The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-06
FIGURES never LIE
And They Show That Kansas
Educational System is One
of the Best.
FEW tLITERATES IN STATE
All Eut % of the Population Could
Read and Write as Far
Back as 1910.

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light once more by the University of
Kansas in proving that the state has
one of the best educational units in
the United States today. 1t is an &C.
copied fact that education is the
strongest factor tending to reduce the
already rather startling percentage of
homicides and suicides in this eoun-
try. Looking back, the percentage OF
homicides in this state in 1913 was
40 per 100000 population! For the
country at large the figure was 6.5 for
the same population. giving Kansas
nearly 2 per cent better showing
than that of the nation itsell. In the
same year the percentage of suicides
in this state was but 1913 as compared
with a rate of 100 for the registration
area of the country at large. In this
respect Kansas had better than per
cent the best of the whole nation as a
whole.
In this connection it is also inter
esting to glance at the statistics de-
scribing the amount of illiteracy in
the state. The figures provided in
this instance should furnish the world
an example of an ideal education COM
munity, for Kansas in 1910 0he last
figures available in this regarO
showed a percentage of but %.
Against this the country at large had
an average of n. That the percent
age in this state must necessarily have
decreased since these figures were
made public seems assured. Kansas
since that time has done much to en-
nance the value of its educational sys-
TEN, thus aiding in reducing still fur
ther the percentage of illiteracy among
its citizens. The figures in this last
condition are authentic, of record, and
stand as a monument to the efficacy
of Kansas education.
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For Oil Lease 5000, ooo-A large deal
Augusta when James Titus, owner of
the slim Jim" properties 33, sold a
half interest to the McWann Company
of Tulsa, Ok, through H. G. Bernard,
for 100000. The leases cover 500
acres of land north of the Kramer
field, two miles west of Augusta.
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Disc Dragged Over Face-Charles
Konine's face was terribly lacerated
and his nose was crushed when a
mule team hitched to farm disc ran
away. dragging the disc over him. The
accident occurred at the Cooper farm,
west of Paramount college, near Wichi-
t..
Scott County Is Ambitious-Scott
county serves warning on Pawnee
county that it has an active competi-
tor for the state motor car record.
April % the county clerk had issued
one license for every twelve persons
in the county.
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High School for Kiowa-Kiowa the
other day voted $4,000 for a new
modern high school. The contract will
be let soon. SO that the structure may
be completed by next fall.
x x x
A $4,000 Horse SaIe-Garden City
was crowded all week recently with
stockmen to attend the Woods auc-
ton sale of registered horses. Stock
sold very high and the bidding was
lively. The sale receipts reached
more than 100000.
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Lawrence Must Vote Again-Be-
cause of technicality in the state
law regarding the publication Of city
ordinances Lawrence will be COM
PEELED to annul the election at which
1t voted $175,000 worth of bonds to
purchase the water plant, and hold
another election at a cost of several
thousand dollars. Thomas Harley,
election.
Fifty Years in ceary county-S.
Grant Hoyt, rs years old, a resident
of Geary county for half a century,
died suddenly at his home east of
Junction City recently. He had been
in poor health more than a year.
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Wife of K. U. Dean Dies-Mrs May
Green, wife of Dean ]. w. Green of
the University of Kansas. died at Law.
renee recently. She was IS years
old.
Ogden to Leave K. U.-Robert NJ
Ogden. professor of psychology at the
University Of Kansas, recently an
nounced his resignation. to become
professor of psychology at Cornell uni
versity next fall.
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Garden Contest for SaIina-In al
effort to interest the children of Sa
lima in gardening, contests have beer
started in all schools. More thar
ninety have entered, and the work o.
making gardens, both flower and vege
etable, is well under way.
Tornado Passed Chanute-The tor
nado which struck Bourbon count,
passed one mile south of Chanute
Farm dwellings aud buildings wer,
torn down along a path twenty miles
long through the northern part of thi
county, but no one was injured.
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Pony's Kick Kills ChiId.-Dorri
Shadduck, aged 8, sustained a broker
neck and died instantly at Hutchin
son whens a pet pony with which sh
was playing kicked her. This is tn