Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-04-01
MUSIC AT EMP0RIA
State Normal Planning Great
estF estival in States His
tory for Next month.
HAVE AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM
To BE Symphonies, an Opera, Oratorio
and cantata, Folk Songs and
State Contests.


val. the week beginning April II. at
Emporia-
In scope and SIZE" says the direct
or, f. A Beach of the. Kansas Normal,
this. festival will be the greatest
event of the kind ever held in the
state There will be symphonies, an
opera, an oratorio, a cantata, a folk
song day and state contests between
choruses. glee clubs. bands and or
chestras. The Minneapolis symphony
orchestra, chorus of 200 voices,
Maude Powell, Leonora Allen, Emil
Oberhoffer and Phillip Jones will take
part in the festival
The program follows:
April 17-Artists' recital, Albert
Inquest, tenor, and Jean Vincent
Cooper, contralto.
April 1S-The opera. The Mikado,"
by normal students.
April 10, Afternoon by the
Minneapolis SymphC1y orchestra.
Evening, concert by the same or
chestra.
April 20. Afternoon-"The Highway
man."
Evening. Maud Powell, violinist
April Fl and Estate high school
music contest
April %, Afternoon-"TheM Messiah"
x X x
Another Prairie Fire-A flame five
weeks old in straw stack near Syl-
van Grove started prairie fire which
threatened all the country between
Sylvan Grove and Lucas. A heavy
northwest wind swept the flames rap
| idly across the country. A general
telephone alarm called out hundreds
| of people and a general fight put the
| flames under control in five hours
| without material damage.
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Women Building Town HaII-Gene-
va, a one-store town, is On the list of
live ones. for its citizens are starting
| the work of building a rock road to
4 lola, at their own expense, and have
subscribed the money to build town
hall. The women were largely re-
| sponsible for the hall movement and
one fifteen lumber wagons lined up
| to go to Neosho Falls for lumber, and
every driver was a woman-not man
in sight. The women have decided
| that the men need some place to meet
| that will r. more uplifting than q
box car or Ray loft assembly
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| 0Oy 6GSt SdncaI lcSter-CdIl COu-
| gleton of Wichita won the silver low
ing cup for making the most accurate
test of wheat samples at the meeting
of the cooperative grain dealers OF
! the state N session at Salina.
X X x
Buys a Kansas Line-The Missouri
and Kansas Telephone Company has
closed a deal for the Butler County
Telephone Company for $4,000. The
Butler County company has lines con
meeting Eldorado. Augusta. Douglass
Chelsea, Latham and other towns.
x
Welt Hunt Draws-The wolf hunt
covering four townships in the south
part of Saline county recently, drew
1900 people from several counties
Fourteen wolves were caught and
| twenty escaped through the lines
x
Fire Damaged Light Office-The of
flee of the Atchison Railway, Light
and Power Company was damaged
$4,000 by fire the other day
X
Stole $1,000 in cIothing-A dozer
suitcases filled with clothing were the
booty of burglars VINO entered the
store of J. B. Lynn & Son at Win
field The highest priced suits ant
silk waists were taken to the number
of sixty or seventy and the value O
not less than $1,000,
Fifty-One Years on Same Farm
Fifty-one years on the same farm wa
the record of Georgh Bonnet, who diet
near Ottawa recently from pneumonia
Bonnet was 81 years old He was borl
in Baden, Germany
x. u. Professor Resigns.-Dewitt
Croissant. professor of English at tn
University of Kansas. has resigne
from the faculty to accept a simila
position at the George Washington CO.
lege. Washington. d. c.
X *
Country Club for Pittsburg--Men
bers of the Pittsburg Country Gu
dedicated their new $4,000 dubious
recently with Mardi Gras celebrs
ton With the clubhouse. the Pitt:
burg people acquired a golf course
tennis courts and a lake
X X
Coal Operator Dies-B- s. Abbot
so years old. is dead at his home i
Pittsburg. Mr.. Abbott had been a cos
operator in Southeastern Kansas fc
many years. He formerly was engage
In the hardware business with hi
brother-in-law, ]. R Grove, now {
| Kansas City