The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13
CITY MAY BUY WATER PLANT
Negotiating with Owners-Tired
of the Poor Service

of the Poor Service
Action of the stockholders of the
Lawrence Water Company, in consent
ing to accept $4,000 for the water
plant in Lawrence, paves the way for
municipal ownership of the water sys-
TEN. For several years the corpora
ton owning the plant has given I'M
satisfactory service, and last spring
an election was held in an attempt to
take the plant over and put it under
municipal control, but the plan did not
carry.
The Merchants Association has
been negotiating with the company, a
New York concern, to buy the plant.
1t is believed the Lawrence citizens
will vote to buy the plant at the price
set by the stockholders rather than
submit TO the present inefficient wat
er supply. The water problem is i'm
portant in Lawrence, because of the
fact that the state university is To-
Gated there, with the health of twenty
eight hundred students depending on
pure water. Practically every well in
Lawrence has been declared unsafe
because of sewage contamination The
alternative is drinking city water,
which is so hardened with chemical
treatment in filtration that it is harm
full to digestion.
Kansas Boy Dying in War-Charles
Martin, 81 years old, of Ottawa, is
dying in an English hospital as a re
suit of wounds received while fight
ing with the British expeditionary
force at the DardanelIes, according to
letter received by his grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Martin of Ottawa.
A Postoffice Robbed.-Burglars rob
bed the postoffice at Council Grove the
other night of 1926 in stamps, but were
frightened away before they had time
to get to the money drawer
Big Price for Land.-A deal was
closed recently whereby Dick Weeks
becomes owner of the Charles Carman
farm of 16O acres. three miles west of
Phi1lipsburg, for which he paid SILL
900 in cash Weeks sold his farm in
the south part Of the county for
$4,000.
GIeed's Portrait at K. IA por-
trait of Charles S. Gleed of Topeka
has been received at the University of
Kansas and viii be hung in the chan
cellor's office Mr. Gleed formerly was
secretary of the board of regents for
the university, being on the board
from 1890 to 1897.
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Bible in SaIina SchooEs.-The Salina
board of education recently approved
the course of the Bible study to be in
troduced in the city schools by W. S.
Heusner, superintendent. The in
structors are to be examined and
passed upon by a committee of five
appointed by school board and minis
terial union
100000 for Emporia coIIege.-The
first report of the committee appoint
ed by the Presbyterian synod of Kan
sas to solicit a quarter million dollar
endowment for the college of EN-
poria, reported recently that S100,11
had been pledged. The committee
has until December Is for the cam
paign-
Judge Gillette Dead.-P B. Gillette,
judge Of the Twenty-fourth Judicial
District, is dead at a Wichita hospital
following an operation for stomach
trouble. Judge Gillette had been a
resident of Kingman County thirty
years and judge of this district, con-
sisting of Kingman, Harper, Barber
D.
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Wichita Music Teacher Injured
Miss ZeIma Fisher, music instructor
at Wichita, may die of injuries re-
ceived recently when she was struck
by a Missouri Pacific engine. With
several others she was returning from
Sharon, where they had given smu.
steal program
Judge G. n. Buchanan Dies.@Judge
! George H Buckman, one OF the best
known lawyers in southern Kansas,
died at his home in Winfield recently.
He is survived by his wife and one
daughter.
EnsIase Cutter ExpIodes-Ernest
| Olmstead, a young mechanic of Medi-
F; cine Lodge was killed by being struck
behind the ear with heavy iron bar
Of an ensilage cutter which he was
operating, near Lake City. An OBJ
struction in the cutter caused the ma
chine to explode. scattering machinery
for $50 yards.
Third Augusta Gas Gusher.-A gas
well Of 81 million feet on the Henry
Moyle farm, three miles south OF
Augusta, makes the third big producer
within q week In that field