The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-29
k.U.TO GO RIGHT ON
Big State Institution to Start
Summer Session Day At
ter Commencement.
EXPECT A LARGE ENROLMENT
Increasing Number of Teachers and
Students Take Advantage of OPP
portunity for Study.

The summer session of the Univer-
sity of Kansas opens this year on |
June 10, the day after commencement, |
and continues through nine weeks, !
closing August IL. Anywhere but in !
Lawrence, the very thought would |
give one heat prostration, but the |
breezes never die on Mt. Dread, and
outside of the mountains and the sea
shore, a pleasanter summer resort |
could not be imagined. Every year
sees an increasing number of teach |
ers, students and just common folks
repair to this summer school to com
bine study and vacation on the cam
pUs
This year 136 courses in twenty
nine departments are offered, includ-
ing additional courses in Spanish pro-
vided for by the Carnegie endowment
for international peace, and new work
n physical education, bacteriology
and anatomy. The teaching force
comprises sixety-seven men and wom-
comprises sixty-seven men and wom-
sides the university. Dean Arvin
DIN, head of the school of education,
Is director of the session.
ment from teachers who are working
for state certificates, meeting addi-
tional requirements Of their work, or
piIing up hours toward a degree;
from students who wish to shorten
their four years to three, to tighten
their winter study, to make up en-
trance deficiencies, or to work off con-
ditions; finally from men and women
who want to take advantage of OPP
portunities to get into different lines
of work, physical education, for in
stance, or some of the professions.
Five hundred OF 500 come every
year, enroll in enough work to keep
them comfortably busy without entail
ing excessive study in the heated part
of the day, and enjoy themselves in
various ways.
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After the ootIeggers-Putting into
effect. an announced determination to
no longer compromise with the liquor
traffic by accepting the payment of in
ternal revenue after a plea of guilty
or conviction in the courts of Kansas,
federal officers have caused the arrest
of James Hall, Mack Miller and John
Smith, who have just completed SEN
fences in the Allen county Jail for vio-
lation Of the Prohibitory Law, and
took them to Fort Scott, where they
will be prosecuted under the Federal
Liquor Law Miller, Smith and Hall
were without government licenses
when arrested.
Baby Drowned in Jar.-The 49,
months-old son of William Harmon
was drowned in a four-gallOn jar of
soapsuds at Gardner the other day.
The mother had been washing and
saved the suds 90 clean a chicken
house While playing alone in the
yard the baby fell into the jar. When
discovered he was dead.
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EpisccpaIians Meet.-The annual
convocation of the Salina diocese OF
the Episcopal church was held at Sa-
line recently with many delegates at
| tending.
Lyon County Stockman Dies.-Wil-
| liam H Patton, a leading stockman
and banker of Lyon county, is dead at
San Antonio, Tex, after a nervous
! breakdown.
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Conference Elects Officers.-Dr n.
s Elderkin of Lawrence was elected
moderator of the Kansas State Con-
ference of Congregational churches at
! Manhattan. The following persons
compose the new board of directors:
Lewis Bookwa1ter, Kansas City, Kas-;
w W. Bolt, Wichita; W. T. Williams,
Kinsley; A. S. Henderson, Topeka;
George B. Drake, Kansas City, .Kas-,
and Fred Gray, Muscotah. The 1916
conference will be held in Mcpherson
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Died on Birthday Anniversary
George V. Banks died at Sa1ina recent
ly. It was his seventy-third birthday
anniversary He had been a farmer
there forty-fYe years.
Emporia Man Observation-Disclosures
| Madden, boiler maker helper at the
Santa Fe roundhouse at EmpOria, was
killed when he touched live wire in
the shops.
Six MiIIionaires in Wichita.-Wich-
tia has a half dozen men who are
worth a million dollars or very close
to that amount, a federal income tax
inspector said the other day
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Rock Road for crawford.-After
travelling in the mud between Pitts
burg and Frontenac for many years
residents of the two cities have started
a movement to build mile and a half
of good rock road connecting the mu-
inequalities. If built the Frontenac-
Pittsburg highway viii be the first
rock road in Crawford county.
Youth Killed in RunaWay.-Frank
Hauserman, II years old, was killed
at Junction City when a four-horse
team which he was driving ran away
and threw him out Of the wagon.
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Tooth Causes Mans Death-W. W
Bo1ar, auditor for tn Kansas City
Western Railway Company, and q
member of the Order of the Mystic