The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-06
TOPEKA WON THREE FIRsTs
High School Made Best Showing in
the Recent Musical Contest
at Emporia.

TWenty-SeVen Kansas high schools
participated in the statewide music
contest which was an all-day feature
of the weeks music festival put on
by the state normal school at EN-
poria. Topeka led with three first
prizes. Soloists received trophy cups
and organizations were given volumes
from the American Musical Library.
Following are the winners:
Girls SoIo-Lena M. Ellison, Law
renee, first; Margaret Rust, Topeka,
second.
Boys Glee Club-Topeka, first;
Garnett, second.
Piano Solo-Josephine Kregar,
Junction City, first; Byrdie Miles,
Lyndon, second.
Violin Solo-Pauline Stiffler, Neo-
desha, first; Melvin Kane, st. John,
second.
Girls Glee C1ub-High schools with
more than five teachers; Holton,
first; Garrett, second; five or less
teachers; Waverly, first; Lebo, Sec
ond
Band Contest Zone entrant)-Bur-
lington; first.
Mixed Chorus first; Bur-
den, second.
Orchestra-Ottawa. first; Junction
City, second.
Sight Singing-Topeka, first; Lebo.
second.
The judges were Miss Laura Lull,
editor of Clef, Kansas City; Walter
McCray, director of music at the state
manual training normal school, Pitts
burg. and Mrs. S. T. Cravens, Crav-
ems School of Music, Emporia-
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New Packing House-An independ-
ent packing company, to be known as
the Kansas Packing Company, incor-
porated for $4,000, has been organ
lied in Hutchinson and charter has
been issued to the following incorpor-
ators: H. P. Chesley of Chicago,
Henry s. Thompson of Sylvia, Kas. !;
Sam Haston of Sterling, Kas, and S.
S. GraybilI and F. L. Martin of Hutch
| inson.
Poured Oil on SeIf-Mrs Martha
| Carson, 20 years old, committed sui
eide at Cuba by pouring oil on her
clothing and setting fire to it. She
had been respondent because of i'll
health.
Five Women DIe-Death within
| twenty-four hours claimed five women
at Mcpherson recently. Mrs Char
lotte Studebaker died at the home
of her son, Professor Studebaker.
Mrs. Ella Seeor of Kansas City died
in the hospital. Mrs. II. w. Westling
of Marquette, mother of D. H. Grant
an ex-county treasurer, died. The last
death reported was that of Mrs. c. F
Mingenback.
Boy Shot by Mother Dies-Horace
Griffin, the e7-year-old boy who was
shot by his mother, Mrs. Bessie Crit
fin, at Winfield, is dead. The moth
er, who shot herself after firing al
her little son, is expected to recover
She is believed to be insane.
| New Church for Junction city-The
contract for the construction of the
new Christian Science church at June
ton City was let recently to James
Skillen, local builder. and work viii
start Immediately. The church viii
cost 1000.
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School, Head Dies-Frank r. Dye
| of Wichita, former assistant state su
: perintendent of public instruction il
!, Kansas and for many years superin
} itendent of the Wichita public schools
. | is dead in Pueblo, Col He becam,
, ill while serving as principal of tn.
Pueblo schools.
i Wichita Preacher Dead-The Rev
/ Franklin P Smith. 81 years old, TO
, thirty years a United Brethren paste
in Kansas. is dead at Wichita. H
held numerous charges in Southern
Kansas. He was born in Ohio.