Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
Eight.H0ur Statute for Women
Practically a Dead Letter
in Kansas at Present.
MANY WORK 10 HOURS A DAY
Secretary of the State Welfare Com
missions Report Shows the Aver
age Wage Is Small.

business establishments in Kansas,
only 126 are working in places under
the elght-hour system, according to in
VeSt1gationS by Miss Lima Bresette,
secretary of the state industrial vel
fare commission. Miss Bresette ex-
poets to complete her annual report
in few days, and this is one of the
things it will show.
Twenty per cent of the women en-
ployes of the state, so far as the in
vestigation has gone, are working
from eight to nine hours day, or $50
out of the 2,918. A few more than
half, or 1,510 of the 2,918 are working
from nine to ten hours a day. Nearly
one-fourth are working more than ten
hours a day.
Based on the number of hours
worked IN a week, the compilation Of
the report shows 864 are working for
ty-eight hours a week; 900 from forty
eight to fifty-four hours; TIT from
fifty-four to sixty hours and 357 more
than sixty hours
Two-thirds of the women employees
in these establishments receive less
than So a week, Miss Bresette's fig
ures show. Twenty-four per cent re-
ceive from So to $12. Nine per cent
Miss Bresette says that most of the
laundry employees receive less than Sc
a week.
Failed Bank to Pays G. Pottle,
receiver of the Citizens State Bank
of Chautauqua, of which F. E. Turner,
1.-The boy cashier" was in charge when
it was closed more than a year ago by
A 81 l.
iuer of Kansas, announced that De-
cember Is he will pay 25 per cent
dividend to the depositors and credit
ors of the bank. Another small diyi-
dend may be paid later, Pottle stated.
A half dozen legal suits against the
bank are now on the court doekets at
Sedan or Pawhuska.
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EIdorado Refinery SoId.-J. ]. Tax
man and M. Taxman, Illinois refiners
and oil operators, have bought the
Eldorado Refinery Company's plant at
Eldorado and are now in charge. The
price paid was $4,000. The Taxman
brothers will enlarge and improve the
plant, which has capacity of thou
: sand barrels a day.
Hutchinson Gazette Sold--CheSter
C. Leasure of Wichita, formerly a part
owner of the Wellington Daily Jour
nal, has bought a half interest in the
Gazette at Hutchinson, and with John
M. Schwinn will conduct it in the fu-
ture. Mr.. Schwinn has been connect
ed with the Hutchinson News.
Hunter Accidentally Shot-CIarence
gunshot wound in the leg while being
taken to a hospital there on a Santa
Fe train. He was injured when a
shotgun fell from an automobile he
was driving on a hunting trip from
Norwich. An artery was severed.
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Daniel Sullivan, 40 years old, a deaf
and dumb farmer. living near Solo
mon, was struck and instantly killed
by a Union Pacific train on the Solo
ncn branch near Solomon the other
day.
The Kansas University wireless
station in charge of L. E. White
more, instructor of physics at the uni
versity, and son of L. d. Whittemore
o. Topeka, has reached such stage
of effectiveness that he interceptS
messages from stations in Florida,
Virginia, Texas and from ships in the
Gulf of Mexico.
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A. n. r. to Meet at Galena.-
At least 1000 delegates are ex-
pected at Galena on November
20 at the four state conference
of the Anti-Horse Thief Association.
They will come from Kansas, Okla
homa, Arkansas and Missouri. The
conference will discuss conditions in
the four states and consider legisla-
ton needed.
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Charles HaineS, one of the twenty
Kansas University students attacked
by typhoid fever month ago, was the
first to be discharged from the Uni
versity hospital. Others are expected
to be released within a few days
Haines, whose home is at Marshville
Ore, was one of the best players on
the freshman football eleven before
his sickness.
The Oldest voter in Cottonwood
Falls was George w. Jackson, 100
years old, He went to the polls early
in the morning and voted the straight
Republican ticket 1t was the sew
enty-eighth year from the time he
cast his first ballot in 1S41, when he
voted for William Henry Harrison for