The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-10

Unique Celebration Marks Last
Services in Old Edifice
at Saiina.
HUNGRY HARVESTERS HAPPY
fast-$4o, 600 Structure to Take
Place of Old Church.


.fast-$4o,o 600 Structure to Take
Place of Old Church.
More than 700 harvest hands were
given a warm breakfast the other
morning at the First Methodist church
in Salina. The meal consisted of hot
coffee, sandwiches, sausages, dough
nuts and fruit.
A heavy rain fell as the meal start
ed, but no one paid any attention to
it. A mans class, taught by Superin-
tendent W. S. Heusner of the city
schools, originated the idea of feed
ing the men. Mr.. Heusner and DR..
Alexander G. Bennett. the pastor, and
superintendent John Bell of the Sun
day school were in active charge.
The occasion marked the last days
services to be held in the old Metho-
dist church building in that city. The
next day wOrkmen began razing the
structure to make room for a new $40,
900 edifice. AS the 700 hungry men
marched through the old building the
pipe organ played and special songs
were sung. The men represent the
army gathered in this city in advance
of the wheat harvest.
Threshing Community Plan.-Antic-
ipating a big wheat yield, five COM
munity threshing outfits were shipped
into Sabetha recently. In each case
half a dozen farmers "chipped in"
and bought threshing machine and
engine TO be used by themselves first
and then run for others on a commits
$500 to $4,000 The farmers have
tired of waiting for the usual thresh-
ing crews. The wheat crop in that
vicinity will be threshed promptly
with the addition of the five new out
fits.
Land Scars in Price.-Dickinson
county land has nearly doubled in
value in eight years. John Hickey
of Chapman recently refused a cash
offer of $3.50 an acre for 327 acres
in the bottom lands east of Chapman.
Hickey bought the land from John
Murphy of Abilene only ninety days
ago for S137 an acre. Eight years
ago the same land sold for $50 an
acre, which was then considered
high price. Buyers will look at only
the best land now.
Battle With Train Crew.-Three
harvest hands were wounded in a
pitched battle with a freight train
crew at Delphos. The harvest hands
used Clubs and coal The crew used
guns. The trouble started when the
men, who were stealing ride, refused
h0Ir
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Amputates His Own Hand.-Roy
Harris, 20 years old, amputated his
right hand at the wrist at Carneiro
by using razor. The boy claimed
the hand was a devil and at midnight,
in a pasture, far from any house, he
performed the amputation. He sue
ceeded in stanching the flow of blood.
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EdwardsviIie Is a City Now.-Ed-
wardsville, population 238, was incor-
porated as a third class city recently
by the Wyandotte county board of
commissioners. The election for the
first city administration was set for
July 20.
Stung by TarantuIa.-Pearl Payne,
aged 16, was stung by tarantula at
Fort Scott the other day. The insect
was inside bunch of bananas. Ply
sicians say that Payne will live.
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No Wagaener "Kid" Picnic.-Sena-
tor Bailie P. Wagner, known all over
the country as the children's friend,
announced recently that because of
inability to attend to the details be-
cause of his age and other duties, he
would not give his annual childrens
picnic July Is, as he has been accus-
toned to do the last fifteen years. In
former years all the children within a
radius of thirty miles of Atchison
have been the senator's guests.
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Capture Freight Thiaf.-Harry Hun
ter, negro "a years old, lies in the
county hospital at Olathe with his
left arm amputated just below the
Shoulder and a ball and chain around
an ankle to insure safe keeping. He
was shot and his arm shattered while
stealing merchandise from a Frisco
freight train near South Park, this
county.
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Three Hurt in storm.-Three per-
sons we're injured and much property
damaged in one hour when the most
severe storm Of the season visited Ar
kansas City recently.
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Binders Wear Sack "shoes."-Un-
able to get beer kegs on which to
mount their binders. farmers near
Wichita are using burlap. Hundreds
of sacks have been purchased. Sacks
are wrapped and wired around the
wheels to keep the machines from
sinking into muddy fields.
coffeyvlIIe Girl browns Marjorie
Hodshire, the S-year-old daughter of
c. Nj. Hodshire, superintendent of the
Acme Foundry and Machine Works of
Coffeyville, was drowned in the Yer
digris river there the other day.
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