Woman Dies.-Mrs. Clara
Hutchinson Fay, II years old, resi-
dent of Kansas since 1860 and grand
mother Of Prof. Willard Wattles of
the University of Kansas, is dead at
Wichita. Mrs. Fay came to Kansas
from New York when a bride.
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Accidentally Shoots Wife.-When
]. E. Horn, living south of Bremen,
struck at rat with his rifle the other
day, the gun was discharged. The
bullet struck Horns wife in the aldo
men. She is now in a hospital in St
Joseph.
SIashed Two Harvest Hands. =
David Pojosich. an Austrian, slashed
Edward Morris and Nels Christensen,
harvest hands, at Lucas, In quarrel
following a card game. Both men are
at the point of death. The Austrian
has escaped.
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Diver Breaks Neck.-Arthur Leath,
% years old, received probably fatal
injuries when he dived twenty feet
from a tower at Forest Park Lake
in Atchison and struck his head on the
bottom of the lake the other night
One vertebra of his neck is fractured
and he is paralyzed.
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Old Teachers Left out.-Many of
the older teachers in Saline county
find themselves out of a job this year
because they were not fast enough.
the younger set making rush early
in the season and getting the places.