The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-13
FOR BETTER KANSAS ROADS
State Association Begins a Campaign
For the Improvement and Main
tenance of Highways.

The Kansas Good Roads Association
has begun it's campaign in earnest to
| encourage the improvement and main
tenance of dirt roads until permanent
construction can be obtained.
The association is stimulating senti-
ment for cross-state and national high
ways. Candidates for the Kansas leg
islature are being urged to take up
the good roads slogan.
The officers of the association are
J. T. Kincaid. of Topeka, president;
J. Frank Smith, of Pleasanton, vice
City, secretary, and E. Otis Perkins,
of Lawrence, treasurer.
The executive committee is COM
posed of: First District, Charles Sny-
der, Leavenworth; second district, A.
M. Keene, Fort Scott; third district,
P. H Albright, Winfield; fourth dis
trict, o. M. White, Emporia; fifth
district, A. Q. Miller, BelleYiIle; sixth
district, w F. Hughes, Plainville; sew
enth district, L. ]. Pettijohn, Dodge
City; eighth district, G. H. Hunter,
Wellington.
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De Boissiere Home Burns-The IA
nous old house On the De Boissiere
estate, in the southwestern part OF
Franklin county, was totally de-
stroyed by fire the other day. It con-
tanned sixty rooms and was the cen.
ter of a silk industry colony estab-
lished by Ernest Valentine De Bots
| stere, a wealthy Frenchman of a fam
! lily of nobility, in 1868. Later he pro
vided for an orphans home for the
| Odd Fellows of Kansas, deciding the
house and tract of nearly $500 acres
| of land Both the silk industry and
| the orphans home plan were discon
| tinued and the estate now belongs to
| D. NJ Hudson.
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Pioneer FreigFter Dead-John M
! Moore, a retired farmer, 81 years old
/ who had lived in the central part OF
| the state since 1862, is dead at his
! farm home ten miles south of Salina
He served in the Mexican war, driv
! ing a team most of the time. He
! also was a freighter over the plains
| in pioneer days.
| Preached to One Man-AlthougI
| there was only one man in his audi
ence, the Rev. H. A. OFT of Topeka
Lutheran missionary superintendent
! of Kansas, preached a sermon in al
! Effingham church recently. BAD
weather kept away all but one par
| ishioner.
Honor for Ada Dykes.-Ada Dykes
of Lebanon has been unanimously
elected college day speaker at the
| University of Kansas. She is the first
woman to receive such an honor from
K. u. students. Miss Dykes is active
! in K q. dramatics and spoke at the
Kansas Day banquet in Topeka last
January. She is a member of the p
Beta Phi Sorority.
Green Bug Pest.-The green bug
pest is general over all grain fields
in Sumner and Harper counties in
Kansas and if cool weather should pre-
vail the next two weeks the injury
viii be great, especially to oats, moi
only in Southern Kansas, but proba
bly, over the greater part OF the state
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Professor Resigns-Howard T. Hill
for three years assistant professor il
the department of public speaking al
Kansas university, has presented his
| resignation. He will resume his Law
studies at Chicago university.
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Neck Broken by FaII.-P. T. Casey
a pioneer farmer near Corning, wa.
thrown from a wagon and his necl
was broken. He was dead when found
Mr. Casey had lived near Corning fol
fifty years, and owned 1000 acres o
valuable land He was about 70 years
old.
Shot Son by Aeeident-Tom. the 3
| year-old son of Thomas Harrison o
Atehison, is dead as q result of 3 buI
let wound inflicted accidentally by /:
| 22-caliber revolver in the hands OF hi
father