The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
BLAME WOMAN ONTHE BOARD
The Summary Removal of Dean Skill
ton Resented BY the University
Students and Faculty.

The summary removal of Dean G.
5. Skilton, as head of the School OF
Fine Arts at the University of Kan
sas, has brought an open conflict be-
tween the board of administration and
the university. The students are out
spoken in their criticism of the board
and faculty, members are displeased
with the action.
The board is composed of three per-
sons appointed by the governor II
has control of the states higher edu-
cational institutions.
1t is asserted that the removal of
Dean Skilton was in no sense due to
his incompetency, but to the personal
feelings of Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, a mem
Der of the board, who attended a re-
cital by Dean Skilton in Chanute last
winter. When asked about the recital,
Dean Skilton said:
81 was not at all in condition to play
in Chanute, and realize now that l
made a mistake in appearing, but L
did not want to disappoint the audi
ence which was waiting for me, so l
went ahead and played, despite my
better judgment"
Mrs. Lewis was not pleased with the
recital. Shortly afterward the mat
ter of Dean Skilton's dismissal was
taken up with Chancellor Strong, who
opposed it, it is said.
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Aged OIathe Woman Dies.-Mrs.
George White, who had been resi-
dent of Olathe and Johnson county
since 1856, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. William holland in Den
yer, recently. She was rs years old
Ottawa Shows Its Best.-Ottawa pa
raded and marked time before Prof
D. A Ellsworth and Miss Lima E.
Bresette, the model town judges, in
the second class cities contest of Kan
sas the other day. May day festivi-
ties were held in the Washington and
Lincoln ward schools, where about
1000 children took part. In the after
noon 400 college students and children
from the Eugene Field and Hawthorn
schools gave a May festival on the
college campus. The judges were
taken on an inspection tour Of the in
dustrial and social conditions of the
city throughout the morning.
Wed Sixty Years.-Mr and Mrs. w.
w Foster celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary at Kincaid re-
Gently. They were married in Lima,
Ohio They have one son and one
daughter living. seven grandchildren
and one great grandchild. They still
keep house and do all their own work.
\
Augusta Gets a Glass Factory-Be-
cause of superior gas supply the Ponca
City Glass Factory, employing 200 men
at Poaca City. Ok. will be removed
within few weeks to Augusta.
Circuit Rider Dead-The Rev. Jas.
W. Blundon, a retired Methodist
preacher and a circuit rider in the
Salina district in the SOS, is dead. He
was SO years old. He retired only a
few years ago. He served four years
in the Civil War.
Atchison Orpheum Falls in--The
entire front and part of the roof of the
new Orpheum Theater at AtchisOn
collapsed the other night. The thea
ter, the finest in the state, was COM
pleted late last fall. The seating ca
pacity is about two thousand.
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Saved by Dog.-Hirau aaYer's
Scotch collie Colonel" which slept in
the room with him on his farm, mile
east of Douglas, saved his masters
life by barking and tugging at the bed
clothing at midnight, when the house
was struck by lightning. Haver found
the house in flames and rushed out.
The dog followed him to safety.
Wins oratory contest.-Edward F.
Barry, member OF the football and
baseball teams of the St Marys uni
versity. won the gold medal In the
Miller oratory contest.