The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
WOMEN WILL HELP THE MEN
A Boosters Club Organized in craw-
ford County to Work for Better
ment of Conditions.

1.-THE Federation Of Women of Craw-
ford County" is the name of an or
ganizatiOn formed there at a meeting
of club women of the county 1t is to
be a booster organization to join with
various mems clubs for the better
ment of the county.
The purposes OF the organization
are outlined in a platform Among
the planks Of the platform are:
Fewer county officials; cOnsolida-
ton Of rural schools; better disburse-
ment of the road tax collected and
consequently better roads; strict en-
forcement of the sanitary laws and
regulations; wrapped bread; better
milk supply; encouragement OF the
cultivation of small fruits by the farm
ers.
While the organizers of the fedora
ton are club women, the plan is to ad-
nit any woman of the county to mem
bership. Practically every town in
Crawford county was represented at
the first meeting Mrs Jennie G
Graves, president of the City Fedora
ton of WOmen's Clubs of Pittsburg,
was elected president of the county
organization.
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May Parole Stuckey-Following a
conference at the Kansas state peni-
Tertiary recently, Mrs J. Browning.
wife of Wallace NJ Stuckey, former
Williamsburg preacher, who is serv-
ing a sentence of five years for abduc
ton, announced that she would ask
Governor Capper to parole Stuckey.
&. w. Howe Under Knife. w
Howe, the Atchison editor, underwent
a minor operation at Sabetha recently
May Die of Burns.-Mrs. o. OrIopp,
| 20 years old, of Atchison, sustained
burns recently which, it is believed,
will prove fatal Her clothing caught
! fire when she was alone in the house.
She ran out on the porch. Mrs Viii
| liam Habelitt and others threw heavy
cloak about Mrs. Orloop and succeed
ed in smothering the flames Mrs. Or
Iopp is a pioneer of Atchison county.
Bank Clerk Short.-William Hume,
As years old, a bookkeeper in the
Traders State Bank at Arkansas City,
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a shortage amounting to 5000 and
possibly $4,000.
Bio Shriner Meeting.-Wichifa Con-
sistory No. ,, which has membership
of sixteen hundred, has set April 26-29
for the spring initiatory work Mid
ian Temple of the Shrine will hold a
reunion April 60
Coughing Fatal to Woman.-During
| a coughing spell Mrs. Mary Charles
Worth, AZ years old, of Manhattan,
| ruptured a blood vessel in her brain
and died
Muddy Roads Stop SehooI.-The
deep mud on the country roads was
responsible for the closing of several
Of the rural schools in Saline county
recently District No has been
closed all week, as it was impossible
for the children to get TO school On
several of the roads the mud was Is
inches deep
Meet in Atehison Next.-The An
cient Order OF United Workmen grand
lodge at Hutchinson voted TO meet
at Atchison in 1917 in its biennial ses
sion.
Atchison Pastor Dies.-The Rev. H
c. Garvic, for the last three years
pastor Of the st. Marks Lutheran
church in Atchison, and one OF the
most leading civic workers in the city
is dead. He had been i'll four weeks
rheumatism Of the heart caused his
death
Education Offered New Je5.-Dr. R
P. Smith, president Of the Kansas
Wesleyan university, who Is to retire
on april 1, has received an offer t.
become corresponding secretary o.
Bethany hospital at Kansas City. Kas