Meade County news., 1915-11-25
Weir SCHOOL BURNS
Entire Equipment Of the School
VI Mines Destroyed With
the Building.
MAY NOT REBUILD THE PLANT
Attempts Were Made at Last Session
of Legislature to Abolish Insti-
acknowledgements Escaped.

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School of Mines was lost in fire
which destroyed the four-story brick
public school building which housed
the state school at Weir the other
day. A defective flue set fire to the
building. The blaze was discovered
shortly before 10 o'clock.
The state school occupied the first
and the fourth floors. The city high
school and pupils of several grades
occupied the second and third floors.
All the occupants of the building es-
capped. About $50 pupils and teach
ers were in the building. A weak wa
ter pressure made the fight of the
firemen ineffective.
The state school had between $751;
900 and $4,000 in equipment in the
building, Burton L. Wolfe, director of
the school, said.
The state board of administration
was in session at Pittsburg when the
fire occurred. The members imme-
diately went there to make arrange
ments for continuing the mine school.
The state likely will not take steps
to rebuild the school, at least until
the next legislature meets, if then.
There is no money available for re-
construction and on account of the
fight to abol'h the school the admin
istration will not feel like urging pri-
vate citizens to put their money into
the enterprise, depending upon the
legislature to pay them next year. 1t
las taken the united stand of the
southeastern Kansas delegation in the
legislature to prevent the school be-
ing abolished on one or two occasions
and the fire may give the legislature
an excuse to drop the project en-
tirely.
Reduced a Spinal DsIocation.-Dr.
John F. Binnie of Kansas City and DO
cal surgeons performed an operation
upon Mrs. Arthur Hoffman at Salina,
reducing a dislocation between the
sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae.
Mrs. Hoffman was struck by motor
car and was paralyzed from the shoul-
ders down. According to physicians
only one similar operation has been
reported successfully in the country.
Mrs. Hoffman is improved
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Captured Many WoTves.-The an
nual Greeley comfy wolf drive was
held the other day under the direc-
fio, ne raIOpaI Thufout ond GOIonaI
Carter. Merchants, bankers, the law
yers and hotel men took their motor
cars and Joined in the big drive. The
public school was closed at Tribune
and the teachers, like the students,
participated in it. Many wolves were
captured.
Visitor a Motor Victm.-Mrs. Ar
thur Hoffman of Lincoln, who was
visiting in Salina, was run down and
probably fatally injured by motor
car driven by DR.. H. S. Maxwell. She
vas thrown upon the radiator and
rol!ed off under the wheels.
Keeps PIow show.-The Kansas
tractor show and tractor plowing con-
test will be held in Hutchinson again
in July, 1916. The show probably will
become an annual event
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Died From Injuries.-A young
Scotch farm hand, working on the
Burger farm south of Pawnee Rock,
whose legs were broken in the recent
storm, is dead from his injuries.
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$4,000 to Stenographer. - Miss
Mayme Smith, stenographer for
Wichita commission house, was noti-
fled recently that she will inherit $780,
900 left by the death of her grand
mother, Mrs. Caroline Teals of juno
tion City. The estate consists OF
farms and city property.
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Welded Fifty Years.-Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel M. Shenk of Russell county
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary Of
their marriage recently. They came
to Russell county in 1878. Nine chill
dren were born to the union, six Of
whom are now living.
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Lived Fifty Years In kansas.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Marshall, a pioneer Geary
county woman, is dead at her home
in Junction City. She had been a
resident there for many years, COM
ing to Kansas about fifty years ago.
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Kansan 1o1 Years old.-Abel Cart
right, who ryes six miles southeast
OF Peabody, celebrated his one hun
dred and first birthday anniversary
the other day. He is one of the few
living sons Of Revolutionary soldiers.
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Dawson's Fee Tied Up.-If John
Dawson, former attorney general, col
lects S625 in fees from Cherokee
county he must get the supreme court
to uphold his claim. !, The suit for the
claim was lost in the district court
when Judge James NJ, Dunbar sus-
tained a motion granting judgment in
favor of the county.
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