The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-13
TO PROVIDE CHEAP OUTINGS
Members of Y. w. C.. A. Committee
Looking About for Girls
Camp Site.

The Kansas members of the West
Central Field Committee of the ma
tional board of the Young Women's
Christian Association, Mrs. Howard
Dunlap, Emporia; Mrs. Claude Stan
ley, Wichita; Mrs. Dana Eddy, Kan
sas City; Mrs. w. R. Stubs, Law
renee; Mrs. J. E. Marley, Mrs. David
Page and Miss Annie B. Sweet, To-
peka, are looking for a suitable site
for summer camp for Kansas girls.
If site can be found, this committee
will be the center of a larger commit
tee of women who will have charge OF
eQuipping and managing the camp.
In other states. summer camps of
the Y. W. c. A provide vacations at
moderate prices The camps are I'M
der the direction of responsible lead
ers who bring to the campers helpful
things from their own life experiences.
The site for such a camp must be
the best Kansas has, with safe body
of water for boating, and if possible,
bathing. Hil1y or rolling wooded land
would add not only to the beauty of
the place but to the life of the camp
ers, affOrding walks and excursions.
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Girl Lassoed a Coyote.-Miss Dora
Miller, II years old, who is visiting at
the D. H. Smith ranch, Hardner, Kas.,
went with Smith the other day to a
trap that had been set for a coyote.
Evidences showed an animal had been
caught and had taken the trap away
with it, While Smith went back to
the house for gun, Miss Miller fol-
lowed the coyotes trail on horseback.
Catching up with it. she lassoed the
coyote and choked it to death.
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Died to Save His Insurance.-Just
before his life insurance of $500
would expire, Aaron Shaffer, 50 years
old. of Fulton, shot himself. He lived
two hours and in that time he told
his wife of the life insurance policies
and gave detailed directions for his
funeral, selecting his pallbearers.
A Pioneer Woman Dead.-Mrs. Mary
e. Alternately, IS years old, is dead at
Ottawa. She was a niece of Doctor
Alternately of England, who attended
Queen Victoria. Mrs. Alternately had
lived there forty years.
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TWO Kansans Die of Rurns.-Henry
Jackson and his mother-in-law, Mrs
Beck, were burned so severely at Well
ington that both died. An oil stove in
the Jackson home caught fire. Jack
sons clothing ignited when he at
tempted to throw tn stove out win
dow. Mrs. Beck, who was on the sec
ond floor when the fire started, was
taken from the building only after she
had been rendered unconscious.
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Kansas Pioneer Dies.-Rudo1ph
Hanny, SO years old. veteran of the
Civil war and a plainsman of the
overland freighting days, died sudden
" at his home in Lancaster the other
night
Shot-Firer Injured.-A negro shot
firer was probably fatally injured in
at Franklin recently. State Mine In
spector Keegan was at the scene OF
the accident.
Atchison Pioneer Dies.-Jaeob Mar
tin, who for fOrty-five years had been
one of Atchison's best known citizens,
is dead. He was 70 years old.
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Must Hold Primary.-The holding OF
a primary election at Wellington to
determine the nominees for the regu-
lar spring election will be a useless
formality There are only two candi-
dates for city commissioner and no
contest for member or treasurer Of the
board of education
New Postmaster for OIathe.-The
nomination of ]. S. Cosgrove as post
master of Olathe was sent to the SEN
ate by President WeIson recently, ac-
cording to adviees received here from
Washington.
Calls for Farm HeIp.-Farmers of
Smith county already are in need of
| help for the seasons work, and a
| free employment bureau has been
opened at Smith Center. Good wages
| are promised, and hundreds of men
are sought The employment viii
continue until next falls crops are
harvested.
Editors Mother Dies.-Mrs. C. P.
Towusley, wife of the founder OF the
Great Bend Tribune, and mother OF
W. L. TovnsIey, editor OF the. Tribune,
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